For you Mac users, Terminal may or may not be something you use on a day to day basis. But Terminal does have some cool features that can be used to amuse your friends or just help speed things up a little. Here’s a few of our favourites.
Ryan (Manic Nimrod) has finally released his newest two themes to the public of iPTF. Tinee and Sliderkon bring two contrasts in styles to the Winterboard scene:
Hey everyone, the new kid is here. My name is Will Smolen and I’m the newest edition to the HTiT team! I’m not going to take up a chunk of this article with personal information, so I’ll get to the point. A lot of people look for programs to take music from their iPod and insert it into iTunes. A common reason for this is a new computer was purchased, and people have no idea how to migrate their music over. There are several solutions available out there, but a lot of them requite you pay an unnecessary fee for their program. I recently came across a cross-platform program, completely freeware that allows you to do this. Pod To PC/Mac (Sorry Linux users!) is a program that will literally let you extract the music from your iPod to your computer at no charge! For those of you that have never had this problem, you have no idea how annoying it is to stand there and see that the only way to transfer your songs to your new computer was to pay an extra $30 for a program you will use only once in your life. To those that have had this problem, you probably wish you knew about this before. I hope this helps everyone in need, because it’s finally a nice, cross-platform and legal way to transfer your music from one computer to another!
Now that Fantastic Friday 2 has passed, a complete list of winners has been posted on iPod touch Fans. Over 1600 entered, double the amount that entered last time, and 195 lucky winners are walking away with a promo code. With this code, the winners can redeem a free copy of whichever application they have won through iTunes. Congratulations to all the winners!
For those that didn’t win, don’t frown. Fantastic Friday 3 will likely be rolled out during June, where you’ll have another chance at winning some of the top applications available on the App Store. It’s all thanks to the developers that sponsor the giveaways. Thanks to them, we’re able to offer up some of the top applications in the App Store such as iShoot, Ocarina and Mafia LIVE!
To redeem a promo code in iTunes, you’ll want to head to the iTunes Store and click on Redeem. If you’re a winner that is living outside of the United States you’ll find that most codes will not redeem for you. Thankfully, there’s a quick way to create a free U.S. iTunes Store account. Once you create this account, you will be able to redeem promo codes normally.
The App Store is about to hit 1 billion application downloads. They’ve started a promotion where you could win a $10,000 iTunes gift card and many more Apple prizes – And all you have to do is download an application!
100 million 8 gigabit NAND flash chips have been placed on Apple’s order form for 2009. This is almost double the amount that Apple ordered last year. And June is just around the corner, hinting at a new release.
Apple fans can expect the probable release of the 3rd gen iPhone, with a 3.2 MP camera, video recording capabilities, a new textured back and multi-core processor. That is – if all the rumors are true!
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Because we haven’t done a lot of coverage of 3.0 here at HTiT, I’ve taken a few screenshots of my iPod to show you what’s coming up. You’ll probably have seen these features before though, as some aren’t exactly new. But for those who haven’t, click “Read More” to see the images.
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UPDATE: Just a few issues at the moment. Comments are showing up on the wrong post and some posts are not showing comments at all. It will all be fixed ASAP.
Skype has released their official application for the iPhone and iPod touch. Skype is a very popular voice-over-IP (VOIP) and instant messaging application that allows you to make phone calls over the internet. Calls can be made to other Skype users or to those with regular landline phones.
For Canadians, like myself, the release of this application is a letdown. That’s because Skype has not released this application on the Canadian iTunes App Store. None-the-less, it’s not too difficult to do a search on how to create a free U.S. iTunes Store account and you’re good to go.
Many users, mainly using the iPod touch 2G, have been reporting that this application crashes upon use. If you’re jailbroken, there’s a solution out there for you. From Cydia, update the package called Mobile Substrate. Once updated, the Skype application shouldn’t crash anymore. That’s just a temporary fix: Skype will likely release an official update if it turns out to be a bug.
Compatible with:
- iPhone (voice & IM)
- iPhone 3G (voice & IM)
- iPod touch 2G (voice & IM)
- iPod touch 1G (IM only)
You can get this application for free here. [iTunes link]
