[VIDEO] New Features in MacOS Sierra
Posted: September 7, 2016 Filed under: Entertainment, Mediasphere, Science & Technology, U.S. News | Tags: Apple Inc, Apple Music, Google Drive, iCloud, IOS, IOS 10, iPhone, Mac OS, MacOS Sierra, OS X Leave a comment
Basics
- Sierra wallpaper
- Storage Recommendations (System Information)
- Optimize Mac Storage (iCloud → iCloud Drive options)
- Remove items from the Trash after 30 days
- Desktop and Documents folder live on iCloud Drive
- Keep folders on top when sorting by name
- Notification Center updated design
- Choose output from sound button in menu bar
- Move any menu bar item
- Prefer tabs when opening documents
- Tabs in maps
- Double space enters a period
- Safari and iTunes Picture in Picture
- Updated Console app
- Dwell Control
- Auto Unlock
- APFS Apple File System
- Universal Clipboard
Photos app
- Memories
- Intelligent Search
- Places
- People
- Large emoji
- Tapback
- Inline video playback
- Inline links
iTunes
- Redesigned Apple Music features in iTunes
[VIDEO] Comedy: Apple’s #WWDC Opener
Posted: June 11, 2015 Filed under: Entertainment, Humor, Mediasphere | Tags: Airline hub, Apple Inc, Apple Worldwide Developers Conference, Apps, El Capitan, IOS, Keynote, Macintosh, OS X, Streaming media Leave a commentApple did something out of the ordinary to open WWDC this year. Before CEO Tim Cook took the stage, the company played a bizarre opening video that showed a behind the scenes look at the opening number it had planned but that never came to fruition…100 MORE WORDS
What’s the Apple Watch Good For?
Posted: February 24, 2015 Filed under: Art & Culture, Science & Technology | Tags: Amazon.com, Android (operating system), Apple Inc, Canalys, International Data Corporation, IOS, IOS jailbreaking, iPad, iPhone, iTunes, Microsoft Surface, OS X, Personal computer, Phablet, Samsung, Tablet computer Leave a comment
Developers and designers debate whether the Apple Watch will find its purpose
John Pavlus writes: When Apple unveiled the first iPad in 2010, many pundits scoffed. Among the gripes: tablet computers had been tried before without success; most people already had laptops; and wasn’t it just a giant iPod Touch?
“A watch is a very covert object,” she says. “I could see a new kind of private language or low-level communication emerging from this kind of wearable, using pulses or squeezes.”
— Laura Seargeant Richardson, a user experience expert at Argodesign, a consultancy based in Austin, Texas
The market, as we know, reacted differently. Tablet computers are now a hit—thanks in no small part to Apple’s savvy design, which offered people something that was instantly comprehensible and easy to use, but also flexible enough to suggest thousands of new applications.+
With the upcoming release of the Apple Watch, the company seems poised to repeat the trick. Despite a raft of existing smart watches from companies including Samsung, Motorola, and Pebble, wearable technology has resisted mainstream appeal, partly because the devices don’t feel particularly useful (see “So Far, Smart Watches Are Pretty Dumb”).
The advance marketing for the Apple Watch has done little to explain why this product will fare better, but the tools (WatchKit) and documentation (Human Interface Guidelines) released for app developers provides some clues. They suggest a simple, intuitive mode of interaction centered on streamlined alerts. If the market influence of the iPhone and iPad are any indication, the user experience patterns that Apple establishes may come to define what all smart watches are “for” in eyes of their users.
The Apple Watch might seem like a computer that resides on your wrist, but technically that isn’t the case. Apps that run on it are actually just extensions of iOS apps that run on an iPhone; they use the watch as an auxiliary display. This encourages developers to exploit the device as a kind of remote control for their existing iOS apps, and imagine the UX accordingly.
“You’re not allowed to run code on the watch at all,” says William Van Hecke, user experience lead at the Omni Group, a productivity software vendor that’s developing apps for the Apple Watch.
Nik Fletcher, product manager at Realmac Software, says his team “carefully reduced the core essence” of the company’s to-do list app, called Clear, in order to adapt it for the Apple Watch. Whereas the full iOS app lets users reorder tasks or mark off entire lists in one stroke, and includes animations and sound effects, the new version focuses on what Fletcher terms “recall and completion.” Upcoming reminders can be viewed using the watch’s (noninteractive) Glance view, and individual items can be crossed off. New entries must be input via the iPhone or Mac version of the software. Read the rest of this entry »
Analyst: Apple plans to release cheaper iMacs, 8 GB iPhone 5s at WWDC
Posted: May 28, 2014 Filed under: Breaking News, Science & Technology, U.S. News | Tags: Apple, Apple Worldwide Developers Conference, iMac, IOS, iPhone, Macintosh, Ming-Chi Kuo, OS X 1 Comment
For 9to5Mac, Mike Beasley reports:
KGI analyst Ming-Chi Kuo has made a few more predictions about what we’ll see from Apple in the near future. According to a new KGI research note, Apple could potentially release cheaper versions of the iMac and iPhone 5s during its developer conference next week to accompany its software announcements.
Earlier today new references to an unreleased iteration of the the iMac appeared in an OS X developer preview, likely indicating the impending release of a new model. It’s quite possible that this could be the cheaper iMac referred to in the report. Read the rest of this entry »
Steve Jobs wanted Sony VAIOs to run Mac’s OS
Posted: February 5, 2014 Filed under: History, Science & Technology, U.S. News | Tags: Akio Morita, Apple, Kunitake Andō, Mac OS, OS X, Sony, Steve Jobs, VAIO 1 Comment
Joseph Volpe reports: If Steve Jobs had gotten his way, that VAIO in your lap could’ve been running OS X, Apple’s operating system. It sounds like fiction, but consider the source: former Sony president Kunitake Ando. The revelation, which stems from an interview Ando gave to Japanese journalist Nobuyuki Hayashi in 2011, highlights the close relationship Jobs reportedly shared with Sony’s co-founder Akio Morita — a relationship that led Jobs to make an exception to Apple’s walled off ecosystem. And according to Ando, it was on a 2001 golf trip in Hawaii that Jobs decided to surprise Sony executives with a version of Mac OS X running on a VAIO, four years before the Intel transition was made public.
As we all now know, that Apple/Sony partnership wasn’t meant to be. For Sony, the proposal was simply a case of bad timing, as it ran counter to not only the success the VAIO line was experiencing at the time, but also the wishes of its engineering team.
After having spent so much time optimizing VAIO for Windows, Ando says Sony’s engineering team saw OS X on VAIO as a diversion of resources and were “opposed [to] asking ‘if it is worth it’.” It was because of these two factors that Sony never pursued the prospect of Mac-compatible VAIOs any further…
What does Apple’s free OS X upgrade mean for Microsoft?
Posted: October 26, 2013 Filed under: Economics, Science & Technology | Tags: Apple, Mac, Mac OS X Snow Leopard, Mavericks, Microsoft, OS X, Snow Leopard, Windows Leave a comment
Tom Warren writes: Apple may have announced a new bevy of hardware this week, but the real surprise was a series of aggressive moves to take on Microsoft on the software side. Free alternatives to Microsoft’s Office suite will ship with iOS and Mac hardware, and OS X users running Snow Leopard or higher can now upgrade to Mavericks, the latest version of Apple’s OS, for free. For Mac users, “the days of spending hundreds of dollars to get the most from your computer are gone,” says Apple’s Craig Federighi.
Though no-cost Mavericks is a first for Apple’s OS X, it’s not a first for the industry: Microsoft offers the brand-new Windows 8.1 for free to Windows 8 customers. Together, they mark another major turning point in the post-PC era where desktops and laptops have started to take on numerous smartphone-like characteristics: Metro. iMessage integration. The Windows Store and Mac App Store. Free OS updates. The list goes on.
Microsoft should be very concerned long-term with Apple’s new approach…
That doesn’t mean the two companies are on even footing with the free upgrade message, though. “Microsoft should be very concerned long-term with Apple’s new approach, primarily in the consumer and small business markets,” Patrick Moorhead, president and principal analyst at Moor Insights and Strategy, tells The Verge. The threat of free OS upgrades and free productivity software could lure consumers, but only if Apple’s iWorks suite and Mavericks are enough for people to make the switch. Moorhead argues that Microsoft may be forced to consider its upgrade options for future Windows releases. “I think Microsoft will need to rethink any plans to charge for a Windows 9 upgrade like they did for Windows 7.”
Report: Apple To Hold Event On October 22nd To Talk New iPads, OS X Mavericks And New Mac Pro
Posted: October 8, 2013 Filed under: Mediasphere, Science & Technology | Tags: Apple, iPad, iPhone, iPhone 5, John Paczkowski, Mac Pro, OS X, TechCrunch 1 Comment
MATTHEW PANZARINO reports: Apple will hold an invitation-only event on October 22nd to show off its new iPads, as well as the new Mac Pro and OS X Mavericks release, according to areport from All Things D’s John Paczkowski.
That timing seems just right for the new iPads to make an appearance — last year’s event was held on October 23rd — and Apple has previously slated OS X Mavericks for a ‘fall’ release. It also makes some sense for Apple to talk about the Mac pro, also slated for fall, and to hopefully deliver us a release date. Read the rest of this entry »
