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Breaking: New iOS 5 Albums and Camera Photos Emerge

More photo goodness has emerged from a friendly email, and this time they illustrate some new features surrounding photos.

To be more specific, these images focus on album creation and management.

In iOS 5, you're no longer relegated to managing your photo albums on your Mac or PC; nope, now you can manage albums directly on your iPhone.

Apple is apparently very serious about their new PC Free initiative, and it shows when looking at the screenshots contained inside...

Breaking: New Photos of iOS 5 Initial Setup Emerge

Someone sent me a few exclusive photos of some of the new features in iOS 5, and it looks like a doozy folks.

If you tuned into this morning's WWDC keynote, you are well aware that Apple is implementing a new PC Free strategy for iOS 5, and that includes the initial setup of your iPhone.

Inside we have a few interesting screenshots of the iPhone's initial setup screens, along with the new Home screen equipped with a new iPod touch-esque Music app, along with a settings screen for iCloud.

Interested in seeing the iOS of the future? Check out the exclusive images inside...

Photo Stream Makes Manually Syncing Photos a Thing of the Past

 

Syncing photos from your iPhone to your desktop and other devices has always been a bit of a pain. Most iPhone users have taken to services like DropBox to upload photos to their desktop, to avoid the old plug-and-play method.

What if you wanted to show off your iPhone photos on your iPad? In the past you had to upload the photos to your desktop and then sync them to your iPhone using iTunes. The new iCloud feature Photo Stream takes away all of the headache with instant, wireless photo syncing...

Apple Introduces iCloud

It's finally here, folks! Apple has introduced and detailed the mysterious iCloud. Steve Jobs himself says that iCloud is something the company has been working on for 10 years, and iCloud has totally replaced MobileMe and added new services, such as Photo Stream.

Details below!

How to Follow Apple’s WWDC Keynote Today

It's finally here, folks! Today is the keynote presentation by Apple for the World Wide Developers Conference 2011. Every year, Apple gathers the brightest minds in app development under one roof at The Moscone Center in San Francisco, California.

This year, as usual, Steve Jobs will be presenting Apple's lastest products. The focus of WWDC '11 is software. Mac OS X Lion, iOS 5 and iCloud are all confirmed topics of discussion for today's keynote.

We've gathered some helpful resources to help you follow today's keynote and get breaking news. Info after the break!

iCloud More iTunes Than MobileMe?

We're less than 24 hours away from the big opening to WWDC 2011 now, and the rumors are still flying as to what we will and won't see when Steve Jobs puts sneaker to stage at the Moscone Center. The latest buzz comes courtesy of Apple fanboy and tech pundit John Gruber, with the Daring Fireball himself sharing his thoughts on tomorrow's announcements.

The full post goes on for a good few hundred words and re-hashes much of what the community has already speculated over the last week or so, but with one considerable exception. According to Gruber's fourth-hand information, we shouldn't be thinking of Apple's iCloud as the new MobileMe, but rather the new iTunes. Intrigued? So were we...

Our Expectations for WWDC 2011

On the eve of the 2011 World Wide Developers Conference, magic is in the air. The Apple rumor mill has been churning, and Mac OS X Lion, iOS 5 and iCloud are all confirmed topics of discussion for tomorrow's keynote. Steve Jobs himself will be presenting, and the industry eagerly awaits to see how Apple will revolutionize the market.

The iDB team has prepared a Q&A-style roundtable discussion with each of our opinions on what we expect from the WWDC keynote tomorrow. Read each of our thoughts and comments after the break!

Rumor: Updated Time Capsules to Become Personal iCloud Servers

An interesting rumor is claiming that Apple will update their Time Capsule at WWDC in conjunction with the announcement of iCloud. Specifically, it's rumored that the new Time Capsule will act as a personal server for media to be stored on a specific iCloud account.

Apple's Time Capsule currently acts as a wireless backup/router utility for Macs on a home network. After tomorrow's keynote, a new version of the Time Capsule could allow you to archive and store files on iCloud for storage. The Time Capsule's iCloud archives would be available for access on iOS devices...

Automatic Over-the-Air App Updates Coming in iOS 5

An upcoming iOS 5 feature has been leaked in iTunes. Following the rumor that iOS 5 would offer over-the-air downloads for iOS updates, MacRumors has uncovered a new Apple feature called "Automatic Download."

Currently, users have to manually update App Store apps. You can update one app at a time, or update all apps at once in the App Store app. Automatic Download would allow for OTA downloading and syncing of app updates in iOS...

Apple Paid the Labels $150 Million to Make iCloud Happen

Ever wondered what it's going to cost Apple to bring your iCloud dreams to life? Well, according to the New York Post, Apple is paying the record labels a combined total of around $150 million for the rights to stream their music through the iCloud service – add that to the price of its new North Carolina data center and you have a pretty hefty sum.

Apple finalized its iCloud negotiations earlier this week after it struck a deal with Universal Music Group – the last of the four major record labels to sign up to the iCloud service. It has now also secured deals with the corresponding publishers just in time for its unveiling – and possible launch – at WWDC on Monday...

Wanna See iCloud Login Page?

We already know what the iCloud logo will look like, and now thanks to FSM, we know what the login page is going to look like. FSM claims to have had access to this from Apple's internal server, but it's still not clear to me how they got their hands on it.

Although Apple already announced iCloud, we have yet to learn what the service will be offering and how much it will cost ($25/year?). I guess we'll have to wait for Steve Jobs to tell us more about it on Monday...

Universal Music Joins Apple’s iCloud Gang

Well, that makes four, folks! Apple has now secured a deal with Universal Music Group that grants access to the company's music through Apple's upcoming iCloud service. Universal is the last of the four major labels to sign up, with EMI, Sony and Warner joining the gang over the last few weeks.

Although it did not mention that music features would be part of the service, Apple did confirm that the iCloud service would be announced at WWDC on Monday, and if recent speculation is correct, we may soon be able to say goodbye to all the music files that take up valuable storage on our iOS devices and stream our favorite tracks from the cloud instead...