…And were suddenly silenced.

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Apple has released iTunes 10.5.1 and along with it, their paid music locker service in the U.S., iTunes Match. Coming after several extended betas, and past the previously announced October time frame, iTunes Match costs 24.99 a year and allows users to scan their iTunes libraries and either gain access to matching, 256kbps tracks from the iTunes Catalog, or upload their own, off-catalog tracks for access from any iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, or iTunes client on Mac or Windows.

Introducing iTunes Match. Store your entire music library in iCloud, including music you’ve imported from CDs, and enjoy your collection anywhere, anytime, on your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, computer, or Apple TV.

So if you’ve been eagerly waiting to get your music to the cloud, hit software update or download directly via the link below. Then come back here and tell us what you think. Did Apple get it right?

UPDATE 1: iTunes is currently saying no new subscriptions are available due to overwhelming demand, and is asking users to check back in a hour. Let us know if you get signed up, and how long it takes!

UPDATE 2: Here’s our official TiPb iTunes Match troubleshooting thread in the forums to give and get extra help!

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iOS 5.0.1 is here but battery fixes remain unclear, plus geniuses going iPad, iTunes Match gets yet another beta, Facebook opting in, Adobe kills Flash TV, Nook Tablet, and Georgia, Seth, and Rene talk the week in apps. This is iPad Live!

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• Rumor: Apple Store Genius Bars replacing Mac Book Pros with iPads
• Apple deleting beta iTunes Match libraries today
• Apple releases iTunes 10.5.1 beta 3 to developers, more iTunes Match fixes
• Rumor: Facebook to switch from opt-out to opt-in, better protect personal data
• Adobe also kills Flash for TV
• Nook Tablet hands on: iPad competitor or Kindle Fire catch up?

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With iOS 5 Apple has finally cut the cord with iTunes and you no long have to tether your iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad over USB to your Windows or Mac PC just to sync over your stuff. Of course, you can still tether if you so wish, and it’s just become part of your routine. However, you can also use iTunes Wi-Fi Sync so your device automatically transfers over content whenever you plug it in and are on the same Wi-Fi network as your desktop iTunes machine (i.e., when you put it on to charge at night.) Apple also has iCloud now, which syncs stores and pushes not from your desktop but from Apple’s giant data centers to all of your devices.

Have you gone (or stayed) all in on any one approach? Do you mix and match, for example use iCloud for personal information but still connect to iTunes for big files like movies? If you have a family and are managing iPhones, iPod touches, and iPads for spouses and kids, do you sync them all the same or does it vary? Do your kids games pop up on your work iPhone thanks to automatic downloads, or do their iPods get stale because it’s become too much of a chore to keep everyone updated?

How is sync working for you in iOS 5? Does it “just work” or is it more complicated and confusing now than ever? Vote in the poll up top and let me know the details in the comments!

Play It is a music player for the iPhone and iPad that is controlled solely with gestures. It also lets you customize the look and syncs with iCloud so that your settings match on all devices. Additionally, Play It supports the new Twitter function in iOS 5, so that you can quickly tweet about the music you’re listening to.

Check out the promo video below!

Play It is a fun and useful app to control your music with innovative, but simple gestures.

• iCloud
• Personal colors
• Twitter
• Multi touch
• Useful on the road
• AirPlay support
• Headphone remote support
• Controls from the lock screen
• Synchronization with iTunes
• Uses the music from the iPod app
• Also plays popcasts and audio books
• Shuffle function
• Search function
• Sort albums by album or artists

The updated includes:

• iCloud
• Colors and scroll style personalization
• iOS 5 Twitter (auto and manual)
• Lyrics
• New gestures
• Albums crash fix
• Other important bug fixes

Play It is available on the iPhone and iPad for $0.99.

[App Store link]

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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!

• Tippers Mission: Catch a hope Travel the galaxy and help Max & Louisa battle against an alien invasion and recover the hopes of humanity. Trippers features 6 unique levels, from the first planet Farm Zone, that require bravery, logic, and skill to complete ball-tossing, physics-based puzzles. [Free for iPhone - App Store link]

• Math Master for kids: Helps kids to sharpen their mathematics skills. Supports from 1st through 6th grade. At the end of the test it provides a detailed report by which you can decide which topic you need to sharpen further. All the questions have multiple-choice answers. [$9.99 for iPhone and iPad - App Store link]

• Hiding Hannah Nothing could stop Hannah from hiding. Whether she's hiding herself or household items, she always has a blast. And your child will have a blast as well looking for whatever Hannah hides. With 12 fun-filled pages and hiding places that change each time, it will be a different experience every time your child reads it! Narrated by Tom Kenny (voice of TV’s Spongebob Squarepants), and illustrated by Sesame Workshop digital media artist Melanie McCall. [$1.99 for iPhone and iPad - App Store link]

• Zack Splat: Apprentice magician Zack animated some creatures to help him out, but anything the creatures touch gets splatted. Zack doesn't know how to stop them – help him run away and avoid getting splatted! [Free for iPhone and iPad - App Store link]

• Coaxion: Mobile Collaboration for SharePoint and Dropbox: Access, view, present, discuss and share all your documents from a single application. Coaxion allows you to easily access documents stored on SharePoint or in Dropbox, save documents to your iPad for offline access, view and present documents in full screen mode, and share documents with others through email or a real-time discussion. When discussions are closed, files are removed from devices while leaving the originals on SharePoint and Dropbox intact. [Free for iPhone and iPad - App Store link]

Any other big app or game releases or updates today?

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Some animals just have no taste and this Pug is definitely one of them. Picture the scene; he is happily lying on his owner's bed watching TV when a commercial comes on. The commercial is for the latest and greatest iPhone 4S but this Pug is having none of it. It sends him into a barking and growling frenzy, stamping his feet, gnashing his teeth, it really is a site to behold. As soon as the ad is finished, he settles down again and continues watching the TV.

Now as we all know, the iPhone 4S is the best iPhone ever, this little Pug must either hate the music on the ad or just hates ads all together. I am sure it has nothing to do with the iPhone 4S!

Source: TNW

UK satellite TV provider Sky has just released its latest app "Sky Movies" for the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. The new app offers subscribers to its subscription movie channels a new way to view trailers, short list movies to watch and lots more.

Delve deeper into movies that are on at the cinema, keep a record of movies you want to watch with your own personal shortlist and remote record those that are on the Sky Movies channels. You can even watch all available movies directly on your iOS device if you have Sky Go.

Categories include –

• Daily Picks
• On Sky Movies
• On Sky Movies Box Office
• Coming Soon
• At the Cinema
• My Movies Shortlist

Movie information includes –

• Synopsis
• Airing times
• Trailer
• Cast
• Director
• Reviews

The Sky Movies app is available as a universal binary and is free. It does however require a movie subscription with UK satellite broadcaster Sky to be of any great use.

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Despite case-leaks to the contrary, TiPb heard fairly consistently that we we shouldn’t expect a redesigned iPhone this year, and it turns out we heard right. Business Insider, however, is saying that there was a redesigned iPhone on tap but Apple pulled the plug months before.

Steve Jobs was unhappy with the bigger screen because it “fragmented” iPhones, Apple’s big argument against Android is the way all the different phones from different manufacturers fragment that operating system.

Which is odd, because screen size doesn’t “fragment” phones, iPhone or Android. It’s screen resolution that does that. A 3.5-inch iPhone at 960×640 pixels is pretty much the same to develop for as a 4-inch iPhone at 960×640. It’s only if that 4-inch iPhone jumps to something like 1280×720 that developers have a problem.

Apple has several prototypes per generation and I’d be shocked if they hadn’t and aren’t still testing devices with different screen sizes. If Apple does ever choose to pull the trigger on a bigger iPhone screen, they’ll no doubt have a plan for it, whether it’s slightly reducing the density or boxing the content (like iPad does with iPhone apps) to maintain the pixel count.

Even if Apple stays with 3.5-inches, believing it to be ideal for single-handed ease of use, they can’t change the resolution arbitrarily without causing massive issues with pixels falling off the grid.

BI‘s source goes on to say this iPhone prototype had an aluminum back, like the iPad, would eventually use liquid metal in “nano-chromatic” colors, and had a wide, capacitive Home button.

Source: Business Insider