If you have an Apple iPhone or iPad , iOS 9 is now available to download.
Head over to the settings app, general, software update to trigger release.
Except, you may get a software error message. So what do you do?
Fret not, keep trying and repeating process. Make sure you device is charging and over 50% too.
In terms of how many times you’ll need to try to get download to work, maybe 10 times.
Or wait 24 hours and all will be fine.
If you have an iPad or iPhone that is upgradeable to iOS 9, today is the day to check for the software update. The same applies if you are lucky enough to own an Apple Watch, version 2 of the firmware arrives today allowing apps to be run on the Apple Watch.
So which iPhones and iPads are able to update to iOS 9?
– iPhone – From the iPhone 4S and newer. So that is the iPhone 5, 5C, 5S, 6 and 6 Plus.
– iPad – iPad Mini, Mini 2, Mini 3, iPad Air, iPad Air 2, iPad 2, iPad 3rd Gen, iPad 4th Gen
– iPod Touch – iPod Touch 5th Generation
So what are the features of iOS 9?
Well, head over to Apple to discover everything that is new – http://www.apple.com/uk/ios/whats-new/
I mentioned yesterday the new iCloud storage pricing – https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201238 Click the link to find details of most countries new iCloud storage pricing. Far more reasonable now.
To make life easier if you’re in the UK, the monthly costs are as follows –
– 50 GB: £0.79
– 200 GB: £2.49
– 1 TB: £6.99
Don’t forget you get 5gb free, but that can get swallowed fast by your phones backup and media/photos.
So how do I get the update? If you do nothing it the update will arrive automatically over the next week. If you are impatient, then go to settings and check for an update and download as required.
“More than fifteen years ago, in response to decreasing ad rates and banner blindness, web advertisers and publishers adopted pop-up ads.
People hated pop-up ads. We tolerated in-page banners as an acceptable cost of browsing free websites, but pop-ups were over the line: they were too annoying and intrusive. Many website publishers claimed helplessness in serving them — the ads came from somewhere else that they had little control over, they said. They really needed the money from pop-ups to stay afloat, they said.
The future didn’t work out well for pop-ups. Pop-up-blocking software boomed, and within a few years, every modern web browser blocked almost all pop-ups by default.
A line had been crossed, and people fought back.
People often argue that running ad-blocking software is violating an implied contract between the reader and the publisher: the publisher offers the page content to the reader for free, in exchange for the reader seeing the publisher’s ads. And that’s a nice, simple theory, but it’s a blurry line in reality.”
A good piece of advertising.
This is a situation that even Gavin’s Gadgets faces. The annual costs are increasing. I introduced advertising myself but kept it as minimal as possible. It only appears on one part of the website, at the end of each article only and not all over the page. Apart from that I have an Amazon Affiliate link and donations. I don’t think there is a perfect solution!
Read the full story at – http://www.marco.org/2015/08/11/ad-blocking-ethics
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