Insurance For iPhones

Apple has released the new iOS 5 operating system for iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad. They have added over 200 new features for this update. Here are just a few:

• Notification Center: You can get notifications from so many different apps- and it’s so annoying when you’re in the middle of something and a notification comes up on your screen and interrupts what you were doing. Well now, with the new notification center, you won’t have to worry about that anymore. With iOS 5, when you receive a new notification, it shows as a banner at the top rather than in the middle of the screen (unless you like it that way- you can choose in Settings). Also, when you decide you want to look at your new notifications, all you have to do is swipe down from the top of any screen and you’ll enter the Notification Center.
• iMessage:This is a new messaging service that allows you to send unlimited messages to any other iDevice that is running iOS 5. iMessage is built in to the messaging app, so you can send anything you would normally be able to send with your iPhone- texts, pictures, videos, and more! You can track the messages you send, and you can even start a conversation one one of your iDevices and finish the conversation on another.
• Newsstand: With this new feature, you can have all your subscribed newspapers and magazines in one place. You even get notifications when a new copy hits your newsstand. There’s also a new section of the app store dedicated to magazines and newspapers just for this app.
• Reminders: Here is a great app for all of you who can’t remember anything (like me). The reminders app allows you to make lists of things or have reminders that show the date they need to done. And get this- reminders can be location-based, which means that if you put in your reminders list not to forget to buy milk when you go to the grocery store, you’ll get an alert as soon as you pull in to the parking lot of the grocery store.
• Twitter: Sign in to Twitter one time in Settings, and you’ll be able to tweet from just about anywhere! You can tweet from Safari, Photos, Camera, YouTube, or Maps. It’s just that easy.
• Camera: With the new camera features, you’ll be able to take pictures more easily and quickly. If you’re in a hurry to take a picture, all you have to do is press the unlock button at the top and the camera is available from the lock screen. You now can also take pictures using the volume up button.
• Photos: With iOS 5, you can edit the photos you’ve taken. You can eliminate red-eye, crop a photo, or auto-enhance a photo. You can even organize your photos into albums right from your device.
• Safari: iOS 5 has new safari features, as well. Reading List is one of them. All you have to do is tap the Action button while Safari is open and tap Add to Reading List. All the interesting websites you wanted to look at earlier in the day, but you just didn’t have time, are all waiting for you in the Reading List. Safari now has tabbed browsing for iPad, just like on a computer.
• PC Free: This one is pretty amazing to me. You no longer have to have a computer to set up or update your iDevices. You can download software updates and do more with your apps all without using a computer.
• iCloud: iCloud takes your music, photos, and everything else and wirelessly puts them on your other devices. Anything you do one one device will automatically go to the others. How handy.

This list is just a few of the new features for iOS 5! Go to Apple’s website to check out more. And remember- if you need insurance for any of your devices, be sure to check out Worth Ave Group’s policies!

On Friday, Apple released the iPad 2. Also released on the same day was the Smart Case for the iPad 2. The Smart Case is a cover for the iPad 2 that was developed to work just with the iPad 2. It attaches to the iPad 2 with magnets and protects the screen.  But it’s not just a cover. It’s a stand for using the keyboard and FaceTime. When you cover the iPad with the Smart Case, the case puts the iPad to sleep, and when you take the cover off, the iPad wakes up. If you go to Apple’s website, you can see everything the Smart Case can do.

You can order the Smart Case from the Apple Store now. It comes in 10 colors- 5 made of polyurethane colors and 5 made of leather. The polyurethane cases are $39 and the
leather cases are $69.

Here’s a video so you can see just how awesome this case really is.

Apple has just realeased a new app into the app store. It’s called Mobile MIM and used primarily for medical imaging. The app is for the physicians who aren’t able to be in the office but have an important and urgent patient who needs a test or scan of some kind. With the Mobile MIM app, the images can be sent to the physician’s iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch and he/she can view them from wherever he/she is. This app allows the physician to make a diagnosis and give the patient the medications they need, even if he/she can’t be in the office.

This app was one of the first in July 2008 when the app store first began, but the FDA ordered that it be removed. The FDA has just recently cleared this app, but says it should never be used for x-rays or mammograms because the screens of the iDevices do not have high enough resolution. They do, however, have enough resolution to view images like CT scans, MRIs, and nuclear imaging scans.

The app is available for free now at the app store. But even though the app is free, it costs to send or receive an image and to purchase software that serves images to the devices from within the physician’s institution.

Ancestry.com has just recently released an updated version of the Ancestry app for the iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch. By using this app and ancestry.com, you can trace your family history. The app allows you access to your ancestry.com account so you can edit and view your information with just your iPad. The new version has a new interface. It also has new photos of family members and “historical documents and source citations” when they’re available.

The ancestry app for iPad is free, but in order to use it, you have to have an account on ancestry.com, which is $12.95 a month.

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There have been many reports that have recently been released that are hinting at Apple’s iPhone 5 and iPad 2 having some type of wave and pay technology. If you want to purchase something, it’s possible that all you’d have to do is wave your iPhone or iPad above a scanner. Apple hasn’t commented on this, so it’s not for sure yet. I guess we’ll just have to wait until summer!

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If you have ever wanted to watch live TV on your iPad, iPhone, or iPod Touch, you will be able to soon from just about anywhere- even if you’re in a moving vehicle. The company that is making this all possible is called Valups. As you can see from the picture, the Tivizen plugs directly into the device and then can provide up to 2.5 hours of live TV before the battery has to be recharged. Hopefully the company will make some changes to the Tivizen before its release in June and the battery life will be longer.

Valups is also working on a Wi-Fi version of Tivizen and that is also going to be released later this year.

OK, well maybe not this very minute but it is most likely Apple will be introducing their new baby at the 12:00 pm Central Standard Time!  Can you imagine the line that has formed outside the Yerba Buena Center in San Francisco to view what Apple is calling, the ‘Latest Creation’ event.

I’ve spent my morning trying to find a website that will be streaming the live event and believe this site may actually provide a live feed.  Woo hoo!

And last but not least…here are just a few of the specs I believe will be on the new tablet:

• Processor: 2.13 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor
• 64 GB Flash Drive
• 667 MHz DDR2 2 GB Memory
• 9.6” Multi-touch (widescreen) display
• Mac OS X 10.6 Software with touch-enabled interface