Discover Apps & Get Rewarded With FreeMyApps

As a student who is currently furthering my studies in the United States of America, I tend to make purchases from online stores like Amazon, iTunes Store, Groupon, and some other online stores. Discovering this application is an advantage for me to make my purchases discounted and they might even be free from these online stores but it depends on points you had accumulated. What this application does is by requesting you to download promoted FREE apps and use the apps for at least 30 seconds in order to accumulate points. At a certain accumulated points, you will be able to claim your points for the gift cards up to $50 worth. Does it sounds great to you? [Download Link]

Free My Apps is the app's name. [Download Link]

Upon launching the app.

The main menu where the promoted FREE apps will be listed.

Keep on accumulate your points to redeem them for these free gift cards.

The redeemable gift cards are as follow:
1. iTunes
2. Amazon
3. Hulu Plus Subscription
4. Fandango Bucks
5. XBox Live
6. Groupon
7. Shutterfly

Apple Earpods : A Revolution In Earbuds

With the announcement of the Apple iPhone 5 about a month ago, Apple had presented the new redesigned earphone, Earpods, that is selling $29 each on the Apple stores' racks which it is selling at RM109 in Malaysia. And if you intended to reward yourself with the new iPhone 5, it is included in the box together with the iPhone. It's like "Finally! Apple has finally took action in replacing its dreaded earphone!" but is this over-engineered earphone worth the money? Let's check it out.

The Earpods comes with a travel case which is very useful if you are bringing it around. As you can see that there are major improvements on the design which it can be said totally different with the old dreaded earphone. Getting rid of the old earphone design that has rubber wraps around it is a good thing because it is annoying with the torn-off rubbers on your old Apple earphone. The new design was designed to channel your musics directly towards your eardrums. The in-line remote and mic are bigger than the old ones and they are now having more tactile feel. The mic has the Siri emblem instead of a "dot" behind the in-line remote.

At first, I thought of that the new Earpods will probably falls off easily without the rubber wrapping around the buds. The design of this Earpods does fits comfortably in into my earbuds and be amazed, it does not falls off easily as we thought it could.

The sound quality of this Earpods vastly improved and it is numerous times than the old Apple earphone. I was so surprised to listen to my musics with smoother, fuller and more balanced, with improved emphasis on the bass and low mids sound quality. Having it tested in a public area, Border's Starbucks as an example, I really enjoyed listening to my musics at most of the time. The only noises I heard at that moment were loud conversations and crying kids with about 50% of the volume which is simply amazing to me.

In a nutshell, I am very satisfy with Earpods so far that has a revamped design and vastly improved sound quality. It really does worth the money if you are looking for an earphone with a strict budget!

Desired Mobile Phones Across The Time And Forward

When we were just small little kids a decade or less ago during the "N" branded mobile phone era, I suppose the majority of the populations preferred the exact same model under the category of cellphones whereas there were indeed quite numerous people who had got themselves the "M" branded flippable handsets with extendable antennas before the introductions of cellphones with color screens capabilities and wider range of brands. That, had happened when I was in the primary school and I were given a Nokia 8860 cellphone by my brother who had changed to a new phone at that time.

Continuing on when I was studying in the high school, brand names of "SE" and "M" has gotten popular together with the "N". Influenced by a classmate of mine in Form 3 during the high school who owned a "SE" walkman phone and eventually wanted to change for a new color screen mobile phone. We together were discussing yet comparing about phones for a few days literally in the school. It was one of my dilemma in my life for choosing one out of the two popular mobile phones. At the end, I bugged my father to get me the Motorola V3i. V3i at that moment has the key feature of being able to synchronize your music playlists from your iTunes in your computer despite its coolness when you flip-to-answer your phone calls.

The Apple Original iPhone which is also known as the iPhone 2G was announced in January and launched back in 2007 the same year when I got my V3i, my brother who was furthering his studies in the United States of America had got me this awesome device and finally I had my hands on that iPhone 2G after months of waiting, patiently and impatiently. The iPhone 2G has to be jailbroken and unlocked for use in other countries outside America, so I was once a mini developer in the jailbreaking community. I could not imagine how much time I had spent with the iPhone 2G identifying and modifying the system files and eventually created my own themes and whatsoever that had caused the downturn in my academic performance. FYI, the jailbroken iOS device ran with Installer instead of Cydia on the early firmwares of 1.1.1 until 1.1.4 if I am not mistaken. That is when the growth of an Apple geek of inner me began.

Proceeding to the working days of mine in my local authorized Apple premium reseller after graduated from the high school, I got myself the iPhone 3GS with the subsidization I got from my father. Getting the iPhone 3GS at that moment was like cutting over a slow-moving object in front of me because the iPhone 2G was getting slower and slower with the firmware updates available from Apple that got me frustrated over the speed of overall performance of the phone especially when launching a simple application of messages that took about 8-10 seconds to load. The iPhone 3GS had served me really well until I switched to Samsung Galaxy S2 running on Android platform.

The Nokia N95, iPhone 4, and Galaxy S2.

Today, there are thousands of thousands of ranges of smartphones (mobile phones) available in the market today. But what is the ideal phone that will definitely suit your usage of all time? Personally, I need a phone with the fastest speed and even longer battery life that keeps me connected to the social networks, emails, web surfing, and any other usages without having the feel of sluggish. In order words, I am hoping that there will be a phone that would probably works as perfect as a personal computer where the websites are accessible in desktop version without any boundaries we are having now and any other limitations. PS even the interface of Blogger blogpost composer is not satisfying in the iPad. For now, does the rumors of quad core processors really matter in the upcoming phones or is it the mobile OSes and user interfaces really really matter and need to be seriously improved? What do you think and what were your desired mobile phones from the past?

What's New In iPod, iPad, and iPhone iOS 5 & Direct Downloads

Apple has just released its final version of iOS 5 on the 12th of October that is 13th of October in Malaysia. iOS devices' users had been very excited towards the release of the final version of iOS 5 which came with a major upgrade in a form of incentive from the Apple. I was excited yet also delighted because I managed to download the firmware early in the morning with the unusual speed, what a grateful morning I had! So what are the major upgrades that made iPod, iPhone, and iPad users crave for updating their iOS devices as soon as possible? The iMessage, Notification Center, and Wi-fi Sync are the main feature that made me craved for the update personally as multitouch gestures I had them months before the final version release without jailbreaking. Unfortunately, the multitouch gestures are only available for both iPad and iPad 2 users.

First, right after you updated your iOS devices to iOS 5, the feature you will be first experienced with is PC Free.


From left to right until bottom, screenshots showing new settings available in iOS 5.

Let us go in brief, finally numerous new sounds were added for selections in ringtone, text tone, new & sent mail, tweet, and so on. iCloud, a wireless storage for users' musics, photos, documents, reminders, bookmarks, and more will be pushed to the iOS devices wirelessly. Next, Notification Center settings. We are able to sort our notifications manually or by time, customize the alert styles, and so on. The notifications work like a charm! The integration of Twitter in iOS 5 allows us to tweet our photos, Safari, YouTube, and more right from the apps themselves. The keyboard shortcut is another great feature for users to type only "hhh" as "hahaha" on the keyboard as an example, it is also customizable by users for any shortcuts on the words they want.

The Notification Center allows you to simply swipe to view them from the lockscreen and also swipe them down from status bar. 

The user interface of Mail has improved especially on the ability of styling your words while composing your emails and quote leveling.

The iMessage where you can message your friends with iOS devices. The cool user interface of integrated Twitter in iOS 5.

The revamped UI of iPod.app that is changed to Music.app

Besides having the ability to edit your photos, you are also able to create photo albums too!

Split keyboard is nice but I need some time for getting used to it. Calendar is now allowing users to view calendars by year.

Despite the other new features of Newsstand, Safari Reader, Game Center, and Air Mirroring, these are all the feature that I personally find them interesting. The performance of my iPad 2 in iOS 5 is not affected as expected as it is still considered as the youngest product of iPad family. The battery? I find it drains a little bit more faster but this must be due to the settings of fetching mails and notifications.

So, what are your opinions on the new iOS 5? Or are you still looking for the iOS 5 firmware downloads? 

iPhone 4

iPhone 4 (GSM)

iPhone 4 (CDMA)

iPhone 3GS

iPad 2 Wifi

iPad 2 GSM

iPad 2 CDMA

iPad

iPod Touch 3G

iPod Touch 4G

Enable iPod, iPhone, iPad & iTunes Home Sharing

Ever wanted to listen to the latest songs or podcasts that you downloaded in your iOS devices from the iTunes without synchronizing it everytime? That sounds pretty impossible to you right? Not until a week ago, I felt silly as an iPad user who recently discovered this feature after quite some time. Well, the steps taken to enable the Home Sharing is very easy. Of course, you need to connect your iPad and your computer in a same wireless network and also a same Apple ID.

First of all, click on "Turn On Home Sharing" from your iTunes under Advanced in your computer.

  

Second, enter your Apple ID and password under iPod in the Settings from your iOS devices. After entering the Apple ID and password, you are now able to select the shared library from your computer in your iOS devices by tapping the "Library" above Music on the top left corner from your iPod.app. Enjoy listening your updated songs and podcasts without keep on synchronizing at home!

iPhone 3GS iOS4.2

Apple released its iOS 4.2.1 updates for all its iOS devices that brings a major update for iPad users with multitasking ability, unified mailbox and so on like what iPhone and iPod Touch customers had in iOS 4.0.


So, what will you have in the update of iOS 4.2 with your 3GS?


The good news and the unhappy news on the texting application. The good news is you are now able to set different texting tones for different contacts. The unhappy news is the new texting tones are only available for iPhone 4.


The Airplay feature allows you to stream your media wirelessly from your iOS devices to your Apple TV, Airport Extreme and Airplay enabled speakers with a single tap on the Airplay option.


Next, you are now able to print your documents and photos wirelessly.


The other feature is you are now able to slide to adjust the volume output by swiping left again after the first widgets in your multitasking bar. Personally, I prefer pressing the volume buttons.


Last but not least, you may now change the fonts of the texts in your Notes in within 3 different fonts.

In a nutshell, the overall performance after updating to iOS 4.2 in 3GS runs as smooth as usual. GREEN LIGHT for this update!