One of the great things about Apple as a company is that you can never really be sure of what they are going to do or try next in their pursuit for excellence across their extremely popular consumer technology product ranges. Apple is one the only few companies across the world who have the financial might and status to be able to lazily play around with ideas and hobby projects that may not term into long-term products or even make it to the market place.
It isn't exactly a secret that a large number of iPhone owners have become somewhat disgruntled since the public launch of iOS 5 in October due to the fact that it brought with it some significant battery drain issues. The latest public release of the firmware is currently sitting at version 5.1.1, with the first developer seed of iOS 6 being in the wild, but the battery issues still haven't been entirely eliminated.
One thing that has consistently managed to baffle and bamboozle users since the launch of the iPhone is the lack of the ability to mass delete messages and mails from the device. When sending and receiving texts or iMessages, it isn't long before the Messages app inbox has a seemingly endless list of conversations, enough to drive me crazy.
The guys over at the Dropbox development team have been working hard on pushing out version 1.5 of their iOS app, which now has been given the green light by the Apple review team and released into the App Store for download. If you head on over to the Updates section of the store, the latest version should be showing up for immediate download. Although Apple and Dropbox have had their differences in recent times, this latest release has obviously done nothing to rub Cupertino up the wrong way.
We live in a world that contains multiple file types, all of which serve their purpose on devices like the iPhone and iPod touch which are capable of doing so many wonderful things. It is understandable why Apple allows only certain file types to be included when sending and receiving iMessages and text messages, after all, it could get extremely messy if every file type could be used within short messages.
A new app, available now in the Mac App Store, brings live wallpapers to Apple's desktop and notebook computers. If you're an Android smartphone user then there is every possibility that you are already very aware of live wallpapers. Standard, static wallpapers are all well and good, but live wallpapers feature moving images, animated to offer something rather different and much more entertaining to look at than a boring photo of a sunset. After all, we spend a lot of our time staring at our smartphones. We also spend an awful amount of time looking at our computer desktops, too, and this new app aims to brighten the experience with a spot of motion.
Desperately trying to stay relevant in an industry that is doing its best to leave them behind, Microsoft is set to hold an event on June 18th for what is being called a 'major new announcement' from the company.
There is an almost incomprehensible number of apps purporting to be the pinnacle of photo editing on iOS, but in actual fact, very few actually deliver the goods. Fuelled by the rise of Instagram, which, in itself, isn't particularly wonderful for touching up images, the number of new variations of the image editor are streaming through Apple's iconic App Store on a near hourly basis.
When I jumped onto the iOS bandwagon a couple of months ago, I was unanimously directed towards Reeder when I asked fellow enthusiasts for the best RSS reader on the platform. Being the news junkie that I am, Reeder was the first app I bought as soon as I set up my App Store account. I fell in love in the app at first sight! It’s user-experience is absolutely fantastic! So fantastic, as a matter of fact, that I now prefer going through my RSS feeds on the iPhone with Reeder than on my desktop computer with Google Reader.
Although Android is the most popular mobile OS in terms of reach and daily activations of devices, developers still tend to favor Apple's iOS when it comes to releasing new apps and games.
