With iOS 9, Apple seriously improved the desirability of the iPad – by adding new side by side apps, new keyboard controls and picture-in-picture mode for watching a video continuously throughout the whole operating system, now Netflix is supporting the feature on compatible iPad models. The update was released today and works on any iPad running iOS 9.3.2. Netflix is by no means the first developer to have this feature, they […]
Yesterday at Apple’s annual devolpers conference, WWDC the company updated all four of its software platforms, watchOS, tvOS, iOS and the newly named macOS. So here is a quick overview of what Apple released yesterday. watchOS 3 The first thing in the keynote was Kevin Lynch coming on stage and unveiling the improvements that they had made to the Apple Watch software. One ringing complaint about the Apple Watch is […]
Earlier today Apple released the second beta for iOS 9.3.3 to developers. This small release mostly just brings bug fixes and also features the patch for the iPad Pro 9.7 bricking issue. Any registered developer can download the latest version over the air on the device or via the Apple Developer Centre. Also Apple’s annual WWDC is set for next week starting of on June 13 for the main keynote […]
Just over the weekend, Apple updated it’s homepage to honour the late Muhammad Ali who sadly passed away on Friday at age 74. Apple’s homepage has a quote from the boxer saying: “The man who has no imagination has no wings.” In the past Apple has supported `Muhammad Ali during the 90s Think Different adverts. You can see Apple’s homepage tribute at apple.com
Google famously supports the iOS platform really well and ironically a lot of the apps are much better than the versions on Android. But now Google have released a keyboard app for the iPhone and iPad which allows you to search the internet, look for GIFs and grab quick weather reports too. It’s called Gboard and it can find anything online from your keyboard. The Principal Enginner at Google, Rajan […]
Apple is now offering a heavy discount on Apple Music subsections, eligible students who apply can get 50% off the monthly cost of the music service. This was confirmed a few days ago by the company, which is now offering the discount in seven countries around the world. These plans still come with all the same functionality as the regular plans and access to all the music, Beats 1 and […]
Every time we use Apple Pay to buy anything from coffee at Starbucks, groceries or anything at stores it does feel cool and almost magic like although Apple doesn’t really convey this feeling when it shows it’s own ads, so Australia thought it would have a go. As banks are starting to do now to get the attention back to them, ANZ in Australia have come up with their own […]
People just like installing Windows 95 on every device that they can, but it really shows how far we have come in the last few decades with processing power and miniaturisation, it’s now possible to run Windows 95, sort of on the Apple Watch that shows how far we really have come, back in the 90s it would have required a bulky laptop or a huge desktop tower to do […]
Just yesterday, Apple revealed its earnings for the second quarter of this year, although when compared to this heater last year – the earnings seem to be down and overall sales of the iPhone seem to be slipping slowly year over year. However Apple did predict this during the last earnings call, so the slight decline in sales shouldn’t be surprising. So here is a comparison between Q2 2016 and […]
Popular Apple blog MacStories has come up with a gorgeous iOS 10 concept video for what we could expect the next big release of iOS to look like and a wishlist of what we’d like to see. Federico Vittici who runs MacStories reamed up with Sam Beckett to create this concept video, nearly all of the ideas that they have included are very well though out and would have no reason not […]
