When Apple released iOS 4.2.1 last month, it was already possible to jailbreak any iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad running the operating system using the Redsn0w jailbreak utility. There’s just one problem: Redsn0w provides a tethered jailbreak, which means that any time you want to reboot your iOS device you need to connect it to a computer using a USB cable. The same is true… Read more »

Apple’s AirPrint technology is a nifty tool that lets you send print jobs from supported iOS devices including an iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad running iOS 4.2.1 to a supported internet-connected printer. Unfortunately right now that means that a handful of HP printers work out of the box. While Apple had originally promised that AirPrint would also work with almost any printer connected to your… Read more »

The Apple iPad has a switch on the side which was originally designed to lock the screen orientation so that your screen wouldn’t keep flipping while you were trying to hold the iPad and read a book or web site in bed. But when Apple launched iOS 4.2 for the iPad recently, the software update changed that button from a screen lock button to a… Read more »

One of the most talked about features in iOS 4.2 (and Apple TV OS 4.1) is support for AirPlay, which lets you stream video from an iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad to an Apple TV over your home network. Unfortunately, out of the box this feature only works with the default video app. Third party apps like Netflix, VLC, and others aren’t supported — or… Read more »

A number of users are reporting that after upgrading their mobile devices to iOS 4.2.1 the Music app no longer shows any songs. It turns out that the update doesn’t actually remove those tracks — it just hides them in some cases, for some reason. I didn’t have any problems with iOS 4.2.1 hiding the songs on my iPod touch. But if you do have… Read more »

Apple launched iOS 4.2.1 for the iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad today. It’s available for download today — just connect your mobile device to your computer and launch iTunes. If you don’t get an update notice, select your mobile device from iTunes and click the Update button to check for the latest software update. While the update brings a number of new features to iPhone… Read more »

One of the new feature Apple had been promoting for the upcoming iOS 4.2 mobile operating system was a feature called AirPrint, which would let you send print jobs from an iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad directly to a supported printer or to any shared printer on your home network as long as it was connected to a PC running Windows or OS X 10.6.5…. Read more »

There are plenty of iOS apps for making music. They range from metronomes to virtual instruments to auto-tune apps. But soon we’ll actually start to see apps for serious music production thanks to support for MIDI control which is baked into the upcoming iOS 4.2. Basically the new version of Apple’s mobile operating system will allow you to either use an iPad Camera Connection kit… Read more »

Apple has just pushed out the 3rd beta of iOS 4.2 for the iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. As usual, there’s no word on what changes are lurking in the latest build of the upcoming operating system, but if you’ve plunked down $99 for a developer account you can download iOS 4.2 beta 3 yourself and lets us know what you find in the comments…. Read more »

Apple has posted an updated beta version of iOS 4.2 for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. If you happen to have an Apple developer account, you can download it now. There’s no official change log, but some users are reporting that the OS seems more stable, the YouTube app works better, there’s a new animation effect for multitasking, there’s an indicator in the App Store… Read more »