AppleTell » Features http://www.technologytell.com/apple Appletell covers your addiction to the Macintosh, iPhone, iPod, iPad, AppleTV, or any combination of these exciting products. Sun, 19 May 2013 17:02:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1Appletell covers your addiction to the Macintosh, iPhone, iPod, iPad, AppleTV, or any combination of these exciting products. AppleTell no Appletell covers your addiction to the Macintosh, iPhone, iPod, iPad, AppleTV, or any combination of these exciting products. AppleTell » Features http://www.technologytell.com/apple/wp-content/plugins/powerpress/rss_default.jpghttp://www.technologytell.com/apple/category/features-1/ The best classic console collections for iOShttp://www.technologytell.com/apple/105722/the-best-classic-console-collections-for-ios/ http://www.technologytell.com/apple/105722/the-best-classic-console-collections-for-ios/#comments Sat, 13 Oct 2012 21:29:18 +0000 Kirk Hiner http://www.technologytell.com/apple/?p=105722 The console wars of today aren’t a whole lot different from those of the early ’80s. We argued over the systems—Atari, Intellivision or Colecovision—but what it really came down to was owning the best one your parents could afford, and making sure you chose your friends based on which system they owned.

Everyone and his uncle had the Atari, my family had an Intellivision, and one of the neighbors I normally didn’t like (because he tackled you in football by kneeing your junk) became a best friend when necessary because he had the Colecovision and that oddly addictive Smurfs game.

These days, I can pick my friends more wisely (who’s willing to let me borrow his snow blower and/or move the pinball machine to the basement). This is due in part to the firm belief that no one needs more than five friends at any given point in his life, and in part to the great number of classic console game collections that app developers put at our fingertips. I’ve owned and played through many of them, and here are the three I return to most…

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The process of making your iPhone charge wirelessly won't be a simple task for the everyday smartphone user. The hacker disassembled a wireless charging case (Powermat) and installed its components into the iPhone 4S chassis. Tanveer explains that users will need a basic understanding of the Apple iPhone’s internals components, Powermat wireless charger, a spare iPhone back panel, a spare charger port assembly, and extra thin wire gauge.

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The same developers who participated in the creation of the Siri port for many jailbroken iOS devices have created an interesting new hack for Apple TV. The hack, which is in its early stages, will allow Apple TV users to run potentially any iOS app on the $99 set-top-box. According to the developer, Steve Troughton Smith, using the untethered Seas0nPass jailbreak, it was possible to rewrite the software at…

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