Drift App for iOS Lets You Get Lost in All Your Favorite Places

If you’ve lived where you’ve lived your entire life, then things could start to get boring. There are no new places left to explore anymore and you’ll feel like you’ve been everywhere and done everything there is to do in your hometown. If you feel this way, then you need Drift.

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All you need is an iOS device and this app, and you’re all set to “get lost” and immerse yourself in your familiar surroundings in a totally new way.

The app basically works like a scavenger hunt of sorts, as it directs you to go this way and that to find random objects, based on the descriptions it’s giving you. In other words, you’ll be drifting along with Drift to explore and really “see” places you’ve been looking at your whole life.

Go ahead and start exploring your own little world today. You can go get lost here.

[via Pop Up City]


Apple ID passwords apparently no longer required for free app downloads or updates, according to latest iOS 6 beta

Originally discovered by a Reddit user, it seems that there is one feature that made its way into iOS 6’s beta that might be a welcome change for iOS users. According to the report, it seems that in iOS 6, the Apple iTunes App Store no longer asks the user for their password when updating apps or when downloading free apps. In case you didn’t know, when downloading apps, even free ones, or when updating apps, the iTunes App Store usually requires the user to key in their iTunes store password. Granted it’s not a huge inconvenience, but we’re sure that there are plenty of iOS users out there who wouldn’t mind skipping a step or two.

At the moment it is unknown if this feature will be making its way into the final version of iOS 6, or if it was simply a mistake on Apple’s part and they forgot to implement that particular security feature. Either way we’ll be keeping our eyes peeled, but what do you guys think? Would you prefer it if the iTunes App Store no longer bothered you with passwords when downloading free apps or while updating, or do you think that this is an essential security feature that should be kept?

By Ubergizmo. Related articles: iOS 6 betas will reportedly limit the number of apps on your device, says report, Apple fixes iOS 6 App Store bug,

Apple aware of corrupt apps issue, working on a fix (Update: Fixed!)

Apple aware of corrupt apps issue, working on a fix

Earlier this morning, reports started circulating that the App Store was pushing corrupt binaries to iOS and Mac users, resulting in constant crashes of the affected apps. Marco Arment, of Instapaper fame, was one of the first to notice and very vocal — bringing the issue to the attention of many in the media and at Apple. The list of affected apps is pretty staggering, including such high profile titles as Angry Birds Space, Yahoo! Search, Google Reader and, of course, Instapaper. The number of developers affected now tops 115, so we’d hold off on those updates. For the first several hours Apple was mum on the issue, but it has finally acknowledged the problem in the support forums and even reached out to developers via email. Suspicions seem to be that the FairPlay DRM is at the root, but until we have official word from Apple we’ll refrain from laying the blame at its feet. Cupertino is working (we assume tirelessly) on a fix, which will hopefully be delivered sooner, rather than later.

Update: Apple has confirmed to AllThingsD that the problem was due to a “server that generated DRM code” and has been fixed. Affected end users are advised to delete the corrupted apps and redownload them.

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