Now that iOS 6 is out in the wild, Apple has announced its line up of newly Passbook-supported apps. Sadly the list is much shorter than expected—and doesn’t even include many of the applications highlighted by Apple in its public demonstrations. More »
Now that iOS 6 has officially landed, Apple has pulled back the veil revealing the first wave of apps to support its new Passbook feature. The initial group of companies to jump on the bandwagon include: Ticketmaster, Live Nation, Lufthansa, MLB.com At Bat, Sephora to Go, Walgreens and Fandango Movies. While this list is a tad bit shorter than we hoped for, it’s safe to say that more apps will follow in the not-so-distant future. Want to be the first to know when they arrive? Be sure to keep an eye on the Passbook section of the App Store for the latest updates.
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PSA: Passbook supported apps now listed in iOS 6 App Store originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 20 Sep 2012 06:02:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
As ever, a new version of iOS is just another challenge to the hacking community. Within 24 hours the iPhone Dev-Team has already managed to get its redsn0w tethered jailbreak working on iOS 6—but only with the A4-powered iPhone 4, 3GS and 4th-gen iPod touch. More »
MLB Advanced Media has announced that new Major league baseball teams are now supporting ticketing using Passbook on iOS 6.0. I mentioned about a week ago that rumors were pointing to more airlines supporting Passbook. Passbook is Apple’s digital ticketing application that allows you to store all sorts of tickets for events, airlines, and more in one digital location.
MLB announced that 40 baseball teams are now supporting mobile ticketing using Passbook. The four teams include the San Francisco Giants, New York Mets, Boston Red Sox, and Kansas City Royals. The teams will begin offering digital tickets right away and the service will be used for the remainder of team regular-season home dates in 2012.
MLB says that Passbook allows the fans to receive and store digital tickets after completing a purchase via MLB.com or the official team website. The tickets will also be available digitally for mobile web purchases. Digital tickets will also be offered on purchases using The MLB.com At Bat or At The Ballpark mobile apps.
The digital Passbook tickets offered by the baseball teams will automatically display the digital ticket from Passbook on the device’s lock screen as a day of game reminder. Tickets issued via Passbook will include customer information such as game date, opponent, time, section, row, and seat. The only downside I see is that you won’t have ticket stubs to keep as mementos of watching the game.
Four Major League Baseball teams now support Passbook for ticketing is written by Shane McGlaun & originally posted on SlashGear.
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We are quite sure that a fair number of readers out there have already updated their respective iOS-powered devices to the latest version of Apple’s mobile operating system, iOS 6. Hackers have already found an exploit which might mean it is present in the iPhone 5 when released, but that is not the only trouble that iOS 6 ran into today. Apparently, there were some users who complained that once the update to iOS 6 was complete, their freshly updated devices refuse to hook up to Wi-Fi networks that was once their close friend.
Apple did not release any comment on the issue when it cropped up on online forums, so trust users of iDevices to come up with a workaround. In theory, iOS 4 would ping a page on Apple’s servers (http://www.apple.com/library/test/success.html), and if successful, the Wi-Fi was deemed to have connected, and everything is hunky dory. Needless to say, if the ping failed, the system would think you were on a network which needed a login and proceed with credentials authentication. It seems that Apple deleted that page from the server by accident, resulting in failed pings and subsequently, the inability to hook up via Wi-Fi. The page was restored since, and the issue seems to have been fixed. Were you one of those affected earlier today?
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Apple has gone update crazy, ladies and gentlemen. Not only did it release iOS 6 and the OS X Mountain Lion update to 10.8.2 today, but it also updated iPhoto for iOS to version 1.1. This new update coincides nicely with the jump to iOS 6, and it comes packing a lot of new features. Hit the jump for some of the highlights along with a full list of added features.
Like the OS X 10.8.2 update before it, the iPhoto v1.1 update brings a few new Facebook-related features with it. Users can now upload videos directly to Facebook and add comments to photos that are posted to the social network. Users can also set their location and tag their friends when they upload a new photo to Facebook, so you can almost immediately let the world know when your friends inevitably do something stupid during a night out on the town.
Users can also take advantage of six new ink effects designed by the folks at Apple, and good news for those of you using an third-gen iPad, as iPhoto now supports images up to 36.5-megapixels – a feature that will also be available on the iPhone 5 when it launches on Friday. Apple has added support for iPod Touch with this latest release, and has included some enhancements to photo journals as well. Take a look at the full list of new features in iPhoto 1.1:
• Added support for iPod touch (4th generation and later)
• Coaching tips have been added to the Help system on the iPhone and iPod touch
• Effects now include six new Apple-designed ink effects such as Chalk and Palette Knife
• Images up to 36.5 megapixels are now supported*
• Full resolution photos can now be imported via iTunes File Sharing
• Tag albums can be created by adding custom tags to photos
• “Updating Library” alert appears less frequently
• Multiple photos can now be saved to the Camera Roll at one time
• Cropping presets now use detected faces to determine composition
• Tilt-shift and gradient effects can now be rotated
• Facebook sharing now supports single sign-on in Settings
• Comments can be added more easily when posting photos to Facebook
• Videos can be uploaded to Facebook
• Locations and friend tags can now be set when posting photos to Facebook
• Comments and locations can be set on individual photos when sharing a group of photos to Facebook
• Any photo previously posted to Facebook can be more easily replaced with a more current version
• A notification is now displayed when an upload to Facebook completes in the background
• Photos can now be shared directly to Cards, iMovie, and other supporting apps
• Journals now include new layout options
• Fonts and alignment of text in journal items can be modified
• New style and color options are available for Note and Memory items in journals
• Journal Note and Memory items can now be resized
• Dividers can be added to break journal pages into sections to control the reflow of layouts
• A new Swap mode makes it easier to change the placement of items in a journal layout
• You can now place a pin on a journal map when no location data is present
• Links to journals can now be shared directly to Facebook and Twitter, and via Messages
• Links to remote journals can now be shared even if the journal was created on another device
• A new Publish Changes button provides control over when to update your journal
• An overlay displaying month and year now appears when scrolling in Photos view
• Photos can now be sorted by date and can be filtered using new criteria
• Photos view now includes a Power Scroll strip for high-speed scrolling
• Grid of thumbnails can now be expanded to multiple rows in portrait orientation
See? We told you that this was a massive update. This update is available now from the App Store, and it should go along with the other updates from today nicely. What do you think of all this added iPhoto functionality? Did Apple deliver the goods with this update or are there more features you’re still waiting for?
iPhoto for iOS updated to version 1.1 is written by Eric Abent & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Welcome to Wednesday evening everyone! Today brought us HTC’s highly-anticipated event, and it did not disappoint. It was there that HTC revealed two brand new Windows Phone 8 devices, the Windows Phone 8X and the Windows Phone 8S. Went went hands-on with both devices not long after they were announced, and shortly before HTC announced that these new phones will be landing at Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile in November. HTC released a video detailing the “design journey” of the 8X and 8S, and Nokia had some choice words about HTC’s “innovation” later on in the day.
Today was also a pretty big day for the Apple fans out there, as the company officially released the final version of iOS 6, and we were there with the full iOS 6 changelog. A new version of OS X Mountain Lion launched alongside iOS 6 (10.8.2 to be specific), and new benchmarks show that the iPhone 5 is a beast when it comes to browsing. IHS iSuppli says that the 16GB iPhone 5 costs Apple $207 to make, and a Samsung Facebook campaign has been invaded by the pro-Apple crowd. Samsung ultimately got the last laugh though, as it released a new commercial informing the consumers of the world that the best has already arrived.
T-Mobile USA has named John Legere as its new CEO, and he sat down for a hello to everyone on YouTube. AT&T brought its 4G LTE service to 8 new cities today, and ZTE gave us an idea of when it will launch its first phones running Firefox OS. The Samsung Galaxy Note II has been announced for all major US carriers, and US Cellular gave the new device a price tag of $300 and a late-October launch. Earlier in the day, we heard that Google was planning to launch a new update for Google Maps on Android, and sure enough, that update arrived just a few hours later with a couple cool new features in tow.
Tobii and NTT DOCOMO will soon be showing off a new tablet with Tobii’s eye-tracking technology, while the Raspberry Pi’s turbo mode gives it a 50% boost in power. After its two co-founders announced yesterday that they were leaving the games industry, BioWare outlined its plan for the future (spoiler: it includes more Mass Effect and Dragon Age), and Toshiba announced the latest in its line of Camileo camcorders, the rugged BW20. Finally tonight, we have a review of the all new Kindle Fire HD for you to check out – does Amazon’s latest impress or does it fall flat? Read the review to find out!
That’s all for the Evening Wrap-Up, folks. Now go out and enjoy the rest of your night!
SlashGear Evening Wrap-Up: September 19, 2012 is written by Eric Abent & originally posted on SlashGear.
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A lot of iPhone and iPad users who updated to iOS 6 have been reporting that the latest and greatest software update from Cupertino has screwed their iPhone and iPad’s Wi-Fi connection. As in, they can’t connect. Is this happening to you? More »
If you didn’t already know that iOS 6 was out in the wild, Apple just delivered a torrent of mobile app updates to make it perfectly clear. Virtually every app that isn’t preloaded now has explicit iOS 6 support to keep it running smoothly, and some of the upgrades are thankfully more than just skin-deep compatibility tweaks. Among the highlights are Podcasts’ new subscription list syncing through iCloud, ringtone creation with GarageBand and iPhoto support for 36.5-megapixel image editing on the latest devices — you know, for that moment you need to tweak Nikon D800 photos on an iPhone 5. We’re including direct links to a few of the juicier updates, but we’d recommend checking AppleInsider‘s comprehensive list to see everything that you’re missing.
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Apple updates nearly every app for iOS 6, sneaks in key GarageBand, iPhoto and Podcasts updates originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 19 Sep 2012 18:43:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Now that iOS 6 is making its way onto the phones of you iPhone owners, it’s time to see what you think about it? What’s great? What sucks? Notice anything weird? Let’s talk about it. More »
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