WinZip Now Available On Mac OS X And Will On iPhone And Android Near 2011

WinZip is the popular compression software has now created version of its compression utility for Mac, and has unveiled it is currently developing versions for the iPhone and Android OS.

The new mobile editions are expected to arrive in early 2011 for the iPhone and iPad with Android apps available later in the year.

Its the very first edition that WinZip has created for OS X and just like the Windows version WinZip Mac supports Zip, Zipx, RAR, LHA and 7z file types and . However the new Mac edition has a completely  re-designed user interface. Providing features to reduce file size, secure sensitive information and send zipped email attachments instantly.

WinZip for Mac is now available to download, WinZip Mac Edition with a free 30-day trial. A single-user licence will cost £26, and it requires Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard to run.

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Do you Want Android on your iPhone!

A year ago, the idea of being able to run Android on the iPhone was damn near laughable. Surely, no hacker was good enough to pull off that feat!

Then this happened, and our minds were blown wide open.

7 months later, the project has progressed enough that just about anyone can do it — in fact, you don’t even need a computer.

Once a fairly complicated process, the whole thing has been diluted down to little more than tapping a few buttons and waiting. The only bad news: you’ll need a jailbroken first generation iPhone , or a jailbroken iPhone 3G. Neither the 3GS or iPhone 4 are supported yet.

Got the required materials at the ready? Redmond Pie has the full breakdown, from installing the new bootloader to pulling down the Android installation.

iPhone 2G users can similarly follow the steps to jailbreak using Redsn0w, Blackra1n and PwnageTool.

If you don’t meet the above requirements then you can’t go ahead with the installation of Android on your iPhone 2G/3G. If you do, then proceed with the following steps.

Step 1: Jailbreak your iPhone 2G/3G using the steps given in the links above. When you’re done, run Cydia from your iPhone’s springboard, and add “http://repo.neonkoala.co.uk/”

(without quotes) as repository. Tap “Add Source”, and then you need to install “Bootlace” as shown in the screenshots below.

Step 2: Once you have installed Bootlace, fire up the app from the homescreen:.

Step 3: From “Bootlace”, you need to install “OpeniBoot”.

Step 4: Once “OpeniBoot” has been installed, tap on the “iDroid” tab in the bottom row to install iDroid.

Step 5: Once iDroid has been installed on your iPhone, tap the “QuickBoot” tab in the bottom row, followed by tapping on the Android logo, your iPhone will now restart and boot into Android. That’s it, you’re done! You now have Android 2.2.1 Froyo on your iPhone.

Please refer to Step 4 again if you want to check for Android updates in future. And it’s highly recommended that you perform the whole feat over a WiFi connection.

How to Transform Google On Your iPhone

Just wish Apple handled sync, the web, and openness a bit better? You can't have it all, but if you want to bring more Google paradigms to your iPhone, here's how to do it.

Despite the title, this isn't just about Google transforming your iPhone but really any iOS device you might own. If you're an iPad or iPod touch owner, we've got you covered too. That said, let's take a look at the ways you can bring more Google to your device.

Google Sync for iOS will let you push your contacts, calendars, and mail to your iPhone (or other iOS device). The functionality is similar to what you'd get with MobileMe, except it works through the Microsoft Exchange protocol. Google Sync requires iOS 3.0 or higher, but iOS 4.0 or higher will let you add multiple Exchange so you'll want to make sure you've upgraded if you need multiple exchange accounts on your device. The setup instructions get pretty detailed so we're not going to get into them here, but it's definitely not a hard process. Google walks you through the process, step by step and you'll be pushing your mail, contacts, and calendars in just a few minutes.

Like most Google apps, you can access your Google Docs through the web browser, but if you want to start saving them to your iPhone and have a native app experience you should grab a copy of GoodReader. While it's not the only Google Docs option in the app store, it's inexpensive ($2 for iPhone, $2 for iPad) and comes with a lot of added functionality. In addition to syncing Google Docs you can pull documents from tons of other sources, like WebDAV and Dropbox. It makes for a great document reader and allows annotations on PDFs. Getting your Google Docs is really simple. You just open Good Reader, tap Web Downloads, tap Connect to Servers, tap Google Docs and then enter your Google account information. Once you do that it'll save your Google Docs as a file location and you can download your documents right to your iOS device.

Although it probably goes without saying, you can't really have a Google-ified iPhone without the Google Mobile app. If you're not familiar with it, Google Mobile gives you quick access to popular Google services but also makes searching a lot easier by allowing you to use your voice and location. It also includes Google Goggles, which lets you take a photo and use it as a search query. For example, take a picture of a book you like or a nearby restaurant and Google will find it. If you want to bring up any previous searches, Google Mobile tracks your search history so you can quickly find things again. It's free in the iTunes App Store and brings a ton of great search functionality missing in iOS.

When and if Google Voice will ever find its way to iOS in app form is anyone's guess, but that doesn't keep you from making use of many of its features on your iPhone right now. You no longer need an invitation to sign up and it's free to use. With the service you get a single number that can ring everywhere and an online voicemail box that includes (somewhat poorly but often funny) transcribed messages. It'll also let you screen and block callers, which can be a huge benefit if you're hounded by telemarketers. You can even transfer your existing number to Google Voice (although it's worth noting that you might have difficulty transferring it away from Google Voice if you do). All of these features are available just by using the service. Hopefully more will come in the future if Apple and Google can get the Google Voice app into the iTunes App Store, but if you want a little extra right now you can always check out GVMobile. It's $3 in the iTunes App Store

For simplicity's sake, it's worth noting that the Google webapps—accessible through Mobile Safari—are really good. Google has also added instant search to iOS (and other mobile devices) so you don't want to discount their usefulness. You can always save an iPhone bookmark to your home screen for quick access of any Google webapps you frequently use. While native apps can be great, Google really does an excellent job with their mobile browser-based offerings. Using them feels pretty much identical to any native app anyway. Got any great ways of added more Google to your iOS device? Let's hear 'em in the comments.

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iPad Tethering Spotted in iOS 4.2 Beta

Within the new beta 2 of iOS 4.2 for iPad a discovery has been made that contradicts reports from Apple that the iPad would not receive a tethering feature.

Tethering would allow you to share the iPads Internet connect with other devices, saving you the cost of multiple connections.


In another discovery by 9to5Mac the tethering section within the beta iOS 4.2 asks for the usual username and password to setup internet tethering, and this is similar to what the iPhone had before tethering got an official iOS interface.At the moment the tethering feature only seems to be available in the European iOS 4.2 and not on the iPad 3G running on AT&T’s network. We will keep you updated as more details become available.

New Apple TV Gets Jailbreak

Well that didn’t take them long, the iPhone Dev Team has managed to jailbreak the new Apple TV, MuscleNerd recently announced on Twitter, that they haid jailbroken the new Apple TV using the SHatter jailbreak.

He also said that they are not quite sure how to run apps on it yet, although we suspect this is something that wont take very long.

There are no details on when the Apple TV jailbreak will be available, you can have a look of it in action below.

HDR Photography Coming to iPhone 3GS?

We have featured a number of ways to try an enable your 3Gs iPhones here on Geeky Gadgets from HDR iPhone Apps and HDR Jailbreak techniques.

However 9 to 5 Mac have discovered that if you are using a iPhone 3GS Apple may already have HDR capabilities ready for in their next update for you. The evidence also looks like Apple had planned HDR support for the 3GS from the beginning.

9to5Mac has discovered that there are it fact two HDR icons within the SDK. (Picture above). Labeled with one for an iPhone 4's Retina Display and another for an iPhone without a Retina Display.

How do we know the other icon is not for the Retina Display? Apple has a very simple labeling process which places an “@2x” on image titles for the Retina Display and places nothing of that sort next to “iphone” on non-retina iPhones.

Unfortunately the early 3G model of the iPhone does not have the required hardware to capture HDR photos unlike the 3GS.

There have been on indications by Apple when or if this feature will be released, but it could land on your iPhone 3Gs in the next update. Fingers crossed.

Via 9to5Mac

iPhone 4 Scalpers Force Beijing Apple Store to Close [Video]

One of Apple's Beijing locations lifted the two-per-customer iPhone 4 limit. The result: chaos, confusion, and the temporary shutdown of the store. Sounds like the scalpers did pretty well for themselves, though.

The trouble started not long after the doors opened at 7am, according to MIC Gadget. Customers who had been waiting in line for three hours for a chance to buy a new iPhone were blocked from entering, as they watched industrious scalpers tote 20-30 boxes out at a time. Those same scalpers then attempted to pawn off their iPhone 4 stash to the waiting crowd, with a $70-per-device markup.

It gets worse: a fight broke out between customers and scalpers, which attracted the police, who then cleared the store of both customers and employees.

It's unclear why this store lifted the sales limit while others, it seems, did not. But for those wondering why all those line squatters didn't just order online, there's a perfectly good explanation:

Since the Chinese citizens do not wish to sign a two-year contract when buying an iPhone 4 (they have their own phone numbers already), the local Apple retail store is the only place for them to get one. There are only 4 Apple stores in China now, two at Beijing and two at Shanghai. For Chinese citizens who are from other provinces of China, they need to travel to Beijing or Shanghai to purchase a contract-free iPhone 4... You may ask why they do not order it from the Apple online store, well, there's no online purchasing on China's Apple site. They could try the Hong Kong Apple online store, but they want their iPhones to have warranty in China, not Hong Kong.

To help remedy the problem, it was just announced today that an ID is required on all iPhone 4 purchases at all four Apple Store locations in China, with a strict limit of one per customer. The phone will be activated at the time of purchase by an Apple employe.

So, what a mess! Let's take a moment to harken back to the happier times of the store's opening back in 2008:

Scalpers: ruining it for the rest of us since forever.

3 Secret Apple TV Features Hasn’t Been Told You

During his modest introduction of the device, Jobs called the Apple TV "one more hobby." But a closer look at the code and the hardware powering the Apple TV reveals that there's a lot more going on under the hood than the CEO shared.

Interestingly, Jobs didn't mention that Apple TV runs iOS, the same operating system running on its flagship product, the iPhone, and some other big hits - the iPod Touch and iPad. And there's more, too: The Apple TV's software may already be jailbroken, and some hidden software should eventually allow you to share the Apple TV's media with other iOS devices.

These secret ingredients could be the recipe Apple needs to shake up the television industry. For years, Apple executives have labeled the set-top box a "hobby" product because of its mild success compared to blockbuster sellers like the iPhone and iPod. Now that Apple TV has been revamped into a streaming rental service with an arsenal of stealth features, maybe Apple has a chance to change the TV business - if not today, perhaps later.

"The most important hint of Apple's real ambitions in the living room come from AirPlay, which puts iPhones and iPads in the driver's seat and makes the TV just an output device for the Apple ecosystem," said James McQuivey, a Forrester analyst, in a recent e-mail statement. "Expect Apple to gradually push more and more in that direction, but as of this moment in 2010, Apple has not yet made a significant play for control of the TV."

Here, we round up the juicy tidbits we've heard about Apple's mysterious new set-top box.

There's more than enough evidence proving that the Apple TV runs iOS. Dispelling any doubts, Apple recently posted a build of iOS 4.1 specifically for the Apple TV.

This piece of information about iOS is important because of a new feature called AirPlay, which streams media from your iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch to the Apple TV. When Jobs demonstrated AirPlay, he only showed the feature working with an iPad's built-in video player, photo app and music library. Now that we know Apple TV runs iOS, it's likely that third-party apps such as MLB at Bat or ABC Player will be able stream media to the set-top box, too.

DaringFireball blogger John Gruber confirmed that an AirPlay button is showing up in the MLB at Bat app, and he adds that apps using the built-in media controller will be able to integrate AirPlay.

Long story short, you'll be able to wirelessly stream media from some third-party apps straight to your Apple TV with an AirPlay button. AirPlay is shaping up to be Apple's secret weapon to reshape home entertainment.

In addition to AirPlay, the fact that Apple TV is running iOS means that - in principle, at least - it may someday be able to run applications from the iTunes App Store. For now, that capability is not included in Apple TV, but the underlying operating system certainly supports it, so Apple might open a TV App Store in a future software update.

Third-party app support will probably be limited for the Apple TV, but that's where the jailbreakers come in. In the same way that we're able to override restrictions on the iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch with a jailbreak, we should be able to run unauthorized apps on the Apple TV - something Jobs would never advertise, of course.

In fact, hackers already have a head start, because a tool called Shatter, which was used to jailbreak the newest iPod Touch, already works with the Apple TV, according to the iPhone Dev Team. That means we should be expecting hackers to code some unauthorized apps soon to unlock additional capabilities such as video conferencing via your Apple TV.

On top of that, existing hacks for the old Apple TV should work, too. Dev Team member Will Strafach explained that "the new AppleTV OS seems to be a mashup of the old AppleTV OS and iOS," meaning "frappliances," plug-ins that add functionality to the old Apple TV, should work as well.

The Unofficial Apple Weblog's Erica Sadun, a popular iOS programmer, took a close look at the Apple TV's software and discovered that it runs an application called Lowtide - the software containing the set-top box's media interface.

Sadun dug deeper and found lines of code that suggest that Lowtide might eventually be extended to other iOS devices. In other words, you should be able to share media from the Apple TV to your iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad, whereas originally we thought we'd only be able to do the converse with AirPlay. This functionality would be comparable to a Slingbox or an EyeTV.

Lowtide isn't readily available for Apple's iOS mobile devices yet, but iOS developer Dustin Howett has already managed to load Lowtide on an iPod touch running iOS 4.1, demonstrated in the video above. He recommended against doing it yourself, though, unless you're ready to reformat your iPhone on a regular basis just to turn it back into a phone.

Keep Enemies Close: Microsoft Needs iPhone Apps

The most thrilling Microsoft product in years was killed before it ever officially existed. One of its most awesome services elicits more snickers than nods. Microsoft isn't even in the mobile space right now. Redmond, we have a problem.

Courier, simultaneously acknowledged and aborted in a bloody mess. Zune, a laughingstock that is in fact fantastic. Microsoft, the world's most famous software company, effectively sat out of smartphones for the last year (to be charitable) while it carried Windows Phone 7 to term, allowing Apple and Google to divvy up the spoils of the new frontier. It's a sad, sad turn of events.

But it's fixable. Microsoft just needs to act like a software company again. All of these amazing things Microsoft creates—like Courier and Zune—and necessary-if-not-so-awesome-things (Office): Develop them for other platforms. In other words, Courier should be an iPad and Windows Phone (Tablet?) app. Zune should be an iPhone and Android and webOS and BlackBerry and Windows Phone app. Why aren't there official Office apps for the iPhone and BlackBerry again?

Why should Microsoft deliver some of its most incredible creations to enemy platforms? It's the Kindle model, stupid. The iPad is Kindle's best worst frenemy. Even though the iPad competes against the plastic, E-Ink Kindle, the iPad is also perhaps the most fabulous delivery vehicle for Kindle the service—a huge part of the reason I stick with Kindle is because I know I can use it on basically any device I own. So, even though the iPad, with its monster sales, could eat into Kindle's massive ebook marketshare if it was solely a competitor, Amazon neutralized the threat in part by co-opting the larger platform for its own service.

The same principle could work just as neatly for Microsoft: Co-opt iOS and Android to push its own software and services while building the new Windows Phone from nothing. Realistically, a current iPhone owner isn't going to switch to Windows Phone next month. But if they're an Xbox Live member who allows themselves to get hooked on ZunePass because they're able to use it on the iPhone with an unlimited streaming app, much like Rhapsody or Mog—it's suddenly a little easier to switch to Windows Phone in the near future. In the meantime, there's another 100 million devices that can suddenly use Zune and see that it's awesome, or 10 million people who can use Courier (albeit, as an iPad app) and become hopelessly addicted to it. Oh, and hey look, Microsoft does make great software.

Xbox Live, on the other hand, is trickier. It's Microsoft's halo brand (no pun intended). There aren't so many Microsoft fanboys; but there are tons of Xbox fanboys. I'd love Live on the iPhone, like a lot of other people. But, it is an ace in the hole for Windows Phone. That, well, they maybe shouldn't give up. It's a reason to switch. Then again, gamers are still a minority compared to say, Office users.

Oh hey! Remember when Apple announced Microsoft Office and IE would come to Macs?

Back then, Apple needed Microsoft. Everyone's platform did, really. So badly that Apple agreed, as part of the deal, to make Internet Explorer the Mac's default browser. The crowd heckled. But now it's not quite so one-sided.

The rub, for Microsoft, is that everybody else—Google, Apple, whoever—is making it really easy to ditch them. As of now, going back to Microsoft is painful; inertia works against you. Microsoft should make it as frictionless as possible, so slippery you can slide right back into Microsoft's services like you never left. Letting me have ZunePass on my iPhone, and Courier on my iPad—connected to an amazing cloud service like KIN (RIP)—is how to make that happen. Microsoft, and the products it excels at, on every device I use.

The iPhone and iPod touch are seriously mainstream. They've got the momentum and the marketshare, while Microsoft has basically nothing right now. In the same position, Apple sucked it up by putting iTunes on Windows, and made out pretty goddamn handsomely. Otherwise, well, I'm not using them at all right now. Just like a whole hell of a lot of other people.

Logitech Pure-Fi Anytime Premium Alarm Clock for iPod and iPhone

Everything you’d expect from a premium iPod and iPhone speaker system ... and more. The Logitech Pure-Fi Anytime is an iPod/iPhone alarm clock that offers premium sound with innovative features that make it easy and convenient to use. Motion-activated, backlighted controls allow use in little or no light--like a dark bedroom. You can even snooze with a wave of your hand. A high-contrast, easy-to-read display is clearly visible during the day, but not too bright at night. A recessed dock helps prevent you from accidentally knocking over your iPod or iPhone by providing a protected cavity for docking. Add a dual alarm, digital AM/FM radio, and wireless remote, and you have a perfect nightstand companion.

Motion-Activated, Backlighted Controls and Dual Alarm with Motion-Sensing Snooze Make it easy to use in little or no light. Lets you wake up to digital music, radio, or buzzer, or sleep a little longer with a simple wave of your hand.

High-Contrast, Easy-to-Read Display Optimized to be clearly visible during the day, but not too bright at night.

Recessed iPod/iPhone Dock Helps prevent you from accidentally knocking over your iPod/iPhone, by providing a protected cavity for docking.

Digital AM/FM Radio Delivers live content, including music, news, weather, and sports.

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