Archive for April, 2009

iPhone 3.0 Beta 4

Just now, Apple released iPhone 3.0 beta 4 on the developer site.  In the beta included the 3.0 beta 4 OS, 3.0 SDK 4, and iTunes 8.2 beta.  The iTunes 8.2 beta is required to install the new beta on an iPod touch or iPhone.  I will be posting screenshots very soon.  If you are a registered developer, you know where to get this.  Torrent people. Sorry, won’t work.  Before installing it sees if your device is registered in the developer program.

News #1-When updating the firmware, all files are kept on the device

News #2-Store finally has something in it
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News #4-Under “About” it now shows how many apps you haveimg_0066

News #5-I am not sure if this is new but under “Safari” it now shows Plug-Ins

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MobileMe Online Support Chat Goes 24/7

chatnowNot huge news but Apple today announced that their all in one push email/contacts/calender program, MobileMe, now has online chat

We’re pleased to announce that English language Live Chat support is now available 24 hours a day, seven days a week. If you encounter an issue while using MobileMe and would like to address it immediately, simply go to MobileMe support. Click on the topics at the bottom left of the page to see if your question has already been answered. If it’s not, click the Chat Now button to initiate a realtime help session with a MobileMe support agent.

YouTube RealTime Beta

picture-12YouTube has now released an invite-only beta feature called “RealTime”  In RealTime you can see what friends of yours are online, what there watching, and I can not confirm this but there may be messaging.  There is also notifications, similar to the notifications on FaceBook.  I have 25 invitations to be given away and I thought that you guys should get them!  There are 2 ways of entering:

Twitter-follow @TheLoopBlog and copy and paste this:  I just entered to be invited to YouTube RealTime beta from @TheLoopBlog!

Email: email contests@theloopblog.com with your YouTube account and email you use on YouTube

The Loop Blog Tip

Guess what?  Apple already knows when the 1,000,000 app will be sold.  This Friday.    To see this hidden site, follow the directions below:

1. Go to your systems settings and change the date to April 25th

2. go to http://www.apple.com and you should see something like this

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Tweetie for Mac

It’s official.  Tommorow Tweetie for Mac is coming tommorow Monday April 20th. An ad free version will be available for $14.95 as well as an ad supported version for free.  Tweetie was called “BigBird” before launch when it will change to “Tweetie.”

Leaf Trombone: World Stage now available!

Our friends at Smule finally got their extremely anticipated app, Leaf Trombone: World Stage out and on the App Store today.  I have been beta testing LT: WS for quite some time now and I can say for myself, Leaf Trombone is incredible.  Its like Ocarina on steroids.  You can play songs that people around the world made on the very powerful online score maker.  We have had a contest running for a LT: WS promo code and it is ending tonight.  To enter just leaf a comment below.

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Also, if you already have Leaf Trombone, open Leaf Trombone, go to “Help” and then scroll down to “About” in the middle you will find my name! (Jonah Grant)

You can get Leaf Trombone: World Stage for $.99 on the App Store today!