Apple's iTunes Christmas Giveaway!

iTunes customers in Europe will be be able to download music, movies, TV programmes and apps for free over the 12 days of Christmas. This offer will run from Sunday, December 26th 2010 until Thursday, January 6th 2011. An app is available in the App Store which will alert you to the free offers with push notifications.


No word yet on whether US iTunes users will get a similar deal.

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...

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.