Myspace SOLD

Just recently Myspace has been sold for $35 million, so who bought it? Justin Timberlake. Yes, the music artist. He along with another unknown major corporation will be trying to bring back the "cool" in Myspace. You might think that $35 million is a lot but compared to it's major competition, Facebook; which has a net worth of $50 BILLION.

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WWDC 2011: Apple Copying Android and Cydia?

I begin by asking why Apple would roll out an OS so late after it was announced and why everyone is so damn excited. The recent keynote, showed Apple sink to new lows, as they desperately label all features of the new OS has 'revolutionary' in a bid to successfully generate applaud from the audience who consist of desperate reporters and Apple fanatics, who clapped eagerly at every moment. Unfortunately the truth is that a majority of the features introduced weren't 'revolutionary' but either a lift from Google's Android or the jailbreak community.

After Amazon and Google had rolled out their cloud services months ago it was inevitable that Apple would join the market, WWDC saw Apple's take on cloud service, the ingeniously titled, iCloud. This didn't really bother me, considering Apple fanatics have already admitted that Apple 'makes existing ideas better,' so I dismissed it, until they started to announce the new features of iOS 5. Notification centre - a clear rip off of the android blind angered me, as the thousand person audience clapped with excitement.

WifiSync is another thing that is unoriginal, Apple got the idea (or even the software) from Greg Hughes who has trying to get his WifiSync in the app store, quite a while ago.

iMessage, a way i0s5 users can send other people text, photos and videos over wifi. This is apple's version of Blackberry messenger, this is probably the only feature in i0S 5 I could see myself using.

Reminders: "A better way to do to-dos."

When I firstly found about this I was really disappointed in Apple. As their are very similar apps to this in the app store. I feel sorry for the developers who have similar apps on the App store, at least the remaining i0S devices not receiving the update have an alternative.

Application short-cut on the lock screen this being the camera. Now the new HTC sensation had been reased before te keynote and that includes application short cuts on the lock screen as well. I'm not really sure I should include this, as it's not really copying.

I believe all of the above and more make the new i0S unoriginal and unappealing.

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White 'Gimme' SBsettings theme

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 "White Gimme SBsettings theme" 

Note that this article was written back in 2011, when Apple didn't introduce the notification centre. Which brings me back to the point of why I am re uploading this, it was the first tweak I had created. Well not really, I stole it and changed it to white, yeah how creative of me.

DOWNLOAD HERE (ModMyi)

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The New Facebook

There was a small change on Facebook this morning, the "Post" button was missing. The last big change that Facebook did was when they changed your profile layout. I hated it along with majority of Facebook users but did it get changed back or did we get a choice to alter to the old one? No. There was even a group called "I hate the New Facebook Profile", having 14,000 people join you would think Facebook would get the message! Now they have gotten rid of the post button, and replaced it with the Enter Key. Now you are able to start a new line pressing Shift+Enter, but why should you? Seriously what was wrong with a button? Facebook it says it's only testing this feature but I bet that it well never be changed. There is some good with this change though, you can edit posts. So before if you spelt something wrong or said something you didn't want to say, you would have to delete the comment and write another but now instead you can click the "X" button of the left of your post and you can edit it and repost!

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Help Japan earthquake and Tsunami Victims

After hearing about the struggles that are happening in Japan I go into Safari noticing a red emblem at the bottom of the apple site, I click on it and sure enough apple is hosting a donation to victims in Japan. I looked very closely to the text it gave me next searching for the percentage, remembering, Apple's new subscriptions. Sure enough it said "iTunes will transfer 100% of your donation to the American Red Cross."

Good Work Apple!

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iPad #2

Yesterday Apple a held press conference introducing the highly anticipated iPad 2, caused by new tablets being announced from Blackberry, HP, Samsung, HTC and other big manufacturers last month. The New iPad will include 2 cameras, One in the front for face-time and another on the back for taking photos and video on.

They also announced an "awesome" iPad cover claiming that the old one made the slick iPad too thick. The new cover is ultra thin and uses magnets to stick it's self to the iPad, but does not cover the whole iPad but just the screen. Now this isn't a screen protecter as it's not transparent, it's more like a pointless accessory, that you'll probably get board with in the first few days after purchasing it. Anyway, that was probably the highlight of the Apple's Press conference as well as the iPad shipping in white on Day One.

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Apple's 30% Cut

Today Apple's App Store started their subscription service (for magazines and newspapers including The Daily). I won't be really using this service but the reason I put this on my blog that Apple is taking a massive 30 percent cut of each subscription. And it's not letting publishes charge more to cover those costs. Now if we compare this to Google's Subscription Plan, One Pass, Which coincidently was introduced on the same day as Apple's. Google is only taking 10%.

To ensure they get their cut, Apple has banned apps from linking to other subscription methods like the publisher’s website. Apple is also refusing share the details of those customers with the developer.

"In Australia, publishers have had their iTunes apps rejected for exploiting loopholes that allow them to sell subscriptions and accept payments without giving a share to Apple. Sometimes apps are rejected without an explanation."

So, No Cut. No Subscription.

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