New iPad cases are at CaseBuddy!

 

 

New iPad cases are at CaseBuddy!

 

Block callers

Have an unwanted person calling or texting you? On iOS 7, you'll be able to quickly go into their contact information, scroll to the bottom and select "Block this Caller" to keep from hearing from him or her again.

FaceTime Audio

When Apple rolled out FaceTime in 2010, the idea was to let Apple users make video calls with each other, but in iOS 7, FaceTime can be used simply to make an audio call using an internet connection and not your mobile plan's precious minutes.

Swipe to go back - Safari style

Navigating around Apple's apps, such as Safari, Messages and Mail is easier in iOS 7 thanks to a new feature that lets you retrace your steps by swiping your finger from the left side of the screen toward the right. This will pull you back to the page you were last looking at.

Apple Maps icon

This isn't so much a feature as it is an Easter egg, but the Apple Maps icon, which has been redesigned in iOS 7, shows the location for the company's upcoming "spaceship" campus. The new building is set to open in Cupertino, California, in 2016.

Activation Lock

Apple is making stealing its users' mobile devices more of a pain for thieves with Activation Lock. This feature won't keep thieves away, stop them from turning off the Find My iPhone app or prevent them from swiping your data from your device, but if they try using the device again, they won't be able to without first entering your iCloud login information, leaving them with a useless Apple product.

Dynamic wallpapers - Android style

This feature has been around for a while now on Android devices, but dynamic wallpapers are finally coming to the iPhone in iOS 7. This means you can select a wallpaper that will have movement behind your app icons. The default background image features animated bubbles that react to how you move the device.

Simpler notifications with day summary

Apple has cleaned up the Notification Centre by dividing it into multiple sections. The primary section, called "Today", features a neat summary with helpful information about the day, such as the weather and what you have on your schedule.

Device search feature is hidden away

In older versions of iOS, users could swipe their home screen to the left or tap the home button multiple times to find a search tool that let them find information on their device. The search feature is still on iOS 7, but Apple has removed it from its previous location. Now, to find the tool, tap and hold on the home screen and then swipe down.

Unified Safari search field - Chrome style

Apple has updated its web browser app by combining its URL and search fields into one. On iOS 7, when users type in the field, they'll receive website and search suggestions in the same place.

Automatic app updating - Android style.

After receiving a public complaint from US Senator John McCain about how much time he has to spend updating his apps, Apple added a feature to iOS 7 that will allow the App Store to update apps automatically. As you use your device, iOS 7 will update apps in the background.

Another useful tip to know is that although the device Lock Screen features an arrow pointing upward below text that says "slide to unlock," you do not slide upward to unlock. You have to slide to the right, just like you do in past versions of iOS.

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“I must correct my previous review – The WeTab is not good, but very, very good,” a person identified as “Peter Glaser” enthused about the new product recently.

But blogger Richard Gutjahr looked into Glaser’s profile to find that he was actually head of the gadget maker Helmut Hoffer von Ankershoffen, who had apparently forgotten to hid his tracks. Gutjahr also connected another positive review with von Ankershoffen’s wife’s account.

The CEO resigned on Monday evening due to the scandal.

Amazon removed the false praise immediately, a spokesperson said.

“Compared to the entirety of our reviews, attempts at manipulation are very seldom,” she added.

Von Ankershoffen apologised for the incident on Monday evening and announced his resignation as leader of the company.

“I wrote both of the Amazon reviews in question privately, without approval from the other company leaders or our communications department,” he said, adding that he stood by the content in the reviews.

“It was, however, a mistake not to put my own name on the ratings,” he said.

The WeTab, formerly called the “WePad,” was designed to bridge the gap between the publishing world and the internet while competing with Apple's popular iPad.

 

New iPad cases are at CaseBuddy!

Apple's OS X 10.9 Mavericks looks nice and shiny and new, in all the ways that new operating systems usually do. But it's got one big fix for what had been the single stupidest thing in all of OS X for the past two years. That's multiple displays.Until now, Apple's OS X full screen apps, which it introduced in Lion, were useful to drill down into a single app, eliminating distractions (sort of), but if you were using a second display, it would totally eat your second screen. It was aggressively stupid. Now, though, you can also get at your menus and dock from any display, and operate spaces independently on each display (if you want). It seems like a great way to use two displays, and even better than how Windows 8 is operating its metro/desktop juggling act right now.

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If you’ve been wondering what it would look like if the display screens of every iPhone ever purchased were somehow stitched together to create a massive, hulking monoscreen, today happens to be your lucky day. Josh Orter, the mathematical mastermind behind the new website Stupid Calculations, has taken the time (and no small amount of mental stamina) to solve this mystery just for our curious minds.

Using some basic math and a little digging into Apple’s iPhone sales data, Orter has calculated just how big this monolithic screen would be. At 5,059 feet tall and 2,846 feet wide, big is sort of an understatement. To put it in perspective: The screen would be a bit wider than Central Park and a couple hundred feet shy of a mile tall, making it nearly triple the height of new One World Trade Center building. Plant that thing in the middle of Manhattan, as the rendering above shows, and all of New York City has a front-row seat to your next Snapchat.

Orter breaks down the math on his site, but here’s the quick and dirty version: First he figured out how many iPhones have been purchased since its 2007 release until the current quarter (answer: approximately 352,292,000). Next he set about figuring out the collective surface area using the phone’s dimensions—a trickier task considering the move from  a 3.5” diagonal screen to the iPhone 5’s 4″. From there the math gets a little more hairy, but suffice it to say the surface area is the equivalent of nearly 250 pro football fields (or 14.39 million sq. feet, 330.54 acres or 2.07 billion sq. inches for those of you with a rusty mental calculator).

Rumour has it iPad 2 stock has almost dried up, as evident by Amazon only having 7 iPad 2 devices left for sale. But will Apple keep the current new iPad 4 and lower the price to make way for a new iPad 5? Industry analysts are divided on the subject, with some saying yes and others suggesting there will only be one iPad, a new iPad 5. 

Take your iPhone 5 to Apple with a broken display and the company will charge as much as $250 to swap it out. This is pretty bad news for iPhone owners; almost one out of every three iPhone owners damaged their phones last year. Why is it so expensive to fix iPhones? The simplest explanation is often the correct one: iPhone 5 parts are much more expensive than typical smartphone parts. Apple’s restrictions on components are making parts so expensive, in fact, that some popular repair companies are refusing to service the iPhone 5. In the end, AppleCare is unfortunately still the best way to save money on iPhone 5 repairs. Or... a quality iPhone 5 Case from CaseBuddy.com.au for under $30.

Windows 8. Less talking, more doing.

Being behind in a market sucks, and it’s understandable to want to lash out at the top dog, as Microsoft has shown it’s willing to do with Google in search and email, and now with Apple in tablet computers. A brand new Windows 8 ad pits the iPad against Microsoft’s Windows 8 tablet, in an attempt to show how much more versatile the Asus VivoTab is vs. the iOS device.

Microsoft uses Siri’s voice (which isn’t difficult, given that it’s a fairly generic computer-generated female tone) to highlight what the Windows 8 tablet can do that the iPad can’t, including things like live tiles (it took me a couple views to figure out what “I don’t update like that” even meant), Windows Snap multitasking, and… PowerPoint. Then finally we get a price comparison, showing the much cheaper price tag for the Asus.

The problem is that not only is the Siri construct weak and her actual lines poorly written, but the abilities Microsoft chooses to highlight show exactly why it doesn’t “get” the tablet market. People aren’t looking for multitasking PowerPoint slide deck-creating machines; they have computers for that.

The closing bit here is maybe the worst part; showing that Apple’s iPad can easily provide a remarkably realistic experience for playing Chopsticks on the screen is not the way to trash your competition, especially if you noticeably can’t offer up an equivalent experience on your own hardware. Apple uses that in its own ads for a reason, and that’s to highlight the magical, delightful experiences users can have on its device. Countering that with a bunch of sober (though admittedly useful) features isn’t the way to turn the tide back in your favor.

iPad 5 cases coming soon at CaseBuddy. As well as a new range of iPad mini cases.