iTunes 9.1 Brings E-Book Support, iPad Sync, New Abilities and Improvements To Genius Mixes and Auto Bit-Rate Conversion
Apple has released iTunes 9.1 after all the rumors that mysteriously popped up for it (and most of them came true). iTunes 9.1 brings a number of fixes and features such as e-book support, which would make sense because of the iPad, new abilities to Genius Mixes and auto bit-rate conversion along with other fixes for the software
The sources from yesterday stated that Apple is going to be replacing the Audiobooks category on iTunes with a broader Books section of the store. That prophecy wasn’t fulfilled however as the iTunes store still has the “Audiobooks” label as one of the section of the store. Another speculation that came to fruition was the ability of iPad owners syncing all of their material from the iBookstore on iTunes, which would only seem proper for the update.
Opera Turns-In Opera Mini To The App Store Review Group
If you haven’t already heard, Opera announced that they have sent the Opera Mini 5browser for approval on the App Store. The company has mentioned the development of the software on the iPhone, giving a demonstration of the browser last month in its pre-finished condition. They posted a video on YouTube featuring the speed of the Opera web browser next to Safari on the iPhone with the software performing six times faster than its competitor. The boost in speed is accomplished through server-side rendering which sends compressed versions of webpages to dramatically lighten the rendering workload of a site up to 90%, ultimately concluding in more Web per MB for the user of the iPhone.
Apple Files Patent for iGroups
A patent filed by Apple in September of 2008 was released and discovered by Patently Apple what describes a technology that Cupertino is developing called iGroups. The file illustrates a social networking environment that can be created based sheerly on proximity with other iPhones. It goes on explaining how the tech can be used to create large group electronically in a number of event and locations situations such as trade-shows, concerts, movie theaters, theme parks, rallies, field trips, shopping centers, your local Starbucks and other social oriented places and events. It describes the initiation as an exchange of tokens using wireless standards such as Bluetooth or Wireless Fidelity (you most commonly know it as Wi-Fi). The patent gives an example of software being used in Apples WWDC event, precisely using an iGroups app on the iPhone OS where users can invite numerous amounts of people to a group to conduct an activity, say a group discussion or a poll, right on their iPhones. They also give scenario that involves people at a concert.
Games Wielding Almost Half Of The iPad
As Apple is in the midst of testing of the applications that they allowed to be submitted to the App Store, almost half of all the apps that were turned in for review was inducted into the games category, while books, the most talked about aspect of the iPad, only wield about three percent, believe it or not.
Gas Cubby Review: Learn More About Your Mileage
How much do you really know about the mileage on your car? Sure, the manufacturer says you should be getting 13 miles per gallon in the city and 22 on the highway — but what does that actually mean with the way you drive? Gas Cubby is an iPhone app that provides a solution for every driver looking to better understand their vehicle’s gas usage.
Application Review: Simply Being, Meditation Application
Need a few minutes of rest and relaxation? Check out this iPhone application that will help you keep the whole world out and relax, for 5, 10, 15 or 20 minutes at a time.
DJ Jones Review: How Well Do You Know Your Own Music?
It’s amazing how the simplest ideas sometimes turn out to be the most fun. DJ Jones is a music trivia game based on your own music collection. Anyone can wax poetic about the Beatles and the Stones, but how well do you really know everything on your iPod? If you’re sporting a 32GB full of tunes, it’s entirely possible the answer is “not much.” DJ Jones is here to help you fix that problem.
New iWork.com Features
Written on March 17, 2010
Maybe some of you have gotten the memo already (those of you who use iWork.com), but just in case you didn’t, Apple gave notification today that the iWork.com beta has received some new features.
If you haven’t heard of it yet, iWork.com is a web application site developed by Apple that syncs all of your work that you do on iWork for others to view, make comments and even edit changes on the document. It’s currently in beta testing, but being a tester if the software, I must say, it is really good. Documents no longer have to be lugged around on a jump-drive, CDs or, what some people around me have made a nasty habit lately, SD cards. With iWork.com, your work is, what we techies call, “stateless” and can be accessed anywhere in the world on any computer, whether Mac or PC.
Repair Your Permissions, Speed Up Your Mac
Over time all our computers start to take a bit of a performance hit, things start to slow down, things just don’t run the way they should. Sometime applications lag and don’t do exactly what they are designed to do. There is a quick fix to all of this which should help speed up a few things. In disk utility there is a the option to repair disk permissions.
Repairing disk permissions goes through and corrects any errors with any permissions, which will make buggy applications correct themselves, and could speed up the overall performance of your mac.
Tiger Text Review: Cover Your Tracks
Worried about having a text message end up on Text From Last Night, or better yet, having it read by someone not included in the conversation? If any of these things are a concern, try using Tiger Text. It’s a free application that works from iPhone to iPhone to delete text messages in a designated period of time in order to…cover your tracks.
