Author: Alex Lowe

iOS 10 is now out

Apple’s new major operating system for iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch is now out. iOS 10 brings a host of new features and entirely new ways to use your iPhone. Messages, Maps and Apple Music receive full redesigns and 3D Touch is even more useful. iOS 10 is available to download now and is available for the following devices: iPhone iPhone 5 iPhone 5c iPhone 5s iPhone SE iPhone 6 […]

Apple releases iTunes 12.5.1 ahead of iOS release, boasting new design

In the last hour, Apple released an update to iTunes which contains the brand new Apple Music design, based on the changes the company has made in iOS 10. iTunes 12.5.1 is available now for Mac and Windows users, this comes before iOS 10 is available and a week before macOS Sierra comes out. iTunes 12.51 adds support for iOS 10 devices connecting via USB and also enhancements for Siri […]

Apple is offering $10 movies on iTunes, to celebrate 10 years

Apple is celebrating 10 years of offering movies on iTunes – to mark this momentous achievement, Apple for today only is offering $10 movie bundles in the US only. Such movies as The Hangover, Twilight, The Hunger Games and more are available at a discounted price. Back when Apple debuted iTunes Movies back in 2006 they had 75 movies for sale, all from Disney. Now in 2016 according to Apple […]

Google have just fixed two major security issues

It just seems lately that there are so many major security flaws in major mobile operating systems. In the last few weeks Apple patch ed a important flaw in iOS 9 and now Google have patched a security issue in Android which could allow hackers to send a JPEG image, which has been altered through Gmail. Also some apps hosted on Google Play have been containing malware, one of which […]

Sainsbury’s ‘might’ be launching Apple Pay later this year

In the UK, only two of the major supermarkets have officially adopted Apple Pay; Waitress and M&S. Tesco have also finally rolled out contactless readers in some major stores, with no word as of yet to support Apple Pay. Now Sainsbury’s have confirmed to us in an email that the company is hoping to have Apple Pay and contactless payments in store later in the year. Dear Alex Thanks for your […]

iOS 10 will be available September 13th

We’ve seen the new iPhone announced earlier today, but for everyone else with older iPhones and iPads iOS 10 will be the next thing we will be doing. iOS 10 will be released to existing iOS devices on September 13th. What’s new in iOS 10? For a full, in depth look at the features of iOS – read our post from WWDC In short iOS offers a lot of new […]

This is 7

iPhone 7. After months of speculating in the tech community, Apple has finally unveiled the next generation of the world’s most popular phone and the 10th iPhone ever, despite the name. In short there isn’t a 3.5mm headphone jack anymore, there are new colours and much better cameras. So, iPhone 7 So earlier today Apple unveiled the 10th iPhone to the world, the iPhone 7. Many rumours over the last […]

Apple Music on Android has had 10 million downloads so far

Apple surprised a lot of people last year when it announced that Apple Music would be coming to the Android platform. The Android version was release to Google Play in November 2015, now approaching the one year mark when the app was released iDownloadBlog have uncovered from Google Play meta data how many times the app has been downloaded. According to Google Play, Apple Music for Android has been downloaded around 10 […]

What to do if you haven’t got the Windows 10 Anniversary Update yet

The Windows 10 Anniversary Update came out about a month ago now, but some users may not have received it yet and it may need to be manually downloaded from Microsoft directly. The Anniversary Update came out around 1 year after Windows 10 was launched on July 29th 2015, it doesn’t add many big features – instead works to refine the experience. We wrote an article containing the new features. Read […]