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Cloak - Free VPN Service for Mac, iPad, and iPhone

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There is a new VPN service on the Apple scene — and it's simple to use. It's called 'Cloak', and they offer a free service for up to 2hrs online or 1GB of secured traffic. This is great for when you are making a quick stop at Panera Bread, hotel, conference, or anywhere they have unsecured Wi-Fi. If you want more than the free account, you can pay $8/mo w/ 20GB of data, or $15/mo for 50GB of data. This is a fairly inexpensive solution for what it provides. 

If you are a geek and want to know all of the technical details, check out their 'technology deep dive'. 

I've been testing the free Cloak service on the Mac, and it's drop dead simple. I have mine configured to use the Cloak VPN service whenever I am on an unencrypted Wi-Fi network. 

They also have a client for your iOS devices as well — so you can ostensibly protect all of your traffic on your Apple Devices. 

Worth a look — check it out. 

Cloak - Free 

iOS 5.1 Update Now Available

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iOS5 is now available for updating on your iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad. It offers several new features, and it's a recommended upgrade.

Here's what you get:

  1. Japanese language support for Siri
  2. Photos can now be deleted from Photo Stream
  3. Camera shortcut now always visible on Lock Screen for iPhone 4S, iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS and iPod touch (4th generation)
  4. Camera face detection now highlights all detected faces
  5. Redesigned Camera app for iPad
  6. Genius Mixes and Genius playlists for iTunes Match subscribers
  7. Audio for TV shows and movies on iPad optimized to sound louder and clearer
  8. Podcast controls for playback speed and a 30 second rewind for iPad
  9. Updated AT&T network indicator
  10. Addresses bugs affecting battery life
  11. Fixes an issue that occasionally caused audio to drop for outgoing calls

We had no trouble updating via Over The Air, but we have heard some reports of folks trying to do this update via iTunes at this time.

 

 

 

Apple Unveils New iPad with LTE

Retina iconApple has unveiled their highly anticipated iPad -- which they are not calling an iPad 3 nor an iPad HD -- both which were predicted by everybody.

If you haven't see the display, it's a 2048x1536 Retina Display at 264 pixels per inch,  which when held out about 15" from your face, normal viewing distance, that the human eye can't even distinguish them. Since this has so many pixels, Apple powers it with their new A5X Processor -- so an incredibly fast graphics processor. Faster graphics also includes new ability for 1080P high definition recording and playback with the new iSight camera on the rear, and a FaceTime (I'm assuming lower resolution) on the front.

If you live in North America, you have the option of LTE network compatibility. That's code for REALLY Fast 4G speeds. Verizon has LTE 4G in over 150 cities, and more every week. AT&T's rollout is slow. Very slow, although the places they have LTE are pretty fast.

As usual, it's available in 16, 32, and 64 GB models. Each one is also available for about an extra $130 w/ LTE capability.

 

Apple Drops Price on iPad 2 to $399 and up

With the release of the latest iPad, Apple has decided to keep the iPad 2 in the lineup -- a very capable and amazing iPad at a new price point of $399 for a 16GB Wi-Fi version.

If you want 3G+Wi-Fi, then for just $529, you can claim that model as well.

Good news for people who would like a smaller price to enter the iPad universe. Some pundits predicted that Apple would do this, but by and large most were predicting a $349 price point. If you need an even lower point of entry, you can always look in the Apple online Refurbished store, and you can probably get close to that price.

Good luck, Android.

 

 

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