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Saturday, September 5, 2009
Software

WinMo 7.0 Might Be In Beta Now, On Phones In April 2010

8:30AM Rosa Golijan | Windows Mobile 7 might be sneaking into beta right now, based on the LinkedIn profile of a Chinese Senior Engineer at Motorola. I certainly hope this speculation proves true—it means less time living with Windows Mobile 6.5. More »
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Monday, August 17, 2009
Online

Want To Call Up Internode? Check Their Wait Times First

2:56PM Nick Broughall | Waiting on hold when you need tech support, want to make a complaint or just need to pay a bill is the bane of humanity. That’s why Internode’s new beta service, that lets you check the average wait time for their support lines online is like manna from heaven for Internode customers. More »
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Monday, August 3, 2009
Games

Xbox Live NXE Beta Reveals Smaller Game Install Sizes

4:30AM Jack Loftus | Word from Kotaku is the Xbox Live NXE preview beta thing going on now features smaller game install sizes. Not one of the more exciting features, sure, but if you’re the type of gamer who enjoys seeing their games boot up a few second fast than usual it’s gravy. [Kotaku]
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Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Software

IPhone 3.1 Beta 3 Is Out

5:31AM Jason Chen | Developers, go download the iPhone 3.1 Beta 3 OS (and SDK) now. [Apple] More »
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Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Software

IPhone 3.1 Beta 2 OS Now Lets You Develop Over Wi-Fi

10:15AM Jason Chen | iPhone 3.1 beta 2 now lets developers connect their phones to your development machine over Wi-Fi to run Instruments on; useful if you need to use your dock connector on the phone to connect to something else. More »
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Thursday, May 7, 2009
Software

iPhone Beta 5 Odds and Ends: No More MMS, Better YouTube?

6:22PM John Herrman | The official script may have minimised it as a maintenance release, but some users are finding out that iPhone Beta 5 contains more than bugfixes. So far: YouTube’s improved, and hacked MMS is no more. More »
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Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Software

iPhone 3.0 Beta 4 Is Up, And So Is iTunes 8.2 Pre-Release

11:59AM Jason Chen | The iPhone OS 3 beta 4 release is out now for developers, but you must install iTunes 8.2 (pre-release) in order to get it. Will let you know what’s new once we find out. [Apple] More »
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Sunday, April 26, 2009
Software

Screen Recording to Come Baked In to Snow Leopard’s Quicktime Player

8:00AM Dan Nosowitz | The new Quicktime X Player, which will come with this summer’s Snow Leopard upgrade, has a cool new feature: Like Snapz, it’ll record motion on the screen. More »
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Saturday, April 25, 2009
Software

New Mac OS X Snow Leopard Beta Released, Run to the Torrents

2:38AM Jesus Diaz | A new version of Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard—labeled 10A335—has hit developers. Apple hasn’t mentioned any new features or bug fixes, however. The Server version—which was released alongside—does come with an easier to use version of Podcast Producer, new spam mail filters in Mail Server, and other niceties. More »
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Friday, April 24, 2009
Software

How To Tether Your iPhone To Your Laptop Over Bluetooth With The iPhone 3.0 Software

12:30PM Nick Broughall | One of the much wanted features to be made available with the iPhone 3.0 software beta – alongside MMS – is tethering via USB and Bluetooth. Reader Jennifer from Axiom software has sent us a pretty awesome guide to tethering your iPhone to your laptop via Bluetooth for Australians. While we haven’t tried it ourselves (no iPhone 3.0 beta to play with, unfortunately), she claims that it’s pretty stable and works well. Here’s how to do it: More »
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