The update is made official is available for download you can update your iOS directly from the device Settings –> General –> Software Update, or if you rely on manual updating then I have packed up iOS 5.1.1 IPSW files below for download.

It is much important for iOS device owners to apply latest updates from Apple as soon as possible because the updated code is available and hackers would have made reverse-engineering it finding how vulnerabilities worked so they can utilize that information and target those iOS users who haven’t applied the update.

Download iOS 5.1.1 IPSW Files

Download IOS 5.1.1 For IPhone 4S
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Download IOS 5.1.1 For IPhone 4
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Microsoft and Google’s recent stance was really remarkable and they have launched services, such as SkyDrive and Google drive respectively to give Dropbox a run for money. However, Dropbox is also not a species to tolerate dejection. So, it has come up with improved services and lurkers such as Samsung, Sony and Apple. Let us take a closer look at what is the offer that each of them have for us.

Positive Features Of Services

Google Drive, the extended user end service of Google, has finally hit the market, thereby ending months of speculation. The good news that it offers us is that it comes with 5 GB free service and as much as 1TB in exchange of a nominal monthly fee. Added to this, a host of easy to operate sharing options comes as a bonus treat from Google. The Microsoft evolution, Sky Drive gets a fresh new look this time, with extended offers and novel propositions. Dropbox, joins the warfare with newly updated space for referrals along with improvisation and betterment of services and already present offers.

Let us have a neat idea on the positive offers they are presenting.

Pricing And Storage

Now Google claims to get bigger with a tempting storage space of complementary 5GB. So, the users will get greater opportunity to store more images, documents, contents and photographs now. Those higher resolution pictures, which had been a pain to store in Google until recently, will get squeezed inside the space without any laborious effort at all! In case if you still find the free storage space insufficient for you, all you need to do is to pay more $2.49 a month to get a bonus of 235 GB space. Options for power users are 100 GB of space for a monthly rental of $4.99 and $49.99 per month for 1TB in the cloud.

Microsoft’s stance is entirely different in this respect. It has rescaled its free space from 25 GB to 7GB! So, new users have to be satisfied with only 7GB of free space. However, it is still greater than Google. The lucrative offer that Microsoft makes is that a yearly package of 20GB will be available for $10, 50 GB for $25 and 100 GB for $50.

Dropbox’s offers might sound very nominal, being only 2GB free space. But, you can increase it to 500MBs extra with Dropbox referrals. So, you will achieve 16GB of free space at the end of it. The monthly and yearly pay plans are also quite profitable. With $9.99 a month you will get 50GBs of space. Likewise, you will get 50GBs a year with $99 and 100GB for $19.99 or the same space with yearly rate of $199 only. The powers users will be offered a group plan of $795 a year for 1TB. It will be enjoyed by five users in all, with individual space worth $125 a year per user. Some of the best online cloud services also performs well.

Sharing Options

Live document collaboration is a great feature being offered by Google Drive. A document can be worked upon with a group, while all the modifications you make will be synced back to Google Drive. The changes that you are entitled to, will also be backed by notifications pointing out the changes made in your document. You can extract out photos from Google Drive and attach them into the social networking sites and Google +.
Microsoft’s sharing looks much simpler. Sending large mail attachments will be easier with Sky Drive. An upload that you make shall only be accompanied by a web link by you to any recipient of your choice. This can be done in the form of posting in social networks or instant message.

Dropbox gives the option to share all the contents of its folder with every other Dropbox user. It will comprise of essential links to every file and folder you create. But, these will only be presented to them as readable and downloadable versions, without any permission to edit them.

Accessibility To Desktop Features

Till recently, Google and Microsoft lacked the Drop Box like desktop features. But the steep competition in the sphere has made them launch extensions that allow easy drag and drop options for the PC and Mac users just as they do with their desktop.

Sky Drive gives an additional feature to its users by auto synchronizing all the images in the folders and making them available all other devices running on Sky Drive. Fetch functionality option also enables users to access any file from their PC, fetch and divert it to any other system they are currently working on. But installation of Sky Drive is mandatory of course.

Mobile Applications

Mobile app is another sphere in this field that keeps the competition alive. The built-in Android apps feature in Google Drive is one of them. The users can share directly downloaded, uploaded and shared documents to their Drive account. But you cannot enjoy this privilege offline. Google reports that it is working to solve this iOS issue.

Microsoft presents Windows Phone apps with sharing options with iPad and iPhone. Sky Drive meant for iOS gives the user benefit to upload, manage and share photos and services even with a third party iOS application, which sounds very interesting.

Although Dropbox still lacks a Windows gadget, its plethora of smart apps includes iPad, iPhone, Blackberry and Android. However, it is needless to say that Dropbox is well aware of its lacuna and will sort it out soon. New Dropbox for Android sets free backup of your photos and videos, this is truly a great way to save your moments automatically.

The inspirational approach of Dropbox is clearly visible from the footsteps of Microsoft and Google. While Google’s USP us its easy sharing and collaborating options, more storage facility and iOS apps of Sky Drive is Microsoft’s USP. Drop Box takes it share of devoted users by virtue of hi end products and services. Thus, it is best to say that which is the best is solely dependent upon the end use of the user.

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The Skype iOS app also comes with auto restart feature if it experiences unexpectedly shutdown in previous session. So if you haven’t updates your skype app goto iTunes and download and install the new skype app. Check out the features at quick glance:

• Ability to move own video preview
• App auto restarts itself if unexpectedly shutdown
• Improved accessibility
• Improved stability
• New sign-in screen
• Other minor UI improvements
• Bug fixes
• Updated design for contacts and messages (iPad version only)

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To Update iTunes 10.6: Launch iTunes player and check for the software update from Help –> Check For Update, you will be prompted for both device and iTunes update available.

New iOS 5.1 Software Update
This update pack contains:

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

Watch out the short video after the jump.

New iTunes 10.6 Update

• iTunes 10.6 adds the ability to play 1080p HD movies and TV shows from the iTunes Store.
• Improved song matching on iTunes Match
• Improved album artwork handling, downloading, and display
• Addresses an issue where songs may skip when playing from iCloud

Windows 8 Beta is expected to have new features, improvements , tweaks and all new theme packs for the new build. Luckily one of the theme pack was leaked on the web and is now available for download.

As per reviews and screen shot we have found Windows 8 as just a version upgrade of Windows 7, the functionality at the back end is same as Windows 7 but the only difference add is its new interface and is more likely to target tablets, touchscreen devices.

Well is you are excited to get hand’s on then the theme pack which contains windows 8 desktop backgrounds including two dual screen wallpapers. You can navigate to this page for download link.

AirDisplay 1.2 For iPad

Although, this is not a free app but still it is worth of its price. If you are often distracted by keeping Twitter, Facebook and other applications on your home screen but still you can’t afford to move them from there because you have to use them very often then AirDisplay is for you. With the help of this app, you can easily create a second home screen and keep all the distracting stuff there.

Bento

This is another paid app for iPad and in fact a great one. This is great to use for business purposes and keep you organized so that you can do all the things properly on time. There are 25 built in themes that can be used by you to keep yourself organized in a better way. You will surely love using this application.

Calculator For iPad Free

Finally this is a great to use free iPad app that you must install in your device. Whenever you want to crack some numbers, you can use this calculator app and do your calculation. There is no need to keep a calculator in your bag because you have a state of the art calculator in your iPad now. Another great feature of this application is its themes. You can pay only $0.99 and get extra six themes as well.

Citrix Go To My PC

If you are away from your computer but still you want to control it then GoToMyPC is a great application to use. This has great user interface with the help of which you can enjoy using this application. Another great thing is it efficiency. You can control almost all features of your PC with the help of this application. Now, you don’t have to worry about getting access to data in your computer when you are out somewhere because this application can help you to get access to all the date that you have stored in your PC and also control it from anywhere in the world. What’s best is that it is free of cost application.

Dragon Dictation

If you are not feeling like typing your message then why don’t you dictate it to your iPad? Dragon Dictation is a great to use application with great voice transcriptions features. It can help you to write your message by dictating it easily. You can even give commands to your iPad to do different things by speaking to it.

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Luckily Apple released the very first update to iOS 5 on Thursday, which aims to solve this battery drainage issue and  some security lackness to iPhone 4S users. I guess Apple have not test their update before making a release as no.of users have been reported negatively the battery life problem and more over addressed to different more new issue.

iPhone/iPod/iPad running on iOS 5 have the ability to install new software update your over the air (OTA). Now you don’t need to get back home plug-in your device with iTunes to apply the update. The update on OTA is less than 40MB and should take a couple of minutes to install over WiFi until your device won’t runs out of battery again

Download & Install iOS 5.0.1

Preferably there are two options to grab this update:

Option 1: OTA Method which download and install the software update by connecting your device over a WiFi. Tap “Settings” –> “General” –> “Software Update” then tap on “Download and Install”.

Option 2: Connect iPhone/iPod/iPad to iTunes and you will be prompted about the notification.

Option 3: If you would rather love to download and install the firmware via IPSW file use the links below.

Direct Download iOS 5.0.1 IPSW File

These are the IPSW firmware file from Apple’s server, right click ‘Save As’ and download the file to your desktop.

iPhone 4S
iPhone 4 GSM
iPhone 4 CDMA
iPhone 3GS
iPad 1
iPad 2 WiFi
iPad 2 GSM
iPad 2 CDMA
iPod touch 3rd gen
iPod touch 4th gen

Do stack up your comments below on how this new update helped you saving some juice for your battery?

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