iOS 6-New Features

iOS 6 claims to come with over 200 new features. On this list, we will be listing off all of the new features we know of so far. This list will be updated as soon as we find more new features, so be sure to check often.

1. Facebook Integration
2. Post to Facebook or Tweet to Twitter from Notification Center
3. Colour of Status Bar changes based on app theme
4. Siri gives sports information
5. 3D Maps
6. Easy options to reply to calls
7. Great new clock app for iPad
8. New look Music player
9. Pull to Refresh E-Mail
10. Photo Stream sharing
11. Passbook for saving coupons and other codes
12. FaceTime over 3G or 4G
13. Sync your tabs in Safari with iCloud tabs
14. VIP section in Mail for important people
15. Full Screen for iPhone/iPod Touch in Safari (landscape)
16. Makeover to App Store, iTunes, and iBooks (they look really good now)
17. Addition of Chinese Features
18. Easily add photos to E-Mail
19. Use Siri to open apps
20. Do Not Disturb mode for blocking calls during night time
21. Sync your Facebook contactsc
22. Turn by turn directions
23. New look for iOS 6 "Share" menu
24. Turn off Bluetooth easily
25. Use Music as an alarm tone (wake up to a song, or just add a song that sounds cool)
26. Look at what folder an app is nested under after searching in Spotlight Search
27. Yelp integration for easy reviews
28. Easily book a restaurant reservation with Siri
29. New Emoji
30. Banner for "new" apps
31. Save your own words in an iCloud dictionary (use it all across your devices)
32. Cloud Phone (pickup phone calls from your iPhone or iPad)
33. No need to enter Apple ID credentials when updating apps
34. Spinning gears on device while updating software over the air
35. Podcasts removed from iTunes app because of new standalone Podcasts app
36. Lack of built in YouTube app
37. New Privacy tab in settings
38. Ability to restrict what apps can access your contacts
39. Preview the homescreen bookmarklet before adding a website to your homescreen
40. New Panorama photo mode in camera, that lets you take panorama photos
41. Maps have photos from Yelp, and you can add your own easily
42. New settings logo
43. Bluetooth can easily be controlled directly from main settings tab
44. New Wallpapers
45. Apps can access your reminders, and you can control which apps get this
46. App can also access calendars, and you can control which apps can
47. Notes and reminders now in cloud, you can access them from icloud.com
48. Upload photos directly from Safari
49. Pull to refresh has a new look (Shown in mail app)
50. GameCenter challenges
51. iMessage alert restrictions
52. Find My Friends notifications update
53. Real Time user-supported Traffic information
54. Supported vehicles can now directly integrate with your phone
55. Support for more languages
56. Open password-protected Office documents
57. Bug Fixes
58. They must have more, so please tell us if you found any (contact info below)

Know a feature that we didn't get? Comment with it or tweet us @HelPusSites and we will add your feature and credit you.

Chrome Web Store

The Chrome Web Store is an app store in which you can find various apps for your Chrome device. This is mainly targeted at users who are on Chrome OS, because the app store would be there primary source for downloading apps to run on their machine. However, the Chrome Web Store is still available on non-Chrome OS devices. The Web Store is really easy to navigate in, and you can easily view different categories from the side. You can install apps, themes, or extensions from the web store:

Apps: Short for application, apps provide you with a program that can help you with various things
Themes:These enhance the look of your browser, you can also make your own themes
Extensions: These are similar to plugins and will add new features to the browser, although be warned, too many may cause lag

Try Chromium OS

If you don't know already, Chromium OS is Google's effort to remove the operating system stage in getting you to the internet. To do this, they have turned the Chromium browser (Google Chrome is based on it) into an operating system. This means you boot directly into your browser without any need for your operating system (Windows, Ubuntu, Mac OS) to load itself up. This also reduces the risk of viruses because you are running a browser and not a full operating system with customization. To try it out, you can purchase Chrome OS Hardware, or you can try it on your own hardware. Option one would be to use a USB, and option two is to use a Virtual Machine within your current computer. Check out our guides:

Install Chromium OS in VirtualBox
Install Chromium OS onto a USB (coming soon)
Purchase Chrome OS Hardware

Install Chromium OS in VirtualBox

Want to try Chromium OS in a fast, easy, and low-risk way. Well, why not use a virtual machine. For today's tutorial, we recommend that you use VirtualBox. VirtualBox is an extremely easy to use virtual machine maker and is our favourite. Along with VirtualBox, you will also need a virtual Chromium OS machine. In order to get a virtual machine with Chromium OS, head to  http://chromeos.hexxeh.net and scroll down until you see download links. Now click on VirtualBox logo next to the latest build. It should begin downloading a .zip file.

Now, you must extract your zip file, you can use the program of your choice, or just use the built in extracter that comes with Windows. Once the zip folder is extracted, you should see one virtual machine file. Now, make sure you know what location this is stored in and head back to VirtualBox.

Now, set up a new Virtual Machine in VirtualBox. Click new and follow the on-screen wizard and remember these things

• the name doesn't matter, it's just there to help you organize your machines
• when asked for a hard drive, DO NOT create a new hard drive. Choose an existing one, and navigate to the unzipped virtual machine file
• for RAM, go with at least 1.5 GB. In our test, we chose a little less then a gigabyte, and it lagged a bit
• when asked for operating system in the beginning, go with Linux->Ubuntu

Now try booting your machine by clicking start, but it will probably say that your kernel has some problem thing. Don't worry. Simply shut down the machine by clicking close and head to VirtualBox. Right click on the machine and choose settings. Then head into the system tab and then select processor and "Enable PAE/NX". Now save the settings and boot again. It should boot up. Just give it some time. It might not boot in the promised 8 seconds but it will boot pretty quickly.


Once you are in, you might have to turn on scale mode depending on the size of your screen. For a better experience, try out full screen mode. For a more enhanced experience, you might want to login to your Google account, so you can try apps and extensions, but this is not necessary, as guest mode worked just fine for testing purposes.

Chrome OS Hardware

Chrome OS is Google's desktop operating system, and with the latest version it brings a more Windows like interface. You can have multiple Windows open and easily manage them and also pin items to the taskbar at the bottom. In terms of hardware, you have two options for official hardware. You can get a Chromebook, which is really a net-book running Chrome OS. Or, you can get a Chromebox, which is like a desktop, however because of its size, its very similar to a Mac Mini. Overall, we recommend the Chromebox for home use as an entertainment machine. You may want to buy one and use it as a set top box because of its small size. Connect it to the web and hook up some wireless peripherals and you will have an extremely easy way to browse the web on the internet on your TV without much security risks. It is also super fast to load, and there are many entertainment apps.

Photos:

New Chrome interface with window manager and taskbar at the bottom-Wikipedia

The current lineup of Chromebooks. The Chromebook in the middle shows the apps screen

Samsung Chromebox. As you can see it has an extremely small size.

What is Chrome OS?

Chrome OS (based on Chromium OS) is Google's desktop operating system. The objective is to take you straight from turning on your computer to the web. In order to do this, they run only the web browser as the operating system and the only extra tools that you may have are your extensions available in the Chrome Web Store. You can also easily install apps from the Chrome Web Store and apps can help you with your productive life. The systems are also less prone to viruses as most virus developers target more popular markets such as Windows and Mac. They also help you discover how much you can live without using apps other than your browser on your PC. The average user only uses the browser and sometimes their productivity suite which can easily be replaced by Google Docs. Another benefit of Chrome OS Machines is that because everything is in the cloud, even if something breaks or you lose your hardware you don't lose your data permanently because it will automatically sync when you log onto your new Chrome device.You can also use the Remote Desktop feature to work on your PC while you are on the go, which is a very helpful feature. Overall, Chrome OS is a great secondary operating system as it doesn't pack the power and advanced programs that current computers have, however we feel in the future it will take off because of the recent success in cloud computing.