iPhone TIPS: Weird Japanese iPhone Cases [Must See PICS]

-by iphone-tips-tricks.com - Everyone knows you can wake me anytime for a fresh portion of sushi. Besides the sushi is popular in western cities, it is the most beloved in.... Japan. Sushi is culture in Japan. Only the best ingredients are allowed. And it prepared in such a beautiful decoration, you can't keep your hands off and just eat them! That is exact the idea of these crazy beautiful weird iPhone cases I have ever seen.

Chirashi Sushi Case with fishballs....

They cost around 4000 yen each. If you ever want to distinguish your style with your friends iPhone 4, this is your choice.

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iPhone: TIPS: Paper Maps Replaced with iPads by Marine Corps, Navy and Civilian Aircrews

US Navy using iPads

Q: What is up? A: The iPad is often used to replace bulky papers like manuals and maps. This is more and more often true for aircrews of airliners. Q: Why do they prefer to use an iPad? A: Paper is heavy to carrie around. More important is the ease to make the manuals and maps up to date. With an iPad, you can easily update the documents and maps over the air wirelessly and remotely , with little or no user interaction. Q: Are there more examples of usecases? A: Yes, even in war zones. iPads are spotted in action in Afghanistan. DVIDS reports how the Marine Corps aviators are using iPads in Afghanistan. The U.S. Navy is using iPads as well. (see picture) The image at the top of this article shows U.S. Navy Information Systems Technician 2nd Class Michael Tolbert uploading "geographical data onto tactical Apple iPad tablets to be used for combat operations aboard the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson at sea April 19, 2011." source macrumors

iPhone TIPS: New Angry Birds 'Barcelona' Episode Life-Size Version [must watch video]

The launch of Angry Birds Rio followed by the next episode called Beach Volley    [$0,99] , this is my favorite game on the iPad ever since. The extremely popular iPhone iPad iPod game Angry Birds has a new 'sort of' episode called Barcelona and shipped in a new form factor of "life-size" For the first time ever, watch how people use a simple smartphone to play a life-size version of the cult Angry Birds game. Complete with real shooting birds and exploding pigs! The world famous Angry Bird tune is performed by life musicians. via facebook friend. video by lifeisforsharingDT [disclaimer: ITT is NOT affiliated with T-Mobile]

iPhone TIPS: WWDC 2011 Summary Highlights

Apple iCloud will be Free. Expected in the fall 2011. photo via Engadget.com

[UPDATE] Watch the streaming video HERE if you have 2 hours time left, otherwise read the rest of the post :-)

These are my lists of observations during the WWDC 2011 keynote address given by Steve Jobs and others. By the way, no iPhone 4S today, software only and nothing released today.

Lion Mac OSX

• Lion ships in July
• Developer preview available today
• Supports all your authorized Macs
• $29.99 for an upgrade,
• upgrade via Mac Appstore 'Buy' button
• 4 Gibyte download, in place upgrade 
• no reboots
• No scrollbars, only when you scroll
• Photo booth has face detection fun features to show off
• Launchpad, pinch to have all your apps arranged as if it is iOS
• Resume: Launch app and Lion brings you right back where you have stopped.
• Auto Save: Document versioning feature, like the Time machine interface
• Airdrop: peer-to-peer file sharing, auto-setup, auto discover, easy to use over Wifi.
• Mail: Conversation view
• Windows migration support

iOS 5

• Ships this fall (no exact month named)
• The SDK is available today.
• Supports iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPad, iPad2, iPod Touch (3rd and 4th gen) 
• Notification Center: Aggregates all notifications in  one view (mail, sms, missed calls)
• Notification in Lockscreen and inside games
• News stand: A magazine rack and auto downloads new issues
• Twitter: integrates Twitter deep inside iOS, twitter from any app.
• Safari Reader: button in the address bar, removes all distractions.
• Safari: tabbed browser
• Reminders: Geo location based reminders, alert when entering or leaving geolocation
• Camera: shutter button now in lockscreen and volume up button, instant edit your photo's after you shot it
• Mail: Rich text formatting, draggable addresses, flag messages, built-in dictionary
• Secure Mail: S/MIME support
• Keyboard customization: split keyboard in two pieces
• Cut the cables and do it over the air: activate device OTA, iOS update OTA,
• Game center: enhancements
• iMessage: New app, send message to any iOS device wirelessly, encryption
• Airplay mirroring: Mirror iPad screen to HDTV

iCloud

• "iCloud stores your content in the cloud and wirelessly pushes it to ALL your devices. It automatically uploads it, stores it, and pushes it to all you devices" 
• iCloud is Free
• iCloud replaces MobileMe
• Ships together with iOS 5 (this fall)
• Supported: Contacts, Calendar, Mail, Apps Store apps, iBooks books,
• PC-less: Back-up device every day to the cloud (wifi), restores to new devices  
• iWorks: pages, keynote, numbers. Documents are available to any device.
• Photo stream: Any photo taken are pushed to the cloud, then sent to other devices automatically.
• Photo storage: iCloud stores each photo 30 days, device store 1000 photos and store all photos on your Mac or PC
• iTunes: buy tune once, play same tune on all devices fro free.
• iTunes Match: Matches your local tune collection and make the same tune collection available in the cloud, drm free, 256 kbps AAC without uploading because it is already there.
• iTunes Match big advantage compared to Amazon and Google Music: It takes minutes in stead of weeks to upload your tune collection. Annual price for iTunes Match is $25

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Photo is taken by our fellow bloggers from Engadget.com

iPhone TIPS: iSteve Jobs Authorized Biography Top 100 Bestseller in 1 day

by iPhone-tips-tricks.com - "Stay hungry Stay foolish". Yesterday, the planned authorized biography of Steve Jobs went to pre-order at Amazon.com.  This book titled "iSteve: The Book of Jobs" will be released on March 6th 2012. indeed, next year! The information covered in this book must be interesting many people, because it run into the Bestseller Top 100 in just 1 day. [#68 during writing this post] The book is not even available yet! As Apple fanboy I really can imagine that many people will like to know the secret of Steve's successes with Apple and her great game changing products like the iPhone iPad iPod App Store iTunes and so on and so on. And with this first ever authorized written biography it will be the first time that information about and around Steve Jobs will be shared to the world. Till then you have to do it with Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement Speech given back in 2005. That is long before the iPhone and iPad. I am sure, all things he said back in 2005 are still true at March 6th 2012. Don't forget to pre-order your copy via this link: iSteve: The Book of Jobs [amazon] with a excellent Pre-Order Price.
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"Stay hungry Stay foolish"

[UPDATE] As a service for the rest of the non-english speaking world, the whole text of the commencement after the fold. You can translate it with your favorite translator to your own language

I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college. Truth be told, this is the closest I’ve ever gotten to a college graduation. Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That’s it. No big deal. Just three stories.

iPhone TIPS: Apple Store Spammed with Windows Logo [Must See Video]

Just plant a big Windows Logo on a Apple Store in broad daylight, so brutal!

Q: What is going on? A:  A group going by the name of ".WAV Collective" apparently spammed the soon-to-be Apple retail location in the Jungfernstieg section of Hamburg, Germany. Q: What did they do? A: They casually went up to the building posing as a team of construction workers, cordoned off a work site, and proceeded to screw big Windows logo, to the side of the store's black veil all in broad daylight ! Q: Why did they do that? A: It is not really clear, but the people of this collective are more "PC" than "Macs" I think :) And a PC stands for Intel+Microsoft (aka WinTel). We all know since last Friday, that Apple has a bigger market-share than Intel and Microsoft together! [source] A reaction caused by jalousie among the Wintel fanboys and girls maybe ? Meanwhile, the Windows Phone Mango tries to get born in the mobile market between Android and the iPhone. Lets hope for Microsoft, there is no need to use the phrase 'dead on arrival'.


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iPhone TIPS: iPad iOS 5 Preview Magician Demo [Must See Video]

Do you remember the magician back in June 2007 showing magic on the first iPhone in front of the Apple Store ? [see old post HERE] If you like such a entertainment, then you will like this video too. Thanks to Simon for sharing! 

iPhone TIPS: Santa 2011 brings iPad 3 LTE Retina ?

Q: What is going on? A: The rumor that Apple is shipping the iPad 3 this year 2011 is back! Q: What are the predictions this time? A: In February this year we noticed Daring Fireball's 6 months forward predictions. And those predictions still can come out correctly:
"...So, here’s my guess at Apple’s iPad plans for 2011:
An iPad 2, fairly soon. Say, a March announcement, shipping in the first week of April. Faster, more RAM, maybe more storage, thinner and lighter, a front-facing camera.1 Running iOS 4.3.
iOS 5, announced at a developer event in March, shipping in June.
iPad 3, shipping in September, announced at the annual iPod event. Running iOS 5.1, same as the next-generation iPod Touch.
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Today, the wall street journal blog [link] quotes the suggestion from a Hong Kong based source named CLSA, which suggests an iPad 3 release before Christmas 2011.
wsj quotes:
“While most vendors appear fixated on matching the specs and features of iPad2, our checks suggest Apple will release iPad3 in time for the holiday season, sporting a better display and LTE capabilities.”

A lot of people who are following Apple for years are in doubt of course. Traditionally there is 1 iPhone, 1 iPad and 1 iPod announcement a year. "Once a Year".  A logical update pattern is: in March an iPad, in June an iPhone and in September an iPod. And another iPad 3 this year will break this pattern. However, we all know that the competition (Android) is getting stronger. To make the competition harder to keep up with Apple, this could be a nice 'rumored'  move. The mentioned LTE capabilities is a about a faster radio for faster internet speeds, and we know there are providers investing in this new Long Term Evolution, but this technology is not in place in common yet. Because there are huge capacity problems with the current GSM 3G UMTS HSDPA radio net, caused by the explosive grow of "App-phones", it is expected that all big providers must invest in an upgrade to a faster LTE network. Otherwise, there is simply 'no service'
Also, I know as iPhone 4 owner, that an iPad 1 or iPad 2 without a Retina high resolution display is like watching an old-school VGA tube with low resolution pictures. A great iPad screen will push the sales and convince iPad 1 owners to upgrade and pull anyone in doubt over the line for the iPad '3'.  Lets see the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2011 [SOLD OUT] first, which starts from June 6-10 at San Francisco, Moscone.
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iPhone TIPS: iCloud Logo vs MobileMe Logo

Are there people on this planet who can not see the similarities between the current MobileMe logo and Apple's new iCloud logo? We do get at least the same MobileMe service back with a new name and new logo. Our guess is an addition of something like streaming audio (like spotify) and video storage, integration of iWorks for iPad, iPod, iPhone and Lion Mac OS X to seamlessly interact with each other.
We have to wait till the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2011 [SOLD OUT] starts from June 6-10 at San Francisco, Moscone.

Current MobileMe Logo

The "brandnew" iCloud Logo