Continuing with a nearly voiceless and poetic new campaign, Apple’s latest TV ad for the iPhone is called “Music Every Day” and carries on the theme begun in the previous “Photos Every Day” ad, touting a major feature of the iPhone that is not unique to it, but more widely used on the platform than on any of its rivals with visually beautiful montages anchored to a single, simple piece of music.
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Dots is a game that takes a stylish new twist on a tried and tested game genre. The objective of the game is to collect dots by connecting like colours in horizontal and vertical lines. It sounds simple, but you are playing against the clock. If you think your brain is up to some fast pattern recognition, read on
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iTunes U makes it easy to download and subscribe to any courses you’d like. While not all courses come with assignments and material, some do. If you decide you’d like to complete assignments or want to download additional material, here’s how to find out if any is available in iTunes U and download it directly to iBooks.
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Looking to make the most of your love for Mailbox, the hip new email app? Now that the startup has joined up with Dropbox, it’s launching an iPad app this week.
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If you use iTunes U in order to subscribe to or download courses, you’re probably already familiar with how it works and how to browse for items that interest you. There may come a time when you run across a course that you think may interest someone else. iTunes U makes courses easy to share it with anyone. Launch the iTunes U app from the Home screen of your iPhone or iPad. Tap on the Catalog button in the upper right hand corner in order to view the store.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOK0eZPWWRU Haunting Melissa is a horror “movie” which is dripped into your real, everyday life by your iPad or your iPhone. Instead of sitting down for an hour and a half and watching the story unfold, the story comes in episodes. The twist is that the snippets are delivered at unexpected times, and you’re told
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iTunes U lets you subscribe to courses quickly and easily but there may come times when you don’t necessarily want to subscribe to an entire course. You’re also given the option to download individual classes within those sections if you choose too. Here’s how: Launch the iTunes U app from the Home screen of your iPhone or iPad.
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Vudu has launched an update for its iOS video player that adds support for downloading movies for offline viewing. Previously, users were required to stream all of their content from within the app, however, now they may select to download any content at various qualities for offline use. Other changes include closed captioning support for the iPhone, a simplified Player, and numerous bug fixes. VUDU Player is a free Universal app that can be downloaded from the App Store.
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Google has announced that its Checkout service will be closing down in about 6 months, while some of its features will transfer to the new Google Wallet service. I find this very disappointing, because it means Google is giving up on the fight with PayPal, which Google never actually took seriously, anyway. Merchants can continue
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Apple’s iTunes has become the pinnacle in digital sales for music. However, BlackBerry could be well on their way to reaching closer and closer to iTunes marketshare. “20 per cent of overall purchases on BlackBerry World is music,” Charlie Miller, BlackBerry’s Director of Alliances said to TrustedReviews, he added: “That’s just music, not movie and TV and that’s a lot higher than some.” “The breakdown of sales is a really interesting trend that we follow,” Miller said. “Right now, we see a higher proportion of album sales than is typical. Still the primary purchase is singles but we do see a very high number of album sales coming through.” Miller says their music sales are notably higher than some of their competitors. “I can’t comment on the other guys, but what I can say is that proportionally that is a very high number,” said Miller.
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iTunes U offers a wealth of knowledge and for the most part, a lot of it is free. This means you can download courses and lectures on a vast array of topics and subjects without ever having to actually step foot in a classroom. Whether you want to brush up on a topic you’ve already studied or would like to learn something new, there’s something for everyone.
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Anatolia News Agency reports that Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan visited Apple yesterday as part of a tour of Silicon Valley companies ahead of the country’s move to purchase 10.6 million tablets for its schoolchildren. Erdoğan also visited Microsoft’s Bay Area outpost and Google during his trip. Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (left) visits Apple The meeting at Apple was just the latest of numerous interactions between Apple executives and Turkish government officials as Apple seeks to win the massive tablet contract. A number of Apple executives including vice president for education John Couch traveled to Turkey back in February to meet with Turkish president Abdullah Gül, while Gül had visited Apple in May 2012. Ahead of the education tablet bid, Apple is in the midst of a significant push into the Turkish market, having launched the iTunes Store for music and movies there last December and begun hiring for future retail stores in the country
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Coming up with unique passwords all the time can be a struggle with you’re supposed to be doing a hundred and one other things. If only Siri, your in-phone digital assistant, could help. Fortunately, it can. As you may already know, Siri takes many of its answers from the Wolfram Alpha knowledge engine, and that includes generating random passwords. Continue reading →
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Leading UK consumer campaigner, Which?, has conducted a survey into customer satisfaction across UK high-street retail stores. While the likes of WHSmith and carrier, EE, scored near the bottom, is there any surprise who topped the table? Apple Retail Stores.
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Google just launched Google Play All Access music subscription service at the I/O conference earlier this week, and Apple’s widely expected to follow with the launch of the much rumoured “iRadio” streaming service in June at WWDC. Continue reading →
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A carnival-style shooting game that resembles Fruit Ninja — except the targets are trolls, not fruit.
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Apple recently let iTunes users stream Daft Punk’s latest album Random Access Memories for free as a promotion leading to the album launch, scheduled for the 21st of this month. However folks at 9to5Mac have discovered that a glaring loophole in the way streaming is implemented, allows users download the entire 74-minute album for free. Continue reading →
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The iTunes library on your Mac can get a bit unwieldy at times, right? It can become disorganized, with duplicate tracks, multiple spellings for one artist, and a bunch of other oddities that can keep it from being in the best shape possible. There’s nothing worse than having to go through a messy iTunes library – and that’s where this iPhone Hacks Deals offer comes in.
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Apple recently released iTunes 11.0.3 with a number of cosmetic improvements including an updated MiniPlayer and songs view. However, this release is more than just a pretty face, bringing a number of security patches which address a wide range of vulnerabilities. Even users not interested in the visual treatments will want to grab this update. Out of all 40 of the vulnerabilities listed in Apple’s article detailing the security content of the update, only one of them affected Mac users. The remaining 39 vulnerabilities addressed in this iTunes release only affected Windows users.
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