This week’s tips focus on the recently released iOS 4.1 and some of the things that you can do with it on the iPhone 4, iPod touch 4G, and older iPod touch models running iOS 4.1.Apple has made changes or additions to Phone Favorites, Keyboard, and Par…
It’s that time again, ladies and gentlemen: Fire up your Software Update and grab the latest iTunes, it’s waiting for you!
Apple today issued a minor update to iTunes, bringing the “jack of all trades” application up to 9.1.1. But don’t get too excited, it’s mostly bug fixes in store for you today — but who doesn’t like having bugs squashed, especially when Apple promises they’re important ones?
The iTunes 9.1.1 update specifically tackles these issues:
• Addresses several stability issues with VoiceOver
• Addresses a usability issue with VoiceOver and Genius Mixes
• Addresses issues with converting songs to 128 kbps AAC while syncing
• Addresses other issues that improve stability and performance
The 93MB update is available directly from Apple’s website or you can download it directly to your computer via Software Update. iTunes 9.1.1 requires Mac OS X 10.4.11 or later and an updated version is also available for your Windows buddies as well.
It’s probably not easy for Apple CEO Steve Jobs to slip in & out of anywhere these days, but when he heads to New York to meet with newspaper publishers only days after announcing the iPad, it’s gotta be even worse.
New York Magazine is reporting that Apple recently booked the cellar dining room at Pranna for a talk with “50 top executives from The New York Times” — and even the restaurant’s management didn’t know who the VIP guest would be.
But on Wednesday night, Jobs came strolling in for his dinner meeting wearing what their source calls “a very funny hat — a big top hat kind of thing.” The Apple executive then proceeded to order a mango lassi and penne, neither of which are on the menu at the trendy Southern Asian restaurant.
The whole affair was an “intimate, family-style gathering” according to the New York Magazine source, with Jobs sitting at the head of the table along with Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger. Jobs demonstrated the iPad and its functions and spoke at length about how it could “serve the future of media.”
While The New York Times certainly isn’t an iPad exclusive — rumors abound that the Times executives are wary of cutting such a deal with Apple — the paper was featured prominently at the media event to unveil the device.
And ironically, Jobs himself confessed to his Times buddies that while he reads the paper online every day, even he likes to hold the Sunday edition in his hands. So much for the iPad killing print, we’d say…
