I admit it : I love Siri . It helps that I work from home , so I can verbalise to my phone without forbiddance . It does n’t hurt that I broadly crave pseudohuman tangency . But the substantial reason is simply that I find Siri so useful . And in iOS 6 , Siri has become evenmoreuseful than it was before . The iOS virtual assistant has study to answer accurately to a variety of new instructions ....
Apple adds a entirely non - controversial precondition to its iOS developer rule ; European citizen do n’t need anything more than a one - class warranty ; and everybody ’s cool with the new Maps , specially Canadians . The remainders for Monday , October 1 , 2012 are the god ’s reliable accuracy . Is Apple clamp down on third - party app promotion services?(PocketGamer.biz ) The previous reported changes to Apple ’s iOS developer guidelines seemingly disallow providing links to bribe other apps or elevate other apps from within your own app ....
Our Verdict BuddyTVstarted as a website that get drug user remark on their favored show . Then the company made this fashion model more fluid with its iOS app and add some tempting features , like mix a remote control for some DVRs . Unfortunately , the flaws in the current version of the app overshadow any advantages BuddyTV offer . The freeBuddyTV appattempts to bridge over the break between tv set list apps and societal features ....
Our Verdict base on its construct , Into_Nowis what societal tv set should be — a play , innovative way to portion out what you ’re see with others . But one thing is missing : enough people participating in the conversation . Into_Nowdoesn’t supercede a goggle box list app — you need to be watching something for it to exercise . It can help you find pop shows and lets you search for show that have already publicise ; you’re able to filtrate by the last 24 hr , workweek , month or all - time , but for show uncovering you ’re in force off with an app like TV Guide Mobile ....
Our Verdict QuickBooks for Mac 2013 , Intuit ’s business finance applications programme for the Mac , offer an incremental update tolast year ’s variant , with some small but welcome add-on and sweetening to live features . Though QuickBooks for Mac remains on its own fiscal island — related in name but not in file data format to its near eponymic Windows version — the new version is a respectable tool for taking care of your business ’s financial topic ....
Our Verdict TV Guidehas earned cred in television listing — the society has produced a printed guide of TV show listing since 1953 . However , the way we observe television has changed quite a bit since then , and the app that bears the society ’s name attempts to keep up with the meter . If you care a traditional list - character guidebook to incur what ’s on , TV Guide ’s free app is a substantial alternative ....
What motivates a company ? Well , turns out it might be the same thing that motivates someone to write a fulmination about Apple . Virginia Heffernan give us an target example in this principle , writing for Yahoo in ? Machine Politics ? ( whatever that is):?Apple?s Map app non - apologia : We?re sorry you feel that way?(tip o ? the antlers to Matthew Smith ) . Non - apology ?...
Reader Lee Westland is fuddle by iOS 6 ’s Music app . She writes : I ’ve downloaded several albums - worth of music to my iPhone from iTunes Match . I ’m running curtly of storage and would like to erase some of that music to make room for an app I want to download . I do n’t see a way to do that . What ’s the conjuration ?...
Preview is Apple ’s top - secret tool for viewing and manipulating PDF files , graphics , and more . The secret , however , is n’t that it exists ( look in your Applications leaflet ) but that this seemly simple programme harbors lashings of advanced features . you could use Preview to gloss PDFs , delete or rearrange PDF pages , craw paradigm , and more . Here ’s an overview of the late additions to Preview that you may not know about ....
Verizon iPhone 5 customers may have observe an progeny wherein their phones gobbled up extra cellular datum when they were theoretically tie in to Wi - Fi networks . Those client now have two bit of estimable news : There ’s a special computer software update that fixes the trouble , and they wo n’t be responsible for unexpected charges related to unintended mesh overage bear on to the topic that goad the mailman update in the first plaza ....
Expert’s Rating Pros Cons Our Verdict Whilst it ’s an cunning idea , where the Zorro Macsk suffers is chiefly down to the fact Mac OS X has not been plan as a speck - concealment operating arrangement . The motion that repeat functionality otherwise carried out by the mouse are not perfect , and with the size of some iCons on the screen you ’ll have trouble taking control of your computer ....
This week?s journey of adventure in regretful Apple coverage take us from the exalted varlet ofThe New York TimesandThe Wall Street Journaldown to the gutter of Gizmodo , which lovingly open its virtual weapon to an furious screed byNewsweek?s Dan Lyons . Technology reporting is not pretty , dear lecturer . Not that interesting You?d imagine that if Steve Jobs called you ? a guck bucket ? for blab out out of school about his cancer that you might have the good taste to not make bold to have words on how Apple would be doing if Jobs were still alive ....
The deluge of new - case proclamation for the iPhone 5 continues , which think we ’ve draw a double dose of case roundups this workweek . He ’s the 2nd batch of what ’s raw in iPhone protection . DodoCase : TheBookback(iPhone 4 , 4S , and 5 ; $ 10 ) is make using the same mulct , Maroc book fabric that the companionship uses to create its democratic blood of bookbinding - inspired cases ....
