Mixel is a new iPad app that brings art and social networking together. With Mixel, you can create collages from Mixel’s collection, the web, or your library. Once your creation, or Mixel, is complete, share it with the Mixel community and Facebook. Now, this is just the beginning of Mixel’s social skills – now that you’ve shared your Mixel, it is available for other users to remix and make as their own. Each version of a collage is saved so that the evolution of changes can be seen.

Check out the promo video for Mixel below!

Mixel is a new, free creativity app for iPad that completely reinvents collage so that everyone can do it. Everything in Mixel can be shared and remixed, making it the world's first truly social art app. It's fun, easy and totally different.

Mixel is available for the iPad for free.

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Introducing Mixel for iPad from Mixel App on Vimeo.

Curious how to update to iOS 5.0.1 — or any future iOS update — over-the-air (OTA) directly on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch? Yes, Apple finally pulled the big switch in the cloud and you can go from one software version to the next, OTA and in-place faster than any iTunes restore past. We’ll show you how, after the break!

Initiating an OTA update for iOS is really easy. You might see a red notification badge on your Settings app to alert you to an update, or get a popup notification telling you it’s ready to install, but you can always check on your own, at any time.

1. Launch the Settings app
2. Tap General
3. Tap Software Update
4. If there’s nothing new, you’ll be told just so. Otherwise, you’ll be presented with all the details about the update.
5. Tap Download and Install
6. Agree to the Terms and Conditions
7. IMPORTANT! If you’re low on juice, make sure you plug in! You don’t want your battery to die mid-update!
8. Watch the progress bar! (This part depends on the speed and quality of your 3G or Wi-Fi signal. Don’t be alarmed if it takes a long time, speeds up or slows down, or appears to jump around — be patient.)
9. Once it’s finished downloading, you’ll be prompted to instal (and restart) your device. If you don’t explicitly hit Later or Install within a few seconds, it will install on your behalf.
10. Agree to the Terms and Conditions yet again.
11. Apple will verify the install.
12. That’s it!

Not only does iOS 5 update OTA, it updates in place using bit-differential (delta) files, so you should get a faster, much more efficient process. For example, there’s no need to restore from backup afterwards or re-download your stuff.

Seriously, once the download finishes it’s amazing quick and smooth. Apple may not have invented OTA updates (Chris swears BlackBerry has had them for ages, and Nokia likely invented them in 1812…) but if this is any indication, they’re doing them right.

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Adobe puts a bullet in the head of Flash Player mobile, Charlie Miller exploits the Safari JIT compiler, photos under glass and the future of touch, where should settings go, secret panorama mode, and Rene, Georgia and Seth talk Talking with Siri with Erica Sadun and Steve Sande of TUAW. This is iPhone Live!

Siri

• Talking to Siri: Learning the Language of Apple’s Intelligent Assistant [Kindle Edition]
• iPhone 4S has extra infrared sensor for Siri raise-to-speak
• Apple support says there are no current plans to offer Siri on older devices

Flash Player Mobile

• Adobe confirms Flash Player mobile is dead

Discussion

• Photos under glass and the future of design and touch interaction
• Dev Juice: When should you use out-of-app Settings?

News

• iOS security exploit exposed, already released in an Apple approved app [video]
• Secret panorama mode found in iPhone Camera App
• Judge tells Apple to reveal Australian contracts to Samsung

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• Rene Ritchie (@reneritchie)
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• I Called You — iPhone Remix by Pete Leidy
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With the developer build having now been out for a while, and some folks claiming to have already received the update via Apples customer care — Apple has now sent iOS 5.0.1 to the masses. You can either update over-the-air (OTA) right on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch, or plug into iTunes and do it the old fashioned way. As noted in the change log:

• Fixes bugs affecting battery life
• Adds Multitasking Gestures for original iPad
• Resolves bugs with Documents in the Cloud
• Improves voice recognition for Australian users using dictation

Safe to say quite a few people who have been experiencing issues with their battery on the iPhone 4S will be looking carefully at this update to ensure it really does address their concerns. Full release notes are past the break for you all as well as a list of compatible devices.

If you need extra help getting it installed, or want to chat about battery life and other fixes, jump on into our iOS 5 Forum!

NOTE: This update is NOT SAFE for Jailbreakers. Don’t go near it unless you want to lose your Jailbreak, or until an updated Jailbreak is released.

This update contains improvements and other bug fixes including:

• Fixes bugs affecting battery life
• Adds Multitasking Gestures for original iPad
• Resolves bugs with Documents in the Cloud
• Improves voice recognition for Australian users using dictation

Products compatible with this software update:

• iPhone 4S
• iPhone 4
• iPhone 3GS
• iPad 2
• iPad
• iPod touch (4th generation)
• iPod touch (3rd generation)

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

Every day, TiPb gets flooded with announcements for new and updated iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad apps and games. So every day we pick just a few of the most interesting, the most notable, and simply the most awesome to share with you!

• Snappy Dragons: The Snappy Dragons had their yellow-babies kidnapped by awful red-wizards that trapped them in cages around the world. They decide to fight for their survival and rescue all their little ones. [$0.99 for iPhone - App Store link] [1.99 for iPad - App Store link]

• Treasure Seekers 3: Follow the Ghosts: Use your Hidden Object skills to explore a mysterious world, and discover valuable clues. In Treasure Seekers 3: Follow the Ghosts you will help Nelly and Tom release unlucky ghosts trapped by an evil alchemist! [$2.99 for iPhone - App Store link] [$4.99 for iPad - App Store link]

• Doodlcast for Kids: Records as you talk and draw, to create short videos that you can share with friends and family. [$1.99 for iPhone and iPad - App Store link]

• iTap & Prank: Discreetly generate a prank sound spontaneously! Select your prank, put your iPhone in your pocket or bag, wait for the right moment, double-tap your iPhone and watch your prank unfold. [$0.99 for iPhone - App Store link]

• Guardians: The Last Day of the Citadel – Lite Edition: A demo version of Guardians: The Last Day of the Citadel. If you like the game, you can purchase the full version as an in-app purchase. [Free for iPhone and iPad - App Store link]

Any other big app or game releases or updates today?

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Previously on Mobile Nations, Kevin told you all about our new network brand, and I had the honor of introducing Mobile Nations Broadcasting and the new Girls Gone Gadgets show. We’ve also been hard at work behind the scenes as well.

We’ve now got a Mobile Nations United feed for both audio and video so you can get all your favorite shows, all in one place. Speaking of video, we’ve set up RSS feeds for all the video versions — including Mobile Nations, Android Central, CrackBerry.com, Girls Gone Gadgets, iPad Live, iPhone Live, PalmCast, TiPb TV, and ZENandTECH with WPCentral coming soon — so you can subscribe now right in your favorite podcatcher.

You can also find all our shows, including the video versions, on iTunes. Just head on over to the Mobile Nations iTunes page and subscribe away! (Please leave a rating while you’re at it — it helps encourage iTunes to feature us so more great people get to discover the shows). We’ll be moving quickly to get them on all your other favorite platforms, services, and apps as well. If we’re not yet where you want to watch or listen to us, let us know in the comments and we’ll get there as quickly as possible!

But that’s not all. Later today we’re launching another all-new show — Mobile Nations Stock Talk with Chris Umiastowski and Edward Zabitsky. Combining rock solid technical knowledge with cutting edge analytical insight, Chris and Ed are going to break down what’s happening — and why – in today’s rapidly changing mobile market.

Mobile Nations Stock Talk premieres this afternoon at 1pm EST at mobilenations.com/live. See you there!

While the big news yesterday was Adobe putting a bullet in the head of Flash Player for mobile, Ryan Lawler over a *GigaOm” noted a similar end for Flash for TV.

Adobe will continue to support existing licensees who are planning on supporting Flash Player for web browsing on digital home devices and are using the Flash Player Porting Kit to do so. However we believe the right approach to deliver content on televisions is through applications, not a web browsing experience, and we will continue to encourage the device and content publishing community down that path.

Apple TV, of course, never supported Flash Player, instead creating apps for YouTube, and a long while later, Vimeo and other web-based video sites. Google, however, decided to go all in with Flash — effectively turning their backs on a tradition of open, standards based web support — just to have a checkbox they thought would hurt Apple and help their ODM‘s compete.

Hopefully now, with all giant ships pointing in the same HTML 5 direction, users on all major platforms will get better technology, faster.

Source GigaOm

Infinity Blade 2 is not set to hit our iOS devices until the beginning of December. The lucky guys over at IGN managed to get their hands on a preview of the game and it looks like it is going to be a really top sequel. According to IGN, Infinity Blade 2 offers far more than just a refresh, it picks up where the first game ended but goes on much further. Infinity Blade 2 is far more story lead and includes more than 40 different combat locations.

Although I liked the original Infinity Blade, I largely agreed with the cadre of critics that cut down the game as being “the same thing” over and over. My time with Infinity Blade 2 has already made me a believer, however. Multiple weapon classes and greater enemy variety keep the combat fresh. A non-linear environment supported by a proper storyline provides the perfect motivation to keep looping through sections of the game multiple times.

Infinity Blade 2 will hit the App Store on December 1^st, we don't know which devices will be supported yet but assume that it will need the grunt of a dual core processor; we will wait and see!

Source: IGN

Designing for television UI, can hardware influence the look of software, everything is a grid, that Gmail app, how to handle PNG files in Xcode, and Jeff Broderick talks to Marc, Rene, and Seth about freelancing. This is Iterate!

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• Mobile Nations rebrand
• Google television 2.0, Apple Television rumors and designing for 10 foot applications
• Motorola Xoom 2, Droid RAZR, and can exterior industrial design influence the look of apps?
• Everything is a grid: How scaling to different sizes works, numerically

• Gmail app for iOS and thinly native web apps

• Jeff Broderick of Jeff Broderick UI/Visual Design

• What Xcode does to PNG images

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• Marc Edwards (@marcedwards) of Bjango
• Seth Clifford (@sethclifford) of Nickelfish
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If you’re one of the best-of-the-best-of-the-best in mobile design for Android, BlackBerry, iOS, webOS, or Windows Phone, we’d love to get you on the show, or if you’ve found a drop-dead gorgeous app on any platform and really want us to talk about it, contact us and let us know.

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iOS 5 appears to have a hidden word correction bar which can be enabled without the need for a jailbreak. Discovered by Sonny Dickson, the word correction bar works in a very similar way to Android devices. If you want to turn on the auto-correct bar, the good news is that you do not have to have a jailbroken device. Having said that, it is a bit fiddly — editing plists and restoring backups, just like the hidden camera panorama mode discovered on Monday — so if you decide to try it, be careful and remember this is at your own risk!

The hack appears to work on the iPhone, iPad  and iPod touch. If you give this one a go, let is know what you think of it! To check out how to do it, hit the link below!

Source: Sonny Dickson via 9to5Mac

Criticism is everywhere. But how well do we handle dishing it out, and how well do we take it? Georgia and Rene talk about why criticism exists, and how to get better at giving and taking it, especially in our modern, often anonymized internet world — from constructive to destructive to flat out trolling and flaming. This is ZENandTECH.

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Thanks everyone, you’re the best community on the web and we love having you with us!

Disclaimer

While Georgia is a therapist, she’s not YOUR therapist. Everything said or implied on this show is for informational and entertainment purposes only. And shouldn’t be taken in any way as a replacement for proper, professional care.

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ProSel is an iPad to aid in sales distributions. You can place sales orders, manage customer accounts and stay in sync with your host system remotely.

Check out the video below for a demonstration of the app.

ProSel for iPad is an app for the mobile sales professional. It is designed to automate and speed up the process of building and sending sales orders from the field to your home office for processing.

• Searches through the price book faster than any app of its kind.
• As easy to use as any other app for iPad—almost no training required.
• Make a paperless and interactive presentation to your customers.
• Display a video from a manufacturer directly to customers.
• Add bar code scanning to speed up ordering (Additional hardware required).
• Eliminate the costly printing and time-consuming distribution of paper promotional materials.
• Sync the database with your host as often as you wish and give real-time information to your salespeople.
• ProSel's ‘rich client’ environment means you do not need to be online to use the application.

ProSel is available on the iPad for free and is actually just a demo of what’s available. To use it for your business or company, you must work with Access International to customize it just for you.

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VocaLive is a new iPad app that allows you to capture vocal recordings with your iPad and includes 12 real-time professional vocal effects. Combined with IK Multimedia’s iRig Mic, this is a great little setup for musicians.

VocaLive provides singers and vocalists with a suite of 12 real-time professional vocal effects along with a capable recorder for studio-quality sound in a portable package. The effects can be combined into a chain of 4 processors and saved as presets. A collection of up to 50 presets is included to get you up and running immediately.

• Real time vocal processor + recording app
• 4-processor vocal effects chain
• 12 professional studio quality vocal effects
• Single track recorder expandable to a full 8-track recording studio with master effects section, available for purchase in the in-app Shop
• Import and play songs to be used as backing tracks directly from your music library or computer
• Voice Cancel feature lets you create sing-along backing tracks by removing the vocal track from existing recordings
• 50 presets included with 4 Favorites for fast recall
• Includes metronome and vocal warm-up tools
• Low-latency for real time vocal processing

VocaLive is available on the iPad for $19.99. The iRig Mic is available for $59.99.

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