FireCore Releases aTV Flash (Black) Beta6 For Apple TV 2G; Includes Huge Improvements In Playback Performance

. aTV Flash (black) is a software package that brings features such as the ability to surf the web, discover new music via Last.fm etc.
aTV Flash (black) Beta6 brings a number of new features, improvements and fixes, which includes includes huge improvements in playback performance and a new light weight media player that has been written for iOS. 
According to FireCore, the new media player will allow jailbroken 
to play a wide variety of (more…)

iOS 5 Brings Nitro Javascript Engine Performance Improvements To Home Screen Web Apps

News | Thursday June 16 2011 5:46 PM | Comments (0) Tags: , , , , , , , ,

, Apple updated
, which runs Javascript twice as fast as 
.
However, Apple had not extended the feature to home screen 
, so it was observed that web apps that are launched using the Home screen icon run much slower compared to when they’re launched directly in mobile Safari.
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But as we had expected, Apple seems to have addressed the issue in
. CNET reports that based on a thread on Hacker News, full-screen apps will finally be (more…)

Instagram For iPhone Updated To Add Radial Tilt Shift Mode; Also Improves Image Quality And Performance

News | Thursday April 28 2011 3:58 AM | Comments (0) Tags: , , , , , , , , , , ,

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Instagram, in case you haven’t installed it already, is a popular
app that allow users to take photos, add filters to make them look better or funny and share them with your friends on Facebook, Twitter, Flickr etc. 
As mentioned earlier, the latest version of Instagram adds radial tilt shift mode.
To update to the latest version of Instagram, visit the App Store on your iPhone or iPod Touch and select Updates or download it for free (more…)

Study Claims iPad 2 Display Delivers Almost Identical Performance To iPhone 4’s Retina Display

News | Saturday March 12 2011 8:05 PM | Comments (0) Tags: , , , , , , , , ,

, its 33% thinner, 15% lighter than the original iPad, features Apple ’s new dual-core A5 chip for faster performance and better graphics, comes with front facing camera for FaceTime and PhotoBooth and a rear facing camera that captures 720p HD video.
like Retina Display.
Display expert Raymond Soneira from DisplayMate has just published an article, which provides an in-depth side-by-side comparison of
4 displays based on a series of tests.
(more…)

iPad 2 Graphics Performance Benchmarked: Blows Away iPad 1 And Tegra 2 Powered Motorola Xoom

News | Wednesday March 9 2011 10:39 PM | Comments (0) Tags: , , , , , , , , ,

comes with a faster 1 GHz dual-core A5 chip, which can do twice the work of the original
and up to 9 times graphics performance.
According to a report by AnandTech, Apple ’s new A5 System on a Chip (SoC) includes a more powerful PowerVR SGX 543MP2 instead of the PowerVR SGX 535 used in the original A4.
Architecturally the 543MP2 has more than twice the compute horsepower of the SGX 535 used in Apple ‘s A4. Each shader pipeline can execute twice (more…)

iOS 4.3 Release Date – March 11th; Includes Faster Safari Performance, iTunes Home Sharing, AirPlay Enhancements, Personal Hotspot & More

will be released on March 11th.
.3 includes a number of new features and improvements such as faster Safari mobile browser performance as it uses the Nitro Javascript engine,
home sharing, AirPlay enhancements, toggle for
users.
Apple has ported the Nitro Javascript engine used in desktop version of Safari to iOS so Mobile Safari browser in iOS 4.3 loads Javascripts two times faster.
Allows iOS 4.3 users to play music, movies and TV shows (more…)

iOS 4.2 To Bring Performance Improvements To iPhone 3G?

News | Saturday November 6 2010 4:21 PM | Comments (0) Tags: , , ,

Back in June when Apple had released iOS 4,
users had reported that it had slowed down their iPhone , which has forced some of them to
.
, which was a
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iPhone 3G’s hardware isn’t as fast and it’s RAM is literally a quarter of iPhone 4’s but it did a decent job typing, scrolling, pinching, and zooming its way around iOS 4.2.
Apple had seeded iOS 4.2 GM version to developers earlier in the weekand is expected to release iOS 4.2 sometime (more…)

Adobe Flash Causing Poor Battery Performance? Adobe CTO Attributes It To Misinterpreted Facts

News | Friday November 5 2010 2:39 PM | Comments (0) Tags: , , , , , , , ,

Though Apple 's decision does not seem to have been influenced by its stance on Flash for Mobile devices, the move has nevertheless triggered the debate on Flash performance once again. In a recent article reviewing the new Macbook Air, Chris Foresman from
. Foresman wrote:
“Having Flash installed can cut battery runtime considerably – as much as 33 percent in our testing. With a handful of websites loaded in Safari, Flash-based ads kept the (more…)

Report Claims White iPhone Delay Is Due to Camera Performance Issue

News | Monday October 25 2010 10:21 PM | Comments (0) Tags: , , , , , , ,

Apparently, the translucent glass case out of which the phone is made allows light to seep in and ruins the picture talking ability of the phone. This is a non issue on the black version – because it doesnt allow external light to leak in. However, on a white iPhone 4 this is creating considerable problems for Apple .
This problem is aggravated when the external flash on the phone is used. A source with connections to Apple who wished to be anonymous (more…)

iOS 4.1 For iPhone And iPod Touch Will Be Released Next Week; Includes Fix For Proximity Sensor, Bluetooth And iPhone 3G Performance Problems

News | Wednesday September 1 2010 11:40 AM | Comments (0) Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , ,

iOS 4.1 will also include the following new features:
Steve Jobs explained that HDR photos are created using 3 photos taken in rapid succession: one normal, one under exposed, and one under exposed. The photos are then combined using some pretty sophisticated algorithms to create an enhanced composite photo.
Steve Jobs showed some HDR photos taken using iPhone 4 and they looked pretty good.
iOS 4.1 will be available next week for iPhone and (more…)

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