Since it was launched during the tail-end of 2009, Rovio Mobile’s most popular game, Angry Birds, has definitely become a successful title in the puzzle gaming arena. From being a physics-based mobile game that grew to massive fame, it spawned various iterations, crossed over to the browser and on to Facebook, and into the real world with its line of merchandise.
Well, it’s not a student-friendly iPad that people were hoping for (even it did sound like an unlikely idea), but Apple did come out with a number of new applications during their education-themed event. Apple has just unveiled iBooks 2, an update of their reader app for iOS that adds emphasis to textbooks, with a new section on the iBookstore dedicated to them. The new textbooks can be enhanced with multimedia elements for intuitive learning, allowing for ebooks with embedded animations, photos, video clips and 3D elements that can be moved around with multi-touch support.
Equinux has put out a new TV remote app that uses Siri outside of her usual Apple-approved services. Called the Tizi Remote, the app will let you use an iPhone 4S to control TV channels on your iPad – as long as the iPad is hooked up to a separate Tizi or Tizi Go DVB-T receiver. Past that, Siri plays a simple role acting as a voice-enabled channel flipper – in case you miss the good old days, when TVs didn’t come with remotes and fathers the world over had to ask their kids (also via voice command) to get up and flip the channels for them.
If you’re still stuck on iOS 4.3.x because you loved your iPhone’s jailbroken state more than you love iOS 5, then here’s something we’re sure you’ve been waiting for. Hacker Pod2g has just announced that he’s found a way to get an untethered jailbreak for iOS 5.0.1, and has tested it to work on A4-based devices, tweeting that he’s “got an untethered iPhone 4 running iOS 5.0.1. Feel free to update.”
