The devastation in Haiti is one that is difficult to just ignore. Apple has made it very easy to aid the Red Cross in its efforts to help those in Haiti by letting you donate through the iTunes Store.
As the photo above shows, all you need do is pick the donation amount as if you were buying a song or app in the iTunes store. If you have not yet donated and would like to help out, visit the link below.
Stundents in need of a new laptop are going to have one more reason to lean toward the MacBook. Apple has dropped the price again for students on the new white, unibody MacBook to $899. This is not a stripped down version of the MacBook, just a simple price drop for all the shiny goodness that is a Mac. The cost prior to the drop was only 50 dollars more at $949, but every little bit helps when you are a broke college student.
There were some rumblings from various sites today that WebOS1.3.5 may be coming today. The update is here and is being pushed to your device as we type this. The update comes in at just 13MB, but has some significat fixes for those of you using WebOS.
App limit fixed.
App Catalog downloads continue even after leaving the app’s page.
App purchases have been expanded to US territories (sorry Europe, Canada, etc).
Switching between days in Calendar is now faster.
Sprint Navigation can be launched from a Contact.
Palm Profile app restores happen in the background, letting the user get to the phone faster.
Future webOS updates can be downloaded over 2G wireless (1xRTT).
Notifications now work in landscape mode (which has strangely lost the rounded corners).
Improvement in battery life optimization when in marginal coverage areas.
QCELP capability fix to allow play and audio of video sent via MMS.
Launch Google Maps or Sprint Nav when tapping an address from contacts.
Minimized package of MR size through binary difference. Customers can now download over 2G connections if necessary.
This will probably be the last update before any new announcements by Palm at the upcoming CES Expo in Las Vegas shortly. An interesting tidbit to note is that some who have scoured over the code have found pengles.ipk and opengles-omap3.ipk, which are what you need to get GPU acceleration running. Happy updating!
DIrecTV will soon be making an announcement regarding a whole new way to watch broadcast TV, in 3D. The current lineup of Satellite Receievers the company makes available to its customers will support the new channel with a simple firmware upgrade. The downside to this whole 3D push is that the channel will require you to purchase a new 3D capable TV. There aren’t any details at this time, but we should head something more from CES on January 7th.
We take a look at the Skooba Netbook Messenger Bag. This accomodates up to a 13inch MacBook or any current netbook. See the full video review after the jump:
