• Facebook For iPad Has Arrived [Updated]

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    The entire world has been patiently awaiting the arrival of a Facebook iPad app. This however is just about to change. As discovered by some folks on Twitter and confirmed by TechCrunch, the new Facebook iPad app is ready and actually already out there. Indeed, Facebook did develop the app and placed it inside its code already, but hasn’t simply activated it. Just a few lines of code to change can however make it happen.

    Hidden in the code of Facebook’s iPhone app is the code for something else. Something everyone has been waiting over a year for. The iPad app.

    The gist of the trick is a modification to make inside the Facebook app discovered by AeroEchelon on Twitter:

    If you change the UIDeviceFamily to 2 for iPhone on the Facebook app you get an iPad version!

    You can make apps iPad compatible without pixelation and 2x button and also you can make the app support all 4 orientations. Here is how:

    1.  Navigate to the app you want to make compatible in /var/mobile/Applications
    2.  Open the info.plist in the applications main folder
    3.  Add the follow:

    <key>UIDeviceFamily</key>
    <array>
    <integer>1</integer>
    <integer>2</integer>
    </array>

    4. Respring and then you should have a nice iPad size app

    iClarified has a full step by step guide on how to achieve just that. It’s actually the same technique that has been long used to force iPhone-only apps to run in full screen on the iPad.

    Update #1:

    Facebook has blocked access to iPad version

    Update #2:

    You can re-enable Facebook’s iPad app by doing this:

    • Download Facebook app
    • Open Cydia and install FaceForward [a free tweak available under BigBoss repo]

     

    [via appadvice]

  • Apple Smashes Q3 Earnings Estimates with Record Revenues and Sales

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    Apple has just posted their Q3 2011 financial results. The company posted revenue of $28.57 billion, with 9.25 million iPads, 20.34 million iPhones and 3.95 million Macs sold. Wall Street estimate was earnings of $5.80 per share and revenue of $24.92 billion.

    CUPERTINO, California—July 19, 2011—Apple® today announced financial results for its fiscal 2011 third quarter ended June 25, 2011. The Company posted record quarterly revenue of $28.57 billion and record quarterly net profit of $7.31 billion, or $7.79 per diluted share. These results compare to revenue of $15.70 billion and net quarterly profit of $3.25 billion, or $3.51 per diluted share, in the year-ago quarter. Gross margin was 41.7 percent compared to 39.1 percent in the year-ago quarter. International sales accounted for 62 percent of the quarter’s revenue.

    The Company sold 20.34 million iPhones in the quarter, representing 142 percent unit growth over the year-ago quarter. Apple sold 9.25 million iPads during the quarter, a 183 percent unit increase over the year-ago quarter. The Company sold 3.95 million Macs during the quarter, a 14 percent unit increase over the year-ago quarter. Apple sold 7.54 million iPods, a 20 percent unit decline from the year-ago quarter.

    In Q2 2011, the company posted revenue of $24.67 billion with 4.69 million iPads, 18.65 million iPhones and 4.69 million Macs sold.

    Apple will provide a live audio feed of its Q3 2011 conference call at 2:00 PM Pacific.

  • Official Google+ App for iPhone Now Available

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    Google has just released the official Google+ app for iPhone on the App Store. The app is free and available here,

    Here is the official Description:

    Google+ for mobile makes sharing the right things with the right people a lot simpler. Huddle lets you send super-fast messages to the people you care about most. And no matter where you are, the stream lets you stay in the loop about what your friends are sharing and where they’re checking in.

    Features:
    * Circles let you share the right things with just the right people.
    * Stream is where you can get updates from your circles or see what people are saying about things nearby.
    * Huddle is super-fast group messaging for everyone in your circles.

    Google+ is only available for users 13 and older.

  • iPhone and PS3 Hacker GeoHot Spotted at iOSDevCamp

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    George Hotz, the famous iPhone and PS3 hacker, who was the first to unlock iPhone back in 2007, was spotted at iOSDevCamp on Saturday. iOSDevCamp is an annual not-for-profit gathering to develop applications for iOS, set up to encourage collaborative development for the platform. Its currently being held at the PayPal HQ.

    George “Geohot” Hotz has indeed been pretty quiet these days, and we’ve all thought that he’s been taking a break from his iOS work to focus on his new job at Facebook. That doesn’t seem to totally be the case, as he’s been spotted coding away at the iOSDevCamp in San Jose, CA.

    The above picture was tweeted by a student iOS dev, Max Weisel, which sowing Geohot coding on a MacBook Pro with the tagline, “Geohot’s learning to code all over again.”

    After Jailbreaking the Sony PS3, Geohot was put in trouble and suied by Sony where the lawsuit later been settled. Its nice to see Geohot back in his zone. Perhaps he’s got a few things he’s working on for the jailbreak community?

    [via iDB]