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Apple Highlights Common Reasons For App Rejections In New Developer Webpage

Aldrin Calimlim, AppAdvice

Letterspace Gets iOS Writing And Editing Right

Randy Murray, TUAW

Review: BlueLounge's Kickflip Is A Low-cost Way To Make Typing On Apple's MacBook Pro Even Better

Sam Oliver, AppleInsider

The ergonomic benefits outweigh our minor grumbles, though, and we feel comfortable recommending the Kickflip without reservation for anyone who is often forced to use their laptop by itself on a desk.

Pro Tip: Distributing Software With Apple Remote Desktop

Jesus Vigo, TechRepublic

Apple's New Whiz Kids

Daisuke Wakabaysashi, Wall Street Journal

Grant is among a generation of teenage developers seizing opportunities afforded by the spread of smartphones and the ready market for their work through the app stores. Overall, Google has paid developers more than $5 billion over the last year, and Apple paid about $10 billion over the same period—and $20 billion since it opened its app store in 2008.

Snapchat's Location-based Our Story Feature Officially Goes 'Live' In Latest Update

Aldrin Calimlim, AppAdvice

Seeing Through The Illusion: Understanding Apple’s Mastery Of The Media

Mark Gurman, 9 To 5 Mac

As the hunt for Cotton’s replacement is still in progress, and the depth of Apple’s commitment to change remains unclear, we look today at the techniques Apple has used to quietly manipulate its coverage over the years.

Best News Reader Apps For iPad: How To Stay On Top Of Your RSS Feeds!

Allyson Kazmucha, iMore

Emojli, The Emoji-only Messenger App Is Here For iOS

Bryan M. Wolfe, AppAdvice

I Am An Indie iOS Developer

Gabriel Hauber

I am an indie iOS developer…

… and I’m not making nearly enough money for myself or my family to live on.

Not yet, anyway.

An Era Ends As Microsoft Completely Shutters MSN Messenger

Peter Bright, Ars Technica

After October 31st, Chinese users chatting on the instant messaging network will have to use Skype, not the Live Messenger client, for their communication.

Notepad+ Redesign Is Cleaner, Lighter, Better

Joseph Keller, iMore

Note-taking app Notepad+ for iPad has been updated to version 3.0, refreshing the design, adding new shape tools, and more. Notepad+ focuses on handwriting, drawing, document annotation.

FunBITS: Getting The Most Out Of Your iPhone’s Music With CanOpener

Steve McCabe, TidBITS

CanOpener’s primary trick is crossfeed. Crossfeed adds warmth, which is good for enjoyable listening, at the cost of crispness, which is more important for audio production.

FruitJuice Review: Practice Good Battery Health With Your MacBook

Nathan Alderman, Macworld

FruitJuice is simply tracking your previous week’s battery behavior, then recommending you stay unplugged for 20 percent of the time you typically use your laptop.

Adobe Photoshop Mix Gets First Major Update Featuring New Tools And Dropbox Support

Aldrin Calimlim, AppAdvice

Launched alongside Adobe Lightroom for iPhone last June, Adobe Photoshop Mix is an iPad app that offers “non-destructive” photo-editing features, including selections, cutouts, and mixes.

Use The iPad Air As A Second Monitor For Mac And Windows Laptops

James Kendrick, ZDNet

It’s not the only option for turning a tablet into a monitor, but Air Display has evolved into a very good one. I use it on the iPad Air, which serves as a second monitor for the MacBook Air.

Save Time With Contact Center

Dave Caolo, TUAW

Why Apple's iBeacon Hasn't Taken Off—Yet

Olga Kharif, Bloomberg Businessweek

Apple Flagship Store In San Francisco Fills With Protestors

Dara Kerr, CNET

A gathering of roughly 50 protestors were demonstrating against Apple for allegedly underpaying contract employees that work at its retail stores.

Apple Tells Developers They May Not Sell Personal Health Data To Advertisers

Kevin Rawlinson, The Guardian

Apple has tightened its privacy rules relating to health apps ahead of next month's product launch, which is expected to see the unveiling of an updated iPhone and could include new wearable technology.

The technology firm has told developers that their apps, which would use Apple's "HealthKit" platform on the forthcoming products, must not sell any personal data they gather to advertisers. The move could stave off concerns users might have around privacy as Apple seeks to move into the health data business.

Good.

Replace A Dying iPhone 5 Battery: Take Two

Josh Centers, TidBITS

Pictures: Apple Constructs Its Own Building At Flint Center For Sept. Event

Jim Dalrymple, The Loop

Apple is constructing its own building on the Flint Center grounds as part of the event. It seems to me that this could be the hands-on area that Apple typically has for attendees after the event.

Apple Announces Special Event For Sept. 9

Jim Dalrymple, The Loop

Typically Apple’s events are held either at the Yerba Buena Center in San Francisco or at the company’s campus, but this year is a bit different. Apple said in the invitation that the event will be held at the Flint Center for the Performing Arts in Cupertino, the city where Apple’s corporate headquarters is located.

Popular iOS Note Taking App Notability Comes To Mac

Jordan Kahn, 9 To 5 Mac

Checkmark 2.1 Features Plenty Of New Tools To Keep Your Life On Track

Bryan M. Wolfe, AppAdvice

The location-based reminder and to-do app now features a number of new features including snoozing, recurring reminders, and tappable actions in notes.

CloudApp 3 For Mac Brings Effortless GIF Screen Recording, Support For Teams

Graham Spencer, MacStories

Move The Turtle (For iPad)

Fahmida Y. Rashid, PC Magazine

Kids find the game's goal—to move a turtle around the screen using programming instructions—a lot of fun. The fact that it feels more like a game than a learning exercise is one of the reasons the younger kids will enjoy the experience.

Quotebook 3 Brings New Design, Revamped Management Of Authors And Sources

Federico Viticci, MacStories

The Apple Customer-support Site That's Built Just For You

Kirk McElhearn, Macworld

You probably know about Apple’s standard Support website. But I’m betting you haven’t been to your own personal Support Profile page. There, you can view a list of all of your Apple products, check their warranty coverage, access troubleshooting resources, and contact Apple’s support team. Here’s how to take advantage of all that.

Time Zones Is A Clean And Effective Time Zone Converter

Federico Viticci, MacStories

Developed by Jared Sinclair, Time Zones is a clean and nifty utility to see time zones at a glance without having to convert offsets between cities in your head.

Another Season, Another App

Vanessa Friedman, New York Times

Between the rise of mobile everything and the popularity of e-commerce, that the new season will bring a new crop of fashion-related apps is as certain as shorts becoming a trend in springtime. And indeed, just in time for Fashion Month come some major debuts, plus updates from familiar names. Are they worth a download?

Four Tips To Soup Up Safari On iOS

Dan Moren, Macworld

Given how much we rely on Safari, though, there are a surprising number of features that you might not have heard of.

Leafnote Review: Focus On Writing, Not On How To Use The App

Michael Simon, Macworld

3 Powerful iPhone Battery Cases Perfect For Back To School

Susie Ochs, Macworld

If anyone needs a good battery case, it’s a student. And while it’s a drag to pay triple-digit prices for an iPhone accessory, I found three battery cases for iPhone 5 and 5s that go beyond just juicing up your phone.

Line Messaging App Now Suggests Emoji And Stickers As You Type

Aldin Calimlim, AppAdvice

Cartoon Network And Lego's Calling All Mixels Goes 3.0 With New Features And Tweaks

Aldin Calimlim, AppAdvice

BioShock For iOS Brings The Classic Console Shooter To The Small Screen

Mike Beasley, 9 To 5 Mac

The story, game mechanics, level design, and audio have all be ported to the mobile devices, though the graphics have been toned down to make it run on phones and tablets.

Optionals Case Study: valuesForKeys

Swift Blog

Apple 15-Inch MacBook Pro With Retina Review And The Mystery Of The Processor Benchmarks

Karen Haslam, Macworld UK

Apple iAD Introduces Ad Units Designed For Brands, Expands To Two More Countries

Ginny Marvin, Marketing Land

Apple announced two new ad formats are now supported in the company’s mobile ad platform, iAd. Pre-roll video and full-screen interstitial banner ads with units designed for in-app viewing.

How To Free Up Space On A Packed Hard Drive

Christopher Breen, Macworld

Dropbox Launches New Pro Features, Cuts Pricing

Federico Viticci, MacStories

Customers who will upgrade to Pro will receive additional functionalities for sharing files and folders, managing permissions, and remotely wiping content stored on a lost or stolen device connected to Dropbox.

Why I Stopped Reading Magazines With Newsstand

Kirk McElhearn, Macworld

Amazon's Audible Audiobooks App For iOS Updated With New Design And New Features

Aldin Calimlim, AppAdvice

Hyperlapse And Detached Utility

Federico Viticci, MacStories

I've spent a few hours having fun with Hyperlapse and creating time-lapse videos around Viterbo, and I've come away impressed with the refreshing focus and simplicity of the app.

The Best VPN Solution For iOS And OS X: Cloak

Bradley Chambers, The Sweet Setup

With its “set it and forget it” approach, Cloak is the easiest VPN to use. It automatically connects to the VPN from any Wi-Fi network except the ones you have white-listed. TunnelBear has more competitive pricing, but it requires you to manually connect when you want to secure your connection.

Researchers: iPhones, iPads Connected To Windows PCs Are At Risk

Tim Greene, Macworld

Generally, iOS apps must come from the App Store and have been vetted. But in the past, some malicious apps have gotten in under the radar until users discovered they were malicious, and then Apple dropped them from the store, the researchers say. Placing them in the store could be done again, and bot computers could download them before they were dropped.

In Defense Of Tablets

Walt Mossberg, Re/code

In a brief interview about tablets I had this week with Apple CEO Tim Cook, he said, “We couldn’t be happier with how we’ve done with the first four years of the iPad,” and added that, “I’d call what’s going on recently a speed bump, and I’ve seen that in every category.”

Hyperlapse, Instagram’s New App, Is Like A $15,000 Video Setup In Your Hand

Cliff Kuang, Wired

Using clever algorithm processing, the app makes it easy to use your phone to create tracking shots and fast, time-lapse videos that look as if they’re shot by Scorsese or Michael Mann.

5 iOS Apps To Easily Manage Your Twitter Account

Liane Cassavoy, Macworld

Twitter is useful for more than following your favorite celebrities. It's a powerful professional tool for keeping up on industry news, interacting with influencers, and marketing yourself. But when you use it this way, managing your Twitter account can feel like a full-time job—unless you have the right app, of course. Here are five iOS apps that make it a lot less work.

Apple TV Adds Premium Network Showtime To The Channel Lineup

Zac Hall, 9 To 5 Mac

iTunes Festival Schedule Updated With New Acts, Apple TV Channel Available Again

Graham Spencer, MacStories

Hands-on With Madden NFL Mobile, Freemium Football's Comeback Player Of The Year

Andrew Hayward, TechHive

FilePane Review: Expand The Power Of Drag-and-drop On Your Mac

Andrew Hayward, Macworld

You Need A Budget? Then You Need To Get The New Universal Version Of This Budgeting App

Aldin Calimlim, AppAdvice

California Law Now Requires All Smartphones To Have Built-In Kill Switches By July 2015

Juli Clover, MacRumors

Known iOS Auto-call Feature Sparks Concerns About Unintended Dialings

AppleInsider

Technical oversights on the part of some of the iOS ecosystem's most prominent developers — including Facebook and Google — could allow attackers to exploit a documented iOS feature that allows apps to initiate phone calls without a prompt, spurring reminders that iPhone owners should be careful what they tap on.

How To Share Files Between User Accounts In OS X

Topher Kessler, MacIssues

If you need to copy files to another user account, then you can do so using three local services in OS X.

Q&A: An Apple Critic With Plenty To Say

Chris Ip, Columbia Journalism Review

As Siracusa works on his latest review for release this fall, CJR caught up with him about the evolution of the Apple narrative, the company’s tense relationship with the press, and what longform software criticism can tell us about the enigmatic technology giant.

How To View Desktop Versions Of Websites On An iPhone

Christopher Breen, Macworld

Spotify iOS App Adds Enhancements For Managing Albums, Finnish Language Support

Jordan Kahn, 9 To 5 Mac

The updated app now includes the ability to “save whole albums to Your Music directly from the album page.” Users will also now be able to get quick access to an album’s release year or total play time by swiping any given album’s header.

Periscope Pro Review: Keep An Eye On Your Domicile With This Mac Surveillance App

Dan Moren, Macworld

Flash Professional CC 2014 Review: Minor Tweaks A Boon To Developers

Michael Baumgardt, Macworld

With Flash Professional CC 2014 Adobe is slowly pushing Flash as a universal vector animation tool for Web designers. No longer limited to Shockwave Flash (swf), Flash can export to other formats such as WebGL, SVG, and HTML5. This is great for long-time Flash developers who need this flexibility, but Flash Professional CC 2014 also includes new features that allow designers to enhance their creative potential.

Skipping The US Customs And Border Protection Queues? There’s Now An App For That …

Ben Lovejoy, 9 To 5 Mac

U.S. Customs and Border Protection is trialling an iPhone app that allows travellers returning to the United States to bypass the normal immigration queues by entering their details into the app and getting a QR code containing their electronic approval.

The 10 Apps Every College Student Needs To Have

Jsmine France, TechHive

A Month With The iPhone 5S: Impressions From An Android User

Joshua Ho, AnandTech

While the hardware quality is a cut above, it’s more than just a matter of pure hardware. It’s clear to me that the user experience wouldn’t be nearly as good without Apple’s strong control over software.

While I felt a bit constrained by the limits in the operating system, the integration and overall quality of the experience outweighed these disadvantages.

Star Walk 2 Mostly Improves On The Original

Mel Martin, TUAW

This new version has a re-designed interface with the look and feel of each element beautifully crafted and drawing you into the inner workings of the app.

Review: Apple's Mid-2014 13-Inch MacBook Pro With Retina Display

Neil Hughes, AppleInsider

While it's not a particularly exciting update, Apple's mid-2014 13-inch MacBook Pro with Retina display increases performance and offers more value, making it an enticing offer for those who may have been waiting to take the plunge on a thin-but-powerful high-resolution notebook.

Hellow! Is Like Snapchat For Your More Precious Moments

George Tinari, TUAW

Hellow! is a free photo-sharing app for iOS that in practice is somewhat similar to Snapchat, but still clearly serves a different purpose. Photos don't disappear until you manually delete them, and the ability to schedule when and where to send them means planning a thoughtful picture to share ahead of time is far more plausible. These additional features for photo management make it less geared for casual use and more toward meaningful use.

Hellow! Is Like Snapchat For Your More Precious Moments

George Tinari, TUAW

How To Connect To Hearing Aids For Auditory Accessibility On Your iPhone Or iPad

Allyson Kazmucha, iMore

The Ongoing Threat Of Cold Boot Attacks

Technology Review

Today, Jos Wetzels at the University of Technology in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, outlines the technique and discusses the various options for preventing this kind of attack. His sobering conclusion is that despite the time since cold boot attacks were first discovered, this form of attack still represents a clear and present danger.

Gateways To The Classical World

J. D. Biersdorfer, New York Times

Modern technology has been kind to ancient history. Scholars with iPads and other mobile gadgets can now leave the heavy books at home, opting for a variety of apps devoted to classical studies — Greek, Latin and the history of Greco-­Roman civilization — saving time and money in the process.

Timeful (For iPhone)

Jill Duffy, PC Magazine

The result is an app that helps you not only find time to do the things you want to do, but also keeps track of how often you do them, and when. The idea is that Timeful can suggest times and dates in the future when you're most likely to accomplish your tasks.

Who Owns Your iTunes Library After Death?

Ariel Bogle, Slate

The fate of your online life after death is a sensitive topic, and one both the law and technology companies have struggled with how to handle. Last week, Delaware Gov. Jack Markell took one step toward a possible solution, signing into law first-of-its-kind legislation that will grant Delawarean families the right to the digital assets of loved ones who are incapacitated or deceased, the way they would be given access to physical documents.

Apple Announces Battery Replacement Program For The iPhone 5

Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica

The affected phones were all sold in the first few months of the iPhone 5's life, between September of 2012 and January of 2013.

Stop The Twitter For Mac Image Cache Folder From Growing Huge

OS X Daily

Small Heads, Safe Ears: The Best Headphones For Kids

Dan Frakes, Macworld

Apple Extends Volume Purchase Program To Denmark, Ireland, And More

Joseph Keller, iMore

The Volume Purchase Program lets businesses and shcools purchase multiple copies of an app in one purchase. This allows them to distribute the app to multiple users within the organization, such as employees or students.

Hold The Phone: iMessage Spam Not All It's Cracked Up To Be

Marco Tabini, Macworld

A closer look at the numbers suggests that the iMessage spampocalypse may be a ways off yet.

How To Block And Report iMessage Spam To Apple

Allyson Kazmucha, iMore

It takes a few steps, but rage makes them easy to get through!

Most Smartphone Users Download Zero Apps Per Month

Dan Formmey, Quartz

Some Curious Apple Lapses

Ken Segall's Observatory

Recently, I’ve noticed two lapses that seem out of character for Apple. Each is mystifying in its own way.

Ask The iTunes Guy: Encoding Miracles And Missing Audiobook Chapters

Kirk McElhearn, Macworld

Repix Creator Introduces Sophisticated Yet Simple Camera App Camu

Aldin Calimlim, AppAdvice

The app also features an auto mode that lets you take great selfies as it automatically takes a photo when no movement is detected.

Camu For iPhone Puts An Elegant Spin On Social Photography

Jackie Dove, The Next Web

Apple Research And Development Spending Surges; New Device Coming?

Julia Love, San Jose Mercury News

The Cupertino-based company has shifted research and development into overdrive this year, spending $1.6 billion in the third quarter, up 36 percent from the same period last year. At this rate, Apple's spending will be up 60 percent year-over-year by the fourth quarter, according to a Morgan Stanley report released this week.

Apple Maps And iTunes Radio Flourish Despite Critics

Aaron Pressman, Yahoo Finance

Apple’s two big efforts to push aside some of the most popular mobile apps in maps and music have taken a drubbing from critics, but new data from Comscore show just how successful they’ve been.

Best Mac Apps For Instant Messaging

Peter Cohen, iMore

How To Find The Owner Of A Lost Or Stolen iPhone

Allyson Kazmucha, iMore

Apple Removes Secret App From Brazilian App Store For Not Conforming With Local Laws

Mike Beasley, 9 To 5 Mac

As noted by the judge, the Brazilian constitution prohibits anonymous freedom of expression, which essentially makes Secret and other apps like it illegal with that country.

How Apple Took Over The Only Segment Of The PC Market That Still Matters

Ed Bott, ZDNet

Macs are still enormously profitable, and their high average selling price makes this division a formidable cash cow. In addition, Apple’s product planners have shrewdly targeted the most important segment of the market, the only segment that’s growing and the one that is by far the most profitable.

Second OS X Yosemite Public Beta Released

Kerek Kessier, iMore

New Browser Extension Warns You When Articles Are Paid For By Advertisers

Ian Paul, PCWorld

The result is AdDetector, a simple extension available in the Chrome Web Store or Mozilla's add-ons gallery for Firefox. Once it's installed, AdDetector scans web pages you visit to ferret out ads. When it does find a sponsored article, the extensions displays a large red banner at the top of the page. If the extension can determine the sponsor's name it will display that, too.

Google Play Music For iPhone Updated With Ability To Remove Music On-the-go, Improved Playback, More

Zac Hall, 9 To 5 Mac

OmniFocus 2 Review: Stay On Top Of Your Task List With This Top Task Manager

Stuart Gripman, Macworld

You’ll find that the design, capabilities, and documentation make it a very good value.

Blogo 2 Brings A Native WordPress App To OS X

Steven Sande, TUAW

Stellar Visual Storytelling App Steller Goes 2.0 With New Design And New Features

Aldin Calimlim, AppAdvice

Dong Nguyen's Flappy Bird Follow-up Swing Copters Has Landed On The App Store

Aldin Calimlim, AppAdvice

Judge Denies Apple Bid To Recover Attorneys' Fees From Samsung, Releases $2.6M Bond Related To Galaxy Tab 10.1 Ban

Mikey Campbell, AppleInsider

Apple Can’t Hide From A 20-Year-old Reporter

Michal Rosenwald, Columbia Journalism Review

The best-sourced reporter covering Apple Inc., one of the world’s most secretive companies, is a 20-year-old junior at the University of Michigan. His name is Mark Gurman. He makes more than six figures a year as senior editor and scoop master at 9to5Mac.com, a news outlet most people have never heard of. In the interest of truth, which Gurman is known to pursue with almost religious zeal, it should be noted that he sometimes types stories in class.

The NFL Now Channel Arrives On The Apple TV

Brent Dirks, AppAdvice

Upgrading Your Mac: Moving Hard Drives From A Mac Pro To iMac

Christopher Breen, Macworld

Five Ways To Keep Your Student's Digital Life Safe

Christopher Breen, Macworld

Parallels Desktop 10 Arrives With OS X Yosemite Support, Improved Battery Life, And More

Joseph Keller, iMore

Facebook Messenger (For iPhone)

Max Eddy, PC Magazine

The separation seems to have given Facebook the room to stretch out and make a really great app.

Timeful Helps You Make Time For The Things You Want To Do

Andy J. Williams Affleck, TUAW

Timeful for iOS is an innovative app for managing your time, tasks lists, and habits in one place. Where most apps tackle one of the three or provide a task list feature within a calendar app, Timeful actively works to integrate the three in a way that helps ensure you make the time for the things you want and need to do.

iBetterCharge Review: Track Your iOS Device's Battery Life While Using Your Mac

Jeffery Battersby, Macworld

iBetterCharge keeps tabs on your battery so you don’t have to.

Qwingle Is A Calendar App Built For Families And Teens

Regina Lizik, TUAW

Qwingle, which requires iOS 7 and is available on the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch, is a family focused calendar app that might be just the thing you need to manage back to school schedules.

Apple Maps Adds 3-D Flyover Of Yosemite National Park And Wellington, New Zealand

Brent Dirks, AppAdvice

Google Unveils A New Photo Sphere Camera App For The iPhone

Brent Dirks, AppAdvice

Unlike other panoramic apps, Photo Sphere Camera can capture up and down, giving you a better overall look at the entire scene.

Budget App Simple Adds Instant Money Transfer

John Callaham, iMore

+Cue Is An Intuitive Way For Anyone To Create Music

George Tinari, TUAW

+Cue is a unique way for anyone to create music. This even includes people with absolutely no experience with music or instruments. Including over a dozen different instrumental sounds, all you need to do is shake your iOS device to generate different pitches that integrate seamlessly with the provided beat.

Day One Review: A Mac App That's So Nice, You'll Actually Maintain Your Journal

Nathan Alderman, Macworld

At every turn, Day One does its best to get out of your way and let you write.

Hanx Writer Created By Tom Hanks Turns Your iPad Into A Typewriter

Tim Biggs, The Sydney Morning Herald

Hanx Writer emulates the look and sound of writing with pre-computer technology. It offers some of the functionality of modern typing, with a few of the more charming aspects of composing a document on an analogue machine.

Apple Offering Free Newsstand Magazines For UK Bank holiday

Jon Mundy, Trusted Reviews

Apple’s iMessage Is Being Taken Over By Spammers

Robert McMillan, Wired

Apple’s iMessage system spans across the iPad, iPhone, and Apple’s laptop and desktop systems. That fusion of the desktop and mobile world makes it particularly easy for scammers to write a Mac OS script that can send messages to all types of devices just as fast as Apple will allow. “It’s almost like a spammer’s dream,” says Landesman. “With four lines of code, using Apple scripts, you can tell your Mac machine to send message to whoever they want.”

What Apple's New Content Delivery Network Means For Net Neutrality, And For You

Glenn Fleishman, Macworld

One can look at Apple’s CDN and direct connections to ISPs pragmatically: The company must do these things to maintain control and improve its customers’ experience, both of which are very Apple-y behavior. But from a broader public-policy and business perspective, Apple is buying into a set of unknowns: It is further entrenching a reduction in potential competition that keeps prices higher.

Apple Adds 21 Artists To iTunes Festival London Lineup, Including Lenny Kravitz & Ryan Adams

Mike Beasley, 9 To 5 Mac

Apple today announced several new bands and solo artists that will be appearing at the 2014 iTunes Festival in London next month along with Pharrell Williams, Maroon 5 and more for a total of 60 acts. Among the new additions to the lineup are Lenny Kravitz, Ryan Adams, and The Script.

How To Move Your iPhone And iPad Backups To An External Drive

Peter Cohen, iMore

If you sync your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch on your Mac, you know that the first thing iTunes does is back it up (unless you've told it not to). Depending on the size of your device and how much data you have stored on it, this can gobble up dozens of gigabytes of space. Did you know you can move those backups to an external hard drive? You can, and we can walk you through how.

Albums For iPhone

Federico Viticci, MacStories

In the increasing complexity of music streaming apps that put several layers of interface and navigation between the launch experience and listening to your favorite songs, Albums is a refreshingly simple music player that lets you search, bookmark, and play your favorite albums.

The Engineer Of The Original Apple Mouse Talks About His Remarkable Career

Kyle Vanhemert, Wired

Jim Yurchenco was responsible for squeezing the guts inside the impossibly slim Palm V. He helped build the mouse for the Apple Lisa, which was significant in that it was the first mouse ever used by regular people. He was the first full-time employee at the company that would become Ideo, the massively influential design firm. But before all that, he was a sculptor.

TodoMovies 3 For iOS Review: For Movie Buffs Who Can't Get Enough Movie News And Info

Michael Simon, Macworld

Convert Various Text File Formats In The OS X Terminal With Textutil

Topher Kessler, MacIssues

Apple Tackles Labor Violations In Chinese Factories

Charlie Osborne, ZDNet

Life After Death: Resuscitating A Drowned iPhone 5

Rob Griffiths, Macworld

Thanks to (I’m guessing) some time in the rice and a healthy dose of compressed air, I now have a fully functional iPhone 5, as seen in the image at right. I find this simply amazing, given the amount of time it spent 10 feet deep in a lake. So what did I learn during this incident?

Memory Diag Review: Keep An Eye On Your Mac's RAM

Michael Simon, Macworld

Even with Mavericks’ smart memory management, apps can still leak precious resources, causing all but the newest Macs to feel downright sluggish at times. Memory Diag won’t necessarily take away these issues, but it’ll help you pinpoint your trouble, contain the problem and get back to work.

Gettin' Sticky With It: Post-it Note-inspired To-do App Stky Goes 2.0 With New Features

Aldrin Calimlim, AppAdvice

The Sweet Spot On Apple’s Racket

Jean-Louis Gassée, Monday Note

After we get over the expectations adjustment period, the tablet genre will continue to be innovative, productive, and fun – for children of all ages.

Apple Cuts Prices Of All Beats By Dre Products By 10% Through Aug. 23Rd

Mark Gurman, 9 To 5 Mac

The 10% off discount will last through August 23rd, according to a source.

Apple Wins 2014 ‘Outstanding Commercial’ Emmy Award For ‘Misunderstood’ Holiday Ad

Mark Gurman, 9 To 5 Mac

Monitor OS X Network, CPU And Disk Activity In The Dock

Steven Sande, TUAW

Google To Drop Microsoft-designed Touch Web Spec, Stick With Apple Tech

Peter Bright, Ars Technica

The company's developers gave three reasons for the change. The first is that Mobile Safari only supports Touch Events, making it difficult for Pointer Events to ever gain traction, much less win out. Second, the way Pointer Events worked caused performance issues for WebKit and Blink not found in Touch Events. Third, Pointer Events precluded implementing some common design concepts such as pull-to-refresh.

Digital To-Do Lists Are Fine, But What Really Motivates Us?

Allie Caren, NPR

But is that the key, to simply be reminded? Are there others out there who, like me, snooze things away each and every day? Maybe, maybe not.

Apple Adds Five Vice Presidents, Including Two Women, To 'Apple Leadership' Press Page

Juli Clover, MacRumors

The inclusion of several vice presidents on the executive team is a new move for the company, as the page previously only listed the company's lineup of senior vice presidents.

Value And Reference Types

Swift Blog

Anchor Pointer Is A Great App For Finding Your Car Or That Great Fishing Spot

John-Michael Bond, TUAW

Anchor Pointer gives you a compass that directs you to locations you've already been to. It's designed for saving locations rather than finding them via discovery, which makes it ideal for hikers and urban explorers, or just to find your car at the mall.

Best Mac Apps For Photo Editing

Peter Cohen, iMore

Notebook 4 Review: Notetaking Mac App Gets An Updated, Streamlined Interface

Michael Simon, Macworld

It hasn’t completely abandoned its classic skeumorphic interface, but it has streamlined the whole process in wonderful ways, making features new and old seem fresh and modern.

Apple Adds China Telecom As Data Center Provider

Lorraine Luk, Wall Street Journal

In its latest effort to dispel security concerns raised by China, Apple has begun storing its users’ data in China on state-controlled China Telecom’s Internet-based storage.

But the company said Friday in a statement to The Wall Street Journal that all data stored is encrypted, meaning China Telecom won’t have access to its content.

How To Enable And Disable Notification Badges On The Mac

Peter Cohen, iMore

Vimeo For iOS Updated With Video Uploading, Private Sharing And Friend Finding

Aldrin Calimlim, AppAdvice

Apple Interviews Tom Hanks Via Twitter About His New Hanx Typewriter iPad App

Zac Hall, 9 To 5 Mac

By Request: The Mac Gamer

Jeremy Parish, GameSpite.net

Best Restaurant Finding Apps For iPhone: Explore Different Foods All Over The World!

Allyson Kazmucha, iMore

No matter was kind of taste you have when it comes to food, these are the absolute best iPhone apps to help you find amazing restaurants almost anywhere!

With VacayCam, DogVacay Users Can Take Photos Of Their Dogs On Vacation

Bryan M. Wolfe, AppAdvice

With VacayCam, you can take a photo of your dog while they are on their vacation. At the same time, a sound such as a bark, meow, or squeaky toy will be emitted, grabbing your dog’s attention and ensuring top quality photos every time.

10 Years Of Podcasting: Code, Comedy, And Patent Lawsuits

Cyrus Farivar, Ars Technica

A decade ago today—August 13, 2004—former MTV VJ Adam Curry spoke these words, recorded in his car in rural Belgium while driving to the Netherlands:

“Well, good morning everybody, and welcome to the Daily Source Code. Thank you very much for taking the time to download this MP3 file. Some of you may have received it overnight as an enclosure in your aggregator. In that case, thanks for subscribing. So first what I’d like to do is to explain exactly what this is, and what the Daily Source Code is going to be.”

Watermarker Review: Easily Protect The Publishing Rights Of Your Photographic Work

Marco Tabini, Macworld

The app supports three different types of watermarks: text, an image, and strike-through (a set of diagonal lines that cross the image from opposite corners, thus making it unusable in a production scenario).

Finding An App To Manage Passwords

J.D. Biersdorfer, New York Times

Password-manager apps can vary in services, but many include backup options for syncing an encrypted copy of your password file to an online server or directly to a computer; some even let you log into your account from a browser. Some of the more full-featured apps include automatic website logins for stored passwords, complex-password generators and security alerts.

Liberation: 10 OS X Steps To Free Mac Disk Space

Jonny Evans, Computerworld

Are you running out of space on your Mac? Are you unable to save files because your computer tells you its disk is full? Clean your drive with these ten simple tips.

Pimsleur Course Manager (For iPhone)

Jill Duffy, PC Magazine

If you're a busy person looking to learn a new language or brush up on one that you already know, Pimsleur may be one of your best options. Why? Because Pimsleur is, and long has been, known for its audio programs. You can play Pimsleur MP3s while commuting, walking your dog, folding laundry, or doing anything else that leaves you free to listen and speak out loud when prompted.

Apple Shareholder Suing Steve Jobs' Estate

Sky News

The class action lawsuit claims the Cupertino company misled investors and damaged the value of the company by striking a controversial hiring agreement with other corporations.

Apple's Diversity Video Overstates Its Diversity

Philip Elmer-DeWitt, Fortune

I couldn’t help notice that roughly 12% of the faces in the video Apple released Wednesday are black and nearly 45% are women. The company’s actual ranks are considerably less diverse, especially in its tech and leadership positions.

Apple’s iPhone Is At The Center Of Another Major Revolution

Victor Luckerson, TIME

A bevy of apps and services are helping not only those with prosthetic limbs but also those with poor hearing, troubled vision and impaired motor skills.

Corel Painter 2015

Agen G. N. Schmitz, TidBITS

Painter 2015 introduces “physics-inspired” Particle Brushes, which provide a quick way to create unique effects.

Privacy Vs. Push Notifications: My Week With The New Foursquare

Caitlin McGarry, TechHive

Foursquare could use your check-ins to push you notifications about nearby places, like a cocktail bar on the same street as the restaurant you’re dining at. Or the app could deduce that if you check in to spots all around Williamsburg, you probably live or work there and want to see recommendations in the neighborhood. It doesn’t really need to track you all the time.

Apple Starts Using China Telecom’s Data Centers To Store iCloud Data For China Users, Rather Than US Locations

Benjamin Mayo, 9 To 5 Mac

Popular Bird-flying Game Tiny Wings Gets First Content Update In Over 2 Years

Aldrin Calimlim, AppAdvice

Apple Bans Use Of 2 Chemicals In iPhone Assembly

Michael Liedtke, Associated Press

The decision announced Wednesday comes five months after the activist groups China Labor Watch and Green America launched a petition drive calling on Apple Inc. to abandon the use of benzene and n-hexane in the production of iPhones.

WhoDoYou Is A Referral App With A Lot Of Potential

Jessica Buchanan, TUAW

Apple Releases Safari 6.1.6 And Safari 7.0.6 With Security Fixes

Mark Gurman, 9 To 5 Mac

Apple today has released new versions of Safari for OS X Lion/Mountain Lion and OS X Mavericks that address security and WebKit issues. The Safari 6.1.6 update for the older versions of OS X and Safari 7.0.6 update for the latest OS X are available in Software Update on the Mac App Store.

Mojang On Minecraft: Pocket Edition's Evolution Into A Mobile Juggernaut

Andrew Hayward, TechHive

The Pocket Edition of today is significantly larger and more in-depth, and the recent Version 0.9 update added long-desired features like infinite worlds and explorable caves. Swedish indie studio Mojang continues to expand the game to make it bigger and better, and continue spreading the gospel of Minecraft to more and more players—and the developers aren't finished yet.

Draft Control Review: Keep Track Of The Changes Made In Text Documents

Dan Miller, Macworld

Four Finder Timesavers Every Smart Mac User Should Know

Topher Kessler, Macworld

For some users, “organizing files” in the Finder begins and ends with creating folders and moving files into them. But there are a bunch of other things you can do to manage your files in OS X that, whatever your workflow, will make things way easier.

OS X: Did You Know This Useful Hidden Font Feature?

Jonny Evans, Computerworld

If you've ever spent time swapping between fonts to find the most appropriate one you need for use in any project, you've been wasting time -- this hidden feature had you covered all along.

How To Set Up Back To My Mac: Easily Transfer Files, Screen-share And Access Your Mac Remotely In Mac OS X Mavericks

Lou Hattersley, Macworld UK

Debugging File Corruption On iOS

Facebook

Recently, we solved a long-term mobile debugging problem and reduced the crash rate for people using the Facebook for iOS app by more than 50 percent.

The Trouble With Diversity Initiatives

Rachel Feintzeig, Wall Street Journal

A meta-analysis from researchers at New York University, University of Michigan and George Mason University traces the roots of stigma that can erupt in organizations that implement affirmative action policies to attract women and racial minorities.

Do You Trust Your Loved Ones To Know Where You Are All The Time?

Lily Hay Newman, Slate

Since it debuted in 2011, people have been creeped out by Apple’s Find Friends location-sharing service. Agreeing to let someone see where you are all the time is a big step. But location tracking isn’t going away.

The Copy Of The U.S. Constitution That's Installed On Every Mac

Steven Sande, TUAW

There's a copy of the U.S. Constitution on each and every Mac in the Dictionary app.

Apple Stores To Start Offering iPhones Via Carrier Financing On Aug. 20Th

Mark Gurman, 9 To 5 Mac

A significant number of Apple Stores in the United States will likely begin offering iPhone sales via the latest carrier financing programs later this month, according to several sources.

Finding Bluetooth Devices With An iPhone

Federico Viticci, MacStories

Flight Cases For iMac Review: Heavy Duty Protection For Your Traveling iMac

Andrew Harrison, Macworld

The Flight Case for iMac is impeccably designed and assembled, leading us to recommend without hesitation these sturdy containers. They’ll keep your iMac protected while on the road.

Apple’s Diversity Report: 70 Percent Male, 55 Percent White In U.S.

Ina Fried, Re/code

“As CEO, I’m not satisfied with the numbers on this page,” Apple chief executive Tim Cook said in a letter that accompanies the report. “They’re not new to us and we’ve been working hard for quite some time to improve them. We are making progress, and we’re committed to being as innovative in advancing diversity as we are in developing our products.”

Apple Prominently Advertising Beats Music To New iOS Device Users

Benjamin Mayo, 9 To 5 Mac

Apple has prominently featured its own suite of free apps when iOS users first open the App Store, such as its iLife and iWork apps, for a while. Now that Beats Music and Beats Electronics are officially part of the family, the Beats Music app is now appearing on this ‘Apple Apps’ list as well. Beats Music is currently the last entry in the list, described as a way to ‘listen to music that’s always right for you’.

Why Surveillance Companies Hate The iPhone

Craig Timberg, Washington Post

The secrets of one of the world’s most prominent surveillance companies, Gamma Group, spilled onto the Internet last week, courtesy of an anonymous leaker who appears to have gained access to sensitive corporate documents. And while they provide illuminating details about the capabilities of Gamma’s many spy tools, perhaps the most surprising revelation is about something the company is unable to do: It can’t hack into your typical iPhone.

Folderol Review: Add Color To Your OS X Finder Folders

Dan Frakes, Macworld

For those of us who have long used Finder-label colors as visual cues in the Finder, Folderol is a big improvement over the tiny circles of tags.

Apple Prepares Healthkit Rollout Amid Tangled Regulatory Web

Christina Farr, Reuters

Apple Inc has been discussing how its "HealthKit" service will work with health providers at Mount Sinai, the Cleveland Clinic and Johns Hopkins as well as with Allscripts, a competitor to electronic health records provider Epic Systems, people familiar with the discussions said.

While the talks may not amount to anything concrete, they underscore how Apple is intent on making health data, such as blood pressure, pulse and weight, available for consumers and health providers to view in one place.

'And You May Contribute A Verse': Robin Williams' Poignant Apple Ad

Jonathan Ellis, Mashable

Print Files Directly From Mac Desktop & OS X Finder To Save Time

OS X Daily

New Apple 'Your Verse' Stories Highlight Yaoband And Detroit Slow Roll City Bike Ride

Brent Dirks, AppAdvice

Apple has just added two more stories to its “Your Verse” campaign that shows how people are using an iPad in their daily lives. The new entries focus on Yaoband in China and the Slow Roll city bike ride in Detroit.

Now You Can Book A Table And Pay For Your Meal With OpenTable’s App

Caittlin McGarry, TechHive

Now when you make a reservation at one of several participating restaurants through OpenTable’s iPhone app, you’ll be able to settle your bill at the end of the meal with just a few taps on your phone.

How To Forget Wi-Fi Networks In OS X

Topher Kessler, MacIssues

Beyond The Basics: Advanced Mac Keyboard Tricks

Topher Kessler, Macworld

Flexiglass Review: Control OS X Windows With Your Keyboard And Multitouch Gestures

Serenity Caldwell, Macworld

Flexiglass is an intriguing implementation of the Mac’s accessibility features, and worth trying if you’re interested in simpler window movement.

MailDeck Email App Goes 2.0 With Universal Support And Other Improvements

Aldrin Calimlim, AppAdvice

The Reluctantly Quantified Parent

Erin Kissane, The Atlantic

The app is already more of a talisman against our shared chaotic past than a tool of practical use.

Simplifying The Bull: How Picasso Helps To Teach Apple’s Style

Brian X. Chen, New York Times

Steven P. Jobs established Apple University as a way to inculcate employees into Apple’s business culture and educate them about its history, particularly as the company grew and the tech business changed. Courses are not required, only recommended, but getting new employees to enroll is rarely a problem.

Although many companies have such internal programs, sometimes referred to as indoctrination, Apple’s version is a topic of speculation and fascination in the tech world.

Best Word Games For iPad

Simon Sage, iMore

Apple Approves Self-censoring Bittorrent App

TorrentFreak

The application handles torrent downloads without any problems, but there is one rather big restriction. The developer has decided to only allow downloads from a few trusted sources.

Trying to add files from The Pirate Bay or KickassTorrents wont work, but white-listed sites such as Archive.org, Linuxtracker and Bitlove are freely accessible.

Personal iMessages Going To A Shared iPad? Here's How To Fix It!

Allyson Kazmucha, iMore

Selling An Old iPhone? Here Are Things To Consider

Damon Darlin, New York Times

FunBITS: NPR One Is Public Radio For The Twitter Generation

Josh Centers, TidBITS

As someone who rarely has time to listen to podcasts anymore, it’s great to have an endless source of news to listen to for a few minutes at a time.

How To Set Up Continuous OS X Mavericks Dictation

Steven Sande, TUAW

Black Hat: Google Glass Can Steal Your Passcodes

Tom Simonite, Technology Review

Software developed by the researchers can automatically recover the passcodes of people recorded on video as they type in their credentials, even when the screen itself is not visible to the camera. The attack works by watching the movement of the fingers to work out what keys they are touching. It also works on footage from camcorders, webcams, and smartphones, but Glass offers perhaps the subtlest way to stage it.

Koh Squashes Double-Charging Class Action Against Apple

Julia Love, The Recorder

A federal judge refused on Thursday to allow plaintiffs who claim Apple Inc. double-charged them for music, videos and other digital goods to move forward as a class.

Indians Flaunt 4-Year-Old IPhones As Apple Builds Appeal: Tech

Bianca Vázquez Toness, Bloomberg

Apple Inc., which has struggled in emerging markets because of the price of its new iPhones, has devised a strategy for India that’s starting to pay off: It’s pushing older models that offer cachet at affordable prices.

China Refutes Claim Of Government Ban On Apple Purchases

Gery Shih and Paul Carsten, Reuters

The Central Government Procurement Centre, as well as the finance ministry and Apple, said the company never applied to be on the list in the first place.

Ask The iTunes Guy: Moving Your iTunes Library, Holiday Specials, And WAV Vs AIFF

Kirk McElhearn, Macworld

This week, I look at three questions. I explain how to move an iTunes library to an external hard drive, I look at how to tag Christmas specials of TV series, and I discuss the pros and cons of ripping CDs in WAV and AIFF formats.

Skype No Longer Supporting Macs Running OS X 10.5.8 Or Earlier

Andrew Martonik, iMore

iTunes 11.3.1 Brings Fixes For Podcast Bugs, Update Now!

Chris Parsons, iMore

Eve Wasn't Invited: Integrating Women Into The Apple Community

Biranna Wu, Macworld

Women buy Apple products. We develop on Apple hardware. But we’re still not yet well-represented in Apple’s developer community.

NFL Now App Launches On iPhone & iPad, Coming Soon To Apple TV With Personalized Video Stream & More

Ben Lovejoy, 9 To 5 Mac

QuickTime In OS X Yosemite Reveals That Apple Cares About Status Bars

Daniel Celeste, AppAdvice

From A Maker Of Siri, A Text Messaging App And Personal Assistant In One

Mark Wilson, Co.Design

The Best RSS App For The iPad

Robert McGinley Myers, The Sweet Setup

Options For Managing Finder Windows In OS X

Topher Kessler, MacIssues

Foursquare 8.0 Review: The Ultimate Food-finder

Ellis Hamburger, The Verge

The new app cuts through Foursquare’s massive corpus of data to answer one question: what if your food-finding app knew your favorite restaurants, but also your favorite foods?

Capo Touch 2.0 Review: Use Your iPad To Learn How To Play Your Favorite Songs

James Galbraith, Macworld

Supermegaultragroovy’s Capo is a great tool to help guitarists learn new songs. With versions available for both Mac and iOS, Capo allows users to easily learn songs by altering a song’s speed without changing its pitch, generating chords for the song, and more. The recently released Capo touch 2.0 brings the Mac app’s innovative chord recognition features to iOS for the first time.

EtreCheck Review: Get A Full Status Report On Your Troubled Mac

Marco Tabini, Macworld

Drive-cloning Utilities: The Best Mac Apps For Making A Bootable Backup

Joe Kissell, Macworld

What a clone offers that the likes of Time Machine and CrashPlan do not is immediate recovery: You can get back to work almost instantly after a drive crash or other severe problem with your startup volume.

Improve Your Presentation Skills: The Emergency Road-show Toolkit

Joe Kissell, Macworld

Slingbox M1 Review: A Pricey Streamer, But Worth It For Frequent Travelers

Ben Drawbaugh, Engadget

While it does still have a higher upfront cost than competing products, it can also stream content that no other device can -- namely, live sports and any other content you've already paid for through your cable subscription. If you're a big sports fan or a frequent traveler, this could be a worthwhile purchase.

China Said To Exclude Apple From Procurement List

Bloomberg

Ten Apple products -- including the iPad, iPad Mini, MacBook Air and MacBook Pro -- were omitted from a final government procurement list distributed in July, according to officials who read it and asked not to be identified because the information isn’t public. The models were on a June version of the list drafted by the National Development and Reform Commission and Ministry of Finance, the officials said.

Apple, Samsung Agree To End Patent Suits Outside U.S.

Adam Satariano and Joel Rosenblatt, Bloomberg

Still, they said in the statement that they aren’t ending the legal battles completely, nor have they reached any cross-licensing agreement.

Push For Pizza Is Yo For Food Delivery

Kyle Russell, TechCrunch

Instead of picking from a menu of options, you can choose from two staples: cheese or pepperoni. The pizza, delivery, and tip are all paid for before the delivery person arrives. It’s like the Yo of food delivery apps — it rips out the layers of fat that we assume “should” be there, leaving the bare essentials of what we actually want to do with it.

Take This Code And Sign It

Daniel Jalkut, Indie Stack

Why Some Schools Are Selling All Their iPads

Meghan E. Murphy, The Atlantic

Four years after Apple introduced its popular tablet, many districts are switching to laptops.

Navigate OS X Menus With Your Mac’s Keyboard

Topher Kessler, MacIssues

iStat Menus 5 Brings New Design, Per-App Stats, Yosemite Support, And More

Federico Viticci, MacStories

Apple’s Third Dutch Store Opening In The Hague On Saturday

Ben Lovejoy, 9 To 5 Mac

Network Radar Review: Mac App Checks Your Network Health

Dan Moren, Macworld

Like Apple’s own app, Network Radar offers many common network tools, including ping, port scan, and whois. But it doesn’t stop there: The app can quickly scan your entire network and display a list of devices on it, along with their IP addresses, what services they offer, and more. If you need quick access via services like Telnet, SSH, or HTTP, you can access those for any device by right-clicking on its entry.

Apple Buybacks Pay Most Ever As CEOs Spend $211 Billion

Oliver Renick and Joseph Ciolli, Bloomberg

Dissatisfaction

Matt Gemmell

That’s the lesson I learned from the Start button, and I’m grateful for it every day. It gave me permission to be dissatisfied, and there’s probably no greater motivation for positive change.

Apple Changing Gatekeeper App Signing Rules In OS X 10.9.5 & Yosemite, Could Break Some Apps

Mike Beasley, 9 To 5 Mac

An upcoming change introduced in the latest Mavericks and Yosemite developers previews will require some developers to re-sign their applications and submit updates to the Mac App Store in order to get around Gatekeeper’s watchful eye. According to a technical note from Apple, any apps built and signed on a version of OS X older than 10.9 will now be flagged by Gatekeeper has not having a valid signature.

Ninety Days

Justin Williams, Carpeaqua

Do not spend more than ninety days on your 1.0.

How To Make Folders In The iCloud File Browser From OS X Mavericks

OS X Daily

Manything Turns Any iOS Device Into A Home Video Monitoring System

John-Michael Bond, TUAW

Video security for your home or small business just got a lot easier and a lot less expensive thanks to Manything. Manything is an all-in-one home video monitoring system for iOS that allows you to stream, record, and view video remotely from any iOS device using iOS 5 or later. That means your old iPhone 3GS just became a WiFI video camera instead of gathering dust.

Apple Stores Commence In-store Screen Replacements For iPhone 5S

Harish Jonnalagadda, iMore

Apple Stores will now be able to fix the broken screen on your iPhone 5s without having to send the device out to an off-site location. The service is being rolled out to Apple Stores across the US, although at this stage there is no confirmation as to whether all locations would be able to service broken screens.

How To Secure And Lock Down Your Mac

Topher Kessler, MacIssues

If you are concerned about theft, there are several ways you can ensure your Mac or at least the data on it are secured.

Apple Hires Angela Ahrendts’ Confidant & Former Nike Exec To Lead Social Media Efforts

Mark Gurman, 9 To 5 Mac

App Store Longevity And Freshness

David Smith

While I would still support ensuring that customers and developers aren’t being adversely affected by the 480,000 apps which are no longer being actively maintained, the 720,000 apps that are still are under at least semi-active development will likely paint over this issue for some time.

MacBook Pro (Mid 2014) Review: Update Offers Slightly Better CPU Performance

James Galbraith, Macworld

Why Apple Should Pay More Attention To Indie Developers In The App Store

Marco Tabini, Macworld

The ability of indies to take risks, create amazing apps, and thrive is something that Apple should fight tooth and nail to protect and promote. Without it, if you’ll excuse a bit of hyperbole, the App Store risks slowly transforming into a sad world of generic apps and freemium games intent on bilking unsuspecting customers of their money—and that’s definitely not the kind of environment I, for one, would want to be part of.

GoodReader 4 Review: An Excellent Universal App For PDF Management

Jeff Merron, Macworld

Keep It Reel: Record, Mix, And Release A Professional Recording On Your iPad

Andrea Pejrolo, Macworld

Improve Your Presentation Skills: How To Make Smoother Slide Transitions In Keynote

Joe Kissell, Macworld

Contexts Review: Make Your OS X Windows More Manageable

Nick Mediati, Macworld

Contexts 1.4 supplements—and can even replace—OS X’s window management tools, and it does so in a way that is legitimately useful, especially if you rely on keyboard shortcuts to navigate your Mac.

Love And Hate And A CD

Andy Ihnatko

Due to a clerical oversight (related to the transition between the Bush and Obama administrations; just a guess), there are some albums that can only be purchased on CD. This is the brief tale of one such CD, and the two opposing emotions that it inspired.

Rinse & Repeat

Guy English, Kickingbear

Put the work in. Get happy about what you’ve built. Then rip it apart and get better. Rinse and repeat. Rinse and repeat. Rinse and repeat.

San Francisco Airport Testing Beacon System For Blind Travelers

Josh Lowensohn, The Verge

San Francisco Airport is testing out location-aware beacons to help visually-impaired people navigate around one of its newest terminals, a program it could roll out to the rest of the airport if successful. An early version of the system was shown off to press today for use on Apple iOS devices, though SFO also plans to make it available for Android users and eventually expand the system to serve up information for those who can see.

Yes, Hackers Could Build An iPhone Botnet—Thanks To Windows

Andy Greenberg, Wired

A reminder to Apple and smug iPhone owners: Just because iOS has never been the victim of a widespread malware outbreak doesn’t mean mass iPhone hacking isn’t still possible. Now one group of security researchers plans to show how to enslave an entire botnet of Apple gadgets through a perennial weak point—their connection to vulnerable Windows PCs.

Mobile Home Adds A Siri Button To Any Car

Steven Sande, TUAW

Apple Releases New iPhone 5S Ad, Makes 'Dreams' Come True

Rich Edmonds, iMore

Apple has released a new ad for the iPhone 5s called 'Dreams'. While mobile devices are mainly viewed as personal toys as well as mobile phones, this new video shows how the iPhone 5s is utilized in numerous professional and personal situations, including both medical and fire-fighter careers, to aid said folk with their life changing work.

Siri Won't Let Beats Into Dr. Dre's Party In Bizarre New Ad

Casey Newton, The Verge

Beats officially became part of Apple today, and the companies are celebrating with a strange new ad in which no one gets to celebrate at all.

Files And Initialization

Swift Blog

This post will explain how Swift deals with the files in your project, and how global data is initialized.

Beats And Apple Dispute Reports Of Layoffs

Andrew Flanagan, Billboard

Apple spokesperson Tom Neumayr tells Billboard that Apple's intention is to keep as many of Beats' employees in full-time positions as they can. "We're excited to have the Beats team join Apple, and we have extended job offers to every Beats employee. Because of some overlap in our operations, some offers are for a limited period and we’ll work hard during this time to find as many of these Beats employees as we can another permanent job within Apple."

With Apple-Beats Deal Complete, Ian Rogers To Run iTunes Radio

Hannah Karp and Daisuke Wakabayashi, Wall Street Journal

Tonality For Mac Is A Powerful Black And White Image Editor

Mel Martin, TUAW

Apple Officially Welcomes Beats To The Family

Joseph Keller, iMore

Additionally, Vivendi announced today that it's Universal Music Group division had sold its remaining stake in Beats to Apple. The stake was worth about 13% of Beats, and was sold for $404 million.

Yep, Apple’s ‘Stickers’ Ad Gave MacBook Sticker Sellers A Huge Boost

Graham Spencer, MacStories

Now this was not an in-depth investigation and the result is probably what you would have guessed: visits and sales rose dramatically last week when Apple's ad was released. It was the universal reaction I got from the sellers I talked to.

Timeful Will Trick You Into Revolutionizing Your Time Management skills

Malarie Gokey, Digital Trends

Timeful is intended to make you schedule things, give them due dates, and get them done.

Yahoo Weather (For iPhone)

Max Eddy, PC Magazine

If you want your app to succeed on iOS, you'll have to make it beautiful, and Yahoo Weather (free) shines in this regard. No, I'm not talking about the built-in iOS weather app but rather Yahoo's own weather app from the Apple App Store. This app displays photos from Flickr users to stunning effect, and every panel is polished to a shine. Yahoo Weather also delivers all the critical weather information you need, but otherwise the app only really distinguishes itself, in a very crowded space, with its custom notifications.

Judge Examines Fairness Of Apple's E-Books Settlement

Eriq Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter

Are consumers getting enough? That depends on perspective.

How To Troubleshoot Mac Wi-Fi Problems

Topher Kessier, Macworld

Office For iPad Updates Add PDF Exports, Better Keyboard And Font Support

Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica

All four apps can now export files as PDFs, crop pictures inline, and reset changes made to pictures. Word, Excel, and PowerPoint can also use third-party fonts, presumably in addition to the Microsoft- and Apple-supplied fonts that come with iOS and the Office apps themselves.

Wunderlist 3 Adds Public List Sharing And Real-time Sync

Adam Zeis, iMore

Thanks to a redesign and some backend changes, Wunderlist 3 now offers public lists and real-time sync — allowing users to immediately see changes rather than waiting for a 15 minute refresh. Making lists public also moves Wunderlist 3 away from a personal to-do app, into a better, full-on list app with even more uses.

What Privacy Settings Tell You About The Profound Differences Between Google And Apple

Leo Mirani, Quartz

Why The Security Of USB Is Fundamentally Broken

Andy Greenberg, Wired

Apple Opens First 'Open-air' Temp Shop In Switzerland's Glattzentrum

MacNN

Apple’s CDN Now Live: Has Paid Deals With ISPs, Massive Capacity In Place

Dan Rayburn, StreamingMediaBlog.com

While Apple doesn’t own the last mile, paying to connect directly to it (in some places) and delivering content from their own servers allows them much more control over the user experience, especially for cloud based services.

After 22 Months, The Magazine Is Changing Its Strategy

John Paul Titlow, Fast Company

"The honest truth is that without a quite high level of subscribers on a consistent basis, it doesn't make sense to fund an app," says Glenn Fleishman, who bought the business from Arment in May 2013. "The amount of work required to keep pace with what Apple is doing is just not sustainable."

Wikipedia Goes Fully Native On iOS And Now Lets You Edit Articles Too

Paul Sawers, The Next Web