Using your iPhone to save your life

A man caught in the rubble in the Haiti earthquake for 65 hours claimed that his iPhone saved his life.
39-year-old Dan Woolley of Colorado Springs, CO owes his iPhone a huge debt of gratitude because it saved his life.
Woolley, a film producer who was in Haiti filming a documentary on the nation’s poverty-stricken children, became [...]

Scratch that DJ itch with Flare Scratch

Ever wanted to be a scratch DJ? Now you can with the best scratch app to hit the App Store – Flare Scratch.
mobile technology I love DJing. Playing music combines two of my carnal needs (thumping bass lines and electronic gadgets) into one tidy hobby.
That being said, I usually spin a few parties around the holidays [...]

UPS introduces iPhone app

UPS late last week released UPS Mobile, a free iPhone app that lets users manage shipments.
The app offers capabilities whether of not a user has a ups.com account. In addition, it uses the iPhone 3G series GPS to help users find a nearby service point.
Mobile is specially designed with features that let you easily manage [...]

Apple releases iPhone OS 3.1.2

Apple today released iPhone OS 3.1.2 to all iPhone users. according to Apple’s release notes, the update includes the following bug fixes and improvements:
Resolves sporadic issue that may cause iPhone to not wake from sleep
Resolves intermittent issue that may interrupt cellular network services until restart
Fixes bug that could cause occasional crash during video streaming

Games load 3-4x faster on the iPhone 3GS

A new post at OS X reality demonstrates that the “S” in iPhone 3GS truly does stand for speed.
Although Apple touts the iPhone 3GS as “up to 2x faster” than the previous model, OS X reality notes that in gaming performance - specifically launch times - the 3GS is up to 3x faster than the [...]

The correct way to use your MacBook’s battery

Recently a battery completely failed in a two-year old black 2.16GHz MacBook that was covered under AppleCare. It worked fine one day, went completely dead the next. It wouldn’t charge and no LEDs would light up. When I brought it into the genius bar at my local Apple Store I learned something interesting about the [...]

How-to: Restore Visual Voicemail after iPhone tethering hack

If you took it upon yourself to install the iPhone 3.0 tethering hack you may have noticed that you have a lot less voicemail than normal - as in zero.
If so, it isn’t because people are just leaving you alone - they aren’t. What happened is that installing that .ipcc (carrier settings) file that enabled [...]

Mac HFS+ read-write support for Windows

Storage utility software vendor Paragon Software Group on Tuesday said it had tweeked its Universal File System Driver technology to support Mac volumes on Windows systems. The driver is in beta release.
The company said its Paragon HFS for Windows beta driver will support read-write functions for Mac OS X volumes; it will not support older [...]

Rumor: iPhone 3.0 to get radio tagging, Nike+ support

Aside: Since Apple already uses the term “3G” for it’s second-generation iPhone, what will they call the third-generation model on Monday? I’m going with “iPhone 3.0″ (like the software) but I bet that marketing had some fits with that one.
AppleInsider went on a fishing trip through the strings of the newly minted iTunes 8.2 and…