Project Glass: Google’s Augmented Reality

It’s been a rumor for a few months, but Google is actually putting their “Project Glass” technology out in the wild.  They’ve been seen in the hands of Google employees.

This stuff is the future. We just need to find out who does it right. Google has some impressive technology here, and it actually works.

All powered by Android.  I’m still an iOS guy, but I can see this as changing my tune.

Tags: Android, Augmented Reality, Google, iOS, Project Glass

5 iPhone App Development Tutorials/Resources

So you want to get into iPhone development?

There are tons of great resources sitting out on the web right now.  Here are some of my favorites resources and tutorials on iPhone application development:

Apple iOS Dev Center

Apple provides the best, obviously, resources for iPhone App development.  There are many resources that are free and available for anyone to use.

You can check out the iOS Dev Center to get set up, and follow up by checking out some courses on iTunes U on Developing Apps for iOS.

No matter what you do in iOS development, you’ll need to get acquainted with the iOS Dev Center.

MIT: introduction to iPhone Application Development

MIT puts a ton of their courses online, and you can check out the one-week course on iPhone SDK development.

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Tags: app developer, app development, iOS, iOS App, iOS Developer, iOS Development, iPhone, iPhone App, iPhone Developer, iPhone Development

How Can I Delete Photos from my iPhone’s Photostream?

I’ve gotten a few people asking this question.  How can you delete photos from your Photostream?

In reality you can’t.  You can “delete” the entire album, but not photos individually.  This is because Photostream is meant to make your photos available on all of your devices.

I don’t agree with it, but that’s how it is.

You can, however, reset your Photostream if you want to remove all the photos (and start fresh):

1. Go to iCloud.com
2. Log in (with your Apple ID, probably your Email address, and the password you have to type every day on your iPhone)
3. Click on your name in the top right corner to bring up the Account options
4. Click on Advanced
5. Click “Reset Photo Stream“

You can also turn Photo Stream off, if you want to do that:

1. On your iOS device (iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch)
2. Open Settings
3. Click/touch iCloud
4. Click/touch Photostream
5. Toggle On/Off

Hope that helps achieve whatever you wanted to achieve.

Tags: Apple, iCloud, iOS, iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, Photostream

iOS 5.0.1 Update to fix Battery Life Problems

To fix some iOS 5 battery life issues, Apple released an update.

According to the update it:

• Fixes bugs affecting battery life
• Adds Multitasking Gestures for the original iPad
• Resolves bugs with Documents in the Cloud
• Improves voice recognition for Australian users using dictation (I’d love to hear the problems with that)

Tags: Apple, iOS, iPhone

iOS 5: How to make a free custom Ringtone and Text tone

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Help: After iOS 5 Upgrade Lost my Contacts

I’ve seen a huge spike in traffic on my site searching for iOS lost contacts.  We now have 6 different solutions to restore your contacts.

Thought I’d post something specifically regarding iOS 5, and some solutions that are out there.  Personally I had no problems upgrading, and think losing contacts may just be because the initial “sync” hasn’t gone through yet (remember an iOS upgrade resets your phone to base iOS 5, then imports your information after).

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Tags: apps, backup, contacts, fix, help, iOS, iOS 5, iPhone, music, pictures, restore, upgrade, videos

iOS 5 Overview

Video covers:

• Setup
• OTA (Over the Air) updates
• iCloud Bckups
• Wi-Fi Sync
• Notification Center
• Camera/Photo updates
• Twitter
• iMessage
• Safari
• Gestures
• Keyboard split (iPad only)
• Newsstand
• Reminders

Tags: iCloud, iMessage, iOS, iOS 5, Safari

iOS 5 Released – How to Install with iTunes

Apple has released iOS 5 publicly.  The update includes a ton of features.

To install iOS 5 on any iPhone 3GS, 4 or newer iPod Touch:

1. Connect your device to iTunes
2. Click on your device under “Devices” in the left bar
3. Click on “Check for Update”
4. Select “Download and Install”

Be sure you have iTunes 10.5 (I think you need this first).

To update your iTunes you can:

1. Open iTunes
2. Click Help -> Check for Updates

Tags: Apple, iOS, iOS 5, iTunes, iTunes 10.5

iTunes 10.5 Available

You can download it at apple.com/itunes.  The official release version of 10.5 is downloadable (I couldn’t update iTunes to 10.5, but I was running a 10.5 beta).

New stuff includes:

• Support for iCloud
• Automatic downlaods
• Support for iOS 5 devices
• Wi-Fi Syncing (yay)

That’s about it, now we wait for iOS to be released tomorrow hopefully.

Tags: Apple, iOS, iTunes

iPhone 4S Arrives October 14th, No iPhone 5

Today Tim Cook, at the Apple “Town Hall” announced the new iOS 5 and iCloud alongside the new iPhone 4S.  Here are summaries of the things announced today (skipping the marketing material, which took 30 minutes).

The iPhone 4S will be available for Verizon, AT&T and Sprint (we saw that coming).

No sign of iPhone 5.

iOS 5

Available October 12

• More than 200 user features
• New Notifications Center (swipe from top to bottom)
• Lock screen has more notifications
• iMessage – works on iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch.  Text / Photos / Videos and pushed to all devices (replacement for text messages)
• Reminders (pick up dry cleaning, dinner reservations) – includes geofences to remind based on location
• Twitter integration – sign in once, integrated to Photos, Safari, YouTube, Maps
• Newsstand – easier to read newspapers / magazines on iPad (subscriptions)
• Camera Upgrades – Lock screen shortcuts to camera, you can use volume to take a picture (optional), grid lines, auto-exposure and autofocus lock (doesn’t it do this?).
• Game Center upgrades – Add photos of friends, achievement points, recommendations
• Safari updates – Reading list, Tabbed Browsing (iPad)
• Mail updates – rich formating, indenttions, moving addresses, flagging
• PC Free – (not just Windows) you can activate an iOS device without a computer

iPhone 4S

iPhone 3GS for FREE
iPhone 4 8GB for $99
16GB for $199
32GB for $299
64GB for $399
(all with 2 year contract)

Available October 14th (pre-orders starting October 7th)

• Dual core A5 chip (same as iPad 2)
• Same form factor as iPhone 4
• Battery: 8 hours of 3G talk time, 14 hrs of 2G talk time, and 6 hours on 3G browsing
• Battery: 10 hours of video, 40 hours of music
• Improved wireless System (ahem, dropped call fixes?)
• Improved data speeds (HSDPA) looks like double the download speed max (up to 14.4 Mbps which is AT&T and T-Mobile)
• World Phone – Both GSM and CDMA (single model)
• 8MP upgraded camera (3264×2448, perfect 8×10 glossy photo) with backside illuminated sensor (73% more light per pixel than iPhone 4), 33% faster capture, hybrid IR filter, five element lens
• New Image Signal Processor to enable face detection (interesting) and 26 percent better white balance
• 1.1s to first picture, 0.5s between pictures (crap, my wife will have more pictures of the dog)
• HD 1080p video, with image stabilization and temporal noise reduction
• Wired or Wireless AirPlay Mirroring (assuming with an AppleTV hooked up for wireless)
• Siri voice assistant (this might be a very cool feature, if it works well and is flexible) features so far are time, alarms, weather, stock, directions, text messages – a very impressive demo even by photo / text.
• Geofencing will be a cool thing (I know, it’s been on the droid for years now)
• iPhone takes dictation as opposed to typing
• Siri learns your voice over time.

iCloud

iCloud available on October 12

iTunes Match available end of October

• 5GB free, you can buy more if you want (who here only has 5GB of data? keep in mind if Apple knows the song, it may not count towards your total)
• Stores all content, wirelessly pushes to devices
• Can re-downlod music or media anytime (and apps)
• Find my Friends – you can share locations of your family / friends.  Temp events let you only share location for a few hours. with parental controls.
• iTunes Match – can see playlists, create new, scan iTunes, stream music.  Will upload non identified songs.  Ships at the end of the month.

iPod Nano

8GB for $129
16GB for $149

Available October 12 

• Nano has easier navigation with larger icons
• Nano supports tracking walks & runs without additional hardware
• New Nano clockfaces for those who wear it as a watch.  Some are actually pretty cool
• 8GB for $129, 16GB for $149

iPod Touch

8GB for $199 (down from $229)
32GB for $299
64GB for $399

Available October 12

• Runs iOS 5 (yeah… and?)
• That’s it.

Tags: Apple, Find my Friends, geofencing, iCloud, iMessage, iOS, iPhone 4S, iPhone 5, iPod Nano, iTunes Match, newsstand, notiications center, PC Free, Schiller, siri, Tim Cook, Twitter