Here you can find a download link to the Siri GUI files for your iDevice, as well as the developers instructions for installing.
While at this time the Siri files released will only enable the Siri GUI, the developer has mentioned he has included files which he will be providing instructions for at a later date.If you are interested in downloading these Siri files and installing Siri on your iDevice please watch the embedded YouTube video.
With the decreasing gap between television sets and Internet it is now possible to access almost anything from your Smart TV with your “remote control” BUT not too long.
Yes here comes—Siri after various attempts of including keyboard,mouse,ipod,iphone and even ipads as remote(none of which made a heavy impact) by apple.
Apple is trying even harder to completely eradicate the gap by introducing its artificial intelligent software—Siri.It’s like science-fiction. You sit on your couch and rather than “play” with several remotes or use hand gestures, you simply talk: “Put on the last episode of How I met your mother.” “Play the headlines for today.” “Play some Coldplay music” and yes Siri does the rest.
Of course the tail would go on (apart from asking some retard questions) which whould definitely bring an impact again from the apple after its introduction of first tablet.
“Apple television would have the simplest user interface one could ever imagine” Steve jobs explaining his biographer Walter Isaacson. By this Steve has just made another impact on the world.
“On my quest to learn more about the Apple television project, I learned that executives at Apple knew as far back as 2007 that the company would eventually make a ‘dedicated TV’. This realization came shortly after the company released the Apple TV, a box that connects to any manufacturer’s television to stream iTunes content. Consumers did not flock to the Apple TV, and rather than abandon the project, Apple began calling it a hobby.” said Nick Bilton from New York times.
Who knew that Apple’s hobby would lead us to the futuristic world.
So when will Apple release its next huge impact?
It is said that The company needs to wait until the cost of large displays falls. The company is now close enough that it could announce the product by late 2012, releasing it to consumers by 2013.
Clearly the product is still in developing stage but the news is definitely killing the patience inside every one of us.
Facebook has finally released the long-awaited iPad app. Simply “use your fingertips to scroll through your News Feed; give the screen a swipe to page through albums; pinch a picture to zoom in.” And lots more.
Here are some features of the app:
BIGGER AND BETTER PHOTOS
Your photos take you on the new level with the high-resolution,bigger,easy to flip(like a photo album).
PLAY GAMES ON THE GO
Play your favourite games like farmville,cityville etc wherever you are.
JUST TAP
FOR MESSAGE
A simple dropdown menu makes it easy to scan and send messages without visiting your inbox.
NEVER LOOSE YOUR PLACE
Use simplified navigation to send a message, see your notifications or browse your bookmarks without switching screens.
VIEW IMPORTANT
With less on the screen, it’s easier to zoom in on your friends’ photos, updates and stories.Navigate anywhere, fast
Just tap, slide or pinch to get from one screen to another and back again in no time.
To download free facebook app for ipad click here.
The iPhone 4S , was over all a disappointment by many tech gurus and writers(still managed to sell 1million units in a single day). It looks like the gurus have no idea what real people want.
The first hint of demand came when Apple’s entire site crashed after the iPhone 4S announcement event last Tuesday. Then when Apple, along with its cellphone carrier
partners, opened their virtual doors for pre-orders before the weekend, the payment servers were brought to their knees under high demand.
Apple says that this is the fastest-selling first day for any Apple product, ever, beating the
previous record holder, the iPhone 4, which sold 600,000 units on its first day.
The iPhone 4 went on to blow past that number, selling 1. 7 million units in the first weekend of actual sales (not just pre-orders). Who knows how many will be sold when the iPhone 4S ships this Friday?
It seems that actual, paying customers are a little more insightful than whining, jaded
tech writers. Whilst these professionals sat complaining about the lack of a “5 ″ in the
new iPhone’s name, and the fact that Apple had decided to keep the great- looking industrial design of the iPhone 4, the
general public saw the great new camera, a Star Trek -like talking assistant and a much
faster computer, and then took out their wallets.
In dark suit and bowtie, he is a computing-era carnival barker- eyebrows bouncing, hands
gesturing, smile seductive and coy and a bit annoying. It’s as if he’s on his first date with an entire generation of consumers. And, in a way, he is.
It is Jan. 24, 1984, and a young Steve Jobs is standing at center stage, introducing to shareholders of Apple Computer Inc. the “insanely great” machine that he’s certain will change the world: a beige plastic box called the Macintosh.Here is the Wizard of Cupertino at the threshold of it all, years before the black mock turtleneck and blue jeans. He is utterly in command – of his audience and of his performance. All of the Jobs storytelling staples are emerging.The hyperbole: “You have to see this display to believe it. It’s incredible.”The villain: “And all of this power fits in a box that is one- third the size and weight of an IBM PC” The tease: “Now I’d like to show you Macintosh in person. All of the images you are about to see on the large screen will be generated by what’s in that bag.”
He retreats into the shadows, pulls the inaugural Mac out of its satchel. He inserts a disk and boots up. Suddenly, on the screen – roughly pixelated by today’s standards but, for 1984, stunning – a typeface rolls by to the theme from “Chariots of Fire.” A picture of a geisha appears.Then a spreadsheet. Architectural renderings. A game of video chess. A bitmapped drawing of Steve Jobs dreaming of a Mac.The computer speaks. “Hello. I’m Macintosh. It sure is great to get out of that bag,” it says. “It is with considerable pride that I introduce a man who’s been like a father to me: Steve Jobs.”Applause shakes the place. Steven Paul Jobs,basking in it, tries not to grin. He fails. The future, at this moment, is his.
It is 27 years later now, and Steve Jobs has exited the stage he managed so well. We are left with the talismans of his talent, a tech diaspora: the descendants of that original Mac. The iPod and iTunes, Nanos and Shuffles and Classics and Touches. The Apple Store. The iPhone and the App Store and the iPad 2. They are part of the cultural fabric – tools that make our lives easier and, some insist, sexier and more streamlined.But taken together, what do they mean? Are they merely gadgets and services that sold well,that answered the market’s needs for humans of the late 20th and early 21st centuries? Did Jobs’prickly perfectionism – born, some said, of outsized ego – merely create a whole run of really useful tools? Or is something more elemental at play here?
Jobs the CEO, Jobs the technologist and futurist,Jobs the inventor and innovator and refiner of others’ ideas: All of them, in the end, relied upon another Steve Jobs who sewed the others together and bottled their lightning: Steve Jobs the storyteller, spinning the tale of our age and of his own success, and making it happen as he went.
From his earliest days with Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, he was a half step ahead of the rest of us, innovating and inventing and creating and doggedly marketing it all by building a lifestyle around it. From Apple’s personal computers, he harnessed the new and repackaged the existing to create something fresh, something more.Beyond his measurable successes, though, Steve Jobs claims one spot in history above all others:He realized what we wanted before we understood it ourselves.We wanted easy to use. We wanted to lose ourselves in what our gadgets did. We wanted sleek, cool, streamlined – things that weren’t always associated with consumer electronics.
We wanted the relationship between object fetish and functionality to be indistinguishable.We wanted to touch the future without seams that would yank us out of our communion with our machines. We wanted, in short, intricate simplicity.
To Jobs, the above sentences might have been commandments. They were used to denounce -in a friendly manner, but always pointed – what Apple cast as the corporate, bland chaos of the PC culture that IBM and Microsoft were creating.
In Jobs’ hands those principles were potent weapons. Apple’s successes and missteps are well known, but things seemed to accumulate voltage when they passed through the switching station of Jobs’ brain.”There are two sides of it. One is the interface design side. The other is his ability to persuade major media outlets and others to work with him,” says Edward Tenner, a technology historian and author of “Our Own Devices: How Technology Remakes Humanity.”
“His personal mystique,” Tenner says, “became self-fulfilling prophecy.”Some of it is the American penchant for big personalities. Microsoft had Bill Gates, Facebook Marc Zuckerberg. A dominan human face focuses things. Think of IBM, one of the 20th century’s most influential companies: It dominated as the computer age dawned but lacked a defining figure; does it hold the same place in popular culture as an Apple or a Facebook? The Hollywood storytelling tradition,built on the American cult of individual achievement, feeds the belief in a national history of invention and innovation.
Progress by committee? Not so compelling a
script, even though Apple succeeds on the hard
work of thousands. But the American inventor
mystique – the notion that one guy armed with a
combination of a good idea, hard work,
challenging conditions and a bit of snake oil, can
still change the world? That’s been a big seller
since Eli Whitney and the cotton gin.
When it comes to Jobs, comparisons are legion.
Like Edison? A little, but not really; Edison didn’t
understand the elegance of interfaces. Like
Barnum, selling the sizzle? Except that Jobs had
the steak, too. Perhaps more like broadcast
pioneers David Sarnoff and Bill Paley, who realized they must harness the pipeline – the airwaves, in their case – so that the content could flow through.
In a world of corporations and committees and consultation and collaboration, Jobs personified the power of the individual to effect an outcome
- or at least the appearance of it. He was nothing if not cinematic. He projected his own image onto giant screens behind him as he rolled out product after product like some
microchip Merlin. He was not merely a technologist; he was a stylemaker. Jobs “saw there was this personal quality to
computing,” says Paul Levinson, author of
“Cellphone: The Story of the World’s Most Mobile Medium and How It Has Transformed
Everything. “
“The attractiveness of the product . They’re gleaming, beautiful objects that are physically attractive,” Levinson says. “iPods are almost
worn as jewelry. Who would have imagined it
would have been cool to see wires coming out of somebody’s ear?”
Every medium, of course, needs messages.
Every container needs content. Every gadget, to endure, needs to transcend itself and become what the people who use it dream it could be.
Imagine, in the Foghat and Starland Vocal Band days of 1976 when Apple came into existence, if someone said you could acquire all the music you could listen to in a lifetime, from the best bands, in a matter of moments – and not by ordering 10 eight- track tapes for a penny from Columbia House. Unthinkable.
Imagine if, on the day Jobs introduced the Mac,someone said: Hey, wanna watch “Risky Business” on this screen that looks like a thick piece of paper? And we can read magazines and newspapers AND play Missile Command while we’re waiting for it to – what’s the word? -”download. ” Preposterous.
Sure, we had downloaded music and even movies before iTunes; yes, we had been digital when it came to reading before the App Store.
But again Apple stood in the intersection of utility and desire. Those services helped free content from physical format and let it go where people were able to utilize it.
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Siri on iPhone 4S lets you use your voice to send messages, schedule meetings, place phone calls, and more.
Ask Siri to do things just by talking the way you talk. Siri understands what you
say, knows what you mean, and even talks back. Siri is so easy to use and does so much, you’ll keep finding more and more ways to use it. It understands what you say.
Talk to Siri as you would to a person. Say something like “Tell my date I will be late.”
“Remind me to call my mom. ” “Any good places to eat around here?” And Siri answers you. It does what you say and finds the information you need .
And then it hits you. You’ re actually having a conversation with your iPhone. It knows what you mean.Siri not only understands what you say, it’ s smart enough to know what you mean . So when you ask
“Any good places to eat around here?” Siri will
reply “I found a number of restaurants near you.” And it will show you list of top restaurants(according to review)around you. Siri is proactive, so it will question you until it finds what you’re looking
for. It helps you do the things you do every day.
It helps you do the things you
do every day.
Ask Siri to text your dad, remind you to call the doctor , or find directions, and it figures out which apps to use and who you’re talking about. It finds answers for you from the web through sources like Yelp and WolframAlpha. Using Location Services , it looks up where you live , where you work , and where you are. Then it gives you
information and the best options based on your
current location. From the details in your contacts, it knows your friends, family, boss, and
coworkers. So you can tell Siri things like “Text
My boss I’ m on my way” or “Remind me to make a
dentist appointment when I get to work” or “Call a taxi” and it knows exactly what you mean and what to do . It has so much to tell you.When there’s something you need to do, just ask Siri to help you do it . It uses almost all the built -in
apps on iPhone 4 S to find the information you need . Siri writes and sends email messages and texts — and reads them to you, too . It searches the web for anything and everything you need to know. It plays the songs you want to hear. It helps you find your way and shows you around. It places calls. It schedules meetings. It helps you
remember. And it wakes you up. Siri tells you almost everything . And it even speaks for itself.
Here’ s another amazing way to get things done:
just use your voice. Instead of typing, tap the microphone icon on the keyboard. Then say what
you want to say and iPhone listens, Tap Done, and
iPhone converts your words into text . Use dictation to write messages, take notes, search the
web, and more. Dictation also works with third-party apps, so you can update your Facebook
status, tweet, or write and send Instagrams.
Siri is ready to change almost everything you can possibly think of. This reminds me of SkyNet from terminator.
Soon a revolution is gonna start everyone depending on Siri and again history will be created.
Apple just introduced its new app where you can find your friends…
Apart from that it unveiled new “nano” which is really sexier.. it will get a software update with a new clock face and a option for one icon per page. It comes in 7 colors, now the iPod nano is 8GB for $129, and 16GB for $149. Available today. Along with white iPod touch.
Also announced its icloud to be released at 12th October along with IOS 5.
Phil Schiller said that iphone 4s will have the same design…but from inside its all new..
With 8MP camera,A5,faster graphics,1080p HD recording.
It also introduced intelligent voice assistant-”siri” which looks pritty cool…if I say WAKE ME UP AT 6AM. Siri will set an alarm for 6AM.Siri will require iphone 4s(sorry iphone 4 users) and is the coolest feature of iphone 4S says Scott.
Scott Forestall talks about numbers where he said QUARTER BILLION DEVICES are sold and ipad3 is still No. 1.
Tim Cook took the stage at Apple HQ today to welcome everyone to today’s event. He welcomed every to Apple’s Town Hall, and mentioned how the company launched the iPod 10 years ago in the very same auditorium.
It’s time to talk numbers.
Retail
Cook noted that
- Apple has 357 stores in 11 countries
Mac
- 6 million downloads of OS X Lion to date. (80% more than Snow Leopard)
- The Mac is the number 1 best selling desktop and notebook in the US.
- The Mac is approaching 60 million users worldwide.
iPod and iTunes
- The iPod’s marketshare in the US has been above 70% the whole time.
- Apple has sold 300 million iPods.
- 45 million iPods sold since last June.
- 20 million songs in iTunes.
iPhone
- Tim said, “The iPhone 4 has sold over half of all the iPhones we’ve sold since we started.”
- The iPhone has seen 125% year over year growth.
- 93% of Fortune 500 companies are testing or deploying the iPhone.
- iPhone is number one in customer satisfaction.
- Apple has 5% overall market share for handsets globally.
iPad
- 95% satisfaction rates for the iPad.
- 92% of the Fortune 500 companies are testing/deploying iPads to employees. Cook said, “It’s unheard of.”
- “iPad is the undisputed, top selling tablet in the world,” said Cook.
- 3 out of the 4 tablets sold in the US are iPads.
- 250 million iOS devices have been sold.(cultofmac)
Also infinity blade 2 is announced and will hit the app store this December.
iPhone 4S will be available in black and white versions 16GB: $199, 32GB for $299, 64GB for $399.The company will begin accepting pre-orders this coming Friday, October 7 for buyers from the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, France and Germany. A week later, on October 14, pre-orders will begin in Japan. This initial roll out will be followed by 22 more countries on October 28 and 70 more countries by the end of this year. Also it is available on sprint.
Check out the details,videos about iphone4S at apple’s site.
Now what about ipad3,huh?
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“Music, iTunes+ iPod. Only 10 years ago that iPod
launched, and it not only revolutionized the way
people listened to music, but also the whole
music industry. Reminded all of us how much
we love music. Became a part of our lives.
Across that period of time, iPod became the #1
music player in the world . Market share has
been above 70 % for a very long time. Over that
time, have cumulatively sold over 300 million
iPods around the world . To put it in context, it
took Sony 30 years to sell 220 ,000 Walkman .
Now the MP3 market is a mature market. But
iPod is still a large and important market for
Apple. Have sold 45 million iPods in the last
year, ending in June . What’s more encouraging,
is that half of them are going to people who are
buying their first iPod . Many are going to people
who are just being introduced to Apple through
the iPod . This remains a very important business
for us.
Can’ t talk about music without talking about
iTunes. Started about 8 years ago. Started with
200,000 songs, now have 100 times that many.
20 million songs for sale. Features of the store
are absolutely incredible. Nobody could dream
of this back in 2003. Number one music store in
the world , and have now had more than 16
billion downloads. Mind- boggling, says Tim.
That’ s our music business. Very happy.
iPhone. “This could be a reason why the room is
full today. ” iPhone 4 in a very short period of
time has sold over half of the total iPhones sold
the entire time Apple ’s been making them. #1
smartphone in the world . That momentum
continued in the second calendar quarter, far
outpacing the industry (125 % growth vs 74% for
smartphones). Not just in one type of markets .
93% of Fortune 500 companies are testing or
deploying the iPhone. More important is that
customers love iPhone. Consistently rated #1 in
every customer satisfaction rating. Not #1 by a
small amount; “in fact, the iPhone is pummeling
the competition.” If you include satisfied AND
very satisfied, iPhone goes to 96%.
Also, JD Powers has rated iPhone #1 in customer
satisfaction number one for six consecutive
times. Despite all this, iPhone has 5% share of
worldwide handsets— not smartphones. Look at
overall handset market because they believe that
over time all phones will become smartphones.
Enormous opportunity for Apple. That ’s the
iPhone. “More coming up on iPhone.”
Next up is youngest product category : iPad.
People have been thrilled with original iPad and
iPad 2 announced earlier this year. Customer
satisfaction rating show a lot of love. 95 % score
in most recent survey. Showing up everywhere:
iPads in schools help kids learn in amazing new
ways. Believe iPads can change the way teachers
teach and kids learn. Many educators agree. In
fact, every state in the US now has an iPad pilot
program or deployment in place today or going
in place. Almost 1000 K12 schools have a 1 :1
program so a kid can enjoy the iPad for the
entire day. Not just in K 12. Higher ed is also
doing this. About 1000 universities in the US,
including Stanford, Notre Dame, UPenn, U
Chicago, all have iPads. In the cockpit, pilots are
replacing 40 lb. flight bags with paper manuals
and logbooks and nav charts and checklists,
making the pilot more efficient and the plane
more fuel efficient . “Yes , it’ s true!”
Also showing up in hospitals, where medical
professionals are using them to access patient
records, review images, administer bedside care.
Over 80 percent of the top hospitals in US are
testing or piloting iPads.
From the boardroom to the backroom and
everywhere in between, iPad is showing up. And
at this point —and this is a stunning number—
92% of the Fortune 500 are testing iPad. 3 out
of four tablets sold are iPads. All Things D:
“Consumers don’ t want tablets, they want
iPads.”
