Appsplosion!!
I hope your broadband data cap is in good standing, because it won’t be by the end of the day! As well as the long-awaited iOS 5, Apple have released a barrage of updates for both Mac and iOS apps as well as launched some brand new ones. Keep reading for a summary of what’s new.
Lion 10.7.2.
Roar!
iCloud services are now embedded into OS X Lion allowing you access to your mail, contacts, calendars, notes, bookmarks and the new Find My Mac service which will hopefully do for your stolen MacBook Pro what Find My iPhone has done for many unlucky iDevice owners. Lion 10.7.2 is available via Software Update on your Mac and weighs in at somewhere around 700MB.
– OS X Lion
iPhoto 9.2
iPhoto: hug a cyclist in celebration today!
iPhoto 9.2. adds iCloud support, meaning you can now automatically view photos from your iPhone, iPod touch or iPad 2 without importing via USB if they have photostream enabled. The update is available via either Software Update if you bought it the “traditional” way, or via the Mac App Store if you bought it there or if it was included with your new machine. UPDATE: Aperture, too!
– iPhoto
AirPort Utility for iOS
John has a lot of AirPorts
If you have an Apple Airport Extreme Base Station, Time Capsule or Airport Express, you can now configure it right from your iOS device rather than having to head to your Mac or PC. Download via this link:
– Airport Utility
Cards
Cards: No longer a pain in the *** to send
You can now send actual, physical greeting cards from your iPhone via snail mail to your loved ones thanks to Apple’s new Cards app. Add your own photos, text, and send anywhere in the world for NZ$6.49 per card including postage – good value I reckon!
– Cards
Find My Friends
Here's Sean! And Meg! Here they are!
Got friends? Friends with iOS devices? Then you’ll want this. Share your location with your friends, and see theirs.
– Find My Friends
iWork for iOS
Write about giraffes and save to the cloud
The iWork apps – namely Pages, Numbers and Keynote have been updated to support iCloud. You can now create documents on your iOS device and have them upload to your iCloud account for immediate retrieval on other devices and at iCloud.com.
As well as all this there are updates to iMovie and the Remote app, adding new features and iOS 5 compatibility to both. So, get your modem nice and comfy because the poor thing is going to be knackered by the end of the day. Hopefully you’ll still have some bandwidth left for the rest of the month to actually use these new services but we hope you have a ton of fun with all the new goodness. Don’t forget to hit the comments with any exciting new finds or to tell us what you’re downloading first.
Can’t wait to get home and have a play around!!
(Bert has made 14 comments)
It’s a shame the new Movie Trailers app they released today isn’t available in the NZ store.
http://appadvice.com/appnn/2011/10/apples-new-itunes-movie-trailers-app-arrives
(corksta has made 29 comments)
It is also a shame I can not update iMovie app which shows an update V1.2.2 via the iPhone App Store.
When I click update – “This App Is Incompatible With This iPhone” pops up. I have an iPhone 4 32GB??
I’m having so many bugs with updating apps via the iPhone it is getting silly, its getting back to the lousy beta product of iPhone OS 2.
(jaytaylor has made 52 comments)
No thad any issues, apart from the find my iPhone update – I just deleted it and re-downloaded it again. As for the movie trailer app – I also got a US Account its pretty neat, but its only useful for watching trailers to us kiwi’s as our local cinemas are not loaded into it.
(jeffwk has made 19 comments)
Just playing around with everything. Seems I am only just now realising how much I was in the cloud already in using gmail, google calanedar and google contacts. One thing I’ve noticed is photo stream doesn’t copy movies shot on the iPhone to other devices. Is this correct? Seems a big omission!
(adamhollingworth has made 8 comments)
After 5 error 3200s (the first 3 elicting major panic) throughout the day, I hit the forums.
Yay, heaps of people having same problem.
Best answer, and what worked for me was on the Apple site, connect with USB cable, not dock.
The very next try I was in.
Don’t know if was the cable, or just that it gave me more time to get a better position in the massive queue.
Yay, it is done
Had no idea that setting up Icloud was part of the process. It was refreshingly simple, not like my experience with Mobile Me.
Off now to play
(dbplumb has made 10 comments)
dose mobile me carry over to icloud coz it say i have 25gb on im on the $60 plan will i end up paying ? like in a year or now?
(tumeke ! has made 5 comments)
tumeke ! wrote:
Whatever storage options you had with MobileMe continue until 30th June 2012. If you don’t want the extra storage after this date you’ll just revert to the standard 5GB free.
(corksta has made 29 comments)
Does anyone know when I rearrange my icons why clicking the home button does not stop them shaking? Also why is icloud and twitter greyed out in the settings app?
(Booster_13 has made 9 comments)
My iCloud was greyed out until I disabled restrictions. Not too sure about twitter. Not a user.
(adamhollingworth has made 8 comments)
@booster_13
Your need to disable accounts under restrictions (all restrictions altogether)
(ginger12 has made 8 comments)
Because I synced my contacts to iCloud on the initial setup, but nothing was in there, of course none showed up on my phone. Mild panic.
Went to Phone and all Recents and Favorites were there still, photos and all.
Didn’t want to risk duplicating all my contacts again so fortunatly resisted the urge to sync back with the pc
Went to settings-iCloud and turned off contacts, all old contacts reappeared.
(dbplumb has made 10 comments)
Hey just letting you know that newsstand is working in the NZ store now for Mags
(BlairWilliams has made 199 comments)
I had a problem up dating Apple TV. I had to turn the power off and on at the wall to make it work.
(kiwiadventure has made 66 comments)
Hi,
Is anyone else having problems with the iphonewzealand app. I cannot get it to load the new stories or comments
(Ness.Monster has made 5 comments)
Hi,
Is anyone else having problems with the iphonewzealand app. I cannot get it to load the new stories or comments
Thanks
(Ness.Monster has made 5 comments)
We’ve used 20GIG of our 45 and only 5 days into the new month. looks like it’s gonna be a slow internet month this month.
We even downloaded the restore packs (3 of them 3Gs 4 and iPad) but with all the updates to apps, and operating systems were are getting nailed. Oh well, such is life.
(Topes has made 66 comments)