New Messages beta for Mac OSX

By Ben | Published February 17, 2012

Today we are mostly loving the new Messages beta for OSX. If you’re an iMessage fan on your iOS device, then head on over here to grab Messages for your Mac:

http://www.apple.com/macosx/mountain-lion/messages-beta/

Messages will be a feature in the new OSX coming soon called Mountain Lion, but don’t worry – this beta works on Snow Leopard just fine (as long as you’ve updated to 10.7.3).

One problem we noticed was that sending an iMessage to an iPhones phone number meant the message didn’t appear on the Mac – and vice versa – sending an iMessage to the email address didn’t appear on the iPhone…

Here’s a handy tip for fixing that little problem:

- On your iOS device, tap your Settings icon
- Go into the Messages settings
- Tap the ‘Receieve At’ button
- Now you can add as many email addresses as you like

With this handy tip you can now receive your messages at any email address, even ones that aren’t Apple IDs, and on all your devices.

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iPad 3 rumor roundup

By Ben | Published February 13, 2012

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We always love the hype and buzz of an upcoming Apple event, and coming into full swing now is the iPad 3.

We have read a lot, and sometimes we are really surprised at the comments and insight of tech journalists out there! Here is a quick roundup of what we think is in, and out of the iPad 3:

  • Retina display: Of course. Without a doubt. It will be there and it will look amazing.
  • Faster processor: Certainly, not sure why people write this as news it’s so obvious!
  • Dual Core / Quad Core: Lots of people championing the fact the iPad 3 will be quad core, but I’m not convinced. I’d say it’ll be dual core, and they’ll gain the extra speed they need for pixel processing with a nice new GPU
  • Better battery: Yes, but probably not by a lot. There’s going to be twice as many pixels to play with after all
  • Siri: Yep, it’ll be here on iPad 3, I wouldn’t expect it to make it onto iPad 1, and probably not iPad 2…time for an upgrade!
  • NFC: Not this time, Apple will hold out on this for the iPhone 5, and a more mature market
  • Dual dock connectors: Not sure on this one…will Apple give in and put a dock on the side for landscape docks? I’m sticking my neck out and saying No, they won’t
  • Thunderbolt port: No. Just no.
  • More than one iPad 3: Speculation over different sizes is spreading, but I feel this is way off the mark
  • Improved camera: For sure. They’ll pluck the tech from the 4 or even 4S and wedge it into the back of the iPad 3
  • LTE / 4G: Tricky call this one, I wouldn’t think so, again they need to save some awesome features for the iPhone 5 later in the year.

That’s my summary for now, watch out for updates on this in the blog..and when the iPad 3 is released, come back and see how accurate this all was.

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No custom font embedding in iBooks Author?

By Darren | Published February 13, 2012

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Just starting to use iBooks author and noticed that you cannot add custom fonts….
A strange thing I have noticed though, is that if you use a custom font it works on the book title, and also within the little page previews at the bottom, but not within the actual pages.

Come on Apple, make that available in an update please.

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New site for 2012

By Darren | Published February 13, 2012

After a massively busy 2 years we finally got some time to put out a nice new redesign of our website for the start of year 3. 2012 is going to continue to be a busy time for us. We have a number of exciting new apps launching with some well known brands and names. We also have so GPXL apps in the pipeline that we can’t wait to let out into the world. Stay tuned to our blog posts and Facebook page for updates!!

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