Cooliris, renowned for its sumptuous 3D browser add-on which offered a slick image-viewing experience, was always a rather nice idea without really making too much of an impact. Now, though, the concept has been duly enhanced, and with today's version 2.0 release over at Apple's App Store, it feels as though Cooliris has finally arrived.
This month has been pretty big for Apple with ongoing patent issues with Samsung as well as the Wall Street earnings report and the release of OS X Mountain Lion into the Mac App Store yesterday. The end of this month also represents a fairly important time for the technology giants as their legal representative head into a trial with Samsung over alleged patent infringements with Apple looking to claim more than $2 billion in damages from the world’s largest smartphone vendor.
Microsoft's latest iOS app aims to make traversing the English capital of London as easy as possible, and Bing Get Me There may prove invaluable for anyone heading to the imminent Olympic games. With the Olympics currently kicking off all across London, there are bound to be plenty of people roaming the streets of the English capital, and as is the case so often these days the chances are they will be turning to their smartphones for directions. If they happen to have an iPhone in their pockets and don't mind using something branded with Microsoft's Bing, then this new app could well be right up their well navigated street.
Apple has today pushed out updated releases of both the iOS and Mac versions of the popular iWork site of productivity apps. While the release of Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion is obviously Apple's biggest software push of the day, the Cupertino firm is also unleashing an updated version of its iWork suite of apps across both the Mac and iOS devices.
With the impressive embedded cameras, beautiful Retina multi-touch displays and large internal storage capacities, iOS devices are pretty powerful and portable solutions for photography fans who want to snap images and be able to edit them on the fly before uploading or emailing them for the world to see.
We are all involved in a modern world that is connected through social media and made smaller by gadgets like the iPhone and iPad which allow us all to remain in constant contact with each other. Apple has provided us with the technology to stay connected, but the development community also has a responsibility to provide us with apps that want us to connect to one another and share our interactions.
With Apple actively working on the sixth-generation iPhone which is likely to see a public release towards the end of this year, users of older generation devices like the iPhone 3GS and even the original iPhone could be forgiven for thinking that the time has come to look for an upgrade or purchasing a more up-to-date unit. The core functionality of the iPhone has remained stable since 2007 but the hardware has greatly improved with each release, with the most notable changes coming in the form of the Retina display with the iPhone 4 and incremental processor and memory upgrades.
Considering that the Cydia store is packed to the rafters with tweaks and packages that span across multiple aspects of Apple's mobile operating system, it is always a nice treat to see an offering land in the repositories that offers something slightly different and exists solely to enhance a part of the operating system that has often been overlooked in the past. The CallTap tweak, may not be feature packed but it does offer some useful functions.
Apart from having a sense of glee and excitement every time we unlock the device, one thing all iOS device owners have in common is the fact that we have to contend with the environmental elements on a daily basis. Once upon a time, we used to gauge the weather based on the time of year and what season we were in, but those days are long gone with mother nature becoming increasingly erratic over what weather conditions she dishes out.
The 2012 Olympic Games are nearly upon us, and although it's a great festival and celebration of the human form pushed to its physical limits, there's also the small matter of the medals. As all countries involved look forward to what will undoubtedly be a great spectacle, many will be hoping their nation manages to not only do well, but bring some medals home in the process.
