Google Latitude available in iTunes

Google has just released a new app for the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. Latitude is an app which allows you to track the location of your friends. It uses iOS4 multitasking to run in the background and constantly broadcast your location to all your friends. I'm not sure many people would be keen on this app and while it would be really useful sometimes, such as when you're meeting friends, a lot of the time it could be seen as a simple invasion of privacy. There are options to hide your location and also manually set a location which could lead to some interesting suprises...

HP enables 6 more printers for AirPrint

Today HP has enabled AirPrint functionality on 6 more of its printers. Steve Jobs said, in an email, that there were lots more printers coming to join the 12 that were originally enabled. 18 printers is an improvement but if the technology is going to take off there's got to be some major increases in number.

If you don't have one of these printers then you can still enable AirPrint. Follow the instructions in this article on how to enable AirPrint.

The Future of Gaming?

Apple have, for some time now, experienced great success in the mobile gaming market. Games on iOS devices have proved hugely popular and the recent launch of Game Center has only improved the experience. There is however, one last iOS device that hasn't had a slice of this gaming action yet. The Apple TV. When you think about it, this is the device which is suited to gaming above all others - with the biggest screen in the house and an  iPhone or iPod Touch to use as a remote it certainly has a lot of potential.


There are however some limitations to the Apple TV which make this vision less likely to become a reality. The poor specs of the little box mean that it could only run fairly basic games, nothing like its would be competitors the Xbox 360 and the PS3. A second problem is storage space - the Apple TV has no optical or USB drive - with only 8GB of flash storage available, not really suitable for serious gaming.


But with the Vice President of EA Games suggesting that Apple joins the console market maybe there is merit in the idea...


The move by Apple away from storage in the living room and towards streamed content could be taken further than music and video. A game streaming service called OnLive has recently started in the US. This service enables the most outdated and basic computers to play the very latest games as all of the heavy CPU usage is done at the server. The only real requirements are a broadband connection a screen and a controller. And the Apple TV seems to be able to provide all of these.


I really have no idea how likely this is to happen but with the App Store rumoured to be catering for the Apple TV soon it would be a step closer. I think if Apple chose to go for this service it could produce a really incredible service and it could well be the future of gaming...

EA want Apple to join the console market

EA vice president Eric Soderlund has said that Apple is one of the only companies who could take a big chunk out of the console gaming market. iOS devices have proved to be very successful gaming devices while not being heavily marketed for this purpose. Apple has recently encouraged this with its Game Center service so it is possible that they are taking gaming more seriously and realising the potential of their devices.

Springboard Rotation brought to iOS 4.2

SBRotator, a new Cydia tweak enables rotation of the the springboard (iOS home screen) and some other applications. Custom layouts are available and the multitasking bar is also rotated. The native rotation used on the iPad has been used to create this tweak.

Enable streaming pictures and videos from camera roll by Airplay

A new cydia tweak has just been released to enable pictures and video shot on your iPhone/iPad/iPod touch to be streamed directly to your Apple TV without needing to be synced with iTunes first. The tweak, found at the BigBoss repository, is called 'Air Home Video' and costs $0.99.

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When combined with AirVideoEnabler (another tweak available on Cydia) airplay can now stream almost all video and photos viewable on iOS devices.


This functionality is predicted to be available to non-jailbreakers with iOS 4.3 update coming out early next year.


iPhone 3g users, left out of Airplay in 4.2.1, still have no way of enabling it.