Hi_Rob,
I used Image Searcher Pro to find a good Walk of Fame star and podcast logo. Used Touch Retouch to remove Britney Spears name. Finally, did the rest using ArtStudio for iPad.
Regards,
Steven
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Transcript for Episode 258
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Ok - I think today's episode is going to be a long one - so you may want to put it 1.5 X mode for playback - just sayin
Seems iOS 6.1 was not the update we thought it was. Or put another way - iOS 6.1 has had some issues. Apparently Scott Forestall is still refusing to apologize. Oh wait he is not there anymore - so not sure who will apologize about the latest issues. As mentioned on the last episode there were some issues with iOS 6.1 and 3G connectivity especially in the UK - well iOS 6.1.1 for the iPhone 4S only was released early last week which fixed that bug.
However there were a few of you that sent me emails about your IT departments sending emails saying don't update to iOS 6.1 - and well that had nothing to do with the issues of 3G connectivity - nope that was / is about another bug - that was not addressed in iOS 6.1.1 - it is a bug with exchange server. I guess what happens with iOS 6.1 is that it can cause your iOS device to do excessive logging on the Exchange servers which is both bad for the servers and bad for your iPhones battery life. So if you are hitting a corporate Exchange server with your iOS device and you have not upgraded to iOS 6.1 - DON'T do it.
According to ZDNet a fix is on the way in the version of iOS 6.1.2. So what do you do if you did upgrade to iOS 6.1 or 6.1.1 already - well one of the work arounds listed on the Microsoft support board was do not process calendar items such as meeting requests on iOS 6.1 devices and to also immediately restart your iOS 6.1 device. Some are reporting on the Apple forum boards that deleting your exchange server account, rebooting your iOS device and then adding back your exchange server account fixes the issues. So if you are having issues - that is one thing to try.
But wait there is more - others are reporting battery life issues with iOS 6.1 and iOS 6.1.1 - but it is possible that the battery life issues relate back to the excessive logging from the exchange server issues. Those with battery life issues are reporting over heating and quickly draining batteries. So if you think your battery life is just a little bit shorter than before - that is not the issue - this is about people who used to make it the whole day on a single charge now not being able to make it to lunch on a single charge.
And if all of these issues were not enough - wait there is even more. Seems there is also a security issue with iOS 6.1. The security issue found has to do with getting past your lock screen with out the passcode and being able to get access to a persons contacts - where the hacker could view or modify contacts, check voicemail and look through your photos.
This is not an easy hack but it is now well documented on Youtube and elsewhere - so here is what needs to be done.
First part:
-Go to emergency call, push down the power button and tap cancel.
-Dial your local emergency call number and tap green and inmediately red.
-Go to lock screen.
for the second part:
-Go to passcode screen.
-Keep pushing down the power button for 3...seconds and before showing the slider "turn off"...tap the emergency call button and Then without releasing the power button press the home button and ready… And well I think I might have missed some points - so if you need to hack into your kids iPhone and check their voice mails you will need to check the youtube videos.
Yeah not the easiest hack - but it is repeatable and if someone stole your iPhone and wanted access to some of the data on your iPhone they could get it. Which obviously when used as a work phone is less than ideal.
For Apples part they have said they take these type of issues seriously even if Scott Forestall refuses to apologize. And that Apple is working on a fix which will be out shortly. In the mean time simply don't loose your iphone or let someone have access to it - where you don't want them to see any sensitive photos or listen to sensitive voicemails.
So how serious has the Press viewed this issue - well it did make it to the front page of CNN and other mainstream websites. Which was not surprising at all. It is safe to say iOS 6.1 - is not Apples finest moment - not that iOS 6.0 was really much better. That said if you don't have a passcode on your iOS device - like say me - then this security issue is not an issue - but if you are in a relationship with multiple people - yeah it could get ugly quickly - but then shame on you for being in a situation when you can't be open with your significant others. But on the corporate side or Government side is where this really is a sticky wicket for Apple and why I think you will see a fix for this before the end of Feb - again in the mean time - just make sure no one steals your iOS device - see how easy it is to be secure. More on this story for sure in the near future.
Hi Matt - thanks for the feedback - I believe the app he was talking about is Week Calendar - two words in the iTunes app store - it is $1.99 - and it shows the ability to copy and past items in their calendar. Matt - if this was not the app you mean - please send an email with a link to the correct app in the iTunes app store or the correct spelling in the Cydia store. But either way - Week Calendar which is in the iTunes apps store should work for what Dave was asking for.
Hi Rob,
First, I want to say I'm a new listener to the show, I started on Episode 256, and I'm enjoying the show so far.
Onto my question, this past Christmas, I flew out of state to visit friends and family. I parked my car at the airport, but considering that it was 3:30 in the morning, I just drove an hour and a half, and it was starting to snow, it was hard to see where I was parked. Needless to say, when I returned, it took awhile to find my car.
To prevent this in the future, I was looking for a app that will mark my parking spot then I can use the GPS on my iPhone to remember where I parked. I looked on the AppStore and there were a few options but I want to know what you think. Thanks for your feedback.
Regards,
Mark
Mark - I am throwing this one out to the audience - folks if you have a favorite and easy app that you use to pin where your car is when you leave it at the airport or the mall - let us know.
Hi Rob, so, I'm getting pretty sick of Google asking me for my location every time I use it for research on my iPhone 4S any help with that?
regards,
David in Springfield
Folks - did anyone figure out a solution for this issue yet?
I mean other than changing your default search engine to Bing.
Hi Rob,
I wanted to make sure you saw we just released an update for our Kindle app for iPad and iPhone.
Here’s what we posted in our customer forum about it:
Kindle for iOS 3.6 is now available in the Apple App Store. New features include:
* Multicolor Highlights - Four color choices make it easier to distinguish important passages.
* Book End Actions - Just finish your book? Share the accomplishment with friends on Facebook and Twitter. Rate and write your own review.
* Brightness Control - the brightness setting will now be saved across device sleeps.
Thanks,
Kinley at Amazon.
Tim Cook spoke at a Goldman Sachs Tech event last week - Essentially he repeated much with which he has said before - so nothing really new that came out of the speech. But one good zinger he had in there was with regards to iPad and its Tablet Market share and reports of it dropping. Tim said quote “I have no idea what the iPads market share is, because we’re the only company that reports what we sell.” unquote. Which is sooo true. And even anyone else that has even hinted at numbers only gave shipment numbers - not sell through to the consume like Apple does.
In the well it sucks to be blackberry news segment - Home Depot announced they were dropping the Blackberry for their 10,000 executives, managers and corporate employees and switching over to the iPhone. Evidently the new Blackberry10 was not enough to keep them on board. Home depot joins a growing list of Corporate and government groups ditching the blackberry in favor of the iPhone.
Now of course it is not just the iPhone sales that are doing well - it seems if you combine the Apple iTunes revenue with the Apple Accessories Revenue that Apple generates - those combined revenues are greater than the revenues of all other smartphone companies sans Samsung. Last quarter those two segments generated almost 6 Billion in revenue for Apple. Vs just 5.4 Billion dollars for all of Nokia's smartphone revenue. Apple's stock is where it is again why?
We have talked in the past of iOS device dominance when it comes to this strange thing called usage. Well we are going to talk a little more on this subject now. Freewheel a mobile online video firm reports that 60% of video clips viewed during Q4 were viewed on an iOS device vs just 32% viewed on an Android device. Once more showing that in general Android users get an Android device to just make calls - but they get and iPhone when they need more than just a phone. Again in general.
Seems the CEO of Linked-In is an iPad mini fan so much so that he gave out iPad mini's to everyone of his employees - 3,500 iPad mini's or there abouts - That news was shocking to me - who would have guessed linked-in had 3,500 employees. What the heck are they all doing? I mean other than now playing Angry Bird and watching American Horror story on Netflix.
Since the last episode the rumors have been coming hot and heavy about an iWatch. One rumor said that Apple already has a team of about 100 product designers working on a iWatch type device. Another report says Apple is looking to purchase Pebble. Pebble's CEO said quote I can't comment on anything like that unfortunately" unquote. Now not sure if the unfortunately refers to not being able to comment or not being offered life changing money from Apple yet. As mentioned last fall and around Christmas when the last batch of rumors came up on this subject - I think Apple will introduce an iWatch and hopefully sooner rather than later. I just am not sure if this is just more smoke or if this time there is a little fire to go with it. I so hate getting my hopes up on this subject - but this time - the smoke is a bit thicker than before.
Speaking of iWatch's and Pebbles - we have in our first listener review of a Pebble.
Staying with Rumors but switching to the iPhone - With supposed pictures surfacing in China of the next Gen iPhone this early - it does line up with the rumors the next gen iphone - the iPhone 2013 will launch in June time frame and not the fall as it did the last two years. Per the pictures it looks like the next gen iPhone will be the same look slash case as the iPhone 5. Going with the the iPhone 3G and 3GS and then the iPhone 4 and 4S also using the same case design for two generations. But again if these photos are real and they appear to be so - then a June launch seems much more likely and lines up well with the how soon past photo leaks came out for other generation of iOS devices. Or I could just be hoping that is the case because I am eligible for a full upgrade to a new iPhone in June as I am sure many many other iOS 4S owners are as well.
Rob,
I know this may not be considered to be directly related to iOS but I use Dropbox extensively on my iPhone and I assume others do also. Box is something similar. Most free accounts of this type are only 2 to 5 GB. They are now offering 50GB free for life - which is a super good deal. It only takes about two minutes to complete the sign up process. I just signed up my whole family.
https://www.box.com/signup/o/dell_50gb_give_get
Don from Guntersville AL.
Thanks Don - Folks look for the link in the show notes for ep 258 titled Box 50 GB free for life to get this deal. Always nice to get some extra free cloud storage.
One of the stories make the rounds this past week was about a prediction by an anal-ist on how much revenue MS is missing out on by not having Office available for the iPad - the number by the anal-ist is an astonishing $2.5 Billion dollars - The problem is no one seems to be questioning his numbers. First he says it is based on 200 Mil iPads - when in reality there is not yet 150 Mil sold. Second he works the numbers out at $60 average sales price - that means to get to the $2.5 bil number after Apples 30% cut - 30% of the 200 mil ipad owners would need to purchase Office. Yeah - not going to happen. At 150 Mil that % jumps to 40% of iPad owners. And figure how many have two iPads and how many are to kids and yeah it quickly looks like 100%+ of adult owned iPads would need to be buying the $60 version of Office. Or you know they could just by the $10 version or Pages or $10 version of Keynote or the $10 version of Numbers or some combination there of for $20 or $30 max total. So yeah the $2.5 bil number is not pie in the sky numbers - it is cow pie in the sky numbers. Just sayin. So if you are someone that saw those numbers and thought that my kick MS in the butt to get Office out for the iPad - think again - I am sure they did similar number crunching I did - and came out with numbers much much lower than $2.5 Bil of lost revenue. While I think it would be great for MS to release Office for the iPad - I would not actually buy it - as I am happy with Pages / Keynote and numbers.
I guess time may soon tell on this one as the last rumor was a March or April release of Office for iPad.
Blackberry looks really really stupid right now with picking Alicia Keys for a celbrity spokesperson. First up until the day before they announced her as a new spokesperson she was busy sending tweets from her your guessed it - iPhone. Then last week she apparently sent another tweet from her iPhone - which was then deleted and followed up with a what the heck I must have been hacked tweet. O M G give me a break - do you think anyone believes that for even a second - especially since there are pics from your dressing room table at the grammy's the night before the tweet showing two iphones sitting there.
Where Blackberry really messed up - was in getting a celeb endorsement from someone that was not a blackberry user.
I am sure if they did their homework they could have found someone in hollywood or the entertainment world that still used a blackberry - and it would have been much more whats the word I am looking for - Oh yeah - authentic. And a heck of lot less embarrassing.
Hi Rob,
Here we go again so last week you had a story about malware on the google play store. Now they are sending those malware makers your name and location info. People would be outside apple with torches and pitchforks if apple ever made a mistake of this magnitude. Thanks for all you do rob love the show.
Regards Justin B
What justin is talking about is that when you are a Android user and you purchase an app in the Google Play store your name, general location and email is passed on to the developer and you are not in any way shape or form given any indication this is happening.
And That includes potential sending that info on to those that were putting malware in the Google Play store - Brilliant!!!! Good thing Google is not Evil - because then you know then they might also pass along your blood type and any history mental illness or Plastic Surgery. Just Sayin And for the record - no this story did not make it to the front page of CNN or any other mainstream website. Seems stories like this on the Android side don't get the same level of scrutiny as those with Apple. But I can assure you if this was Apple passing along personal info about each buyer to app devs - the amount of outcry about this would have broken the inter webs.
Hi George the insurance is Square Trade - and you go to square trade dot com slash tii to get $30 off your iPhone warranty. There is a banner over at today in iOS dot com with a link to the place on their site for the discount.
Hi Rob,
My iPhone recently committed suicide jumping out of my pocket onto a tile floor, landing face first and shattering the screen.
Luckily I had square trade. I filed my claim that day, and i was surprised that one of the options was to have a full replacement sent to me, so of course I chose this. Heard back the next day, Unfortunately they had no stock of my iPhone 4s, :-( so I could either send it in it take it to an apple store where I'd have to pay upfront, but they would reimburse me for this.
Because I can't even imagine life without an iPhone for an hour, let alone a few days, I chose to take it in to an apple store where they have me a new phone.
I was impressed with square trade's service throughout the process.
Once I got my new phone and restored from backup I was super impressed with iCloud. It re-installed ALL my old apps, music and settings. I had to re-log on to everything, but that's totally acceptable.
The one problem I am having is that iMessage won't verify the main email account I've been using for iMessage. I can't figure it out. It's working fine on my iPad. I've tried re-sending the verification email but I never receive it. Any help on this would be great. I'm missing a lot of messages because of this.
Regards,
- Jessi D
Hi Jessi - thanks for the feedback. Again as I mentioned on the last episode another great feature about square trade is they do not care if you jailbreak - so when getting a new iPhone - if you go with a square trade warranty you can still jailbreak your iPhone and not void the warranty - as you would with Apple Care plus. Plus if you go to square trade dot com / tii - you will get $30 off your warranty for being a Tii listener. Bringing a two year warranty down to just $94 - which is cheaper than Apple Care Plus as well.
Hi Rob,
I recently had an iphone4 that was not being used anymore, go missing. It had been used now just for games and music, when said iphone went missing I dove into action and from previous knowledge of listening to show had already had it registered with the find my iphone app, from there I set the phone first to play a sound to see if one of the kids had snagged it. But soon realized it was turned off and offline, I then sent phone into lost mode to be pending once phone would connect to wifi. Two weeks go by and I got the confession that my daughters friend was eyeing it when she was over at the house, and thinks she took it. All of a sudden today I get an email saying your iphone has been located, checked the map of where it was and that turned out to be an AT&T store. I called said store and asked if there was an iphone there that was in lost mode and confirmed that it was, gave them the proper identification and drove down and retrieved my iphone. Just another good reason to activate any old devices even if you are not using them as much with the find my iphone app.
Regards,
Kevin W
Kickstarter finally has an official app in the iTunes app store - and it is free - just search for Kickstarter in the App store. They claim you can use it to discover new projects, watch project videos, and get updates from projects - that is for the backers. It also has features for the Project creators - such as staying in contact with your backers, tracking your projects progress and most importantly posting updates to your project.
And speaking of Kickstarter Thanks to Thomas for the heads up on this next Kickstarter project and it is the Smarter Stand for iPhone and iPod touch - all generations of said devices. They have already hit their goal of $15,000 - with $18,000 plus already and this one goes on for quite some time - until April 12th at 11:29 AM ET. Right now there are still some early bird special pricing of $9 left. Yes this is from the same people that made the smarter stand for the iPad - this time the device allows you to both wrap your head phone cord around the smarter stand - but also use it to prop up your iPhone or iPod touch. Again right now it is just $9 - check it out quickly before they run out of early bird offerings and the price goes up to $12.
Hi Rob
Not sure if you've seen the Helios Bluetooth Light Controller (LC1) for iPhone on Kickstarter.
It looks like a great device: lets you control your lights from your iPhone.
I've backed it but not convinced it'll be funded due to their high funding goal. Plus you can only pledge for one. Oh well. Fingers crossed.
Search fro Helios - H E L I O S - at kickstarter dot com.
Regards,
Danielle
Pemberton, BC, Canada
Hi Danielle - yup looks like one of those very cool projects - with a high goal in this case $300,000 dollars but with a low pledge amount <10,000 to date - and too short of a time frame March 7th at 8:24 AM ET - to really have much of a chance at this point of getting funded.
Hello Rob,
As one of your visually impaired listeners, I would like to bring the article about fleksy to your attention. I think you should give Fleksy a try yourself, the developers have been awesome as far as supporting blind iPhone users and it appears that Fleksy is also attractive to somebody who
can see the virtual keyboard and why wouldn't it be, you can type away as fast as you can without having to worry to exactly hit each letter. I really look forward to hearing
whether you think Fleksy is pretty cool and whether you would set it as your default keyboard or at least include it in your keyboard choices were that is possible:
http://blog.fleksy.com/post/43160706356/state-of-touch-typing-fleksy-goes-fr
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Maybe after the other listeners hear about Fleksy they will give it a try especially since it's a free app now and some might call in to give Fleksy their vote whether it's positive or negative.
Regards,
Sieghard
Hi Sieghard - thanks for the heads up - I have downloaded it - but have not had a chance to try it out yet. But I will do a call out to anyone that has used the Fleksy keyboard app - that is F l e k s y - and it is free in the app store - so if you have used or do try it out - please let us know your thoughts. 206-666-6364 - that's 206-moon-dog - or send an email to today in iOS at gmail dot com.
There was some news from HBO that their Go iOS and Cinemax's Max Go Apps now have airplay streaming capability. Which is fine - but the real news I thought was the side part of their comments that HBO Go would land on Apple TV later this year as an App. Wonder if this is just an special deal just for HBO - or if later this year Apple TV will finally be allowing apps to be installed. Lets hope it is the later and not the former.
Hi Rob,
Per a previous callers question about recording sound on an iOS device.
I have an app for my iPad that allows me to record the sound coming out of it called Notes Plus. It is only for the iPad though.
Regards,
Jessi
On the 14th I received the following email
Hi Rob,
Nice to see Cydia back to normal. No warnings, SSH blobs back.
Just saying.
Chris
Thanks Chris - I agree - it looks like everything has finally calmed down and if you were holding off on jailbreaking - no time is better than right now.
Hi Rob, I have a iPhone 4S can I unlock it and jailbreak it? I'm gonna sell it. Is this okay or I should I just jailbreak it??
It's with AT&T and yes I payed it off. I upgraded to iPhone 5
Regards, Robert
Hi Robert - I get this question often - and it is time to talk about it again.
First Call AT&T and ask them to unlock your iPhone.
They will unlock it for you.
You will then need to do a restore.
Once you restore after they tell you - the phone will be unlocked - You will now this because at the end of the restore it will say it is unlocked.
Then once it is unlocked you can jailbreak it.
FYI - unlocking it will increase its value more than jailbreaking it. Doing both is even better.
PLAY VOICEMAIL - TODD_CT_JB_BITSMS
Thanks to Todd and the many others that let me know PDAnet has been updated for iOS 6.x which is good news.
Hi Rob,
A great tweak is UIDeviceCrasher. This will show you after an App, Mod or Tweak is installed, that it may cause issues and may cause crashes. It loads and displays a Pop-up at the beginning, after the respring.
It says which apps may cause issues. And you can uninstall them. Rather than uninstalling one by one to find problems.
After saying all that. Mine says Auxo the App switcher Mod is a Problem. But its not really as far as I can see. Also says Winterboard is a Problem. But not seeing problems with it.
But in any-rate, good to use to see incompatibility issues, wether you act on them or not.
Cheers, Chris in london.
Hi Rob,
Seems Mobile substrate has been updated. I like looking at what is new in updates. While checking out MS, I saw this interesting tip.
So, it looks like if your iDevice goes into an infinite reboot loop, you can try holding down the Volume Up button to disable Substrate. Might stop the looping so you can remove the offending tweak.
Regards Steven W.
Thanks Steven - and he sent over a screen shot about the Mobile substrate tweak that said the following quote You can now disable substrate entirely by holding down the Volume up button as the device boots. This feature allows you to bypass horribly broken extension (ones that prevent the device from starting up at all. that you may have installed so you can open cydia and uninstall them. unquote.
So this is a powerful tip for anyone that jailbreaks and goes crazy with installing tweaks and apps and finds out one or some of them hose your iOS device - now rather than having to restore - you can boot in a kind of safe mode and uninstall tweaks and apps to get your device to work again. Remember the more apps and tweaks you installs the higher the probability you will need this fix. Things do go wrong with jailbreaking - this tip helps you deal with it. Thanks Steven for the tip.
PLAY VOICEMAIL - HOLLY_DIRECTTV_APP_WILL_NOT_OPEN
Hey Rob I just updated to iOS 6.1 and then jail broke my sprint ip4S , as I was going thru my apps. I wanted to watch some of my movies on my Flixter app that I downloaded thru ultraviolet. But when I hit the download button I got a pop up telling me that my phone was jail broken and that I should update to an official iOS if I want to watch the content. How is it that Flixter app knows that and why to they feel the need to police the users on having a jail broken device???
Regards Tono
Hi Holly and Tono - This has happened before where some apps dealing with digital media - put these checks in place to make sure you are not installing a jailbreak app that lets you get around some security they have in place.
I believe there is a jailbreak tweak that then tricks those devices into not thinking your are jailbroken. So yes a jailbreak tweak that tweaks your device to trick others apps to not know you are jailbroken.
I can't remember the name of the app - but will send a call out to the audience for the tweak. Which is what I guess I just did - if anyone remembers the name of said tweak - please let us know - 206-666-6364 - that's 206-moon-dog or send an email to today in iOS at gmail dot com.
A little jailbreak news - Yes iOS 6.1.1 came out last week for the iPHone 4S - but luckily it is still jailbreakable and evasion was upgraded to v1.3 and works fine for jailbreaking iOS 6.1.1 - as long as you did the upgrade to iOS 6.1.1 when connected to your computer via iTunes and not as the Over the Air upgrade.
Thanks to tash for this next one which is about a Cydia Tweak that allows all Notification Center Notifications to be sent to a Pebble Watch. So if you have a pebble watch or more accurately if you have one on order and are waiting for it to come in - you will want to look into jailbreaking and then installing the Cydia tweak called BTNotificationEnabler - all one word. It is free in the Cydia App store.
There are estimates that as many as 10Million iOS users have jailbroken their iOS 6.x device already. Some are saying this is a huge number - and points to the general dis-satisfaction with iOS 6.x - however 10 Million out of 300 million is still a pretty small percentage at 3.33% - and in line % wise as past jailbreaks. So really I think this is just about a small % of users wanting to do more with their iOS device. I do believe Jailbreaking and jailbreak apps are a great showcase for Apple on what the iPhone can and many cases should do - and each update sine iOS 2.0 there have been new features added that were tweaks created first on the jailbreak side. It will be interesting to see which current tweaks make their way to iOS 7 - but I hope Apple continues to monitor the jailbreak world and look at all the great tweaks available and ad as many as possible.
Thanks to Woody for the heads up on this next one which is a review of the Smartlav lavalier Mic for the iPhone. It is $60 and if you are looking to podcast with your iOS device and use the boss jock app - this might be a nice option to look into. They claim in their video that this is a professional grade Lavalier mic. I have not tried it out - but will ping them for a review unit. If anyone has actually purchased this or does purchase it - please make a recording and send it in. I would be interested in hearing the audio quality on this.
I think I want to do a new segment near the end of episodes every so often - that segment will be my review of some accessory for iOS devices I am playing with. For this episode I am going to talk about the RockSteadyXS bluetooth Portable Speaker. This is a very compact size speaker with a very not compact sound. Which I really like as I need a portable speaker for when I do speeches that can really put out some serious volume. This one allows both Bluetooth and line in connections - so I can also use with my Laptop. They state it has a life of 10 hours with a full charge - I used it for over 4 days on the full charge they shipped it to me with for well over 10 hours of use - and it is still working. Sadly no charge level indicator to know if I am about to run out or not - but their 10 hours of battery life is conservative which I like. One really neat feature - the Lithium ion battery is easily removable from the base of the unit and is a standard BL-5c battery pack - So down the line when the battery has run out of charge cycles - you can replace it or better yet buy an extra one as a back up. I saw some BL-5C battery packs online in a quick search for between $8 and $15. The RocksteadyXS had really impressive sound for the size and is much louder than my current portable speaker which is over 3 times the size and weight. So this will become my new portable speaker. It also allows for charging of your iPhone via a USB power out port - you can plug your iOS devices charge cord into. So it can also be an emergency battery back up - another reason to get an extra battery pack. They have a list price of $99.99 - but who pays list price. Amazon has it for $89.99 right now. I was able to quickly pair it with my iPhone which uses Bluetooth 4.0 and with my wife's iPod nano which is also bluetooth 4.0 with no issues as well as with my iPhone 4 which is bluetooth 2.1. so it should work fine with all iOS devices. All in all I found the RocksteadyXS to be a good looking - good sounding portable speaker with the features I need to be my new portable speaker. Especially the easy replacement of the battery pack. as I will be getting an extra battery back shortly for this. At $89.99 from Amazon it is a good price for the performance and features - especially when you it compare it to competitive speakers. Link in the show notes over at today in iOS dot com.
Hi Rob,
I am not a dev, just one of your fans.
Instashare is the free app that is like Air Drop on a mac. In ios app store for iphone.
You can drag and drop files from your macs to your iphone and vice versa.
You can drag and drop files to other iphones
Important - go to instashareapp.com and download mac beta for your mac laptops and desktops
This is the killer app of all time!
Any file formats!
Mike
San Diego
Loyal Listener
Hi Rob
I wanted to try and help your listener out it's having trouble with his Apple TV.
I ran into this exact same issue on one of my Apple TV's.
My eight-year-old one day seen that there is an update for AppleTV and tried to install it on one of the jailbroken devices. This of course resulting in bricking it.
I then tried to apply the update using iTunes going to the exact same steps as your listener did with the same results. iTunes either would not recognize the device or would ask me to try to upgrade later.
I tried this on a Windows 8, Windows 7, and a Windows Vista machine all of the same result. I still have an old laptop running Windows XP I decided to give it one last shot before throwing my AppleTV away & to my surprise iTunes recognize the device. I'm not certain what the differences between Windows 8, 7, Vista, and XP, they are all running the exact same version of iTunes. But for whatever reason the Windows XP laptop was able to fix my Apple TV.
So my advice is to find a buddy with a Mac or PC and trying to reset it, keep going until it works. Your other option is to take it to an Apple store and beg to have somebody reset it to factory defaults.
I hope this helps
Regards,
Paul in Omaha