Posts Tagged ‘applications’

Apple releases iBooks 1.3 with new read-aloud feature for children’s books

Apple on Tuesday released iBooks 1.3, an update for its iOS-based e-reading software, adding a new read-aloud feature that uses a real narrator to read some children's books.

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Inside Apple’s iOS 5: Reminders app offers location-aware to-do lists

One new application in iOS 5 is Reminders, a location-based organization tool that aims to offer improved to-do lists that are compatible with iCal, Outlook and iCloud.

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iCloud Won’t Work with Windows XP

It has been discovered in Apple’s documentation that iCloud will not work with users running Windows XP. Both iTunes 10.3 and MobileMe will work fine with Windows XP, but the new iCloud won’t. It sounds like an artificial limitation to me. The thing of it is, Windows XP, ten years after it’s release, is still the world’s most ubiquitous Operating System. For the Mac users iCloud support only goes back to Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard.

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Why iA Writer for iPad is Unbeatable and Unreasonable

There are already a thousand and one reviews of iA Writer on the App Store and on the web, so this won’t be one of those. This is simply a quick post to highlight one really awesome feature of the app, while lamenting a strange design decision that I very much hope iA will reconsider. Writer’s font and its on-screen keyboard are great, but it’s really the use of white space in iA Writer that kicks the most ass. With Focus mode turned on, not only do you benefit from the selective graying out of all-but-three lines, but you get a *lot* of white space below your insertion point that never goes away.

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iBamboo promises electricity-free iPhone 4 audio boost | iLounge News

iLounge news discussing the iBamboo promises electricity-free iPhone 4 audio boost. Find more iPhone Accessories news from leading independent iPod, iPhone , and iPad site.

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