Amazon Instant Video App For iPhone & iPod Touch: Apple’s App Store now offers the Amazon Instant Video App for iPhone and iPod Touch. The iPad app has been available since the summer and now you can stream any movies or TV shows you purchase, or have previously purchased, from Amazon to your iPhone or iPod Touch. And if you’re an Amazon Prime member you can also stream and watch TV shows and movies from the Prime Library. Endgadget offers a brief article on this subject today titled Amazon Instant Video streaming app now available for iPhone and iPod Touch. And just a related note, the author of the article notes that if you own an Apple TV box you cannot currently use AirPlay to stream movies or TV shows from your iPad, iPod Touch or iPhone to your TV; and that is true. However, you can purchase a Roku media streaming player (they start at $49.99) and the Roku has a native app for the Amazon Instant Video Store – The Apple TV doesn’t although both have Netflix apps. So just FYI if anyone is out there is shopping for media streaming players! And here’s the link to the article:
http://www.engadget.com/2012/12/13/amazon-instant-video-now-available-ipod-touch-iphone/
Google Maps App Appears in Apple’s App Store: The TechCrunch article title says it all! It is titled “Shocker: Google Maps Surges To Top Free App In The App Store In Just One Night.” And considering the inaccuracy of the Apple maps app that replaced the Google Maps app as an out-of-the-box app on new iPads, iPods and iPhones one can understand why people are so pleased to have that very accurate Google Maps app back! The app is currently available in an iPhone/iPod Touch version only and not yet in an iPad version. So iPad owners can either use the iPhone app until the iPad app is ready or simply create a short cut app for the Google Maps webpage and place it on their iPad Start Screens.
Here’s the link to the TechCrunch article:
In Appreciation of Ravi Shankar: The great musician Ravi Shankar, who brought sitar music to the attention of western music fans with a little help initially from The Beatles, died yesterday at age 92. And NPR offers a nice overview of his life and work and access to several of his songs in an article titled 5 Essential Ravi Shankar Recordings, From ‘West Meets East’ to ‘West Eats Meat’ from the NPR Music site. Here’s the link:
Have a great day!
Linda R.
References
Crook, Jordan. (2012, December 13). Shocker Google Maps Surges To Top Free App In The App Store In Just One Night. TechCrunch. Online.
Murph, Darren. (2012, December 13). Amazon Instant Video streaming app now available for iPhone and iPod Touch. Endgadget. Online.
Tsioulcas, Anastasia. (2012, December 12). 5 Essential Ravi Shankar Recordings, From ‘West Meets East’ to West Eats Meat’. NPR Music. Online.
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