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Apple Day – Apple, iPod, iPad, iPhone, iTouch, iMac, iBook
Apple today released OS X 10.9.5, after approximately a month of testing and two months after the release of OS X 10.9.4. The update, which is recommended for all Mavericks users, improves the reliability of VPN connections that use USB smart cards for authentication and it improves the reliability of accessing files located on an…
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It’s commonly thought that a significant number of people use Android-powered devices over iPhones on account of the larger screens on handsets made by Samsung and other companies; Apple hopes it can win them back with the release of the iPhone 6. To that end (and a day ahead of the public release of iOS…
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Following the public release of iOS 8 for compatible iPhone, iPad and iPod touch models, Apple has been going on a spree of updating its apps available on the App Store. The latest is Numbers, which has just been updated with iOS 8 support and iCloud Drive compatibility in tow. Stability improvements and bug fixes…
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Apple has long advertised iCloud as being a cloud storage platform for iPhone, iPad and Mac, but it has never had a front-facing file management system like its main competitors in Dropbox, Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive. iCloud Drive is about to change that, making the service a much more competitive offering in the cloud storage…
Read More “iCloud Storage Plans: 5GB vs. 20GB vs. 200GB vs. 500GB vs. 1TB” »
A cool new game 3 Crates ★★★ Introducing 3 Crates★★★ Image: http://a2.mzstatic.com/us/r30/Purple3/v4/67/b4/b5/67b4b560-f31f-6702-4a95-c1da99262066/screen568x568.jpeg Image: http://a2.mzstatic.com/us/r30/Purple5/v4/ea/bc/e9/eabce9e3-faf5-a7dd-883b-e2d4e20afde3/screen568x568.jpeg Description: Build a tower of crates in this one-tap gameplay. Beat your friends, collect coins, unlock all crates! But watch out! – you need to be precise, because crates move faster the higher the stack gets! Stack at least 3 crates…
Happy iOS 8 Day! In just a few short hours from now, we’ll all be huddled over our iPhones, iPads, and iPod touches eagerly waiting for the shiny goodness of the latest operating system. To keep you busy while waiting, today’s Morning Report skims over all of the new reviews of Apple’s upcoming hardware and…
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Apple CEO Tim Cook insists that Apple doesn’t read — in fact, says Cook, cannot read — user’s emails, and that the company’s iCloud service wasn’t hacked. ZDNet presents highlights from Cook’s lengthy, two-part interview with Charlie Rose. One selection of particular interest: Apple previously said that even it can’t access iMessage and FaceTime communications,…
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iOS 8 isn’t the radical departure from previous versions of Apple’s mobile operating system that iOS 7 was. While there exist brand new features, some of the most attractive elements of the latest OS are refinements to existing features. They include notifications, Spotlight searches, and Siri interactions. Let’s dive in to see how the changes…
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In March we reported on a new jailbreak tweak called ProWidgets that introduced a whole suite of widgets to the iOS 7 Notification Center. With today’s release of iOS 8, Avanio Labs, the company created by Alan Yip, has released several native widgets for the new operating system. These new add-ons will help you keep…
Google’s companion app for Google Glass was updated this afternoon on iOS with a few minor changes. The update to MyGlass bumps the app to version 0.8.0 and brings it closer to the generally more capable and more powerful MyGlass Android app. With this evening’s update, MyGlass on iOS now allows users to sync photos…
Read More “Google Glass companion app MyGlass for iOS updated w/ photo syncing, bug fixes” »
Leaks from the iPhone supply line over in China have become so common in recent years that covering them is now routine, but at last Apple supplier Foxconn is taking steps to crack down on some of them. As reported by the Wall Street Journal (via China’s Taihang Daily), one of the alleged culprits behind…
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Even though iOS 8 superficially looks like its immediate predecessor, there are some new under-the-hood technologies that’ll have a huge impact on the way we all use our iOS devices. One of the most significant of these is something Apple calls Extensions. What are extensions? Simply put, extensions allow iOS apps to “lend” functionality to…
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Just before the public launch of iOS 8 earlier today, we noted that Apple had begun pulling HealthKit-related apps from the App Store, apparently due to a last-minute issue that cropped up in the new operating system. The issue has put a significant dent in the usefulness of the Health app that was to be…
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[This is an advertorial. Maclife gets a portion of each unit sold.] Back in June during the annual Worldwide Developers Conference, Apple announced something that sounded like music to the mobile developers’ ears: A brand new, simplified programming language called Swift. If you’ve been itching to learn how to code for mobile, there’s never been…
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With iOS 8 officially downloading to existing devices today, enthusiasm for Apple’s central health system has been dampened by last-minute bugs that will push the arrival of compatible apps into late September. The Wall Street Journal today reported that Apple had problems launching its new HealthKit initiative alongside the release of iOS 8 on Wednesday,…
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