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The New iPhone Assembled Version “Hands On” (Video)

The debate regarding the iPhone 5 or the New iPhone is still going on. We are seeing numerous rumors/leaks stating to be the parts of the iPhone 5 (we will call iPhone 5 for the time being). Previously we have seen many mockups/ renderings of the iPhone 5 and some of them looked somewhat same. Recently rendered iPhone 5 parts with an assembled version of it rendered on the internet a day ago. The rendered iPhone 5 was in full metal pointing out towards a change in Apple technology. Simply the assembled part of the iPhone 5 showed that the back would be of steel and no glass will be used in the iPhone 5.

The front would be of glass only and the backside of the iPhone 5 would be of metal. Until now, it is very early to say anything about the design of the iPhone 5 because what we heard before was that the iPhone 5 would be completely redesigned. However, the prototypes are suggesting that Apple(AAPL) would be stretching the iPhone 5 in the same old design to a 4-inch screen. This sounds strange.

However, the prototypes are suggesting that Apple would be stretching the iPhone 5 in the same old design to a 4-inch screen.

To clear the confusion about the leaked parts and the assembled version of the iPhone 5, macotakara, a well known Japanese blog has posted a video showing the hands on the iPhone 5 leaked assembled version with the parts in the video below. This video will clearly show us about, how the iPhone 5 with a 4-inch screen would look in a persons hand.

iPhone 5 Assembled Hands on Video:

The iPhone 5 is expected to have many new things. The highly rumored specifications are a 4-inch Screen, redesign, NFC Technology, 19-pin dock connector, and re-allocated headphone jack. However, in the report published by macotakara points out an unidentified cable that is carrying the mute button, power button, and volume buttons might be related to NFC Technology.

In addition, the placement of volume buttons, power on/off button, and silent button are placed on the same location on iPhone 4S. The only difference is of the headphone jack and the 19-pin dock connector. The headphone jack has been moved to the bottom with the dock plugin area.

However, after seeing the assembled iPhone 5, we don’t think that Apple is planning on something close to it or something similar looking iPhone would be launched by Apple this fall. The design is not so good and the design doesn’t looks like Apple made. If Apple is planning on something like this for this fall, then count us out of the iPhone series. We would say that the iPhone 4S is much better than the current design shown in prototypes.

What do you people think over the assembled iPhone 5 version that has been shown in the video above? Do let us know your thoughts.

(macrumors)

July 30, 2012
OS X Mountain Lion Downloaded Three Million Times In Four Days

On 25th July 2012 Apple released the world’s most advanced operating system which is OS X Mountain Lion. It has been just been four days and Apple today reported that OS X Mountain Lion from the Mac App Store has been downloaded more than three million times. Apple also reported that this there best release ever, the ‘most successful’ release in the history.

People around the globe using Mac are really crazy for the updates as the consequences are been shown up, its just been a year when Apple released OS X Lion which also had a dramatic release but still people updated this time and the main cause is the price demanded by Apple for the OS X in the last year and this time.

Below is the press release

[learn_more caption=” Mountain Lion Downloads Top Three Million” state=”open”] CUPERTINO, California—July 30, 2012—Apple® today announced that downloads of OS X® Mountain Lion have exceeded three million in four days, making it the most successful OS X release in Apple’s history. With more than 200 innovative new features, Mountain Lion is the ninth major release of the world’s most advanced desktop operating system and is available through the Mac® App Store™ as an upgrade to Lion or Snow Leopard users for $19.99 (US). “Just a year after the incredibly successful introduction of Lion, customers have downloaded Mountain Lion over three million times in just four days, making it our most successful release ever,” said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing. Mountain Lion features include the all new Messages app, Notification Center, system-wide Sharing, Facebook integration*, Dictation, AirPlay® Mirroring and Game Center. iCloud® integration makes it easy to set up your Mail, Contacts, Calendar, Messages, Reminders and Notes, and keep everything, including iWork® documents, up to date across all your devices. For more information or to download Mountain Lion visit apple.com/osx/specs. In addition to Mountain Lion, the Mac App Store offers thousands of apps in Education, Games, Graphics & Design, Lifestyle, Productivity, Utilities and other categories, and is the largest, fastest growing PC software store in the world. Users can browse new and noteworthy apps, including apps that take advantage of new features in Mountain Lion, as well as check out staff favorites, top charts for free and paid apps, and user ratings and reviews. For more information visit apple.com/mac/app-store. *Facebook integration will be available in an upcoming software update to Mountain Lion. Apple designs Macs, the best personal computers in the world, along with OS X, iLife, iWork and professional software. Apple leads the digital music revolution with its iPods and iTunes online store. Apple has reinvented the mobile phone with its revolutionary iPhone and App Store, and is defining the future of mobile media and computing devices with iPad.[/learn_more]

July 30, 2012
Join in Olympics 2012 With Join In App for iOS and Android

On 27 July 2012 the game of Thrones, Olympics started in full swing with the traditional torch light opening ceremony in London. People from around the globe are participating in the Olympics of 2012 and their respective country people would be keeping an eye on the participants representing their respective countries. There are 204 nations participating in Olympics 2012. They would be playing 26 sports in 302 events. Now, no one can keep a count of all the sports and one cannot be at every sport at a time. One can only be available at one place at a time.

The Olympics of 2012 would be having 302 events and it would be difficult for a person to grasp all the events at one time. Therefore, in this case one can miss an event because of another one going on. In addition, the other major issue could be faced by a person could be of the place of stadium of a particular game. If some one needs to see Swimming, so at which stadium he needs to go for the particular event.

To coup up with all of the problems, The London Organizing Committee of Olympics made an App for you people to keep an eye on the Olympics of 2012. In this advance era of Technology, where smarts phones work as a computer will help you keep an eye on the Olympics 2012 games and events with the help of this handy app called Join In App for the Olympics. This handy App is like a pocket guide for the Olympic Games 2012.

Join In App for the Olympics simply allows you stay up to date with all the latest events going in London, lets you see live updates regarding Olympics, shows you detailed MAPS, lets you plan your Journey with the best route available and much more. The best part about this App is that it is updated regularly with new updates and features when ever available.

To stay up to date with Olympics 2012, you don’t need to hangout at London to see Olympics. You can download this App on your Favorite platform free of cost. The App is available free on iOS and Android.

You can the App for free from below:

Download Join In App for the Olympics for iOS

Download Join In App for the Olympics for Android

July 29, 2012
How to Integrate Facebook Option in OS X Mountain Lion (Guide)

Before the release of OS X Mountain Lion, Apple heavily advertised about the Facebook Integration with Twitter Integration in its OS X Mountain Lion. The same OS X that is called the future of OS X. Few days back, Apple finally released the OS X Mountain Lion with over 200 awesome features missing one of the features that every one must be waiting for. The feature is integration of Facebook in OS X Mountain Lion like of Twitter. With the release of OS X Mountain Lion, Apple integrated Twitter and missed out Facebook because the Feature of Facebook is said to be in development Phase for the OS X Mountain Lion.

How ever, Apple advertised the Facebook integration as if it is going to come with the release of it. Many of you would have bought the OS X Mountain Lion copy for $19.99 to enjoy the Facebook integration and as well as Twitter integration. Somehow, the Facebook option was not there and Twitter option was present in the accounts section. After because the Facebook isn’t there, some of you might have gone like WTF Apple did. They simply pranked the users.

Apple didn’t prank the users for the Facebook option because it is in development stage and would be out when it is fully compatible with free of bugs.

Until then, we came across a developer build of Facebook that was shared by (Mads Teland) making the Facebook appear in your OS X Mountain Lion 10.8 version. Therefore, we installed the build and finally got the Facebook option in OS X Mountain Lion.

Incase you need to have hands on the Facebook for OS X Mountain Lion, simply follow the basic steps below to have it.

Step1:

Download the Facebook (Developer Preview) build.

Download OS X Mountain Lion 10.8. (You need to be on OS X Mountain Lion to use the build of Facebook)

Step 2:

Install the Developer Preview on your OS X Mountain Lion.

Step 3:

Once done with the installation, head over to Settings.app and go into Mail, Contacts, and Calendars option.

Step 4:

Now go onto the “+” sign below to add an account. Once done, now you will see the option of Facebook.

Now simply add in your account and enjoy Facebook.

Note: this is the Beta build of Facebook and might be buggy. If you face any issue, simply uninstall the build.

The public version of Facebook will be landing this Fall for OS X Mountain Lion.

July 29, 2012
Apple Released Power Nap For MacBook Air & MacBook Pro With Retina Display
At the WWDC 2012 the OS X Mountain Lion totally got reviewed and there we had a new feature known as ‘Power Nap’ in the OS X Mountain Lion. This new Power Nap is a complete update package to your asleep Mac. When your Mac is sleeping the Power Nap will fetch your iCloud files, Photo Stream, Mail, back it self up and update your Mac App Store applications with the OS X updates.

The Power Nap is now available for the MacBook Air (Mid 2011 and Mid 2012 model) and MacBook Pro With Retina Display. Below is the information about Power Nap

Macs that use Power Nap

The MacBook Air (Mid 2011 and 2012) and MacBook Pro (Retina, Mid 2012) running Mountain Lion can use Power Nap.

An SMC update is required to gain all the functionality of Power Nap. Here is a list of the supported Macs and the SMC update that is required to support PowerNap:

Model Required SMC update

MacBook Air (Mid 2012) Download

MacBook Air (Mid 2011) Download

MacBook Pro (Retina, Mid 2012) Download

When your compatible Mac goes to sleep in Mountain Lion, Power Nap still gets things done silently
- Mail. Receive new messages.
- Contacts. Your Contacts update with any changes you may have made on another device.
- Calendar. Receive new invitations and calendar updates.
- Reminders. Reminders updates with any changes you may have made on another device.
- Notes. Notes updates with any changes you may have made on another device.
- Documents in your iCloud account. iCloud pushes any edits you made to a document to your Mac notebook.
- Photo Stream. Your Photo Stream updates with new photos from your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch.
- Mac App Store updates. Your Mac notebook can download updates from the Mac App Store.
- Time Machine backup. Your Mac notebook can back up while it sleeps.
- Find My Mac. Locate a lost Mac notebook even when it’s sleeping.
- VPN on demand. Corporate email updates securely.
- Configuration profile. Macs in managed environments can receive configuration profile updates.
Power Nap does more when your Mac is plugged in to an AC outlet

When your portable Mac is connected to a power source, it also downloads software updates, makes backups with Time Machine, performs Spotlight indexing, and can continue Mac App Store downloads. It also updates Help Center.

Silence

When Power Nap is doing its job, the system sounds are silent and no lights or fans come on. When your Mac wakes up, it’s good to go.

Note: If you use the Play Sound or Send Message feature of Find My Mac, Power Nap does not make a sound.

Turning Power Nap on or off
Power Nap can be turned on or off in the Energy Saver pane of System Preferences.

It is enabled by default on supported computers when connected to AC power.

Power Nap is off by default when running on battery power. To enable it when running on battery, open the Energy Saver System Preference, click the Battery tab, then click on the checkbox for Enable Power Nap while on battery power.

Power Nap won’t completely drain your battery

When your battery has 30% or less charge, Power Nap operations will be suspended until you connect a power adapter. Power Nap communicates and transfers data for a only a few minutes per Power Nap cycle when running on battery. When connected to a power adapter, communications and data transfers are continuous.

Applications and features that are configured use Power Nap

Mail, Contacts, Calendar, Reminders, Notes, Photo Stream, Find My Mac, Time Machine, Spotlight, the Mac App Store, Software Updates, Help Center and Documents in the iCloud are already Power Nap-aware. You don’t need to do anything to configure them to be used with Power Nap.

How often does Power Nap check for updates or back up?
- Mail, Contacts, Calendar, Reminders, Notes, Photo Stream, Find My Mac, and iCloud Documents are checked every hour.
- Time Machine backups are attempted hourly until a successful backup has been completed.
- Software Updates are checked daily.
- Mac App Store downloads are checked once a week.
Increasing battery life

Disconnect any USB, Thunderbolt, or Firewire devices that may draw power while the system is using Power Nap. For more information about increasing battery life, see this website.

About Virtual Private Network connections and Power Nap

VPN connections that use a certificate to authenticate are supported, but not VPN connections that require entering a password.
Additional Information

When Power Nap is enabled, you computer may be warm to the touch even if it is sleeping. Power Nap operations will be suspended if your computer exceeds a predefined temperature; your computer will not overheat when using PowerNap.
July 29, 2012
Apple Aired Three New Television Advertisements During The London 2012

It took 7 years for the government of United Kingdom a.k.a Great Britain to build all the 17 stadium for the Olympic Games 2012. The opening ceremony for the Olympic Games 2012 was held in the Olympic Stadium on 27th July 2012, Friday. During that opening ceremony the Cupertino Company aired three new television advertisements keeping the Geniuses ahead this time.

This time the advertisements are completely different than the previous ones, this time they have shown the value of there Geniuses who work at the Apple Store’s Genius Bar. The three different advertisements show up three different messages to the customers. The First advertisement names ‘Mayday’, a Genius travelling on board helps a traveller making an iMovie for the travellers wife. The second advertisement shows the same Genius standing in the Hot-dog line where behind him a person is standing telling him that he bought a Mac and then the Genius asks him that does his Mac have iMovie, iPhoto, Garageband and other Apple related software’s, this advertisement names ‘Basically’. The third and last advertisements is quiet funny, a father knocks at the home of a Genius and asks him to make letter-press cards as he is having a child, this advertisement names ‘Labor Day’.

Apple have posted all these advertisements on their web. Below are the advertisements

Mayday

Basically

Labor Day

July 29, 2012