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iPhone needs buttons for games that will be taken seriously

But how do you plan to accurately Dick?

(Credit: Stephen Shankland / CNET)

At today’s event, Apple, the company has devoted generous amounts of time on the various charts and numbers, saying that the iPhone and IPod Touch offers much more in terms of games than Sony PSP and Nintendo DS.

iPhone and IPod Touch games have a lot going for them. Titles cheaper, they offer a tilt functionality, and graphics is better than what Nintendo DS can display. All that aside, it is difficult to consider the iPhone as a legitimate gaming platform, while Apple may offer some tactile function buttons.

First, let’s a few things straight. As for casual games, you can not beat that Apple has to offer. There are countless quick and easy games, which also correspond to the platform Apple. No download games for PSP 15 minutes you sit in the waiting room or while standing in line at New Delhi on the counter. Thus, although this section of the gaming market seems sealed, the same can be said of the more hardcore action / adventure and shooter games.

As it currently stands, the control of such games on your iPhone or IPod Touch is a disappointing mess. Players must navigate, using a virtual D-Pad, which is unable to ensure the accuracy or the physical sense of control PAD actual proposals on the PSP and DS. We are pleased to see how the Madden franchise and head Creed Assassin’s platform, we just wanted to better control these names. Until that day comes, Ipod Touch and iPhone games will be stuck under the glass ceiling, Shake, tilt and tapping.

There’s no denying that Apple has the upper hand here. Nobody wants to carry three devices when one can do everything. As we’ve written before, Apple could easily take on the portable gaming market with just a few steps. The first step towards this goal - whether it supplements or hardware changes - this is to add buttons.

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ITunes 9 interruptions Palm Pre-media synchronization

Earlier Wednesday morning, Apple CEO Steve Jobs took center stage here in San Francisco, and unveiled a new lineup of Ipods, iPhone 3.1 ITunes and 9.

The latter brings new additions, such improved overall interface function LP, the functionality of Genius Mix, and oh, hey what do you think? He also does not allow the opportunity for Palm to sync with pre ITunes. It does not come as much surprise, Apple and Palm have been walking back and forth on this issue. While mildly entertaining at first glance, this little cat fight begin to wear thin, especially for owners of pre-, we suspect.

We will have to wait and see if Palm is fighting back, and some believe that the company may try to gain entry to correct a widely reported but Unreleased WebOS 1,2 update. Of course, you can always choose not to update to ITunes 9, or use third-party software to synchronize the device with ITunes.

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First Take: ITunes 9

New button in the interface to act as the top drop-down menu so you can drill down to view Web pages.

(Credit: Screenshot Jason Parker / CNET)

ITunes 9, it was announced today at the annual music event this year from Apple. Title “It’s Only Rock And Roll event,” Apple does not disappoint with the return of Steve Jobs, modernization (and cheaper) IPOD Nanos and Shuffles, and a host of new demonstrations iPhone App from third-party developers. As many predicted, ITunes 9 (Mac or Windows) was also included in the agenda, and he received a number of interesting improvements opportunity to make navigation easier and synchronization with devices easier. ITunes 9 is available today, but has not yet been added to the update service software Apple.

ITunes 9 has been cleared to facilitate navigation, changed with the new format and a new tab black-menu system at the top of the ITunes Store interface. These new tabs to replace the old left-hand navigation to choose between categories like music, applications, movies, and podcasts. Model of the new content in ITunes Store has been improved, as well as with more viewing content in each category.

ITunes 9 photos
       

Along with enhancements ITunes Store Interface, Apple announced new packaged digital content is called “plate”. According to Apple, buy the full album to provide you with new material, such as the extras on the DVD. You can show the lyrics with the songs, to study the bonus content, as well as to additional content created by the musicians themselves. In addition, you get the same new material for movies, with additions, bonus content, chapter selection, character details, and much more.

How do you interact with applications on the iPhone and IPod Touch has also been improved. Now your main screen you can interact with the visual, right in the box, ITunes, allowing you to drag Apps, where you want to synchronize with the device. Services can be drawn from page to page and the pages, and when you finish you can apply changes to synchronize with your device. iPhone synchronization has been improved, as well as the possibility of selective Sync specific artists or playlists, or synchronize your photos or albums to a specific person.

Steve Jobs also announced that ITunes offers Home Access. This new feature allows you to share purchased songs via your home network. While all computers on the network are in the same ITunes account, you can drag to copy the songs to other computers. ITunes 9 also will automatically sync new purchases on the computers.

In general, the new interface improvements ITunes Store, the best way to organize applications on your iPhone or Ipod Touch, and improvements in synchronization, the new ITunes update offers many improvements for users of ITunes. As a free update ITunes 9 represents no danger to those who use the program.

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Sharing a major error in ITunes 9?

I was excited to try out a new house Sharing feature in ITunes 9. The function is not as new as some reports suggest - it was possible to share ITunes libraries between computers on a home network for several years, but this experience was rather limited. You could not play DRM-protected songs in a shared library, can not create playlists from the general library, and most importantly, can not physically transfer the songs from the library on one computer in the library at the other. Exchange Home promises to change all this, so I happily updated ITunes on my Windows XP computer and my MacBook (which my wife adopted), and allowed the main exchange for both.

For a wonderful time My Mac (almost free music) were able to see the 3500 songs stored in ITunes on my computer. Transfer button just sitting there, waiting for me to begin to move as much of my music as I wanted to my Mac.

Now you see it …

But instead of moving forward, I had to tinker. In short, my wife and I have separate user accounts on the computer. There are a few songs, some artists (like Journey), which are in the ITunes library on my wife’s computer, but I am convinced, will never appear in my (I can not stand Journey). So I decided to try to share their library with the Mac. I closed my ITunes on your PC, includes Off, entered on the user account, my wife opened Itunes, and tried to create the main access. This allowed me to resolve with ITunes - which are necessary to make primary Sharing - but once I authorized the sharing icon in the left column disappeared.

OK. So I enter the account of his wife, fall back on the computer, as I did, and went back to the library ITunes. Now, I could not see the main exchange at all. I used the menu expanded to turn Off Home Exchange and back - no luck. I went to the Mac and turned it off and back - no luck, and that made the main exchange vanish at this copy of ITunes, as well! I rebooted both machines a few times - no luck.

Now, every time I want to bring home exchange, it allows me to be allowed, then, as soon as I click “Finish” Home Exchange icon disappears. I think he got something to do with attempts to resolve the two libraries on one computer with the same score Itunes, but there is no support for online ITunes 9 Nevertheless, so I can not say. (And before you ask, yes, I like “Open access to local libraries in the network” and “Look for shared libraries” check box checked on ITunes on both computers.)

Now you do not.

Lesson: if it works, do not touch it! Transfer of this library and get out of hell. And if someone had this error and knows how to solve the problem, let me know in the comments below.

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iPhone 3.1 Genius brings changes, ringtones

At a special event, Wednesday, Apple announced the latest iPhone software update, iPhone 3.1. We are still downloading it now, and below you can find a list of changes, as provided for Apple. Keep in mind that the ability to save video from a multimedia message depends on the MMS will live on September 25.

Genius recommendations on the application
Support ITunes 9 (Mac and Windows download), which offers a Genius Mixtures, App organization in Itunes, improve the synchronization settings, music, movies, TV shows, podcasts and photos, ITunes U Content Organization
Redeem Gift Card ITunes, codes, and certificates in the App Store
Display available through ITunes credit on the App Store and the ITunes Store
Review and download ringtones wirelessly from ITunes Store
Save video from mail and multimedia messages in the camera roll
Option to “save as a new video” When cropping video to iPhone 3GS
Best iPhone 3G Wi-Fi performance, when Bluetooth is turned
IPhone remotely lock with a password MobileMe
Use Voice Control on iPhone 3GS with Bluetooth-headset
Insert phone numbers on the keypad
Ability to use the Home button to turn Convenience iPhone 3GS
Warn when visiting fraudulent Web sites in Safari (phishing)
Improved Exchange synchronization of calendar and invitations handling
Issue correction, which makes some App icons to display incorrectly
We will update with more features, as we find them. What new features you have found is that Apple does not yet exist?

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