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Thursday, May 21, 2015

Apple Released Second Beta of iOS 8 to Developers

Just two weeks after the unveiling the new operating system at WWDC, Apple yesterday released the second beta of iOS 8 to developer, The update, build number 12A4297e, the beta 2 is available through Apples over-the-air updating system on iOS devices and via iOS Dev Center.

iOS 8 has come with several new features, including improved integration with OS X through Continuity, Family Sharing features, interactive notifications, a Health app, QuickType, and improvements to several apps like Messages, Safari, Siri, and Mail.

iOS 8 beta 2 also contains several tweaks, such as Podcasts app is now preinstalled, while in current builds, users who want to use the app have to download it from the App Store, Safari is able to block ads that redirect to the App Store, and a new introduction screen for Private Browsing in Safari. You can take a look at all changes in the new beta of iOS 8.

iOS 8 is available to developer in nowadays, the public release is expected to be in the fall, likely alongside the announcement of the new iPhone version.

Here are the direct download links (you need to a member of iOS Developer program to access them)

iPad

iPad Air (Model A1474)
iPad Air (Model A1475)
iPad Air (Model A1476)
iPad mini (Model A1489)
iPad mini (Model A1490)
iPad mini (Model A1491)
iPad (4th generation Model A1458)
iPad (4th generation Model A1459)
iPad (4th generation Model A1460)
iPad mini (Model A1432)
iPad mini (Model A1454)
iPad mini (Model A1455)
iPad Wi-Fi (3rd generation)
iPad Wi-Fi + Cellular (model for ATT)
iPad Wi-Fi + Cellular (model for Verizon)
iPad 2 Wi-Fi (Rev A)
iPad 2 Wi-Fi
iPad 2 Wi-Fi + 3G (GSM)
iPad 2 Wi-Fi + 3G (CDMA)

iPhone:

iPhone 5s (Model A1453, A1533)
iPhone 5s (Model A1457, A1518, A1528, A1530)
iPhone 5c (Model A1456, A1532)
iPhone 5c (Model A1507, A1516, A1526, A1529)
iPhone 5 (Model A1428)
iPhone 5 (Model A1429)
iPhone 4s

iPod touch:

iPod touch (5th generation)

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iOS 8 Features

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Photos App in iOS 8

Among the apps that knew a set of improvements in iOS 8 is the Photos app, both in terms of editing or organizing. The app in iOS 7 knew a quantum leap, so is received a new organizational system divided into Years, Collections, and Moments, that facilitated photos browsing and allowing you to sharing a set of photos at once within a certain collection, rather than on an individual basis.

In the current Photos app you can through Photo Stream feature when you enable it from iCloud settings to store up to 1000 photos on your iCloud account, while in iOS 8 with renamed feature to become "iCloud Photo Library" you can storing unlimited photos, initially you get 5GB of iCloud storage free. Those photos keep on the same pattern, so are organized into Moments, Collections, and years, you can add, edit, reorganize, and create albums, from any other device. that tied to the same iCloud account.

Finding a specific image become very easy, that thanks to a new tool search which lets you to look for your photo by the date, time, location, or album name. also enabling you to customise your search through a set of suggestions. The search button located at the top of the screen within the app.

Apple has also sought to improve some image processing tools, so you dont need to lot of skills to get a satisfactory result. In addition to the current ﬁlters and editing tools, now with "Smart composition", Photos app can automatically straighten horizons, even after you take your photo. And with "Smart adjustments" you can modify the overall light and color with a single control, Photos app in the background intelligently adjusts brightness, exposure, contrast, vibrancy and more. You will get these "Smart adjustments" when you select an individual image. Apple has also allowed app developers in iOS 8 to add their own filters and editing tools to Photos app.

App Photos in iOS 8 also brought a new layout to the Albums, you can now find instead of "Camera Roll" and "My Photo Stream" in iOS 7, a set of new albums like "Recently Added", "Recently Deleted," "Favorites," "Time-Lapse," "Bursts" and more. This will make browsing of those albums contents very easy.

Favorite photos

iOS 8 makes it very easy to select your favorite photos, so you can easily access them later, that just by taping on a heart symbol at the bottom of an individual photo. Special access of these photos will be through Albums by Favorite album.

Recently Deleted

Photos app in iOS 8 with "Recently Deleted." album gieves you the ability to recover the recent deleted photos in case you’ve deleted them accidentally. You will note items in Recently Deleted album contains an indicator shows the time remaining for the photos to be permanently deleted. By default 30 days after being marked for deletion.

The showing photos and videos in the Recently Deleted album, means these deleted photos and video will remain take up a space on your device for 30 days. Thus to free up your iPhone or iPad space you must delete these photos, but without the ability to recover them again. When you select a photo in Recently Deleted album you will get two options at bottom to Delete or Recover it.

Recently Added

As for "Recently Added" album is contains the photos or videos that you have added in the recent 30 days, you hove to know Recently Added is not a substitute for Camera Roll album in older iOS versions, so is not contains all photos that you have in Photos app, this available from collections view.

Time-lapse

Time-lapse album will contains photos that captured by new "Time-lapse" Camera mode. The new mode captures a series of images and then compiles them into a time-lapse video. The video below shown a number of nice clips that have been captured by Time-Lapse mode here are the Apples description of the mode.

A new mode comes to Camera: Time-lapse videos.
Capture the experience of the sun setting, a city street bustling, or a flower blooming with the new Time-lapse mode in Camera. iOS 8 does all the work, snapping photos at dynamically selected intervals. The result is a video showing an accelerated sequence of the photos over time. Just set up your device to shoot what you want. Swipe to select Time-lapse mode, tap the Record button, and let Camera record as long as you choose.

Hidden Photos

Now There are also the ability to hide your photos from the Moments, Collections, and Years view, but stil being visible in the albums view. To hide a photo hold a finger on it, to appear a pop-up, select "Hide" and confirm.

Location info

Now the Photos app displays the location where a photo was taken above a selected photo, addition to the date and time.

Last Updated

Photos received a new notification "Last Updated" lets users to know when images were last synced to iCloud. Theres also an iCloud Photo Settings option, you can get it through "iCloud" setting in "Photos" section, the option empowers you to store full resolution photos just in iCloud, while keeping device-optimized versions available on the device to save storage space.

In addition to Photos app there are also others app that knew significant updates like Messages, Mail, Siri you can take a look at these changes and other hidden features and changes in iOS 8 from here.

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Honda Boosts iOS Car Integration with New HondaLink Services for 2014 Civic 2015 Fit

Following last weeks announcement of Siri "Eyes Free" integration for select Honda and Acura vehicles, Honda today held a Google Hangout to announce even deeper integration for the 2014 Honda Civic and 2015 Honda Fit.

The new Civic, which goes on sale tomorrow, and the upcoming Fit, which launches early next year, will offer an all-new Display Audio interface featuring a 7-inch touchscreen that will be familiar to smartphone users, offering easy access to a variety of features.

Offering one of the largest touchscreens in its class, Display Audio uses the familiar pinch, swipe and tap functionality of a smartphone to access audio, phonebook, media, vehicle information and available navigation features.

Icons resembling smartphone apps are displayed on a 7-inch, high-definition, capacitive touchscreen, making the interface intuitive and easy to use.

Leveraging the large touchscreen display, new HondaLink apps for iOS will allow users to seamlessly connect their iPhone 5, 5s, or 5c to vehicle systems for accessing online content. The suite consists of four iOS apps now available:

- Connect App – Provides convenient access for many services including location searches, local weather, messaging, Maintenance Minder alerts, service scheduling by phone, and access to the Owners Guide. Users can tap for weather updates and store favorite destinations for quick routing with the Navigation app.

- Navigation App – For the first time Honda is offering a comprehensive cloud-based navigation app for purchase that includes 3D mapping and continuously updated traffic information. As the first navigation app developed by an automaker with mapping data provided by HERE, a Nokia business, this app offers a variety of location search options including search by point of interest, text search, or previous locations. Routes can be pre-planned on a smartphone and will display on the vehicle’s touchscreen. Turn-by-turn routing guidance is available through the vehicle’s audio system as well.

- Aha App – provides access to an extensive and diverse selection of audio content across multiple genres and demographics, plus featured new stations, Internet radio, podcasts, audiobooks, news, Twitter and Facebook updates and nearby location listings for restaurants, coffee houses, hotels, weather, parks, and gas stations. Users can tap to personalize stations or add favorites via smartphone or directly through the Display Audio interface.

- Launcher App – Finds and organizes Honda-approved 3rd party apps so they can be quickly integrated into the Display Audio system. Approved apps can be found through the Launcher and shown on the Display Audio screen for easy access.

Beyond the new HondaLink features, the Civic and Fit with Display Audio will also be the first Honda vehicles to have factory installed support for Siri Eyes Free, with the compatibility for 2013-2014 Honda Accord and 2013 Acura RDX and ILX modelsannounced last week arriving as a dealer installed accessory.

Hondas Google Hangout offering more information on iOS integration with the new Civic and Fit is archived here.

Data source: via MacRumors (By Eric Slivka)

iOS 8 users to get early access to apps through Apple’s TestFlight

Apple has made it easier for iOS users to take forthcoming apps for a spin by launching its TestFlight Beta program for app developers.

The new initiative, explained on Apples Developer portal, allows devs to send up to 1,000 copes of new their wares to beta testers, via email invitations sent through iTunes Connect.

Once iPhone and iPad users on iOS 8 have received an invitation they’ll be asked to download the free TestFlight app from the app store, where they’ll be able to install the betas.

TestFlight, an existing beta testing tool which Apple snapped up last year, will inform the iOS user whenever a new version is available and will offer developer instructions on new focus points. The idea is for beta testers to offer feedback, suggestions for new improvements and pick out bugs.

Developers must still submit the app for beta review and it must comply with the full App Store review guidelines before testers can get in on the act.

TestFlight enables Apple’s developers to have the same experience they in turn offer to developers with their Mac OS X and iOS beta programs.

The result should enable developers to have easier access to their potential user base, which should lead to more complete apps hitting the App Store when the time is right.

And, best of all, interested parties have the opportunity to get their paws on new and unreleased apps first.

Worried Troubled iOS 7 Nokia Remove Services HERE Maps

Service mapping "HERE Maps", which was developed by Nokia has now been removed from the Apple iOS App Store, but the service has been rolling for iPhone and iPad users since November 2013 yesterday. Not only that, here.com already moved her official website can not be accessed via iOS devices.

The underlying reason for Nokias decision is related complaints over the use of the service, especially when there is a change Apples policy to give priority to the continued development of the iOS version 7 for compatibility of their applications to all devices.

As reported IndianExpress, when asked to comment, a spokesman for Nokia said, "We have made the decision to remove our application HERE Maps of Apples App Store, due to recent changes IOS 7 jeopardize user experience. IPhone users can continue to use the mobile web version of HERE Maps through m.here.com access, by offering them the location of the core requirements, such as search, routing, orientation, transit information and much more, all for free. "

Sales of Nokias hardware division to Microsoft does not include a business for one of the Nokias mapping service, and HERE Maps to be one of the three main businesses owned by Nokia today. (Hito tabloidpulsa)

Download Angry Birds Star Wars for iOS Android Windows Phone 8

Download Angry Birds Star Wars for iOS, Android, Windows Phone 8, Here comes Rovio with yet another new Angry Birds title – Angry Birds Star Wars. The latest edition is similar to Angry Birds Space, with its zero-gravity physics puzzles and astronomical settings keeping heavy focus on new Star Wars-related elements and it brings a breath of fresh air. Angry Birds are angrier than ever with Force powers, Lightsabering, giant flying fuzzballs and lasers with the iconic "pew pew" in both bullet and sword forms to attack the pigs in Star Wars-inspired environments.

Angry Birds can now fly in a straight line instead of downward and they will also have moons and other objects with their own gravity in some stages.

Angry Birds is definitely a biggest franchise in mobile gaming and the latest Angry Birds Star Wars game is now available for various platform including – iOS, Android, Windows Phone 8, and OS X. The game comes in two editions for Android OS – one edition is free but comes with ads and another ‘HD’ version costs $2.99 with no ads.

Here is the list of price tags of Angry Birds Star War for Android, iOS, WP8 and OS X.

# iPhone – $0.09.
# iPad – $2.99
# Android (with ads) – Free
# Android (HD version – without ads) – $2.99
# Windows Phone 8 – $0.09
# OS X – $4.99

Hit the appropriate links here at below to grab the Angry Birds Star Wars game:

Android (Free) (HD) | iPhone | iPad | Windows Phone 8 | OS X

Download WordPress 3 2 iOS For iPhone iPad

Download WordPress 3.2 iOS For iPhone/iPad, WordPress 3.2 is now out for iOS platforms delivering one of the most requested features for a while now – support for featured images. Blog authors can now upload a Featured Image for their posts as long as their theme supports it.

Developer Automattic is happy to deliver the first of many updates in a faster sequence, as promised. The first such release arrives today with featured image support, “one of our most requested features for some time,” according to the WordPress.org blog.

“We’re happy to report that you can now upload a Featured Image for your blog posts as long as your theme supports it,” says the developer. “You’ll find the Featured Image uploader in the Settings section of the Post Editor—see the screenshot on the right.”

Bloggers can upload a Featured Image of any size. The application will use the Image Size preference by default – located in the Settings section within the app.

Another cool addition is Push Notifications. Available only to blog owners for now (authors to receive this in the next version of Jetpack), the Push Notifications feature is available for self-hosted blogs running Jetpack 1.8.2 or higher.

Automattic explains that, “To make it work, we had to have a central server to deliver the notifications to your device, so this feature requires the Jetpack plugin by Automattic to function.”

“Push notifications for self-hosted blogs will work just like how they currently work for WordPress.com-hosted blogs: you get push notifications for new comments only, and will be directed to the comment within the app if you choose to view the notification,” the developer explains.

To make the Settings pane more accessible, Automattic has moved all the preferences to a dedicated screen within the app itself. This means you no longer need to navigate to the iOS Settings panel to tweak stuff.

Finally, almost 70 bugs and crashes have been fixed (including tweaks to Stats), according to the changelog.

Manage your WordPress blog from your iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch.

It is easy to manage your WordPress blog from your iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch. With WordPress for iOS, you can moderate comments and create or edit posts and pages. All you need is a WordPress.com blog or a self-hosted blog running WordPress 2.9.2 or higher.
Requirements:

· iOS 4.3 or later
· Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad
Whats New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· Featured Image support
· Push Notifications for self-hosted blogs using Jetpack
· More Accessible Settings
· Almost 70 bugs and crashes fixed, including tweaks to Stats

Download WordPress 3.2 iOS For iPhone/iPad

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