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Find My Friends for iOS 5

By Richard Mallion Along with iOS 5 and the new iPhone 4s, Apple has announced a brand new app called Find My Friends app. The app allows you to quickly see the location of friends who have opted to share

AppleCare Plus Accidental Damage

In case you missed it, Apple have released a new version of AppleCare for the iPhone – AppleCare plus. All the usual stuff but covers you for up to 2 incidents of accidental damage (via handling error). So if you

iOS 5 Gold Master ready for download

With the announcement of an October 12 ship date for iOS 5, Apple today posted the Golden Master (GM) release of iOS 5 to developers this afternoon, with a build number of 9A334. Apple posted a GM seed of Xcode

Apple unveils dock to micro USB adapter to comply with EU standards

By Richard Mallion European Union regulations require cell phone vendors to include micro USB connectors as a means of standardizing charging options for cell phones, a necessary move to cut down on the plethora of mutually incompatible charging options that have proliferated

Apple brings Siri voice control to the iPhone 4S

By Richard Mallion   Apple has now confirmed that it will be bringing Siri voice control to its new iPhone 4S. It will let you use natural language to perform tasks like asking for a weather forecast or getting directions, setting

Apple announces the iPhone 4S

By Richard Mallion   Apple has announced the next-generation iPhone, the iPhone 4S. Although externally it appears identical to the iPhone 4, internally it’s seen many changes. It includes the same dual-core A5 processor that debuted in the iPad 2.

iOS 5 available October 12

Apple has announced that its next-generation mobile OS, iOS 5, will launch to the public on October 12. It will be a free upgrade for the iPad, iPad 2, iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, and the third- and fourth-generation iPod touches.

How to market and promote your iOS app after development

By Henry Capper – Amsys Mobile I have been asked by a number of clients for tips on “spreading the word” and marketing/promoting apps. Here are some tips I have scraped together… Twitter Create a Twitter account for your publishing name

Lion Tip 8 Local Backups in Lion’s Time Machine

One of the most popular features of OS X has been Apple’s built in Time Machine software.  This innovative software easily allowed users to make complete backups of their operating system in case of hard drive failure or if they

Mac OS X lion – Tip no 7 – Spotlight New Feature

You can now use Quick View in Spotlight search results, including documents, web pages, contacts, emails and media files and can also expand word definitions from Dictionary. This will allow you to preview you documents and videos before you open