How To Quickly Switch Between Multiple Apple IDs / iTunes Accounts On iPhone, iPad, iPod touch

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It is becoming increasingly common that iPhone and iPad owners who use the App Store on a regular basis may have more than one Apple iTunes account through which they purchase and download apps. This could be for a number of reasons including holding separate accounts after emigrating to a new country, holding different IDs for the purchase of different accounts or merely just because it’s a free world and people can do whatever they wish.

In circumstances when a single device is used by a family household, and each member of that family has their own account in order to buy content and apps, it can become a bit of a logistical nightmare to update all of those apps if they have been purchased across multiple accounts. The process would involve receiving the annoying onscreen error message advising that the app wasn’t purchased on the registered account, followed by logging out of the account through settings, entering the new account details and then repeating the whole process until all updates are downloaded. Not exactly a seamless process.

Step forward a package in Cydia known as AccountChanger, which is aptly named considering its only function in life is to allow the seamless switching between Apple IDs through the Updates section of the official App Store. After installation, the App Store Updates tab is altered to include an ‘Accounts’ button in the top left hand corner of the tool bar. The Accounts option functions exactly as you would expect and when pressed; brings up a picker view, displaying all of the Apple IDs which have previously been used with that device. The purpose of this is to be able to easily select a secondary ID and then update as necessary without the need to remove and enter a new account through the ‘Store’ panel in the Settings app.

The picker view will present all Apple IDs that have previously been associated with that device, meaning that there are no options to configure and no place to manually add IDs. If you have more than one account that you would like AccountChanger to recognize but doesn’t then you will need to manually remove the existing account and enter the new one through the usual methods as a one time exercise in order to get AccountChanger to recognize it.

For those who are jailbroken and have multiple Apple IDs, AccountChanger could prove to be a life saver, certainly shaving off a lot of time from your update process. I would love the see the PasswordPilot tweak updated to be able to store more than one account password so the two could work side by side for ultimate App Store automation and time saving.

AccountChanger is available as a free of charge download on the BigBoss repository and requires iOS 5 or above.

Of course, you will need to jailbreak your device to install this tweak. For jailbreaking the latest iOS 5.1 (tethered), follow the instructions posted here to jailbreak using Redsn0w, or here for Sn0wbreeze. For jailbreaking iPhone 4S and iPad 2, you can simply follow our step by step tutorial posted here to jailbreak iOS 5.0.1 using Absinthe on Windows or Mac. Those of you with an iPhone 4, 3GS, iPad 1, and iPod touches can use Redsn0w or Sn0wbreeze to untether jailbreak on iOS 5.0.1.

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The Apple WALT: The iPhone Before The iPhone

Apple’s iPhone wasn’t the first foray into the world of voice communications for the Cupertino firm, and the latest device to show up on eBay suggests that landline telephones were once an area that Apple was looking to revolutionize, even all the way back in 1993.

The iPhone is a runaway success. Not even the most diehard Google Android fan could argue against that. It’s been a phenomenon in so many ways and with the iPhone 4S sales consistently strong, nothing seems to be able to stand in its way. Not yet, at least.

The iPhone wasn’t the first time Apple had taken a stab at turning a telephone into something more than just a way to have two-way voice communication. Apple, even back in the nineties, was already beginning to explore new uses for an old technology. One example of that is the Apple WALT. Not heard of it? No, neither had we.

The WALT, apparently, was a landline telephone that Apple announced at the 1993 Macworld event in Boston. Unfortunately the device never found its way into stores, which possibly goes some way to explaining why we had never heard of it.

WALT, or Wizzy Active Lifestyle Telephone, was a pen-based touch-screen telephone which offered fax capabilities alongside banking and contact management. Running a modified version of System 6 and using Hypercard, the device is possibly a forefather of the iPhones we carry around today, though obviously with more wires!

The reason the WALT is suddenly on everyone’s mind is the fact that one has shown up for auction on eBay. The device in question was far enough through the development cycle to come with a full, printed manual which suggests that it wasn’t an early prototype. While not currently working, the auctioneer claims that the reason for its lack of life is simply a few loose connections which could potentially be fixed.

With a Buy It Now price of $8,000, we won’t be tempted to have a cheeky bid ourselves, but if you’re a collector then this is certainly something that is worthy addition to any collection, if only because most people won’t have heard of it.

Now, if only we could find a few thousand dollars down the back of our sofas…

(via The Verge)

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Apple To Release 15-Inch MacBook Air With Ivy Bridge Chip Next Month [REPORT]

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It’s a subject we’ve touched on a few times over the last couple of months, and now the hype surrounding the rumors of the iPad 3 have been somewhat satisfied, the tech world can switch its attentions to other potential Apple releases – namely a 15-inch MacBook Air.

The Air – particularly in its current form factor, has become one of the Cupertino company’s most celebrated products, and with PC makers trying very hard to emulate the wafer-thin design with Ultrabooks, it’s not altogether difficult to see why.

While there has been much talk of the MacBook Pro range being subject do a design overhaul in the image of the Air, spectators have also toyed with the idea of the compacter of the two notebooks adding a third wheel to the current 11 and 13 inch models available.

Electric Pig reckons an "anonymous vendor" at a UK accessories expo in London stated earlier this week that a new size Air would be arriving in a "shakeup [that] will happen in April".

Whilst the MacBook Pro remains vastly superior in terms of specs, Apple has packed in some impressive hardware into the slimmest of designs with the Air, and it wouldn’t exactly be an illogical step to add a 15-inch model to proceedings. Furthermore, it has been reported on numerous occasions that a new Air could capitalize on Intel’s new Ivy Bridge processors, although the chip maker has been somewhat slow in producing them. Still, if a sufficient number can be made, Apple would likely draw favoritism from Intel, which would in turn give the fruit company an edge over competitors.

Unlike the iPhone and iPad, which tend to arrive around the same time each year, Tim Cook’s company doesn’t have a set season for a MacBook Air launch. The first model arrived in January 2008, and was minorly updated later that year. The third installment didn’t arrive until October 2010, although it was worth the wait since that was the point where the design got its current, uber-sleek aesthetics.

The last update was in July of last year, which renders the next release anybody’s guess. Whatever the case, if Apple does manage to pull off its first batch of Ivy Bridge, 15" units by next month, the response of consumers is likely to be as keen as ever.

(via Pocket-Lint)

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$399 iPad 2 + Feature-Packed New iPad Will Render Apple Completely Untouchable [Opinion]

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Ever since that media event on Wednesday at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, consumers, bloggers, analysts – in fact everybody in and around the greater gadget-sphere has been talking about Apple’s "new iPad" with scarcely any relent.

Understandably so, though. After all, its feature list is exceptional, and finally implements some of that delicious new hardware we’ve craved and pined for. The long overdue introduction of the Retina display is just the icing on the cake – a cake which packs in quad-core graphics, an iSmart camera, and, of course, 4G LTE compatibility. None of these new features would be of any use, though, if the battery didn’t have the endurance, but the new juice pack has increased in capacity by 70%. This means that, theoretically, the battery performance should be on par with that of its predecessor, although we’re rather cautious when assuming battery performance – especially when we’re dealing with a company still haunted by the iPhone 4S battery woes.

Amid all the excitement, the announcement that the iPad 2 would be dropping $100 was almost cast aside. Although the "new iPad" is wonderful, lest we forget that the iPad 2 has been the Dean of the tablet market for the last year, showing a clean pair of heels to rivaling efforts.

Now, one of the key advantages Android tablets have over iPad is that they’re invariably cheaper. For those unwilling to spend big, the likes of the Samsung Galaxy 10.1 have always been a great failsafe for consumers, giving tablets running Google’s mobile OS a place in the Apple-dominated market.

With $100 knocked off the price of an already untouchable device, not only will Apple certainly have two generations of devices perched at the summit of every tablet-based numbers count-up, but the lower price point almost removes the floor from below the chasing pack. How are the likes of Samsung going to be able to trouble the new iPad when the elusive, Road Runner that was the iPad 2 is now even more of a favorable prospect to a consumer?

I don’t have the answers, and judging by the lopsided market shares of Apple vs everybody else, none of the main manufacturers seem to have the formula either.

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Third-Gen Apple TV Sports A Custom Designed Single-Core A5 Chip

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Apple’s new Apple TV appears to be the first product to come packed with a single-core A5 chip, according to reports.

Apple’s big announcement yesterday may have been about the fancy new iPad we’re all fawning over right now, but the latest tablet wasn’t the only thing to be announced by the Cupertino company’s CEO yesterday. Tim Cook and his band of cohorts also took the wraps off a newly redesigned Apple TV, too.

While the new Apple TV – not to be called the Apple TV 3 officially, but we need a way to differentiate somehow – may look identical to the model which came before it, but this new version brings with it improved support for streaming video. Namely, 1080p content is now watchable on the little black box, whereas previously users had to make do with just 720 lines of vertical resolution.

In order to power those extra pixels though, Apple apparently needed to add a little extra oomph to the device one famously called ‘a hobby.’ According to Apple Insider, that oomph is provided by a custom chip based on the Apple A5 architecture.

The A5 is what powers the iPad 2 and iPhone 4S, offering two cores and all the bells and whistles expected of a modern mobile processor. The interesting thing about this new Apple TV is that it apparently sports a single-core A5, a chip which has not yet been used in any other Apple product. Did the company have to make a chip just for the Apple TV? Obviously the dual-core A5 could have been used – the company cannot be running short on the chips used in its flagship smartphone – but cost may well have been an issue in the decision to reduce the number of cores used.

It is also worth remembering that having a dual-core chip in a box that simply receives video and then pushes it to a TV screen may have been a little OTT at the best of times. When you’re trying to keep the price to below $100, dropping a core makes more sense than not.

The A5's big brother, the A5X is the chip that is now going to power Apple’s new tablet, the iPad 3. Just don’t let Apple hear you call it the iPad 3, will you?

(via AppleInsider)

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Apple On Why It’s Just Called ‘iPad’ This Time

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The anticipated Apple media event, held in familiar surroundings in San Francisco, has come and gone, and judging by the permanent grid lock on all of Apple’s online and telephone sales channels, it looks as if it has left the iPad-loving public very happy indeed. The event brought everything that we had anticipated, throwing very few curveballs and unfortunately lacking the drama of the famous "one more thing" which we had become so used to hearing from the late Steve Jobs.

We got the welcomed upgrade to the Apple TV digital media receiver which brings a new streamlined and elegant user-interface, as well as 1080p video streaming and Blu-ray quality media from the iTunes Store. We got updates for all of Apple’s stock applications for the iPad, as well as feature additions and updates to the their GarageBand and iMovie applications, as well as their iWork suite of apps. We have even welcomed a brand new, purpose-built iPhoto application to the App Store which is designed to harness the power of the next-generation iPad. And then, we got what we had all really tuned in for – the new iPad.

The device itself brought a majority of features which we had been expecting, including a beautiful Retina display, containing 3.1 million pixels, the A5X processor with quad-core graphics and the very welcome 4G LTE connectivity. Rather bizarrely, what we didn’t get, is a name to go with the new tablet device. The rumor mill had been bursting at the seams on the run up to the event with the so called ‘sources in the know’ predicting that the iPad would be christened the iPad 3 moniker, while others insisted it would the iPad HD. To pour water all over their fire, Tim Cook and Phil Schiller excitedly introduced us to the tablet, but neglected to share any specific, dedicated name for it.

Throughout the whole event, the Apple duo referred to it as "the new iPad", with no hint whatsoever of the iPad 3 or iPad HD moniker. When questioned about the lack of dedicated name, and the reasons why at the end of the presentation, Phil Schiller gave the simple reply "because we don’t want to be predictable". As you might expect, the fact that Apple haven’t given this product its own name has prompted many to throw insult towards the company, with some even claiming Tim Cook has made his first corporate mistake which will ultimately end up causing mass confusion amongst consumers.

Charles Rashal, who is president and founder of a San Francisco based branding firm has put forward his concerns:

It does seem to be a bit confusing, when you have a product evolution naming is a way to differentiate.

I don’t suppose we will ever know if Apple did intend to call the new tablet the iPad 3 or HD and changed their minds to give the impression of unpredictability. Regardless of the theory behind it, it is highly unlikely that a simple lack of a model or generation number will hurt the sales of a device which has been so widely well received and looks certain to break previous iPad sales records.

(via WSJ)

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Third Generation Apple TV Arrives With New UI, Support For 1080p

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The San Francisco based Apple Media Event is on its way. With some of the world’ss leading technology press packed into the Yerba Buena Arts Center, Tim Cook and his team took center stage to unveil the expected next-generation iPad as well as a revamped and improved Apple TV set-top box.

The run up to the media event was surrounded as usual by the normal high levels of speculation and conjecture with what have turned out to be accurate reports about the release of the third-generation Apple TV unit. The previous model ATV has enjoyed far more success than anyone could have predicted since its launch in September 2010, but with it being eighteen months since anyone hardware upgrades it was time for a change.

So just what do we know about the new and improved Apple digital media receiver, and is it worth parting with your hard earned cash at the checkout? As many predicted prior to the event, the release of the new Apple TV doesn’t come with the inclusion of any earth shattering technologies, and is certainly an evolutionary upgrade rather than a revolutionary one, but that doesn’t mean that we don’t have a very capable release on our hands.

Features

Building on the success of the previous model Apple TV, the company have given the hockey puck a little more bang for the consumers buck. The latest Apple TV will also feature full, Blu-ray quality, 1080p video streaming capabilities which will take media playback to the next level for consumers and could possibly see the introduction of a dedicated, full high definition iTunes movie store, all credit goes to its new revamped internals.

The biggest blockbuster in the new Apple TV is its software, it runs on top of a new iOS-esque interface unlike its predecessor, therefore it’s a guaranteed eye-candy for existing adopters and really ups the ante in the set top box market.

Price

As we have previously learned with Apple, improved quality and improved features does not always equate to an increased price. When the iPad 2 was launched in March 2011, the pricing structure was actually lower than that of its predecessor even though it was a new and improved tablet they were introducing to the world. The new Apple TV unit will remain competitive in the market thanks to the continuing pricing point of $99.

Availability

The good news is that the third-generation Apple TV unit will be available on March 16th, meaning that consumers will be able to get their eager little paws on it imminently. With a strong pricing point, almost immediate availability and the inclusion of a number of impressive features, the new Apple TV looks set to continue where its younger brother left off by remaining strong in the marketplace.

(image credit TheVerge)

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