What came close to the awesomeness that Rocket Raccoon was with his British Cockney accent and wits in Guardians of the Galaxy was the chart busting soundtrack of the movie, with one song in particular - "Hooked on a Feeling" - totaling over 16 million counts of streaming. As part of a run up to the holiday festivities, Google is offering the Guardians of the Galaxy soundtrack album entitled 'Awesome Mix Vol. 1' for free on Google Play (U.S. only), and the offer is supposedly just for a day.
When Touch ID, Apple's fingerprint sensor, first emerged on the scene with last year's launch of the iPhone 5s, it was dispelled by many as a gimmick. It quickly emerged that it was anything but - rather a very refined measure that enhanced security and promoted seamlessness. With iOS 8, Apple has further expanded Touch ID's reach, adding third-party support allowing banking, password management and other such apps to reap the fruits of the implementation. It's still not without its fair share of limitations, though, and among them, the fact that it doesn't immediately allow a user to log in right after a reboot. It has now emerged that this isn't an arbitrary decision imparted by Apple, but actually, is due to the secure infrastructure upon which Touch ID is based.
Apple has long received flak for not giving people the widgets that they seem to so desperately want. The addition of widgets to Notification Center may have gone some way to keeping those people happy, but if you're the kind of person that has always wanted the big HTC weather widget on your iPhone's home screen, then Apple isn't likely to give you what you want any time soon.
Apple has today replaced all the ‘FREE’ download buttons with the word ‘GET’ across both the App Store and Mac App Store. The change appears to be worldwide, so you should be seeing it right now no matter which store you happen to frequent.
Here's a simple trick on how to fix slow Wi-Fi Internet connection issue on iOS 8 / 8.1 running on iPhone or iPad.
No amount of Bluetooth compatible gaming controllers for mobile devices can compare to those found on most gaming consoles, or can they? Enter - SteelSeries Stratus XL, the MFi gaming controller that actually feels and looks like it belongs on an expensive console.
Apple broke the habit of a lifetime earlier this year in its move to snap up the well-known, high-profile Beats Electronics for $3 billion, and since then, the company has wasted little time in improving and updating its new subsidiary's range of products and services. As well as the few new pair of headphones that have manifested since the takeover, the Beats Music subscription service has been a major topic of conversation, and with Apple looking to use its vast iTunes catalog as leverage in the battle of the modern digital music portals, it looks like the Beats Music app will become a part of the stock repertoire early next year.
Daring Fireball's John Gruber isn't one for idly throwing guesswork out into the public domain. If he says something, it's usually very well considered and if he's been given the inside scoop by someone in the know, then extremely accurate also. So when Gruber says something about the next Apple camera being a large jump over what's currently available, people tend to take notice.
The smartwatch industry has continued to evolve and expand over the past couple of years, and with the Pebble start-up campaign having been credited with forging this new-found product group for wrist-worn tech, many of the biggest names in the mobile arena have since joined the party. From Samsung to LG, Motorola to Sony, a host of powerful companies have already rolled out wearables, and most of them run Google's Android Wear. But as is the case in the smartphone and tablet industries, Apple will soon offer a fierce rival to the Google-made platform, and if you're looking to build apps for Apple Watch, the video tutorial embedded below will help you get off the ground.
The update to iOS 8.1.1 may have fixed some of the more ridiculous and irritating bugs that iOS 8 / 8.1 had managed to introduce, but it also has one undocumented benefit that will no doubt prove highly useful to those carrying iPhones and iPads with just 16GB of internal storage. Even though many have reported that they still need huge amounts of free space in order to install iOS 8.1.1, many have found that once they've gone through the entire update process they've been left with more space than when they started.
















