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While filming Stanley Kubrick’s legendary war movie Full Metal Jacket, actor Matthew Modine documented the whole process with a borrowed medium-format camera and a richly detailed diary. To mark the 25th anniversary of the film, he has released a Kickstarter-funded iPad app that offers a behind-the-scenes look at the making of the Kubrick classic. (If Continue Reading →

So you’re trying to navigate through apps to distract yourself from the mind-numbing boredom of a tech conference, let’s say, and all of a sudden you accidentally press too hard on your iPhone’s home button and boom, the tell-tale tone of your digital inattention interrupts the entire auditorium: Siri butting in out of nowhere with, Continue Reading →

While it’s pretty much decided by the rumor mill, the pundits’ lounge, the Taiwan-leak machine, and well-informed geeks and nerds everywhere that Apple is going to A.) have a media event on September 12th, and B.) announce a new iPhone, a smaller iPad, and maybe even something new for the TV market, it now appears Continue Reading →

A South Korea court on Friday delivered a split decision in its piece of the global legal battle between Apple and Samsung over mobile computing patents. A three-judge panel in Seoul Central District Court said Apple infringed two Samsung technology patents, while Samsung violated one of Apple’s patents. The court awarded small damages to both Continue Reading →

A flaw discovered recently in Apple’s iPhone could allow nefarious people to hack SMS messages. According to AdaptiveMobile, the iPhone stands alone with this security hole. AdaptiveMobile tested the exploit in the iPhone and compared it to Android, BlackBery, Symbian, and Windows Mobile. All the other platforms remained secure in their treatment of SMS messages. Continue Reading →

For the longest time, Facebook’s iOS apps have been terrible. On the iPhone and iPad, the app utilised a UIWebView interface, taking longer than it should to load, notifications were intermittent and the app crashed frequently. However, that’s all about to change with launch of version 5.0 for iOS, which is now available on the Continue Reading →

Has updating your computer to Mac OS X Mountain Lion completely killed your battery life? Today Apple has released the first major update (10.8.1), and it’s rumored to fix that problem for you. Here’s the full list of what it includes: Resolve an issue that may cause Migration Assistant to unexpectedly quit; Improve compatibility when Continue Reading →

We’ve had Google’s Chrome browser on iPad and iPhone since June and now it has received its first update. After a recent update for the Google+ iOS app added sharing of links to Chrome, the lead feature in the new version is the ability to share from Chrome to “your favorite social network” (Google+, Facebook Continue Reading →

Apple has apparently removed videos of its series of three divisive “Genius” ads from both its website and its YouTube channel. The move, first noticed by MacRumors, suggests that Apple wasn’t happy with the overall reaction to the ads, which was largely critical of the fact that the ads appeared to paint Mac users as Continue Reading →

Ahead of each new iPhone launch, there always seem to be at least a few reports that claim supply will be squeezed. In keeping with tradition, Digitimes on Wednesday cited multiple unnamed sources in Apple’s Eastern supply chain in stating that the company’s initial supply of iPhones may be more than 25% short of its Continue Reading →