• Apple Launches Beta iCloud Website with Notes, Reminders and Improved Find my iPhone

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    beta.icloud.com Website

    beta.icloud.com Website

    Apple has launched a new iCloud.com beta website for iOS developers. The website was leaked prior to WWDC before Apple pulled it off, however, the site displays “Beta” tags on Calendar, Find My iPhone, Notes, and Reminders where the last two being new additions to iCloud. You can access it at beta.icloud.com

    Apple is hardly working to unify the experience across multiple platforms, iOS, OS X, and the web.

    Notes:

    iCloud Beta Website: Notes

    iCloud Beta Website: Notes

    Reminders:

    iCloud Beta Website: Reminders

    iCloud Beta Website: Reminders

    Find my iPhone:

    iCloud Beta Website: Find my iPhone

    iCloud Beta Website: Find my iPhone

  • Apple Releases Universal iOS Podcasts App

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    Apple Releases Universal iOS Podcasts App

    Apple Releases Universal iOS Podcasts App

    As expected, Apple was ramping up a dedicated universal app for all podcasts. touted “the easiest way to discover, subscribe to and play your favorite podcasts on your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.” Head over to App Store and download for free here.

    Podcasts app is the easiest way to discover, subscribe to and play your favorite podcasts on your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Explore hundreds of thousands of free audio and video podcasts from the Podcasts Catalog, and play the most popular podcasts, organized for you by topic, with the all-new Top Stations feature.

    App features:

    – Enjoy all of your audio and video podcasts in a single app

    – Explore hundreds of thousands of podcasts including shows in over 40 languages

    – Try the innovative new Top Stations feature to find new podcast series in a variety of topics, including arts, business, comedy, music, news, sports, and more.

    – Browse by Audio or Video podcasts, or see what’s most popular in Top Charts

    – Tap subscribe for your favorites and automatically receive new episodes for free as they become available

    – Stream episodes or download to listen while offline

    – Skip forward and back using simple playback controls

    – Turn on Sleep Timer to automatically stop playing a podcast while listening in bed

    – Share your favorite episodes with friends using Twitter, Messages and Mail

    – Optionally sync your favorite episodes from iTunes on your Mac or PC

    – Sync your episode playback for seamless transition between devices

  • Surface vs. iPad: Microsoft’s Attempt to Copy Apple Again

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    Surface vs. iPad: Microsoft's Attempt to Copy Apple Again

    Surface vs. iPad: Microsoft’s Attempt to Copy Apple Again

    So Microsoft announced one of its significant hardware products, Microsoft Surface tablet running on Windows 8 or Windows RT. Although Microsoft’s hints many times that “a tablet is a PC”, the surface has a kick-stand attached directly to the device and a cover with full touch keyboard that can be attached to the device using magnets (a la iPad’s smart cover).

    The tablet is Microsoft’s answer to iPad and the like, watch this cool comparison video between the announcement of both tablets by the two rival companies:

    Not to mention that no pricing or availability information provided. if you are excited about the new gadget and you missed the event, you can catch up and check out the full video below:

  • WWDC 2012 Keynote Video Now Available Online

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    WWDC 2012 Keynote Video Now Available Online

    WWDC 2012 Keynote Video Now Available Online

    As Today’s Apple WWDC event went off, Apple has made a public stream of the entire event available for those who missed it live.

    As expected and highly rumored, Apple introduced a new line up of the next generation MacBook Pro, packed with a new Retina Display at 220 PPI, Apple has surprised everybody by delivering an incredibly thin device while also bringing in cutting-edge hardware.

    Apple has also Unveiled the latest release of OS X Mountain Lion which comes next month, introducing new features such as a deep integration with Facebook that becomes the second social network after twitter to get a system-wide integration.

    Apple has also unveiled the next iteration of their popular mobile system iOS 6, in which they introduced over 200 new features. A new in-house made 3D Maps that been built from the ground-up and the sky-down, complete with a turn-by-turn navigation and directly integrated with Siri. a 3D special feature for some locations called flyover in which you can virtually visit some landmarks as if you are looking from an airplane. Siri has got a bunch of cool improvements including the ability to open apps, tweet into twitter directly and supports for a wide range of new languages.

    iOS 6 also bring some improvments to the lock screen and bring a new native app from Apple called Passbook in which you keep a repository of all kind of your passes.

    Watch WWDC ‘12 keynote here