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iTunes 10.5 Beta 8 is now available

Apple just released in the middle of the eighth beta developers iTunes 10.5. Its purpose is merely to improve the stability of the application itself and fix some bugs that arose users.

Accompanying this update also has launched a new beta version of iWork for IOS developers can also download to your Control Panel from the official website of Apple developers.

Note that the first time that Apple released a beta of 5.10 iTunes but is accompanied by a new beta version of IOS 5, believe this may be an indication that iOS 5 will arrive shortly to your final version? We do not know but can leave comments with your opinion.

Nokia Maps for iPhone 4

A while back we talked about that Nokia Maps will work for IOS and Android, and now we can actually see it in action on iPhone 4.

Remember that it is actually the site of Maps on Ovi HTML5 so it can be viewed from the iPhone and that can take advantage of features of the maps provided by Ovi Maps.

While many will prefer other services such as Google Maps-Maps for example maps Ovi Nokia Maps navigation have advantages and offline use of GPS.

TextGrabber: Capture Text From Any Document

TextGrabber is an application to capture text from any magazine, book, document etc. through the camera of your device. You can also edit and send SMS or email.

TextGrabber Features:

  • Recognize text in more than 60 languages: Afrikaans, Albanian, Basque, Bulgarian, Byelorussian, Catalan, Chechen, crimeantatar, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Fiji, Estonian, Finnish, Greek, Hawaiian, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish cabardiano , Latin, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Malay, Maori, Moldavian, Mongolian, Norwegian (both Bokmål and Nynorsk), Ossetian, Polish, Provençal, Romansh, Romania, Samoa, Serbia, Slovak, Slovenian, Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog, Tatar, Turkish, Ukrainian, Welsh, Yiddish, and Breton.
  • No Internet connection required.
  • Edit the captured text, or copy to the clipboard for pasting into other applications.
  • Find additional information about the recognized text or fragments thereof on the Internet.
  • Recognized texts sent by email or SMS.
  • Stores captioning on your iPhone.
  • All text captured is stored in a folder as a backup that can be reopened and edited.

TextGrabber is available on the AppStore for the iPhone for the price of 1.59 € and IOS 3.1 or higher required.