Saw this bit of news on MacRumors, ever since the WWDC keynote event where Mac OS X Lion, iOS 5 and others were announced by good old Steve Jobs, one of the new features of iOS 5 did manage to catch my eye.

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One of these new features within iOS is iMessage which is Apple's own messaging service for it's own devices. Built in to messages itself, what iOS 5 now will do is to check if the recipient of your message is using an iOS device and then sends it via iMessage instead of the usual SMS channel.

I guess this is Apple's official answer to RIM's Blackberry messenger, WhatsApp and other messaging service. I do hope that there are other features such as group chats and all but as much as I like this to work, we all still have friends who don't use iOS and rely on Blackberries and Android.

What it does allow us to do is to save a bit of cash instead of sending SMS out, and I really do like it's transparency feature where you only need to access messages instead of launching a separate app such as WhatsApp.

Can't wait for these new goodies to be available especially since I promised munz that I would get her an iPhone 5 and I definitely do need to upgrade my current MacbookPro. So far rumours have it is that the next model will sport a whole new casing design. Will probably wait for that. Also another feature which I am really looking forward to, is syncing iOS devices via Wi-fi.

Credit - MacRumors

There are Wednesdays and there are some Wednesdays. Monday was a zombie day for me as I was up all night watching the world cup. I think everyone in the office did the same as well. Anyway, it is Wednesday today which means that there is time for a Wednesday Clicks.

• Ever tired of the Mac vs PC war going on out there amongst your friends? Well here are some bit of news to add more salt to those war wounds. Three Mac features I want on my next PC and Three PC features I want on my next Mac


• Tokina announced the 16-28mm f/2.8 lens for both Nikon and Canon


• If you think sending smses to oneself was dumb, try sending threatening smses to oneself and get sent to jail.


• Spain won the world cup, boohoo! I hate divers


• A new Star Wars Tower Defense is coming for the iPhone, woohoo!


• Gordon Ramsay, the tough guy from Hell's Kitchen actually cries. Check out this photographer who captured that image!


• Photo Mechanic 4.6.5 is now available. Check out what is new with this version here. Download the file over here.


• Fashion shoot using an iPhone 3Gs? Yup, someone has gone ahead and done just that.

Its so going to be a very very long week ahead!