Enormous security update from Apple today !
Weighing in at a whole 6.3MB!
The enigmatic details from Apple read as:
Security Update 2010-003 is recommended for all users and improves the security of Mac OS X.
For information on the security content of this update, please visit this website: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1222.
But please note, restart is required!
In case you missed the news on those interwebs there is a new version of the software that runs your iPhone coming out later this year…
The iPhone OS (operating system) version 4.0 should be out this summer, and it boast a host of exciting new features that should enhance your iPhone experience !
Apple boasts of 100+ new features for users, but I won’t spoil the surprise and tell you them all.
But some of them are too good not to share, so here is my list of the best new features in iPhone OS 4.0
Multitasking
This has been a continuous gripe since the iPhone came along. Multitasking, where more than one app/program is running at the same time has not been possible on the iPhone so far. However now:
“Developers will have access to seven multitasking services, which will allow tasks to be performed in the background while preserving performance and battery life. So you’ll be able to make a Voice over IP call while playing a game or checking email, find a restaurant on Urbanspoon while listening to Pandora, and more”
Folders
This one is a doozy!
At the moment the most Apps you can install on your iPhone is 180.
However in iPhone OS 4.0 you will be able to organise your apps into folders and have easy (apparently) control over 2160 Apps!!! Now that is app-tastic…
Not that exciting this one, but still pretty good if you’re a heavy e-mail user:
“See messages from all your email accounts displayed together in a unified inbox, switch between inboxes more quickly, organize messages by threads”
But for me, I’ve saved the best till last…
iBooks
That sexy ebook reader you’ve seen on the iPad is now coming to the iPhone, complete with its free copy of Winnie the Pooh (one of my personal favourite books ever!)
If Apple are half as successful at changing the book publishing industry as they were at changing the music industry, the whole iBook thing should be very exciting…
Are you looking forward to iPhone OS 4.0 ?
I know I am…
You may or may not agree with Apple’s stance on not allowing Adobe Flash on the iPhone or iPad.
However I don’t know about you. but whenever my web browser is acting up, or crashing, or hogging CPU cycles, or memory, nine times out of ten, when I check the activity monitor Flash is the culprit !
If only there was a way you could disable or block flash…
Wait a minute there is!
If you’re running Google Chrome you can install the FlashBlock extension.
The extension automatically blocks flash content on webpages.
Each flash element is being replaced with a placeholder that allows you to load only selected elements on a given page.
You can also manage a whitelist of allowed websites via a configuration panel.In general, FlashBlock helps with lowering memory usage, reducing cpu cycles,
and can be used as an alternative to AdBlock.
I’ve just installed it & will let you know how I get on !
You can get it yourself here
How do you get on with Flash?
The new Snow Leopard is out of the bag…
Here’s what Apple have to say about it:
The 10.6.3 Update is recommended for all users running Mac OS X Snow Leopard and includes general operating system fixes that enhance the stability, compatibility, and security of your Mac, including fixes that:
Not a very exciting list, but I’m sure a lot of hard work went in to it all the same !
Might me a new iTunes out soon though, that might be a little more lively !
Paypal have today released a new version of its iPhone app.
As well as having a snazzy new animated splash screen, it included one feature that was sorely missing from its previous version.
It now allows you to send a money request to your contacts (yippee!)
PayPal has offered a free application for the iPhone ever since the App Store launched in mid-2008, and it has gradually been improving over time.
The other significant new features are the ability to withdraw money from Paypal and deposit in into your bank account.
It also has some nifty integration with Bump which enables you to exchange money with other iPhone users simply by tapping the two phones together ! !
This surely is the stuff that dreams are made of…!
Does this spell the end for cash ?
I hope so, that would be nice wouldn’t it !
Although it would require everyone that you knew to have an iPhone… but your mates could never dibb out on paying for a round !
I’ve been using Google’s Chrome browser for a few weeks now and I’m slowly falling in love with it…
Before that I had always been a Firefox devotee.
But like a lot of users I found Firefox’s memory hogging inclinations to a bit distracting at times!
In fact that was one of the main reasons I started using Chrome.
As time goes on I am finding more and more thing to like about it, especially now that extensions are available for the Mac Beta!
However a really nice feature of Chrome is the ability to resize text input boxes on the fly (see the video below).
This is a really simple yet really nice bit of usability, one of those nice little touches that go a long way!
Are you using Google Chrome ?
Which feature do you like the most ?
Dropbox. my favourite cloud file backup solution has just had it’s iPhone client updated.
New features added include:
Nice list of improvements...
My favourite image editor program has just had an update.
New in this release:
Like it says on the tin, “Image editing for the rest of us”
I can’t recommend this app enough.
It cost’s around £40, but you get a very large amount of bang for your sterling ! !
I believe that for a large amount of image editing work it can give the much more expensive Photoshop a run for its money.
Firefox 3.6 is out of the bag…
Main features in the new verions are:
Get it now…
