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iOS 4 Feature: Faces

iOS 4 for iPhone 3GS, iPhone 3G and iPod touch (excluding 1st gen) will be made available to all at no charge on June 21st, 2010.

In this installment, we’re going to take a look at a little feature called “Faces.”

“Faces” is also a feature in iPhoto ’09 and Apple is adding the integration into iOS 4. When you sync photos that have been tagged by Faces in iPhoto ’09, the Photo App in iOS9 will automatically organize those photos based on the names of the faces.

Of course you can also sync selected “Faces” into your iPhone through iTunes, but that means every single picture of the person tagged with Faces will be synced to your iPhone or iPod touch.

Learn more about Faces and iOS 4.

iPhoto ’09 is available for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard and Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard.

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Iron Maiden: “The Final Frontier” details and free song download.

Monday June 7th, 2010 was full of announcements and mostly from Apple with its iPhone 4. At the same time I remembered that Iron Maiden, the legendary Heavy Metal band also had an announcement.

Iron Maiden 15th studio album “The Final Frontier” is scheduled for release Monday August 16th, 2010.

THE FINAL FRONTIER

  1. Satellite 15….The Final Frontier    8:40
  2. El Dorado      6:49
  3. Mother Of Mercy    5:20
  4. Coming Home    5:52
  5. The Alchemist     4:29
  6. Isle Of Avalon    9:06
  7. Starblind    7:48
  8. The Talisman    9:03
  9. The Man Who Would Be King    8:28
  10. When The Wild Wind Blows     10:59

Iron Maiden have made special arrangements for one new album track ‘EL DORADO’ to be made available Worldwide as a FREE digital download MP3. Click here for the free download, as long as you’re not from The U.S.A. because U.S. fans have their own special link.

Iron Maiden will be kicking off THE FINAL FRONTIER 2010 NORTH AMERICAN TOUR with special hippie guest Dream Theater on June 9th, 2010. Check the tour schedule here.

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http://www.ironmaiden.com/

http://www.dreamtheater.net/

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iPhone Developers, grab iPhone SDK 4 GM, iOS 4 GM and iTunes 9.2 beta now.

iPhone Developers can now download iPhone SDK 4 GM, iOS 4 GM, and iTunes 9.2 beta. Apple also updated iPhone Developer Program Agreement. The rest is covered by NDA, so we don’t really have any further info for now.

Remember to read the updated iPhone Developer Program Agreement and then complaint about the part you don’t agree about.

Have fun!

By the way, the current iTunes 9.2 beta is not available for Windows OS.

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Apple releases Safari 5.

Apple releases Safari 5 for Mac and Windows OS. Apple accidentally published the press release a few hours early before making Safari 5 ready for downloads. Now Safari includes the Bing as search option.

Safari 5 is available for:

  • Mac OS X Leopard
  • Mac OS X Snow Leopard
  • Windows XP, Vista and 7

http://www.apple.com/safari/

This update contains new features including:

  • Safari Reader: Click on the new Reader icon to view articles on the web in a single, clutter-free page.
  • Improved Performance: Safari 5 executes JavaScript up to 25% faster than Safari 4. Better page caching and DNS prefetching speed up browsing.
  • Bing Search Option: New Bing search option for Safari’s Search Field, in addition to Google and Yahoo!.
  • Improved HTML5 support: Safari supports over a dozen new HTML5 features, including Geolocation, full screen for HTML5 video, closed captions for HTML5 video, new sectioning elements (article, aside, footer, header, hgroup, nav and section), HTML5 AJAX History, EventSource, WebSocket, HTML5 draggable attribute, HTML5 forms validation, and HTML5 Ruby.
  • Safari Developer Tools: A new Timeline Panel in the Web Inspector shows how Safari interacts with a website and identifies areas for optimization. New keyboard shortcuts make it faster to switch between panels.

Other improvements include:

  • Smarter Address Field: The Smart Address Field can now match text against the titles of webpages in History and Bookmarks, as well as any part of their URL.
  • Tabs Setting: Automatically open new webpages in tabs instead of in separate windows.
  • Hardware Acceleration for Windows: Use the power of the computer’s graphics processor to smoothly display media and effects on PC as well as Mac.
  • Search History with Date: A new date indicator in Full History Search shows when webpages were viewed.
  • Top Sites/History Button: Switch easily between Top Sites and Full History Search with a new button that appears at the top of each view.
  • Private Browsing Icon: A “Private” icon appears in the Smart Address Field when Private Browsing is on. Click on the icon to turn off Private Browsing.
  • DNS Prefetching: Safari looks up the addresses of links on webpages and can load those pages faster.
  • Improved Page Caching: Safari can add additional types of webpages to the cache so they load quickly.
  • XSS Auditor: Safari can filter potentially malicious scripts used in cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.
  • Improved JavaScript Support: Safari allows web applications that use JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) to run faster and more securely.

For more information about fixes that improve performance, stability and compatibility, please see: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4134

For information on the security content of this update, please visit: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1222

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iPhone 4, the summary.

Steve Jobs has left the stage and iPhone 4 is now officially introduced. We now know a few about iPhone 4.

iPhone 4 Release Date
iPhone 4 will go on sale on June 24th, 2010.

iPhone 4 Pre-order
Starting June 15th, 2010 Apple is taking iPhone 4 pre-orders for pickup at an Apple Retail Store or free-shipping-delivery to your location.

iPhone 4 Tech Specs

  • micro-SIM slot.
  • Storage: 16GB or 32GB
  • Color: Black or White
  • Stainless Steel and Glass construction.
  • Display: 960-by-640-pixel resolution at 326 ppi
  • Front and Rear facing cameras.
  • Three-axis gyroscope and Accelerometer
  • Dual-mic with noise suppression
  • Apple A4 Processor
  • more

Select iPhone 4 Features:

FaceTime can utilize both front and rear facing cameras for video-chat from iPhone 4 to iPhone 4 over Wi-Fi. Steve Jobs mentioned that Apple is working with carrier to allow FaceTime over the data network such as 3G.

Retina Display on iPhone 4 features 960-by-640-pixel resolution at 326 ppi combined with IPS screen. Four times the pixel count of previous iPhones.

Images are courtesy of Apple Inc.

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Apple Haters already called WWDC 2010 Keynote “a boring non-event” an hour before it even started.

Surprise, surprise!

Apple Haters Worldwide have already called the WWDC 2010 Keynote as “a boring non-event” an hour before it even started. Based on a telepathically stollen notes from Paul “Microsoft Defender” Thurrott, the only good thing about the Keynote was the announcement of inclusion of Bing into Apple’s closed ecosystem. Thurrott still insists that Microsoft Windows 7 Mobile Phone 7 number Seven already crushed the iPhone. “You still can’t get Microsoft Office and Silverlight and Zune and Steve Ballmer’s hair on the iPhone” says Thurrott. He even added that iPhone OS 4 is an evolutionary upgrade from iPhone OS 3; unlike Microsoft’s Seven Windows 7 Phone Seven Series Seven Ultra The Seventh.

Rob Enderle of The Enderle Me-Myself-and-I group is busy writing his fifth column of the day berating the upcoming WWDC 2010 Keynote. Enderle compares Apple with The Legionaire of Doomsday; similar to Legion of Doom™ but not as trademarked. Enderle believes that WWDC 2010 Keynote is a front for Apple to open a portal to free Ktulu.

Some Android hardcore fan proclaimed that the watever next iPhone be called is lame. That’s because the iPhone 4gettable doesn’t have 10-inch touchscreen and access to free market. The Android hardcore fan points out that no one can get a dedicated porn apps on the iPhone. “What’s the point having something you can touch with porn in it?”

Meanwhile, Jason Chen is sitting at home reading WWDC 2010 Keynote live coverage on other sites. Jason said: “I disassembled the next iPhone prototype, who wants to touch me?”
Eric Cartman calls Jason Chen “lame.”

There a re a lot more rants against Apple and WWDC 2010, unfortunately our telepath is taking a mandatory union break.