TUAW Talkcast tonight: Previews, podcasters, and premature plaudits

  By admin | May 21, 2012 - 4:30 am | Tuaw Leave a comment

I’m filling in for the regular crew tonight, so we’ll talk about some of the news from the last week: Will new Macs be unveiled at WWDC? Is it news when a podcaster switches networks? Are Windows Phones really kicking iPhone butt in China?

These topics and more will be analyzed, discussed, and dissected tonight on TUAW TV Live, and your opinion — and I’m sure you have one — is welcome.

Your calls and questions help us make the show the best it can be. To participate on TalkShoe, you can use the browser-only client, the embedded Facebook app, or download the classic TalkShoe Pro Java client; however, for maximum fun, you should call in. For the web UI, just click the Talkshoe Web button on our profile page at 4 HI/7 PDT/10 pm EDT Sunday. To call in on regular phone or VoIP lines (yay for free cellphone weekend minutes!): dial (724) 444-7444 and enter our talkcast ID, 45077 — during the call, you can request to talk by keying in *8.

If you’ve got a headset or microphone handy (you know those headphones that came with your iPhone?), you can connect via the free Zoiper, X-Lite or Blink SIP clients; and basic instructions are here. Talk to you tonight!



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Rise of the Tech Bandits: John Gruber & Joel Topolsky, the Cool Kids

  By admin | May 21, 2012 - 3:04 am | Read Write Web Leave a comment


Editor’s note: In the Summer 2012 issue of SAY Magazine, Dan Frommer chronicles the history of tech blogging. For the rest of this week, Richard MacManus, who founded ReadWriteWeb in 2003, will be looking back on the early days.

In our final look at the leading tech bloggers of this era, we profile a couple of guys who have cornered the market in a certain brand of hipness. Gruber is the ultimate indie voice in Apple news, with his one-man blog Daring Fireball. Topolsky is the leader at The Verge, a new style of tech blog that makes heavy use of video and colorful imagery. I haven’t met either of these two fellows, but I admire their blogs for a similar reason: both have established themselves by doing something unique and different.

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Upcoming jailbreak tweak allows you to fold your Lock screen to unlock your iPhone

  By admin | May 21, 2012 - 2:35 am | iDownloadBlog Leave a comment

A few days ago, Russian freelance designer, Anton Kudin, created a new “fold to unlock” concept for the iPhone. Needless to say, his concept turned out to be a pretty big hit.

Unsurprisingly, given the history of the jailbreak community’s fast turnaround time, Kudin’s concept has been turned into a reality.

This afternoon I had the privilege to sit down and test out an unreleased version of Unfold, a new jailbreak tweak from German jailbreak developer Jonas Gessner. Unfold, as you might have guessed, is a usable implementation of the fold to unlock concept.

Want to see Unfold in action? Then step right inside…

Once installed, Unfold simply works. It doesn’t require any settings configuration, and it plays nice with iOS’ passcode security feature. Unfold is a solid implementation of an interesting concept, and it’s sure to make anyone unfamiliar with jailbreaking do a double take.

As stated, Unfold is still in development, but it’s slated to be released in the very near future for free on Cydia’s BigBoss repo.

Do you like what you see?

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Cartoon: Hold Your Horses There, Zuckerberg

  By admin | May 21, 2012 - 1:00 am | Read Write Web Leave a comment




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Samsung S-Voice leaked for all ICS devices

  By admin | May 20, 2012 - 10:19 pm | Android Community Leave a comment

If you’ve got an Android 4.0 device or ROM and a burning desire to try out the latest Siri clone, you’re in luck: an XDA Developers member got his or her hands on the APK for Samsung’s S-Voice. This combination of Google’s voice recognition engine and heuristic computing got the lion’s share of the attention for the new version of TouchWiz, which debuted with the Galaxy S III earlier this month.

You’ll need an Ice Cream Sandwich tablet or smartphone, but thankfully not a Samsung one, to try it out. Our quick experimentation shows that it works well enough. As far as utility goes, it’s about as useful as Siri – which is to say that if you give it just the right command and you’re speaking clearly in a low-volume area, it’ll usually give you a vague version of the answer you’re looking for. Currently it seems very inclined to give you the weather and not much else.

The post says that you’ll need to copy the app into your System/App folder and alter the permissions, but I’ve had success with simply installing the app via the standard non-market way. At present it isn’t much better than using Google’s standard voice recognition with search – those of you who were hoping for a “Siri killer” will be disappointed. Here’s hoping that Samsung can improve it before the Galaxy S III’s European release in a couple of weeks.

[via SlashGear]

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