Tag Archives: Auto

GTA Vice City iOS price drop

  Rockstar’s classic title has today dropped the price of the second installation in the GTA series, from $4.99 to just $1.99 The 10th anniversary of Grand Theft Auto Vice City marked the games’ release on iOS. The game was lauded for the way in which it utilised touch screen controls on what was originally a controller based game. The…

TiP Daily: October 16, 2012

TiP Daily October 16, 2012: Apple has finally sent out invitations for an October 23rd media event where it’s rumored the company will announce the iPad mini, an analyst claims T-Mobile will be selling an iPhone by 2013, and more! – iPad mini event invites: http://tinyurl.com/9kejquv – iPod touch lacks light sensor: http://tinyurl.com/8qnrt4w -…

New iPod touch ditches ambient light sensor

A couple of different outlets have confirmed that Apple’s new iPod touch doesn’t have an ambient light sensor. This means no auto-brightness, which is a feature iOS users have been accustomed to on every device since the platform’s launch. I found this out the hard way. Typically, I keep my device brightness at low levels while indoors but still use…

Auto layout included in iOS 6 SDK, could make for bigger iPhones

Something that Android lives on is the ability to scale applications to accommodate many different screen sizes. Apple on the other hand, has had developers target a single screen size (for iPhone, and a single for iPad), only having to deal with the pixel-doubling of graphics. iPad’s can upscale iPhone applications, but it does not stretch their hard…

Nine auto makers including Siri support in new cars

For those of you that love using Siri, this is for you. Apple announced at WWDC that Siri would be getting an update. This is big because for the past year almost, Siri has been in beta form. This update includes a long list of features, one of which is called “Eyes Free”. This feature allows you to send messages, answer calls, hear calendar info, ect. All…