Facebook has reportedly had their iPad app ready to go for some time and may have been planning its announcement around Apple’s Lets Talk iPhone event this past Tuesday. Same goes for their iOS web platform Project Spartan. Robert Scoble suggested last night that Steve Jobs passing may have had something to do with Facebook’s non-announcement.

Today a guy I know at Facebook told me that Apple just “went dark” this weekend and stopped answering emails and phone calls (they had amazing new iPhone and iPad apps and a new developer platform all ready for announcing). Folks inside Facebook thought they had done something massively wrong. No, they hadn’t. Truth is you had something deeper to deal with.

If that’s the case, and Facebook really does have a new Facebook for iPhone, Facebook for iPad, and web platform for iOS ready to go, could we still see it soon?

Source: Robert Scoble

People have been talking about how the current Siri voice leaves a lot to be desired. We joked on [iPhone Live that we might want, Darth Vader, Mr. T or Laura Croft as the voice. But I think that we missed out on the most fitting voice of the iPhone. The greatest memorial to Steve Jobs and all of those who loved him so dearly would be to allow Steve Jobs to live on as being the voice of Siri.

Steve has always been the heart of Apple and the iPhone and it only serves purpose that he also be its voice. Yes it would take a long time to work through but wouldn’t it be worth it?

And if Apple somehow feels it’s not appropriate, perhaps Jailbreak developers could make it so?

If you’ve got the iOS 5 GM seed on your iOS device, you can now jailbreak via RedSn0w 0.9.9b3. This one is also tethered like the previous beta versions of RedSn0w for iOS 5.

Be advised that not all jailbreak apps and tweaks have been updated to support iOS 5. If you're alright with running tethered and don't mind a few bugs here and there, follow along for a quick walkthrough.

By this point, almost anyone jailbreaking is already familiar with RedSn0w and how it works. It's not too much different this time except that RedSn0w has a nifty little tool to automatically detect the iOS 5 GM IPSW which makes the process a bit smoother.

Devices Supported

• iPod touch 3G
• iPod touch 4G
• iPad 1
• iPhone3GS
• iPhone4 (GSM)
• iPhone4 (CDMA)

And I can't say this enough times, if your device is not listed above, please do not attempt to jailbreak it on any version of iOS 5! And if you rely on a software unlock and don’t have an older boot rom, stay away from iOS 5 altogether.

What you need

• iOS 5 GM seed installed on your device from the Apple Developer Portal – Developer license required
• iTunes beta 7 for either Windows or Mac from the Apple Developer Portal – Developer license required
• RedSn0w 0.9.9b3 – Mac Link, Windows Link

After you have iOS 5 GM installed on your device, your device backed up, and your version of iTunes upgraded to the newest beta version, follow the steps below to jailbreak.

1. First Launch RedSn0w

2. This version automatically detects your IPSW unlike older versions of RedSnow. Just click Jailbreak and follow the prompts.
3. After RedSn0w finishes doing it’s thing, you’re done!

4. Next you may need to perform a tethered boot. If you do, simply open RedSn0w again and click Extras and then Just Boot
5. Your phone will perform a tethered boot and you should be good to go!

RedSn0w has also thrown in a little bonus for Windows users. You can copy the redsnow.exe file to your desktop or anywhere you like and rename it something like justboot.exe. As long as you have the word “boot” in the file name you can just double click that file to perform a quick tethered boot with RedSn0w.

That’s it boys and girls. If you need any help, be sure to check out our TiPb jailbreak forums. Until next time, happy jailbreaking!

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Firemint has announced that Real Racing 2 will be receiving a massive update that brings a new feature for iPhone 4S and iPad 2 users – Party Play.

Party Play takes AirPlay to the next level of iOS gaming, facilitating wireless local multiplayer for up to 4 players simultaneously in a split screen display output to your HD TV using an iPad 2 or iPhone 4S as the host. Play in the comfort of your own home and experience the joy of championship racing with iOS 5.

It’s worth reiterating that not all players are require to have an iPhone 4S or iPad 2 to use Party Play, only one does.

This looks so awesome! I just might have to have a little party on the night of the 14th to try this out! What about you? Excited? Before you answer, check out the video below!

Have an app you’d love to see featured on TiPb? Email us at iosapps@tipb.com, tell us about your app (include an iTunes link), and we’ll take a look.

Apple has announced some of its European launch pricing for the iPhone 4S. The countries with pricing available are the United Kingdom, France and Germany. These are the countries that will get the iPhone on October 14 with pre-orders starting on October 7. The prices are for a SIM free unlocked iPhone 4S and cell service would have to be taken out separately.

United Kingdom

iPhone 4S 16GB         £499.00

iPhone 4S 32GB         £599.00

iPhone 4S 64GB         £699.00

France

iPhone 4S 16GB         €629.00

iPhone 4S 32GB         €739.00

iPhone 4S 64GB         €849.00

Germany

iPhone 4S 16GB         €629.00

iPhone 4S 32GB         €739.00

iPhone 4S 64GB         €849.00

We will keep an eye on the major European carriers who have yet to show their hands when it comes to pricing or availability for the matter. When they do, we will let you know.

Source: Apple

Rogers let us know that their iPhone 4S pre-orders will start tomorrow at 6am ET. If you want an iPhone 4S on Rogers, just head on over to their reservation system page and grab yours then.

More: Rogers Reservation System

Sprint has started allowing customers to pre-order the 8GB iPhone 4 in either black or white flavors for $99.99. Sprint will also begin pre-orders for the new iPhone 4S starting tomorrow, likely at 12:01am PDT.

According to the description on Sprint’s website, pre-orders will be available “while supplies last” and will ship to customers by the 14th or 15th of October. Customers planning to pre-order may want to head over to their website to secure their order in case supplies run dry.

Sprint will still offer iPhone customers unlimited data with plans starting at $69.99, and this may have some impact on new iPhone users trying to decide on a carrier, given the likes of AT&T and Verizon no longer offer unlimited data plans.

Will you be pre-ordering your next iPhone from Sprint?

Source: Sprint

Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple and the guiding mind behind iPhone, iPod touch, iPad, iTunes, and an astounding amount of other modern technological marvels, passed away yesterday at the age of 56.

Statements and stories have flooded in from around the world and all over the internet. Below, the staff of TiPb and the Mobile Nations network share their thoughts, memories, and respect for the man who shaped the modern consumer electronic world.

Georgia, TiPb.com

If there is anything that we can learn from the death of Steve Jobs it’s that we need to make sure we live for the moment and do as much as we can with the time we are given. Though Steve is no longer with us, his legacy will carry on. I did not expect to be as affected by his passing as I have been. There is something that made me feel secure with having Steve at Apple, and his spirit can not be replaced.

We’re here to put a dent in the universe.

You did, Steve. You did.

Seth Clifford, Iterate.tv

There isn’t much I could say about Steve’s influence on the world that hasn’t been said better already. I wasn’t expecting to be as impacted by his passing as I found myself last night and again this morning. But I was, and I started to think about why I felt the way I did. I came to the conclusion that everything I do today – from the actual work I do on a daily basis, to the way I think about the quality of what we create, to the places I want us to go as a company – has in some perceivable way been shaped by Steve. A child of the 80s, I loved Macs, and when I was old enough to afford my own, it was around the same time he came back to Apple and began to reshape the face of the company. Since that point, I’ve watched as his vision brought new life not only to Apple, but to the entire technology industry. My formative young adult years were spent in awe of the places he was taking us, and with each release, we inched closer toward a better way of doing things. There were hiccups along the way, stops and starts, but the vision always persevered in spite of everything. Now, with the mobile landscape looking the way it does, thinking back to those early machines and the original Macintosh’s goal of bringing computing to everyone, it’s clear that he succeeded in that intention. Every single day, the good things he wanted us to feel as we use our technology touch my life in quietly profound ways. And every single day forward, I will pause and think about how compromise was not a part of that plan. Steve’s guiding principle was to do great things, and while we don’t always succeed at that, neither did he – and it’s the journey (and the willingness to keep pushing forward) that really matters anyway. I will genuinely miss him, and I thank him for everything he did in the name of the user.

Ally Kazmucha, TiPb.com

I’ve immersed myself in technology ever since I can remember. I was always fascinated by the way things work and how things could be better. Steve Jobs understood that things can “always” be better. He was a visionary and his own worst critic. I always admired that in him. Back in my college days I remember seeing the Stanford Commencement speech on the internet. One quote stuck with me from then until now -

“Everyday when I wake up, I look into the mirror and ask myself, “If I was going to die tomorrow, would I still want to do what I’m going to do today?”, and if the answer is no too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.”

It’s a quote I’ve tried to live up to. Since then, I’ve almost completely turned a hobby and a passion into a career, I’d say that quote has impacted my life in ways I’m not even capable of explaining. So I’ll continue doing what I love to do as that’s the best way I know to honor one of most creative minds of this century. He may be gone but so many of the ideas and innovations he brought to life will continue to inspire generations to come. You will be sorely missed by all.

George Lim, TiPb.com

To Me, Steve Jobs was more than the Co-founder of Apple and the Co-founder of Pixar. He was a man, who took life with both hands and went for the ride.

Despite, being adopted, getting kicked out of his own company, and being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, he lived on, showing that no matter what the situation, you can remain positive and achieve great things.

As a result he went on to return to Apple and turn it into the company it is today, and found my all time favourite animation studio, Pixar.

His view on ‘not wasting life’ didn’t really hit me until I watched his 2005 speech at Standford University when he uttered the words:

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.

It was at that moment I knew I needed to “do something”.

Now, I haven’t quite left my full time job in a shop, I now write for TiPb and host my own online tech show. Doing things I love, Video Production and Writing.

Thank You Steve.

Leanna Lofte, TiPb.com

In a job interview I had a couple years ago, I was asked that if I could meet one celebrity, who would it be? Without even giving it much thought, I promptly replied ‘Steve Jobs’. The job-search committee was slightly taken aback by my response because he wasn’t a celebrity in the conventional meaning of the term. Well, in my eyes, Steve is the greatest and most influential celebrity of my time. Unlike other celebrities, Steve actually had and will continue to have a great impact on my life.

I miss you, Steve. Thank you for not only being an incredible innovator, but for being an inspiration and example of perseverance and following your dreams.

Kevin Michaluk, Founder of CrackBerry.com

As much as we like to poke at Apple whenever we get the chance on CrackBerry, Steve Jobs was an amazing visionary and inspiring leader who made a significant impact upon the world in which we live. Our deepest sympathies go out to his family and loved ones.

Keith Newman, PreCentral.net

Say what you will about Steve Jobs… whether you loved him or hated him, it is undeniable of the impact he had on our modern society. His return to Apple marked a new era of design and functionality the rest of the industry wished they could capture and often tried to replicate. Sure he was known to fanboys as the savior and to the haters as the devil but his business savvy and cutthroat business decisions created an empire. You will always see his true friends speak dearly of him and that is what strikes me most. He was a guy who was doing a job that was fueled on his dreams and imagination; they might have been absurd to conventional thinking and against every fabric of sound business models, yet, he still prevailed on top of it all. I offer his family and friends my condolences during this hard time. Having lost my mother at 47 from cancer, the thing that helped me through it all was remembering her during the strongest periods of her life and always keeping that in my heart. Steve, thank you for your innovations that keep pushing our world closer together through technology.

Phil Nickinson, AndroidCentral.com

Explaining to my 5-year-old daughter what I was watching on TV (and, Jesus H. Christ is CNN horrible), Mia, who uses an old iPhone 3G as an iPod, asks me:

“Daddy, since he died, will my iPhone not work anymore?”

No, Mia, it most certainly will.

Chris Oldroyd, TiPb.com

Steve Jobs quite simply changed my life! His vision and astounding ability to give us what we needed even before we actually knew what we needed was amazing. The world has lost a gifted individual and is a much worse place today because of that. I will never forget the first time I heard him say “The iPhone”. Little did I know what it would lead to. Thank you Steve.

Chris Parsons, CrackBerry.com

Between last night and today, I have heard so many people state what Steve Jobs meant to them and their lives and it has truly been amazing. I’ve always recognized that we all live and we all die but I never realized the passing of Steve Jobs would have this much affect on myself. I work on a MacBook Pro all day long, I write about iPhones and iPads often and much of my livelihood as I know it — is because of the products him and the folks at Apple have created. Steve Jobs was simply put.. amazing. I encourage you all to donate to your local Cancer society.

Andrew Wray, TiPb.com

It’s difficult to find the right words to describe some of the emotions that I’ve been overwhelmed with since learning of Steve Job’s passing. Feelings of sadness, nostalgia, deep inspiration and happiness all come to the surface when watching some of Steve’s greatest moments on stage. He had such a way about him. That all-too-magical reality distortion field. I don’t believe we will have another opportunity to see a man as great as Steve Jobs emerge within our lifetimes.

For all of this, I am truly grateful that I was able to be on this earth to watch Steve work his magic with Apple, NeXT and Pixar, bringing amazing products to the world and truly revolutionizing the tech industry. And more than once. His legacy will live on forever through Apple and I’m sure we’ll all think of Steve every time we use one of his products. We’ll miss you, Steve. Thanks for giving us the world.

Rene Ritchie, TiPb.com

My first computer was an Apple II. My first website was created on the classic Mac OS. Day in and day out, my work, my play, and my life is enabled by Macs and iPhones and iPads and the apps they make possible. Steve Jobs inspired and informed all of that. He is indelibly and inexorably at the heart of modern technology.

We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven; that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

A master story teller, he methodically crafted a legend not of words or epics but of consumer electronics and software. He is why Apple is the brand and passion it is today, why industrial design matters, and why software is increasingly accessible to the mainstream.

He stood at the crossroads of technology and liberal arts, of glass and aluminum, of bits and bytes, and by sheer act of will forged them into something greater than any of their parts — tools that work for us rather than requiring us to work for them.

Relentless visionary, consummate showman, genius businessman. His loss hurts but his life will inspire, always.

The end of act two came far too soon, and act three suddenly, brutally sooner still. Part of me wonders what another 30 years could have brought us, but the other part knows what Jobs himself elucidated so well:

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.

We’ll never get another “One more thing…” from you, Steve, but you’ve left us the only thing that really matters. Your legacy. Thank you for that. For everything.

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It’s no secret that what makes the TiPb Nation great is you, our community, and the forums are the heart and soul of our community so we wanted to give you something back — the chance to win an iPhone 4S! (Technically we’re giving away a US$500 Apple Store gift certificate towards the purchase of the iPhone 4S of your choice.) And we’re giving it away — in the TiPb Forums!

Here’s how to enter:

1. Leave a reply in our official iPhone 4S giveaway thread.
2. Go participate in the TiPb forums, as much as you can, as well as you can.

Here’s how we’ll pick a winner:

1. 10 finalists will be chosen at random from the official forum thread. They’ll each get the iPhone case of their choice from the TiPb iPhone accessory store.
2. 1 grand prize winner will be chosen by our staff, based on their forum participation, and they’ll win the iPhone 4S!

Leave just one reply in our entry thread, but participate in the forums as much and as often as you can. Real posts. Quality posts. Talk with other members, ask questions, answer questions, help each other, like each other, thank each other, discuss iPhone 4S, iCloud, and iOS 5, remember Steve Jobs. Be a community.

Contest starts now and we’ll announce the winner live on our iPhone Live podcast at 9pm EDT on Wednesday, October 12!

Whether you’re a forum veteran or a first time poster, you have an equal chance of winning. It’s what you do now that counts. So good luck, and may the most awesome forum member win!

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