Today Apple is rolling out its iTunes Match internationally, which unintentionally got rolled out yesterday unofficially. It is now being offered to users in Canada, Ireland, Mexico, United Kingdom, Australia, France, New Zealand, and Spain, providing an option to subscribe for the iTunes Match service.

The reviews for this service have all been positive so far with users satisfied that their music libraries are being matched. The users in the U.S. received this service as early as November 14^th this year. Apple had mentioned introducing the service during its iOS 5 and iCloud launch in June at WWDC 2011 Keynote address.

Through iTunes Music, users can store their music collection of up to 25,000 songs. They can include those songs they have taken from CDs or purchased through iCloud. There are around 18 million songs in the iTunes Store, which means that most users will be having their favourite songs in iCloud library to match in their iTunes Match collection. All music that iTunes matches with plays back at 256-Kbps iTunes Plus quality.

For now iTunes Match costs £21.99 per year in the UK, €24.99 in other parts of Europe, $27.99 per year in Canada and A$34.99 per year in Australia.

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It is being reported everywhere in the blogosphere as well as on reliable technology news networks and websites that Google is really making its own version of Siri for its next generation of Android devices. As of now, the name has not yet been official, but it is temporarily being codenamed as “Majel”, which is a reference to Majel Barrett-Roddenberry, the Federation Computer from Star Trek.

Android already has its voice recognition technology called Voice Actions, but this one would be of course more advanced. Siri has been famous since its came. In fact, it has been one of the main reason of success for Apple’s iPhone 4S. People have been flocking around to get their hands on it. This has also compelled other smartphone companies to follow up on the user demands for this technology.

Apple has been setting trends for others to follow suit and this time again the challenge is to rise up to the occasion to meet the standards already set by Apple. The thing which would be better is to not only meet that standard, but to surpass it to set a new record.

Will Google’s Majel be able to do that only time could tell, and more so its technology. Another good news is that the wait might not be too long as Google intends to release early next year. This means that we could check it out within the next four to five months at maximum.

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Microsoft has come out with yet another game for their fans. Already they have been treating fans with their My Xbox Live and SkyDrive by mobile developers. Now there is another interesting one from them. Through Xbox Kinect a gamer can interact with Kinectimals, which are the game-version of pet animals.

This new iOS app has now come up with more cubs to enjoy the game with. You can visit the island of Lemuria and play with your very own pet cub and get to hang out with it. This Microsoft mobile game app for Apple devices is being taken as a serious step from the tech giant to join in the race for top-quality mobile game releases.

So you can enjoy this game on your iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch with new Microsoft top-quality game. All you need is to have $2.99, which is not that expensive considering the others on App Store.

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Although Steve Jobs’ biography written by Walter Isaacson has been number one since the time it got released, but now there are new milestones that is has achieved. Amazon reported that it became the best-selling title of this year within two months of its release. But in this counting the e-books sales were not reckoned and only the hard covers were accounted for.

Now with the inclusion of the e-book sales, it is hardly surprising that still Steve Jobs’ biography remains number one in best-selling titles. The sales for Amazon have been outstanding in both formats of the book. Not just the Amazon has declared it to be the title of the year, but also Apple’s own iBook Store and The New York Times have included it in their list of best-selling non-fiction book.

People have been eager to know about the life of this tech genius and not just the Apple fans are filled with craze to find out what made him the genius he was. Such outpouring of emotions is understandable and predictable. The thing to look out for is how long this title sustains its place on top of lists.

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Finally there is something for iPhone 4 users to jailbreak. This is new and for the first time, since mostly the jailbreaking updates have been about other Apple products and previous iPhones.

Recently, pod2G has come up with successfully jailbreaking iPhone 4 running on iOS 5.0.1 untethered. Previously, untethered jailbreaking for iOS 5 on an iPod worked well. Now it is time for iPhone 4 running on iOS 5.0.1 to get an untethered jailbreak. It is hardly surprising to know that pod2G was a member of the Chronic Dev team.

According to pod2G, if you rely on a software method to unlock your iPhone, then do not update your iOS 5.0.1. This tool has not been yet released to the public. It is yet unclear if the same would work for iPad 2 and iPhone 4S. More updates are still to come up. But the biggest news is that untethered jailbreaking is now possible with iPhone 4 running on iOS 5.0.1.

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The rumour mills about Apple products never stop working. This time it is about the next generation iPad. It has been reported the one of the most vivid sources of Apple rumours, MacRumors, that iPad 3 will be slightly thicker. Now this news will bring into mind an image of iPad the way you most likely don’t want to see it as. People want thinner, slimmer and smarter devices. Why then make next iPad a thick one.

Well, there is no need to worry because the rumour also has it that this thicker iPad 3 will still be smarter that you can put in a smart cover. The rumour has been started by a Japanese blog that claims to have an inside information from one of Apple’s Asian supply chains. Well, don’t rumours always come from insider sources? The reason to make the device thicker is however not more so for its looks than for change in its functions, which are still unrevealed.

The experts are of the view that Apple is perhaps changing the LED Backlight design so that it could support a higher Retina-quality resolution, which is why iPad 3 might be thicker. But the screen size will remain unchanged as well as the rounded corners. Hence, to make iPad 3 fit into a case, there would be a lot of new ones available in the market once it gets released. However, still nothing could be said with certainty as is the case often with Apple products and their rumours. But iPad 3 might be launched in February next year.

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With so many technological development and innovative gadgetry coming up almost every other day, one wishes to have a multitasking device that encompasses our major use of them. That wish is not so hard to achieve when creativity is applied at its best. At least users of Apple products can be happy, especially those using iPad 3G. It would be wonderful to see and more so to use an iPad that turns into a phone at our desire.

The Cydia tweak is there to use iPad’s 3G connection to turn it into an actual phone. This technique from Cydia tweak is known as Phoneit-iPad and has been developed by iPhoneIslam. Using this, you can turn your iPad 3G into a fully functional phone. There are prerequisites to achieve such a technique, if you could call it that, and it is to have a jailbroken first generation iPad running the iOS 4.3.3 firmware or above.

Just recently the iPhoneIslam updated its Phoneit-iPad to be in line with the iOS 5 firmware generation. The other thing which one needs in order to make  a phone from an iPad is to add the iPhoneIslam repository to your iPad.

You have to go into Manage > Sources > Edit > Add:

http://apps.iphoneislam.com/

After the addition of the iPhoneIslam repo, just download and install Phoneit-iPad. After its installation, activate your copy by clicking this here. It will cost $19.99. It is simple, easy and very useful to have two gadgets in one device. Enjoy the new phone made from your very own iPad 3G.

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Just last month, a lot of expectations of the Apple fans were met and even broken when the new next generation iPhone was finally released by Apple of October 14, 2011. Most people were expecting to see the much hyped iPhone 5, but Apple has saved it for next time. Let us hope that it is for the better and bigger surprise next time.

iPhone 4S was launched initially in seven countries and then subsequently to 44 more countries. Now Apple has recently announced that it plans to launch it to 70 more countries by the end of this year. Most likely the date, as has been given by MacRumors, is December 16. The two countries on the list are Russia and Brazil besides many other South East Asian states. This will surely keep the sales going as Apple has experienced a shortage in its supplies with over-enthusiastic customers.

So those who are still waiting can now relax that at least by the end of this year, they will have their favourite smartphone in their hands. Siri has created quite an intrigue in people and having to experience that is something that most customers are looking forward to. This voice recognition technology by Apple is generating a lot of stir in fans around the world and making iPhone 4S more wanted.

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There are now many blogs talking about jailbreaking iOS has more advantages than not, so one could easily feel safe that they have got the better deal by doing so. But one must still be careful while using Cydia because it does take away iPhone’s stability. Also, there are some apps on App Store that will not run if your iPhone is jailbroken.

One thing is clear that Apple does not like its gadgets to be jailbroken, has it refuses to warranty an iPhone that has been jailbroken. So make sure, if you jailbreak your device, you don’t get into a situation where you need to avail the warranty. You wish there would be something that could even bypass that difficulty and now there is.

The Dev Team has come up with xCon, which does sound like conning. It is basically a free Cydia tweak that bypasses the problem of getting detecting on jailbreaking. Using it, no one at Apple could find out that you have jailbroken your device.  All you have to do is to get xCon from the Cydia store.

The plus point of this is that you can get those apps which became out of reach from the App Store because your device was jailbroken. Now one knows that such good news do not come as a whole, but with step by step progress in reaching what we ultimately want to with our Apple devices. Similarly, there are still certain apps that will not run despite using xCon, but they are only a few in numbers.

However, still the good news is that the developer of xCon has asked to be contacted in what apps they want to see on the allowed list and hence, it can grow. The list of supported apps is following:

Bloomberg Anywhere

Cablevision

Cisco M-Learning

DircTV for iPad

Grimm’s Fairy Tales

Time Warner Cable

Verizon On Demand

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Step 4

Follow on-screen instructions and get your device into DFU mode.

Step 5

Once you install few important exploits your device will be jailbroken within few minutes. Once jailbroken a white Cydia icon appears. You will now need a tethered boot to get your device working. Also in future if you wish to reboot your device, you should go for a tethered boot itself.

How to Tether Boot iOS 5

Wondering how to tether boot? Follow these instructions.

Step 1

Open redsn0w and click on Extras and then Click on Just Boot.

Step 2

Click on Next and follow the onscreen instructions to get your device in DFU mode. Once you do this you will be able to open your device.

Note: This jailbreak does not support iPad 2.

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