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For those that have an iPhone or an Apple device, you would recall that Apple released an app to give gifts starting from Boxing Day 26th - January 6th 2014.  Well, today is Boxing Day, the day we unwrap gifts and Apple have taken the wraps off the gifts to those that are interested. For us here using the US App Store, the gift we got is Justin Timberlake iTunes Festival songs. The songs performed by Justin is shown and you can download them for free. Mind you, the gift for each day would expire at the end of the day and a new gift will then be released for download. If you are interested in this free gift, you should download the 12 days of Gifts app and install on your Apple device. Like our Facebook page and follow us on Twitter for more smartphone news.

Apple announced the release of iTunes 11.1.3 today to correct certain abnormalies. The new update fixes an issue where the equalizer wasn't working as intended. Also, performance improvements and many other bug fixes were done for users switching views on really large iTunes library. An excerpt of the release note is presented  below; “This version of iTunes resolves an issue where the equalizer may not work as expected and improves performance when switching views in large iTunes libraries. This update also includes additional minor bug fixes. Note: If you are using OS X Mavericks, your book library can now be found in iBooks for Mac. For information on the  security content  of this update, please visit: support.apple.com/kb/HT1222 .” Download iTunes 11.1.3 here for Windows PC users Download iTunes 11.1.3 here for Mac PC users Like our Facebook page and follow us on Twitter for all your smartphone gist and helps

At one point in time we get to buy a new smartphone, these smartphones are not like the phones we use back in the day when we only receive calls and send text messages. Smartphones do much more and therefore what you do to when purchase a 21 century smartphone is quite different from that of the old time phone. Let say you got a new Blackberry smartphone or an Android or Apple smartphone, there are lists of things you should consider doing immediately. Some of these things will be a life saver at some point in the near future especially in an era where phone theft is a huge business for some people. Below, I have highlighted these things that we sometime take for granted and overlook until something happens to the smartphone. These things that one must do are quite easy and sensible if you look at it. THINGS YOU SHOULD DO WHEN YOU BUY A NEW SMARTPHONE 1. First thing first is to setup your device as new and input the email address you want to associate with the device. Cho...

Now is your chance to win a lot of money just by downloading an app from the Apple App Store. Yes you read it right. Apple says App Store download is approaching 50 billion downloads and therefore would be giving out a cool $10, 000 worth of gift card to anyone that download the app that will make it 50 billionth download.    This means that if App Store download is 49, 999, 999, 999, the downloader of the 50 billionth app will receive $10, 000 gift card. Also another 50 persons that download 50 apps after the 50 billionth app will receive $500 worth of gift card. It doesn't matter if the download is a paid or free app. All that matter is that the download is made either from iTunes or App Store from device. This is Apple rewarding its fans. So, hurry up and enter the game and who knows, you could just be that winner Apple is looking for.