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Firefox 5 Beta 2 Lands, Opera Mini 6 Released for iPhone, iPad

There's major browser releases both on the mobile and on the personal computer front

These days the Mozilla Foundation is feeling the heat. Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) has delivered a surprisingly sporty and compatible Internet Explorer 9. And Google Inc.'s (GOOG) Chrome browser is becoming the first new browser in some time to gobble up a significant market share.

I. Firefox 5 Blazes Ahead on Schedule

But nothing lays concerns to rest better than adopting an aggressive schedule and sticking to it. That's exactly what Mozilla did, with the release of Firefox 5's second beta.

Delivered right on schedule, the new build features speed improvements and a number of new features, including:

* Added support for CSS animations
* Added support for switching Firefox development channels
* The Do-Not-Track header preference has been moved to increase discoverability
* Improved canvas, JavaScript, memory, and networking performance
* Improved standards support for HTML5, XHR, MathML, SMIL, and canvas
* Improved spell checking for some locales
* Improved desktop environment integration for Linux users

The inclusion of CSS animations support was particularly important, as the Webkit source (which Chrome and Apple, Inc.'s (AAPL) Safari browser are based on) already supports it. Mozilla and its collaborators also made some tweaks to the GUI art, which they say are subtle, but will be noticed if you return to FF4.

Aside from new functionality and speed-ups, the beta also resolves many stability issues and other bugs that cropped up in Firefox 4. A full log of these changes is found here. Full release notes can be found here. And last, but not least, the download can be found here.

Firefox 5 is scheduled to release June 21 -- less than a month from now. It will contend with Internet Explorer 10, which is currently being previewed, and Chrome 12, which is currently being beta tested.

II. Opera Mini 6 Hits the iPad, iPhone

Yesterday also saw the release of Opera Mini 6 for the iPad and iPhone. The first major release for the iOS platform since its launch title -- Opera Mini 5 -- Norwegian software company Opera Software ASA (OPERA) is hoping to replicate its previous success. Opera saw 1 million downloads of Mini 5 for the iPhone/iPad in a mere 24 hours after its release.

Available on the iTunes store now for free, the new browser features:

* Much faster and smoother panning and zooming
* Share buttons which are compatible with My Opera, Facebook, Twitter or vKontakte
* A new" jazzed-up" skin
* Redesigned Opera menus

It also reportedly gives the browser a healthy injection of speed.

Opera’s, CEO Lars Boilesen compared the release to a rock concert, stating, "I would compare it to walking onto the stage and hearing the roar of the crowd. We have put in a lot of rehearsal and clever thought behind the new experience. The Opera Mini browser has always kicked up the tempo when downloading pages; now the browsing flows along to a smooth, easy beat."

While Opera is seeing a bit more competition these days -- namely from the Firefox Mobile browser for Android -- it's still makes the most used mobile browsing pair in the world, Opera Mini and Opera Mobile. These mobile browsers are unique in that they leverage heavy server-side compression, something the competition still hasn't embraced. The net effect for users is that in areas with poor signal or low data speeds pages load much faster in Opera Mini/Mobile than in their competitors.

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Apple iPad 3 are producing super-light ?

Apple seems to recruit experts on carbon fiber fame will open the way for a new page on its way to the world of technology. Most likely Apple will soon begin using ultra-light materials to produce for their handsets.

Follow 9to5Mac forecast page, a new generation MacBook will use ultra-light carbon fiber because recently, Apple has designed recruitment of carbon fiber - Kevin Kenny - into the board. His reputation Kenny severe enough to believe that Apple's technology will use ultra-light materials for the devices in the future - iPad, iPhone, MacBook.

Mr. Kenny moved on Apple in the position of a "composite Senior Engineer. " He has a history of 14 years in charge as president and CEO of the company Kestral Bicycles - which has made outstanding achievements in carbon fiber.

Material that Apple has long been selected from aluminum, stainless steel and glass to produce for his device, from Mac, iPhone, iPod.
The first rumors about Apple is hoping plans to produce carbon fiber appearance since 2008. At that time information for production or Apple MacBook Air laptop using carbon fiber instead of aluminum. And, to return in February last there are many news items that iPad 2 will be made ​​from carbon fiber. However, these rumors may have come true.
Despite all the information has leaked on the basis of the ear. In 2009, Apple filed for patents on carbon fiber casing.

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Released New Software to Unlock and Jailbreak iPhone 4/3G/3GS OS 4.3.1/4.2.1

April 2, 2011 12:11 pm – A fresh iPhone unlock software from Easy Unlock iPhone, has been introduced to enable users to explore the capabilities of the Apple iPhone’s customisation and application capabilities. This leading iPhone unlock specialist can "unlock and jailbreak iPhone 4.1, 4.2, 4.2.3, 3G 3Gs and iPhone 4 4.3.1".

To Unlock your iPhone 3G or 3Gs or 4 4.2 and 4.3.1 Visit: www.easyunlockiphone.net

Although jailbreaking and unlocking both provide added benefits to an iPhone 4.2 and 4.3.1, jailbreaking a mobile phone is different from unlocking. Jailbreaking is generally risk-free, as it only adds features to a mobile phone that is otherwise fixed on the exclusive functionalities that its manufacturer provides. With an unlocked and jailbroken iPhone, users can explore of what their iPhone can offer. For these reasons, unlocking and jailbreaking iPhones have evolved to be a trend among iPhone owners.

Easy Unlock iPhone launched its very first iPhone OS 4.2 and 4.3.1 unlock software in July 2007. Since this date their software has been downloaded by over one million customers located in over 145 countries, making this company the most experienced and accomplished iPhone unlocking services in the industry.

Through their website, iPhone owners can be assured of safely unlocking their handset. With their iPhone unlocked and jailbroken, users will reap benefits of zero loss of features and functionality; free GPS Navigation application; zero roaming charges for overseas calls; enabled video chat on 3G and 3Gs iPhones; as well as having the Cydia application installed.

"I had lots of questions regarding the validity of this software, and they were all answered in minutes. After downloading the software, it was a painless two-minute process. I thoroughly recommend this," Martin McG of the United Kingdom says of the Easy Unlock iPhone freshest iPhone unlock software.

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This breakthrough software offered by Easy Unlock iPhone can be used on any GSM card, and features worldwide compatibility with the latest baseband. Upon unlocking their iPhone, users will be able to use any network provider of their choice from any location in the world.

As a bonus, customers of the Easy Unlock iPhone software means receiving access to free lifetime updates and support. Easy Unlock iPhone guarantees that an absolute illiterate can use its revolutionary Easy Unlock iPhone software with utmost ease, in as little as two minutes.

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Redsn0w 4.3.1 Jailbreak For iPhone iPad & iTouch To Be Released

Here is a great news. The wait is almost over. iPhone Dev Team is going to release untethered iOS 4.3.1 jailbreak for iPhone iPad, iPod Touch and Apple TV 2G. PwnageTool 4.3 and Redhsn0w 0.9.8 for Windows and Mac will be available for download TODAY. Right now they are just teasing its arrival. We will update you as soon as they release it.

It will be compatible with the devices that include iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, iPod Touch 3G, iPod Touch 4G, iPad 1 and Apple TV 2G.

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10 Things That Simply Need To Be In iOS 5

It’s like Christmas for OS X and iOS developers. Each year, they flock to San Francisco’s Moscone Center, anxiously awaiting the pair of gifts that Apple annually bestows: the new iPhone, and a bundle of new features upon which they’ll build their next big thing.

If whispers and hearsay hold true, this year’s WWDC will only feature the latter; the iPhone 5, says the rumor mill, won’t be showing its face until Fall. Instead, this show is purportedly going to be all about iOS and OS X. While Apple doesn’t come right out and say it, it’s pretty safe to assume that by “iOS” they mean “iOS 5″.

Given that we’re writing about iOS on a regular basis and talking about it with readers and friends even more, we’ve got a pretty finely-tuned wishlist for iOS 5. We also happen to know that a heaping handful of Apple folk read TechCrunch regularly — and with the feature lock stage of iOS 5′s development cycle (wherein they absolutely refuse to add anything new and just focus on what they’ve already started) presumably riiiight around the corner, we figured there was no better time than now to put it out there.

1) A Better Notifications System

We’ve brought this one up a billion times, but I’ll bring it up a billion more times if we have to. Compared to even the weakest competitors, iOS’ current notification system is absolutely friggin’ laughable. It was understandable, up to a point; back in the ol’ days before the App Store, the only notifications iOS really had to worry about were incoming text messages and the occasional alarm. Toss in a dozen third party apps all crying for your attention, though, and it becomes nigh-impossible to finish a single game of Tiny Wings without wanting to send your handset itself flying off a hill.

2) Free Turn-by-Turn Navigation

While the idea is likely one that scares the pants off of the likes of Telenav and Garmin, free turn-by-turn navigation on iOS is pretty much an inevitability. Back in October of 2009, Google turned the entire GPS market on its noggin by bringin’ free (not to mention, fantastically well built) turn-by-turn support to Android 2.0+ devices. Nearly a year and a half later, it’s still an easy argument to drop in any Android-vs-iPhone flamewar for massive damage.
Apple sort of backed themselves into a corner here. Google built the iOS Maps app, and they’re almost certainly not about to give up one of their platform’s finest, most easily pitched selling points by tacking in turn-by-turn. If Apple wants the voice guided goodness, they’ll likely have to build up a Maps app for their own — and with iOS users having grown accustomed to a Google-powered Maps for around 4 years and Apple having next to no experience in the area, they’ve got big ol’ shoes to fill. With all the recent chatter of Apple opening a $1 billion data center and hiring up Maps specialists, however, it looks like they plan on doing exactly that.

3) Custom Text Notification Sounds

Sometimes, when I’m bored enough to be wondering about hypothetical situations surrounding iOS in my off-work hours, I wonder if the absence of custom text alert sounds is a running joke amongst Apple’s iOS team. As in, I wonder if they’ve got a running list of features to build for iOS, with “Custom Text Sounds” hard-coded to always have the absolute lowest priority. Only once every other thing they’ve ever considered (including the built-in fart button and the hardware laser level) is checked off the list can they start working on custom alert sounds.
That has to be it. Otherwise, I simply can’t understand how this feature is still missing.

4) Proper Native Gmail Support

Back when it launched in 2004, its relatively monstrous storage allotment and Beta exclusivity made Gmail the “cool” e-mail service for the Geeky-but-not-too-geeky crowd. 7 years later, it still holds that label.
The crowd behind the iPhone — or any Apple product, really — is a strikingly similar one. OS X is for geeks (and the friends/relatives of geeks) who are geeky enough to want something beyond Windows but not geeky enough to swear their allegiance to Linux. iPhone is for geeks who want more out of their phone than what most offer, but don’t want to have to fight their phone to keep it working (Deep breath, Android users.) If you were to venn diagram out iOS users and Gmail users, I’d imagine the overlap would be pretty massive. And yet, iOS’ support for Gmail is pretty much bare bones.
You see, Gmail has a handful of features (like flagging, starring, labeling, and archiving for example) that really make the service worthwhile. Of those, only archiving is supported in iOS’ built-in Mail app — and even that has only been available since iOS 4. Android, meanwhile, offers Gmail support that rivals that found on the desktop. Whatever chunk of that cool-kid geek crowd Apple holds, it’s not one they want to lose.

5) Sideloading of Third-party Apps

Next to free turn-by-turn navigation, the ability to run just about anything you want on an Android phone (unless it’s an AT&T Android phone) is one of the easiest silver bullets to fire off in any iPhone-vs-Android nerd-war.
Apple’s shown time and time again that they’re willing to drop the App Store banhammer on any application that they deem offensive, or that dares use APIs that Apple reserves for their own use. And that’s fine: it’s their store, and they can moderate the content however they see fit. But when you’ve got the gall to lock down that store and make it the only way to get apps onto the device (especially when the other guy is saying “Hey, we’ll only let certain stuff on our store, but you can manually load whatever the heck you please!”), you become the bad guy.
At this point, loading otherwise unobtainable applications onto the device is one of the few remaining legitimate (read: not piracy) reasons to jailbreak. As exploit after exploit have proven, the jailbreakers will always find a way in. Rather than battling them, why not just make jailbreaking less enticing? Hide the option to enable sideloading away, and make them click through a dozen warnings. Is there some danger to letting users run whatever they want? Of course! But it’s more dangerous to leave them with running a bunch of tough-to-verify hacks as their only option.

6) Wireless Media Syncing:

The iPhone has WiFi. It has Bluetooth. It has 3G. It has so many means of connecting to other devices wirelessly that it’s almost ridiculous — and yet, transferring even a single song into the built-in music app requires a silly, chintzy cable.
With OS X Lion, Apple’s introducing a feature called “AirDrop” that allows you to drag and drop files to any other system in AirDrop mode. Hopefully, iOS 5 will get an AirDrop mode of its own. Tap a button (or launch an App) on the iPhone to drop into AirDrop mode, drag over the relevant media from your laptop, and away you go. No messy cable required.

7) Improved File Handling:

Once you’ve managed to get your files onto the device, iOS does all sorts of weird stuff to workaround the fact that there’s no real user-visible file system here. Want to put that photo you just took into an album? Nope. Want to attach a file after starting the e-mail? Nope!

8) Stop Wasting The Lockscreen

Jailbreak your iPhone, and your lockscreen can very well become one of your phone’s most important screens. See your latest e-mail at a glance! Scan blurps from your favorite RSS feeds! Check the weather forecast in an instant!
Don’t jailbreak your iPhone, and your lockscreen can show… erm, a clock.
By default, iOS’ lockscreen is pretty much just a means of keeping you from accidentally firing off garbled texts while the phone is in your pocket, with over 50% of the screen wasted. We get it: minimalism is cool. As the screenshot above (of the jailbreak-only modification, statusnotifier) show, things can be minimalist and useful.

9) NFC Support:

This isn’t so much an iOS thing as it is a hardware thing, and it’s still completely unclear whether or not the iPhone 5 will offer up NFC functionality.
With that said, NFC (the short range communication technology that will eventually allow us to pay retailers with a quick wave of our phones) is coming. With huge namesthrowing their weight behind the tech, this long promised pipe dream is closer than ever to becoming part of our daily lives.
The sooner that Apple jumps on the technology, the better. If Apple promises to support the technology — even if it’s just a promise to eventually support it — and to throw their army of iPhone users behind NFC, retailers will be that much more driven to adopt it quickly. Hardware manufacturers will be driven to add NFC to their own products, thereby driving down the cost for everyone. Developers will be able to build on the tech, taking things far beyond the standard tap-to-pay concept that everyone associates with it.

10) Automatic Content Syncing For Third Party Apps

It’s 3 A.M. Your iPad is plugged in. It’s on WiFi. It has more juice and bandwidth available to it than it will just about any other time.. and it’s doing absolutely nothing.
And yet, any time I open up an application that isn’t Mail — say, CNN, Instapaper, or an RSS reader — it has to sync all the way back to the last time the app was opened. Why make me wait when I do want to use my iPad, rather than doing the majority of syncing when I’m not using it?
There we have it — the top 10 things we’re hoping ‘ for in iOS 5. Think we missed anything? Drop us a comment and share what’s on your wishlist.

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iPhone 5, iPad 3 release date talk shoved off by iPad 2 TV ad

Pay no attention to the awkwardly approaching iPhone 5 release date because the iPad 2 is magical, says a new television ad from Apple which arrives at a time when many are wondering if the new device’s “magic” consists of being invisible. And yet Apple has taken to widely advertising the second generation iPad even as some shut-out buyers are wondering if they should focus more on the iPad 3, and others in the land of iProducts are attempting to figure out the true-yet-hidden story of the fifth generation iPhone which is currently positioned in Apple’s secret on-deck circle.

The iPad 2 ad comes at an interesting time, as continued lack of inventory and overwhelming demand mean that advertising can’t translate into immediate sales. Apple could be running the ads simply to boost the already oversaturated iPad 2 hype and demand levels, hoping it’ll translate into future sales once inventory catches up to that demand. Or Apple could simply be tired of hearing the phrases “iPad 3″ and “iPhone 5″ spoken by anyone, and is willing to use some of its massive cash hoard to run ads whose sole purpose is to remind people that Apple does in fact have a new product on the market in the hopes of taking focus away from unannounced products.

Still, the iPhone 5 is widely expected to come this summer, and recent talk of it possibly being pushed to the fall is not the kind of exposure Apple wants for its products. Worse, some who’ve been turned away from buying an iPad 2 have now begun counting the days, weeks, and months toward the iPad 3. It may be little more than an open expression of frustration, with those buyers ultimately falling in line once the iPad 2 inventory cavalry arrives in a few weeks. But again, every mention of the phrase “iPad 3″ in any context is bad news for Apple. And so the TV ads for the iPad 2, even though they can’t possibly translate into immediate iPad 2 sales thanks to the current near-total lack of iPad 2 inventory, could help to keep the “iPad 3″ notion away from the mainstream – and if Apple is lucky, it just might help to put the iPhone 5 pin back in the grenade for a day as well. Here’s more on the iPhone 5.

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