Apple perhaps has the best name for integrating all its product and it’s OS accommodates that. A tablet, ipod and iPhone running the same OS that actually came out of their desktop OS. Syncing the iOS with the desktop is done by iTunes. iTunes is great for several things and has it’s own frustrations as well. If you know the joy of using Time Machine and Time Capsule on the mac, you would really appreciate the idea of wireless syncing between (more…)

I was quite surprised to see iPhone/iTouch integration on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. When I plugged my iPhone, Ubuntu first popped a dialog asking me to import photos (that is normal) as soon as I clicked OK, it popped another dialog saying that “You have just inserted a digital audio player”. I opened it with RhythmBox (default music player that comes with Ubuntu)and I was shocked to see Rhythmbox detecting and playing my iPhone’s (more…)

The cat fight between Apple and Palm is very much on with Apple scoring in the iTunes syncing round. Palm smartly enabled the Pre to sync with Apple iTunes posing as an iPod device. At the same time Apple countered this syncing with every new iTunes release . However after Palm approached the USB Implementers Forum to stop Apple from breaking the Pre-iTunes syncing, things have gone against Palm itself.

Apparently USB Implementers (more…)