Apple's iPhone activation servers experience Up, Up and Away

iPhone users reported being unable to activate their new iPhones due to issues with Apple's activation servers on Thursday.

      Apple's iPhone activation process experienced hiccups Thursday, with users reportedly unable to activate their new phones.

           The check-in process phones home to Apple before users are able to use the device, leaving new buyers out of luck. The security measure has been a source of frustration during previous product launches, when the servers were swamped with new owners.

Apple declined comment on the apparent downtime, which was reported earlier Thursday by MacRumors.

The issues came as Apple's developer site and most of its connected services near a full week of unavailability. Apple temporarily closed the site down last Thursday following what it says was an attack by an intruder. This Thursday's connectivity issues are believed to be unrelated.

Update has been rolled: The issue has now been fixed.

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Record iPhone screen video using xRec[No jailbreak required]..

Until now, the only way to record the display of our iDevices was to run the jailbreak and install a special tweak. Apple doesn’t allow apps in the App Store that can record video of anything on the screen… until now. A new app has slipped on the App Store, its called xRec, it can fully record the iPhone’s screen, including any audio.

The interface is actually quite nice.Users can record screen activity, although the application requires an active Internet connection to function.The recorded video can then be saved to your camera roll or exported to other applications installed on the device. When the application is registered, a red bar will be displayed in the iPhone’s status bar until the recording ends.This can not be turned off. The application will record audio through the mic with different quality levels.

xRec is compatible with the iPhone 3GS/4/4S/5 and third-gen iPod touch or later running iOS 5.0 and up. The 4.4MB download is on the App Store and will run you $1.99. The developer says its not compatible with iOS 7. It probably won’t be available for long, so grab ASAP from the App Store before it’s too late!!!

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New iPhone 5S photos leak appear

New iPhone 5S photos appear, specs hint at 12 MP camera, higher CPU clock, quad-core GPU

           

          Parts for the iPhone 5S have leaked quite a few times before, and now we have another batch of what seems to be chassis waiting to be stuffed with internal silicon.

          The more interesting part here are the claimed specs accompanying them, which say that we'll get a 4" 2272x1280 pixels IGZO display accounting to whooping 652 pixels per inch<ppi>, meaning high brightness at frugal battery consumption, the same A6 SoC like in the iPhone5, but clocked higher, and a quad-core PowerVR SGX544MP4 GPU, instead of the tri-core unit we have now.
         

          The source also confirms 2 GB of RAM, NFC at last and the elusive fingerprint scanner we've been hearing about for a while, linked to mobile payment system of sorts, though we have to see the two gigs of RAM listed officially to believe them. As for the camera, it gets downgraded a bit in terms of resolution from the last leaks, claimed to be 12 MP instead of 13 MP now, but a dual LED flash system is confirmed. 

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