Google and Apple . Apple and Google . No matter which side of the fence you ’re on , chance are the other one is the dark side . The two do seem to be locked in some sort of heroic battle , which only became readable on Wednesday as Google held itsI / O keynotein San Francisco ’s Moscone West — the same locus where , just weeks before , Apple restrain its Worldwide Developer Conference ....
Our Verdict LaunchBar , the keyboard - based app that offers a fast agency to start the applications and files you habituate most , started 20 years agoas a folder full of shell scripts that could be set off by a specific abbreviation typed into a Terminal shell . It was cagey , but gawky . It did n’t take long , however , for the developers behind LaunchBar , Objective Development , to realize that their booklet full of scripts would be much more sinewy as an genuine found app — as abarthat helps youlaunchthings — with an index number of everything on the computer , thus allowing the app itself to estimate out what it is you ’re searching for ....
I honestly ca n’t think back the last time I used Skype on my iPhone . It ’s one of those apps I installed a few long time back and rarely end up using , but I keep it installed because of the frequency that I expend its desktop app on my Mac . There was nothing wrong with Skype for iOS before , it ’s just that there were other more mobile - friendly messaging apps that I preferred ....
Surfeit of stories , thy name is Tuesday ! We ’ve collected a few of the most interesting patch from around the web for your poring over . Code / red : Apple Looks outdoors for New Comms VP Re / code say that Apple ’s on the lookout for a new straits of PR to replacethe of late take leave Katie Cotton . Speculation is high that this could assist set a friendlier , more candid tack for the party , specially in light of the loosened NDA strictures around last week ’s Worldwide Developers Conference ....
There ’s a mountain of gear out there for your Apple devices , but how do you know which are worth your time and what ’s not worth your money ? In our Gear We Love newspaper column , Macworld ’s editor in chief tell you about the products we ’re personally using — and love . Though I ’ve founda number of iPad mini slip , of depart levels of tribute , worth recommending , I ’m a minimalist when it fall to cases for my owniPad miniskirt ....
On the face of it , the keynote at WWDC 2014 was a developer ’s dreaming : Extensions , TestFlight , third - party keyboards , a framework for building cloud - ground apps , a compelling successor to Objective - century , and more . But what did this avalanche of empowerment mean to developers , and how will it impact the time to come of Mac and iOS apps ?...
These days , keeping up with games can be a full - sentence job . So how do you separate the signal from the interference , the wheat from the stalk , the Temple Runs from the Temple Jumps ? Allow us to help by on a regular basis selecting a gameYou Should fiddle . “ What ’s this secret plan yell ? ” my married woman ask , watching me maneuver simple shapes through abstract terrain on the iPad ....
Monday ’s Worldwide Developers Conference tonic was an exciting one for me on multiple level , but the icing on the cake was seeing Apple ’s architectural plan for cover images and video on iOS . arrive the fall , the company ’s 1000 - photo iCloud sync limit is history , to be replaced by an all - encompassing , some - storage - required iCloud Photo Library . It ’s a pretty big shift for both the company and its users , so before anyone affright , let ’s look at what ’s go to vary with iOS 8 and what ’s staying the same ....
Apple’sMonday keynoteat its Worldwide Developers Conference was jam - pack with information about the company ’s novel operating systems and development instrument . As such , it ’s no surprise that a slide gentle “ iOS 8 features we did n’t have time to blab about ” made only a lightning - brief appearance . But we picked through that slide to find some of the intriguing fresh features you may not have pull in were coming to iOS 8 this fall ....
Apple on Monday atWWDC 2014unveilediOS 8 , and with that , the company announced a great deal of unexampled lineament for Developers that are go to make for some huge changes to the apps on our iPhones and iPads . “ iOS 8 is the braggart release for developer since the instauration of the App Store , ” says Apple on its web site . “ It open up up new areas of iOS , allow for developers to extend the reach of their app content and functionality ....
iOS 8 is coming for your home . One of the many novel developer tools Apple unveiled Monday at the Worldwide Developer Conference is HomeKit , a raw cortege of cock that will permit the makers of smart home products mix their merchandise more deeply into Apple ’s mobile OS . HomeKit is celebrated for what it is n’t . Apple did n’t pick one standard communications protocol for the industry to rally behind ( at least not yet ) , like the way the company push adoption of USB by building it into the iMac ....
If there ’s a “ certain thing ” you’re able to expect at WWDC , it ’s that Apple will preview young versions of its operating system . Sure enough , the company spent a considerable portion ofMonday ’s keynotetelling us aboutOS X Yosemite , the next major revision to its screen background OS . And major it is , starting with the iOS 7 - inspire ocular makeover . But though many expected that rhytidoplasty to be the day ’s biggest atomic number 76 X word , Yosemite’spreview was most telling for the mountain of major new features Apple expose ....
Tim Cook ’s instruction from Steve Jobs was clear : Do n’t let Apple become paralyzed like Disney did in the aftermath of Walt Disney ’s decease , endlessly asking what the prestigious founder would do in any given billet . The only directive from Jobs ’s tenure that weigh after his death was the one that freed Cook and everyone else at Apple from playing “ What Would Steve Do ?...
