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iOS 5 announced: new feature round-up

Best update ever? Maybe.

Steve Jobs’s WWDC Keynote has wrapped up and I have to say that this is probably the most exciting and feature-packed non-hardware keynote I’ve ever seen him do. There are some incredible new features being packed into iOS 5 that will really wipe the smug smile from any face that might have been claiming that iOS was getting stale and falling behind the competition. After the break we’ll have a quick round-up of what’s new so read on.…

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You can now download files from Safari on your iPhone or iPad thanks to Dropbox

Downloading a .dmg file

This afternoon I had a real wtf moment when I accidentally tapped on a link to download a .dmg file while using Safari on my iPhone. Up until very recently, tapping on files like this would result in a pop-up telling you that Safari couldn’t download it. Now, if you’re a Dropbox user (and if you’re not, you should be) and you have the Dropbox app installed on your iOS device, you’ll get an ‘Open in Dropbox’ button instead, which will whisk you into the Dropbox app where you can upload the file. The next time you sit down at your computer it will be there waiting for you. Read on for more.…

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Quick Tip: Add a “find text in page” bookmark widget to iPhone Safari.

Enter Text To Find

You’re surfing a web page and you just want to skip to the content that interests you without having to read the whole page, no problem whatsoever when your’e on your home PC or Mac, but from your iPhone Safari Browser the find text in page is not included as an option.

Read on for this quick tip to get this set up with just a few taps.…

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Ten things you should do with your new iPhone

iPhone 3GS

So you got a new iPhone for Christmas, huh? Lucky you! Learning how to use your iPhone is the easy part, but there are some essential things you need to know to get the most out of your new toy and to make it safe. Here are our ten golden rules.…

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Kiwi sites that should have iPhone versions but don’t #1: TradeMe

WAP! Urgh!

TradeMe. The iconic kiwi site that everybody loves to love. Despite some questionable changes to the desktop version of the site of late, TradeMe is a shining example of a site done right. eBay could well take some pointers from this home-spun online success story, but as far as mobile goes the opposite is true.…

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