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If you are bored with the look of your iOS UI and want to customise the background, then you can try an exciting app called iTheme. The great thing about this app is that it comes with more than 500 unique themes for iPhone/iPod Touch and 400+ themes for iPad. It also comes with a theme editor too so that you can customise it to suit your mood. All the themes come with Retina resolution. You can even customise the brightness, saturation and contrast for each theme. And it supports iOS 7. Each theme consists of lock screen and home screen. It's multi-language and works with iOS 5 or greater. It's available on the App Store for $1.99.

MacX is celebrating Thanksgiving and giving away the MacX Video Converter Pro worth $49.99 for FREE. The offer is valid up to December 6th, 2013. The video converter has the following features:

• Convert video to any format including MP4, FLV, AVI, MOV, WMV, MPEG, etc with original quality.
• Transfer MKV AVCHD M2TS MTS FLV videos to iPhone, iPad, Android, PSP, etc with 32x faster speed.
• Trim, crop, split and merge videos, add watermark and subtitle to make your video personalized.
• Download YouTube video, capture screen, make photo slideshow, record video, etc.

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Apple has updated its Xcode IDE to version 5.0.2 with some fixes for iOS simulator issues and iOS 6 fixes. Apple had released Xcode 5.0.1 on October 22 with 10.9 compatibility and iOS 7. If you are downloading for the first time, then it will be a big download of 2.09 GB. And if you updating from v5.0.1 to 5.0.2, then it's a mere 135 MB download. Get it now from Mac App Store.

1. Fixes an issue that prevents deleting, moving, and archiving messages for users with custom Gmail settings
2. Addresses an issue that may cause unread counts to be inaccurate
3. Includes additional fixes that improve the compatibility and stability of Mail

You can get it from App Store updates or by clicking here.

Apple has released iTunes 11.1.3 with various performance fixes and equaliser fix. The new updates fixes an issue when working large iTunes library. This update also includes various bug fixes.

To download the the update go to Software Update on your Mac or get it here.

In Mac OS X Mountain Lion, Apple had provided an improved dictation. It was good for basic dictation, but it was online. It means when you dictate, it went online and analysed the word and then presented you the word.

In OS X Mavericks, Apple decided to incorporate offline dictation feature. It is now improved and recognises most of the words immediately. But it is nowhere near Dragon Dictate which is the king in the dictation technology. I have the British English voice installed on my Mac which have a size of around 500 MB. To activate it, you have to tick a checkbox with the label "Use Enhanced Dictation" in the Dictation & Speech Preference Pane. Then it will download the offline package which varies depending upon your language selection.