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iOS 4.2 Notes: AirPlay, Find My iPhone, AirPrint, New iPad Features
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You need a SIM in the iPhone. You don't need service. My old iPhone functions as an "iPod Touch" - the original SIM is in it. You get a new SIM when you upgrade your phone. What happened to your SIM?
It has nothing to do with "Apple's programmers." Air Printing works fine on a wide variety of printers so long as the service is advertised on bonjour. There are many ways to enable this for your printers, either for free or by spending $9 or $10. The limitations on the feature as-finally-released appear to have nothing to do with the programmers, and instead are caused by some other issue (legal, business, who knows).
I Have a MacBook Pro with a led screen, everything connected with my Time Capsule, can i try AirPlay or i can use it only with a AppleTv?
i can't see the airplay button from my photos and video on my iPhone 4
No. You need an airplay device, like an airport express or an apple tv.
Airfoil does not play the music, it is just forwarding the audio. It usually will run in the background both on the Mac and on the iOS device.
Start Airfoil on both your Mac and iOS device, initiate a connection from the Mac and switch to your favourite audio player and forget about Airfoil.
If you mean, you cannot browse your Mac's iTunes collection from an iOS device with Airfoil, then you misunderstood what Airfoil does. Airfoil is like plugging in a headphone cable from your Mac to your iOS device. You cannot browse your music content with a headphone cable, you use the appropriate software for that, for example the Remote App from Apple.
Now, if somebody can tell me, why the TC (or the Airport Extreme) does not incorporate an AirPlay (or even only AirTunes, ie, audio only) functionality, except for selling Airport Expresses, I would feel much enlightened.
They don't have audio outputs (and it would be a weird thing to stick an audio output on a router).
Thanks, I was thinking that TimeCapsule is like an airport express.
I don't understand why I have to buy an AppleTv when I have a macbook with iTunes where I could buy and rent everything.
However i will never rent a movie here in italy, no original Language, no Subtitles, also here someone have fun with making terrible dubbing for the old movie like "il Padrino" "the godfather" ... absolutely terrible! they are changing the sound quality from 2.1 to 5.1 , but with a new dubbing
Apple Store took the sim out of the old iPhone3 and said I didn't need it anymore. Luckily I still have the bag they put it in. Guess they were wrong. I'll try again after my iPhone4 updates. thanx
Is it taking anyone else's Apple ID a very long time to get verified for the MobileMe - Find my iPhone feature?
And the Airport Express is not a router? (Your statement about the audio outputs is like saying that a car does not have power windows because it does not have the buttons for it.)
The TC and the Airport Extreme are both fundamentally wireless base stations (with NAS added to the TC), the Airport Express is no different in that respect. When you want both the NAS features and the AirTunes/Airplay features of the Express, you have to buy two devices when it would be different to adding the audio port (and the supporting circuitry) to a TC than it is adding it to the smaller form factor wireless base station the Express is.
Not primarily. Most people only use it as a travel router, and otherwise use it as a wireless bridge and for streaming audio from itunes to remote speakers or using it as a print server. These are fundamentally different than airport express/time capsule, which don't have audio output and are not designed with a form factor to be "hidden."
Note that videos in your iphone's camera roll (those that you have shot with your iPhone 4 camera) have no airplay button, though the still photos do.
Why can't we airplay stream the videos we shot with our iphone 4's?
Why can't we airplay stream the videos we shot with our iphone 4's?
Why did they include a volume slider in the multitask bar?
Is that just to control the Airplay speaker volume?
Is that just to control the Airplay speaker volume?
Apple is trying to sell Apple TV's to people who don't have a Mac or PC, and thus can't run iTunes.
I have a touch 2G. I just updated and don't see Airplay. According to the iOS site, it's supported[1]. Any idea?
[1] AirPlay and Game Center are available on iPad, iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, and iPod touch (2nd generation and later) http://www.apple.com/ios/
[1] AirPlay and Game Center are available on iPad, iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, and iPod touch (2nd generation and later) http://www.apple.com/ios/
As I said, both are primarily wireless base stations and as such 'route' a network connection to multiple devices. The Express is simply the cheaper more compact version of the two. Lots of people will use the Express as their primary router (and wireless base station).
You seem to imply that an audio port only makes sense on a small device that can be hidden close to a stereo system. But for a lot of people the cable or DSL modem, their wireless base station and their stereo will sit on the same shelf or at least very close together. They could not care less about an audio cable running from their base station to the stereo. Why force them to buy a second base station that will sit right next to their first one?
It made perfect sense to debut the AirTunes feature in small wireless base station. It made no sense to not add it to their other base stations in the next hardware revision, except for the aim of selling two devices where one would suffice.
You can. It's an app called Stream To Me from Matt Gallagher. It's been around for over a year. And it's not just over Wi-Fi. You can do it over 3G and Edge.
Or, there's iSub Music Streamer.
Now . . . if you were referring to Apple in your statement, than that's a whole 'nother matter all together.
When using AirPlay on my iPad (to an Airport Express), the on-screen volume slider does exactly the same thing as the hardware buttons, ie, pressing the hardware buttons does move the slider.
I guess it is there because they had space on that control (on the iPad) and it provides some symmetry. Probably there are also situations when the hardware buttons are in an awkward position (particularly with the iPad that can be rotated any direction and might be in a case).