There are several report floating around about a letter Bill Gates wrote to Steve Jobs as he was dying. Apparently the letter meant so much to Steve Jobs he kept it by his bed in his last days alive. Mr Gates hasn’t released many details about the letter but has said: “I told Steve about [...]

Apple has just released their financial results for Q1 2012. How does this sound: Revenue – $46.33 billion USD Profit – $13.1 billion USD Apple now has $97.6 billion USD in cash 15 million iPads sold last quarter, 55 million in total. 37 million iPhones sold last quarter, more than any other smartphone manufacturer. Apple [...]

Apple has just announced that they will be releasing iBooks 2. iBooks is an official iOS application made by Apple currently available on the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad devices for reading e-books. Now Apple is building iBooks 2 which will primarily be used for educational purposes in Schools and Universities. So Apple’s aim here [...]

Apple has now released iOS update 5.0.1 This fixes a number of bugs, but most importantly for Australian users: – battery draining problems – better voice recognition for an Australian accent. I’m hoping it also fixes the SOS only problem many of us have been experiencing, but I can’t find much information on this. This [...]

There is no doubt the new iOS5 update has provided iPhone and iPad users lots of great new features (iMessage, Notifications centre, new apps, Twitter integration). However with this update comes a couple annoying bugs that Apple are working hard to address, such as: decreased battery life for iPhone 3GS and 4 users security flaw [...]

Anyone got a spare iPhone 4? I need one! Not really fussed on condition as long as it works. If you have a spare iPhone 4 you don’t want I would be happy to swap you a for advertising, consulting, shout out on the site, or i’ll just buy it. Looking for someone in Sydney. [...]

If you have upgraded your iPhone to iOS5 you may notice occasionally your network coverage says SOS Only. This seems to be a bug affecting iOS5 users. I’ve tested this and it seems you can still make calls and send text messages, but the error is confusing as you may often think you have no [...]

One of my favourite tech interviews I’ve ever watched has to be between Steve Jobs and Bill Gates at the AllThingsDigital conference in 2007. Steve and Bill had been competitors, business partners and friends over a 30 year period when Microsoft and Apple were first started as companies. Watching this interview gives you great insight [...]

Facebook Messenger for iPhone is a new mobile application by Facebook. It’s specifically a messaging application that allows you to chat with your Facebook friends in a much easier format. The application supports for following features: – Push notifications every time someone sends you a message on Facebook – Ability to add your location and [...]

Apple has just announced their 2011 Q4 revenue and earnings figures. They are big! CEO Tim Cook again thanked everyone for the support since Steve Jobs passing – “We’ll continue his amazing work”. Here is the main points of interest: – Revenue $28.27 billion USD – 17.07 million iPhones sold – 11.12 million iPads sold [...]

Social Media Friends, iOS5 is now out and hopefully many of you have made the upgrade. In my opinion this update has a number of great new features, iCloud, iMessages – I could go on but today I want to talk about a new application called Find My Friends. This is an application that lets [...]

Governor of California, Jerry Brown has officially declared Sunday 16th of October 2011 Steve Jobs Day in California. This goes to show the impact Steve had on the whole wider community – locally, nationally, globally. I have been looking at the various Steve Jobs memorial videos around the internet and wanted to post up my [...]

One thing I really like about iOS5 is the Messages (or iMessage application as it’s known). Very similar to Blackberry Messenger this is a free messaging service between iOS5 devices. To me this application has a great feel, will be useful for networking and a nice way to chat with people in an informal manner [...]

If you have a compatible iPhone or iPad – iOS5 is now here and available for download. What’s so good about the new mobile operating system from Apple? 1. New notifications feature 2. Built in Twitter integration 3. iMessage (similar to Blackberry messenger). 4. Built in Photo editing 5. Newsstand, subscription model for ebook publishers [...]

We previously wrote about how Apple is releasing a major OS upgrade – iOS5, with a number of new features. It should be released sometime tonight so come tomorrow morning Australia time you should be able to install iOS5 on your compatable device. Check our previous article on iOS5 to see if you have a [...]

Facebook has finally released an iPad application for accessing their social network. Facebook’s iPhone application has been available around 3 years and its good to finally see an official Facebook iPad app. There have been many 3rd party Facebook iPad apps, but they didn’t feel right to me. I have just installed their iPad app [...]