Archive for the 'iTunes' Category

App Store: The update story

Saturday, July 19th, 2008

Quite a few apps that I had purchased from the App Store recently, have updates available already. The update process has been directly integrated into the iTunes Applications section:

You can click the Check for Updates link to have iTunes check for updates for any of your applications. You’ll be prompted to sign into the iTunes [...]

App Store: Needed badly – some quality checks

Wednesday, July 16th, 2008

The App Store in India is already beginning to look a little staid. We traded in the freedom of the Jailbroken bazaar for Apple’s App Store cathedral. Apple created this walled garden so that they could do some QA on the apps before letting them in. But I think that in the excitement of ramping [...]

iTunes 7.7: App Store in India – walkthrough

Thursday, July 10th, 2008

Here is a step-by-step walkthrough that details how you can sign-up on iTunes Store and purchase applications for iPhone 3G, iPhone 2.0 and iPod Touch.
Install iTunes 7.7 if you haven’t done so already. Launch iTunes and click on the iTunes Store link in the side bar. iTunes store will try and deduce your country from [...]

iTunes 7.7 brings iTunes Store to India!

Thursday, July 10th, 2008

When iPhone 3G was announced recently, we were wondering if one of the big features – the App Store – would come to India as well. India never had an iTunes Store and all we could do was browse through the selection of music available in the US or other select countries. iTunes 7.7 was [...]

Malayalam rock band Avial on iTunes!

Sunday, July 6th, 2008

Malayalam rock band Avial recently started selling on iTunes. In the not-so-distant past, Indian bands would struggle to find a record label; let alone sell to a global audience. These guys are a talented lot and I loved their debut album. That I don’t know a word of Malayalam didn’t come in the way of [...]