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iTunes 12 Brings More Power To The Column Browser

Kirk McElhearn, Kirkville

Ellen DeGeneres Launches Ellentube App For Watching And Sharing Family-friendly Videos

Aldrin Calimlim, AppAdvice

How One Man’s Private Files Ended Up On Apple’s iCloud Without His consent

Craig Timberg, Washington Post

The gist is that files created on several widely used apps are saved to iCloud as soon as the files are created. When a user later gives the file a name and selects a location to store it, the document is “removed” from iCloud (unless, of course, the user intentionally saves the file to iCloud.) Users can also disable iCloud altogether, keeping files confined to their devices.

Cops Can Make You Unlock Your Smartphone With Fingerprint, Says Judge

Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai, Mashable

Cops can force you to unlock your smartphone with your fingerprint — but they can't force you to unlock it with your passcode, according to a judge in Virginia.

The decision, one of the first ones to deal with fingerprints and cellphones, confirms the fact that law enforcement agents can get access to a locked phone with legal means if they need to. At the same time a PIN or a password might enjoy more protection than a fingerprint.

Apple CEO Says He’s ‘Proud To Be Gay’

Rachel Feintzeig and Daisuke Wakabayashi, Wall Street Journal

“If Tim Cook can be openly gay, then it just shouldn’t matter in any other corporation in America,” said Trevor Burgess, the openly gay CEO of the Florida bank C1 Financial Inc., which went public in August.

Resize And Upload Images With Acorn And Transmit

Jason Snell, Six Colors

Apple No Longer Rejecting Calculator Widgets From The App Store

Sarah Perez, TechCrunch

But now we’re hearing that Apple is changing its course. The PCalc app and widget will remain in the App Store, and all calculator-type widgets will be allowed as well, an Apple spokesperson has confirmed to us.

Todoist Now Connects Your Task List To Everything With IFTTT

Simon Sage, iMore

President Bill Clinton, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella & Others Praise Apple CEO Tim Cook For Publicly Announcing He Is Gay

Neil Hughes, AppleInsider

Former U.S. Representative Barney Frank also spoke out in an interview with CNBC, in which he said Cook's announcement is "extraordinarily important."

Frank said that Cook's stature as being one of the most important business leaders in America will go a long way in breaking down stereotypes about people of different sexual orientations.

How Apple Pay Handles A Canceled Credit Card

John-Michael Bond, TUAW

"Immediately upon hanging up, my phone had a notification saying "Apple Pay: your default card has been switched to [non-stolen Citi credit card]." Pretty smooth, and really good attention to detail in the EMVco and/or Apple Pay design."

Smule’s Popular Sing! Karaoke App Updated With Collaborative Video Features

Zac Hall, 9 To 5 Mac

The Any.do iPhone App Gets Updated With New Features And Premium Subscription

John Callaham, iMore

Tim Cook Speaks Up

Tim Cook, Bloomberg Businessweek

Being gay has given me a deeper understanding of what it means to be in the minority and provided a window into the challenges that people in other minority groups deal with every day. It’s made me more empathetic, which has led to a richer life. It’s been tough and uncomfortable at times, but it has given me the confidence to be myself, to follow my own path, and to rise above adversity and bigotry. It’s also given me the skin of a rhinoceros, which comes in handy when you’re the CEO of Apple.

[...]

I don’t consider myself an activist, but I realize how much I’ve benefited from the sacrifice of others. So if hearing that the CEO of Apple is gay can help someone struggling to come to terms with who he or she is, or bring comfort to anyone who feels alone, or inspire people to insist on their equality, then it’s worth the trade-off with my own privacy.

It's Easier To Get An iPhone Outside Hong Kong's Apple Stores Than In Them

Euan McKirdy, CNN

Those left in the cold are the Hong Kong citizens who want to get their hands on a new phone the legitimate way. With the quota system swamped each day from 8 am sharp, it might be a long wait for that new 6 Plus.

iPhone And Android Fans Are Raiding Reviews Of The CurrentC Payments App

Colin Lecher, The Verge

Review: OmniFocus 2 For iPad Makes Life Easier With Extensions And Background Syncing

Ray Agullera, Macworld

If you need more power for sub-tasks, contexts, and weekly reviews than your typical to-do list provides, you can't go wrong with OmniFocus.

Take The Pain Out Of Two-factor Authentication With An App

Glenn Fleishman, Macworld

Skype 7.1 For Mac Features Support For OS X Yosemite And More

Aldrin Calimlim, AppAdvice

Flipboard Launches Version 3.0: Smarter Recommendations Plus A Curated Daily Newsmagazine

Mathew Ingram, GigaOM

The new version involves better curation of the millions of customized magazines that readers have created — using recommendation technology acquired when it bought Zite earlier this year — as well as a daily newspaper-style magazine called The Daily Edition that is edited by Flipboard staff.

Microsoft Takes Another Stab At Health Market With Cloud Service, $199 Fitness Band

Ina Fried, Re/code

The band has 10 sensors to track the usual things like heart rate, as well as more novel detectors, including a UV sensor for sun exposure and a galvanic skin response measurement, which can help identify stress. The Microsoft Health cloud-based service can crunch the data gathered from Microsoft’s band as well as from other devices, including rival smartphones and fitness bands. A companion app for iOS, Android and Windows Phone offers a deeper look at the data.

Beats By Dre Debuts Special Edition Hello Kitty Headphones For 40Th Anniversary

Juli Clover, MacRumors

Apple's Beats by Dre headphones brand is teaming up with Sanrio to offer two special edition Hello Kitty-themed products to commemorate Hello Kitty's 40th anniversary.

How To Hide Photos On iPhone & iPad With The iOS Hidden Album

OS X Daily

A Week Of Apple Pay: Chips, PINs, And… Signatures?

Glenn Fleishman, Six Colors

What’s New With Automation In Yosemite

Ray Robertson, Automated Workflows

Apple introduced a great variety of new automation features and updates in Yosemite. I've written up a quick summary below with links to more detailed information.

A Week With Apple Pay

Mgean Geuss, Ars Technica

Apple Disallows Previously Approved Calculator Widgets For iOS 8 Notification Center

Juli Clover, MacRumors

Apple is forcing popular iOS calculator app PCalc to remove its Notification Center widget, which allows users to access calculator functions directly from the "Today" view of the Notification Center. According to Apple, widgets on iOS are not allowed to perform any calculations.

The iPad Air 2: A Host Of Hidden Upgrades In One Skinny Package

Sam Machkovech, Ars Technica

For now, it can juggle more tabs, load more Facebook, export faster videos, and put a lot less stress on your wrist—and for the average iPad user who hasn't upgraded in a while, those boosts may certainly be convincing enough. But this could have been the statement device for a productivity-minded iOS, and we're left wondering when Apple will make that specific statement.

Microsoft Updates OneNote For iPhone And iPad With New Features And Improvements

Aldrin Calimlim, AppAdvice

Now, both apps have been updated with the ability to insert files from iCloud and other cloud storage services using the iOS 8 document picker.

Both have also been updated with more password protection support. “You’re now able to create new password protected sections, and change or remove the password for existing protected section,” Microsoft notes.

Logitech Unveils New Keys-To-Go iPad Keyboard

Federico Viticci, MacStories

Apple Pay Runs Afoul Of MCX, A Group With A Rival Product

Mike Isaac, New York Times

The problem is that under the terms of their MCX contractual agreement, they are not supposed to accept competing mobile payments products like Apple Pay, according to multiple retailers involved with MCX, who spoke on the condition of anonymity. If these retailers break their contracts, they will face steep fines for doing so, these people said.

Maybe these retailers should adopt a "don't ask, don't tell" attitude, and pretend their customers are using plastic credit cards with NFC capability.

Apple Expands iAd Platform To 70 New Countries, Bringing Total To 95

Mike Beasley, 9 To 5 Mac

Today’s expansion is by far the largest the company has ever attempted, and more than triples (in fact, nearly quadruples) the number of available markets. iAd was previously expanded to nine additional European countries earlier this month, which brought the total at the time to 25.

Class Action Suit Filed Against Apple For 2011 MacBook Pro GPU Defects

Dan Thorp-Lancaster, iMore

Washington DC-based law firm Whitfield, Bryson & Mason announced that it had filed a class action lawsuit against Apple over widespread graphical issues encountered on 2011 MacBook Pros with AMD GPUs.

Apple's Greg Joswiak Blames iOS 8.0.1 Issues On Software Distribution

Mikey Campbell, AppleInsider

"It had to do with the way the software was being sent over servers. It was the way software was being distributed," Joswiak said. "Whenever you're pushing software and doing some very advanced things, you're going to have some mistakes. What we try to do is very quickly fix them."

Nike+ Running iPhone App Adds HealthKit Integration, Elevation Tracking, More

Zac Hall, 9 To 5 Mac

Audio Hijack Pro Update Now Allows You To Record iPhone Call Audio

Dan Thorp-Lancaster, iMore

Rogue Amoeba released an update today for Audio Hijack Pro, the Mac software that allows users to record their Facetime audio, that extends the program's recording capabilities to phone calls made with your iPhone.

Apple's Greg Joswiak: Apple SIM Not Coming To iPhone

Chuong H Nguyen, iMore

Apple's Arrogance: Apple Continues To Neglect Korean Customers

Business Korea

Apple’s stinginess in Korea is not limited to Apple Store installations, though. Apple is providing various services such as its App Store, music, TV, movie, books, iTunes Match, iTunes Radio, and missing phone location. However, only the App Store is available for Korean customers.

The Retina iMac And Its 5K Display…as A Gaming Machine?

Lee Hutchinson, Ars Technica

So that, dear readers, is precisely what I did when my review iMac arrived on Saturday. I unboxed it, snapped photos—after a few years working at Ars I now compulsively photograph basically every piece of gear I unbox, sometimes without even realizing I’m doing so—and then fired up the Boot Camp assistant to get Windows 8.1 installed.

Duracell In The Age Of The iPhone

Vauhini Vara, New Yorker

Yet the changes in the sector signal the difficulty of sustaining single-purpose electronics in the age of the smartphone. As if to underscore this, Duracell’s Web site lists some of the devices in which you might use its CopperTop AA batteries: toys, remote controls, flashlights, calculators, clocks, and radios. The use of batteries in toys will surely live on­ (a colleague with three children wrote to me about the P. & G. announcement saying, “As someone who buys millions of Duracell batteries a week, I’m surprised.”) but smartphones can perform many of the same functions as the other listed devices.

Alibaba's Jack Ma Also Interested In Bringing Apple Pay To China

Harish Jonnalagadda, iMore

Microsoft Unveils Office 365 SDK And APIs For iOS App Extensibility

AppleInsider

Microsoft on Tuesday revealed a multi-pronged initiative to supply developers with new Office 365 APIs and open-source SDKs, which can be used to tap into the company's cloud-based productivity platform for deep iOS app integration.

T-Mobile’s Legere Says Apple’s Phablet Selling Much Better Than Expected

Jems Temple, Re/code

T-Mobile’s outspoken Chief Executive John Legere revealed that Apple’s new iPhone 6 Plus has sold at far higher levels than the carrier was anticipating.

Perhaps phones with large screens is not just an Asia phenomenon.

Tim Cook: iPod Classic Was Discontinued Due To Unavailability Of Parts, Engineering A New Version Wasn’t Worth It

Mike Beasley, 9 To 5 Mac

According to the [Tim Cook], some parts needed to manufacture the device were no longer available, and the cost of engineering a new version that didn’t require those parts wasn’t worth the effort due to low user demand.

Tim Cook: Apple Pay Received Over 1 Million Activations In First 72 Hours, Bigger Than All Contactless Competitors Combined

Joe Rossignol, 9 To 5 Mac

Cook added that the mobile payments platform is bigger than all contactless competitors combined, presumably including rival service Google Wallet.

Apple’s Tim Cook Calls On Alabama To Protect Gay Rights

Associated Press

The chief executive of Apple, Timothy D. Cook, challenged his home state, Alabama, to do more to protect the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people, saying it was too slow to guarantee the rights of minorities during the civil rights era and that it was now too slow to ensure the rights of people based on sexual orientation and gender identity. Mr. Cook’s comments came as he and seven others, including the University of Alabama’s football coach, Nick Saban, were inducted into the Alabama Academy of Honor.

Superimpose For iOS Lets You Blend And Superimpose Your Photos

Mel Martin, TUAW

Superimpose does a first class job of taking part of one photo and adding it to another. It's great for removing your best friend from a picture taken in your living room and putting them at Niagara Falls, or taking the head of one person (or your dog) and placing it on another body.

The AirDrop Mess On OS X And iOS 8

Kirk McElhearn, Kirkville

The Mishmash UI Of Yosemite

Gus Mueller, The Shape Of Everything

There are some great things about Yosemite, but there are so many little things that confuse me.

Apple Responds To CVS & Rite Aid Blocking Apple Pay For CurrentC

Zac Hill, 9 To 5 Mac

"We are working to get as many merchants as possible to support this convenient, secure and private payment option for consumers. Many retailers have already seen the benefits and are delighting their customers at over 220,000 locations."

All Office 365 Subscribers To Get Free Unlimited OneDrive Cloud Storage Space

John Callaham, iMore

The Real Reason Some Merchants Are Blocking Apple Pay… For Now

Rich Mogull, TidBITS

It’s no exaggeration to say that most merchants hate the credit card brands and the banks that support them, but consumer demand forces them to accept credit cards anyway. Retailers have been looking for a way out for decades.

FileVault Bug Makes Yosemite Pause Or Hang At Login

Topher Kessler, MacIssues

If you are noticing this problem with your Mac after upgrading to Yosemite, then you can likely fix the problem by turning FileVault off and then back on again.

A Look At OS X Yosemite And iOS 8.1

Brandon Chester, AnandTech

It's clear that a lot of this has been in the works for some time now, and integrating products and services to this degree requires a lot of planning to position your hardware and software so that it will be capable of working together in the ways you want them to. The Yosemite redesign has also gone quite well, and there aren't as many jarring inconsistencies as there were with iOS 7 at launch despite OS X being a more expansive operating system. Apple has definitely learned from their experiences with the iOS redesign.

Apple And Amazon Have A Problem: People Don't Want To Buy Stuff Anymore

Marcus Wohlsen, Wired

Wherefore Art Thou iPad?

Lukas Mathis, Ignore The Code

In short, if you have an iPhone, and you want a second, more powerful device, why would it be an iPad? There’s almost nothing you can do on an iPad that you can’t do on an iPhone. It’s just as restricted as the iPhone, and as a result, can’t differentiate itself from the iPhone. But at the same time, the iPad is less portable, and lacks the phone features of the iPhone.

Apple Pay Is Disabled By Rite Aid And CVS As A Rival Makes Plans

Mike Isaac, New York Times

MCX has time, however, to alter its strategy before releasing its product. And since MCX merchants are all working together, CurrentC could offer consumers enticing deals and loyalty rewards for shopping at any one of the dozens of participating stores.

The battle will surely escalate in the coming months as companies like PayPal and Google update their mobile wallet strategy to deal with the fast-changing market. But for now, many are betting on Apple Pay as the mobile wallet to beat.

Good luck to MCX, who doesn't have any OS makers among its partners.

How To Transfer Data From Your Old Computer To A New Yosemite Mac

Christopher Breen, Macworld

How To Use iCloud Drive

Kirk McElhearn and Christopher Breen, Macworld

Taking its cue from Dropbox, which is a simple file repository accessible from any app, Apple has changed the way iCloud manages files.

Away From Home? Here's How To Access Your Mac Remotely

Topher Kessler, Macworld

If you would like to remotely access files that are stored on your Mac, there are several ways to do it. But before doing so you will need a way to access your Mac from wherever you are on the Internet. There are a number of “dynamic DNS” services that can do this, but perhaps the most convenient (and arguably best) option is to use Apple’s Back to My Mac service.

BBEdit 11 Overhauls Features For Existing Customers

Adam C. Engst, TidBITS

BBEdit 11 is in some ways the anti-iTunes. It has a small number of marquee changes, and even those won’t change how you work with the app. If you’ve been using BBEdit for years, like I and most loyal customers have, why would you want that? No, what we want are changes that we can exploit immediately to work faster and more productively. I proved this to myself by launching BBEdit 11 and starting writing this article, without the least stumble over anything unfamiliar.

When iPhones Ring, The Economy Listens

Jeff Sommer, New York Times

Since Sept. 19, when the iPhone 6 and its larger sibling, the iPhone 6 Plus, went on sale, consumers have been ordering the gadgets faster than Apple can deliver them. The ripple effects are being felt throughout the economy — and they have been moving the stock market.

IFTTT Updated With New Channels Plus Optimizations For iOS 8 And iPhone 6

Aldrin Calimlim, AppAdvice

IFTTT for iOS has just received an update that notably adds support for a number of new services or channels, thereby unlocking a variety of new automated actions or recipes.

Carl Icahn’s Bad Advice

Joe Nocera, New York Times

Rather, he says, the critical incentive for buybacks has been that chief executives are paid primarily in stock. Share buybacks may remove capital from the company, but when they raise the stock price, they enrich the boss.

Apple Retina 5K iMac Has A Screen That Can Stop Traffic

Christina Warren, Mashable

The screen is so good, it makes the $2,499 price point seem quite reasonable. If you've been looking for a new desktop and have an affinity for quality displays, the Retina 5K iMac is probably for you. For video and photo editors, depending on what you're doing, the iMac could be a better fit than the amazing Mac Pro.

Retailers Are Disabling NFC To Block Apple Pay

John Gruber, Daring Fireball

If I’m reading this right, and I think I am, these retailers who are shutting down their NFC payment systems are validating that Apple Pay is actually working, that people are actually using it. And remember, it only works with the month-old iPhones 6. Think about what happens a year or two from now when a majority of iPhones in use are Apple Pay enabled.

CVS And Rite Aid Block Apple Pay As Mobile Wallet War Heats up

Alex Heath, Cult Of Mac

Two major pharmacy chains have stopped supporting Apple Pay as merchants in the U.S. take sides on which mobile wallet platform to embrace.

Adobe Updates Digital Edition, Stops Sharing User Info With The Internet

Nate Hoffelder, The Digital Reader

I have an independent confirmation that Adobe only uploads data after a DRMed ebook has been activated.

“Oprah” For Indie Bands: Apple Once Loved Unknown Acts—what Changed?

Nathan Mattise, Ars Technica

Why you’ve heard of Feist instead of Willy Moon, and why it’s unlikely to change.

Physical Keyboards For The iPhone 6 Plus

Julio Ojeda-Zapata, TidBITS

You need the right kind of keyboard: one that’s large enough to type comfortably, but not so big that it’s a pain to carry. It should incorporate or include a stand, be reasonably inexpensive, but be solidly built.

Apple Shortens iBooks Review Times, Allows More Promo Codes For Authors

Mark Gurman, 9 To 5 Mac

Distribute()

Federico Viticci, MacStories

Created by Vlambeer (the indie studio behind Apple Design Award winner Ridiculous Fishing, Luftrausers, and other games), distribute() is a new tool to help game developers keep track of a press list.

Mac OS X Yosemite Adoption Slightly Surpassing Mavericks

David Murphy, PC Magazine

AT&T Confirms It Locks iPad’s New Apple SIM Card After Activation

Jordan Kahn, 9 To 5 Mac

AT&T has confirmed in a statement that the new universal Apple SIM card in iPad Air 2 and iPad mini 3 becomes locked to the carrier after being activated on its network.

Pedometer++ Tracks Your Steps On The Cheap

Josh Centers, TidBITS

iFixit Teardown Of iPad Air 2 And iPad Mini 3 Reveals Mystery NFC Chip

Jared Newman, Macworld

Amazon's Visa Rewards Card Members Can Now Use Apple Pay

Bryan M. Wolfe, AppAdvice

iTunes Mini Player In OS X Yosemite

Chris Johnson

After clicking on various things in the title bar area, I eventually tried and succeeded with the album artwork.

I'm suspecting iTunes' mini player view will soon be removed.

Review: 27-Inch iMac With Retina 5K Display

Jason Snell, Six Colors

It’s one of the fastest Macs ever attached to the best Mac display ever. Yes, it’s an iMac, meaning you can’t attach a newer, faster computer to this thing in two or three years. But I have a feeling that these iMacs will have the processor power, and the staying power, to make the aging process much less painful.

Bugs & Fixes: Solving A Yosemite Post-install Disaster

Ted Landau, Macworld

Tim Cook Talks Apple Pay, Apple Watch And Security On Final Day In China

Ben Lovejoy, 9 To 5 Mac

Marvel Unlimited For iOS Updated With New Features For Improved Reading Experience

Aldrin Calimlim, AppAdvice

Apple’s Porn Policy

Carl Smith, Medium

It turns out Apple thought the best way to tell us our app could be used to surf porn was to surf for porn using our app. Then send us some pictures and say take a look at these! Except they said, “Please see the attached screenshot for more information.” So with no warning…

Hangouts Takes Socializing On The iPhone 6 To A New Level

IPhone Informer

Troubleshoot iCloud Photo Library: How To Sync Images From Your Computer Or iPhoto

Serenity Caldwell, iMore

Apple has long had trouble balancing its iCloud sync service with manual iTunes syncing, to no one's surprise. Sync is hard, and when you offer users multiple ways to put data on their devices, something's bound to get borked in the process. iCloud Photo Library is no exception—the service isn't on the Mac yet, which means that if you want to use it on your iOS devices, it'll effectively wall off your iPhoto library from your mobile lifestyle. But we've got a few tricks to get those iPhoto images back onto your iPhone or iPad.

How To Turn Off Find My iPhone Remotely And Bypass Activation Lock

Allyson Kazmucha, iMore

While it's a great theft deterrent, it can create a problem if you sell or get rid of a device before disabling Find My iPhone First. Most commonly the problem comes up with second hand iPhones that have been bought, sold, or traded. Luckily, the previous owner can deactivate Find My iPhone remotely which should then, in turn, allow you to bypass Activation Lock.

Apple Expands TestFlight iOS App Beta Invitations To 1,000 Users

Sam Oliver, AppleInsider

Apple, GT Advanced Technologies In Agreement On Sapphire Materials

Peg Brickley and Daisuke Wakabayashi, Wall Street Journal

In a statement from an Apple spokeswoman, the company said, “Apple put a lot of effort into an ambitious new sapphire-manufacturing process with GTAT which is not ready for production. We’re going to continue evaluating GTAT’s progress on larger sapphire boule development, as well as consider other options for the facility. We remain committed to the city and we’re going to work with Mesa and Maricopa County to help the GT Advanced employees who will be impacted by this find new jobs.”

Security Update 2014-005 (Mountain Lion And Mavericks)

Agen G. N. Schmitz, TidBITS

The Security Update patches the so-called POODLE vulnerability that could enable an attacker to decrypt data protected by SSL. Plus, the security update includes the contents of OS X Bash Update 1.0, bringing the Bash patches to everyone.

Nuzzel Uses Your Social Network To Find News

Jason Snell, Six Colors

What Nuzzel does well is sort and filter and group the links in interesting ways, and present them as nicely formatted news-story items—not as tweets. The filtering makes a big difference. I can, for instance, see all links from the past four hours that have been recommended by two or more friends. This has a tendency to float the most interesting stuff to the very top.

Nuzzel For iPad

Federico Viticci, MacStories

You can use Nuzzel to catch up on Twitter links after a few days of absence, or you can read like I’ve been reading – as a daily summary and regular afternoon check-in.

Tumblr For iOS Updated With New Video Player, Two-factor Authentication And More

Aldrin Calimlim, AppAdvice

Social Media Scheduler Buffer Goes Big With iOS 8 Update Optimized For iPads

Caitlin McGarry, Macworld

Welcome Wi-Fi Changes Under Yosemite’s Hood

Glenn Fleishman, TidBITS

Wi-Fi is a mature part of OS X, but Apple likes to tinker, and OS X 10.10 Yosemite brings a tinkling cascade of tiny changes, from new information and a new way to display data in the Wi-Fi menu to removing the last vestiges of the long outdated and completely broken WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy) encryption protocol.

With iOS 8.1 installed, Yosemite also adds a nifty way to activate Personal Hotspot from your Mac instead of your phone.

Apple To Open 25 Stores In China Within The Next Two Years

Rich Edmonds, iMore

24 Hours With Pixelmator For iPad

Federico Viticci, MacStories

Apple To Drop SSL 3.0 Support For Push Notifications On Oct. 29 Due To POODLE Vulnerability

AppleInsider

Apple will be switching off SSL 3.0 support in favor of the more secure transport layer security (TSL) protocol on Wednesday, Oct. 29, noting developers will have to build in support by that time to ensure uninterrupted push notification service continues.

How To Use Apple Pay

Josh Centers, TidBITS

Retina iMac Review: The Screen That Makes Desktops Relevant Again

Geoffrey A. Fowler, Wall Street Journal

No other form of computer lets you so comfortably peer for hours at a time into a big, immersive window on your digital world. The new iMac is the best, clearest window on your digital world that you can buy.

Apple Strengthens Pull Of Its Orbit With Each Device

Farhad Manjoo, New York Times

We are now beginning to see the fruits of Mr. Cook’s vision of a tightly integrated Apple. Over the last few months, Apple has introduced a series of devices that work best as part of an integrated lineup. Apple is no longer making lonely individual products. Its phones, tablets, computers and the mobile and desktop operating systems that run them are blending into a single, inseparable whole.

The minute you use one of them, the more sense it makes to begin using several others. And the more of Apple’s stuff you use, the better your experience becomes.

Apple Encouraging Chrome And Firefox Users To Try Safari After Installing Yosemite

Juli Clover, MacRumors

After upgrading to Yosemite, Apple is sending popups that read "Try the new Safari. Fast, energy efficient, and with a beautiful new design."

Didn't Apple warn developers not to misuse the notification system with ads?

BBEdit 11 Arrives

Jason Snell, Six Colors

BBEdit 11 includes a modernized CSS dialog box system that retires some of the oldest code remaining in the app. The syntax coloring internals have been changed, which leads to a much-improved set of color schemes.

Apple Pay Is Double Charging Some Customers

Samuel Burke, CNN

Bank of America transferred me to Apple Pay customer support. The only problem: Apple's representative reminded me that for security's sake -- as promised -- Apple keeps no records of names or amounts for any of the transactions.

That meant there's nothing Apple could do, the representative told me. So Apple told me to call Bank of America. It was every consumer's worst nightmare: customer service for two companies telling you to call the other.

Twitter’s Audacious Plan To Infiltrate All Your Apps

Mat Honan, Wired

But the bigger story is what Fabric represents. Because it isn’t just a tool for developers any more than Greek horses were meant to beautify Troy. Fabric is the foundation for Twitter to transform a business based purely on a single product—tweets!—into a diversified service aimed at every person and company that makes mobile apps. That, in turn, would affect every person who uses mobile apps. In other words, everyone.

If Twitter succeeds with this plan, it won’t matter whether or not you use Twitter the product. You will end up using Twitter the company every time you use your phone—even if you’re not aware of it.

How To Install Java In OS X Yosemite

OS X Daily

iPad Air 2 Review: The Best Tablet Needs To Work Harder

Joanna Stern, Wall Street Journal

Apple ’s newest tablet, which goes on sale this week starting at $499, remains true to Jobs’s tablet ideals. It’s the best tablet you can buy—especially if you want to read headlines on the morning commute, watch “Frozen” in the back seat and create intricate “Minecraft” metropolises after dark. If you’ve been waiting to replace an older iPad, now’s the time.

But as I hold the thin piece of glass that would have been unimaginable five years ago, I look over at the Microsoft Surface Pro 3 and Galaxy Tab S 10.5 and feel like I am missing something. How this iPad stacks up depends entirely on where you plan to take it—and what you want to do with it.

Yosemite + iOS 8.1: What Photographers Need To Know

Austin Mann

Apple’s sharing all kinds of software updates with us these days, and a few of them are especially exciting for power user iPhone photographers. Here are my thoughts on how the new features affect how we create and share images with our iPhones.

Tim Cook Talks Security With Chinese Vice Premiere

Joseph Keller, iMore

Apple CEO Tim Cook has met with Chinese Vice Premier Ma Kai to talk security of user information. The meeting comes two days after an attack on the iCloud website in China was reported.

Olloclip Debuts New Lens Accessory For iPhone 6 And 6 Plus

Joseph Keller, iMore

The new olloclip features fisheye, wide-angle, and two macro lenses, one at 10x, and one at 15x.

Maps Connect: Apple’s Tool For Small Businesses To List On Apple Maps

Graham Spencer, MacStories

Eddy Cue Right About “A Lot Of Work To Do” As Apple Pay Glitches Emerge

Ben Lovejoy, 9 To 5 Mac

While early Apple Pay experiences appear to have been mostly positive, Eddy Cue’s admission that there is still “a lot of work left to do” has been demonstrated in a number of glitches in the system – some of them resulting in multiple payments being taken for the same transaction …

Review: Photoshop Elements 13 Gets Photomerge And Content-aware Fill

Lesa Snider, Macworld

Elements 13 isn’t the most feature-packed upgrade ever, but it’s now Retina display-happy and it’s got some timely new stuff for beginners: creating a personalized Facebook Cover image, crop suggestions, variations on Quick mode’s effects, a new selection refinement tool, three Guided Edits for converting photos to black and white, plus tutorials that are more easily discoverable.

FotoSwipe Makes Sharing Photos Between iPhone And Android Devices Incredibly Easy

James Falconer, iMore

FotoSwipe lets you share photos by swiping your finger from one device to the other (both devices must have FotoSwipe installed).

Best Apps With Apple Pay Support: Tap Away Bills

Simon Sage, iMore

Early iPad Air 2 Benchmark Suggests Tri-core CPU, 2GB Of RAM

Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica

A test from Primate Labs' Geekbench Results Browser sheds an interesting light on the subject, though: the result in question shows a three-core processor with 2GB of RAM, double the memory of any previous iOS device. Assuming the scores are accurate, the A8X could outdo the A7 in some tasks by as much as 66 percent.

Escape From Microsoft Word

Edward Mendelson, The New York Review Of Books

When I work in Word, for all its luxuriant menus and dazzling prowess, I can’t escape a faint sense of having entered a closed, rule-bound society. When I write in WordPerfect, with all its scruffy, low-tech simplicity, the world seems more open, a place where endings can’t be predicted, where freedom might be real.

The iPad Air 2 (And A Few Cursory Words Regarding The iPad Mini 3)

John Gruber, Daring Fireball

It’s not so much that Apple has complicated the iPad lineup, as that they’ve expanded it downward into lower price points.

I disagree. People don't allocate money into individual piles for iPhone, iPad, and MacBook. The complicated question that people will ask is this: should I spend less money on an iPad, so that I can have more money to buy a better MacBook / iPhone / restaurant meal, or vice versa? And, that question is complicated to answer.

Http://www.pcworld.com/article/2836812/complaints-mount-about-yosemite-crippling-wifi.html

Juan Carlos Perez, PCWorld

Complaints that Mac OS X Yosemite disrupts or entirely disables Wi-Fi have been flowing into social media sites and discussion forums since the release of the OS last Thursday, but Apple has yet to acknowledge there’s a problem.

Apple iPad Air 2 Review: It’s Better, But Is It Better Enough?

Walt Mossberg, Re/code

That leaves future-proofing as the main reason to get an iPad Air 2. Its faster processing and graphics capability are likely to make it better than the original Air, as more apps are built that try to bring advanced gaming, or heavy-duty video editing, to the tablet.

WhoSampled (For iPhone)

Jeffrey L. Wilson, PC Magazine

Pandora, Songza, and other iPhone music apps boast of their ability to introduce listeners to new tunes by using secret-sauce algorithms or community input, but few of them can match WhoSampled's music-discovery chops.

The Upgrade Gap: Apple's New iOS Problem In One Chart

Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic

If most users have switched to upgrading their phone over the air—and most, this chart hints, have—and if Apple continues to make phones with so little storage by default, then it will see its previously pristine upgrade rates plunge, and the nature of its products change.

IPad Air 2 And Mini 3 Review: One Thumb Up, And Another Down

Farhad Manjoo, New York Times

Let’s get this out of the way first: Apple’s new iPads are the best tablets on the market today.

So these are fantastic tablets. The question is: Do you need a fantastic tablet?

Apple Pay: Seamless In Stores, But Quirky Online

Molly Wood, New York Times

Uber initially let me request a car without signing in, but the app made me sign in after the car had been requested and then asked for an email and phone number. The multiple steps caused Apple Pay to authorize three separate payments of the Uber base fare.

Apple’s iCloud Service Is Under Attack In Mainland China

Wall Street Journal

Apple said in a statement on its website that it is aware of “intermittent organized network attacks” aimed at obtaining user information from iCloud.com. Apple said the attacks don’t compromise the company’s iCloud servers and don’t affect iCloud sign-in on Apple devices running its iOS mobile software or Macs running OS X Yosemite using its Safari browser.

Apple Pay Works In Australia

Beau Giles

If you do have a card from a participating bank that was issued in the US however, it works just fine for purchases in Australia.Anywhere you see MasterCard’s PayPass, Visa’s payWave or American Express’ ExpressPay (or simply, the contactless logo) – you can use Apple Pay.

17 Things You Can Do In OS X Yosemite That You Couldn't Do In Mavericks

David Nield, Gizmodo UK

Here are 17 new things you can do with the software, from hiding the traces of your Web browsing to recording screen activity on an iPad.

Weebly (For iPad)

Michael Muchmore, PC Magazine

Weebly is PCMag's Editors' Choice for easy website building, and also provides Web hosting services. So how good is the Weebly iPad app (free) at letting you build and edit your site? I'll compare it with not only its Web-based sibling, but also with the Jimdo iPad app—the sole competitor as we wait for apps from DudaOne, Squarespace, and Wix. The short version: The app is impressive, but suffers from a few serious limitations.

Woman's Dream Job At Apple Factory Lasts One Day

Parker Leavitt, The Arizona Republic

The people at GT Advanced Technologies were so nice, as was the massive building where the company was to manufacture ultra-hard sapphire glass for Apple products like iPhones. The huge corridors were clean, and the cafeteria looked tasty. Employees seemed genuinely happy.

For the 66-year-old working widow, the dream lasted just 8.5 hours.

Realmac Debuts RapidWeaver 6 With All-new Design And Features, Drops Mac App Store Version For Now

Mike Beasley, 9 To 5 Mac

Realmac Software’s popular website development tool RapidWeaver has been updated to version 6 today. The upgrade introduces many new features and enhancements to the app, including a completely redesigned interface for OS X Yosemite. The new update also adds improved publishing that’s much faster than the previous version and a new addon manager for keeping track of your installed plugins.

China Denies Backing iCloud Hack

BBC

Hua Chunying, a spokeswoman for China's foreign ministry, told journalists the government was "resolutely opposed" to hacking.

China Telecom, the country's state-owned internet provider, also said the accusation was "untrue and unfounded".

Apple Pay: The Real-World Test

Pete Pachal, Mashable

We decided to check out how Apple Pay works in the real world by adding cards from various banks and using it at a few retailers and services in New York City. The result: it's definitely more convenient than a credit card, but there's room for improvement.

New Gold Rush: Why Banks Are Racing To Be The First Card In Your Apple Pay

Ben Popper, The Verge

Apple Pay will work with multiple credit, debit, and reward cards if you load them into Passbook. But as our hands-on video demonstrated, most of the time people will probably be relying on the default card, avoiding the hassle of unlocking the phone and tapping around in Passbook.

Mac Mini Teardowns Are Underway, With Good News And Bad News

Ben Lovejoy, 9 To 5 Mac

IBM's First Enterprise Apps For iPad To Launch Next Month As iPad Reaches 90 Percent Tablet Share In U.S Education

Daniel Eran Dilger, AppleInsider

Low End Theory: Apple Could Do Better To Price Its Products More Evenly

John Moltz, Macworld

The problem is not so much that the low-end devices are underpowered. If Apple wanted to offer very cheap low-end machines, that would be fine. The problem is the huge gap between the low-end and the midrange. This seems like a gimmick to me, a trick designed to allow Apple to tout a low entry-level price and then drive everyone to buy the midrange device.

IMDb For iOS Updated With Technical Details, Box Office Data And More Features

Aldrin Calimlim, AppAdvice

Facebook Updates Paper App For iPhone 6 And 6 Plus, Fixes Issues

Mike Beasley, 9 To 5 Mac

As Apple Pay Arrives, Witnessing The Next Step In Money. Maybe.

Mike Isaac, New York Times

Large tech and telecom companies like Google, Verizon and AT&T have tried for years to replace the traditional wallet with smartphone apps, having a click here or swipe there replace a credit card or dollar bills at the register. But commerce experts say they believe that the involvement of Apple, which helped revolutionize the mobile industry, could be the impetus that moves mainstream consumers to digital payments — the latest in an evolution of the way people buy goods and services.

Tim Cook, In His Own Words, On The iPad’s Future

John Gruber, Daring Fireball

Ends up, no, the iPad isn’t the iPhone, and in a broader sense, the tablet market isn’t like the phone market. It’s more like the PC market.

This Is Tim: Apple’s CEO Answers The Analysts

Jason Snell, Six Colors

Apple Will Closely Guard Apple Watch Sales Numbers In New Reporting Method

Chuong H Nguyen, iMore

Starting the first quarter of its 2015 fiscal year, Apple CEO Tim Cook said that the company may not break out sales figures for the Apple Watch. By not disclosing exact sales numbers for Apple's nascent smartwatch, a typically secretive Apple would hope to gain a competitive advantage over competitors. Apple would employ a new way of reporting sales and earnings for its Apple Watch by categorizing it into a category marked "other" along with a few other products.

Examining iTunes 12’S New Interface

Agen G. N. Schmitz, TidBITS

Flat is the word for iTunes 12 (officially version 12.0.1 at launch), which is in some ways a radical reinterpretation of Apple’s digital bouillabaisse of media player/organizer, online store, and device synchronization hub. While there aren’t any groundbreaking new features, Apple has shifted around (or pared down) many interface elements. In the end, the essence of what remains retains familiarity with previous versions of iTunes, and there are some welcome tweaks that actually help to streamline the app.

Http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/10/mac-os-x-yosemite-reportedly-leaks-location-search-data/

Robert Lemos, Ars Technica

"For Spotlight Suggestions we minimize the amount of information sent to Apple. Apple doesn't retain IP addresses from users’ devices. Spotlight blurs the location on the device so it never sends an exact location to Apple. Spotlight doesn't use a persistent identifier, so a user's search history can't be created by Apple or anyone else. Apple devices only use a temporary anonymous session ID for a 15-minute period before the ID is discarded."

"We also worked closely with Microsoft to protect our users' privacy. Apple forwards only commonly searched terms and only city-level location information to Bing. Microsoft does not store search queries or receive users' IP addresses."

How To: View Your Music Videos In iTunes 12

Kirk McElhearn, Kirkville

To see them, select the Music library, then click Playlists, to show the iTunes Playlists sidebar.

iPads Fall For Third Consecutive Quarter, iPhones And Macs Boost Apple’s Q4

Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica

Apple has just released the data for the fourth quarter of its fiscal 2014, and the story is the same as it's been for most of the year: iPhone sales are up, iPad sales are down-to-flat, Mac sales are up a little and continue to beat the growth rate of the wider PC market, and iPods have fallen off a cliff. Apple's fourth quarter runs from the beginning of July to the end of September, so it includes the new iPhone launch but not the new iPads and Macs announced last week.

Apple Will Require iOS 8 SDK And 64-Bit Support In iOS Apps Starting February 2015

Dan Thorp-Lancaster, iMore

Writing against iOS' most current SDK is nothing new, as the company made similar demands for the iOS 7 SDK. What is new, however, is the requirement for 64-bit support.

Local Man Uses Apple Pay To Buy Grocieries

Jason Snell, Six Colors

I pulled the iPhone 6 out of my pocket and before I could even move it closer to the payment terminal—newly festooned with a Now Accepting Apple Pay tag—Apple Pay appeared on my phone and asked me to verify my purchase via Touch ID.

An Updated List Of The Merchants And Apps That Accept Apple Pay

Bryan M. Wolfe, AppAdvice

Apple Store App For iPhone And iPad Updated With Apple Pay Support

Zac Hall, 9 To 5 Mac

Alongside iOS 8.1, Apple has released a new version of its Apple Store app just in time for Apple Pay. The new version supports Apple’s new mobile payment service with a dedicated “Buy with Apple Pay” button available at checkout.

Apple Releases iOS 8.1 – Here’s What’s New

Federico Viticci, MacStories

New 2014 Mac Mini Models Ship With Soldered, Non-user Upgradeable RAM

Kelly Hodgkins, TUAW

iFixit Teardown Of iMac With 5K Retina Display Reveals Hardware Similar To 2013 iMac

Kelly Hodgkins, TUAW

While the 2014 iMac has a stunning new display, most internal components are similar to previous Apple Mac hardware. The SSD is the same drive that ships with Apple's late 2013 13-inch MacBook Pro, while the AirPort/Bluetooth card, logic board and other components are described as being "nearly exactly the same" to last year's 27-inch iMac.

Editor's Desk: In Defense Of iPad Photography

Rene Ritchie, iMore

But if we shift our focus from technology and objects to people and achievements, if we consider those who are preserving their priceless memories where they couldn't have before, the ones taking connected photography to places never before possible, that's when prejudice and preconception can be conquered.

Please Don’t Make Us Use iCloud Anymore

MOSX Tumblelog

I beg every developer who reads this. Please don’t make us use iCloud anymore.

Setting Up OS X Yosemite The Way You Want It

Jonny Evans, Computerworld

Apple's OS X Yosemite has dozens of new features and plenty of tricks to keep Mac users busy, but getting your system working just the way you want it to may take a few tweaks.

So many settings in the System Preferences.

Late 2014 Mac Mini Benchmarks Indicate Decreased Multi-Core Performance

Husain Sumra, MacRumors

The newly refreshed Mac mini is seeing improved single-core performance over the previous models, but decreased multi-core performance, according to a newly released GeekBench benchmark.

Apple's iCloud Targeted In Man-in-the-middle Attack In China

Michael Kan, PCWorld

Following the iPhone 6 launch in China, Apple’s iCloud service began facing a “man-in-the-middle” style attack in the country, in an apparent attempt to steal username and password information, according to an anti-censorship watchdog group.

Apple Pay Is Too Anonymous For Some Retailers

Joshua Brustein, Bloomberg Businessweek

Apple Pay, with its built-in anonymity, won’t eliminate the need to swipe a loyalty card or give the cashier a phone number. ”Obviously, that’s not where we want to be,” says Blaine Hurst, Panera’s executive vice president for technology and transformation. “Why can’t I just walk up to a cashier with my phone and all that information magically appears?”

Carbon Copy Cloner 4.0.2

Agen G. N. Schmitz, TidBITS

What’s Coming In Today’s Release Of iOS 8.1

Dave Mark, The Loop

As detailed earlier today, Apple Pay is the biggest feature in today’s release of iOS 8.1. Along with Apple Pay and a variety of bug fixes, here are three more things you’ll see in iOS 8.1.

Instant hotspot, iCloud Photo Library, and SMS Relay.

Shelf Control: My Very Hungry Caterpillar Is A Fun App Based On Eric Carle's Classic Book

Aldrin Calimlim, AppAdvice

Spotify Announces New Family Plan For Up To Five Users

Rich Edmonds, iMore

Spotify has today announced a new plan for the entire family. If you've been wanting to have a single billing account for the household but keep individual playlists, it's now possible for up to five family members to share a single Spotify subscription, starting from $14.99 a month.

Meet Flic, The iOS Photo Manager For Lazy People

Leah Yamshon, Macworld

Flic shows you what’s stored in your photo collection, one photo at a time. Swipe left to send a photo to the trash, or swipe right to keep it around. Flic even reminds you to think carefully about each photo, asking, “Does this really look like a Kodak moment to you??”

As Apple Pay Launches, Eddy Cue Says “A Lot Of Work To Do,” Predicts Slow Retail Take-up

Ben Lovejoy, 9 To 5 Mac

"We’re trying to do something that I think is a game changer and it requires a lot of people to play together. There’s a lot to do here and we have a lot of work to do, but it should be huge."

Research Says Kids Eat Less After Playing Angry Birds

Owen S. Good, Polygon

E.T. Phone Home?

Github

Things 2.5

Agen G. N. Schmitz, TidBITS

Cultured Code has released Things 2.5 with support for OS X Yosemite and a refreshed user interface that includes new icons for the sidebar and preferences, new designs for the toolbar and tag filter bar, and tweaked windows for quick entry and tag management.

Coda 2.5

Agen G. N. Schmitz, TidBITS

A major new release, Panic has updated its Coda Web site development tool to version 2.5 with a goodly number of new additions and improvements.

Also, no longer available through the Mac App Store.

SimCity That I Used To Know

Doug Bierend, Medium

Popularizing a genre of “software toys” that presented players with an interactive, complex world writ little, gamers growing up in the ‘90s may remember a time when any new PC title from Maxis (the company Wright founded with partner Jeff Braun) bearing the prominent ‘SIM’ prefix promised endless hours of play time that wasn’t about winning or losing, but experimentation and discovery. The Sim series also represents a philosophy about design, and the role of play in our learning process.

BBM Takes On Snapchat With New Timer And Message Retraction Features

Aldrin Calimlim, AppAdvice

Apple Picks British App Caribu

Christopher Williams, The Telegraph

A British app designed to help absent parents read to their children is aiming to capitalise after receiving a coveted endorsement from Apple at the launch of the new iPad.

Caribu, created by a group of graduates from Imperial College, combines childrens’ e-books with a simple video call system to allow families to read together even if separated by thousands of miles. The pages of the books are interactive so parents can point out pictures or tricky words.

Apple Opens Its Doors On Princes Street

Evening Edinburgh News

Apple Configurator 1.7

Agen G. N. Schmitz, TidBITS

The update brings improvements to iTunes Store authentication, ensures devices are erased before restoring a backup, and adds support for new configuration profile payloads and settings introduced in iOS 8.

Apple Has Lost The Plot On Simplicity

Dan Formmey, Quartz

It now offers five different iPad models, in two or three colors each, with two to six different configurations of networking features and storage space. Not to mention their subtle differences in processor, camera, and sensors. The “full comparison chart” is dizzying.

Seriously, nobody is going to tell whether one needs an A5 or A7 or A8 processor.

iStat Mini App For OS X Yosemite Allows Users To Monitor Their Mac

John Callaham, iMore

Streaming Music Has Left Me Adrift

Dan Brooks, New York Times

It’s hard to imagine now, but there once was a time when you could not play any song ever recorded, instantly, from your phone. I call this period adolescence. It lasted approximately 30 years, and it was galvanized by conflict.

Apple's Quiet Attempt To Shake Up Wireless Carriers Could Benefit Us All

Rachel Metz, Technology Review

Apple’s SIM card that lets you switch wireless carriers on the fly could lead to cheaper communications.

To Siri, With Love: How Apple’s Siri Became One Autistic Boy's B.F.F.

Judith Newman, New York Times

It’s not that Gus doesn’t understand Siri’s not human. He does — intellectually. But like many autistic people I know, Gus feels that inanimate objects, while maybe not possessing souls, are worthy of our consideration. I realized this when he was 8, and I got him an iPod for his birthday. He listened to it only at home, with one exception. It always came with us on our visits to the Apple Store. Finally, I asked why. “So it can visit its friends,” he said.

Apple Users Complain iOS 8 Messes Up AirPrint On iPhones And iPads

Rex Santus, Mashable

A commonly reported problem is an error message ("URF error") that halts printing.

Taking Apple’s Lead

Jason Snell, Six Colors

We can argue about whether or not this collapsed toolbar/title bar thing is a good idea. What bugs me is not that it exists, but that it only exists in a few of Apple’s apps. In Mail and Preview and TextEdit and even the new iWork apps, the old style prevails. The inconsistency rankles. If Apple thinks the tool/title bar is the future, why do many of its apps not follow the format?

Retina 5K iMac Will Not Act As External Display, Standalone Apple 5K Display Unlikely Soon

Eric Slivka, MacRumors

To-do App Wunderlist Updated For Both iOS And OS X Yosemite

Brent Dirks, AppAdvice

Apple Removes All Bose Products From Its Online Store

Neil Hughes, AppleInsider

iCloud Drive: What Is It, How It Works & Its Fundamental Problem

Graham Spencer, MacStories

In my opinion, Apple should get rid of these weird app folders and simply save files to the root of iCloud Drive, or into user-created folders if the user chose.

This Autocorrect Gaffe Was The Best Thing About Apple's iPad Presentation

Ramon Ramirez, The Daily Dot

But when Lagunas embedded his custom text, the phrase “Utah road trip” autocorrected to the entirely innocuous “It’s road trip.”

Yosemite & iOS 8 How-to: Set Up And Use Handoff

Sarah Guarino, 9 To 5 Mac

1Password 5.0

Agen G. N. Schmitz, TidBITS

iWork Updated For Yosemite And iCloud Drive

Michael E. Cohen, TidBITS

If you liked the apps before, there is nothing but good news in the latest set of upgrades. If you found the iWork apps seriously lacking compared to what the apps offered before last year’s retooling, you may not find these updates any more compelling. Nonetheless, all the apps are deeper than a cursory examination might reveal, and the enhancements that Apple has just delivered are real improvements to a suite that was already surprisingly capable.

Everything You Need To Know About iCloud Security

Glenn Fleishman, Macworld

On Yosemite GM 3 Or Public Beta 6 And Wondering How To Update To Final Release?

Rene Ritchie, iMore

Review: With Os X Yosemite, Aqua's All Grown Up

512 Pixels

Semantics aside, Yosemite’s UI feels awkward. Parts of it are beautiful, but parts of it are broken. Surely some of the weirdness stems from the sheer number of changes present. Yosemite is a natural evolution from Mavericks and iOS 7 a year ago, but Apple’s hit the fast-forward button. As a result, Yosemite isn’t a refined as it could be.

Apple Stops Selling Mac Mini With OS X Server, No Longer Offers 2TB Storage Option

Juli Clover, MacRumors

iPhoto And Aperture For Mac Briefly Revived To Receive OS X Yosemite Compatibility Update

Mark Gurman, 9 To 5 Mac

OS X Yosemite Apps I’ve Been Trying

Federico Viticci, MacStories

Below, you’ll find a roundup of the third-party Yosemite apps I’ve been testing over the past couple of weeks, which should give you a good idea of the design changes and new functionalities Yosemite is bringing to OS X.

Hands On: The New 27-Inch iMac With 5K Retina Display Shows Stunning Detail

Susie Ochs, Macworld

In the hands-on area at Apple HQ, I saw the new 27-inch iMac editing 4K video in pixel-for-pixel resolution, with enough room left on the screen for all of Final Cut Pro’s toolbars and controls. Final Cut Pro wasn’t even running full screen—notice the Dock still hogging some space along the bottom. Not bad.

Hands-on With The Brand New 5K Retina iMac

Richard Devine, iMore

Hands-on With The iPad Air 2

Richard Devine, iMore

Hands- And Eyes-on With The New iPads And The iMac’s Big 5K Display

Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica

The new iMac feels like a bigger update, while the iPads are more evolutionary.

iPad Air 2 Hands-on: The Same, But Different

Nilay Patel, The Verge

It's really, really thin.

OS X 10.10 Yosemite: The Ars Technica Review

John Siracusa, Ars Technica

But at this year’s Worldwide Developers Conference, Apple made several announcements that point in a new direction: iOS and OS X advancing in lockstep, with new technologies that not only appear on both platforms simultaneously but also aim to weave them together.

These new, shared triumphs run the gamut from traditional frameworks and APIs to cloud services to the very foundation of Apple’s software ecosystem, the programming language itself. Apple’s dramatic leadership restructuring in 2012 put Federighi in charge of both iOS and OS X—a unification of thought that has now, two years later, resulted in a clear unification of action. Even the most ardent Mac fan will admit that iOS 7 was a bigger update than Mavericks. This time around, it’s finally a fair fight.

OS X Yosemite Review

Jason Snell, Six Colors

Yosemite’s marquee features are probably Continuity and iCloud Drive, and while they can work if you’re exclusively a Mac user, they’re obviously at their best when providing bridges between OS X and iOS. This is a release that’s designed to let the Mac and iOS work better in tandem, but it’s still the same familiar Mac OS you’ve come to know, albeit with a few variations that will feel familiar to iOS users.

OS X Yosemite Review: The Mac Cozies Up To The iPhone

Joanna Stern, Wall Street Journal

With the Thursday release of the Mac’s free OS X Yosemite update, Apple is finally getting its devices to behave like a real, happy family—a family that not only talks to each other but even looks very much alike. The Mac operating system has acquired apps and features from iOS—and vice versa—over the past few years, but this is the biggest leap toward each other yet.

The advantage is so big that if you are an iPhone or iPad owner but don’t have a Mac, Yosemite might get you to consider buying one. It makes living in Apple’s ecosystem harder to resist.

Apple Releases Newest Version Of Mac OS, Yosemite, For Download

Samuel Gibbs, The Guardian

Apple released its new operating systems for mobile and desktop computers on Thursday, announcing iOS 8.1 for iPad and iPhone as well as iOS X 10.10 Yosemite.

On stage in Cupertino, California, Apple chief executive Tim Cook introduced both updates, which will be available for free. Yosemite is available from Thursday, and 8.1 will be available from Monday.

New iMac Sports A Brilliant 5K Display And Supercharged Graphics

Tim Moynihan, Wired

With its new iMacs, Apple has boosted the screen resolution on its 27-inch iMac to 5120×2880 resolution (218ppi). That’s a 5K display—not 4K, but 5K. The new 5K iMac, which only comes in the 27-inch size, is available now starting at $2,500. The first batch of orders should ship within two days.

Apple's Mac Mini Finally Updated, Starting Price Dropped By $100

Mark Hachman, Macworld

What Apple’s Phil Schiller, senior vice president of worldwide marketing, called the “world’s most energy-efficient desktop” now includes fourth-gen Intel Core processors, in addition to graphics options that include the Intel Iris and HD Graphics 5000 graphics cores. Connectivity has also improved with the addition of 802.11ac Wi-Fi and a pair of Thunderbolt 2 ports.

iPad Mini 3: Hands-on With Apple's Latest Little Tablet

Dieter Bohn, The Verge

Apple has added TouchID and an alternate gold color option and... not much else. The camera, processor, and everything else inside the device is exactly the same as last year's model. The iPad mini 3 got maybe a grand total of four minutes of stage time at Apple's event today, and it was not demo'd at all.

Pixelmator Announces iPad Version Of Its Photo-editing App, Optimized For iPad Air 2

Benjamin Mayo, 9 To 5 Mac

As part of the Apple event, Pixelmator has announced an iPad version of its popular Mac image-editor. The app is a near complete representation of the desktop app, with color correction, effects and other edits. Obviously, the app’s UI has been optimized for the iPad with big touch-friendly controls and a pane-less, simplified interface.

Apple Introduces iPad Air 2 And iPad Mini 3

Brian X. Chen, New York Times

The company on Thursday introduced new models of iPads, including a major revision for its iPad Air, the larger and more expensive model, and some improvements for its smaller sibling, the iPad Mini 3.

Apple said the iPad Air 2 was 18 percent thinner and 40 percent faster than the last one, a surprising change — and a bit of an engineering feat — because Apple made the previous version thinner and faster just last year. Essentially, the new iPad Air is thinner than a pencil. The new iPads will be available Oct. 24.

Businesses Are Turning To Beacons, And It’s Going To Be O.K.

Molly Wood, New York Times

Beacons, tiny low-powered radio transmitters that send signals to phones just feet away, have quickly become a new front in the advertising industry’s chase to find you whenever, and exactly wherever, you are.

Positive Thinking, With A Little Help From Your Phone

Kit Eaton, New York Times

At dinner with friends recently the conversation turned to things that were stressing us out. Yes, it was one of those moody evenings. But it ended up being upbeat because someone asked the inevitable “I wonder if there’s an app for that” question. And it turns out there are lots of apps to help you think positively or aim at happiness, and we all had fun examining them on our phones.

Backblaze Review

Ole Begemann

I’m sticking with Backblaze for now, mainly for its unobtrusiveness and convenience. I still haven’t found the perfect online backup service, however.

Hey, You! Worms Developer Team17 Releases New Hay Ewe Puzzle Game For iOS

Aldrin Calimlim, AppAdvice

Hay Ewe is a new iOS game that challenges you to help Matilda, the titular female sheep, navigate puzzles in order to collect various items and round up a group of stubborn lambs.

Facebook Adds Safety Check Feature To iOS App To Reassure Family & Friends During Disasters

Ben Lovejoy, 9 To 5 Mac

Apple TV Channel For Live Streaming Today's iPad Event Now Available

Aldrin Calimlim, AppAdvice

​Apple To Fix Health App After Blood Glucose Measurement Issue

Claire Reilly, CNET

Apple is temporarily pulling a feature of its Health app, designed for tracking blood glucose levels, after it emerged the app was not compatible with standard measurements used in the UK and Australia.

Moving To iCloud Drive

Michael E. Cohen, TidBITS

Yosemite is almost upon us, and if you are an iCloud user and you upgrade to Yosemite, you won’t be able to avoid iCloud Drive. In most cases, your documents should weather the transition intact, but if you also have an iOS device and you discover that iCloud Drive misbehaves on it in any of your iCloud-enabled apps, do the simplest thing first: sign out of iCloud on the device and then sign back in. This simple act might well brighten up an iCloudy day.

Invisible iOS Home Screen Icons

David Smith

Since getting my iPhone 6 a few weeks ago I’ve been continuously trying to optimize the configuration of my home screen. The larger screen means that I now have an extra row of icons to fit onto the screen, but the physical size of device means that I can’t actually comfortably reach them.

Since you can’t arbitrarily place icons on your home screen this means the situation is actually worse. I now have to fill in the top row of icons with ‘stuff’ just so that I can easily reach my main icons without stretching.

Reminds me of John Siracusa talking about the Finder.

Transmit For iOS 8 Provides File Transfer Everywhere

Glenn Fleishman, TidBITS

Transmit iOS is a powerhouse tool for anyone who needs to access remote files within iOS apps, and who previously spent inordinate amounts of time moving things around and employing workarounds to access them.

‘iPad Air 2′ And ‘iPad Mini 3′ With Touch ID & Burst Mode Confirmed, Show Up Early In iTunes

Mark Gurman, 9 To 5 Mac

Apple’s iTunes Store has just made a little bit of a slip-up (and with perfect uncanny timing): screenshots for the iOS 8.1 iPad user guide have just appeared within iBooks and include Apple’s upcoming iPad Air 2 and iPad mini 3. Of course, Apple will be formally debuting these devices tomorrow.

Apple will now fine iBook Store for leaking, right?

Apple Plans To Stop Selling Fitbit Devices In Stores

Lauren Goode, Re/code

It’s unclear exactly why Apple will no longer sell the devices, which track steps and other health metrics, in its retail stores. But the move comes a week after Fitbit issued a statement saying it was still “evaluating integration with HealthKit,” Apple’s new software application that acts as a central repository for health and fitness data on iPhones.

Noteshelf 9.0 Features Integration With The Livescribe 3 Handwriting Smart Pen

Aldrin Calimlim, AppAdvice

How Apple's "Complete My Bundle" Works

Thorin Klosowski, Lifehacker

It's a bit confusing for sure, but also brings to light to the fact that the "Complete My Bundle" option isn't always a deal, so don't just click on them assuming you're getting a better price.

Dear Apple, "Complete My Bundle" should never be more expensive than buying the remaining apps individually. This will just teach customers not to trust "Complete My Bundle."

Apple Paid Local College More Than $1 Million For iPhone Event

Daisuke Wakabayashi, Wall Street Journal

Apple paid more than $1 million to stage the Sept. 9 event at which it introduced new iPhones and the Apple Watch, according to records obtained from the Foothill-De Anza Community College district. Apple held the Sept. 9 event at the college’s Flint Center for the Performing Arts, about 1 ½ miles from its Cupertino, Calif., headquarters. Apple co-founder Steve Jobs introduced the Macintosh computer at Flint in 1984 and the iMac there in 1998.

According to the records, the cost included a “disruption fee” to the college of $500,000, rental fees for campus buildings and around-the-clock security involving more than 35 officers from three departments.

Perk Up: Facebook And Apple Now Pay For Women To Freeze Eggs

Danielle Friedman, NBC News

Two Silicon Valley giants now offer women a game-changing perk: Apple and Facebook will pay for employees to freeze their eggs.

Facebook recently began covering egg freezing, and Apple will start in January, spokespeople for the companies told NBC News. The firms appear to be the first major employers to offer this coverage for non-medical reasons.

Angry Birds Transformers Rolls Out Worldwide For The iPhone And iPad

John Callaham, iMore

Getting In Tune: 6 Apps For Tuning Your Guitar

Kirk McElhearn, Macworld

Office For Mac 2011 Update Patches Critical Vulnerabilities

Dan Thorp-Lancaster, iMore

Drafts 4 Review

Alex Guyot, MacStories

Released today on the App Store as a new, iOS 8-only, and Universal app, Drafts 4 is an evolution which boasts a huge number of improvements and represents a much needed shift in direction. With a UI refresh, a smarter and more accessible interface for building actions, a fantastic Share extension, a customizable extended keyboard, an enhanced URL scheme, and the intriguing introduction of JavaScript scripts for text manipulation, Drafts 4 is Agile Tortoise’s statement that they are ready for the challenges of a modern iOS.

Macworld Expo Is Dead

Shawn King, Diary Of A Mad Man

An Unsightly Peek Into Apple Business Practices

Erik Sherman, CBS News

Apple's NDAs have long been considered among the harshest and most stringent in the tech industry. The company has always been notoriously tight-lipped and controlling of its image and information about strategy and product plans.

Apple Asks Court To Seal Objections Against GT Advanced Bankruptcy

Mikey Campbell, AppleInsider

Apple Stores Will Sell A Smart Lock For Your Front Door

Belinda Lanks, Bloomberg Businessweek

In June, Apple announced HomeKit, its platform for integrating smart gadgets through iOS. If all goes according to Apple’s plan, your iPhone or iPad will become the hub for controlling your personal Internet of Things.

But for that to happen, the tech giant needs companies to develop home gadgets for its framework, much as it needed apps to build up the App Store. That’s why it will be selling, in all its U.S. stores, a smart lock designed by Yves Béhar and called August.

U2's Bono Apologizes For Automatic 'Songs Of Innocence' Album Download

Juli Clover, MacRumors

In the apology, Bono says that the group "got carried away" with themselves and were worried that songs they had spent two years working on "might not be heard."

You Are Apple’s Greatest Security Challenge

Rich Mogull, TidBITS

But the future is in the cloud. And Apple’s future is iCloud, the online glue that holds its entire ecosystem of devices, software, and services together. I spend most of my working hours on cloud security, and it is an indescribably difficult problem that’s only getting worse as our use of these services grows. Apple, like all major cloud providers, now faces the same security issues as banks (cue the Willie Sutton reference about “that’s where the money is”).

Talk to any bank about security, and they’ll all point to the customer account as the problem.

Plants Vs Zombies 2 iPhone And iPad Update Hits The Beach With Lots Of New Content

John Callaham, iMore

Remembering Macworld Expo: Why We Went To The Greatest Trade Show On Earth

Christopher Breen, Macworld

Regrettably, though those running the show tried their best, they simply couldn’t find a way to return the show to its roots—as a gathering place for Apple enthusiasts. Expo had become an Apple event, and when the company left, many exhibitors and attendees left with it. To them, seeing Steve Jobs onstage and pressing their nose to a glass case surrounding a suspended iPhone was what Expo was all about. If you couldn’t breathe Apple’s air, there was no reason to attend.

Macworld Expo Is Over

Jason Snell, Six Colors

It’s a year of milestones. IDG has announced that it’s putting Macworld/iWorld on hiatus.

While technically this is a “hiatus,” I think it’s safe to assume that the Macworld Expo as we knew it won’t come back.

Skype Qik Lets You Replace Text Conversations With Instant Video Messaging

John Callaham, iMore

Microsoft is expanding the number of apps made by its Skype team today with the Skype Qik video messaging app, designed specifically for mobile devices running on iOS, Android and Windows Phone. The app is scheduled to launch today for all three platforms.

Review: Music Player Learns Your Tastes Over Time

Barbara Ortutay, Associated Press

The idea behind the $399 Aether Cone is that over time, it learns your listening habits and weighs such factors as whether it's a lazy Sunday morning. It then plays what it thinks you're in the mood for.

I was skeptical because my music tastes vary depending on how I'm feeling at any particular moment. But I've come to enjoy its sometimes-surprising musical tours.

Apple iPhone 6 Plus: Beautifully Made, But Expensive [Review]

Sandra Vogel, Beta News

Arizona Is The Kid Caught In Apple's Big, Ugly Divorce

Azcentral.com

Missing One-handed Typing On Your iPhone 6/Plus? One Handed Keyboard Brings It Back

Ben Lovejoy, 9 To 5 Mac

If you love your new iPhone 6/Plus but find yourself missing the convenience of one-handed typing, One Handed Keyboard may be the third-party keyboard for you. It’s a system-wide keyboard exactly the same size as the one on the older and smaller iPhones so everything will feel familiar.

Can New Words With Friends Reignite Your Competitive pseudo-Scrabble Addiction?

Andrew Hayward, Macworld

Dropbox Says Its Service Is Safe Following Reports Of 'Massive' Hack

Aldrin Calimlim, AppAdvice

It’s unclear how the account details were obtained. But Dropbox, in a new post on its official blog, said that they were harvested from other services and that its own service was not compromised in the alleged hack.

The iPhone 6 Plus Wins The Longer Race

Darrell Etherington, TechCrunch

Keep Personal Photos Out Of Collections With iOS 8'S "Hide Photo" Feature

John-Michael Bond, TUAW

Best Weather Apps For iPhone

Allyson Kazmucha, iMore

Ireland Considers Closing Corporate-Tax Loophole

Sam Schechner and Lisa Fleisher, Wall Street Journal

The App That Holds iOS Back

Bradley Chambers, Chambers Daily

While Mobile Safari is fast and loads website reasonably well, it cannot upload and download files.

Apple's Supplier Contracts Include $50M Penalty For Leaking Future Product Info

Neil Hughes, AppleInsider

Court filings made by GT Advanced Technologies have already revealed that Apple imposes a $50 million penalty "per occurrence" for leaking any information about an upcoming, unannounced product.

Apple Rolls Out iPhone 6/Plus To 36 More Countries This Month

Ben Lovejoy, 9 To 5 Mac

The latest rollout will begin with India and Monaco alongside China on Friday.

Http://www.imore.com/dropbox-squashes-desktop-client-bug-offers-free-pro-upgrade-those-who-lost-files?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

Rich Edmonds, iMore

Those who rely on Dropbox to store their personal files may have lost some of their data. The service has experienced some issues regarding a bug in older versions of its available desktop apps. This bug deleted files uploaded by affected users who activated the Selective Sync feature, leading some to find they'd lost a large amount of files.

Grey Market iPhone 6 Prices Plummet In China, As Apple Prepares Official Sales

Michael Kan, PCWorld

In some cases, grey market vendors are offering the models at an even cheaper price than Apple, according to Device Prices.

NewsBlur Feed Reader App Now Optimized For iOS 8 And iPhone 6

Aldrin Calimlim, AppAdvice

Backblaze 3.0

Agen G. N. Schmitz, TidBITS

Backblaze 3.0 (which is tied to the subscription-based Backblaze online data backup service) improves the efficiency and throughput of its data storage.

GraphicConverter 9.4

Agen G. N. Schmitz, TidBITS

Apple Pay Setup Detailed & Retailers Begin Training As Service Launches At Apple HQ

Mark Gurman, 9 To 5 Mac

How Apple Prompted This Country's Downgrade

Matt Clinch, CNBC

Finland's prime minister suggested on Monday that Apple could be to blame for the demise of its two biggest industries, which in turn led to an economic downturn and a ratings downgrade for the Nordic country.

"We have two champions which went down," Alexander Stubb told CNBC Monday. As well as the technology firm Nokia, he explained that the paper industry in Finland had fallen on hard times.

Anssi Vanjoki, Nokia, back in 2009: The development of mobile phones will be similar in PCs. Even with the Mac, Apple has attracted much attention at first, but they have still remained a niche manufacturer. That will be in mobile phones as well.

How To Capture Audio With A New Mac Pro

Christopher Breen, Macworld

BBEdit At Max Q

Jason Snell, Six Colors

On Saturday Rich Siegel of Bare Bones Software gave a presentation in which he announced that the next version of BBEdit would not be sold in the Mac App Store.

Siegel crafted his presentation as a list of reasons that weren’t the reason Bare Bones was abandoning the Mac App Store.

Six Qs From Scratch: Glenn Fleishman On Why He’s Closing The Magazine

Manjula Martin, Scratch

Well, Marco and I both agreed that we underestimated how much revision and upkeep would be needed on the app. As an iOS programmer, Marco could make those changes “free,” only requiring his labor and a little bit of design/UI spending with a studio he worked with. The app suffered over time because as subscriptions declined, I couldn’t afford to hire the work to add compelling features people wanted to keep improving the reading and issue-management experience.

How To Tell If iOS And Mac Apps Are Eligible For Family Sharing

Allyson Kazmucha, iMore

Apple’s Software Quality Decline

Michael Tsai

I didn’t think yearly OS releases would be good for quality, and I continue to believe that Apple is trying to move too fast.

Apple Rolling Out Revamped iTunes Store To iTunes 12 Users Ahead Of OS X Yosemite Launch

Juli Clover, MacRumors

I Want To Write iOS Apps. Where Do I Start?

Thorin Klosowski, Lifehacker

We Talked To 4 Major Banks About The Future Of Apple Pay

Miah Singleton, The Daily Dot

"When Apple got in touch with us and showed us their solution [Apple Pay], we were very excited to see what they had been working on and what they had developed, particularly since it was so convenient, secure, and private," said Randy Hopper, vice president of credit cards at Navy Federal, the largest credit union in the United States.

Apple’s Beats Settles Headphone Patent Dispute With Bose

Todd Shields, Bloomberg

View Source 2.0

Federico Viticci, MacStories

The extension now has a full DOM browser so you can view and navigate to linked assets without leaving Safari.

Glassboard Private Messaging App Shutting Down November 1

Drek Kessler, iMore

The Glassboard business chat service is closing its doors after failing to make money. Glassboard, which offered a way for groups, including businesses, teams, and families, to share a private running conversation, photos, locations, and files, launched in 2011 and has struggled to find a viable business model since then with sustainable revenues. And so, on November 1st, Glassboard is turning off.

How To Hack Together Multi-room Music With Sonos, Airfoil, And Old iPhones

Serenity Caldwell, iMore

Apple Confirms It Will Live-stream iPad Event

Luke Westaway, CNET

Apple has confirmed it will stream its 16 October event, giving eager spectators the chance to watch the tech giant unveil its latest gadgets as it happens.

Apple Partner Wants To Wind Down Sapphire Production

Peg Brickley, Wall Street Journal

After a closed session with Apple and GT on Thursday, Judge Henry Boroff ruled the two companies can keep the details of their arrangement confidential. Judge Boroff also authorized GT Advanced to seal court papers that explain what went wrong in the financing and supply arrangement with Apple, GT’s largest creditor and once its potentially largest customer.

Cinamatic Is First Video App Fully Integrated With iOS 8'S Manual Camera Controls

Aldrin Calimlim, AppAdvice

Cinamatic on iOS 8 now offers manual controls for adjusting focus, exposure, white balance, shutter speed, and ISO sensitivity during video recording. These are in addition to the app’s already existing controls for adjusting the intensity, contrast, saturation and brightness of the applied filter.

Weebly Now Lets You Easily Create Websites From Start To Publish With Its New iPad App

Aldrin Calimlim, AppAdvice

News Republic Challenging Established iOS News Apps

Mel Martin, TUAW

The app claims to have an advanced algorithm with semantic and learning intelligence, reviewing millions of news items to create a news feed for each specific reader based on his or her interests in stories.

A Leather-clad Robotic Core

Jason Snell, Six Colors

I have always appreciated using my iPhones as they were born, a naked robotic core with no adornment. And I’ve never dropped one. But I’ve been using an Apple iPhone 6 leather case for the last couple of weeks, and really liking it.

The Download Heard 'Round The World: iTunes Numbers Show 81 Million 'Experienced' U2 Album

Shirley Halperin, Billboard

Eddy Cue, Apple's senior VP of internet software and services, tells Billboard that U2's Songs of Innocence has racked up a staggering 26 million complete downloads since its Sept. 9 release as a free download exclusively to Apple's 500 million global iTunes customers.

Stop Videos Disappearing From Messages App In iOS By Disabling Auto-Delete

OS X Daily

Carbon Copy Cloner 4.0

Agen G. N. Schmitz, TidBITS

Sporting a redesigned interface and architecture, Carbon Copy Cloner (CCC) adds many user-requested features.

The Scary Side Of Touch ID

Glenn Fleishman, Macworld

Cinamatic 1.5 Adds Support For Manual Camera Controls

Joseph Keller, iMore

Skype Launches Redesigned Mac App Ahead Of OS X Yosemite

Mark Gurman, 9 To 5 Mac

Skype today has begun rolling out a redesigned version of its Mac client, bringing an enhanced look that better fits the upcoming design aesthetic of OS X Yosemite. The new design also brings the Mac app more in line with the recently redesigned iPhone and iPod touch version of Skype.

Birds Near Me

Jason Kottke, Kottke.org

Zynga Reboots Words With Friends For iPhone And iPad With More Features

John Callaham, iMore

Apple To Require App-specific Passwords For iCloud Starting Tomorrow, Oct. 9

Aldrin Calimlim, AppAdvice

“This is a reminder that starting tomorrow, app-specific passwords will be required to access your iCloud data using third party apps such as Microsoft Outlook, Mozilla Thunderbird, or other mail, contacts, and calendar apps,” Apple says in the notice. “If you are currently signed in to a third party app using your primary Apple ID password, you will be signed out automatically when this change takes effect.”

Gender Gap Draws Thousands From Google, Apple To Phoenix

Peter Burrows, Bloomberg

The conference, now in its 20th year, is drawing more attention than ever as Silicon Valley faces pressure over its gender gap and recognizes it needs to tap the technical talent in a demographic that makes up 47 percent of the U.S. workforce.

An Optical Trick Makes Disappearing Messages Harder To Screenshot

Rachel Metz, Technology Review

This fence moves across the image so quickly that it looks to you as if you’re seeing the full image, Richardson says, yet if someone takes a screen shot of a D-fenced image, or takes a photo of it with another camera, they’ll get an image with slats obscuring much of its content.

Apple Sends Out Invites For Oct. 16 Special Event

Jim Dalrymple, The Loop

As is normal with Apple invites, there are no clues as to what the company will talk about or introduce at the event. Given the huge event in September where the company unveiled new iPhones and the Apple Watch, I suspect this event will focus more on existing products.

GT Advanced Bankruptcy Offers Warning To Apple Suppliers

Noel Randewich and Reiji Murai, Reuters

Analysts and industry insiders cited terms of GT Advanced's deal with Apple that involved building an Arizona factory to make scratch-resistant sapphire glass exclusively for Apple, but which the Cupertino-based company was under no obligation to buy.

Apple Says Surprised By GT's Bankruptcy Filing

Noel Randewich, Reuters

"We are focused on preserving jobs in Arizona following GT's surprising decision and we will continue to work with state and local officials as we consider our next steps," spokesman Chris Gaither said.

Note To Self: It’s The Storage Space, Stupid

John Gruber, Daring Fireball

The simple answer was staring me right in the face. It’s all about the over-the-air update requiring 5 GB of free storage space, and many people not having that much free space, and not knowing how or simply not wanting to deal with it.

What You Need To Know About Activation Lock

Josh Centers, TidBITS

The point of these features is to discourage theft, since once Activation Lock has been enabled, a stolen iPhone is worthless to a thief. Or at least it is as long as potential buyers know to check if Activation Lock has been turned on.

Clips For iOS

David Sparks, MacSparky

Using Clips you can collect bits of saved text and links into the Clips application. Then you can use, modify, and paste those clips easily in other applications using the Clips Today View widget or its custom keyboard. The clippings can be used repeatedly without having to go back and recopy them. It’s not as seamless as a clipboard manager on Mac OS, but it is pretty close and exponentially better than anything we’ve had before on iOS.

Pocket Updated To Support The iPhone 6 And iPhone 6 Plus

Sam Sabri, iMore

Hands On With The New iPhone 6 And iPhone 6 Plus Video Features

Serenity Caldwell, iMore

The new iPhone 6 and 6 Plus have a bevy of new videography features for those who enjoy shooting those fancy "moving pictures" on their mobile devices. I've been putting my iPhone 6 through its paces, and here's an overview of what you have to look forward to—in video form, naturally.

How To Use iMessage: The Ultimate Guide

Allyson Kazmucha, iMore

Not only does iMessage let you send free simple messaging service (SMS)-style and multimedia messaging service (MMS)-style messages, but also create and manage group messages, share location instantly, temporarily, or persistently, and more. Here's everything you need to know about iMessage!

Final Issue Of The Magazine Comes Out In December

Jim Romenesko

Glenn Fleishman launched a Kickstarter campaign today for The Magazine’s second anthology, magazine and announced that the final issue of The Magazine will be published in December.

Fitbit Says HealthKit Is An 'Interesting New Platform' But Has No Current Plans To Support It

John Callaham, iMore

The wearable fitness device company Fitbit stated in a recent post on its community forum that it has '"no current plans" to support Apple's HealthKit system that launched as part of iOS 8 but did say that it was an "interesting new platform".

Privacy Vs. User Experience

Dustin Curtis

Apple is going to realize very soon that it has made a grave mistake by positioning itself as a bastion of privacy against Google, the evil invader of everyone’s secrets. The truth is that collecting information about people allows you to make significantly better products, and the more information you collect, the better products you can build.

How To Use Handoff With Your iPhone And iPad

Christopher Breen, Macworld

Fiery Feeds RSS Reader App Updated With Support For iOS 8, iPhone 6 And iPad

Aldrin Calimlim, AppAdvice

Google Updates YouTube Creator Studio With Support For iPad And iPhone 6

Aldrin Calimlim, AppAdvice

DEVONthink/DEVONnote 2.8

Agen G. N. Schmitz, TidBITS

In addition to updated Yosemite-friendly interface elements, the three editions of DEVONthink add a sharing extension that enables you to clip text and Web addresses with a single click (rather than using drag and drop).

How To Generate And Manage App-specific Passwords With iCloud

Allyson Kazmucha, iMore

Essentially, any apps that don't support two-step verification, if you have it enabled, will instead need an app-specific password in order to link up to your iCloud account. This ensures that your primary Apple ID password isn't collected or stored by any third party apps.

Transporter Can Now Backup Your File Version History

Chuong H Nguyen, iMore

Tight Dirndls, Heavy Beers, And Grabby Hands: The Life Of An Oktoberfest Waitress

Erin Snell, Medium

I tried my luck at carrying beers as the waitresses do. After lifting just one load of 10 sloshing beer mugs, a crowd cheered for me and snapped Facebook-worthy photos. I found new respect for the Oktoberfest waitresses – and probably a few strained muscles in the process. Sure, I managed one round, and could imagine doing it for a few hours. But those brave women do it all day, for 16 days. They haul beer by the ton – quite literally.

Reflect+ Can Refresh Your Photos In Amazing Ways

Mel Martin, TUAW

The app can add water or a beach to a barren landscape, add realistic haze and fog, or 50 other effects like lens flares, birds, star fields, the moon and planets, and then filter the image to provide different lighting and tonal washes.

Yo Update Lets You Send Your Friends Your Location

Joseph Keller, iMore

Yo, the app that lets you send the word "Yo" to your friends, has been updated today with the ability to send your location. The update also takes advantage of actionable notifications in iOS 8 to make replying faster.

Google News & Weather App Debuts On iPhone

Chuong H Nguyen, iMore

Best Writing Apps For Mac

Allyson Kazmucha, iMore

Adobe’s E-book Reader Sends Your Reading Logs Back To Adobe—in Plain Text

Sean Gallagher, Ars Technica

Adobe’s Digital Editions e-book and PDF reader—an application used by thousands of libraries to give patrons access to electronic lending libraries—actively logs and reports every document readers add to their local “library” along with what users do with those files. Even worse, the logs are transmitted over the Internet in the clear, allowing anyone who can monitor network traffic (such as the National Security Agency, Internet service providers and cable companies, or others sharing a public Wi-Fi network) to follow along over readers’ shoulders.

Three Theories Why iOS 8 Adoption Is Slow On The Uptake

Caitlin McGarry, Macworld

Square Cash For iOS 8 Based iPhones Now Allows Users To Transfer Money Via Bluetooth

John Callaham, iMore

Review: Wunderlist 3 For iOS And OS X Shines At Delegation

Jeffery Battersby, Macworld

At its most basic, Wunderlist is a list manager, for anything from must-see movies to grocery lists. How you create, update, and manage your lists varies insignificantly from app to app, but the beauty is just how immediately any changes you make are pushed to all your other devices. No matter whether you're changing Wunderlist's background on your iOS device or adding a note to an item on your Mac, synchronization is satisfyingly snappy.

Facebook’s Shuttle Bus Drivers Seek To Unionize

Steven Greenhouse, New York Times

A Teamsters official said the union was first seeking to unionize Facebook drivers, and then hoped to organize drivers for Google, Apple and other Silicon Valley companies.

What To Do About Code Signing

Daniel Jalkut, Indie Stack

Everybody has to start signing with the modern code-signing infrastructure. In the interim, there’s a good chance your app has been whitelisted to operate as usual during the transition, but that courtesy will probably not extend to your next release.

Apple’s Sapphire Manufacturing Partner Files For Bankruptcy

Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica

Smartphone “Backdoors” And Open Computing

Julian Sanchez, Just Security

Pundits who don’t understand technology very well hear that Apple used to be able to provide some information to law enforcement and simply assume that any smartphone maker could do the same without rendering users’ data hugely less secure against all other attackers.

Livestream App Lets Your Audience Live The Action With You As It Happens On Your GoPro

Chuong H Nguyen, iMore

Gatekeeper’s Opaque Whitelist

Daniel Jalkut, Indie Stack

Could this explain the fact that many, many people observed that their apps with old, V1 signatures continue to pass Gatekeeper’s scrutiny e.g. on 10.9.5, even though Apple stated that V2 code signatures would be required?

Gmail For iOS Updated With Support For iPhone 6 And 6 Plus Display Sizes

Mike Beasley, 9 To 5 Mac

1Password 5.1 Adds iPhone 6 And iPhone 6 Plus Support, Touch ID Improvements

Joseph Keller, iMore

1Password 5.1 now combines auto-lock time outs for Touch ID/PIN Code and the master password. This allows Touch ID to appear more reliably within the 1Password extension.

Keymoji Custom Keyboard Lets You Add Emoji By Typing Their Name

Federico Viticci, MacStories

Keymoji looks like a standard QWERTY keyboard, but as soon as you start typing emoji suggestions are displayed in a scrollable QuickType-like bar. What's great about Keymoji is that its developers have built a database of emoji groups for expressions or situations that go beyond individual emojis.

How To Use Your iPhone As A Removable Hard Drive

Christopher Breen, Macworld

Adobe Launches Creative Cloud Updates And New Links To Mobile Apps

Mel Martin, TUAW

In a major announcement today, Adobe is updating almost every desktop and mobile app it offers. It is aiming these new features and applications at creative professionals so their desktop and mobile tools deeply integrate.

Adobe Premiere Clip App Offers Fast Video Editing For iPhone And iPad

John Callaham, iMore

Adobe has launched a version of its Premiere video editing desktop app for the iPhone and iPad called Adobe Premiere Clip as part of its overall app release plans for the iOS platform.

Make The Most Out Of HealthKit With These 5 Apps

Leah Yamshon, Macworld

These five apps each bring something different to the table, delivering a well-balanced snapshot of your daily health routine.

Firechat And Nearby Communication

Breizh-Entropy

During the study, we stressed that not only every message sent are broadcasted locally (both Bluetooth and Wifi) regardless of the room, but we also show how easy it was to intercept and send information from/to Firechat users. Given the political context of the Umbrella Revolution, I would advise people to stop using Firechat or at least try to avoid leaking any information that could link to their real identity.

Notification Banners Getting Stuck In iOS 8? Here's A Temporary Fix!

Allyson Kazmucha, iMore

When a banner gets stuck in iOS 8 at the top of the screen and flicking doesn't seem to rid you of it, press the Home button once instead.

Why Apple's iPhone Encryption Won't Stop NSA (Or Any Other Intelligence Agency)

Andrew Zonenberg, Silicon Exposed

There is only one situation where disk encryption is potentially useful: if Alice or Bob's phone falls into Eve's hands while locked and she wishes to extract information from it. In this narrow case, disk encryption does make it substantially more difficult, or even impossible, for Eve to recover the cleartext of the encrypted data.

Unfortunately for Alice and Bob, a well-equipped attacker has several options here (which may vary depending on exactly how Apple's implementation works; many of the details are not public).

iOS 8 How-to: Manually Control The Exposure In The Camera App

Sarah Guarino, 9 To 5 Mac

How To Edit Expiration Settings For Audio Messages In iOS 8

Allyson Kazmucha, iMore

Why Can't Apple Decrypt Your iPhone?

Matthew Green, A Few Thoughts On Cryptographic Engineering

Apple Brings iAd To Nine More European Countries, Bringing Total To 25

Benjamin Mayo, 9 To 5 Mac

Review: Hyper’s iStick, The First USB Drive W/ Integrated Lightning Connector

Jordan Kahn, 9 To 5 Mac

The iStick is much like your standard USB thumb drive, but a small switch allows you to expose either the standard USB connector (the one that will connect to your computer) or the integrated Lightning connector (which connects to your iPhone or iPad).

Apple, Employees Raise $50 Million For Charity, Program To Expand Globally

Julia Love, San Jose Mercury News

Three years after Apple began matching employee donations, the program has yielded more than $50 million for charity.

And on Thursday, Apple told employees it will begin expanding the program to all the countries in which it has a presence, up from just the U.S. and a handful of other nations, the company told this newspaper. The Cupertino-based company will also begin donating money to the charities where its employees volunteer at a rate of $25 per hour.

Good for Apple.

Apple’s Irish Luck

Joe Nocera, New York Times

In truth, most tax subsidies don’t make much sense — not for countries and certainly not for states. “There is a lot of work that shows that tax subsidies vastly overpay for the jobs they create,” said Edward Kleinbard, a law professor at the University of Southern California and the author of the recent book “We Are Better Than This: How Government Should Spend Our Money.”

It’s a good thing that the E.U. is trying to curb unjustified tax breaks. Maybe it’s time to do the same here.

Google’s Newsstand Move May Force The Hand Of Apple, Leading To More Aggregated Content Apps

D.B. Hebbard, Talking New Media

The lack of progress in improving the Newsstand, combined with the news of the acquisition of a platform, has some wondering if Apple plans on introducing their own app that aggregates content and improves the reading experience of digital editions.

Apple Will Face $350M Trial Over iPod DRM

Joe Mullin, Ars Technica

Last week, US District Judge Yvonne Gonzales Rogers gave the green light to sending a long-running antitrust lawsuit against Apple to trial. Plaintiffs in the case say that Apple used its FairPlay DRM system to "lock in" its customers and make it costly to switch to technology built by competitors, like Real Networks.

Tim Cook Emails Employees To Reflect On Third Anniversary Of Steve Jobs’ Death

Mark Gurman, 9 To 5 Mac

“I hope you’ll take a moment to appreciate the many ways Steve made our world better,” Cook wrote in the internal memo.

iPhone 6 Plus Review

Rene Ritchie, iMore

Ask The iTunes Guy: When A Large iOS Update Won't Fit Your iPhone

Kirk McElhearn, Macworld

This week I’ve chosen some very simple questions that, nevertheless, perplex many iTunes users. I look at updating an iOS device to iOS 8 if you don’t have a lot of free space, using an older iPhone as an iPod, sorting songs alphabetically, and a way to keep iTunes Match from messing with your tags.

Apple’s HealthKit Collaborator, Mayo Clinic, Launches Its iOS 8-Integrated App

Mark Sullivan, VentureBeat

The Mayo app now collects data from any number of connected health devices through an integration with the Health app in iOS 8. The HealthKit platform sits above it all and controls which pieces of data in the Health app the Mayo app can access.

Thousands Of Macs Infected With OS X Botnet Malware Controlled Via Reddit

Kelly Hodgkins, TUAW

SwiftKey Keyboard 1.0 Review

Philip Michaels, Tom's Guide

Predictive typing and the ability to enter words by swiping make the SwiftKey an excellent alternate iOS keyboard.

Microsoft Universal Mobile Keyboard Is Great For iPads, Androids And Windows

Lance Ulanoff, Mashable

The keyboard is pretty smart about each platform. There are a collection of function keys dotted around the keyboard, including Lock, Mute, Play/Pause, Search and Home. In almost every instance, every key worked as it should for each platform. Hitting search while connected to an iPad bought up Spotlight, and in Windows 8.1 it brought up Contextual Search. I was able to wake up my iPhone 6 by hitting the Home button on Microsoft’s keyboard and even enter the unlock code, all without touching the smartphone.

Evernote Wants To Go Beyond Note-Taking

Federico Viticci, MacStories

At its conference in San Francisco today, Evernote announced a slew of updates for its core iOS and OS X experience as well as a redesigned web app (currently available as public beta), a redesign of Penultimate, a new scanner app, and new Market products.

Hulu Makes Peace With Apple’s 30 Percent Cut, Enables In-app Billing In Latest iPhone Update

Janko Roettgers, GigaOM

Notes Plus Is A Terrific Note Taker For iPad

Mel Martin, TUAW

The app lets you write naturally with either a finger or a stylus, with smooth and readable vector graphic strokes. You can also create a text box to type inside, with a wide choice of type styles and colors. Once anything is on the Notes Plus screen, it can be resized or moved. Scaling is smooth and shows no artifacts.

Best Credit Monitoring And Management Apps For iPhone

Allyson Kazmucha, iMore

Logitech's Type+ Keyboard Case For The iPad Air Offers A Dedicated Row Of iOS Shortcuts

Brent Dirks, AppAdvice

iOS 8 Third-Party Keyboards Explained And Reviewed

Josh Centers, TidBITS

Quicken 2015: Close, But Not Yet Acceptable

Glenn Fleishman, TidBITS

After finding much to like about it, including a crisp interface, a clearer and cleverer way to specify details of transactions, and good connections to online financial accounts, its failure to import my Quicken 2007 reports (honed over 15 years for business and personal tax and other reporting) and its lack of report customization makes it a non-starter.

Apple Unveils New Perks To Attract Talent

Michal Lev-Ram, Fortune

On Thursday morning the company’s head of HR, Denise Young Smith, sent an employee-wide memo outlining a handful of new and updated benefits, including longer parental leave, education reimbursements for all classes taken by employees, an expanded donation-matching program, subsidized student loan refinancing and full acceleration of stock in the event of an employee’s death.

Apple Taps Interim PR Boss

John Paczkowski, Re/code

Emoji++ Is An Emoji Keyboard That Makes Sense

Federico Viticci, MacStories

Emoji++ makes more sense than Apple's emoji keyboard for two main reasons: emoji are displayed in a unified scrollable list and they're organized in categories that you can quickly jump to using a vertical bar on the right.

Carbon Copy Cloner 4 Overhauls Interface, Adds Task History

Simon Sage, iMore

Carbon Copy Cloner has rolled out a big update to their bootable backup software for OS X. The interface has been overhauled and tons of new functions have been added, such as scheduled tasks and a command-line application option.

Twitter For Mac Updated With Support For Multiple Photos And Photos In Messages

Eric Slivka, MacRumors

Halfbrick's Fruit Ninja Goes 2.0 With New Design, New Powers And New Characters

Aldrin Calimlim, AppAdvice

Spotify For iOS Updated With Support For Apple's CarPlay

Aldrin Calimlim, AppAdvice

Get To Know iOS 8: Five Convenient New Tricks In Safari

Derek Walter, Macworld

Angry Birds Maker Rovio Lays Off 130 Staff And Tries To 'Reignite Growth'

Stuart Dredge, The Guardian

Angry Birds maker Rovio is laying off 16% of its staff, admitting that the company’s headcount had swelled based on ‘assumptions of faster growth than have materialised’.

First CarPlay-Compatible In-Dash Systems Now Available From Pioneer

Juli Clover, MacRumors

iOS 8 Translator Keyboard Introduces Easy Access Language Translation Capabilities

Juli Clover, MacRumors

Translator Keyboard is a new third-party keyboard designed to allow users to quickly translate their text from one language to another, without the need for a separate translation app.

Apple Creates Tool To Check Activation Lock Status On iOS Devices

Juli Clover, MacRumors

Accessible via iCloud.com, the Activation Lock Status Checker allows users to enter a Device IMEI or Serial number to check whether a device has Activation Lock turned on.

Activation Lock has cut down on iPhone-related thefts in major cities, but it has also affected users who purchase an iOS device used. If Activation Lock is enabled, a used iOS device will be entirely useless until unlocked by the original owner.

Paste+, A Clipboard Action Widget

Federico Viticci, MacStories

It's a nice little utility to save taps and launch specific iOS features faster with Notification Center.

A Look At The TextExpander Keyboard For iOS 8

Victor Agreda Jr, TUAW

I've used TextExpander on my Mac for years and it has saved me hours of typing time. If you frequently use TextExpander on your Mac or if you used it on your iOS device before iOS 8 allowed third-party keyboards, you are in luck. TextExpander touch now comes in handy keyboard format for iOS 8! How does it work? Read on.

Little Things That Improve The Way I Work On A Mac

Shawn Blanc

Computers are great at doing the boring, automated stuff we don’t like to do. So why not automate common tasks (like performing backups of your computer), pre-make decisions for your computer to carry out on your behalf (such as auto-filing certain email newsletters), and generally just find ways to make yourself more efficient?

Tweetbot 3.5: iPhone 6 Support, Interactive Notifications, And iOS 8 Extensions

Federico Viticci, MacStories

Tweetbot 3.5 looks great on the iPhone 6, and its new notifications allow me to quickly mark a tweet as favorite without opening the app. Unfortunately, third-party apps can’t access the quick reply feature found in Apple’s Messages app: like Twitter, tapping the Reply button in a notification won’t let you reply immediately but it’ll take you to Tweetbot instead.

Apple Reinvents The Phone That Reinvented The Phone

iMore

It Just Works

Rusty Rants

Tim Cook keeps telling us that ‘Only Apple’ could do the amazing things it does. I just wish that Apple would slow down their breakneck pace and spend the time required to build stable software that their hardware so desperately needs.

As PayPal Spins Off, Apple Pay Signals New Era At Cash Register

Mike Isaac, New York Times

Not a single purchase has been made with Apple’s new payment system, Apple Pay, which will allow people to pay for everyday goods with their smartphone.

But the service, expected in the coming weeks, already has the technology industry scrambling to profit from a future in which apps could regularly replace cash, checks and credit cards.

A Rare Look At Design Genius Jony Ive: The Man Behind The Apple Watch

Robert Sullivan, Vogue

Ive has a calming presence, like the Apple campus itself, whose very address, Infinite Loop, lulls you into a sense of Zen-ness. In the courtyard, trays of beautiful food—grass-fed steaks and fresh-made curries and California-born hot sauces—lead Apple employees out toward the open-air seating, away from the white cafeteria that might be described as a luxurious spa for the terminally nerdy. White is the color of choice at Apple HQ as in the Apple product line. It is through this white, with its clarity, its dust-hiding lack of distraction, that you have already met Jonathan Ive.

Call The Plumber: How To Teach Siri About Your Relationships

Christopher Breen, Macworld

Apple Calls On Developers To Submit Yosemite Apps To Mac App Store

Chuong H Nguyen, iMore

As OS X Yosemite is nearing release, Apple is now calling on developers to submit apps that are optimized for and compatible with the new OS for review in the Mac App Store. The call for app submissions come on the heels of Apple making a gold master build of OS X Yosemite for developers to download earlier today.

iTunes Store Now Accepting Donations For City Of Hope Medical Center

Richard Padilla, MacRumors

Apple Releases OS X Yosemite GM Candidate 1.0 To Developers

John Callaham, iMore

Apple has released OS X Yosemite GM Candidate 1.0 to developers in what may be one of the final such builds before the Mac operating system is launched to the public.

So, an October release of the new OS X for your Mac is very likely.

Apple's iPhone 6-Laden Q4 And 2014 Year-end Earnings Due On October 20

Derek Kessier, iMore

Android And iPhone Keyboard Apps To Turbocharge Your Typing

Joanna Stern, Wall Street Journal

One day my grandchildren will gather around my dusty collection of gadgets and stare with bewilderment at the small hardware keyboards found on the first generations of smartphones. They'll laugh and ask if the phones also had to be attached to a windmill to work.

Built For iOS 8, DateStamper Lets You Apply Date Stamps To Photos

Federico Viticci, MacStories

DateStamper brings back old memories for me, but it is, first and foremost, a handy iOS 8 utility to apply date (and time) stamps to photos. It looks good, it gets the job done, and it's nicely integrated with Apple's Photos app.

The New Mac Pro Collects Dust

Kirk McElhearn, Kirkville

The design of the Mac Pro is such that it’s going to pick up any dust on your desk.