iOS 6 All You Need To Know

iOS 6 is out for the iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, iPhone 5, iPod Touch 4G, iPod Touch 5G, iPad 2 and The New iPad.

"iOS 6 gives you more features to make the things you do every day even better.It’s free and easy to upgrade wirelessly on your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch."

Maps
Maps takes a whole new turn

Beautifully designed from the ground up (and the sky down), Maps changes the way you see the world. Map elements are vector based, so graphics and text are incredibly detailed — even when you zoom all the way in — and panning is smooth. Tilt and rotate to view an area, and Maps keeps the names of streets and places where they belong. Get visual and spoken turn-by-turn navigation and real-time traffic updates. Even soar over cityscapes to see the sights from the air in amazing, high-resolution quality.


Siri
Sports, Restaurants, Movies. Now Ask Even More!

With iOS 6, Siri understands more languages and works in more countries. So you can get more things done in more places around the world. Want to know the latest scores and stats for your favourite teams and players? Thanks to iOS 6, Siri knows the answers. Or maybe it’s film night. Siri can show you the latest reviews and showtimes. Find the best restaurants in town. Even have Siri open your apps for you — no tapping required. Say “Launch Flight Tracker” or “Open Angry Birds” and Siri does just that. You can also use Siri to post Facebook updates and tweet for you.


Facebook
Integrated Throughout

Now it’s easier than ever to interact with the world’s largest social network. And there’s no need to leave your app to do it. Share a photo to Facebook straight from Camera or Photos. Post your location straight from Maps. Brag about a high score straight from Game Center. If you have your hands full, just ask Siri to post for you. You need to sign in to Facebook only once, and you’ll be off and sharing. Never miss another birthday or get-together, since Facebook events are integrated into Calendar. And your Facebook friends’ profile information is integrated into Contacts, so when they update an email address or phone number, you automatically stay up to date. Now that’s something to post about.


Shared PhotoStreams
Share PhotoStreams With The World

Now you can share just the photos you want, with just the people you choose. Simply select photos from the Photos app, tap the Share button, choose who you want to share your photos with and they’re on their way. Friends using iCloud on an iOS 6 device or a Mac running Mountain Lion get the photos delivered immediately in the Photos app or iPhoto. You can even view Shared Photo Streams on Apple TV. If the people you're sharing with aren’t using an Apple device, they can view your photos on the web. People can like individual photos and make comments. And you can share as much as you want: your Shared Photo Streams don’t count towards your iCloud storage, and they work over Wi-Fi and mobile networks.

PassBook

Keep Your Tickets, Coupons And Boarding Pass In One Place

Your boarding passes, cinema tickets, vouchers, loyalty cards and more are now all in one place. With Passbook, you can scan your iPhone or iPod touch to check in for a flight, get into a film and redeem a voucher. You can also see when your vouchers expire, where your concert seats are and the balance left on that all-important coffee shop card. Wake your iPhone or iPod touch, and passes appear on your Lock screen at the appropriate time and place — like when you reach the airport or walk into a shop to redeem your gift card or voucher. And if your gate changes after you’ve checked in for your flight, Passbook will even alert you to make sure you’re not relaxing in the wrong terminal.

Facetime

Facetime Is Now Possible Over The Mobile Data Network

FaceTime now works over mobile networks as well as Wi-Fi, so you can make and receive FaceTime calls wherever you happen to be.³ You can even make and receive FaceTime calls on your iPad using your phone number. That means you can use FaceTime wherever you are, on any device. And never miss another wink, smile, air kiss or eye roll.

Phone

Send To Voicemail and Reply With Message Options added

                        

iOS 6 adds new calling features to your iPhone. Now when you decline an incoming call, you can instantly reply with a text message or set a call-back reminder. And when things are just too hectic, turn on Do Not Disturb and you won’t be bothered by anyone — except can’t-miss contacts like your boss or your better half.

Mail

The Mail Experience Just Got Even Better

Redesigned with a more streamlined interface for easier reading and writing, Mail in iOS 6 lets you set up a VIP list so you’ll never miss an important message from your accountant, your boss or your BFF. It’s even easier to add photos and videos to email messages. And to refresh your mailboxes, all you have to do is swipe down.

Safari

Browsing The Web Is Where It All Begins

iOS 6 brings even better web browsing to your iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. iCloud Tabs keeps track of which pages you have open on your devices, so you can start browsing on one device and pick up where you left off, on whatever device is handy. Safari now saves web pages — not just links — in your Reading List, so you can catch up on your reading even when you can’t connect to the Internet. And when you’re posting a photo or video to eBay, Craigslist or another site, you can take photos and video — or choose from your Camera Roll — without leaving Safari. When you really want to see the whole picture, turn your iPhone or iPod touch to landscape and tap the full-screen icon to view web pages without distractions.

Accessibility 

iOS 6 Comes With Guided Access

iOS 6 comes with even more features to make it easier for people with vision, hearing, learning and mobility disabilities to get the most from their iOS devices. Guided Access helps students with disabilities such as autism remain on task and focused on content. It allows a parent, teacher or administrator to limit an iOS device to one app by disabling the Home button, as well as restrict touch input on certain areas of the screen. VoiceOver, the revolutionary screen reader for blind and low-vision users, is now integrated with Maps, AssistiveTouch and Zoom. And Apple is working with top manufacturers to introduce Made for iPhone hearing aids that will deliver a power-efficient, high-quality digital audio experience.

Camera With Panorama 

A Panorama Feature Has Been Added To The Camera App

The new panorama feature for iPhone and iPod touch lets you capture everything from a momentous family reunion photo to a sweeping vista. With one simple motion, you can shoot up to 240 degrees — even vertically, to get that skyscraper, say. Then hardware and software work together to create one seamless, high-resolution panorama.

These are just some of the 200+ features released in iOS 6. 

What do you think? I can't wait to try them!

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Medway Celebrates the Olympics

The Olympics have kicked in at 9pm tonight! London starts the opening ceremony of the Olympic games 2012 in style. What an amazing show!
These are the Medway photos of the celebrations at the Rochester Castle grounds and Rochester High Street.

Thousands flock to the streets of Rochester to run the Medway Mile.

As you can see, half of the super hero characters were there! We had the amazing Red Lycra Man, Lion Man, Batman, Banana Man. Even Captain Jack Sparrow ran amongst the participants! Now, that's what I call fun!!

I also bumped into the Torch Bearer! Nice chap.

Finally the entertainment moved to the Castle grounds and the stilt act made an appearance. Really charming people.

I really hope you like these photos. If you were there leave me a comment and let me know what your thoughts are, regarding the celebrations. If you were not there let me know what you think of the photos.
I had lots of fun. After all, it's not everyday that the Olympic Games comes to Britain.

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Charge Your iPhone with Fire [video]

Is there a camp stove more amazing than this? The BioLite CampStove and USB Charger can cook your meals and charge your gadgets with the renewable resource of sticks gathered from the forest floor. The BioLite uses rocket stove-ish technology to produce efficient heat with a combustion chamber and focused, insulated chimney. By burning just a handful of sticks, the BioLite CampStove can boil water and charge mobile devices without the need for conventional fuel or a connection to the grid. By using a transduction process, BioLite generates electricity from the heat as the fire burns. This is great for camping, but a wonderful tool for emergencies. If you lose power or access to cooking fuel, a handful of sticks can cook you a meal while charging your mobile phone.

Having tinkered with the rocket stove concept in our workshop, we admire what BioLite has accomplished here. Buying a BioLite CampStove helps fund BioLite’s other product, the HomeStove, which is a charitable system that allows people to cook meals safely and sustainably in the third world. Over half of the world cooks over open flames, and the resulting smoke causes an estimated 2,000,000 deaths per year. Both of these products, the HomeStove and the CampStove, could certainly do a lot of good for the world. We want one of each! CampStove is now in production and is available for pre-order @

http://biolitestove.com/

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Qustodian Gives You Free Money!

Qustodian is a new service that allows you to receive personalised offers, promotions and news from those brands, shops and businesses of greatest interest to you. It does this via your mobile phone using the mobile internet and an optional App, which can be downloaded to your phone when you register. Not only is the Qustodian service free, you will receive great offers, direct to your mobile and actually be paid cash into your Qustodian account when you use and interact with the service.

This is how it works:

1. Create your Qustodian account, download an optional App to your mobile and provide some personal preference information.
2. Receive and interact with messages from your favourite brands and retailers that arrive in your dedicated Qustodian inbox on your mobile phone. You can do this whenever you choose using our App or by connecting over the mobile internet.
3. Get paid cash into your Qustodian account every time you interact with messages as well as when your network (people you invited to the service) interacts. This cash can be transferred into your Paypal or bank accounts.
4. Have fun whilst receiving offers and news from brands and retailers you like!

Please view the "Introduction to Qustodian" video on our homepage to see what the application and messages look like. Messages are single or multiple pages of text, pictures and videos providing information about your favourite brands and retailers. They may include offers, vouchers, quizzes, competitions, surveys and, uniquely, fun mini-applications (we call these Q’apps) that allow messages to be revealed at the right time and place for you to make the most of them.

To join just click HERE, I have and without doing much but having a look at some adverts confined to the app on my phone I already made a bit of money. It's not much but it's free money and everything helps!

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