Apple releases another video add

Apple releases another video add

Holidays are just around the corner and it is a great time to get some media exposure even if you have fantastic products like Apple does. Besides, Apple is really famous by their superb add quality. So here is another great add from Cupertino, featuring Beatles. The ad is called “Covers”.

Enjoy in great music from Beatles served to you by iTunes! Some of us will remember those songs from our youth, some of you will discover some great music from the old days. All with help from Apple and iTunes of course!

Apple preparing iTunes Match for release?

Apple has notified all iOS developers about their plans for resetting all iTunes Match accounts today. Apple has announced that this measure is necessary for improvement of the quality and stability of this new service. Complete reset of iCloud data isn’t something new as Apple did this already in a number of occasions while testing and releasing iOS 5 and iCloud beta versions.

To remind you, iTunes Match was planned as an important addition to iCloud and iOS 5. This will basically become a completely new music locker service offered by Apple. In exchange for a fee of US $24.99 iTunes Match will check your iTunes library and provide you with a high quality AAC version of every song which exists in the iTunes music catalogue.

iOS 5: backup your device before the upgrade!

Nobody knows for sure will Apple launch the iOS 5 at the release show in their Cupertino, California campus. But if they do so and you are among those early adopters, you should do well if you decide to backup your iOS device. Backing up your data is always a smart move whenever you do some mayor change on your device, no matter what the change is about. This is just in case something goes wrong and you need to restore your device completely. If you have your backup safe and ready then there is no need to worry at all. If not, well, your data can disappear into the big blue of data heavens.

Apple opens iTunes Match for Devs only

Apple has just announced in a circular message that beta testing for iTunes Match has being offered to another group of developers based in US. For those of you which don’t know about this service, iTunes Match is an iCloud based storage service for music libraries. iTunes Match will allow individual users to access their music files from any place and at any possible time. It will be compatible with all iOS devices including iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. This means that any song in your library which is available in iTunes Store will be played at the top level quality (iTunes Plus) no matter what the quality of your original song is, ie it will match the song and play it to you so you can enjoy it at its best.

iPhone education apps: SmartyMinds Little Ones Suite

If you have preschool children here is an app you just might find useful. SmartyMinds Little Ones Suite for iPhone is an education related iPhone app which can help your children learn more about colors, numbers, letters and shapes. With this app you will have different cards with images, words and numbers designed in a pleasant and intuitive grasping way.

More than 15 billion apps downloaded from iTunes

Apple reported recently that their iTunes App Store has served downloading of more than 15 billion apps by iPhone, iPod and iPad users around the globe. Currently iTunes App Store has more than 420,000 apps in different categories like: games, productivity, health, education and much more. Only for iPad, which is a fairly new device there are already more than 100,000 different apps.

New iOS incorporates App Store app Updates and Automatic Download

A latest discovery made by MacRumors shows that there is a new add on to the iTunes App Store’s update page in the shape of a sentence which hits of an upcoming feature termed Automatic Download. However the greater meaning of this Automatic Download is not entirely clear yet but as it seems Apple will be giving new iOS users the option to set their iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch to automatically download and install updates from the App Store. There is also a hint that this may be an option which means that Apple could be planning for an update for iOS.

Apple’s Activations servers down?

Many iPhones and iPads worldwide get bricked as iTunes activation servers get offline. It seems that the release of Lion beta version isn’t the only trouble for Apple currently. We have heard that many users had problems with activation of their devices, since last night. The scope of the problem is easier understood if you check Apple Support Communities where you can find long complaints about the issue by many users around the globe.

Netflix app for iPod,iPhone and iPad updated

Note for all Netflix fans out there: Netflix has upgraded their iOS app. If you are a movie fan, you will do well if you go to the iTunes App Store and download the latest update of the app, version 1.3. Most important improvement for the app is that now you will have added subtitles for your movies.

iPhone tips: how to change the name of your device

Did you ever wonder how did you friend change the name of his iPhone or iPad but you were to embarrassed to ask? You are probably aware that you can give the name to the device when you set it up with iTunes for the first time. But how can you change that later, perhaps you have bought an used iPhone, or you just decide you would like to rename it to something more interesting? Yes, you can do this and even better it is not really complicated.