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iPhone Bug Update: Keyboard on iPhone typing the wrong key

iPhoneJots — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 18:33:39 +0000

iPhone is equipped with a virtual keyboard that facilitates the typing and users can type pretty fast employing this particular keyboard. Recently, iPhone users have been complaining about a peculiar bug that involves iPhone keyboards. According to many users on different forums and blogs, this particular keyboard bug has enabled iPhone in registering inaccurately the key that you have been tapping. This abnormality then results in wrong letter, symbol or any number showing up on our devices screen.

The bug is an annoying problem particularly for the people who are prone to using their iDevices for all their personal and official tasks. Some of the users have complained that some of the iPhone keyboards go through various periods of registering the wrong keys for a particular span of time. The problem is not that the key you are tapping is giving you the wrong letters instead the main issue is that it is always the key that is diagonal or left of that particular key that comes active.

The issue according to some of users can be easily fixed by leaving the app and starting it again. But if the problem persists then it surely is a software issue and can only be resolved by upgrading to a higher level of firmware. So here is a brief rundown of this bug detail and how it can be avoided or resolved:

Keyboard Bug

iPhone keyboard registers incorrect key on tapping
The problem happens intermittently after every 40 keyboard uses

Causes of Bug

Problem with the firmware version iOS 4.1 or any later version

How to Fix

Leave that particular app and then return to it
Upgrade to the firmware 4.2.1
If already switched to 4.2.1 then you have to wait for an upgrade

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Top iPhone Apps of the Week

iPhoneJots — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 18:33:02 +0000

This week’s top iPhone apps range from the categories like utilities and productivity. All of the selected Apps are Apple App store apps for iPhone or iPad. So here is what we picked for this week:

TapaTalk: Forum Browsing App

Forums are sometimes pretty exciting and fun filled and they give you a way to interact with people in a different kind of a way. Sometimes users prefer to browser forums on their portable device and TapaTalk is all about this thing. TapaTalk app supports all the different kind of forums that are running on the web that have a special plug-in tied with them. The app provides a quite faster experience on iPhone and even if you don’t have a 3G connection TapaTalk will hold good. The App also supports the moderator account, so if you are hardcore forum users then this App is definitely what you should get hold of. TapaTalk can be downloaded from Apple App store for $2.99.

Paperless: App store App

Paperless is a unique kind of App that makes list making an easy job. The users have a choice that whether they want to make a dedicated ‘Checklist’ or just a simple ‘list’. A checklist is a great thing for making your shopping lists and To-Do lists.

What makes this App great is that it includes a large number of custom made icons and good number of themes that will give your list an eye-catching look unlike what you see on your traditional checklist Apps. The selected list can be displayed as a Bubble on the device Homescreen so it means that you can give a realistic look to all the things that you want the list to display. Paperless App can be downloaded from the Apple App store for $0.99.

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Verizon iPhone Update: Special Event Planned by Verizon next week

iPhoneJots — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 18:31:55 +0000

Consumer electronics Show is in full swing these days and all the major tech giants are launching their latest products and announcing their future plans. Verizon, one of the biggest cellphone service providers in U.S has been in the speculation news recently because of a Verizon based iPhone launch. So continuing this speculation spree, Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg’s gave a keynote on Consumer electronics Show but didn’t say anything clearly about Verizon’s iPhone. But on Friday, Verizon sent an electric jolt throughout the tech industry with an announcement that they are staging a full fledge media event on Tuesday.

The event, which is scheduled to happen on January 11 in New York, is what according to many is the long awaited and widely rumored official unveiling of Verizon based iPhone.

Wall Street Journal today confirmed this press event announcement citing a source that is very much familiar with this Verizon’s event. Multitude of media outlets including Fortune have already confirmed that iPhone would be coming to Verizon’s network in first quarter of 2011 but surprisingly so far both Apple and Verizon have stayed mum about their launch plans.

This particular move will end the iPhone tie up with its exclusive AT&T carrier. Both Apple and Verizon have deepened their relationship over the last year. In October, Verizon started selling Apple’s Tablet device iPad in all of its retail stores and also offered a wireless plan for the users of device.

So let’s see, how this upcoming Verizon’s event turn out to be and whether it will turn out to be a doomsday for AT&T or not.

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Intellicast HD for iPad Review

iPhoneJots — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 18:16:31 +0000

Weather HD has been the top notch weather monitoring app for quite some time now. With a graphically rich UI and loads of options, Weather HD for iPad has been the top grossing App on the Apple App store. But the downside of Weather HD has been its price tag, although not so high but for free App users it surely is not a good deal. So recently, a new weather App has been released for iPad and good thing is, it is free.

Intellicast HD for iPad offers options like current and future weather updates and all of these updates come across with an integrated speedy user interface. Developed by Intellicast.com, Intellicast HD for iPad weather gives users information like storm tracking, earthquake plotting and an occasional seasonal hurricane tracking. Some of the exciting features that app houses include:

NOWrad HD included, it is currently the most high definition interactive radar in the U.S region
Hi-res cloud imagery for North American plus the surrounding waters
Blended infra-red cloud imagery as well
High resolution display of wind speeds, snow cover and temperatures mapping
Earthquake plotting on real-time basis
Doppler radar powered Storm tracking that pin points severe weather cells and the paths that they are going to follow
Typhoon, Hurricane and cyclone tracking for tropical seasons
Most accurate weather forecast for more than 50,000 locations worldwide
Fully integrated option case for GPS

Intellicast is basically a business branch of Weather services international which itself is a consortium between many companies including NBC. Intellicast HD can be downloaded from Apple App store for free.

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Rumor Update: iPad 2 to be released soon with Retina Display and Camera

iPhoneJots — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 16:39:16 +0000

iPad 2 rumors are in the air these days and blogosphere all over is brimming with speculations about this latest Apple Tablet device. Since the iPad was a success story for Apple, its next version of iPad is surely a thing that people are longing for. Tech blogs everywhere are speculating about the specs of the device, some are saying that this time iPad will be equipped with cameras and enhanced visual options.

Recently Digg founder Kevin Rose whose previous records with Apple related rumors have been in two categories, that is either spot on or totally wrong, said in a recent blog post that he has some confirm news that Apple’s latest iPad will be announced in the next 3-4 weeks probably February 1 and this time it includes dual cameras and the Retina display.

The dual camera on iPad seems very much certain provided the fact that Apple is pushing the FaceTime and other video chat apps. But Retina Display rumor seems to be a far off thing.

Right now iPad has boasts a resolution of 1024x768 so to go for Retina, Apple needs to double it on both the sides that is 2048x1536. With a screen size of almost 9.7 inches, this type of resolution means Apple 27 inch LED cinema display converted to a miniature scale. If any of the consumer electronic device company is able to make one, the price will certainly be very much higher. With this type of resolution, the current apps on the Apple app store will either appear awful or will have extremely low dropping elements.

So let’s see that whether Kevin’s rumors stay true this time or not.

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How to Use Audio Scrubbing on iPhone and iPad

iPhoneJots — Sat, 08 Jan 2011 18:17:05 +0000

So if you have an iPhone or iPad and you listen to a Podcast on it, then sometimes you want to skip to a certain portion. Luckily iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch all provide an easy control that can enable users to scrub forward or backward during their listening to Podcast or songs mood.

When Cupertino based tech giant last year introduced iOS 3, they included a very much needed option in the iPod app called as audio scrubbing. In today’s iPhone tip, I am going to quickly illustrate how you can employ this stunning feature and have better dimensions of control over the contents that you are listening to. So here is a brief rundown of the tip that you might have overlooked while using your iPod App:

All a user has to do is tap and hold the seek program slider at the top of the ‘Now Playing’ Tab once he is using the iPod App on his iDevice. From here, you can slide the fingers either on the left side or on the right side to adjust to that particular spot where you want to be in the Playback.

Once you are scrubbing through what you are listening and by just moving your finger down you can have a different level of scrubbing, that is either Hi-speed, Quarter Speed and Fine scrubbing. Moreover, you can also jump back 30 seconds to any other level by hitting the ’30’ button below the iPod seek bar. You can rebound to 2 minutes by tapping on the 30 second button for like 4 times.

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iPhone Car Accessory Review: CarTrip for iPhone by Griffin

iPhoneJots — Sat, 08 Jan 2011 18:15:15 +0000

Apple and their products have somewhat revolutionized the way we go about our daily lives. Their slogan “there is an App for that” clearly identifies their consumer friendly business model. Recently a popular accessory maker for iDevices, Griffin Technology has launched its latest automobile accessory for the complete range of iDevices. This latest innovative accessory is named as CarTrip automotive accessory for iPhone.

The accessory combined with a dedicated app is basically a Bluetooth monitor that simply plugs into an automobile’s OBD-II connector or the port. This allows a seamless reporting and also the recording of multitude of data from the on-board computer in the car. When used alongwith its compatible Clean Drive App, user will be able to monitor the overall performance of the car including different kind of metrics like acceleration, top speed and fuel consumption. Moreover, using this accessory, user can also see the various kinds of diagnostic codes that are being sent by the on-board computer of the car. Using these codes, user can troubleshoot various kinds of problems for the indicator lights.

Other features that are housed include a SD-Slot for storing additional data, plus there is a ‘Carbon Score’ display within the app that provides drivers an easy to understand readout telling them their driving habits.

CarTrip accessory for iPhone will be obtainable for a price tag of $90 and will be out in market in the first quarter of 2011. Its companion app CleanDrive for iPhone will be available for download from the Apple App store in Q1 as well.

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Solar System for iPad– Astronomy App Review

iPhoneJots — Sat, 08 Jan 2011 17:44:04 +0000

You must have seen The Elements: A Visual Experience app in many of the iPad commercials released by Apple. Recently, the developers of The Elements: A Visual Experience app created another innovative and interactive learning app for iPad and this time their focus is on Solar system and Astronomy. Solar System for iPad is the name of the latest iOS application that is focused on delivering interactive contents relating to Solar System to the users.

Like its predecessor The Elements App, Solar system is having a very eye catching and stunning user interface and is very much an interactive kind of e-book. Solar system for iPad is currently available in the Apple App store for $13.99 and is being rated well by a lot of users. Some of its cool features include:

The App has a specially composed music track that plays when you launch the App. Track is from the famous group Bjork and is not released before.
A total of 150 beautifully presented story pages that are illustrated with rich graphics, videos and the best of all 3D objects.
Contains almost 40 fully rotatable and zoomable objects from the solar system including Sun and all of the planets.
600 selected high definition images collected during NASA, JAXA and ESA agencies Solar system missions.
Technical data related to all the objects alongwith some informative captions tagged with each graphical object.
Users can also have Live Data feed from Wolfram Alpha engine.

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Camtastic Photography App for iPhone and iPad

iPhoneJots — Sat, 08 Jan 2011 17:14:30 +0000

Recently Indeeo Inc. a developer for iDevices released their Photography app called as Camtastic, and by the looks, this surely is a full fledge replacement app for both the iPod Touch and iPhone. Although, the photography section of the Apple App store is getting crowded with loads of camera replacement apps but developers are still sticking onto launch some cool and innovative photography apps.

Camtastic app for iPhone starts off directly in the photo taking mode, so it means that you get free from the hassle of splash screen to go live first. In the capture mode of Camtastic, the shutter button is found on the lower left corner. The options and picture review buttons are found on the lower right corner. Downside of the app is; there is no option of capturing the videos in the Camtastic App for iPhone, so all the video making enthusiasts should probably skip the purchasing of the app.

When the menu button is selected, the options like Films, Scenes, Flash and Timer options pop-ups. The options in Timer are: 2,5,15 or the max 30 sec. Moreover, there are single and multi-shot options. Finally, there is the display option (display icons and balance meter). All of the above mentioned features are very much available in standard camera replacement apps. The real fun of Camtastic app lies with the various film options that include Standard, Vintage and Yosemite and Chromapaint.

Once you take any photo, the image directly goes to the in-app camera roll which is similar as available in Camera+ app for iPhone. In order to view the images that you have taken from the Camtastic App, you have to click on the photo icon in the lower right corner. Camtastic App for iPhone & iPod saves images in full resolution on both the iPod Touch 4^th Gen and iPhone 4. The app is available for download from Apple App store for $1.99.

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Infinity Blade for iPhone and iPad : The most Anticipated game on iOS Devices

iPhoneJots — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 18:33:24 +0000

All the enthusiastic iPhone and iPad gamers have been eagerly waiting for the Infinity Blade launch on iPhone and iPad and people have been longing for the game to hit the App store. The hype this game has created is pretty high and some of the iPhone gamers have posted on the blogosphere that this game will make the gamers glue to it.

Infinity Blade for iPhone and iPad is one of the first iOS games that have utilized the Unreal Engine 3. The game brings the story of a super hero who is bent on eradicating the God King, villain in the game, who has plundered the region. With this little prologue game story starts formally.

The player starts of the game as a hero and approaches to the castle where the opponent God King resides. But before you can get your hands on the God King, you will have to confront lot of God King’s minions. These Minions differ in both size and the schematics. After you have defeated a lot of these Minions, you can reach to God King. If you are able to defeat him, you will be tagged as a winner and if you die in the event of fighting with the enemies, your story will start again with the main character’s son avenging the death.

The time line of game is set in a historical castle marred with knight folkfore and magic that will be very attractive for a lot of players. The story of the game is not as deep and scintillating; Infinity Blade is all about overall mechanics and gameplay. Before you formally enter the game, you can scope the complete environment. Plus, the entire gameplay revolves around 3 battling schematics: dodge an enemy attack by tapping on your screen, block an attack by the enemy, plus you can parry an attack by just a finger swipe in the same direction. Infinity Blade for iPhone and iPad can be downloaded from the Apple App store for $5.99.