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  • ABC’S Night Line Anchor Bill Weir Gets Access to Foxconn China

    ABC’S Night Line Anchor Bill Weir Gets Access to Foxconn China

    Many of you must be an owner of Apple’s iPhone, iPod, or iPad. We all must be happy from the finished product that Apple puts in its store. No doubt the Product is out class and worth it to buy and it is becoming one of the most sold smart phone worldwide. Apple’s share is also reaching its maximum height due to the popularity of its products.

    When we go to buy an Apple’s iPhone or iPod or iPad, we forget that these all things are made in China at Apple’s Factory called Foxconn. Where workers work hard to meet the requirements of Apple and work hard to keep the users of Apple happy and let them have the same fun they want to have. We are not aware of the health of the workers or are not aware of the workers working at Foxconn China. We only know that the iPhone is by Apple and we need to buy it.

    We are not aware of the work environment present at the Foxconn Factory in China. Previously the reports about the work environment were not good, it was reported that the workers are working in hazardous conditions, they got safety problems, and some child labor is also present there. This was a big allegation made against Apple’s Foxconn Factory in China. So to see all about these allegations, Bill Weir, anchor at ABC News Night Line has been granted special permission to visit the Foxconn Factory in China to see about the working environment of the workers over there. Bill Weir will be the first journalist to enter in the Foxconn industry and see the environment of the industry which changed lives of the people from Smart Phone to Personal computing. These are the people who never used iPhone or iPod in their lives.

    “For years, Apple and Foxconn have been synonymous with monster profits and total secrecy so it was fascinating to wander the iphone and iPod production lines, meets the people who build them and see how they live. Our cameras were rolling when thousands of hopeful applicants rushed the Foxconn gates and I spoke with dozens of line workers and a top executive about everything from hours and pay to the controversies over suicides at the plant and the infamous “jumper nets” that line the factories in Shenzhen. After this trip, I’ll never see an Apple product the same way again” said Weir

    The show will air this Tuesday 21st February 2012 at 11:35pm E.T on ABC.

    Previously Apple and Foxconn were targeted for the poor condition of workers at the factory in China. So Apple allowed the labor union to start auditing on the health of workers.

    Let’s see what ABC News Night Line comes up with. Meanwhile what do you think about the health of workers at Foxconn?

    [macrumors]

  • iOS 5 + iPad = Apple Unveiled Mac OS X Mountain Lion 10.8

    iOS 5 + iPad = Apple Unveiled Mac OS X Mountain Lion 10.8

    Yeah Apple actually has broken out of shell an revealed Mac OS X Mountain Lion 10.8 this morning with up to 100 new features forwarded from iOS 5 as Apple is completely in love to there iPad and iOS 5. In this version of Mac OS X we will see the old features converted up and brought in to the 10.8. The sneak peek was up on apple.com this morning and we are going to tell you what you have to know about Mac OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.

    The Mac OS X Mountain Lion 10.8 contains all the features of iOS 5 which we have seen before. The main features are

    • iCloud
    • Messages/iMessages
    • Reminders
    • Notes
    • Notification Center
    • Share Sheets
    • Twitter
    • Game Center
    • AirPlay Mirroring
    • Gatekeeper

    By the name you have got the features but the new ones which is Share Sheets and Gatekeeper, lets go through it. Gatekeeper is actually an anti virus by Apple if you look it in an extreme way. It will prevent malicious software installations. The share sheets will add message and tweet option in the bar.

    To try it go here, the downloading link to Mac OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.

  • AssisstantConnect4S Allows You To Use SIRI Without Proxy Servers (How To)

    AssisstantConnect4S Allows You To Use SIRI Without Proxy Servers (How To)

    Apple only released SIRI the personal Assistant for iPhone 4S in first week of October. SIRI is a great hit not only on iPhone 4S but also on older iDevices. Due to the overwhelming demand of SIRI, hackers were able to do a legal SIRI port after the release of iOS 5.0.1 (9A406) by Apple. Some how Apple didn’t encrypted SIRI in the iOS 5.0.1 (9A406) due to which we were able to get SIRI legally in the form of SPIRE.

    SPIRE was the first legal port of SIRI, which unfortunately required some Proxy servers to work with. Many people came up with their own SIRI Proxy servers and started to make some money by selling out the slots. Those proxy servers also required the iPhone 4S Keys after which they could work. Still there are many proxy servers working fine with older devices on SIRI. For those who couldn’t pay or couldn’t make their own server were out of luck. They couldn’t just enjoy the fun of SIRI on their Devices. They were left in dark with no hope.

    Today going through on a Facebook page, we came across a new Tweak called AssistantConnect which aims to help you running SIRI on non iPhone 4S device without any proxy required for SPIRE. To use this Tweak, the method is simple. All you have to do is have some one with an iPhone 4S who can get you the keys of his iPhone 4S.

    All you have to do is Jailbreak your Iphone 4S and non iPhone 4S device and install the following tweaks from Cydia

    For iPhone 4S

    AssistantConnect4S

    For iPhone 4

    AssistantConnect

    Follow the steps below in order to get Keys from iPhone 4S:

    Step 1:

    After the installation open AssistantConnect on iPhone 4S and Reboot your iPhone 4S. The icon will be on your Springboard. So open it from there and then do a Reboot.

    Step 2:

    After the reboot, re-open AssistantConnect4S and activate SIRI using your home button an ask her anything like “HI” or what ever you wan to ask her.

    Step 3:

    Now press the button in AssistantConnect4S and email it to your friends with AssistantConnect installed on their iPhone.

    Step 4:

    Now send the email to your friend which will have the SIRI data for AssistantConnect. If SIRI fails to work so follow this guide here to remove the protection made by Apple few hours back.

    Open the file which your friend mailed you with AssistantConnect.

    Step 5:

    Once you ported the file in iPhone. You will be good to go.

     Step 6:

    After you have installed Keys on your iPhone, you need to reboot your iPhone 4S also in order to make it work.

    The only drawback of this method is to have the iPhone 4S keys after every 24-hours. The person who send you the keys need to mail you the keys after every 24-hours because the keys get expired.

    [box type=”info”] We haven’t tried this method yet. We are in testing phase. We couldn’t make SPIRE work on the iPhone. If you are trying to make it work with iPad, so this might not work. Follow the above steps properly and it will work for you. We will keep you updated with the situation

    UpdateX1:

    If you are getting message on Spire that it is not configured, so install SBSettings and go into SBSettings menu> More> Addons and disale the SPIRE Hook and SPIRE Injector from there. Reboot and it will work[/box]

  • SIRI Can Speak The Unsupported Language, Japanese

    SIRI Can Speak The Unsupported Language, Japanese

    SIRI, the personal assistant on iPhone 4S revealed something new today. Some one asked SIRI about which languages can she Speak. SIRI replied that she could speak German, French, English and Japanese. The strange thing was Japanese. Apple hasn’t made the support for Japanese Language yet. Luckily SIRI can also speak Japanese. SIRI cannot speak Japanese completely yet but she was able to confirm that she can speak Japanese also. She cannot even understand Japanese yet.

    Few weeks back we came across a rumor that Apple is planning to extend the language support in SIRI for many new languages like Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Italian, and Spanish. Apple also promised hat they would be extending the support of SIRI in the above stated languages in 2012.

    Below is a piece of FAQ’s of SIRI posted on Apple’s website proving that the new languages support will come in 2012. This means that Apple has started to roll out the beta version of the following languages internally or so.

    Language Support and Availability

    Siri works exclusively on iPhone 4S. Siri understands and can speak the following languages:

    • English (United States, United Kingdom, Australia)
    • French (France)
    • German (Germany)

    In 2012, Siri will support additional languages, including Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Italian, and Spanish.

    Somehow SIRI got so happy that she leaked the upcoming language support and indicated that Apple must be working on the above language supports. We can expect the support of above stated languages in March with the release of iPad 3 and iOS 5.1.

    This leak by SIRI might have made many of the Japanese fans really excited about the support of their native language will be next.

    [9to5mac]

  • Download Redsn0w 0.9.10b5c With Speed Improvements And Minor Changes

    Download Redsn0w 0.9.10b5c With Speed Improvements And Minor Changes

    The tool is not new. We must be new for you but you all must be aware of the Jailbreaking Tool called Redsn0w. Redsn0w is the most famous tool used ever for Jailbreaking tethered and untethered on latest iOS’s released by Apple after some time and this tool is updated periodically according to the iOS version present currently.

    This update doesn’t bring any new Jailbreak for the iOS 5, which is currently rolling in the market. This update of Redsn0w simply brings some minor changes and speed improvement made.

    The change log is as follow:

    Updates #5b and #5c:  Version b5b fixes an issue with using custom ramdisks on iPhone3G and iPod2G, and version b5c prevents redsn0w from crashing due to the ever-growing ramdisk size :).

    TIP: If auto-detection fails and redsn0w tells you no identifying data was found, you can always pre-select the appropriate 5.0.1 IPSW using “Extras->Select IPSW”.

    This update of Redsnow fixed the issue with the crashing of Ram-Disk on older devices which include iPod 2G and iPhone 3G.

    Till now we don’t have any specific tutorial on how to perform the Jailbreak on your iDevice, but we will be coming up wit the best guide of redsn0w regarding the Jailbreak Really soon.

    So stay tuned with us. If you have any questions or need some help till then, visit our Facebook page and ask there. Our experienced Admins are willing to help you.

    You can download the latest build of Redsn0w 0.9.10b5c from below:

    [box type=”download”] Redsn0w 0.9.10b5c for OS X  [/box]

    [box type=”download”] Redsn0w 0.9.10b5c for Windows (be sure to run in Administrator mode)[/box]

  • 7.5” Size is Out Dated, How About 8” iPad-Mini-Apple

    7.5” Size is Out Dated, How About 8” iPad-Mini-Apple

    From previous Apple was looking for something new and was thinking to bring in something new in the market which can beat out it’s competitors. The competitors of Apple’s iPad have introduced many small size tablets of 7.5” and less than that. The best example we can see if of Amazon’s Kindle Fire. The Amazon Kindle Fire is total of 7” with multi-touch display and all the features that a user wants to see in a small sized tablet. It got WIFI, USB Port, Cloud Storage, on device storage and much more. When it was released in the market so Amazon thought that it would beat the hell out of iPad 2.

    After the financial results the result was clear that Amazon couldn’t beat iPad 2 in competition. Somehow the sales were much better of the Amazon Kindle Fire. A part from Kindle Fire, there is Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 10.1 another competitor in the market against Apple. The size of the tab is 10.1” that is almost few inches bigger than iPad 2. The iPad 2 is 9.50” tall. Apple chose the design that much big because it was perfectly fitting for the Apps resolution on the iPad.

    To compete with the other competitors, Apple was planning for a Mini-iPad from past few months. The rumors about the Mini-iPad surfaced last year and were surfing this years starting also. Rumors are always rumors. The day before WSJ (Wall Street Journal) made one of the rumors a confirmation regarding the Mini-iPad by Apple and the size is said to be 8”.

    The WSJ says:

    “Officials at some of Apple’s suppliers, who declined to be named, said the Cupertino, Calif.-based company has shown them screen designs for a new device with a screen size of around 8-inches, and said it is qualifying suppliers for it. Apple’s latest tablet, the iPad 2, comes with a 9.7-inch screen. It was launched last year.

    One person said the smaller device would have a similar resolution screen as the iPad 2. Apple is working with screen makers including Taiwan-based AU Optronics CO. and LG Display Co. of South Korea to supply the test panels, the person said.”

    Till now Apple is only testing the mini-iPad with only with suppliers and not looking forward for a public release or sending them in production. Interestingly, Apple is succeeding suppliers for the 8” iPad.

    The 8” iPad will be a great challenge for Apple because they have never compromised on the design ad the features in past. The time will tell about what Apple will be coming up with.

    Apple must be planning for the Mini-iPad, 8” tablet; on the other hand they got the iPad 3 ready for the March 7th release. The iPad 3’s are said to be in production since the beginning of January and few days back many leaks of the parts surfaced on the Internet.

    So what will be your expectations from the iPad 3 and the iPad-Mini?