Apple Rumored to Be Adding the Build-To-Order Mac Feature in Its iOS App Store App

According to the recent inside news from within Apple Inc., it is planning to upgrade its "Apple Store" retail app of iOS, adding the new support for build-to-order Mac purchases. It is expectedly scheduled to take place during the routine retail servicing this weekend. MacRumors also asserted that Apple has plans to add this new feature in Apple Store application for iOS devices along with other routinely planned upgrades to its online and brick-and-mortar retail operations as well. It is being told that this up gradation will not take long, and the newly updated app will be available on Sunday "with full support for customizing build-to-order Macs." This would mean that there would be no more difference in the options available through the Apple online store and Apple Store application iOS anymore.

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Currently the Apple Store app for iOS devices only supported features like stock configurations, AppleCare and One to One. Once this upgrade is enrolled the customers will be able to only be able order customized processor, memory, hard drive but also several other hardware options for every model on the store, along with select software titles for reinstallation. The scheduled plans of Apple revamping its Stores include a number of major upgrades to not only for its iOS Apple Store app but also the online Apple Store; procedures are scheduled to take place on this Sunday, 22^nd May. Apple already disabled the option of inquiring order status on its website, on Friday until Sunday, for the up gradations of its Sores.

WordPress Does a Complete Makeover of Its iOS App, Also adding Quick Photos & Analytics

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Automattic has recently done a complete makeover of its WordPress iOS app, which have been minutely improved fixing many bugs along with the addition of adding two new features; analytics and photo-sharing. This latest version 2.8 of the app has fixed precisely 31 major bugs of the previous version, successfully eradicating almost three quarter of the errors which led the app to crash frequently before. Moreover all the issues related to the external keyboard setting and adding categories on the iPad have also been reviewed and mostly fixed.

Further two new features have also been added in the new app in its latest version, namely Quick Photo button and a Stats section. The Quick Photo feature allows the user to use the camera from within the app and capture a photo. The user can than quickly compose a blog post around it and publish in a minute. This feature has already been integrated in the PicPosterous, which is the iPhone app WordPress competitor Posterous. Even though the updated version of WordPress app is for all iOS devices, this new feature will be exclusively available for iPhone apps only.

A Comparative Study of Apple’s App Store and Google’s Android Market

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Google’s Android Market and Apple's App Store are both very akin online stores, you can browse them to find and buy new apps. However, the applications mostly don’t support both the platforms, unless the developer has made two versions of the app and sells on both markets, you can’t buy an app from one store and run it on the other device.

If we compare both online stores, it will be safe to attribute Apple’s App Store to be distinctive for being more refined, "magical," and having fancy looks. It also holds good repute for having a wide collection of games, as Apple devices incline more towards improving their gaming features; the store keeps official games from renowned publishers like Square-Enix and EA. While comparatively, you should consider the apps on the Android Market to be somewhat pale, as in the apps are not as charming but rather very customized and yanked. It is known for its impeccable range in variety; it will have the most fancy and expensive to the most down-market and cheap app both.

Seagate Announces Its New 500 GB Wireless Hard Drive, with the Ability to Streams Multiple iOS Devices Simultaneously

Seagate just announced that it will soon be releasing its new external hard drive with wireless capacity, allowing the users to access and stream movies and music from and to their iPad. Considering the limitation of iPad’s size and its unsuitability to have a wired external hard drive, this might be a very useful device. As stated, the Seagate's new GoFlex Satellite Mobile Wireless Storage will be powered by rechargeable batteries with an overall capacity of approximately 500GB storage. The WiFi feature will be in 802.11b/g/n capabilities along with WPA security. Moreover, this new Wireless Hard Drive also allows the users to directly stream their video and audio content previously saved to the device to multiple devices simultaneously, supporting at least three devices at ease.

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This new GoFlex Satellite Hard Drive will be released sometime in July and retailed for a worthy $200 retail price at Best Buy, though the preorder of the device has already begun as the orders can be placed at Amazon, Best Buy, and Seagate.

The official iOS app of GoFlex Media allows users complete access, to copy, rename, organize and use their files from not only iPad but iPhone, iPod Touch and all iOS devices. The app automatically sorts your 500GB of data, into separate folders reserved for photos, music, video, and documents. While on the other hand, in case you don’t like the iOS app, the user can easily browse the Hard Disk data using their Web browser too. This method will also work if the user who do not have an iOS device, for example other devices using Android tablet or Windows Phone 7.

Guinness Honors World Gaming Records to iPhone 4, App Store and Several iOS Games

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The Guinness Book of World Records has honored the not only Apple’s iPhone 4 but also several gaming apps in its App Store and recording their out of the ordinary performance and success. iPhone 4 has been credited as the fastest-growing gaming system of the world, along with several other record breaking gaming apps and App Store itself have set records too.

Considering the record of iPhone 4 to be the fastest-growing gaming system of the world, this titled was presented to iPhone on considering its exceptional 1.5 million sales on the first launch day, which is a very huge number even in comparison with other gaming systems. Guinness compared its unparallel success, mentioning that Sony’s PSP (PlayStation Portable) sold just 200,000 units on its day one, whereas it was not until a complete week sales that Nintendo DS had sold 500,000 consoles. Gaz Deaves. The gaming editor for Guinness' notified that "The release of the iPhone has not just changed the mobile industry, but the video game world too."

Apple Faces another Lawsuit Regarding the Sharing of iOS Users’ Location and and Personal Data Sharing with Third Party Advertisers

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Apple has been dragged into a new major lawsuit once again, this time  Apple has been accused to be using its devices, like iPad and iPhone, to not only track their users’ location data along with personal information but also sharing it with other mistrusted third-party advertisers. Apple is further also blamed to not only helping these third-party advertisers but also supporting them for the "intentional taking and transmitting" of this user data. This is a very major allegation and the lawsuit is filed in the U.S. District Court of Puerto Rico. The lawsuit has also mentioned other services, including Pandora Media and The Weather Channel, with similar allegation and also has left a kind of door open to enlist more companies too.

Amazon Cloud Player Silently Updated to Stream Music to the Web Interface of All Apple iOS Devices

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Amazon's first to make it to the market, Cloud Player music streaming service, which was released recently and only worked with Android devices, has just been updated mutely. Just this weekend a new upgrade was made without any formal announcement, and it automatically introduced the support for Apple's iOS devices. So now the users who have the Amazon Cloud Drive account, are freely able to also stream their music on any any iOS devices too, which include iPod Touch, iPhone, iPad, etc.

It is noticeable that despite the support, there is no authorized announcement, or any other news, indicating towards an official App for the iOS for the Amazon's Cloud Player. The official app is only for Android smartphone, but still the support comes in a way, where users are able to their stored songs online from the web browser. The long trusted built-in embedded browser of Apple for all iOS devices, Safari, plays the songs easily; both leading technology blogs TechCrunch and Engadget have also claimed that it ‘works like a charm.’

Apparently, Steve Jobs Personally Clarifies That Apple Is Not Tracking Location Data Anyone

In this last week, innumerable allegations have been made from variety of sources in the technology news world as they published infinite reports claiming that Apple’s iPhone and 3G-iPad locate user’s location discreetly. Apple was accused publicly for mutely keep an archive record of the location of its users of the mentioned devices.  Apple had till now kept complete ignorant response to these allegations, and in fact it was completely non responsive to any query made in this regard.

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However, just today on 25^th April, MacRumors has announced that this ignorant behavior has been suspended. In fact, according to their sources, Steve Jobs, the C.E.O of Apple Inc. has himself personally himself felt the need to finally respond an email inquiry in this regard. According to the website post, an email sent by an anxious user of iOS spoke extremely cordially investigating the authenticity of allegations.

HBO Declares to Soon Release Its HBO Go App for iOS and Other Mobiles

All those subscribers who have not yet suspended their HBO subscription will soon be up for a treat. HBO has announced it’s to be soon giving all the access to its channel’s entire range of tremendous TV series through plenty cell phone devices. Yes, HBO has announced its new HBO Go app for iOS devices like iPad, iPhone with expected release for other smartphones as well. A short declaration of this announcement regarding HBO’s mobile app was published through a video of YouTube.

                   Image via WikipediaThis short-timed video only shows off few of the app’s exciting features, one of which is the facility to just roll through all the entire library of HBO of shows at once. Moreover the video claims that HBO Go app will be giving “instant and unlimited access to the best that HBO has to offer.” Furthermore, emphasize is made on the facility of giving the users a chance to “get every episode of every season of your favorite HBO shows, plus hit movies and much more.”