Apple releases iOS 5.0.1 to the masses, includes bug fixes for battery life

With the developer build having now been out for a while, and some folks claiming to have already received the update via Apples customer care — Apple has now sent iOS 5.0.1 to the masses. You can either go to Settings: General: Software Updates on your device and get it over the air (OTA) or plug into iTunes and get to downloading it right now. As noted in the change log:

• Fixes bugs affecting battery life


• Adds Multitasking Gestures for original iPad


• Resolves bugs with Documents in the Cloud


• Improves voice recognition for Australian users using dictation

Safe to say quite a few people who have been experiencing issues with their battery on the iPhone 4S will be looking carefully at this update to ensure it really does address their concerns. Full release notes are past the break for you all as well as a list of compatible devices.

This update contains improvements and other bug fixes including:

• Fixes bugs affecting battery life


• Adds Multitasking Gestures for original iPad


• Resolves bugs with Documents in the Cloud


• Improves voice recognition for Australian users using dictation

Products compatible with this software update:

• iPhone 4S


• iPhone 4


• iPhone 3GS


• iPad 2


• iPad


• iPod touch (4th generation)


• iPod touch (3rd generation)

For information on the security content of this update, please visit this website:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1222

iPhone Live 179: Talk Siri to me

Adobe puts a bullet in the head of Flash Player mobile, Charlie Miller exploits the Safari JIT compiler, photos under glass and the future of touch, where should settings go, secret panorama mode, and Rene, Georgia and Seth talk Talking with Siri with Erica Sadun and Steve Sande of TUAW. This is iPhone Live!

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The Voice Behind Siri That Apple Doesn’t Want You To Know

The Telegraph this morning features an interview with Jon Briggs, the voice behind Apple’s popular Siri personal assistant in Britain. Briggs alledges that a public relations representative from Apple contacted the vocie-over specialist asking that he not speak publically about its product saying, “We are not about one person“.

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Briggs however had not been contracted by Apple, but instead by Scansoft, who merged with Nuance prior to be acquired by Apple. Briggs recorded over 5,000 sententces over a three week period.

“I did a set of recordings… spoken in a very particular way and only reading flat and even,” Mr Briggs said.

“Then they go away and take all the phonics apart, because ‘I’ have to be able to read anything you want, even if I’ve never actually recorded all those words.”

In the US, the default Siri option is female and her identity remains unknown. If Apple doesn’t contact Briggs, there is no story. Their secrecy is far more headline grabbing then revealing the man behind the mic.

Source: href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/apple/8879643/Apple-tried-to-silence-voice-of-Siri.html">The Telegraph

How To Delete Photo Stream Photos

Many people have asked if there is a way to delete Photo Stream photos. Often, they mean delete individual photos. At this time you cannot delete individual Photo Stream photos but you can delete all of them at once. Follow this short guide on how you can delete your Photo Stream photos.

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This will not remove the Photo Stream libraries already on your iOS device(s). If you want to remove them too you will have to go into Settings, iCloud and turn of Photo Stream. This will remove all Photo Stream photos from the device. You can then turn Photo Stream back on.

If you want to remove only a “select few” Photo Stream photos you cannot do it directly. But you can save the ones you want, delete all Photo Stream photos as outlined above, then add only the ones you choose back to Photo Stream.

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Adobe also kills Flash for TV

While the big news yesterday was Adobe putting a bullet in the head of Flash Player for mobile, Ryan Lawler over a *GigaOm” noted a similar end for Flash for TV.

Adobe will continue to support existing licensees who are planning on supporting Flash Player for web browsing on digital home devices and are using the Flash Player Porting Kit to do so. However we believe the right approach to deliver content on televisions is through applications, not a web browsing experience, and we will continue to encourage the device and content publishing community down that path.

Apple TV, of course, never supported Flash Player, instead creating apps for YouTube, and a long while later, Vimeo and other web-based video sites. Google, however, decided to go all in with Flash — effectively turning their backs on a tradition of open, standards based web support — just to have a checkbox they thought would hurt Apple and help their ODM‘s compete.

Hopefully now, with all giant ships pointing in the same HTML 5 direction, users on all major platforms will get better technology, faster.

Source GigaOm

iO5 5 has a hidden auto-correct word bar, can be enabled without jailbreak

iOS 5 appears to have a hidden word correction bar which can be enabled without the need for a jailbreak. Discovered by Sonny Dickson, the word correction bar works in a very similar way to Android devices. This is the second hidden feature of iOS 5 that has been discovered this week. On Monday we heard that iOS 5 had a hidden camera panorama mode too.

If you want to turn on the auto-correct bar, the good news is that you do not have to have a jailbroken device. Having said that, it is a bit fiddly so if you decide to try it, be careful and remember this is at your own risk! Sonny Dickson has put together a short guide showing what’s required to get this enabled.

The hack appears to work on the iPhone, iPad  and iPod touch. If you give this one a go, let is know what you think of it!

Source: Sonny Dickson via 9to5Mac

 

 

 

 

 

Sales automation comes to the iPad with ProSel

ProSel is an iPad to aid in sales distributions. You can place sales orders, manage customer accounts and stay in sync with your host system remotely.

Check out the video below for a demonstration of the app.

ProSel for iPad is an app for the mobile sales professional. It is designed to automate and speed up the process of building and sending sales orders from the field to your home office for processing.

ProSel is available on the iPad for free and is actually just a demo of what’s available. To use it for your business or company, you must work with Access International to customize it just for you.

[App Store link]

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