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6/12/12
Apple Previews iOS 6 With All New Maps, Siri Features, Facebook Integration, Shared Photo Streams & New Passbook App
SAN FRANCISCO―June 11, 2012―Apple® today previewed iOS 6, introducing over 200 new features to the world’s most advanced mobile operating system, and released a beta version to iOS Developer Program members. iOS 6 will be available to iPhone®, iPad® and iPod touch® users this fall as a free software update. New iOS 6 features include: an all new Maps app with Apple-designed cartography, turn-by-turn navigation and an amazing new Flyover view; new Siri® features, including support for more languages, easy access to sports scores, restaurant recommendations and movie listings; Facebook integration for Contacts and Calendar, with the ability to post directly from Notification Center, Siri and Facebook-enabled apps like Photos, Safari® and Maps; Shared Photo Streams via iCloud®; and Passbook, the simplest way to get all your passes in one place.
“iOS 6 continues the rapid pace of innovation that is helping Apple reinvent the phone and create the iPad category, delivering the best mobile experience available on any device,” said Scott Forstall, Apple's senior vice president of iOS Software. “We can’t wait for hundreds of millions of iOS users to experience the incredible new features in iOS 6 including the new Maps app, expanded Siri support, deep Facebook integration, Shared Photo Streams and the innovative new Passbook app.”
iOS 6 includes an all new Maps app with vector-based map elements that make graphics and text smooth, and panning, tilting and zooming incredibly fluid. New turn-by-turn navigation guides you to your destination with spoken directions, and the amazing Flyover feature has photo-realistic interactive 3D views. Real-time traffic information keeps you updated on how long it will take to get to your destination and offers alternate time-saving routes if traffic conditions change significantly. Additionally, local search includes information for over 100 million businesses with info cards that offer Yelp ratings, reviews, available deals and photos.
Siri, now available for the new iPad as well as iPhone 4S, includes language support for English, French, German and Japanese, and adds support for Spanish, Italian, Korean, Mandarin and Cantonese. Siri is optimized for use in 15 countries and helps you get even more done with just your voice, whether it’s finding the latest sports scores or making restaurant reservations. You also can ask Siri to update your status on Facebook, post to Twitter or launch an app. Additionally, Siri takes hands-free functionality even further with a new Eyes Free mode, enabling you to interact with your iPhone using nothing more than your voice.
Built-in Facebook integration is the best ever in a mobile device, allowing you to sign in once and post from Notification Center, Siri and Facebook-enabled apps, including Photos, Safari and Maps. Your Facebook friends’ information is kept up to date across all your iOS devices, automatically updating details in Contacts when they change, and scheduling events and birthdays in your Calendar. You can also “Like” content directly from the App Store™ and iTunes® and see what your friends recommend.
With more than 125 million users already enjoying iCloud, iOS 6 introduces new ways to share photos with friends and family using Shared Photo Streams. Simply select the photos you want to share, pick which friends you want to receive the album, and the Shared Photo Stream album is instantly available on their iOS devices, iPhoto® and Aperture® on their Mac®, via the web or even through Apple TV®. You and your friends can leave comments on or “Like” any photo in a shared album.
The new Passbook app is the simplest way to get all your passes in one place, such as boarding passes and baseball tickets. Passbook lets you scan your iPhone or iPod touch to use a coupon, get into a concert or check into your hotel. Passbook automatically displays your passes on your Lock Screen based on a specific time or location, so when you walk into your favorite coffee shop your loyalty card appears and you can scan it to buy a coffee or check your balance. Passbook can even alert you to last minute gate changes or flight delays at the airport.
Building on Apple’s commitment to provide innovative solutions for education and accessibility, iOS 6 introduces Guided Access. This new feature allows a parent, teacher or administrator to disable hardware buttons to lock an iOS device into a single app, especially useful for test taking or helping someone with a disability stay focused on learning. Guided Access also includes the ability to confine touch input to certain parts of the screen.
Additional new iOS 6 features include:
- enhancements to Safari, the world’s most popular mobile browser, such as iCloud tabs, offline reading lists, photo uploads and full screen view;
- support for FaceTime® calls over cellular networks;
- the ability to set up a VIP Mailbox, making it easier to quickly view messages from important people you designate as VIPs;
- the option to decline incoming calls with a quick message, set a callback reminder and enable a new Do Not Disturb option; and
- a whole new set of improvements and services specifically for iOS users in China, such as improved text input and built-in support for popular Chinese services including Baidu, Sina Weibo, Youku and Tudou.
Availability
The iOS 6 beta software and SDK are available immediately for iOS Developer Program members at developer.apple.com. iOS 6 will be available as a free software update for iPhone 4S, iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, the new iPad, iPad 2 and iPod touch (fourth generation) this fall. Some features may not be available on all products.
Apple designs Macs, the best personal computers in the world, along with OS X, iLife, iWork and professional software. Apple leads the digital music revolution with its iPods and iTunes online store. Apple has reinvented the mobile phone with its revolutionary iPhone and App Store, and is defining the future of mobile media and computing devices with iPad.
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3/10/12
Weekly Wrap: New iPad and Apple TV, new iOS apps, and a whole lot more
We thought this would be the week Apple unveiled the iPad 3. Oh, how wrong we were. Even though there’s still no iPad 3, there is a new iPad—and a new Apple TV, and a new iLife app for iOS. Catch up on those announcements and other great Macworld stories from the past week with yet another edition of the Weekly Wrap.
In with the new
As you probably know, Apple unveiled a new iPad with a shiny new Retina display and support for LTE cellular networks. If you get a Verizon iPad, you can use the iPad’s new hotspot feature. The AT&T iPad can’t do that (at launch, anyway). In keeping with tradition, the AT&T iPad—like the AT&T iPhone—also can’t place calls.
Some of us love that the new iPad is called simply “iPad”; others would have preferred that the tablet score a new name all its own. Perhaps something like Edgar. Because we’re good like that, we put together this list of answers to all your questions about the new iPad/Edgar.
Apple released iPhoto for iOS, an app for organizing, retouching, and adding filters and effects to your photos. And the company also updated iMovie, GarageBand, and iWork; we went hands-on with iMovie’s new Trailers feature. Numerous other Apple iOS apps got updates, as well. We’re a little concerned about the impact of Retina display-ready apps on iOS storage space, though. And those newly bigger apps make life harder for over-the-air app downloads, too.
Also new for your iOS devices is iOS 5.1, which adds Japanese Siri support, a new lock screen camera shortcut, and a confusing 4G icon.
There’s also a brand new Apple TV with support for 1080p, and a new UI for the Apple TV to boot. And because we care, we put together answers for pretty much any questions you could have about the new Apple TV while Dan Frakes provided a hands on with the software update.
And that’s not all. Apple released iTunes 10.6 with 1080p support, iTunes Match improvements, and more. It was a pretty busy week, actually.
When we couldn’t write another word, we put together a slideshow and a podcast about all the new stuff.
What else was there?
We’re already 600 words into the Weekly Wrap, and we’ve only talked about announcements from Apple’s Wednesday event. So we’re going to make the rest of this quick:
- Apple is killing iWork.com. I knew there were some dark iClouds on the horizon.
- We have tips for dealing with spam when Mail falls short. Step one: Start taking advantage of those great Viagra offers.
- You can now run Quicken 2007 on Lion. This entry needs no further joke.
- Cleartune is a great iOS app for tuning instruments. Let’s see if works on Katy Perry’s voice.
- Perhaps Intel’s new Xeon chips may foretell a new Mac Pro. If Apple releases such a computer, we predict that they’ll call it “the new iPad,” just to keep folks guessing.
- EA pulled its Simpsons game for iOS because it was too popular. I, for one, never had that problem in high school.
- Serenity Caldwell says that your next stylus might be touch-sensitive. If you disagree, Serenity might get a touch sensitive.
- Square Register turns an iPad into a cash register. For its next trick, it turns shaving cream into a dessert topping.
- The NPR Music app combines great content and lovely design. And no annoying pledge drives.
- We like the Wacom Intuous5 graphics tablet. We imagine it’s—wait for it—touched.
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3/7/12
New iPad puts the camera back in focus: 5 MP sensor, AF lens, 1080p video
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iPad HD is here! Retina Display, quad-core, and more
Apple’s next iPad is here, and it’s officially called the iPad HD. Just moments ago, Apple CEO Tim Cook introduced the tablet on stage, and it indeed features an unbelievable 9.7-inch Retina Display. It looks like the form factor has not changed significantly, which is consistant with dozens of rumors and reports leading up to today’s unveiling.
The new iPad also features a quad-core Apple A5X processor confirming an earlier report of ours.
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The Last (And Newest) iPad 3 Rumor Is A Biggie
It’s crunch time as Apple’s special iPad event is just minutes away. Now, a new Apple rumor has gotten the blogosphere very excited that we thought we’d pass along too.
Along with a Retina display, the new iPad could include something called touch-feedback technology, according to the folks at TNW. Accordingly, the new iDevice could include haptics, a tactile feedback technology that responds to normal vibrations in mobile devices, to provide feedback through your sense of touch.
This technology is significant in that it wouldn’t require “modification of the screen’s surface, nor does it use moving parts.”
In addition, it should be noted that Apple’s invitation to today’s event ends with this cryptic message:
“We have something you really have to see. And touch.”
One company that makes this technology is Senseg, which just happened to demo it in Cupertino, California in January.
Charles Arthur of The Guardian is also on this story and provides this amazing quote:
Apple is famously secretive about which companies it is using for its new products; in the past it has cut companies out of announcements when they have leaked information ahead of time, making those involved especially paranoid about speaking out of turn.
But asked this week whether Apple is a customer for the E-Sense technology, Petri Jehkonen, Senseg’s technical marketing manager, declined to comment. Asked whether Apple is not a customer, he replied: “That would be for Apple to say. My comment is no comment.”
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It will be interesting to see if the iPad 3 will include this game-changing technology. We will find out soon. Very soon.
Is this news enough to get you excited about the next iPad?
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3/3/12
More Images of iPad 3 Front Panel Surface – Is Available in Black and White Color, Also it Has a Home Button!
Apple products are always covered with rumors!!! This time the twist is at – “More images of iPad 3 front panel surface – is available in black and white color, also it has a home button”.
One such rumor also claims – the new iPad 3 will only be available in just one color. But, the rumor got vanished when Repair Labs report claimed that iPad 3 will be available in two different color and model, which is certainly of Black and White. However, a smart person will also notice a Home button… which is undeniably visible in the pictures.
Well it was a sad news for highly apple users fan – when the company officially announced through their media event summons. In which they clarify that no Home Button exists in the new iPad 3. The statement went like a rocket and which ended with the speculation that – new iPad will entirely operate via signs.
Moreover, it is pretty sure that – sooner or later Home Button is going to get demolished from the iOS devices; But, presently, in the new iPad 3 no such thing is going to happen.
Apparently, there is no such guarantee that the Home button will vanish from the iOS device, although, it is believed from the present condition.
In addition to it, Apple is going to launch its new iPad 3 – on next Wednesday, March 7 at 10:00 AM (Pacific Time at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco). Moreover, the company is also going to update its Apple TV set-top box along with the release of iPad 3. The Apple TV box is configured with ultra-high resolution display and expected 1080 pixels potentiality.
Via: Macrumors
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2/14/12
iPhone 5 Release Date: iPhone 5 Unveiling In June This Year
The iPhone 5 release date rumors are heating up now as sources have recently reported that Apple is going to launch its next generation iPhone in June this year at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) to be held that month.
Apple usually follows the schedule of iPhone release in summer although its iPhone 4S was an exception, having been released in October last year. It may also happen that Apple would plan to release iPhone 5 in a totally separate event of its own sponsoring and not in industry events like CES as WWDC.
According to Digitimes
“Apple is expected to unveil its iPhone 5 smartphone at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) to be held in June 2012, the Chinese-language Commercial Times quoted Daiwa Securities as indicating.”
This news may or may not be true so the best thing to do is to wait till June and see what happens. Now that iPad 3 release date rumors also seem to be materializing with the news that it is to be in March this year it seems the rumors about iPhone 5 release could be true too.
There are also rumors stating that the iPhone 5 features will include glass to glass (G/G) touch panel technology and recently photos revealed by the Phone Arena have led to believe that both the iPhone 5 and iPad 3 features would include AT&T micro-SIM cards to make them LTE-enabled due to AT&T micro-SIM cards. And last but not the least there would surely be an iPhone 5 Siri upgrade, as Siri has been a boon for Apple.
Via: DigiTimes, AppleInsider, TheSpaceLab
1/21/12
The First 12 Apps You Need To Check Out For Facebook Timeline Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/the-first-12-apps-to-install-for-facebook-timeline-2012-1?op=1##ixzz1k5ecQeYE
On Wednesday night, Facebook launched 60 new apps that tie in closely with Timeline, the company's new profile page for users.
These aren't conventional apps that you use inside Facebook like FarmVille.
They are new "Timeline Apps" that help you tell your friends exactly what you're doing using external apps.
For example, if you install the Hulu app, friends will be able to see when you're watching movies and TV shows on Hulu.com, right inside their Facebook News Tickers.
To get any of these apps, simply find the one you want here, then "log in" using your Facebook credentials. For many sites, all you'll need to do is click the "Log In With Facebook" button.
With Spotify, you can join in and listen to songs with friends in real time. (This isn't a new app though, it's been around since Facebook first announced Timeline apps.)
On your Timeline, Spotify keeps track of all the music you listen to in one convenient box.
The Words With Friends app makes your word choices a bit more public. If someone keeps throwing lame words, call them out on it.
Hot 2011 startup Turntable.fm shares new radio stations you make and songs you queue up while you're DJ-ing.
Any time you rate a movie on Rotten Tomatoes, it will be shared to Facebook.
If you use a Kobo e-reader, it can notify Facebook the second you finish a book.
Installing Hulu shares TV and movies you watch with Facebook.
Foodily shares recipes you've craved and cuisines you've followed on Facebook.
Fab can share what discounted items you're buying.
Install the Pinterest app and share new posts with friends using Facebook, too.
Where I've Been instantly shares new places you travel to with friends.
Foodspotting shares great dishes you've "spotted"
The Ticketmaster app shares events you've been to, tickets you've purchased, and more.
more: http://www.businessinsider.com/the-first-12-apps-to-install-for-facebook-timeline-2012-1?op=1##ixzz1k5emlDtg Check them all out here.
1/6/12
How to Manage iTunes on iCloud on Your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch
You quite often wish to keep only a few selected iTunes in your iOS device music collection and for that you keep retrieving extra tunes from the ones stored in iCloud. For that you should learn how to manage iTunes in the Cloud with your iPhone, manage iTunes in the Cloud on your iPad and manage iTunes in the Cloud on your iPod.
Download music from iCloud
- Open up your Music app.
- You will see the complete list of music that is available in iCloud. If you see a cloud icon next to the track or album, it means it is the one on iCloud.
- Download the music from iCloud by selecting one of the tracks or albums with the iCloud icon.
- When you select it you see the tracks with individual iCloud download labels. Clicking on one will download that particular track to your device.
- If you want to download a whole album, scroll down and go to the Download All button. Click on that and all the tracks will download to your device.
- As soon as it’s finished downloading, that particular track or album no longer has the cloud icon as now you have it on your device and you can play it anytime.
How to delete music from device and leave it on iCloud
- Open up your Music app.
- You will see the complete list of music that is available in iCloud. If the track or album shows a cloud icon next to it, this means it is on iCloud.
- If it doesn’t have the icon, it means it is stored on your device.
- To remove the track or album from your device and leave it in iCloud simply swipe right to left along the album or track.
- A delete box will appear, click on it and you will see the cloud icon immediatey appear next to the track or album. Now the album is no longer stored on your device but is available to download again from iCloud.
It is quite a simple process.
Via: iMore
12/15/11
Facebook Mobile Timeline
Facebook Just Launched Its Gorgeous New Mobile Timeline On Android And iPhone
Hot on the heels of Facebook's global timeline rollout today, Facebook announced the availability of Timeline for Android and iPhone.
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Timeline isn't available inside the Facebook app for iPhone quite yet, but head to m.facebook.com to check it out.
This is assuming you've already set up Timeline on your desktop computer using these instructions.
It's fully touch-enabled, which means it's easy to swipe through interests, pictures, and more.
We spoke with Joey Flynn (pictured), the designer behind mobile Timeline, in mid November.
Flynn told us about the process behind creating Timeline. It has been in the works for about a year, he said, but the seeds of Timeline have been floating around the office for a while.
"Do we do the timeline horizontally or vertically?" Flynn said. The design team underwent dozens of trials to figure out exactly how Timeline would work best.
See below for some screenshots of Timeline in action on mobile devices:
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