With its streaming music service MOG closing down on August 31, Telstra has aligned with Apple Music to fill the silence left in its void.

More than just a straight switcheroo, Telstra is giving eligible post-paid mobile customers a new add-on to their accounts that provides a 12 month subscription to the service, absolutely free.

If you’re a Telstra Mobile customer and your ears just perked up the mention of a year’s worth of free music, you should login to your My Account page, select your mobile, go to the Add-ons section and add the complimentary Apple Music 12 Month Offer to your account.

Once the year is up, a regular monthly Apple Music subscription fee will be automatically added to your Telstra phone bill.

If you’ve already got an existing Apple Music subscription, you should cancel it before accepting the Telstra offer, or else you may find your iTunes account will keep getting charged by Apple.

• Check out our in-depth Apple Music review

Apple Music is upon us! Coming fresh from its announcement earlier this month to its less glamorous kerfuffle over artists' royalties, Apple's foray into music streaming has transitioned from making headlines to making its way into homes, starting today with the arrival of iOS 8.4.

What is Apple Music?

Unveiled at this year's Worldwide Developers Conference, Apple Music is an alternative service to the iTunes Music Store that offers unlimited music streaming, akin to competitor Spotify. In addition to music on demand, Apple Music also includes saving music for offline listening, specialty playlists curated by experts, Beats 1 online radio and Siri integration, allowing the digital assistant to take requests through voice commands.

A subscription to Apple Music costs $9.99/month. There is also a family membership for $14.99/month that includes up to six concurrent members. Apple is currently offering a lengthy three-month free trial for new subscribers, beneficial for anyone on the fence about giving the service a try.

I want Apple Music! What do I need?

• An Apple ID (Don't have one? You can create an account here)
• iCloud Family Sharing enabled (Only if you plan to get the family membership)
• A compatible device (details below)

What devices work with Apple Music?

Apple Music is will work on a number of devices, namely the iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Mac, PC and even the Apple Watch. Android users, unfortunately, will have to wait until the service reaches their platform this fall.

You will have to update your iTunes and/or iOS version to access Apple Music. Not sure how that works? We've got you covered:

Updating your iPhone, iPad and iPod touch

1. Plug in your device to a power supply so the battery doesn't die mid-update.

2. Go to the Settings app and the tap General > Software Update

3. Tap "Download and Install." After agreeing to the Terms & Conditions, and download will begin immediately.

4. Press "Install" after the update is fully downloaded to apply the update and you're set! Apple Music will be incorporated into the Music app, so just head there to enjoy Apple Music's new features.

Updating your iOS device through iTunes

1. Open iTunes

2. Plug in your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch or Apple Watch

3. Click on the device tab in the left-hand corner of the window (for this example, we are using an iPhone)

4. While on the device window, click the "Check for Update" button, under the Summary tab.

5. You can choose to only download the update to apply at a later time, or download and update your device all at once. For now, choose both and let iTunes do its thing.

Updating iTunes on your computer

1. Open iTunes

2. If you aren't immediately prompted for an update upon opening, highlight "Help" from the toolbar and select "Check for Updates."

3. Update iTunes, which may take a while depending on your internet connection speed. For best results, restart your computer after downloading the update.

Don't have iTunes? Download it for free from Apple's website.

I'm all updated! Now what?

That's it! Once your machine is running the latest version of iOS or iTunes, simply start up Apple Music, sign in using your Apple ID, and sign on for the free trial. Until the three-month period expires, enjoy unlimited music streaming, curated playlists and albums from Dr. Dre, Taylor Swift, and more.

Still have some lingering questions about Apple Music? Our extensive Apple Music hub should help.

Facebook is attempting to eliminate the deluge of "Where are you at?" messages we send each other every day with a new location sharing feature.

Conversions now include a map of your exact location, or another rendezvous point to meet friends, as one of the messages, explained the social media company today.

Location sharing in Facebook Messenger isn't actually new. This just works in a more privacy friendly way than its current method hidden within every message and sent unless you opt out.

The new update forces users to tap the location pin icon at the bottom of the screen and then send a map of where they are or want to go in an obvious message.

It's been done

Facebook Messenger is a helpful feature that beams your coordinates in a more transparent way than before, but it's hardly new to app messaging services.

Google Hangouts lets users share their current location and even includes a trigger button that pops up when someone asks "Where are you?" Tapping the button sends a map.

iMessages includes two handy location sharing features within a message's Details menu: Send My Current Location and Share My Location.

The latter gives the friend or group of friends your location for one hour, until the end of the day or indefinitely, which is convenient for keeping large groups together in a theme park or stadium.

In a way, Facebook is just catching up. But it also adds the idea of sending a meet up point to friends, which is a little different than other messaging apps.

Today's Facebook Messenger app update is currently rolling out to iOS and Android devices, in case you are tempted to ask the age-old, hopefully eliminated question: "Where are you at?"

All of Google's futuristic toys you can't have yet

Apple Maps' plans to finally bring public transit directions with iOS 9, but may only in be available in a half-dozen cities.

The service reportedly could also extend to cities in China. That sounds ambitious, but Apple has struggled to bring public transport directions to its maps service for years.

Even after the purchase of Embark and Hopstop, which would provide transit data for over 600 cities, Apple Maps has yet to release a way to find your next bus stop.

Missing the bus

Although its arrival is sure to be music to the ears of many people in those cities, it won't help the vast majority of people.

Public transport use in the US reaching its highest numbers in nearly 60 years, yet the progress that Apple has made in the nearly three years since Maps was released feels underwhelming.

It's possible that Apple is striving to take its time with the release of transit directions, given the backlash that Maps received when it arrived.

Reportedly, Apple will begin adding cities as they become ready with an over-the-air rollout, rather than another iOS update, and will include Boston and Tokyo next.

If you're not in the lucky group that can use Apple Maps' new public transit service, you'll just have to find your way around the old-fashioned way, Google Maps.

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Kanye West is, in some ways, a prophet sent to us to guide the human race in the direction of truth and light and love and really expensive clothes.

So it makes sense that developers and tech-makers the world over have tried to channel his energy. After all, he is the new Steve Jobs.

So first we had Coin.ye, the bitcoin-alike that ended up in court, and now we have Ye.I, an app that puts a Kanye West avatar at your disposal.

It can do such useful things as dropping a mic or set your alarm for you like a hyped-up Siri. Check it out for yourself here before the lawsuit lands in 3, 2, 1...

Beats Music is getting rebranded "Apple Music" and adding a music-driven social network, according to a new report today.

No, this isn't a reboot of Ping, the ill-fated iTunes social network that closed in 2012. This is supposed to be a more exclusive social network not open to normal users.

It'll reportedly allow musicians to connect with followers and post track samples, photos, videos and concert updates.

Backed up by iOS 8.4 beta

Today's Apple Music rumors are backed up by iOS 8.4 beta leaks. A new setting lets users turn off "Artist Activity" within the beta. Now it makes sense.

The still unconfirmed Apple Music app is said to go beyond the confines of iOS 8.4. It's supposed to be made available for Androids and Mac too. A native Apple Watch app is also very likely.

We should note that while Beats Music is expected to be absorbed by Apple's Music app, the Beats brand won't be going anywhere. They're two very different things.

Apple is also reportedly still keeping iTunes Match and iTunes Radio despite the similarities with what Beats Music and, soon, Apple Music do.

Expect to hear an official announcement on June 8 during Apple's WWDC 2015 keynote, when iOS 8.4 is expected to launch and iOS 9 hints may be thrown around.

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