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Apple Adds New Online Service to Deregister from iMessage
Apple will make it easier for ex-iPhone users switching to Android or Windows Phone to receive text messages, after iMessage was reportedly stopping users from receiving SMS messages on their new device. Instead of calling Apple Care to make sure the system recognizes the new smartphone, users can now... Read more
iPhone 6 & 6 Plus Outsell Galaxy Note 10-to-1
Its not looking good for Samsung, after the failure of the Galaxy S5, new reports claim Apple’s iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus are outselling the Galaxy Note on a 10-to-1 scale, a rather large deficit compared to last year’s iPhone 5S and iPhone 5C. Apple is estimating 60... Read more
iPod Turned 13 Last Week!

iPod Turned 13 Last Week!

News October 30, 2014

Apple sure knows how to make a guy feel old. Do you remember your first iPod? Well, it turns out that as of 10/23/2001, the original iPod is officially 13 years-old. I can still remember a friend of mine owning an iPod while I was much too broke as... Read more
How to Preserve Battery Life on iPhone 6 Running iOS 8
Have you bought the new iPhone 6 or 6+? Perhaps after using it for a short period of time, you have noticed the battery life isn’t what you would like. Is iOS 8 is draining the life out of your new handset. The latest software update makes the operating... Read more
Christian Bale to Play Steve Jobs in New Film
Christian Bale has sure played some iconic roles during his career, and Batman and Moses are just a couple of them that come to the top of my head. He’s also now set to play Apple’s co-founder Steve Jobs in an upcoming flick written by Aaron Sorkin, the pen... Read more
Apple Maps Connect Helps Small Businesses
A couple of years back, in 2012 Tim Cook apologized for Apple Maps, he promised to do everything possible in order to make the app better. The fiasco was a huge blinder for the firm, but things have been looking up for a while now, with new improvements and this latest... Read more
Apple Pay Released This Week!‏
Apple Pay officially launched on Monday this week, coming to iOS smartphones and tablets capable of upgrading to iOS8. This is Apple’s first move to tackle the payments industry, currently sitting on 600 million iTunes accounts worldwide. Apple Pay will not only work for mobile and Web transactions, but... Read more
Apple SIM Quietly Launched with iPad Air 2
After the recent Apple event, it has come to light that the new iPad includes a software-controlled SIM card, which will make it a great deal easier for consumers to change their network. Because of this, mobile carriers could be looking at a new threat to their reign of... Read more
Windows 10 Will Be Free for Personal Users‏
All eyes are on Microsoft next year, in 2011 the team screwed up by offering a mobile-like experience to Windows customers with Windows 8, alongside pricing it rather highly, compared to Apple who decided to drop the price of OS X and make it free to all desktop users... Read more
Make The Most Of iOS 8 With These Cool Apps
If you’re looking at iOS 8 on your iPhone or iPad, you may be left wondering what the difference is because let’s face it, it doesn’t look massively different. However it does have some cool new features and thanks to widgets and app extensions, some of your favourite apps... Read more
How to Create Custom Ringtones for your iPhone
When you get your brand new iPhone, un-box it and start to play with it, isn’t it great to start messing around with all your settings, set your apps on your home screen, just how you like them, you know, things like that?  Then you come to setting up... Read more
7 Fantastic Features in iOS 8
By now you’ve probably had enough time to have a good poke around iOS 8 and get to grips with some of the cool new features that Apple have added. However some features are easier to find than others, so here is a guide to our favorite ones to... Read more
Looks Like Apple’s Almost Sold 20 Million iPhone 6’s
Whether you love it or hate it, you can’t deny that the iPhone is insanely popular, especially right now. Heck, on its opening weekend just a few weeks ago, Apple sold somewhere in the realm of 10 million models of the newest iPhone(s). No surprise to anyone, that happened... Read more
Adobe Launches CC Range of iOS Apps
Finally, Adobe has announced its new collection of apps that are currently accessible on the Apple App Store. Adobe has decided to focus on making its mobile software simple and easy to use.  There are four types that sync with the desktop PC: Illustration, Imaging, Video and Creative Cloud Capture... Read more
iPhone & iPhone 6 Plus Gets Support For Gmail
With the development of larger displays for all kinds of Smart devices, such as tablet computers and mobile telephones, developers have been working to ensure, amongst other things, the size of the text is readable on larger displays. In line with this, software developers at Google have updated the Gmail app... Read more
Man Selling His House For An iPhone 6
Are you in the market for a new house? This may just be the craziest thing you read online all day. A Detroit man has put his 3-bedroom house up for sale. The asking price? An iPhone 6 or an iPad with at least 32 GB of storage. No,... Read more
iPhone Panel Press Claims to Fix Your Bent iPhone 6!
As most all of us know by now, Apple has had quite a few problems with the iPhone 6, the least of which not being what the online world dubbed “#bendgate”, referring to the iPhone 6 Plus’s tendency to bend while resting in user’s pockets. (Whether you believe them... Read more
Steve Jobs Film Hampered By DiCaprio Exit
Have you read Steve Jobs’ biography?  Many have!  Many people are eagerly anticipating the new biopic that is currently in production. However, the untitled biopic based on Steve Jobs’ life, has lost its lead actor, Leonardo DiCaprio. Directed by Danny Boyle, the biopic will be based on Walter Isaacson’s... Read more