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iTunes U Update Will Bring Course Creation, Management To iPad

Dan Moren, Macworld

The improvements come as part of the existing iTunes U app, and offer a host of new features—most notably, the ability for teachers to create, edit, and manage courses right from the iPad.

How To Sync Both Ringtones And iTunes Match Music

Christopher Breen, Macworld

FaceTime Isn't Working: 11 Great FaceTime Troubleshooting Tips

Lou Hattersley, Macworld UK

Apple Airs New “Parenthood” iPhone 5S Commercial

Federico Viticci, MacStories

Apple aired a new iPhone 5s commercial today, focusing on parents using iPhone apps and compatible hardware devices in their everyday lives. The ad is called "Parenthood", and it aired on the seventh anniversary of the iPhone's launch in the United States on June 30, 2007.

2-Year-Old Makes Emergency Call For Minn. Mom In Medical Distress

Kate Renner, KSTP

Neaton recently taught Eve, if she ever needed help to ask SIRI, the iPhone smart service.

"So we just kind of say, 'If mom falls down, this is the button you push and you say call whoever,'" Neaton said.

Tim Cook And Apple Celebrate #ApplePride In San Francisco Today

Seth Wintraub, 9 To 5 Mac

Everybody Wants A Slice Of The Apple Pie

The Irish Times

The Irish position is that the company, despite what might or might not have been said to a senate committee in Washington DC, did not receive any special deal from the Irish authorities, as Ireland just doesn’t do special deals with particular companies.

Apple MacBook Air 11In (2014) Review

Henry Winchester, Stuff

Even Apple's cheapest laptop is head and shoulders above most of its competitors, and in terms of build, battery life and usability the MacBook Air 11 is an all-round winner.

Apple Honors Pride Week With Flag, T-shirts

Rene Ritchie, iMore

It's pride week in San Francisco and Apple showed their continued support for nondiscrimination by raising the rainbow flag in front of the entrance to 1 Infinite Loop, the main building of its Cupertino, California headquarters, and giving out rainbow outlined Apple logo t-shirts.

Apple Swift: Should CIOs Bite?

Erik LaMana, InformationWeek

In short, I see Swift as good news for businesses looking to deliver strategic mobile apps in a timely and cost-efficient fashion.

Apps For Reading Could Be Your Netflix Of Books

Hayley Tsukayama, Washington Post

Several subscription book services have come onto the scene claiming to be the Netflix of books — a big claim, to be sure. They promise that, for a flat fee, you can sample and read multiple books on your cell phone, tablet or e-reader.

How To Work Around The Current Podcast App Crashing Bug

Rene Ritchie, iMore

However, there does seem to be a workaround that's getting past the crashing bug for a lot of people. It may look convoluted but it worked for me and hopefully it'll work for you!

Final Cut Pro X, Motion, And Compressor Get New Updates

Serenity Caldwell, Macworld

Adobe Releases A Statement About The End Of Aperture Development

John-Michael Bond, TUAW

‘Apple Might As Well Get Rid Of Aperture While They’re At It’

John Gruber, Daring Fireball

Post-WWDC, the way I hope Photos for Mac plays out is not that Apple offers a “pro” upgrade, but rather that extensions allow for third-party developers to improve image editing in Photos for Mac in a similar way to how they will for Photos on iOS.

Apple’s Scrapping Aperture And Andy Ihnatko Almost Lost It There For A Second

Andy Ihnatko, Chicago Sun-Times

I can only guess as to Apple’s strategy. It makes sense to me that Apple would choose to narrow their responsibility to just photo and library management, with some consumer-level editing on the side. Apple’s primary job would be to make sure that every image, no matter what the source, no matter where it’s stored, is available to every Mac and iOS app that’s interested in photos. And then it’s up to third-party developers to deliver editing tools that are tailored to every individual set of expectations.

Apple Stops Development Of Aperture

Jim Dalrymple, The Loop

“With the introduction of the new Photos app and iCloud Photo Library, enabling you to safely store all of your photos in iCloud and access them from anywhere, there will be no new development of Aperture,” said Apple in a statement provided to The Loop. “When Photos for OS X ships next year, users will be able to migrate their existing Aperture libraries to Photos for OS X.”

Apple’s Refreshed 16 GB iPod Touch Torn Apart

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In Class Action Against Apple And Others, Concerns From The Judge

David Streitfeld, New York Times

“I just have concerns about whether this is really fair to the class.”

You Should Play: Blek

Andrew Hayward, TechHive

Blek is easily the most interesting game about drawing little squiggles that I've ever played, and while approachable and simple in focus, it develops a strong grip on you as its puzzles become ever more complex.

5 Reasons To Buy A MacBook Air, The Best Features Of The MacBook Air

Karen Haslam, Macworld UK

Apple’s Official Podcasts iOS App Broken For Many Users

Zac Hall, 9 To 5 Mac

Users experiencing the issue report that the latest version of Apple’s Podcasts app, version 2.1.2 released on May 29th, no longer launches or functions on iOS 7.1.1, the latest stable version of the iPhone software.

Monty Python's Classic 'Silly Walks' Sketch Is Now An iPhone Game

Chris Welch, The Verge

Apple Drops iPod Touch Prices, Powers Up 16GB Model

Dan Moren, Macworld

Apple on Thursday announced a new version of its 16GB iPod touch, available for just $199, as well as dropping prices on the 32GB and 64GB models by $50 and $100, respectively.

Microsoft Updates OneDrive iOS App With Improved Office App Integration And Background Camera Uploads

Graham Spencer, MacStories

Dropbox For iOS Update Adds New Setup And File Management Options

John-Michael Bond, TUAW

Fitbit Adds Real-time Running Stats

John Callaham, iMore

A new update for the iOS Fitbit app was released today, adding new features such as MobileRun, which allows users to track their route and pace while walking or running.

How A Small Stock Photo Startup Plans To Revolutionize The Agency model

Les Shu, Digital Trends

Snapwire is the stock photo agency for the Instagram and mobile generation. As Newell, Snapwire’s founder and CEO, puts it, Snapwire gives mobile photographers a great way to succeed in doing what they love, “because there are so many talented photographers that sort of dream about building a life around photography.” It takes a stock agency approach to licensing images, but it changes the formula, in that photographers get 70 percent of the cut and retains all rights.

Breather (For iPhone)

Jill Duffy, PC Magazine

The app, which is free to download, gives you access to the Breather network of small, private offices that you can rent by the half hour from CD$15 in Montreal and US$20 to $25 in New York. It's currently only available in those two locations, though representatives from the company say they plan to expand to at least one other U.S. city.

Angela Ahrendts Finally Speaks At Apple, And It Is Not What You Expect

Vanessa Friedman, New York Times

O.K., that’s a bit of an exaggeration. Angela Ahrendts, the former Burberry chief executive lured away to revitalize Apple retail and e-tail did not exactly speak — she wrote a diary entry-cum-inspirational post about her new job, titled “Starting Anew,” on LinkedIn.

First Look: Apple's Swift Is Simple, At First

Peter Wayner, InfoWorld

Swift's clean and modern syntax makes it quick and easy to get started, but mastering this new language will take a while.

How To Create Location-based Reminders With Siri

Allyson Kazmucha, iMore

Apple TV Adds ABC News, AOL On, PBS Kids, Willow TV, And Redesigned Flickr App

Jodran Kahn, 9 To 5 Mac

iWork For iCloud Updated With Several Improvements Across The Board

Chris Parsons, iMore

Apple Adds MLB.com At Bat To CarPlay App List

John Callaham, iMore

Phase One Capture One Express 7

Michael Muchmore, PC Magazine

Capture One, available in Pro ($299) and Express ($99) flavors, offers digital photo import, camera raw file conversion, adjustment, and organization.

TripCase (For iPhone)

Jill Duffy, PC Magazine

The TripCase iPhone app (free), which is the focus of this review, presents you with a clear overview of your trip listed in chronological order, with flight information, hotel addresses, car rental reservation numbers, and more—but not too much more. It cuts the junk from those confirmation emails to show you only what's pertinent.

Mid-2014 iMac Review: Lower Price, Way Lower Performance

James Galbraith, Macworld

The big question: Is a 15 percent lower price worth 50 percent lower performance?

How To Remote Access A Mac From An iPad For Free

Lou Hattersley, Macworld UK

The best way to remote access a Mac from an iPad for free is to use a program called TeamViewer. Here is how to set up and start using TeamViewer for Mac.

How To Set Up A Complete Backup Strategy For Your Mac: Time Machine, Cloning, And The Cloud!

Peter Cohen, iMore

Box Brings Box Notes To Its iOS Apps

Tony Bradley, Macworld

The underlying concept of Box Notes is not unique. Popular tools like Evernote and OneNote accomplish the same goal. But what sets Box Notes apart for businesses that rely on Box for file storage and sharing, is the fact that it's tied in to the same security controls, file sharing permissions, and data encryption as the rest of the data they store and manage in Box.

Treating A Processor-hogging Chrome Browser

Christopher Breen, Macworld

Apple's New Madrid Store Is A Gift Of History

Gary Allen, Forbes

They were reportedly the only company with the money, expertise and motivation to bring back much of the building’s original heritage and put it on display for the public.

Ulysses III Review: Document Writing And Management In One

Macworld

It’s an excellent tool for writing in Markdown, and its organizational features—the sidebar, folders, and filters—make it a great app for those who write a lot and want to have quick access to everything they’ve written.

How To Put Lyrics Into iTunes

Martyn Casserly, Macworld UK

Apple’s Crackdown On Incentivizing App Installs Means Marketers Need New Tricks

James Connelly, VentureBeat

As Weather Channel Blows Yahoo Off Apple’s Upcoming iOS 8, App Storms Ahead For Mayer

Kara Swisher, Re/code

As Mayer has often said — and quite correctly — mobile growth and innovation is key to Yahoo. But as the weather kerfuffle shows, it’s just a lot harder to execute than declare.

The Music Industry Is Still Screwed: Why Spotify, Amazon And iTunes Can’t Save Musical Artists

Andrew Leonard, Salon

What if the future of streaming music is a bust?

Microsoft To Retire Old Versions Of Skype -- Mac Users Should Be Worried

Brian Fagioli, Beta News

Adobe Photoshop Mix Review: Not Just Another iPad Photo App

Jackie Dove, The Next Web

As a 1.0 product, Adobe Photoshop Mix makes a respectable debut out of the gate. But to live up to the Photoshop title, I expect that future versions will have even more capabilities.

Is Apple’s CloudKit Open And Flexible Enough For The Enterprise?

Cathal McGloin, VentureBeat

The kit is somewhat shy of the flexibility and scalability required for the large enterprise development projects of today’s mobile-first organizations.

FunBITS: SimCity 4 Returns To The Mac

Josh Centers, TidBITS

Why would you want to play an 11-year-old game in the first place? SimCity 4 was too far ahead of its time when Maxis released it in 2003. It required resources that just didn’t exist then, and even my 2008-era powerhouse gaming PC had trouble running it. Now, in 2014, we finally have the hardware necessary to run the game smoothly.

How To Connect An Apple TV To Analog Speakers

Christopher Breen, Macworld

If Your iPhone 5 Isn't Charging Anymore, It Could Be That Third Party Cable You're Using

Allyson Kazmucha, iMore

In this particular case, cheap chargers and cables are damaging the U2 IC chip that sits on the logic board of the iPhone 5. This particular chip controls the charge to the battery, the sleep/wake button, and certain USB functions.

You Should Play: Battleheart Legacy

Chris Holt, TechHive

Battleheart Legacy is easily one of the best apps out there, and my early vote for game of the year.

Finder Tags

Matt Gemmell

I’ve always struggled to use tagging systems. My tendency is to over-apply tags, resulting in hundreds of different ones in use, barely providing more retrieval value than just searching by the file’s contents. Since everything is constantly indexed on modern operating systems, I see tags as more of an organisational and categorisation system.

I’ve found a simple tagging system that seems to work for me, and I thought I’d share it with you.

The Novice's Guide To Excellent Mac Backups

TJ Luoma, TUAW

Everyone knows they are supposed to back up, but maybe you aren't sure what you should do or how you should do it. I'm here to help.

Apple’s New $1,099 iMac Is A MacBook Air In A Desktop’s Body

Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica

21.5-inch entry-level model saves you $200 but loses quite a bit of power.

The Unarchiver (For Mac)

William Fenton, PC Magazine

Adobe Brings New Life To The iPad Stylus Market With Ink And Slide

Serenity Caldwell, Macworld

Depending on your relationship with your iPad and drawing, the first iteration of Ink and Slide may not be must-buy items, but they’re impressive entries in an accessory field crowded with rubber-nib boredom. And moreover, they have potential to grow into something truly great.

Lightroom For iPhone Review: A Portable Digital Darkroom For Your Mobile Photos

Darrell Etherington, TechCrunch

Yo, The Inexplicable Million Dollar App That Does F*ck All

Derek Kessler, iMore

Yo is a cry for attention. Not from the user, and not from the developer. It's a a howl in the darkness, begging for somebody, anybody, to rescue us from this insanity.

Disney Launches ‘Star Wars Scene Maker’ iPad App

Jordan Kahn, 9 To 5 Mac

Memory In New $1099 iMac Is Soldered And Not Upgradable

Jordan Golson, MacRumors

The other 21.5" iMacs, launched last fall, can be upgraded through the Apple Online Store from 8GB to 16GB. RAM can also be added after purchase, but it requires removal of the screen and is an extremely difficult upgrade.

Adobe Announces Photoshop CC 2014, Updates To Creative Cloud

Derek Kessler, iMore

The CC 2014 version of Photoshop is getting a new Focus Mask tool, which will automatically select the in-focus portion of a photo so you can apply effects to just it or the out-of-focus area.

First Look: Adobe Photoshop Mix

Jeff Carlson, Macworld

Mix is a free iPad app designed not only to perform photo adjustments (such as exposure or applying preset filters), but to also cut out portions of photos and combine them with other images.

Mac OS X Mavericks: 11 Essential Utilities

Jonny Evans, Computerworld

Apple Launches New Cheaper iMac, Starting At $1,099

Tom Warren, The Verge

The new 21.5-inch base model ships with a slower 1.4GHz Intel Core i5 processor than usual, a trade off that clearly enables Apple to price the iMac more competitively. Apple’s previous low-end iMac featured a 2.7GHz Intel Core i5 processor, and that model is still available for $1,299.

Automatic App Updated To Version 2.0, Brings All-new Design, Low Fuel Warnings And More

Chuong H Nguyen, iMore

The low fuel warning only works on supported car models and will display how much fuel you have in your tank and an estimate of how many miles you can drive based on your driving habits. A push notification will show up on your iPhone when you're low on gas, and with IFTTT setup, you can also have it automatically perform additional actions, like log your fuel level or tweet or send out a message.

Meet Hopscotch, The iOS App Teaching Kids How To Program

Cassidee Moser, Edge Online

Heavily influenced by the browser-based language Scratch, Hopscotch uses a drag-and-drop interface that allows children to put blocks together in order to issue commands to different items in their projects. It’s a system that does away with the fears of syntax errors and typos inherent in other programming languages, guaranteeing a certain level of stability that will help children focus on internalizing the basics.

Typinator 6.0

Agen G. N. Schmitz, TidBITS

Ergonis has released Typinator 6.0, a major update to its text expansion tool with over 50 new features and improvements.

Consumer-grade SSDs Actually Last A Hell Of A Long Time

Lee Hutchinson, Ars Technica

Apple Admits It Will Lose E-books Conspiracy Case, But It Still Wants To Win

Joe Mullin, Ars Technica

Essentially, Apple is admitting that it can't win this case as long as it lost its case against the government, and the plaintiffs are admitting that if the government's case doesn't stand, they'll have much less leverage at trial.

Apple Is Happy To Sell You The Hachette Books Amazon Won’t Stock

Peter Kafka, Re/code

And if you click on the “see all” button, you’ll note that every one of the 26 titles Apple is pushing is scheduled to be published by Hachette, including “The Silkworm,” the new book from “Harry Potter” author Rowling, written under her Robert Galbraith pseudonym.

CopyPaste Pro: A Power Clipboard For The Power OS X User

Mark Gibbs, NetworkWorld

CopyPaste Pro might sound slightly complicated but, in practice, you get used to the new keystrokes very quickly and the improvement in speed when you have repetitive edits to do is amazing.

The Trouble With Apple’s Health App

Aaron E. Carroll, New York Times

No doctor, no matter how dedicated, wants to know every glucose value of every patient every day, or each patient’s daily weight or blood pressure measurement. Physicians barely have enough time to get their work done as it is. None of them could survive this information overload. Sometimes these individual data points aren’t even important, but when they are — for example, blood-sugar readings for diabetics — physicians might worry about being held liable for missing an abnormal reading. More than a third of physicians have reported personally missing test results that led to care delays for their patients because they are already overwhelmed by alerts and data.

Green Managers Stuff Funds With Apple After Environmental Reforms

Ross Kerber, Reuters

Apple Inc, criticized in the past for greenhouse gas emissions, use of toxic materials and the hiring of underage workers, has improved its practices and earned better scores from groups such as Greenpeace. That's good news for environmentally-aware mutual funds that hold Apple for another big reason – it makes money.

Who Needs iOS 8? Four Time-lapse Apps You Can Use Today

Serenity Caldwell, Macworld

Time-lapse mode is just one of the cool new features coming when iOS 8 hits devices everywhere this fall, but you don’t have to wait until September to play with it on your iPhone or iPad. There are plenty of third-party apps that offer time-lapse photography; here are four of my favorites, each offering a slightly different experience depending on what you need.

Apple Store Camp Is Back For Summer 2014 With iBooks Author, iPad Content Creation

Mark Gurman, 9 To 5 Mac

Inside Metal: How Apple Plans To Unlock The Secret Graphics Performance Of The A7 Chip

Daniel Eran Dilger, AppleInsider

Under iOS and the constraints of mobile design—where battery life, heat dissipation and a compact thermal envelope are critically important—there's a need for rethinking how the latest blazing-fast GPUs are driven.

Parallels' New Remote Desktop Apps Let You Control Your PC Like A Phone

Jon Fingas, Engadget

Apple Settles E-Books Pricing Case With States, Consumers

Joel Rosenblatt, Bloomberg

Apple Inc. reached a settlement with U.S. states and consumers seeking damages over the company’s fixing of electronic book prices, avoiding a trial in which it faced as much as $840 million in claims.

A federal judge in Manhattan today ordered Apple and its adversaries to submit a filing seeking approval of their accord within one month. Details of the agreement weren’t disclosed.

Lynda Mobile App Entices Learners With Fresh Design

Chuong H Nguyen, iMore

How To Change The Email Address Associated With Your Apple ID

Allyson Kazmucha, iMore

Agency Aims To Regulate Map Aids In Vehicles

Matthew L. Wald, New York Times

The department is intensifying its battle against distracted driving by seeking explicit authority from Congress to regulate navigation aids of all types, including apps on smartphones.

Jonathan Ive On Apple’s Design Process And Product Philosophy

Brian X. Chen and Matt Richtel, New York Times

Deep in the culture of Apple is this sense and understanding of design, developing and making. Form and the material and process – they are beautifully intertwined – completely connected. Unless we understand a certain material — metal or resin and plastic — understanding the processes that turn it from ore, for example – we can never develop and define form that’s appropriate.

Descent Into Drivel Is A Sign Of Apple’s Fall

Lucy Kellaway, Financial Times

Everyone knows that job ads are an area that attracts the worst sort of grandiose language, especially when they have been put through a headhunter’s mangle that makes every employer “world-class”. But when the company itself can’t describe what its own people do, and can’t say anything clearly about who it wants to fill them, I fear trouble.

Apple Allows First Bitcoin Trading Apps Back Into App Store

Jacob Kastrenakes, The Verge

The app arrived shortly after Apple added a new rule to its store guidelines that allows virtual currency apps on one reasonable condition: that they comply with state and federal laws in all areas that they operate.

Do You Have Bad RAM? How To Find It And How To Fix It

Topher Kessler, Macworld

Unfortunately, if the RAM in your Mac is faulty, those faults can sometimes persist undetected for a while, only to crop up unexpectedly and result in a crash, hang, or other unwanted behavior. Therefore, it is good to not only be able to identify faulty RAM, but also be able to properly test for it and then be prepared to fix the problem, if it arises.

App Review: James Joyce’s Ulysses, A Guide

Kirk McElhearn, Kirkville

Smashing Swift

Alexandros Salazar

There is nothing like being among the first to get your hands on a language, and being among the first to explore it. Even if you immediately find ways to break all the things.

Tim Cook, Making Apple His Own

Matt Richtel and Brian X. Chen, New York Times

iCloud Contacts Gone After An iOS Update? Here's How To Get Them Back!

Allyson Kazmucha, iMore

If you use iCloud for your contacts its because you want them every where and don't want to have to worry about losing them. Not ever. Unfortunately we've had some readers report that, after performing a software update on their iPhone or iPad, their iCloud contacts went missing is action. Luckily there's no reason to panic. The contacts aren't really gone, they're just no showing up properly. Best of all, it's easy to fix!

glFlush(); Goto Metal;

Guy English, Kickingbear

Metal treats the GPU as what it has grown up to be: a massively parallel computation device which is best served with giant batches of data and a coherent and concise command stream.

A Dark Room: The Best-selling Game That No One Can Explain

Michael Thomsen, New Yorker

A Dark Room starts with a few lines of text on a black screen: “the fire is dead. the room is cold. awake. head throbbing. vision blurry.” A bright-blue line cuts across the center of the screen, just below the words “stoke fire.” You press the words and suddenly the screen turns white. More text arrives: a ragged stranger has stumbled through the door. You keep stoking the fire, the thin blue bar disappearing and then slowly filling itself out again each time to signal when you’ll be able to press the “stoke fire” button again.

What follows is a strange hybrid, part mystery story and part smartphone productivity software, an app that inexplicably rocketed to the most-downloaded spot in the App Store’s games section in April and stayed there throughout the month. A product of a collaboration between two men who worked together without ever having met in person, the game evokes the simplest text-based computer games of the nineteen-seventies while stimulating a very modern impulse to constantly check and recheck one’s phone. It’s like a puzzle composed of deconstructed to-do lists.

The Strange 1960S Gym-Class Anthem In Apple’s New iPhone Commercial

Ben Yagoda, Slate

“Kennedy told us that he liked the song,” the aide, Dick Snyder, said, “but every time he heard it he thought of ‘chicken shit,’ and he wondered if maybe we shouldn’t change the title. We said we’d talk to Willson about it, but we never did.”

Reeder 2 For Mac Review: Consume RSS With Speed, Style

Dan Moren, Macworld

But while it may not have every feature under the sun, it does a good job of streamlining the RSS experience—I don’t constantly feel overwhelmed by the sheer amount of content available.

How Well Do Tech Companies Protect Your Data From Snooping?

Steve Henn, NPR

Apple encrypts iMessage from end to end. It recently announced it is taking steps to make it more difficult to track its users' identity on Wi-Fi networks. Apple encrypts e-mail from its customers to iCloud. However, Apple is one of the few global email providers based in the U.S. that is not encrypting any of its customers' email in transit between providers. After we published, the company told us this would soon change.

Only Apple

John Gruber, Daring Fireball

New Apple didn’t need a reset. New Apple needed to grow up. To stop behaving like an insular underdog on the margins and start acting like the industry leader and cultural force it so clearly has become.

Review: Cloak 2 VPN For OS X And iOS

Aaron Kraus, TechnologyTell

Security and privacy are topics that more everyday users are becoming familiar with, so it’s great to see an app like Cloak that makes adding security simple.

Inside Apple's Chic New Tokyo Store

Sam Byford, The Verge

The ninth in Japan overall, the latest store is located in the leafy Omotesando shopping district, where it shares a street with the likes of Louis Vuitton and Gucci.

Apple Starts Exchange Program For iPhone Adapters That Could Overheat

Loek Essers, IDG News Service

The affected models are the European USB power adapters supplied with the iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S, shipped between Oct. 2009 and Sept. 2012 in 37 countries, the company said Friday. They were also sold separately as accessories, it said.

Tweetbot 3.4 Adds Support For Multiple Twitter Images

Federico Viticci, MacStories

Share: The Icon No One Agrees On

Min Ming Lo

Sharing to a social network or via email is a ubiquitous action nowadays but designers have still not been able to reach a consensus on what symbol to use to represent it. Not only does each major platform use a different icon, but they've each witnessed changes over the years.

LaunchBar 6 Adds Themes, Instant Feedback, And More

Adam C. Engst, TidBITS

Perhaps most significant, LaunchBar 6 adds script-based actions, which extend LaunchBar’s functionality in user-driven ways.

ChronoSync 4.5

Agen G. N. Schmitz, TidBITS

Econ Technologies has released ChronoSync 4.5 with a new Document Organizer workspace that tracks all recently used documents and presents them in a convenient window. The automated synchronization and backup app has been updated with 64-bit support (offering access to more memory and more advanced APIs) and full Notification Center integration.

Apple Responds To EU Investigation Into Tax Practices: “Apple Pays Every Euro Of Every Tax That We Owe”

Jordan Kahn, 9 To 5 Mac

Screens Adds Dropbox Support For iPhone, iPad, And Mac

Joseph Keller, iMore

Review: Microsoft Office Online Vs. Apple iWork For iCloud Vs. Google Drive

Woody Leonhard, InfoWorld

It's fair to say that any of the three online office suites can support almost all office workers, almost all of the time. The sticking point will be the walled garden.

Mavericks And The Ancient AirPort Base Station

Christopher Breen, Macworld

Moneydance Review: Personal Finance Mac App Offers Good Tools With A Few UI Quirks

Jeffery Battersby, Macworld

Moneydance isn’t perfect, mostly due to its UI anomalies, but overall the application offers good tools for managing your personal finance info. While it doesn’t offer all of the automated download capabilities of apps such as iBank, its collection of reports and easy data entry features make it a tool worth looking at.

Europe Begins Tax Probe Into Apple And Starbucks

Aaron Souppouris, The Verge

The European Commission is launching a trio of "in-depth investigations" into potential tax evasion by Apple, Starbucks, and Fiat within the European Union. The probes will ascertain whether the three companies' tax avoidance efforts are within the boundaries of EU rules, or if the corporate rates applied by their respective tax hosts could be considered illegal state aid.

Write For Mac Review: Solid Note-taking App Doubles As A Markdown Editor

Kirk McElhearn, Macworld

Write for Mac straddles the line between a good note-taking app and a solid Markdown text editor.

What Product Designers Can Learn From iOS 8'S iMessage Changes

Scott Hurff

If you build products for a living, there’s a lot to learn from iOS 8's iMessage changes — both on the user interface side and on the customer development side.

For Apple, Marketing Is A Whole New Game

Ann-Christine Diaz, Maureen Morrison, Advertising Age

Amid criticisms that it has failed to innovate, Apple is increasingly taking marketing into its own hands. It's madly building an internal agency that it's telling recruits will eventually number 1,000 -- the size of Grey Advertising. It's pitting TBWA/MAL against this internal agency with "jump balls" to mine the best creative ideas, a controversial tactic with outside agencies, let alone an internal one. It's going after some of adland's boldest-faced names to staff its in-house shop -- in some cases, it's even poached executives from TBWA/MAL. And, in what once would have been seen as a sacrilegious breach of the Apple-MAL bond, it's been inviting some of the ad industry's top shops to pitch on major projects.

Longtime Apple-accessory Distributor Dr. Bott Files For Bankruptcy

Dan Frakes, Macworld

As a distributor, Dr. Bott was known for providing smaller accessory vendors the means of distributing their products much more widely than they could on their own. But the company also handled products for some of the biggest names in Apple accessories, including Griffin Technologies, iLuv, Incase, Incipio, Scosche, and Speck.

Daily App: Slow Shutter For iOS Gets The Job Done

Mel Martin, TUAW

The app has replaced complex settings with Auto mode (waterfalls, moving objects), a Light Trail mode (traffic, fireworks, moving lights) and a Night Mode for shooting in dark places.

Apple Issues MacBook Air SMC Update To Fix Battery Drain Issues

AppleInsider

Apple on Monday released a new system management controller (SMC) for its MacBook Air line of ultraportables, targeting an issues related to unexpected battery drain experienced by some mid-2013 models.

New Lock Screen Bypass Discovered In iOS 7, Allows Access In 5 Seconds Under Certain Circumstances

Dom Esposito, 9 To 5 Mac

It’s important to note that the method used here only provides access to any app that was running in the foreground before the device was locked. While it may not allow full access to an iOS 7 device, different levels of privacy can be breached depending on the app that’s running.

Best Podcast Apps For iPhone And iPad: Podcasts, Instacast, Downcast, And More!

Allyson Kazmucha, iMore

Apple Removing Music Downloading Apps From App Store, Asking Developers To Change Apps

Richard Padilla, MacRumors

Apple appears to be removing many of the popular music downloading apps from the iOS App Store, including those that allowed users to obtain files from third-party file sharing sites. The move is likely in an attempt to push the iTunes Store and iTunes Radio, as well as to clean up the App Store ahead of an overhaul in iOS 8.

Four Ways To Control iTunes

Kirk McElhearn, Macworld

iTunes lets you control your music playback from its window, but if you don’t want the full interface visible while you listen to music, there are other ways to tell the app what to do. I’ll show you how you can control iTunes using built-in features as well as third-party apps, so that you can hide the iTunes window when you play your music.

Alternatives To Numbers | Numbers Compared To Seven Of The Best Spreadsheets For Mac Users

Cliff Joseph, Macworld UK

Apple's Numbers is a capable spreadsheet, but it's not the only one. Take a look at eight alternatives.

iOS 8, WebKit Performance, And XPC

John Gruber, Daring Fireball

What’s new in iOS 8 is not that a “decision has been reversed”. It’s that inter-application communication APIs — XPC — have been greatly improved. This is why we’ve got all sorts of new stuff: third-party keyboards, sharing extensions, photo filters, and a full-speed embedded WebKit. All very different, all enabled by XPC.

Apple Begins Rejecting Apps That Offer Rewards For Video Views, Social Sharing

Sarah Perez, TechCrunch

Apple has begun to crack down on tools that app developers use to monetize and grow their applications, including incentivized video viewing and rewarded social sharing, as well as discovery tools that allow users to find apps inside the games they’re already playing. The move will have a significant impact on the app industry as a whole, and will serve as something of a “reset” in terms of how apps can achieve growth and scale.

Introduction To MVVM

Ash Furrow, Objc.io

Hackers Suspected Of Holding Apple Devices To Ransom Detained In Russia

Ben Grubb, The Sydney Morning Herald

Russian authorities say they have detained two young hackers who are alleged to have hijacked Apple devices and digitally held them ransom for a sum of money before relinquishing control.

Apple Maps Are Still Lost

Ingrid Lunden, TechCrunch

One tipster says it was a personnel issue: “Many developers left the company, no map improvements planned for iOS 8 release were finished in time. Mostly it was failure of project managers and engineering project managers, tasks were very badly planned, developers had to switch multiple times from project to project.”

A Tiny Technical Change In iOS 8 Could Stop Marketers Spying On You

Leo Mirani, Quartz

Apple’s solution, as discovered by a Swiss programmer, is for iOS 8, the new operating system for iPhones which will be out later this year, to generate a random MAC addresses while scanning for networks. That means that companies and agencies that collect such information will not necessarily know when the same device (i.e., person) visits a store twice, or that the same device pops up in stores across the country or the world, suggesting a much-travelled owner.

With iOS 8, The iPhone Will Become Your Digital Hub

Kyle Russell, TechCrunch

Nearly every aspect of the “new” ecosystem Apple showed this week revolves around having the iPhone as the center of your digital experience.

Alternatives To Apple's AirPort

Cliff Joseph, Macworld UK

Putting the Apple AirPort up against seven other routers.

Unread For iPad Review

Federico Viticci, MacStories

Thanks to the larger screen, Unread works better for two core aspects: focus on text and comfort.

Tinderbox 6.0

Agen G. N. Schmitz, TidBITS

Explaining iOS 8’S Extensions: Opening The Platform While Keeping It Secure

Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica

We've read the developer documentation and watched the WWDC sessions. Now it's time to break down how these features work, what they do, and how Apple is continuing to balance third-party access to the operating system with security.

WWDC 2014: A Love Letter From Apple

Rene Ritchie, iMore

TestFlight In iOS 8: Explained

Nick Arnott, iMore

Beta testing apps has long been a pain point for iOS developers. So it's no surprise that the announcement of TestFlight as part of iOS 8 was met with much fanfare at WWDC 2014. Since Apple's acquisition of Burstly (makers of TestFlight), there has been a lot of speculation and hope that Apple could finally release a more friendly solution for handling the distribution of beta apps. TestFlight marks a significant advancement for Apple in that area, and a welcome change for developers.

The Best Puzzle Games To Play Now

Michael Andronico, Tom's Guide

Review: Dragon Quest VIII For iOS Brings Back The Good-old Playstation 2 Days

Arnold Zafra, TechnologyTell

It may have taken Squre Enix a long time to port this game for iOS, but it certainly is worth the wait.

Should I Install The iOS 8 And OS X Yosemite Betas?

Torin Klosowski, Lifehacker

As a general recommendation, it's a bad idea to install beta software on any device you use daily.

In fact, you probably also don't want to install any new software at least for the first one or two weeks.

New Territory

Marco Arment

The first amazing, forehead-smacking innovations with iOS 8 won’t come from us: they’ll come from people who are coming to iOS development from this point forward, never having known a world without the old restrictions.

Chérie King Explores A World Without Limits

Apple

Travel writer Chérie King has canned down the Amazon River, eaten coal-roasted lobster in Ghana, and visited an underground salt mine in Austria. With her passion for adventure and her iPad Air, King travels the globe na inspires other deaf people to do the same.

Apple Acquires Spotsetter, A Social Search Engine For Places

Sarah Perez, TechCrunch

Apple Steps Up Campaign To Woo China Developers

Adam Satariano, Bloomberg

Apple is now mounting a furious campaign to woo more developers in China, in a bid to replicate an ecosystem of games and other widgets that has helped it drive iPhone and iPad sales in the U.S. and elsewhere. Since 2011, Apple has steadily beefed up its developer-relations team in China so new apps can be approved in the country, and it has opened a new office in downtown Beijing where the China App Store is operated. Apple has also smoothed the process for how customers buy apps in China, and built new Chinese-language-specific software to benefit developers.

Mac OS X Yosemite Under The Magnifying Glass

Min Ming Lo, Pixelapse

There are still many rough edges in the new OS but overall I am really excited about the visual direction that Mac OS X Yosemite is taking. It demonstrates a more mature and subtle approach in adapting iOS 7 design language.

Network Prioritization Tips In OS X

Topher Kessler, MacIssues

GoPro iOS App Finally Gets Completely Redesigned For iOS 7

Jordan Kahn, 9 To 5 Mac

How The NSA Could Bug Your Powered-Off iPhone, And How To Stop Them

Andy Greenberg, Wired

Just because you turned off your phone doesn’t mean the NSA isn’t using it to spy on you.

Sneaking A Peek At CarPlay

Edward C. Baig, USA Today

Apple Shifts TV Ads In-House As Chiat\Day Rift Widens

Peter Burrows, Bloomberg

Apple Inc. has shifted to producing more of its own television advertisements instead of relying on agency TBWA\Chiat\Day, underscoring how the longtime partnership responsible for the company’s most memorable ads is fraying.

Apple HealthKit Stuns Startup: ‘That’s Our Name’

Benjamin Pimentel, MarketWatch

Apple Inc.’s big move into health care, dubbed HealthKit, has surprised a smaller health-focused startup in Australia that uses the same name.

A Fast Look At Swift, Apple’s New Programming Language

John Timmer, Ars Technica

Two or three years from now, when Apple announces that the future is Swift and it's ready to drop Objective-C, we won't be at all surprised. And I won't be at all upset, because I'll have spent the intervening few years making sure I know how to use new language.

Apple Airs New “Strength” iPhone 5S Commercial

Federico Viticci, MacStories

A new ad called "Strength" aired by Apple today shows off the iPhone as a fitness and health-tracking companion device capable of interacting with apps and accessories from third-party developers and hardware makers.

Digesting WWDC: Cloudy

Benedict Evans

China State Media Calls For 'Severe Punishment' For Google, Apple, U.S. Tech Firms

Reuters

Chinese state media lashed out at Google Inc, Apple Inc and other U.S. technology companies on Wednesday, calling on Beijing "to punish severely the pawns" of the U.S. government for monitoring China and stealing secrets.

Apple Introduces MFi Specs For Lightning Cable Headphones, Support Arriving In Future iOS Update

Jordan Kahn, 9 To 5 Mac

The Lightning headphones will be capable of receiving lossless stereo 48 kHz digital audio output from Apple devices and sending mono 48 kHz digital audio input.

Will iOS 8 Make Andy Ihnatko Rethink His Android Phone?

Andy Ihnatko, Chicago Sun-Times

I can’t think of a single Worldwide Developers Conference keynote that was more exciting or important than the one that Apple delivered Monday.

Some Thoughts On Apple’s Metal API

Ryan Smith, AnandTech

Instagram For iPhone Updated With New Photo Editing Features, Faster Sharing, More

Zac Hall, 9 To 5 Mac

Apple Has (Partly) Lifted The NDA For Beta Releases

Ole Begemann

Apple allows developers to discuss new APIs and features that have been introduced at WWDC in public. That should cover pretty much all the new stuff in iOS 8, Yosemite and the Developer Tools.

iOS 8 AirPlay Won't Need A Network Connection

Richard Devine, iMore

How To Safely Test The OS X Yosemite Beta

Topher Kessler, MacIssues

Why Does The World Need More Programming Languages?

Chris Dannen, Fast Company

Yesterday Apple announced Swift, a new language for building Mac apps. Here's a layman's explanation of why.

Apple Design Award 2014 Winners: Monument Valley, Sky Guide, Threes And More!

Peter Cohen, iMore

Apple Pledges To Restore Order To Its Oversized App Store

Philip Michaels, Macworld

Apple likely recognizes that perusing the aisles of the App Store is becoming more of a pain point than a pleasure these days. Because while it spent Monday touting the merits of iOS 8, its forthcoming mobile OS update, Apple also took a moment to talk about some changes planned for how the App Store does business. The App Store alterations were framed as part of the new developer tools that will be available to app makers as part of iOS 8. But make no mistake: These are changes that are every bit as important to app-downloading schlubs like you and me.

How To Create A Test Partition For The OS X Yosemite Beta

Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica

This guide is for those people, the ones who want to test the new OS X beta without wrecking their Mac—you never want to put your data at risk by installing beta software on your main partition. This way, you can play with all the shiny new features without risking the comfortable, stable, non-beta OS X installation you need to get all your work done.

How To Downgrade Back To iOS 7 From The iOS 8 Beta

Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica

We're going to walk you through the directions you can follow to downgrade an iDevice running an iOS beta to the current shipping version of iOS (7.1.1 as of this writing, though it may well change between now and the general release of iOS 8). We'll also tell you the pitfalls and caveats you should know before you ever upgrade your iDevice to beta software in the first place.

Apple Just Took Another Step Towards Obscuring The Way The Web Works

David Yanofsky, Quartz

At Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference today the company rolled out a new look for its web browser, Safari. Apple executives didn’t point it out, but sharp-eyed observers have noticed one significant change to the interface. The address bar truncates URLs to the domain-name level.

What's New And Different About Apple's New Swift Programming Language?

Chris Dannen, Fast Company

We tore apart Apple's 850-page iBook on its new, simpler programming language, to find out why Apple would introduce a new language--despite all the headaches it will cause.

iOS 8 Additions Promise To Streamline How You Communicate And Share

Anthony Domanico, Macworld

iOS users will have plenty of new things to familiarize themselves with this fall. That’s when iOS 8 arrives, and Apple’s updated mobile operating system promises a slew of new features and enhancements that aim to help you communicate and share more easily.

Apple Announces OS X Yosemite, Deepens Its Ties To iOS

Marco Tabini, Macworld

The jam-packed operating system update features a significant user interface overhaul, rich with bright colors and translucent effects, plus numerous changes to the visual identity of almost every system app that brings them closer to their iOS counterparts. The interface now also comes with a “dark” mode, which dims system elements like the Menu and Dock and allows apps to be more prominent.

The changes, however, are more than skin deep, as many system components have been updated and improved. Spotlight, for example now appears as a convenient text box in the middle of the screen and provides access to information from a large variety of sources, including the various App Stores. Notification Center is now fully customizable—and includes support for third-party widgets.

Yosemite Brings A More Efficient Safari And Marked Up Mail

Christopher Breen, Macworld

Among the many changes to Mac OS X announced by Apple at WWDC come significant tweaks to Apple’s Web browser, Safari, and Mail.

T-Mobile Confirms WiFi Calling Arriving For iPhone Users With iOS 8

Jordan Kahn, 9 To 5 Mac

iOS 8 Details Battery Usage By App

Yoni Heisler, TUAW

8 Huge New Features In iOS 8 That Apple Didn't Talk About Today

Dan Seifert, The Verge

From Wi-Fi calling to a new keyboard for the blind, sometimes the best things are hidden.

Xcode 6 Features Resizable iPhone And iPad Simulators, Leading The Way For iPhones With New Screen Resolutions

Benjamin Mayo, 9 To 5 Mac

Apple Will Let You Ditch Google Search For DuckDuckGo In iOS 8 And OS X

Chris Welch, The Verge

Apple's Awesome iOS Camera Feature They Didn't Mention On Stage

Mike Wehner, TUAW

There is one feature that wasn't mentioned on-stage, yet it has appeared on Apple's iOS 8 teaser page: time-lapse videos.

Apple Brings Back iDisk With iCloud Drive

Topher Kessler, MacIssues

This service allows you to use iCloud as an online drive, where you can store any file or folder you would like, and access it on any device you have configured with iCloud.

Apple Announces New Developer Extensions In iOS 8

Rich Edmonds, iMore

The main advancement is allowing third-party apps to offer services to another installed app, essentially providing features in other experiences without requiring the consumer to switch between multiple instances.

HomeKit Lets Your iPhone Phone Home

Cuong H Nguyen, iMore

Touch ID Authentication Coming To Third-party Apps

Alex Dobie, iMore

Apple Shows Off Swift, Its New Programming Language

John Timmer, Ars Technica

Providing a new language with "none of the baggage of C," Swift code can still be mixed with standard C and Objective C code in the same project.

Swift seems to get rid of Objective C's reliance on defined pointers; instead, the compiler infers the variable type, just as many scripting languages do. At the same time, it provides modern features similar to those found in C++ and Java, like well-defined namespaces, generics, and operator overloading.

iOS 8 Provides Support For Third-party Keyboards

Joseph Keller, iMore

It will now be possible to install keyboards like SwiftKey, Fleksy, and more as your default option throughout iOS.

Apple Announces CloudKit, A New Way For Developers To Easily Create Cloud-connected Apps

Benjamin Mayo, 9 To 5 Mac

Apple takes responsibility for the server-side elements of apps. This leaves developers with a greatly simplified client-side development experience.

Apple’s Hard-to-Find Downloads Send Zombie Apps To Grave

Adam Satariano, Bloomberg

Six years after Apple Inc. (AAPL) introduced its App Store, the economics of the $23 billion market have become so challenging that apps undertakers are flourishing. Of the more than 1.7 million software programs available in Apple’s and Google Inc.’s online stores, about 600,000 have been downloaded fewer than 100 times in the past 60 days, Sapir said, referring to them as zombie apps. More than 80 percent of all downloads are of the top 500 apps, or less than 1 percent of those available, he added.

Apple Adds WWDC Channel To Apple TV For Live Streaming The Keynote

Zac Hall, 9 To 5 Mac

How To Share Or Make iCloud Calendars Public On iPhone And iPad

Allyson Kazmucha, iMore

Apple Giving Out $25 App Store Gift Cards, Jackets To WWDC 2014 Attendees

Dom Esposito, 9 To 5 Mac

Shell Scripting With Objective-C

Manbolo Blog

Inspired by Nicolas Bouilleaud’s Objective-C Minimalism, I’ve tried to see if I could use Objective-C for shell scripting on my Mac. I normally code my shell scripts in Python, I love the language, so easy to read, so fun to write, with a ton of brillant third-party libraries, like Requests, Pillow or Beautiful Soup. But I would like to see if Objective-C could also do the job for shell scripting: as I spend the most of my day job writings iOS apps, I could maybe reuse my knowledge for small utility scripts.

Portland Apple Store Opening: Watch Apple Fans Explain Why They Got In Line At 4 A.m. (Video)

Joseph Rose, OregonLive.com

Most of them wanted a gray T-shirt, which would be handed out to the first 1,000 people steeping through the portal under a glowing Apple logo.

Apple's New Portland Store Now Open; Here It Is In Pictures, And By The Numbers

Mike Rogoway, OregonLive.com

The company calls it a "pavilion store," enclosed on three sides by a tall glass frame that extends all the way to its ceiling, 20-feet above, and on the back by imported Italian stone. Computers sit on English oak tables that rest on a terrazzo flooring.