Google Earth App is Updated With Street View, Improved Directions/Search

Google has updated its Google Earth app for iOS with street view, improved directions/search, and more.

Fly around the planet with a swipe of your finger with Google Earth for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Explore distant lands or reacquaint yourself with your childhood home. Search for cities, places, and businesses. Browse layers including roads, borders, places, photos and more. Visit the Earth Gallery to find exciting maps such as real-time earthquakes, planes in flight, hiking trails, city tours, and more. Integrated Google Maps Street View allows you to explore the world at street level.

Highlights:
Use the new “tour guide” to easily discover exciting new places to explore. With a quick swipe on the tab at the bottom of the screen, you can bring up a selection of virtual tours from around the globe. 

With new 3D imagery, you can now fly through complete 3D recreations of select cities, including San Francisco, Boston, Rome, and others. With every building modeled in 3D, you truly get a sense of flying above the city. 3D imagery is available on iPhone 4S and iPad 2 or later.

What's New In This Version:
* Google Maps Street View: With Street View, you can explore the world at street level. 
* Improved directions/search: Updated directions let you can visualize transit, walk, bike and drive directions in 3D while update search result list will let you browse search results quickly. 
* Improved interface: Easily browse and enable different layers through use of new left hand panel 

You can download Google Earth from the App Store for free.

iOS 6 vs. iOS 7 Icon Comparison [Chart]

Check out this comparison chart of old iOS 6 icons versus the new iOS 7 icons.

The chart was created by @pawsupforu and features twenty four icons that Apple has redesigned for its new operating system.

Now that you can see them side by side, what do you think?

WWDC 2013 Session Videos Now Available

Apple has announced that WWDC 2013 sessions are now available for registered developers to view.

The Apple Worldwide Developers Conference is off to an exciting start, and Registered Apple Developers can follow along each day with session videos on the WWDC site or on the go with the WWDC app.

You can download the WWDC app from the link below or click here to view the videos as they are posted online.

Apple Releases iTunes 11.0.4

Apple today released iTunes 11.0.4 which fixes an issue that may cause iTunes to quit if you switch between wired and wireless syncing.

This update fixes a problem that may cause iTunes to quit if you switch between wired and wireless syncing and addresses an issue that may require you to log into the iTunes Store repeatedly.

For information on the security content of this updat,e please visit:http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1222.

iTunes 11.0.3 introduced a new MiniPlayer, Improved Songs View, and Multi-Disc Albums.

You can download the update by selectingSoftware Update from the Apple menu at the top left of the screen.

Google Chrome Browser for iOS Gets Conversational Voice Search

Google has updated its Chrome Browser for iOS with conversational voice search!

Browse fast with Chrome, now available on your iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. Sign in to sync your personalized Chrome experience from your computer, and bring it with you anywhere you go.

Search fast
• Search and navigate fast, directly from the same box. Choose from results that appear as you type.

Simple, intuitive experience
• Open and quickly switch between an unlimited number of tabs. On your iPhone and iPod touch, flip through tabs the way you would fan a deck of cards. On iPad, swipe from edge to edge to switch tabs.

Sign in
• Sign in to Chrome to sync your open tabs, bookmarks, passwords, and omnibox data from your computer to your iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad. Pick up right where you left off.
• Send pages from Chrome on your computer to your iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad with one click and read them on the go, even if you’re offline.

Privacy
• Open a tab in Incognito* to browse without saving your history.

What's New In This Version:
Improved voice search!
● Say what you want and get results back without typing
● Faster voice recognition with text streamed on the fly
● Get answers spoken back to you with web results tailored to your questions

Faster page reloading
● Pages reload faster even when the network is slow or unavailable

Stability / security improvements and bug fixes

You can download Chrome from the App Store for free. For those who want to try the new feature on their desktops, Google launched its conversational voice search feature for Chrome 27 last month.