Winner identity of the 10,000 dollars iTunes Card

As you may have read in our columns last Saturday, the symbolic figure of 25 billion apps downloaded from the AppStore was exceeded early around 6 am. If it was not known until now the identity of the winner of the super card from Apple iTunes (10,000 dollars to spend on the iTunes Store), we now know the name of the lucky.

Winner : This is Fu Chunli a girl of Qingdao in China. She won the contest by downloading the best selling Disney App Where is my water?.

Where ia my water? (App Store Link - € 0.79)

We thank our customers and developers for helping us to cross this historic milestone of 25 billion apps downloaded," Eddy Cue is expressed, the boss in charge of Internet service from Apple. "When the App Store was launched nearly four years ago, we had no idea that the phenomenon of mobile applications would become so big, or that developers would create so many amazing apps for iOS users.

To date, the AppStore has 550,000 apps, including a third iPad.

Requiem (iTunes and iBooks DRM Remover)

In an earlier post we explained how to bypass Kindle Fire Books to work on iPad and it was possible. So what about to bypass Apple DRM Protection to make Apple eBooks or iTunes Music & Videos work on other platforms?

It is now ancient history because Requiem (FairPlay) has just been updated to version 3.3, and this new version brings the ability to remove iBooks DRM! Bypassing the DRM will be possible from now to read eBooks from Apple on any device, even if it is not iOS. It will now also be possible to convert them to any other eBook format!

Now you can download Requiem for free!

Requiem 3.3.5 is latest version and compatible with Mac & Windows and able to remove the protection on media content (Music and Movies) taken from iTunes, and the protection on iBooks as well.

Warning : Apple still makes sure to block the use of software such as the Requiem as and updates to iTunes, so expect a new version soon.

What iTunes Version is compatible with the current Requiem?

Requiem 3.3.5 can't work perfectly with iTunes 10.6, because iTunes has updated some protections. If you eagerly want to bypass the protections, here are the iTunes 10.5.3 download link. Remove iTunes 10.6 first, install iTunes 10.5.3 and re-download the file you want to decrypt, then run Requiem 3.3.5

iTunes 10.5.3 download links:
 
iTunes 10.5.3 win-32bit
iTunes 10.5.3 win-64bit
iTunes 10.5.3 mac

How to use the current Requiem?

Download : Rapidshare Direct Links for Requiem 3.3.4 (Windows), Requiem 3.3.4 (MaC) and Requiem 3.3.4 (Source Code).

Torrent : Here is Requiem 3.3.5 Torrent Download Link for both operating systems.

New design of App Store and iTunes Store

The launch of iTunes in 2009, Apple has laid a new design of its iTunes Store, including music, TV shows, movies, applications (App Store). This is the design we know today. But in the computer world - just as in other areas - must be renewed to avoid boring its users. So Apple is in the process of embellishing his store included within iTunes, according to 9to5Mac. The California firm seeks to improve its content following the arrival of streaming music services like Spotify in the U.S. or Amazon. Many new customers have turned to these new alternatives now know a great success. Apple had to react.

The new look should land over the year 2012. It is supposed to be easier for the user, more welcoming than the current model. Obviously, a faster increase is part of the important things to work, Apple is about to blow. But this improvement in speed would cover both the fluidity of the software that speed to find specific content. All with as icing on the cake to be more attractive, which joined the aspect of "welcoming".

The availability date is not known, although it indicated over 2012. But as we know already, Apple will offer the public OS X Lion Mountain this summer. It is not impossible that the submission date is correlated with the release of the animal for our Mac. Of course, a Windows version is planned. The release date could be done either in conjunction with the presentation, either in the fall ... for the release of the iPhone 5.

iTunes accounts are being hacked

Hacking of iTunes accounts, many of us would go willingly ... According to The Global Mail, yet another wave of customers registered on the iTunes Store were victims these days of hacking their account. Hackers exploit the information from these accounts to buy iTunes prepaid cards, as well as articles on the Apple Store online! The firm quickly became aware of the support forums and took the lead.

Apple has announced that it would repay the stolen money and restore the hacked accounts as soon as possible. Somewhat surprisingly, Apple refuses to open an investigation, claiming there was not a real security problem with iTunes accounts. This reminds us of the strange case of IMessage bug where Apple is also a deaf ear.

More exotic, some hackers use stolen accounts to rate their applications themselves! The Global Mail and mentions the case of a hacker who stole 400 Taiwanese accounts to assign grades to their apps on the App Store. Less annoying for customers pirated.

Apple stream concert by Paul McCartney

To mark the release of a new album by Paul McCartney, Apple will offer to watch streaming an exclusive concert by British artist taking place in the Capitol Studios. Fans of Beatle can observe the different performance this Friday, February 10. It will be necessary against, for us French, to be kind of early risers. Indeed, the event will start at 4am. Platforms in place to watch the show are iTunes and Apple TV. On the latter, it will go to the tab "iTunes Live" under the Internet menu.

Love to the Beatles Apple continues unabated. We remember that Apple had introduced the iTunes Store in 2010 the English group. It is also touted for several weeks through advertisements or even of the emphasis on its music store.

Take courses for free

Today, I was looking for new apps on appstore. iTunes U is finally out to download for free in the appstore. You can download courses and get to learn for free. The main interface for the application is really simple and stylish it's a catalog of courses you have downloaded that look like books.

As you can see, this applications is the start of a new learning method as it a mark of how serious is Apple to get into Technical Education. I, myself downloaded this great application on my iPad and I feel so happy to explore the free courses I have been gifted.

This is a picture from my iPad 2 :

It's smooth to surf through the iTunes U and it's free to download also with its free courses. iTunes you gives you the access to complete courses from leading universities and other schools. I can tell it's the biggest digital catalog of free education content in the world. You can download it and get educated for free on your iPad, iPhone or iPod. Luckily, now we have a tool to help us in anywhere and anytime. Notice that you can download iTunes only on iOS 5.0 or Above using you Apple ID.

For me it immediately caught my interest after hearing it at the conference, and I had to download it. I can see iTunes U being a big revolutionary step for the great Apple company to further provide and engage Apple users in education worldwide. So, what about you? Are you going to download it? trust me it deserves all attention.

That's all folks

Thank you  for reading,

Android App Test using Mobile Conduit's free app builder

Today I made an Android app which takes content from this website http://www.puttycad.co.uk and shows latest updates etc.

I used an online app generator called Mobile Conduit. Fairly easy to use, although still in Beta, so some functions and marketing tools etc. aren't totally implemented yet.   Did I mention the service is FREE! For that alone I thought it was worth playing around with and was pleased with the results.

the Android apps have to go through and approval process to go on the Market but hopefully that shouldn't be a problem. Until I find out if it's up, here's a link to the test web version and a pic of it on my Android phone using the Conduit Preview App. The iPhone App process requires you to have a Mac and an iTunes developer account before you can submit the app for approval.

http://mob.conduit.com/puttycad