iOS app update roundup

While I have been at CES there have been plenty of apps updates, here are a few of the interesting ones:

ITV Player for iOS has a new look, it’s been refreshed with the new ITV logo but basically has the same features as the previous version with on demand TV shows and live stream of ITV and ITV2. The app is free from iTunes.

Sky have added Barclays Premier League Match Centre to the Sky Sport app for the iPad:

Features within the new Premier League Football Match Centre area of the app include:

• Average Formation Maps: Football fans can now to follow all the action via Average Formation Maps, which provides more in-depth team data that marks on a pitch where players have been and isolate key formations at crucial moments during a match.
• Player Touch Maps: Fans can now see all of the touches that every player has made in the live match, as well as from the previous six fixtures.
• Team form: Team line-ups and mapped formations means fans themselves can analyse how squad selections affect team results, and are keep up to date with how their team has been playing over the season.
• Sky Bet is now integrated to the app providing bets, at the foot of articles that are contextual to the story giving a quick and easy way to stake your bet.

The app is free if from iTunes but you need a Sky account

Cloud file store system Dropbox has been updated to version 2.0.2, no major changes just bug fixes and performance fixes. Both the iOS version and the Android version have been updated.

eBay for iPad has been updated. 2.2.0 has lots of changes:

✓ Calculated P&P in selling flow

✓ Start listing on the web, finish on your iPad!

✓ Saved searches with new results highlighted

✓ Fixes for crashes and bugs

Version 2.2 of eBay for iPad is the update you’ve been waiting for, with a completely re-engineered selling flow and many other improvements.

Do you ever start something, get interrupted, and wish you could pick up just where you left off? Have you ever wanted to take photos with your iPhone and easily include them on the listings you create with your iPad? What about starting your listing on your computer and finishing it off on your sofa? Now you can do all that, and more.

★ Upgrades for sellers:

– Photos uploaded to eBay can now be “supersized”

– Guidance for selecting the right category for your item

– Historical pricing information presented in the selling flow

– Suggestions on P&P methods

– “Feedback received” icons within My eBay

– Better support for selling Tickets and Vehicles Parts & Accessories items

★ Improvements for buyers:

– Items with 1-day handling and free P&P appear as eBay FAST & FREE

– Orange stars on the home screen now show you if there’s new Saved search results — no more guessing

– More information about item condition and returns displayed

– Sorting by “most bid” enabled when filtered to auction-style items only

☂ Squashed bugs:

– Tapping an item loads the “first” search result instead of the desired item

– “Black screen” appearing when loading a Saved search

– eBay notifications appearing after logging out

– More information for buyers if P&P hasn’t been specified for their destination

– Distance sort measured in miles, not kilometres in the UK

– P&P displayed incorrectly for some international buyers