Apple Watch 'watchOS 2' is now available to download!

The wait is over...
Here comes the Apple Watch watchOS 2!

Download now
If you own Apple Watch and haven't upgraded to Apple Watch latest OS: watchOS 2, then now you should upgrade it, because the watchOS 2 is available to download.

What's new and noticable
So what is new on watchOS 2?
There are plenty of new features built into watchOS 2, however here is the summary of the most noticeable changes and most usable for you:

0. Bigger and more 'full' buttons on Lockscreen

As you can see from the image above, watchOS 2 lockscreen buttons are bigger and square, make it more space for your finger to key in the passcode. 


1. New watch faces
Timelapse, photo album and photo are the new watch faces available in watchOS 2.
There are also background color addition to the existing watch faces, such as in Chronograph, you can now choose dark green, dark grey, instead of black and white only.

2. Nightstand mode
Apple has not yet successful to make battery life in Apple Watch to be as great as those in Pebble, that's why Apple made Nightstand mode instead, where when you put your Apple Watch in the night for sleeping, you can make it as a desk clock. Put the Apple Watch on its side while charging and that's it.

3. Native Apps
When I first run my first 3rd party app on my Apple Watch using watchOS 1, I'm a bit disappointed by the app performance, especially when you activate the app/game for the first time. It was just like forever loading.
Now Apple has fixed it with introducing native apps into the Apple Watch, where apps/games activate and run faster.
  
4. More powerful Siri
Just like iOS 9, watchOS 2 also includes a more powerful Siri. You can now ask her to do calculation for you, ask direction and transit direction, check your glances and so much more.

5. Activation Lock
I don't know why the reason Apple didn't bring this feature in the first place on the original watchOS, but right now they do it right by introducing Activation Lock to the Apple Watch, so should you lost your Apple Watch, nobody ever - at least for the time being - be able to use your Apple Watch without your permission - unlocking the device.

6. Add more friends
Previously on the original watchOS 1, Apple only allows you to save so-called speed dial of your friends/family members contacts up to 12 contacts. Now still the same 12 contacts, but Apple allows you to have multiple pages consists of 12 contacts each.

So, if you own Apple Watch and haven't upgraded it to watchOS 2, wait no more!



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PS: some images are courtesy of Apple, Inc. www.apple.com

Apple Watch: The Good and Bad - After 1 Month of Using it

Yesterday 2nd August 2015 is 1-month milestone for me using my Apple Watch.

And today I would like to share with you, my personal opinion about Apple Watch that probably can help you - if you are right now still deciding whether or not to buy the Apple Watch.

So, after a month of usage, I found that Apple Watch is pretty useful for me to:
1. Know the time. Of course! It's given.

2. Get notification and see them directly from my wrist and reply them directly also from my wrist - if the app has function to directly reply from Apple Watch

3. Catch up with my daily activity in relation to health activity: walk, move, stand up
Each and every hour, the Watch is reminding me to stand up and will give a praise if you did stand up. Personally I become motivated to always fill all the meters on the activity tracker.
See my activity record here:

4. Occasionally answering a phone call
If you ever been in this kind of situation, sorry for the example - you are on toilet and somebody is calling you and somehow you have to pick the call, then answering a phone call from the watch is become very handy rather than trying to reach your iPhone on the pocket to grab it and answer the call. 

5. Easily change from 1 strap to another strap
Yes, changing strap on Apple Watch is super easy. You can change your strap on daily basis - assuming if you have quite many straps. From Apple official straps to 3rd party straps. All you need to have, especially if you bought the Apple Watch Sport model, is the Apple Watch Strap Adapter.

And here are things I found that Apple Watch is sucks:
1. 3rd Party app is slow
Yes, on Apple Watch with WatchOS 1.0.1, 3rd party apps runs slow when you open the app and run it from the Watch - especially the first time you execute the app. Although when the app is running the slowness is gone, but still it took quite long to load the app on the Apple Watch that sometimes makes me change my mind and directly close the app even before finished loading.

2. Battery is draining faster
If I use it only for tracking time and my activity, the battery can last about 2 days. However, when I start playing games or running apps then the battery can simply run out within hours.

So:
If you really fans of Apple: you should go buy Apple Watch
If you want to look cool: go buy Apple Watch - Sport edition is enough for you
If you want to look damn rich: go buy the Gold Edition Watch
If you think you need something to track your heath and want something fancy to show the tracking, you should go buy Apple Watch
If you have extra money and right now using iPhone: go buy Apple Watch. It's still a great piece of technology. Don't forget, Apple Watch has heart rate sensor.
If you are on budget and looking for something to track down your activity, check time, get notification: you should go buy something else like Pebble which is definitely cheaper compare to Apple Watch

Which one are you?
If you already have Apple Watch with you, what is your usage? Tell me in comments below.

Thanks!

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[Apple Watch FREE APP] Microsoft PowerPoint - Control the Presentation Slide Using Your Watch

Today FREE APP is PowerPoint by Microsoft.

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Check here for the iPhone app review: Microsoft PowerPoint on iPhone

Unlike the iPhone version of the app where you can create, edit or view the presentation slide, the Apple Watch version of the PowerPoint app is simply to help you during the presentation for advancing to the next slide or go back to previous slide which turn out to be very helpful, so rather than go back and forth slide to the right of the screen to show next slide or slide to the left of the screen to show previous slide, all you need to do is just tapping on the Apple Watch screen.

Do note that the app is currently only able to control the PowerPoint app on your iPhone/iOS device and not PowerPoint app on your Mac/PC.

This app offers in-app purchases in forms of Office 365 subscriptions.
This app can be used offline/without internet access. However if you require to open/fetch files from your cloud drive, then internet access is needed.

Current version 1.10.1 requires iOS 7.1 or later.
Compatible with the following iOS devices:

• iPhone 4 and up
• iPod Touch 5th Gen and up
• iPad 2 and up 
• iPad Mini and up 

Compatible with the following Apple Watch devices with WatchOS 1.0:

• Apple Watch Sport
• Apple Watch (Stainless Steel)
• Apple Watch Edition

 Here is the Apple App Store download link for your iPhone:

Once download and installed for your iPhone, check here to install Apple Watch app/game to your Apple Watch:
How to Install Apps/Games to Apple Watch

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[Apple Watch FREE APP] Musixmatch: Lyrics Finder - Now In Your Wrist! Start singing anywhere anytime.

Today FREE APP is Musixmatch.

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Check here for the iPhone app review: Musixmatch on iPhone

Like the iPhone version, the Apple Watch version function virtually the same, except there is no explore mode - at least for this current version.

Once you started the Musixmatch app on the Apple Watch, it will shows 2 menus: Now Playing and Identify.

Now Playing mode, based on my testing, works only for Apple Music app. FYI, I'm still using iOS 8.3 right now, so I don't know about Beats 1 or Apple Music yet. Hopefully they works with Musixmatch. I have tried Spotify, but didn't work. The app didn't detect the song played from Spotify.
However, if you play any song from your Music app, the "Now Playing" mode will turn red and show you the song title complete with the album cover. Press the "Now Playing" menu to show lyrics of the song currently played on your iPhone.

The other mode, "Identify" (in the iPhone app, this mode is called "MusicID"), is to identify any songs play from your phone using any apps, such as Spotify or nearby your phone (your surrounding).
On my test, Musixmatch app on Apple Watch is quite fast when identifying the song - depends on your network strength and internet connection. On my test, within less than 5 seconds, it already showed me the lyric of the song currently play at my phone, and the best is it scrolled through until the exact sentence the song currently play so I can directly start singing.

So, right now, wherever and whenever you are, you can start singing songs!

This app offers in-app purchases in form of subscriptions, if you are a FREE users, you will only able to access basic features and will see 3rd party ads.
This app needs internet access.
Current version 5.0.4 requires iOS 7.1 or later.
Compatible with the following iOS devices:

• iPhone 4 and up
• iPod Touch 5th Gen and up
• iPad 2 and up 
• iPad Mini and up 

Compatible with the following Apple Watch devices with WatchOS 1.0:

• Apple Watch Sport
• Apple Watch (Stainless Steel)
• Apple Watch Edition

 Here is the Apple App Store download link for your iPhone:

Once download and installed for your iPhone, check here to install Apple Watch app/game to your Apple Watch:
How to Install Apps/Games to Apple Watch

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[Apple Watch How-To] Find The Heart Rate Monitor and How to Use it

If you are a new owner of Apple Watch, I guess one of the many features you would like to give it a try is the heart rate monitor. At least that's what I was looking for when I first open and use my Apple Watch.

Based on my own experience, the Apple Watch with WatchOS 1.0 is not so simple and not so easy to use. Took some time for me to really acknowledge, oh that's how this works.
The heart rate monitor is one of the feature that is somehow "hidden" for me, because there is no icon, no settings, no tutorial, simply there is nothing that showing the heart rate monitor existence except the fact that the bottom part of my watch has the sensors.

So for those of you who like to use the heart rate monitor, here is how you can use it:
1. Turn on the Apple Watch and unlock it if it's locked
2. Slide up (from bottom to up), to open the watch glances

3. Depends on your setting, but by default Heart Rate monitor is located on the 3rd glance, so when you open glances and you are on the very left most position, slide to the left 2 times to open the 3rd glance: the heart rate monitor.

Now you find the heart rate monitor, here is how to use them:
1. Simply put the watch on your wrist, either left or right hand
2. Open the heart rate monitor and let it work for you. It will light the green bright light to check your heart rate and return the result in BPM.

And if you don't know yet, Apple Watch is monitoring your heart rate every hour while you are using the watch.


So, how many BPM your heart rate is?
Mine is quite small, only 61 BPM - measures taken at night before sleep.

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[Apple Watch How-To] How to get screenshot from your Apple Watch

Wondering how to capture or snap a screenshot from your Apple Watch?

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Turn out the way to snap a screenshot on Apple Watch is similar with iPhone.

Here's how:
1. Apple Watch only has 2 physical buttons: the digital crown and the side button
2. Press and hold the digital crown, while at the same time press the side button
3. Your Apple Watch screen will be captured and saved directly to your iPhone.
4. Done!

Did it already?
Well you just learned something new from your Apple Watch!

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[Apple Watch FREE GAME] Cupcake Dungeon - Eliminate All the Sweets: Donuts, Jelly, Choclate Biscuits and Others

Today Apple Watch FREE GAME is Cupcake Dungeon.

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I haven't published review for the iPhone version of the game, but Cupcake Dungeon is - according to my - a game that is suitable to be played on your Apple Watch.

The game is pretty simple and that's why I like it to be played on my Apple Watch instead of iPhone.
The game setting is in sweets island (I suppose so), all you need to do is to battle all the sweets that approach you, from donuts, jelly to chocolate biscuits by tapping as fast as you can on the screen.

Your objective is to eliminate as many sweets as you can to proceed to the next level.
Collect coins and treasures to be used to upgrade your weapons. Treasures found can be sold.
Upgrade your attack rates as well to multiply the attacking power.
Use boosts to double or triple your power, but do remember boosts does not last forever.

Another great feature of this simple game is that you don't need to always monitors and actively playing the game, tapping all the sweets to eliminate them, but you can leave the game for it to automatically play.
However the game requires you to check on every hour to make sure the automatic play mode continues. Failed to do that, your hero will fall a sleep and snoring until you check and play the game again.
To make sure the automatic play become fruitful - kill as many and earn as much, make sure you upgrade your weapons and attack rates. 

This game does not have any in-app purchases aka totally FREE.
This game can be played offline/without internet access.

Current version 1.1.2 requires iOS 8.0 or later.
Compatible with the following iOS devices:

• iPhone 4S and up
• iPod Touch 5th Gen and up
• iPad 2 and up 
• iPad Mini and up 

Compatible with the following Apple Watch devices with WatchOS 1.0:

• Apple Watch Sport
• Apple Watch (Stainless Steel)
• Apple Watch Edition

 Here is the Apple App Store download link for your iPhone:

Once download and installed for your iPhone, check here to install Apple Watch app/game to your Apple Watch:
How to Install Apps/Games to Apple Watch

Daily amazing FREE Apps, Games & Tips and Tricks and News for your Apple Watch, visit below:
http://myapplewatch.blogspot.sg/