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Customers wanting to take a look at the Apple Watch in person lined up today outside the Apple Store in Palo Alto, California. Just as with this morning's lineup in New York City, iMore was there today in Palo Alto, with photos and video curtesy of our own Rene Ritchie. The Apple Watch won't be available until April 24, but that didn't stop people from lining up to be some of the first to try the device on. Customers were able to get their hands on the watch, and try them on. The Apple Store employees were on-hand to answer any questions related to the watch, as well as the new MacBook, which was also available at the store. Apple CEO Tim Cook also put in an…

Research firm comScore showed that Apple still remains the top US smartphone manufacturer. Apple stills comes out in front as the top smartphone manufacturer, but they did experience a small drop from 41.8% to 41.7%. Samsung is up next, also with a drop, from 29.7% to 28.6%, but LG managed to pick up some shares, from 7.6% up to 8.3%. Motorola lost very little from 5.2$% to 5.1% while HTC went up to 3.8% from 3.7%. iOS held 41.7% of the smartphone platform marketshare, coming in just behind Android. Android's share in the market sits at 52.8%, which is up compared to the 52.6% of the market it held in November 2014. Coming in second is iOS, which fell ever-so-slight…

Apple is now selling the Beats Solo2 Wireless headphones in silver, space gray, and gold. The new colors for the Beats Solo2 Wireless match the current color options on the iPhone and iPad lines, and are available exclusively from the Apple Online Store. The gold, space gray, and silver versions were announced by Beats on Twitter: New Day. New Colors. http://t.co/1dyApkPQGj #Solo2Wireless pic.twitter.com/XXfkTPeUc5 — Beats By Dre (@beatsbydre) April 10, 2015 If none of these colors are to your taste, you can always grab the Solo2 Wireless in red, blue, white, or black. The Beats Solo2 Wireless are a set of on-ear headphones, announced back in Novembe…

Curious customers anxious to see the Apple Watch in person lined up outside Apple's Fifth Avenue store in NYC this morning to take a look. iMore was there, thanks to the intrepid videography and photography of our own Mark Guim. While the Watch doesn't actually become available until April 24th, Apple Stores around the world are welcoming customers to actually go try them on beginning today! Prospective Apple Watch buyers were able to get their hands — or their wrists, at least — on the new device, trying them on, seeing how they worked, and asking questions of the Apple Store employees who were there to assist them. Apple Watches come in a variety of sizes and…

Sprint has launched a new international roaming plan for customers visiting Latin America, Japan, and Europe. Sprint's new International Value Roaming will give customers unlimited 2G data and texting while in a number of Latin American and European countries, as well as Japan. International Value Roaming is available free of charge, and can be easily added to any existing Sprint plan. Beginning today, Sprint is introducing International Value Roaming, giving customers the ability to travel to major areas in Latin America, Europe and Japan and roam with up to 2G speeds to read emails and surf the web at no additional charge. Additionally, they can send unlimited …

If you've ever received spam in the form of an iMessage, it's a good idea to report it as junk to Apple. While you've always been able to report iMessages as spam, you can now do it in a lot fewer steps if you're running iOS 8.3 or above. Reporting junk iMessages will help Apple to remove spammer accounts from their servers, making iMessage a much happier place for everyone. In order to report an iMessage as junk, just follow these steps: Keep in mind that you'll only see an option to mark a message as junk if it's an iMessage, meaning a blue bubble message. Green bubble, or regular SMS, messages won't have the junk option. You can however completely block both iM…

A new story says that Nokia is reportedly "exploring" the idea of selling off its HERE Maps division. The company may decide to ditch the maps business in part to concentrate its time on its wireless network division. HERE Maps is already getting some interest from other companies and private-equity firms, according to Bloomberg's unnamed sources. It adds: The Finnish company, which is working with a financial adviser, may decide against a sale if it can't get a price it deems sufficient, the people said. HERE reported full-year sales of 970 million euros and an operating loss of 1.24 billion euros, including a goodwill impairment of 1.21 billion euros, accor…

A number of developers have opened up about the lessons they learned while developing apps for the Apple Watch. The Apple Watch, is generally meant for quick interactions: checking the time, looking up a score for a game, or sending a text. Brevity and simplicity are among the best practices for designing an Apple Watch app, and while some developers initially planned on simply creating smaller versions of their exiting iPhone apps, many found that they needed to re-think their apps for the much smaller screen of the watch. On the Apple Watch, notifications have become particularly important, according to The Wall Street Journal: Adam Grossman, founder of Dark Sk…

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Built-in Camera app on your iPhone just isn't enough? The App Store is full of alternatives to take your photography to new levels! Whether you just want to take more stunning shots in general, or need to focus on something more specific, like HDR or long exposure photography, there are tons of third party camera apps to choose from. A lot even offer manual controls for things such as exposure and focus. Want more control over file output? You can have that too. No matter what your iPhone photography needs are, there's something for everyone. As with most apps, manual camera apps aren't always one size fits all. Follow along and we'll help you figure out which manua…

The Force is with us big-time this week: We’ve got stories about Skype Translator debuting in Mandarin and Italian, Build 2015 making a first-ever road tour worldwide, and all six Star Wars films being available digitally for the first time on Xbox Video. Skype Translator adds two more languages, Mandarin and Italian, joining Spanish and English in the preview program. Adding Mandarin Chinese is quite a feat; it’s a “very challenging language to learn, even for Skype Translator,” noted Yasmin Khan in a Skype blog post. “With approximately 10,000 characters and multiple tones, this is one of the most difficult languages for a native English speaker to master, along with…

We're only a few hours into Apple Watch pre-order day, and already I want to put my fist through a wall. New Apple product releases have become a sadly predictable affair in watching people desperately trying to get their place in line, only to be disappointed when things don't go their way. I'm sick and tired of it. Not getting your Apple Watch on April 24th? Shut up. Consider yourself fortunate — blessed, even — that this is your pressing concern. The Apple Watch only went on pre-order sale in the wee hours this morning, and already I'm seeing plenty of sturm und drang from folks on social media who are upset that the ship time on their order doesn't gu…

"She may not look like much, but she's got it where it counts, kid. I've added some special modifications myself." I love the Millennium Falcon. The idea of a junky space ship being faster than all the fancy ones really appeals to me. And in part, I think this is why I love tinkering with my Macs so much. Recently, my 2012 Macbook Pro started acting up, and I got The Fear. Video glitches, trackpad freakouts, high CPU temps, and random shutdowns. It was clear: I needed to move laptops. And as pretty as the new MacBook is, it's a little too much for my pocketbook right now. Instead, I opted for the thick, "outdated," 13-inch non-Retina Macbook Pro. And I love it. S…

Star Wars fans are in for a treat today as the original trilogy and the prequels are now available in HD as digital downloads from Google Play. You can either buy the movies individually — which will set you back $19.99 each — or at a bundled price of $89. The movies are "Special Edition" versions that include newer special effects and deleted scenes. The bundle also includes extras such as documentaries, interviews with the cast and behind-the-scenes footage. To commemorate the launch, iTunes is highlighting apps, games and books related to the franchise along with the movie listings. In addition to iTunes, the collection is available on Amazon, Google Play and X…

Not sure what Apple Watch you should order? Schedule an in-store try-on session to help! Coinciding with Apple Watch pre-orders, you can also book in-store appointments to try on different Apple Watches. If reading our massive Apple Watch buyer's guide has left you still deciding between more than one mode, an in-store appointment to try them on is definitely your best bet. This is especially the case if you're still debating between casing sizes. Luckily, booking one is super simple. Here's how! How to schedule an Apple Watch try-on appointment at your local Apple Store Go to apple.com in any web browser. Click on the Store tab in the top navigation. Scrol…

Apple Watch is now available for pre-order, so the question becomes — which one did you pre-order? Which Apple Watch did you get? I went with the 42mm Space Black Apple Watch. 4-6 weeks delivery though. My mother and sister both went space gray Apple Watch Sport. Looks like 3-5 weeks delivery for them. Depending on the case and band you chose, and how fast you chose it, you might be getting yours on April 24... or sometime thereafter. So, vote in the poll to the left to let me know which case you went with, and add your details, including shipping estimate below, including any extra bands you might have picked up. (I added a black sport band and a Milanese, becau…

A newly-released ransomware strain's poor coding allows victims in most cases to access their files without parting with a cent. A new strain of ransomware has been broken, allowing for victims to circumvent payment and access their locked data. The Scraper ransomware, originally known as Torlocker, was discovered in October last year and granted the name Trojan-Ransom.Win32.Scrape. The ransomware encrypts a victim's files -- including documents, video, images and database copies -- and demands a ransom of at least $300 to unlock and decrypt documents. However, due to errors in encryption algorithms, in 70 percent of cases files can be unlocked without submitting…

Share directly via iCloud, Mail, Messages, or AirDrop, or socially with Twitter, Facebook, Vimeo, or Flicker. Either way, you can do it quickly and easily right from Photos for OS X. Simply find the picture or video you want to share — or multiple pictures or videos — choose the way you want to share them, and you're good to go. Thanks to OS X sharing extensions, other services can plug in as well. It's the fastest, easiest way to get your pictures and videos from where they are to where you want them to be. How to share a single image or video with Photos for OS X Launch the Photos app on your Mac running OS X Yosemite or higher. Find the image or video you wa…

A few of you have written in to say Touch ID isn't working to authorize iTunes or App Store purchases, and/or for third party apps, following the iOS 8.3 update. We've not been able to duplicate the problem on any of our devices, but after helping several people, we have come across what looks to be a working Touch ID fix for those affected. Best of all, it's a simple one! How to fix Touch ID not working in iOS 8.3 Launch Settings on your iPhone or iPad Tap on Touch ID & Passcode Enter your Passcode or Password Toggle iTunes & App Store to OFF Press the Home button to return to the Home screen. Reboot your iPhone or iPad. (Here's how) Enter your Pa…

Don't let the name fool you, Photos for OS X also stores all your videos. Whether you synced them from your iPhone or iPad using iCloud Photo Library or imported the manually, all your movie moments are right there alongside your images. Editing, however, is a different story. While you can trim videos in Photos for Mac, that's about all the editing you can do. For more, including titles, traditions, and other effects, you have to escalate to iMovie. How to trim a video in Photos for OS X If you started or stopped recording a little too early or late, it's easy to remove the excess from the begging or end of your video. Launch Photos for OS X on your Mac. …

Apple's message that Apple Watch is "the most personal and intimate device we've ever created" resonates with me in two ways. First, regarding the Apple Watch as an object, as a timepiece and fashion accessory: It's been years since I regularly wore a watch, but Apple Watch is pushing to change that. From everything I've seen and heard about the watch, I would be thrilled to wear it every day. As with Apple's other products, the watch seemingly strikes a good balance of form and function. Secondly, the Watch as a device — how it works and how one interacts with it — is bound to have far-reaching effects on users with disabilities. As a person with visual and motor dela…

If you're more comfortable in Photoshop, Pixelmator, Acorn, or another image editor, your instinct might immediately be to 'Edit with..." That way you way you don't have to worry about photo-specific workflows, you can get right down to nudging pixels. Apple's new Photos for OS X, however, doesn't include support for external editors, at least not yet. So, if you really want to move your images out of Photos and into your favorite image editor for Mac, what can you do? The answer is to manually round-tip them. That's because not only is there now "Edit with..." option in Photos for OS X, currently you can't even drag directly from Photos and into another editor. …

Apple Watch pre-orders start 12:01AM PT/3:01AM ET/8:01AM GMT! It's almost time once more for thousands of eager Apple product buyers to smash Apple's web servers into oblivion. Yes, the Apple Watch is coming, and coming soon — preorders begin Friday morning for the West, East, and European coasts. If you haven't yet planned your pre-order strategy, let us help you with these tips on getting your pre-order in and set without too much fuss. Pick your style If you're preordering at the crack of dawn, chances are you have an inkling of what you want to pick up already. If you don't, both Apple.com and the Apple Store app have detailed and thorough explanations a…

Histogram, sharpen, definition, noise reduction, vignette, white balance, and levels can all be added to your photo adjustment options. That elevates Photos for OS X from a basic photo editing tool to something more advanced. The histogram, for example, lets you see the distribution of light and dark, red, blue, and green pixels within your image. Sharpen and definition can help make the blurry more clear. Vignette darkens images around the edges, and white balance and levels let you change casts, crush blacks, and more. All you have to do is turn them on! How to access white balance, histograms, noise reduction, and more in Photos for Mac Launch the Photos app …

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