Apple Announces iPad Air and Upto 128 GB Storage
Apple yesterday announced iPad Air, the latest generation of its category-defining device, featuring a 9.7-inch Retina display in a thinner and lighter design and weighing just one pound. The new iPad model features the powerful and power-efficient Apple-designed A7 chip with 64-bit desktop-class architecture, ultrafast wireless with faster built-in Wi-Fi and expanded LTE cellular connectivity, and iOS 7 featuring hundreds of great new features. “iPad created an entirely new mobile computing experience, and the new iPad Air is another big leap ahead,” said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing. “It is so thin, light and powerful, once you hold one in your hand you will understand what…
OS X Mavericks Available Free from the Mac App Store
As we’re sure you’ve all heard by now yesterday, whilst we were at AppsWorld, Apple announced some great new products and updates including the 10th major release of ‘the world’s most advanced desktop operating system’ – OS X Mavericks. We’ve been busy installing it on all our machines this morning and despite a few discrepancies, all seems good, so far, although it did take well over an hour to fully install and set up. Check out What’s New in Mavericks below: iBooks With OS X Mavericks, a new chapter in the iBooks story begins. Now you can launch the iBooks app on your Mac and the books you’ve already…
AppsWorld – Day One
Yay!! The first day of Apps World Europe is about to begin and we’ll be on our way shortly. 12,000 pre-registered for the show so we’re expecting it to be quite busy. We have a full schedule of appointments and meetings lined up for the day and will also enjoy a Google Glass presentation as well as keynotes from Steve Wozniak, co-founder Apple, Trey Hawkins founder of EA. There’s the Appssters awards which will be held at the trendy Roof Gardens in Kensington with Simon Evans, Comedian, presenting and lots lots more. It promises to be a full and very enjoyable day. If you’re attending and would like to meet…
Instagram Coming To Windows Phone Very Soon
Today at Nokia World: Abu Dhabi, Nokia debuted a wide range of third-party applications to enhance the Asha and Lumia experiences. DreamWorks Animation, Flipboard, Electronic Arts, Vine and WhatsApp are among leading developers who have built new applications for the latest larger screen Lumia devices and intuitive Asha phones, including Nokia’s first tablet, which were also launched at Nokia World today. Perhaps the one we’re most excited about is Instagram arriving to Windows Phone in the next few weeks but there are plenty of other apps to get excited about, including Flipboard, Vine, EA Sports and many more. We just announced that Nokia has also unveiled six new devices including…
Nokia Unveil Six New Devices Including Nokia’s First Windows Tablet – The Lumia 2520
I’m delighted to announce that Nokia have today unveiled six new devices alongside new accessories, Nokia experiences and third-party developer applications. Nokia introduced its first ever Windows tablet, the Nokia Lumia 2520, and launched a portfolio of large screen Lumia smartphones: the Lumia 1520 and 1320. Three new Asha models – including the first 3G device in the Asha Platform family of smartphones – deliver industry leading design, new vibrant colors and a more intuitive user interface, all at an accessible price. Building on Nokia’s industry-leading innovation in imaging, the latest range of Lumia and Asha products enables people to capture and share the world around them like never before.…
Cycloramic Studio 360 Panorama – Temporarily Free
Steve Wozniak (co-founder of Apple) and whom I should be meeting tomorrow at Apps World, described Cyclormaic as ”Unexpected, fanciful and useful all at the same time!” If you haven’t picked it up yet, then today is a good time to do so. It’s currently free, instead of $1.99/£1.49. Download it here.
Competition – The Art of Building Photo Contest – With Special Mobile Category – Free To Enter – £3,000 Top Prize
The Art of Building photo contest is an international showcase for the very best digital photography of the built environment. It is open to both professional and amateur photographers above the age of 18. They accept entries from anywhere in the world. Entrants can submit up to three photographs across any of the categories. The competition is run by the Chartered Institute of Building and celebrates the creativity of the industry, the passion of the people who work within it, and the impact their work has on those who make use of the final construction. They want to see photos that inspire others to look at and appreciate the built…
Retromatic HD 2.0 – Temporary Price Drop
‘Retromatic provides 18 original retro-style filters, 17 background images and over 70 authentic retro-style ornaments. All these images aim to reflect a social atmosphere of early 20th century’. Usually this app retails for $2.99/£1.99 but today you can pick it up for only $1.99/£1.49/download.
The Ten Greatest Rumours About Tomorrow’s Apple Event
Mashable have trawled the internet and brought together a collection of the ten greatest rumours expected to come from the Apple Event tomorrow. The main rumours centre around the launch of two new iPads, the iPad 5 and iPad Mini 2. I confess I love my iPad Mini and only wish it had a Retina display, it looks like that might be being announced tomorrow or maybe not.. I also adore my iPad but if it would run faster I’d love it even more and if Apple put the super fast iPhone 5S A7 chip into the newer model, that would be perfect, we’ll see… Improved camera? Oh yes, always!…
Mobile Photography Flickr Group Showcase – TheAppWhisperer (TAW) – October 20, 2013
We have just finished curating this weeks’ Flickr Group Showcase, our 37th of the year and once again, it is outstanding and full of incredible mobile photography and art. It is a joy to curate and a pleasure to view. If you would like to be considered for our weekly Flickr Group Showcase, please upload your images to our dedicated Flickr group, for this section, here. With many thanks to our Flickr Group Showcase Sponsors – Olloclip.com Each image can be viewed on Flickr by clicking on the relevant artist below: Erika Brothers, Lee Atwell, Ingrid_b21, Pamela Hochschartner Viola, Cindy Patrick, Liz Traynor, Damian Nowosadzki, Veronica Hassell, Candice Railton, Gianluca…
