WWDC 2011 - iOS 5 Officially Announced

Finally Apple Just announced the long overdue iOS 5 at WWDC 2011 and it become revolutionary firmware when compared with its previous versions iOS 3.0,4.0. 

What's New Features iOS 5 

 iOS 5 is a major release. This is incredible for our developers and customers, find below what are the new features you can get from Apple.

Notifications:

iOS is been criticized  for poor Notification system when it compares to Android by just tap on the status bar in the homescreen to see all your messages, call status, and many notification.

This new notification center solves some of the current problems.Notification 

Center aggregates all the notifications. It's accessed by swiping down from the top.

Swipe down and you get a big list -- yeah, it looks like Android.Stocks and weather 

appear up top.

To clear a notification, just tap on the little X to the right and it disappears

Newsstand

Recently apple  added news subscriptions in iOS, which makes it easier to get all the 

new issues without missing anything.Lot of news publications that support this, like Nat 

Geo and Spin and papers: New York Times, SF Chronicle, Daily Telegraph...

When you purchase them they're automatically downloaded and placed on the 

Newsstand. It's integrated with the home screen, looks like, well, a newspaper stand.

Twitter

From iOS5 Twitter is deeply integrated with  iOS and become even easier for all customers to use Twitter on all their iOS products."

Single sign-on. Jump into Settings, add in your tweets, and you're configured for Twitter. Those credentials are then saved and can be (optionally) shared with any app that requests them.

Integrated with many apps, including Camera and Photos. Just tap the action button, hit "Tweet" and  it's attached. "It's that simple."

Safari

Apple Safari is the best mobile web browser out there. It's also the most popular." Nearly 2 / 3 of all mobile web browsing is done through Safari.

Safari Reader is a new button when you're reading a story on a website. It's up in the address bar.All the distractions are gone, all the junk, just text in a single, scrolling story. "It's really convenient."

 You can also e-mail the contents of the story too, not just only the link.

This year Apple taken most of the customers request like new system wide Notification, Camera shortcut, PC Free Sync .. Every June, apple revel the new iPhone with the new OS update and this year they more concentrated  on software updates  to take iOS into next level in the place where  Android speedy market share..

I just updated the iOS 5 beta version and notification is very cool.... even though it looks like in Android, they done it simple with user friendly and  better usability...

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WWDC 2011 - Next Generation Mac OSX "Lion"

Apple unveiled the most advanced next generation Mac OSX "Lion". Last october in "Back to Mac" keynote, apple given  the Lion preview to developers with new features like new touch gestures, iOS folder options and many more.

Now its most happy time for mac lovers to just download the "Lion" from Mac App store 

with only 29.99$ from July . In the keynote phil mentioned almost  250 features added to this new os x version.

 Lets walkthrough the most innovated features on this new Mac OSX "Lion".

Multi-Touch Gestures

All Macbook and Macbook Air comes with the Multi-Touch trackpad. By using  gestures transform the way you interact with your Mac, making all you do more intuitive and direct. 

Now an even richer Multi-Touch experience comes to OS X Lion. Enjoy more fluid and realistic gesture responses, including rubber-band scrolling, page and image zoom, and full-screen swiping.

Full-Screen App

OS X Lion offers systemwide support for gorgeous, full-screen apps that use every inch of your Mac display. You can have multiple full-screen apps open at once — along with multiple standard-size apps.

Mission Control

Mission Control brings together full-screen apps, Dashboard, Exposé, and Spaces in one new feature that gives you a bird’s-eye view of everything on your system.

With a single swipe on the trackpad, your desktop zooms out to Mission Control.

Mac App Store

Just like the App Store on iPad, the Mac App Store lets you browse and download thousands of free and paid apps that you can start using right away on all your 

Mac computers authorized for personal use.

   

Mac App Store keeps track of your apps and tells you when an update is available. Update one app at a time or all of them at once, and you’ll always have the latest version of every 

app you own.

Launchpad

Like apps listed in your iPad or iPhone homescreen , now this launchpad is  full-screen home for all the apps on your Mac. Just click the Launchpad icon in your Dock. 

Arrange your apps any way you want, group them together in folders, or delete them from your Mac with ease.

Like 'ios" homescreen 

Resume

AutoSave- Feature, will save your files and apps frequently and no worry about every time use Ctrl+s in Windows.Now apps you close will reopen right where you left off, so you never have to start from scratch again. 

And when you install software updates, you no longer need to save your work, close your apps, and spend valuable time setting everything up again. 

With Resume, you can restart your Mac and return to what you were doing — with all your apps in the exact places you left them.

If you’ve ever lost a document and hours of work, your mantra has been “save early and often.” But OS X Lion is about to change all that. Because it saves automatically. So you don’t have to.

AirDrop

Now you have the easy  way to share files with people nearby? With AirDrop, you can send files to anyone around you wirelessly — no Wi-Fi network required. 

And no complicated setup or special settings. Just click the AirDrop icon in the Finder sidebar, and your Mac automatically discovers other AirDrop users within about 30 feet of you. 

Mail 

Apple revamped the native Mail app completely in Lion  and looks beautiful.

With searching now you can search suggestions. Mail recognizes whether that's a person or a subject... 

From 250 features, apple just only shown some of the features and lot more to 

coming in upcoming weeks.

.. Stay tuned....

How to download the Mac OSX Lion

Lion will be available only in the Mac App Store. Making it the "Easiest upgrade ever."

Coming this July @ 29.99$.. I will definitely buy once it hits the app store... Its worth for money about 250 features in a very low price.. Apple done the good job by using iOS feature into the mac, Lion looks awesome......

Again Apple Proved that Windows 8 never comes closer to Lion... .......

Picture Source : Engadget 

iPad 2 - Review

Apple introduced 2nd next generation iPad  with new Slim design which is much thinner than the iPad 1st generation. 

On the Hardware, they used Apple A5 chip -Dual core processor with same 512 MB ram like iPhone 4. Also they maintained same 10Hrs battery without compromised  by the new sleek design.

New Design:

New iPad is much 33% thinner than the 1st Generation iPad.

 It looks much slimmer than the iPhone 4 and this is  what we called "Best Hardware engineering Design"  without comprising the actually features. This new design drops the new Rumors for iPhone 5 going to way much thinner from the current 9.33mm to 7-8 mm.

Apple Dual Core Chip:

In Mobile World Congress 2011,  we seen  many Dual core Tablets and smartphones (LG Optimus2X,Samsung Galaxy S2) . now apple taken the path to go with current trend and build the custom dual core Chip(2ghz) with much faster CPU and GPU than the 1st generation A4 Chip in iPad and iPhone 4) . RAM is same as iPad 1 and iPhone 4.

Soon they use the A5 (Dual core chip) in iPhone 5 have horsepower to record 1080p videos.  Next iPhone 5 launch in very near soon they will introduce 1st Dual Core iPhone this June with iOS 5.

Front Facing and Rear Camera

Rear camera capable for 720p video recording at 30fps will be on tap from the rear-facing camera, which can also do a 5x digital zoom if you're into that kind of thing, whereas the front-facing imager will record at a more modest VGA resolution, also at 30fps.

New tablet will come with an HDMI output capable of 1080p -- which will set you back $39 for the requisite dongle, called an Apple Digital AV Adapter -- but there will sadly be no rumblings of Thunderbolt connectivity here.

Battery Life

Even though they done very slim design and maintained the same battery life.

Conculsion

With this new iPad 2 , apple set up the tough challenge to others  HP,Samsung,Blackberry and  Google. Even though there is not a much difference from previous generation  with faster CPU and camera and with the same price.

This upgrade looks like iPhone 3G to 3GS . iPad 3 only going to have Retina Display will thrown the stone to copycats.

Source  Engadget