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COVER STORY OPINION 46 What You Need to 5 From the 20 Mac Reviews Know: iOS 8 and Editor’s Desk Software and hardware for Macs. Is Apple tossing the Jobs playbook? OS X Yosemite iOS CENTRAL Apple’s upgrades to its operating iOS 8 and Education systems will change the way you MACUSER 30 One educator’s wish list for iOS gets use your iPad, iPhone, and Mac. Nine Technologies 10 the magic wand treatment. Apple Disrupted FEATURE 32 iOS Matures With Extensions Apple raised the stakes with a host 33 Continuity Is the Future of Apple 64 Organize Your of innovations in iOS and OS X. 34 Bringing Order to the App Store iTunes Library 12 Developers Take the Stage Tags hold the key to creating an 13 Security in iOS 8 and Yosemite über-organized iTunes library. 14 Apple Design Awards 2014 38 iOS Reviews 16 Apple’s Secretive Acquisitions Apps and gadgets for iOS devices. PLUS: Hot Stuff 28

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PLAYLIST 82 Apple and Beats We have the lowdown on Apple’s Video: Tagging in iTunes big music-industry acquisition. Kirk McElhearn explains how to tag 84 Ambient Audio for iOS songs in your iTunes library 86 Streaming Music Services (go.macworld.com/tagitunes). 88 Four Ways to Control iTunes We also recommend: Video: Tricks for managing printers in OS X (go.macworld.com/printtrick).

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A Tale of Two Apples How Apple follows ’s lead by not following it.

im Cook’s instruction from members of the press invited to attend Steve Jobs was clear: Don’t and to write about what they saw. With let Apple become paralyzed iOS 8, developers are getting access to T like Disney did in the wake of corners of the operating system that Walt Disney’s death, endlessly asking they’ve been clamoring for. Apps can how the esteemed founder would react share files, display widgets in Notifica- in any given situation. The only directive tion Center, and even run small portions from Jobs’s tenure that mattered after of themselves inside other apps. On the his death was the one that freed Cook Mac side, OS X Yosemite will benefit from and everyone else at Apple from playing iCloud Drive, which gives users free “What Would Steve Do?” access to the iCloud file structure. Criticism of post-Jobs Apple tends to Consider, too, the connectivity features, run in one of two directions: Either Apple including Handoff, which allows Macs is doomed because it’s slavishly follow- and iOS devices to pass information ing the old playbook of its former CEO, back and forth much more easily. That or it’s doomed because it isn’t following seems like a major course change. (For the playbook of its genius former CEO. more, see “What You Need to Know: As a close observer of Apple before, Tim Cook and his OS X Yosemite and iOS 8” on page 46.) during, and after Jobs’s tenure, I can tell lieutenants are you that the Apple of today is not playing COOK IN CHARGE by the Steve Jobs playbook—except for immersed in Apple Those developments are just the latest the bit that demanded that everyone stop culture, but they’re indicators that this is not Steve’s Apple, asking what Steve would do. Tim Cook applying it to an but rather the post-Steve Apple. I might and his lieutenants are immersed in the ever-changing world. even argue that Apple executives have Apple culture that Steve Jobs created, of been able to unmake some decisions course, but they’re applying the culture that Jobs—perhaps unwisely—insisted to an ever-changing world. on. For starters, the “thermonuclear” Phil Schiller, and the rest of Apple’s brain patent war that Jobs started with Google WE GOT THE BEATS trust to make such calls. Beats Music, may be abating, since the results of the Take Apple’s $3 billion acquisition of though new and small, is an excellent trials have consisted of embarrassing Beats. Apple bought plenty of compa- service with smart curation features. It disclosures, huge legal fees, and mild nies during Jobs’s run, but most of them gets Apple in the game. slaps on the wrist for the infringers. were below-the-waterline businesses Then there’s Beats Electronics. We can I believe that if Apple stuck by the old that Apple broke up for their component debate the quality of its headphones, but “What Would Steve Do?” playbook, the parts, integrating their employees into they are successful and cool. By buying company truly would be doomed, the Apple workforce. Beats, in contrast, Beats, not only does Apple get to influ- looking backward and second-guessing is an existing name that will presumably ence the future of a popular product key decisions based on strategies that continue—forcing Apple to steward (and ensure that it works best with Apple’s are increasingly out-of-date. Instead, another customer-facing brand for the latest stuff), but the company also keeps Apple executives are making interesting first time in recent memory. its competitors’ grubby mitts off of it. and risky decisions. Whether the Beats Jobs was famously disdainful of the And then there’s this year’s Worldwide acquisition ultimately succeeds or concept of music subscription services. Developers Conference, in which all sorts fails, and whatever the impact of the Were he alive today, even he might of rules changed. Apple dropped the changes unveiled at WWDC, the fact change his mind on that point, but since cloak of secrecy, with developers free to that these things happened at all is a he’s not here, it’s up to Cook, Eddy Cue, speak about what they learned and with good sign for Apple’s future. ■

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Nine Technologies That Apple Disrupted at WWDC A fleet of new products in iOS and OS X promise stiff competition for some developers.

BY MARCO TABINI

his year’s WWDC keynote was SCREEN-RECORDING APPS make-up in 3D—pretty much what Itty Bitty jam-packed with new technolo- OS X Yosemite will allow users to make Apps’ Reveal (revealapp.com) does. gies destined for the screen recordings from compatible iOS versions of iOS and OS X. devices. This capability targets develop- LAUNCH ASSISTANTS TWhile this is great news for users, a ers who wish to create software pre- OS X Yosemite includes the most number of developers who will soon be views for the App Store—but it will significant reimagining of Spotlight in competing directly with Apple may not compete with apps that provide such years—the search tool has a new look welcome the innovations. functionality for a fee, such as Squirrels’ and added functionality. Many of these Reflector (airsquirrels.com). new features draw inspiration from popu- CLOUD STORAGE lar launch assistants such as Running iCloud has matured into an essential DEVELOPER TOOLS with Crayons’ Alfred (alfredapp.com). element of the Apple ecosystem. With When it comes to creating productivity the introduction of iCloud Drive (go. tools for programmers, Apple often BETA APP DISTRIBUTION macworld.com/iclouddrive), services borrows ideas from its own developer Beta app distribution gets a major over- such as will face pressure from ecosystem. This year is no exception. The haul in iOS 8, thanks largely to Apple’s Cupertino’s aggressive pricing and latest version of Xcode is designed to acquisition of Burstly (go.macworld.com/ iCloud Drive’s seamless integration make writing apps easier than ever, with burstly), developer of the TestFlight with iOS, OS X, and even Windows. the ability to “explode” an app’s visual beta-testing service (testflightapp.com).

10 MACWORLD • SEPTEMBER 2014 That puts pressure on other companies in this space, such as HockeyApp Apple Unveils the Swift (hockeyapp.net), although they still have the upper hand in cross-platform support. Language for iOS and OS X

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MAIL APPS Apps such as Evernote’s Skitch (evernote. com/skitch) will have to step up their game to vie with Mail’s new Markup feature, which allows users to draw, sign, and highlight documents and attachments.

MESSAGING APPS ith plans afoot to timesaving capabilities that developers gains support for location gradually retire the have wanted to see in their languages. sharing, video and audio messages, and long-used Objective- Many Apple developers expressed SMS text messaging. Apple is clearly C programming excitement at the news. That enthusi- going after the many competitors in this Wlanguage, Apple has introduced a asm is understandable, given the space, including ’s Skype new language, called Swift, for shortcomings of the aging Objective-C, (skype.com) and ’s WhatsApp designing apps to run on Apple iOS created in the 1980s. Although Apple Messenger (whatsapp.com). devices and Macintosh computers. has done a commendable job of main- The company designed Swift (go. taining the language and its developer THE INTERNET OF THINGS macworld.com/swift) to be as intui- ecosystem, Objective-C still suffers from Apple aims to position itself at the center tive and easy to use as popular an unnecessary degree of complexity, of the so-called Internet of Things with the interpreted languages such as notes Al Hilwa, the program director for introduction of two new technologies: Python and JavaScript, while main- software development research at IDC. HealthKit (go.macworld.com/healthkit) taining the speed and flexibility of Apple based Objective-C on C, a and HomeKit (go.macworld.com/homekit). compiled languages such as C++. difficult-to-master programming lan- The company’s focus on privacy in this “Swift is fast. It is modern. It is guage, and Objective-C’s approach to arena pits it against Google, which designed for safety, and it enables a passing messages within or between caused an uproar when it revealed its level of interactivity and develop- applications is equally hard to grasp. plans to sell ads on all sorts of devices ment you’ve never seen before on Swift may be easier to learn and work (go.macworld.com/googledeviceads). ■ the platform,” said Apple CEO Tim with, but Hilwa speculates that it will still Cook, who introduced the language take developers time to switch away to a surprised audience at the from Objective-C. Apple is working to OUT OF THE Worldwide Developers Conference. make that transition easier. Swift code NEST Google Cook explained that Apple can utilize the same runtime system as plans to sell designed Swift to eliminate entire Objective-C and relies on the same ads on devices categories of common programming memory-management module. It also such as smart thermostats— errors. It includes modern constructs can use Objective-C’s Cocoa libraries. but Apple has its such as generics, closures, type “Your Swift code can fit alongside your own take on the inference, multiple return types, Objective-C code and C code in the Internet of Things. operator overloads, and other same application,” Cook said. ■

SEPTEMBER 2014 • MACWORLD 11 MACUSER

WWDC 2014: The Developers Take the Stage This year’s WWDC focused on showcasing something a bit different: the cult of the developer.

BY DAVE WISKUS EVOLVING OS This year’s WWDC keynote led off with what’s new in the operating systems (both mobile and Mac).

he Worldwide Developers answering SMS messages, as long as are the icons of today’s popular culture. Conference 2014 keynote (go. your iPhone is nearby. Also, limits on Most of us think of developer tools macworld.com/wwdc2014) email attachment sizes are a thing of the the way we think of a mechanic’s tools: seemed like a developer’s past. And the new Handoff feature allows functionally impressive but esoteric. We Tdream: extensions, TestFlight, third-party apps to seamlessly transition work in may never know how many app devel- keyboards, a framework for building progress from an iOS device to a Mac or opers were watching the keynote video, cloud-based apps, a compelling successor vice versa. Any one of these things would but it’s a safe bet that Apple knows. to Objective-C, and more. But what does be a welcome development; together, Apple also knows that the tools devel- this avalanche of empowerment mean for they make for some of the most impres- opers use have a direct impact on the developers, and what impact will it have sive transformations in Apple’s history. quality of the apps they build, and this on the future of Mac and iOS apps? year, it put those tools front and center. CEO Tim Cook and Craig Federighi, DEVELOPERS IN THE SPOTLIGHT The reality is that the app industry has senior vice president of software engi- But the really interesting thing hap- matured in an unexpected way, and the neering, jumped right into the good stuff, pened after the OS-upgrade show. The people who use apps are passionate showing off the new features in OS X keynote jumped into a series of API about them. Apps are a huge hit. And Yosemite and iOS 8 (see “What You Need (application programming interface) and tools such as TestFlight can bring more to Know: OS X Yosemite and iOS 8,” framework announcements. It was the nondevelopers in on the software- page 46). In Yosemite, you can use your largest number of APIs Apple has ever making process; these new entrants offer Mac as a phone, making calls and mentioned at a keynote, each one more a behind-the-scenes look that reveals impressive than the many of these apps to be less the last. CloudKit, Health- product of an abstruse development Book, TestFlight, Swift, process and more of a creative endeavor. extensions, widgets—it was enough to make a A NEW OPPORTUNITY developer weep. Apple is only too eager to embrace this At WWDC 2014, trend. This year, Apple has provided Apple showed us the developers with a series of things we future of Mac OS X, of get to do, rather than things we need to iOS, and of apps—and do. Unlike the visual refresh Apple gave as it did so, it acknowl- iOS 7 last year, which required us as edged a plain truth: developers to rethink an existing set of Apple’s real consumer problems, the new tools in Yosemite and product is its commu- iOS 8 open a gateway to truly forward- NEW DEVELOPMENTS The keynote centered on Apple’s new tools for developers. nity of developers. They thinking digital sophistication. ■

12 MACWORLD • SEPTEMBER 2014 Will iOS 8 and OS X Yosemite Keep Us Safer? Apple defends user privacy with iOS extensions and security enhancements in the Swift language.

BY RICH MOGULL

ith a mere two hours to sandboxes limit the damage a compro- outperform Objective-C’s model. cover the wealth of mised or malicious app can do. The changes in iOS 8 and Yosemite advances in its operating In iOS 8, developers will be able to appear to be less about adding new systems and developer open their apps to external communica- security and privacy features than about Wtools, Apple offered few details in the tions via extensions. An extension is like opening those features to developers WWDC keynote about security updates. a little receptor on the edge of the and extending them deeper into the app Still, if you’re somewhat familiar with sandbox that receives a message and ecosystem. The more fully Apple Apple’s platforms, the future of Mac and acts on it. Extensions register them- enables security for developers, the iOS security looks a little clearer: For the selves with iOS, which mediates com- better our devices will be able to next generation of products, extensions munications between apps. combat the dark side of the Internet. ■ are the name of the (security) game. iOS 8: PRYING OPEN TOUCH ID Only open combat on the Internet will demonstrate AND THE SANDBOX how well Swift’s security works, but it is likely to The inclusion of the Touch ID fingerprint reader in the iPhone 5s made it easy outperform Objective-C’s model. and convenient to use strong pass- words. According to Apple, less than half of iPhone users enabled a passcode Rather than opening up the flow of before the advent of Touch ID. On the information willy-nilly, extensions obey iPhone 5s, 83 percent now use this the rules of the sandbox. Any requests crucial safety feature. to do something new on your device, Touch ID makes using a password such as communicate over the network almost effortless. With Touch ID, when or access a camera or microphone, will you first turn on your iPhone, or after you still require user approval. The fuzzy part reboot it, you enter your password, which is where Apple will draw the line in the phone stores in the Secure Enclave terms of asking for that approval. portion of the A7 processor. Your finger- What is clear is that iOS will act as the print unlocks and releases this password broker between extensions, which to the rest of the operating system. should maintain security since apps In iOS 8, Apple is extending this model won’t be communicating directly—or to include third-party application creden- potentially attacking each other. If you tials. Apps that store their credentials in try a new keyboard app, for instance, it the iOS keychain will be able to use won’t send all your keystrokes to an Touch ID to authenticate the user. That attacker (as has happened on Android). doesn’t mean banks and retailers can use your fingerprint instead of a pass- SWIFT CLIMB IN YOSEMITE word for authentication. Rather, Touch ID One advance in OS X 10.10 has signifi- allows an app to keep your password cant long-term implications: the intro- locked in the keychain until you release it duction of the Swift programming with a registered fingerprint. language. According to Apple, Swift The details of other security enhance- wipes out buffer overflows and a series ments are a bit murkier. Apple has long of other security issues that plague restricted communications between most languages. Only open combat apps to maintain the security and on the Internet will demonstrate integrity of app sandboxes. While this how well Swift’s security practice at times frustrates developers, works, but it’s likely to

SEPTEMBER 2014 • MACWORLD 13 MACUSER

WWDC 2014: Apple Design Awards Winners Apple recognizes apps that set new standards in design and innovation.

BY ROMAN LOYOLA

pple describes the recipients of its annual images and constructions into original Apple Design Awards gameplay as you guide a princess (go.macworld.com/ through each map and figure out the appledesignawardsA ) as apps that optical illusions. “raise the bar in design, technology, and innovation.” Developers of the PANOPERFECT winning apps haul in a load of Apple HalfPeeled’s free PanoPerfect (go. hardware, as well as a trophy cube. macworld.com/panoperfect) addresses Here are this year’s winners. the lack of support for panoramic photos in social apps. It helps you find a variety of ADDIMAL ADVENTURE panoramic shots, as well as share those Teachley’s Addimal Adventure (free; you’ve taken on your iPhone. go.macworld.com/addimal) is a game for kids who are learning single-digit THREES addition. Players must save the city of A favorite among Macworld editors El Sumado by solving problems that The winners of the (go.macworld.com/threespick), Sirvo’s exercise different math strategies. Apple Design Awards Threes ($1; go.macworld.com/threes) is a are products that challenging and nicely designed tile- BLEK matching game. Threes has a lot of The point of Denis Mikan’s Blek ($1; go. ‘raise the bar in personality, expressed through whimsi- macworld.com/blek) is to draw lines that design, technology, cal visuals and comical sounds. then animate to knock out dots as they and innovation.’ appear on the screen. The game sounds SKY GUIDE easy enough, but it gets more compli- Search for thousands of celestial objects cated as you try to figure out the right with Fifth Star Labs’ Sky Guide ($2; go. gestures and avoid obstacles. DEVICE 6 macworld.com/skyguide). Equipped with Simogo’s innovative Device 6 ($4; the latest app technologies, it performs CINEMAGRAPH PRO go.macworld.com/device6) breaks equally well on the iPhone and iPad. This professional graphics tool allows new ground. This combination novel you to create “flixels”—combinations of and game integrates sound, visuals, and STOREHOUSE—VISUAL videos and photos. With Flixel Photos’ motion, requiring you to rotate your iOS STORYTELLING Cinemagraph Pro ($100; go.macworld. device in different directions. Designed for the iPad, Storehouse— com/cinemagpro), you can quickly make Visual Storytelling (free; go.macworld. animated GIFs from video clips, apply LEO’S FORTUNE com/storehouse) allows you to combine filters to videos, fix blemishes, and mask In Leo’s Fortune, a for iOS photos, videos, and text to tell a story a specific area for animation. ($5; go.macworld.com/leosfort), you’re using built-in templates, and then publish looking for the thief who stole your gold. it to the Storehouse community or DAY ONE Lush environments, active backgrounds, distribute it to friends and family via Bloom Built’s Day One for Mac ($7; and challenging obstacles fill the 25 email, Facebook, or Twitter. go.macworld.com/dayone) makes it easy levels of this game from 1337 & Senri. and fun to keep a journal. You can integrate YAHOO NEWS DIGEST text, video, and photos into entries; and a MONUMENT VALLEY Yahoo News Digest (go.macworld.com/ calendar and support for tags and hashtags Monument Valley ($2; go.macworld. ynd) for iOS provides curated content on help you organize it all. The developer com/monvalley) sets out to do some- top news topics. Updated twice daily, the does make an iOS rendition, but Apple thing big and succeeds. This game from free app strikes a fine balance between gave the award to the Mac version. Ustwo incorporates Escher-style quick summaries and in-depth articles. ■

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Apple’s Secretive Acquisition Moves Is Apple stepping up the pace of acquisitions?

BY JOEL MATHIS SECRET SAUCE When it comes to the acquisitions process, Apple holds its cards pretty close to its chest.

pple’s acquisition in late May CONTRIBUTING FACTORS and more, so Apple is looking to stay of Beats Music and Beats According to analysts, Apple looks for ahead of the market.” Electronics for $3 billion (go. three things when making a deal. Bajarin offers several examples: macworld.com/beatsrep) was Synergy of brand and culture: The 2008 purchase of P.A. Semi (go. significantA even beyond its industry- “[Apple is] very good at music,” says macworld.com/pasemi), a semiconduc- shaking ramifications. The deal also Wedbush Securities analyst Michael tor design group, fostered the creation offered a rare peek into Cupertino’s Pachter, pointing to the company’s of Apple’s A5 processor, which Bajarin usually clandestine acquisitions process. history with the iPod and the iTunes describes as “one of the most innovative Critics have long charged that Apple Music Store. “Beats is a similar brand— SoC [system on a chip] designs in the moves too slowly when it comes to [it has] a perception of quality, mar- market today.” Similarly, the 2012 buying outside companies and new keted well.” purchase of AuthenTec (go.macworld. technologies, but that seems to be “There has to be a cultural fit [with com/authentec) laid the foundation for changing (go.macworld.com/cook). CEO Apple],” says consumer technology the iPhone 5s’s Touch ID. Tim Cook noted in April 2014 that Apple analyst Ben Bajarin of Creative Strategies. A way to strengthen weak areas: had made 24 strategic acquisitions over “Apple is not just looking at the tech.” With its 2013 purchases of digital mapping the previous 18 months. Innovation: “[Apple has] picked up companies (go.macworld.com/digmap), Whether the number of acquisitions is the pace [of acquisitions], but that is due Apple was clearly attempting to shore up actually increasing is hard to pin down: to the nature of how fast innovation is a weak spot after it ditched Google Maps As in all of its processes, Apple puts a happening around the industry,” Bajarin in favor of its own unloved Maps for iOS. premium on secrecy. says. “Many companies are getting Analysts see the acquisition of Beats “[Apple is] not very visible about those funded, creating unique innovations, as a way to make progress in the things,” says Charles Golvin, an indepen- streaming music arena: The underdevel- dent analyst, “so it’s difficult to ascertain oped iTunes Radio is struggling to make whether [the company has] picked up the headway against services like Pandora pace or if it’s [just] become more visible.” and , and Beats Music offers One of the best sources of informa- ready-made technology, an enthusiastic tion is Wikipedia, which offers a histori- audience, and credibility in an area cal list of Apple’s mergers and acquisi- where Apple is seeking to gain a better tions (go.macworld.com/applewiki). The foothold (see Playlist on page 82). list contains 59 entries, including 13 just One final element in the speeded-up in 2013. In pure dollar terms, though, pace and size of acquisitions is Apple’s the purchase of Beats alone would gigantic hoard of cash—around $150 likely surpass the value of all the billion as of the most recent quarter— acquisitions Apple has made in any which the company’s investors fully single year of its history. expect it to put to good use. ■

16 MACWORLD • SEPTEMBER 2014 Remembering eWorld, Apple’s Forgotten Online Service Apple’s eWorld fostered a sense of community that far outlived the technology itself.

BY BENJ EDWARDS

efore the Internet’s meteoric rise, large centralized dial-up services such as America Online, Prodigy, and Compu- BServe dominated the online landscape. In this competitive climate 20 years ago (go.macworld.com/isp), Apple introduced eWorld, a subscription-based information service for Mac and Newton users (go. macworld.com/eworld). Although Apple shuttered eWorld in 1996, the service is still notable for its unique city-based interface and as a symbol of Apple’s overreaching ambition in that era. Users accessed eWorld through Apple’s custom client software and connected by way of a dial-up modem. Once you connected, the eWorld software displayed a playfully illustrated URBAN LIFE eWorld’s main screen offered a playful view of a virtual city. aerial view of a small city. Each building in it represented a different focus, THE END OF containing articles, chat rooms, discus- While its numbers were never THE LINE sion boards, and downloads. For exam- During the last ple, clicking the Business and Finance stunning, eWorld fostered a healthy few months of Plaza building presented the user with and devoted online community. 1995, it became articles from Inc. magazine, business- apparent that themed discussion boards, and stock Apple would quotes. Other buildings focused on macworld.com/eworlddelay). On top of post staggering losses (around $700 games and entertainment, shopping, those problems, the consumer-targeted million) at the end of the quarter. Ser- learning, and Apple product support. Internet hit in a big way in 1994. vices tangential to its primary profit At launch, the service cost $8.95 a On the service’s first birthday, Apple center—hardware—had to go. Sadly, that month, including two free hours of access. announced that eWorld had attracted included eWorld. Additional access cost $7.95 an hour from 90,000 members. At the time, AOL When Apple announced in March 1996 6 a.m. to 6 p.m., $4.95 at other times. measured its subscribers in the millions. that eWorld would close, many subscrib- While those prices seem high today, they Apple planned a Windows client, but ers reacted with huge disappointment. were in line with those of competitors. that project never materialized. While its numbers were never stunning, In 1995, Apple introduced an Internet the service fostered a healthy and TROUBLE IN EWORLD On-Ramp that gave eWorld users access devoted online following. At the end of its From its start in June 1994, eWorld to Internet newsgroups, FTP sites, 22-month life span, eWorld boasted only suffered from a lack of marketing and mailing lists, and the Web. Throughout 147,500 subscribers—a paltry number promotion. And because it took so long 1995, eWorld membership numbers rose compared to AOL’s 3.5 million. for Apple to make changes to its manu- slowly. Behind the scenes, Apple began But for those users who forged real, facturing processes, nearly a whole year planning the transition to an ISP model. lasting relationships on eWorld, the elapsed before the company bundled the And then the bottom fell out, putting service was never about numbers. It was eWorld software with all new Macs (go. Apple’s projects into limbo. about family and community. ■

SEPTEMBER 2014 • MACWORLD 17 MACUSER

You Can’t Sue Your Way to Innovation Apple may not have much choice about taking on its competitors in the courts—but are endless lawsuits distracting it from its primary mission of innovation?

BY MARCO TABINI

n the litigious world of mobile tech- nology, it’s hard to keep track of who is suing whom, but more and more often Apple’s name is appearing in Ithe headlines. Given the sheer number of lawsuits in play between the folks from Cupertino and other major industry players, I am starting to find much of this legal ballyhoo a little boring—so much so that I’m sometimes even tempted to root for the other guys.

START YOUR PHOTOCOPIERS The products that have come out of Cupertino’s labs in the last ten years have informed the design of just about every other device in their respective categories. After Apple introduced the iPhone, practically every other smart- phone started to look like it. The iPad essentially invented a whole new product category. Even the MacBook IDENTICAL COUSINS The similarity of the original iPhone (left) and Samsung’s Galaxy S (right) has led to litigation. has changed how we perceive laptops to such a degree that competitors can’t denly decided to drop all of the com- INNOVATE, DON’T LITIGATE resist finding “inspiration” in its looks. pany’s Android-related lawsuits, the Of late, Apple’s holy war against Android Apple enthusiasts find it hard to board would probably drum him out of seems to be eclipsing its ability to wow watch competitors copy the company’s the office. And Apple has a big enough customers. Though Apple might see the products and innovations. Apple built its army of lawyers and experts to take on lawsuits as necessary to prevent com- , , and Macs with the idea any opponent without shorting Jonathan petitors from catching up, such a that computers should make our lives Ive and his creative team. strategy seems destined to fail, given better, and these devices have suc- In other words, lawsuits or not, Apple how rapidly the quality of Android ceeded so well that many of us have is here to stay, because it has massive products is improving. formed an emotional attachment to cash reserves and because it still makes And the funny thing is, I want those them—and will pay a premium for them. products that stand head and shoulders other products to improve. Apple has above the competition’s. always done best when acting as David A NECESSARY EVIL But Apple’s name is coming up in the to competing Goliaths; the role of It’s also true that Apple has to aggres- press too often for the wrong reasons. lumbering corporate giant doesn’t suit sively pursue every legal avenue to Whatever else lawsuits may accomplish, its upstart nature. Both Google and protect its products. If Tim Cook sud- they don’t help Cupertino innovate. Samsung are doing an excellent job of keeping Apple on its toes, and that should ultimately result in better Apple has always done best when acting as David products at more competitive prices— to competing Goliaths; the role of lumbering benefiting us, the end users. Here’s hoping that whatever Apple has in the corporate giant doesn’t suit its upstart nature. pipeline will once more change the way we look at the world. ■

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DISPLAY Asus PB287Q Is a Budget-Friendly 4K Display

Asus’s speakers. On the downside, $3500). The Asus PB287Q 28-inch the PB287Q lacks a USB hub Asus display’s mmmhM PB287Q, and has a clunky on-screen colors shift as one of only settings menu. you move away PRICE: $649 a handful of Because 4K monitors offer from the center, COMPANY: affordable four times as many pixels as and text Asus UltraHD standard 1080p high-definition appears slightly asus.com monitors, has displays, they require serious grainy. The an impres- graphics horsepower. The higher pixel sive feature list, including PB287Q can run at 60Hz density makes 3840-by-2160-pixel resolution, connected to a compatible icons and screen LED backlighting, two HDMI 1.4 graphics card via DisplayPort elements look small, ports, a DisplayPort 1.2 connec- 1.2, but operates at a cursor- and test photo colors tion, and a bright 330 cd/m2 dragging 30Hz over HDMI 1.4. were a bit muted. luminance rating. Its adjustable The PB287Q has a limited If you need an UltraHD option at a good price. It works stand includes support for angle of view relative to display to view large images or best with DisplayPort 1.2, so Mobile High-Definition Link, Sharp’s PN-K321 (which is work on 4K video, the Asus make sure your hardware is as well as decent built-in 2W much more expensive at PB287Q is a serviceable compatible.—JAMES GALBRAITH

BATTERY UTILITY Battery Diag Monitors Your MacBook’s Battery

As my battery’s charge Health or Cycles buttons to Battery Diag 15-inch capacity—likely to be see more specifics. mmmh 2.3GHz less than 100 percent Click Battery Diag’s Info (i) PRICE: Retina on an older laptop—and button to see battery capacity $2 MacBook the amount of charge (the original maximum, current COMPANY: Rocky Sand Studio Pro heads remaining, both as maximum, and current level) rockysandstudio. toward its percentages and in and temperature, the amount com second actual milliamp hours. of power your system is using, MAC GEM birthday, I’m The app also provides and other information. becoming four easy-to-read status If you’re mainly looking for a more curious about the icons that indicate quick way to see basic battery health of its aging built-in power source, battery data, Battery Diag does the battery. Battery Diag is a health, cycle count, and job very well, and it’s easy on simple, handsome utility for time remaining on the the eyes.—ROMAN LOYOLA checking basic battery stats. dig through screens, Battery charge (when the laptop is Battery Diag displays some Diag presents the most unplugged) or time until the MAC Mac Gems are apps of the same data that OS X’s important stats with a single battery is fully charged (when GEM that offer standout utility or unique features at System Information app does. click on its menu-bar icon. the laptop is plugged in). a great price. But instead of forcing you to The utility displays the Move your cursor over the

20 MACWORLD • SEPTEMBER 2014 BUSINESS SOFTWARE Daylite 5 Tracks Your Business Contacts and Projects

Marketcir- a third-party service to do so. Daylite 5 mmmmM cle’s Daylite Setting up the Daylite 5 is a central- server took a few minutes. PRICE: $300 ized, com- I began by importing data COMPANY: prehensive from Apple’s Contacts and Marketcircle calendar, Calendar apps. Importing marketcircle. com contact, and contacts was a snap, but on task manager the calendar import I ran into that’s designed to help you some glitches. keep tabs on your business, Daylite then starts tracking prep for new customers, and tasks and projects. Create a manage your clients’ projects project and place associated and birthdays. It integrates items, such as contacts, with and other managers, companies, email apps, and works on your Mac messages, notes, and letters, and all of your mobile devices. into it. As you link projects broad view of how many open Apart from its import issues At first glance, Daylite may and clients, and add tasks and opportunities you’ve won, lost, and weak documentation, seem overwhelming. It requires calendar items, the Home or are waiting to complete. Daylite is a great tool for a database server, so you’ll screen displays the schedule Daylite also offers reports organizing and managing have to dedicate a computer for a given day or week. showing, say, a list of clients every aspect of your busi- to that task. You can set this Daylite’s new Insights with birthdays in a given week, ness projects and relation- arrangement up yourself or use reporting tool gives you a or incomplete project tasks. ships.—JEFFERY BATTERSBY

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1 Speedmark 9 is Macworld Lab’s standard test tool for benchmarking systems running Mac OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion). For more information, see go.macworld.com/speedmark9. 2 Not yet tested.

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PRESENTATION SOFTWARE Deckset for Mac Excels at Minimalist Presentations

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CAMERA Fujifilm X-E2 Is a Compact Camera for Photo Buffs

The Fujifilm The X-E2 features a DSLR- your needs, Fujifilm X-E2 X-E2 resem- size APS-C sensor with a plus a vacant mmmmm bles a classic 16.3-megapixel effective hot shoe for Leica cam- resolution. The eye-level accessory PRICE: $1399 era, with viewfinder offers a whopping attachment, a COMPANY: rangefinder- 2.36-million-dot resolution; the pop-up flash, Fuji like dials LCD just beneath helps in eight digital fujifilmusa.com that govern composing shots. The camera filter effects, shutter can switch between the two in and Fuji’s Film speed and exposure—but it an instant, thanks to the eye Simulation gives a nod to modernity with sensor next to the viewfinder. modes. What’s wireless image transfer and a The 3-inch, 1.04-million-dot missing, besides an optical video mode capable of LCD cannot tilt or swivel; it’s low-pass filter (which Fuji capturing full HD footage at fixed to the camera’s back- jettisoned in order to eke out a swift 60-fps rate. plate. Other controls match more detail), is a dedicated whistles, such as the eye- Fujifilm has geared the what you’d expect to see on shooting-mode wheel. level viewfinder. camera toward semiprofes- a digital SLR, including dedi- With its generous width The X-E2 is worth consider- sionals, in contrast to its cated buttons for autoexpo- and faux-leather front, the ing for its knockout images consumer-level X-A1, and the sure lock and autofocus lock, X-E2 feels better in the hand alone. In terms of sharpness, X-E2 comes with a price tag to drive modes, and a couple of than the much cheaper X-A1, color, and richness of detail, its match: $1399 for a kit with a customizable function buttons. but you’ll pay a premium for pictures were almost on a par standard 18mm–55mm lens In all, the X-E2 has four that design and for the with a DSLR’s. Video looked (body only is $1000). buttons you can tweak to suit camera’s other bells and equally great.—GAVIN STOKER

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STORAGE DEVICE G-Drive Pro With Thunderbolt Offers Compact Design

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Whenever I list of internal and external customization options. You volumes become available or Mountain 1.0.2 want to take volumes (including any can hide internal, system, and when they are unmounted, mmmm my MacBook connected servers); click the unmounted volumes, as well and when it’s safe to unplug somewhere, eject button next to a volume as open newly mounted an external volume. PRICE: $6 I need to go to immediately unmount it. volumes in the file manager The thing I like best about COMPANY: to the Finder The menu also lists volumes of your choice. You can also Mountain is the tool’s simplic- Appgineers and discon- you’ve recently connected to; set alerts to notify you when ity. When it comes time to appgineers.de nect my 1TB click the upside-down eject unmount a disk, you just click MAC GEM LaCie drive icon next to one of these a button or press a keyboard (and when I volumes to remount it. shortcut. If you regularly attach sometimes forget to do so, Mountain’s menu includes external volumes to your Mac the MacBook scolds me for an option to connect to a laptop, Mountain could make not ejecting my drives server, as well as an “Unmount your life a little easier. properly). It seems like a All and Sleep” option. The Note that due to Apple’s pretty minor hassle—but over latter command is the sandboxing requirements, the time it turns into a headache. one-click solution I’ve been Mac App Store version lacks Appgineer’s $6 Mountain looking for: It unmounts all some of the features offered offers a solution I particularly connected volumes (except in the version on the devel- like. Mountain installs as a the startup drive), and then oper’s website, so I recom- menu-bar utility with an eject puts the computer to sleep. mend purchasing it directly icon. Click that icon to see a Mountain has a of from the vendor.—DAN MILLER MACUSER Reviews

DISPLAY NEC MultiSync EA274WMi Senses Your Presence

The NEC detector: When no one is NEC EA274WMi MultiSync present, the screen dims. mmmmh EA274WMi When someone is in front of is a 27-inch the screen, it returns to its PRICE: $799 widescreen previous brightness settings. COMPANY: desktop The EA274WMi’s screen NEC monitor with looks great. You can move necdisplay.com high-quality from side to side or up and IPS-panel down without obvious color technology, LED backlights, shifts, thanks to the IPS panel. and an antiglare screen. This In tests, grays were neutral and 2560-by-1440-pixel monitor whites a little warm, but I find connects to your Mac or PC that preferable to a too-cool via DisplayPort, HDMI, DVD-D, screen. Skin tones looked or VGA, and offers a four-port natural and text was easy to USB hub for peripherals. You read, even at small sizes. can also connect two sources plugging in headphones. The The energy- and privacy- If you’re looking for a large, to the display and use NEC’s stand can pivot between saving Human Sensor on the high-quality IPS monitor with Picture By Picture feature to portrait and landscape modes, bottom edge of the bezel an environmentally friendly view both simultaneously. swivel left or right, tilt forward recognizes when someone is attitude, the NEC MultiSync The EA274WMi provides and back, and adjust a in front of the display. Basi- EA274WMi is a great choice. built-in speakers and a port for generous 5 inches in height. cally, this sensor is a motion —JAMES GALBRAITH

ADVENTURE GAME Tesla Effect Is a Case You Might Not Want to Crack

Atlus’s Tesla in the seven years since his telling dumb jokes, and trying the more challenging Gamer Tesla Effect: A Tex Effect: A Tex last case (explored in 1998’s to uncover the details of the mode, which hides hints and Murphy Murphy Tex Murphy: Overseer). All past seven years. Bolted onto stops highlighting objects, Adventure Adventure Murphy has to work with is a this is a 3D adventure game in these puzzles become a mmmM marks the few clues, and he’s off to which you wander around, pick tedious nuisance. PRICE: return of a solve the crime, encountering up objects, and solve puzzles. When assorted enemies $20 cult classic characters such as a sleazy The first half of the game enter the scene, the fun really COMPANY: Atlus from the rival PI and famed inventor isn’t bad. Things start to go grinds to a halt. If they catch atlus.com 1990s—Tex Nikola Tesla along the way. wrong when you hit one too you, the game ends—and you’ll Murphy, a Set in San Francisco after a many assemble-the-object get caught over and over full-motion video (FMV) nuclear war, the game is pulp puzzles. If you have turned on again.—HAYDEN DINGMAN franchise. In these hilariously noir, but more Naked Gun than cheesy games, live actors play Maltese Falcon. Tesla Effect is out scenes that are an unholy saturated with jokes, some combination of bad B-movie hilarious, many groan-worthy. and point-and-click adventure. It renders sequences in Tex Murphy is a hard- gorgeous HD, and numerous boiled, wisecracking private actors from the original series investigator who awakes in make a comeback. the middle of an abduction Tesla Effect is basically two and discovers that he has games in one: In the FMV amnesia. He has forgotten sections, you’re questioning everything that has happened friends and suspects, flirting,

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The Latest on the iPhone, iPod Touch, iOS CENTRAL iPad, and App Store

Why iOS 8 Will Matter to Educators Here’s what one iPads-for-education expert thinks about the newest iOS and its benefits for schools.

BY FRASER SPEIRS

everal years ago, I implemented EXTENSIBILITY read-later material. In iOS 7, the ability to the world’s first whole-school, The critical iOS 8 feature for someone send links to Pocket has been something one-to-one iPad program (go. who wants to use the iPad as a primary that the makers of apps such as Tweet- macworld.com/ipadproject), in computing device is extensibility. bot and Twitterrific have had to build in. Swhich all students in the school use iPads Until now, iOS apps have had limited But what if I want to send my Twitter links full time. The iPad has served us well, but means of working together. For exam- to Evernote instead? Under iOS 7, I’d recently I started to worry that it would ple, if I want to save a webpage in need to lobby the developers of the apps always be the Mac’s little sibling. Before Evernote on my iPad, the fact that I use to incorporate Evernote support. In WWDC last year, I wrote a blog post about and Evernote cannot communicate iOS 8, the Evernote developers could the limitations of iOS that we’d discovered directly is a serious impediment. make such a thing happen themselves. when using it for serious productivity work. Extensibility will end that. (See page 32 Extensibility promises to open up a Last year, I didn’t get much that was on for more details.) Apps such as Evernote whole new range of workflows—and to my iOS 7 wish list. (We did get AirDrop, or Pocket, for instance, could provide an make them accessible to ordinary users. and it has been transformational in how extension that hooks into Safari and clips easily it lets us move large files around the current webpage to their respective iCLOUD DRIVE the classroom.) At WWDC 2014, Apple services, without the user’s leaving Safari. As a teacher, I have gone from spending delivered on a huge chunk of my wish list The benefits don’t extend just to Web time in each lesson helping students find with iOS 8, and I couldn’t be happier. browsing. Twitter is a huge source of my the files they saved somewhere on their

30 MACWORLD • SEPTEMBER 2014 ILLUSTRATION BY ALEXEI VELLA Macs, to having them readily understand that “your Pages files are inside Pages” on the iPad. iOS’s reworking of the file system has been a huge plus for those of us who work with novice users. iCloud Drive puts the file system back into iOS. I’m conflicted about it. First, from a teaching point of view, I hope that Apple is not introducing the ability to “lose” your files on iOS by saving them in the wrong place. Apple does still seem to support the concept of having app-specific folders for files, but I’m reserving judgment. MORE OPTIONS Second, if every app adopts iCloud Extensibility in iOS 8 could make the Save To menu a lot bigger (and a lot more useful). Drive, I wonder if that will lead to students’ eating up their iCloud storage allocation iOS 8 brings to the table in this regard KEYBOARD REPLACEMENT more quickly. Apple is lowering the prices is fairly minor but still very welcome. I have not seen much evidence that the for extra storage, but schools will need a For starters, it offers new Mobile Device iOS keyboard is a barrier to using iPads. way to provide students more storage that Management controls and queries that Typing is all about practice, something doesn’t involve handing out gift cards. It’s allow a management server to interrogate our students get plenty of. That said, the not just about the cost; it’s about how easy a device about its state. One I’ll use iOS keyboard has always presented its or difficult Apple makes it to extend iCloud heavily is the ability to discover when a key caps in uppercase. It’s a problem for storage limits for students. device last backed up to iCloud; with it, I’ll younger users, who start off not knowing be able to tell when students are having any letters at all, and are always intro- MANAGEMENT FUNCTIONS trouble with their backups. duced to lowercase letters first. Now that When I started deploying iOS in my school The Apple TV has become de rigueur the iOS keyboard is replaceable, I hope in 2010, the process of setting up devices for schools making heavy use of iOS, but some enterprising developer will build a and deploying apps was exactly the same managing the boxes on large school lowercase keyboard for schools. Just as the process I followed to set up my networks has always been challenging. don’t set the letters in Comic Sans, okay? personal iPad. That process was never Sending traffic between iOS devices and going to scale beyond 100 or so devices. the Apple TV boxes across such networks iPAD 2 SUPPORT Today, iOS deployment has become far has been problematic for schools where, In the past few years, schools have been more professional and scalable. What for example, the student network and buying the iPad 2 like it was going out of the staff network are isolated from each style (which it was; Apple finally ditched it other. iOS 8 promises to solve the prob- in March). The main reason: Device-to- lem by eliminating the need for a network student ratios trump all other consider- between the two devices: Whereas iOS 7 ations. The most important thing is to get had peer-to-peer discovery, iOS 8 has to a point where students don’t have to peer-to-peer discovery and playback. share devices, and the iPad 2 made that This development is important in possible for some schools. I don’t have several ways. First, schools with com- hard data on this, but I imagine that the plex networks no longer need to find iPad 2’s installed base is disproportion- work-arounds to accommodate the ately slanted toward education. The fact Apple TV. Second, schools with no that iOS 8 will run on the iPad 2 comes as networks can still buy and use Apple TV a relief to many school IT managers. boxes in the classroom. Third (and this point is dear to my heart as a traveling iOS 8’S PROMISE consultant), visitors to the school will Overall, I’m delighted that iOS is coming not need to sneak onto the network out of a slightly awkward stage in its just to use the Apple TV. development. iOS 8 promises to take the experience of the serious iOS user STAY ORGANIZED iCloud Drive adds file-management to a whole new level. I can’t wait to see functions, but it might confuse novice users. what developers do with it. ■

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iOS Comes Into Its Own With Extensions With the advent of extensibility in iOS 8, Apple’s mobile OS is finally maturing as a platform.

BY DAN MOREN

n some respects iOS will always be the options for iOS 4. new kid on the block, the upstart, the At first blush the whippersnapper. But judging from this scope of these year’s WWDC keynote announce- extensions might Iments, the mobile OS is embarking upon seem narrow: a new stage in life—if not reaching full Sharing services, maturity, then at least growing from Notification Center childhood to adolescence. This new stage widgets, storage- doesn’t just involve the usual incremental provider options, increase in front-facing features. Rather, photo filters, a it’s something deeper—an exponential document picker, change in the mobile OS’s power, and in and even third-party the things we can do with it. And there’s keyboards are all no better sign of this evolution than the fairly specific, with introduction of extensions. targeted uses. But then there’s the POWERFUL, FLEXIBLE Extensibility enhances Notification Center and other functions. EXTEND THIS extremely broad As good as iOS is these days, it has custom actions option, which could of it, and to remain aware of its various always had pain points, in which a task promote an entirely different way of restrictions—its dependency on battery that should be simple takes too many thinking about what apps can do. life, for starters. People have long steps—or at least many more steps than Custom actions, such as the Bing maintained a “good, but…” attitude it would, say, on a Mac. Translate function that toward it. While that sentiment may not All too often such Apple showed off in its entirely disappear with iOS 8, the feeling slowdowns come when iOS 8’s new WWDC keynote, are a will recede into the background. we need to move custom actions window into much Over the past few iOS releases, we’ve between apps. The greater functionality. started to see some parity between iOS addition of multitask- capability is the They let apps project and OS X in terms of front-facing features, ing in recent iOS kind of feature a portion of their capabilities (such as Facebook integra- versions has made it that power users functionality into other tion) that roll out to both platforms simulta- easier to jump between apps, allowing you to neously. With iOS 8 and OS X Yosemite, apps, but its implemen- have longed for. harness the power of Apple is introducing underlying technolo- tation, along with iOS’s an app without even gies to both platforms at the same time: sandboxing restric- launching it. Peer-to-peer wireless networking, for one, tions, kept the process somewhat cum- The custom actions capability is now lets iOS devices and Macs talk to bersome. iOS has largely limited us to game-changing for iOS. It’s the kind of each other seamlessly. And the new Swift moving between the apps that Apple feature that power users have longed programming language applies across wants us to move between, in the manner for, largely because we’ve taken it for the Apple ecosystem. that the company wishes. granted on the Mac—the Services menu For those of us who have long loved the Extensions aim to smooth such has lived in the application menu since ability to bend the Mac to our will, iOS has transitions, though for the moment their the original release of OS X. always had an also-ran quality. But Apple’s functionality is still limited. In certain latest changes starkly position the Mac ways, the list of available extension types EQUAL PARTNERS and mobile platforms as equals and for iOS 8 (developer.apple.com/ios8) is Although iOS has matured, we users reinforce the notion that all of Apple’s reminiscent of the first list of multitasking have still had to adjust our expectations devices are here to stay. ■

32 MACWORLD • SEPTEMBER 2014 Continuity Is the Future of Apple Sales numbers for the Next Big Thing won’t matter as much as users and the stories they want to tell.

BY SERENITY CALDWELL

n Apple device can tell many connected life. And from the looks of NO MORE LIMITATIONS stories: One person can pick things, it’s going to spend the next 30 We don’t know yet whether Continuity will up an iPhone and see a years unifying those devices to help you “just work”—WWDC keynote demos are communication device; tell your story wherever you may be, one thing, millions of people using a another,A a pocket camera. But whether whatever you’re using. technology is another. We’ve seen Apple you use a device for creative endeavors, With Continuity, Apple is building a stumble and fail in this respect. But it has consumption, or both, doing so has always framework in which each device exists in been laying the groundwork for this shift involved some measure of compromise. its own space, doing what it does best. for several years, and there will always be We write email on iPhones because it’s In this world, you can fit all your work on room to grow and improve. convenient not to pull out a laptop, even an iPhone or an iPad—but why compro- Apple is making a promise here: The when the laptop is nearby. We drag Macs mise when you can instead work on what- future of computing should be free of file onto airplanes because we need their ever device is best for the task at hand? limitations and processor speeds, of data, even if we don’t need the machines. We’ve seen Apple experiment with screen sizes and portability concerns. It Instead of pursuing the best experience, this idea already—think cross-platform should render the hardware invisible and we try to make one device do everything. GarageBand projects, Messages, AirPlay, put the focus on the work you’re doing. I do this constantly. I’ll spend 15 iCloud Tabs. With iOS 8 and OS X And it’s a future where the sales minutes fighting with autocorrect on my Yosemite, the Continuity framework will numbers of the Next Big Thing won’t iPhone to chat with a friend, all the while continue to bring this experimental world matter much. Instead, the key will be the sitting in front of my MacBook Air. I’ll tote into our real one. Swipe news stories Apple ecosystem—the users who tap the computer across the house to read from your iPad to your Mac. Answer calls into it, and the stories they want to tell. an article rather than pick up an iPad and on your computer. Start email messages If Continuity works well, those are load the tab there. Currently, a few tools in one place and finish them in another. going to be some insanely great tales. ■ enable cross-device usage, but we’re stubborn creatures: If it’s not easy, we’re not doing it. We’d rather compromise. Apple doesn’t like compromise; Apple strives for perfection and tech that “just works.” That’s not to say every Apple product or service comes out fully formed. But the company’s stated goal has always been to make the best experience for its customers—to help users tell the best stories they can, with the best tools. Our stories are expanding, however. We’re no longer tethered to desks and ethernet connections. How do we tie stories together? How do we unify our experiences in the world with the work we do at home? These are the questions that Apple hopes to answer with its new Continuity feature.

A FRAMEWORK FOR THE FUTURE Apple has spent 30 years making BLURRED LINES Work the way the , phone, and you want, on the device that’s tablet essential to building your best for the task at hand.

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Restoring Order to the App Store

BY PHILIP MICHAELS

t this year’s WWDC keynote, seems to recognize that perusing the First, let’s recap the problem. Unless you CEO Tim Cook noted that the App Store is becoming more of a pain, know an app’s exact name, shopping can App Store hosts more than because the company will be making be hit or miss. (Sometimes even knowing 1.2 million apps, with total some changes. During the keynote, the name isn’t enough.) Searching with a downloadsA now topping 75 billion. Apple framed the alterations as being general description is unlikely to yield fruit. The size of the App Store is certainly part of iOS 8’s new developer tools, but You could try the Customers Also Bought one of the biggest selling points of iOS. make no mistake: These changes are section for related apps, but that assumes It’s also a growing headache. Apple every bit as important to users. the wisdom of crowds has any better idea than you of what to download. In short, it’s increasingly hard to track iOS DEVICES: CURRENT LINEUP down apps through anything other than trial and (mostly) error. And Apple seems PRODUCT SPECS RATING PRICE 1 DISPLAY MORE INFO to have decided enough’s enough. iPad Air2 16GB Wi-Fi, mmmmh Wi-Fi: $499; Wi-Fi and cellular: $629 9.7-inch color (Retina) go.macworld.com/ipadair So how does Apple fix things? It starts 32GB Wi-Fi, mmmmh Wi-Fi: $599; Wi-Fi and cellular: $729 9.7-inch color (Retina) go.macworld.com/ipadair with adding an Explore tab. Subcatego- mmmmh 64GB Wi-Fi, Wi-Fi: $699; Wi-Fi and cellular: $829 9.7-inch color (Retina) go.macworld.com/ipadair ries may figure prominently: The Produc- 128GB Wi-Fi, mmmmh Wi-Fi: $799; Wi-Fi and cellular: $929 9.7-inch color (Retina) go.macworld.com/ipadair tivity section, for instance, might make it iPad 16GB Wi-Fi, mmmmh Wi-Fi: $399; Wi-Fi and cellular: $529 9.7-inch color (Retina) go.macworld.com/ipad4 easier to differentiate note-taking apps, 4th Generation task managers, calendar tools, and other iPad Mini 16GB Wi-Fi, mmmm Wi-Fi: $299; Wi-Fi and cellular: $429 7.9-inch color go.macworld.com/minirev efficiency-boosting apps. Apple also 16GB mmmmh Wi-Fi: $399; Wi-Fi and cellular: $529 7.9-inch color (Retina) go.macworld.com/miniretina Wi-Fi, vows to add trending-search features, 32GB Wi-Fi, mmmmh Wi-Fi: $499; Wi-Fi and cellular: $629 7.9-inch color (Retina) go.macworld.com/miniretina as well as a continuous-scrolling feature. 64GB Wi-Fi, mmmmh Wi-Fi: $599; Wi-Fi and cellular: $729 7.9-inch color (Retina) go.macworld.com/miniretina Another welcome addition is app 128GB Wi-Fi, mmmmh Wi-Fi: $699; Wi-Fi and cellular: $829 7.9-inch color (Retina) go.macworld.com/miniretina bundles: Developers will be able to iPhone 4s, 8GB 4s3 mmmm Free 3.5-inch color (Retina) go.macworld.com/iphone4s combine multiple, perhaps complemen- 5c, and 5s 16GB 5c4 mmmm $99 4-inch color (Retina) go.macworld.com/iphone5c tary, apps for a discounted price, and users will be able to buy them all with 32GB 5c4 mmmm $199 4-inch color (Retina) go.macworld.com/iphone5c one tap. Developers will be able to add 16GB 5s4 mmmmh $199 4-inch color (Retina) go.macworld.com/iphone5s video previews to their App Store entries, 4 mmmmh 32GB 5s $299 4-inch color (Retina) go.macworld.com/iphone5s too, and Apple plans to incorporate the 64GB 5s4 mmmmh $399 4-inch color (Retina) go.macworld.com/iphone5s TestFlight beta service, which will let app iPod Touch 16GB mmmm $199 4-inch color (Retina) go.macworld.com/touch516 makers invite users to test out apps. 5th Generation 32GB mmmmh $249 4-inch color (Retina) go.macworld.com/touch5 Judging from these plans, Apple seems 64GB mmmmh $299 4-inch color (Retina) go.macworld.com/touch5 to recognize that although it’s good to have a massive App Store, bringing some 1All prices are Apple’s prices. 2 Separate Wi-Fi–and-cellular iPad models are available for AT&T’s network and for Verizon’s. 3 This phone is available only with an AT&T plan. 4 These models are available with an AT&T, Sprint, or Verizon plan. order to the chaos is just as valuable. ■

34 MACWORLD • SEPTEMBER 2014 Study: iOS Apps Top Browsers What’s New for Watching TV Online at the App Store

BY JAMES CARELESS PDF EXPERT he revolution will be televised. share, while gaming platforms and With its latest update, And if you’re watching it online, set-top boxes hit a 6 percent share, Readdle’s $10 app for PDF chances are good you’ll be up from 1 percent the year before. reading and annotation (go.macworld. doing so on an iOS app. Another staggering figure from the com/pdfexpert) is now universal, so you TThat’s just one of the fascinating report: Overall online TV consumption can buy it once for both iPad and iPhone. conclusions drawn from an Adobe across all platforms grew 246 percent Improvements include a continuous quarterly report on video consumption. year-over-year, with March 2014 setting vertical scroll mode, support for The “U.S. Digital Video Benchmark” (PDF; a new record in total authentications. calculations in LiveCycle Designer forms, go.macworld.com/digvideo) for the first “More than one-fifth of all pay-TV and faster performance.—DAN MOREN three months of 2014 compiles and households in the U.S. now watch TV analyzes both online TV (TV Everywhere) online across screens,” says Jeremy SXPD and nonauthenticated online video trends. Helfand, VP of Adobe Primetime. “With This $2 iPad game (go. According to Adobe, iOS apps now top rapidly rising consumer expectations for macworld.com/sxpd) browsers as the most popular access TV across devices, the TV industry is resembles a black-and-white graphic method for TV Everywhere content. iOS moving through a rapid transformation and novel of unusual intensity. Its developer, apps grabbed a 43 percent share of that finding new ways to bring TV to whatever Little Chicken Game Company, says it’s market in the first quarter of 2014. Brows- screen audiences want to watch.” the world’s first true game–comic book ers came in second with a 36 percent Adobe’s study also noted that 80 hybrid. In a future American state called share—down from 47 percent a year ago. percent of children’s content was viewed New Royale, an investigative unit must on iOS apps, while browsers played 50 find a weapon of mass destruction MOVING TO MOBILE percent of news videos. This data suggests before it triggers. Six chapters are This seismic shift signals that the move that younger users are more likely to use available; the design is courtesy of DC from the desktop to mobile devices is mobile platforms for viewing. If true, that’s Comics artist Duke Mighten.—JOEL MATHIS now well under way for online-TV bad news for conventional TV broadcast- viewers. Android apps also grew in the ers (and TV makers) hoping to attract and GOGOBOT first quarter, grabbing a 15 percent retain audiences with 4K broadcasts. ■ The developers of this trip-planning app (go. macworld.com/gogobot) have 73% On the Rise revamped it, starting with a new user GROWTH 42% interface and expanding from there. GROWTH Adobe’s study shows that Other added features include the and tablets are ability to create and organize travel rapidly growing in popular- itineraries, as well as a weather- 13.23% ity for playing online video. 12.19% forecasting function that helps you choose activities according to the likelihood of rain.—JOEL MATHIS

8.56% SCREENSHOTTER 7.63% Most people use Dropbox or a similar app to save and share 75% screenshots from an iPhone. Cluster GROWTH Labs’ free Screenshotter (go.macworld. com/screenshotter) is designed for the 0.024% 0.042% task: Open the app and give it access to your Camera Roll, and it separates SMARTPHONE TABLET GAMING CONSOLE, SET-TOP your screenshots from your regular SHARE OF ONLINE VIDEO STARTS (Q1 2013 VS. Q1 2014) photos.—JOEL MATHIS

CHART DATA FROM ADOBE DIGITAL INDEX, U.S. DIGITAL VIDEO BENCHMARK Q1 2014 SEPTEMBER 2014 • MACWORLD 35 iOS CENTRAL

Elegant iOS Accessories This month’s roundup of gear for your iOS devices spotlights some attractively designed add-ons, including an old-fashioned, tube-powered speaker with a 21st-century twist.

BY JOEL MATHIS

Duo The $649 Duo (go. macworld.com/ tubecoreduo) combines the classic warmth of tube-driven speakers with the modern convenience of Bluetooth streaming audio. It includes a 48V Class A preamp that Tubecore says “produces rich bass, warm mids and crystal clear highs.”

CombiTray Made in cherry, maple, or walnut, Woody’s TabletTrays have an inset for your iPad’s Bluetooth keyboard. The CombiTray variant (about $138; go.macworld.com/woody), shown here, also provides a place for Apple’s trackpad.

ALUCABLE FLAT The $20 AluCable Flat (go. macworld.com/alucable) is a 4-foot, flat Lightning-to-USB cable for the whole universe of iOS devices. It comes in gray, gold, and blue, and is, according to Just Mobile, “a must-have for design-conscious users.”

36 MACWORLD • SEPTEMBER 2014 Apple TV Station We’ve seen products like this before, but it’s too lovely to resist mentioning. The $40 iSkelter Apple TV Station (go.macworld.com/apptvstation) is an elegant bamboo docking station for your Apple TV and its remote control.

BT-4000 The $100 RichardSolo BT-4000 Rechargeable Wireless Boombox (go. macworld.com/bt4000) streams music wirelessly from your iOS device, but it also includes an FM radio and a rechargeable 2100-mAh battery, and it has a 5-watt stereo amplifier for those times when you want to feel the beat surging in your veins.

S1 The $35 Shoulderpod S1 (go.macworld. com/shoulderpod) helps you make the best use of your iPhone as a camera. This accessory can mount to a tripod, nestle in your hand in a “filmmaker grip,” or break down into a stationary travel stand. You can slip it into your pocket or hang it from a belt strap, too.

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The Latest iOS Products Reviews Reviewed & Rated

PUZZLE GAME Go: From Violent Shooter to Surreal Puzzler

The Hitman briefcase. But it often seems Hitman Go for iPad series of impossible to accomplish all mmm violent and these tasks in one go. visually Once you’ve grasped the PRICE: $5 sumptuous underlying patterns, the game COMPANY: stealth- becomes more of a mechani- shooting cal exercise. It offers little in hitman.com games has the way of multiple solutions. arrived on Occasionally it drops you into the iPad—in the form of a Zen state, where solutions Hitman Go, a mannered, surface organically. The turn-based puzzle game. wonderful presentation strives Hitman Go doesn’t play like to make up for the game’s a board game. But its rendition You move one space (or into a while avoiding death at the limitations. But you can find is evocative of one, and the shortcut), and guards move in hands of a guard. uglier puzzle games that are visuals are quietly stunning. response. You may find hiding At each level, you get extra a lot more fun. I’m a bit disap- Rigid playing pieces represent places, locked doors, disguises, tasks: For instance, you must pointed that Hitman Go is a , guards he must or firearms, but each time you finish within a certain number merely solid example of the evade or kill, and the target. must reach the objective of steps or grab a hidden genre.—DAVID PRICE

MUSIC APP Hum: A Simple and Stylish Tool for Songwriters

When I That’s why I’m loving Hum: also like the ability to associ- Hum mmmm started It combines the audio storage ate multiple recordings with a writing songs of Voice Memos with a single entry—I’d rather not PRICE: in the mid- plain-text app to provide a have to make “Bridges v1,” $2 nineties, I spot where you can note lyric “Bridges v2,” and so on. (And COMPANY: Just Hum jotted them ideas and song snippets, as if I do have to, I’d like to be justhum.com down on well as add the key, the able to clone an entry to carry scraps of tuning, and whether you’re the lyrics over.) The app has paper between classes and using a capo; in addition, you no way to import recordings hummed into a tape recorder. can rate the song’s mood and from other sources into a Later, as iPhones became my volume, and add notes. song, either; granted, I’m not recording device of choice, It’s simple to use, and it’s entirely sure if that’s possible the Voice Memos app served wrapped in beautiful icons and via iOS’s Open In sheet. as my lyrics storage engine: I’d a lovely teal color scheme. The But those are quibbles. For record something there, and separation of your lyrics from people who find themselves then transcribe it in plain text your notes about lyrics is a humming the perfect tune, and store it in Dropbox. But I wonderful feature, too. this app is a great tool, and I had no good way to associate Dropbox sync is coming can’t wait to see what comes snippets with my lyrics. soon, the developers say. I’d next.—SERENITY CALDWELL

38 MACWORLD • SEPTEMBER 2014 PHOTO APP Moju Adds Literal Motion to Stop-Motion Imagery

A mix of hold it to take images in quick The sharing features are well Moju succession. Like similar apps, built, with an attractive Web mmmmM and Vine, Moju offers a “ghosting” view, though Moju currently PRICE: Moju offers mode (which displays your offers no way to view profiles Free a public previous shot at half opacity) on the desktop, as well as no COMPANY: Moju Labs timeline of for lining up your next shot. embedding (which is a bit of a getmoju.com moving You can also add a grid, flip disappointment). Because photos. The from the front camera to the Moju doesn’t yet allow you to magic lies in how they play: back, or undo a shot. follow users, its main timeline Tilting your device left and I do wish you could preview is crucial: The posts have to right takes you through 24 your work within the capture be engaging, fun, and (pref- frames of stop-motion delight. screen. And you can undo erably) family-friendly. Thank- The timeline runs both forward shots only in order—you can’t fully, Moju’s staff seems to be and backward, which can lead remove an image from the good at maintaining the tone. to some amusing playback. middle of the animation. As is typical of startup- Creating a post is as much You can use any of 11 funded apps, Moju is currently fun as viewing one: Tapping included filters, which are fun free on the App Store and has the camera button produces without being excessively the post private). Brilliantly, no in-app advertising. a recording screen with a cap- Instagrammy. Then you can Moju posts display in their If you’re a fan of fun photo ture button, 24 dots, and a add a comment and share native “twist to view” form on or video apps, or a stop- settings button. Tapping the on Facebook, Twitter, or the a mobile device; on a desktop, motion enthusiast, give Moju capture button snaps a photo; public Moju feed (or make you mouse over the animation. a try.—SERENITY CALDWELL

PUZZLE GAME NYT Crossword Gets Its Appeal Across (and Down)

Among you quick clearly displays I have one major complaint The New York Times crosswords, access to the name of the about the 2.0 update: Upon Crossword the daily New downloadable Sunday puzzle downloading it, I found that all mmmh York Times puzzle packs as in the menu bar. the records of my previous

PRICE: puzzle is the well as to a That can be a puzzles were wiped clean, Free gold stan- calendar of past big help, since including progress for puzzles (subscription available) dard. And if puzzles. (And so the title is often I was working on. Here’s COMPANY: it’s the daily far it has fewer a clue to the hoping the next version takes The New York Times puzzle pop-up ads.) Sunday puzzle’s a more permanent approach Times you want, this New options theme. to older puzzles—and perhaps go.macworld. com/nytcross app is the allow you to The best even integrates statistics to way to go. skip filled addition is the help us solvers improve. Although the app is a free squares, as well long-awaited Small glitches crop up, too. download and offers a full- as to jump back arrival of A few of the special keyboard featured two-week trial, getting to the first blank syncing. When keys don’t look particularly the most out of it requires a or to the next you log in to sharp, and I miss the option to subscription; plans range from clue when you select a word. your Times account from the clear only the current clue $4 a month to $17 a year. You can enlarge clue text app, you can sync your puzzle instead of wiping the puzzle. Version 2.0’s iOS 7-inspired size, too, and you can turn off progress not only between the Aside from those details, I design is an improvement. the built-in clock if you wish. iOS clients on multiple devices, would describe this update The main screen prompts you (Me, I like the time pressure.) but also with the Times’ as a nine-letter word for to do today’s puzzle and gives Another plus: The app now Web-based crossword app. “extremely good.”—DAN MOREN

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UTILITY Prompt Neatly Melds the Command Line With iOS

We can’t You can store remote connections Prompt 1.5.4 escape the frequently used —assuming you know mmmmhM command connections, includ- how to set them up. line; it lurks ing login info, initial For the most part, PRICE: $8 beneath all commands, and Prompt stays out of COMPANY: our modern terminal types. You your way. Its design is Panic operating can also use multiple simple and unobtru- panic.com systems. But connections at once. sive, even if it might if you can’t In addition to giving be in need of a coat beat ’em, join ’em, I say—and you quick access to of iOS 7–style paint. that’s why I love Prompt. command-line keys About the only feature Should you ever need to like , , Down>. (On the iPad, you can I’d like to see added is use telnet or secure shell and , Prompt’s toolbar swipe between the customiz- the ability to sync connections (SSH) via your iOS device, offers four slots that you can able special keys and function (and thus passwords and keys) Prompt is where it’s at. I’ve customize with standard keys, while the cursor keys are between my iPhone and iPad. used Prompt for connecting keyboard characters. Tapping always available.) At $8, Prompt is one of the to my home computer while the four-way arrow key offers Further options include a more expensive SSH clients. I’m thousands of miles away, access to cursor keys, and setting to activate a passcode But it offers solid engineering, logging in to my remote Web another tap produces , , and

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matias STRATEGY GAME Space Hulk: A Vicious and Tense Sci-Fi Board Game

Based on a fully nerve-shredding as ever. Space Hulk great 1980s Motion-detector blips repre- mmmmM board game, sent one, two, or three aliens, PRICE: the two- leaving the human player in $10 player Space constant doubt. In turn, the COMPANY: Full Control Hulk for iPad marines get a random number Studios is a game of of bonus action points, and this spacehulk- rare simplic- number is revealed to the game.com ity, elegance, Genestealer player only when and tension. the points run out. The greatest You can play against the source of stress derives from computer, but local and online “overwatch,” a mode in which multiplayer options are the humans fire reflexively in chance, but it can be frustrating In-app purchases unlock available. One player controls response to movement. when you roll low numbers. new missions, but the bun- a handful of space marines The game largely depends Still, sound strategy generally dled ones should last awhile. clanking around a derelict on dice rolls. (I might have liked wins, and luck evens out. Space Hulk is an emotional spaceship. The other gets an the app to present the dice Playing the Genestealers is less experience that’s hard to unlimited number of vicious more dramatically and visually.) compelling than playing the match. The source material is aliens called Genestealers. Every game is different, and marines, but presumably this is superb, and this is a strong The gameplay is as delight- beginners always have a why the AI takes that role. iPad adaptation.—DAVID PRICE iOS CENTRAL

PLATFORM GAME Thomas Was Alone: An Ode to Artificial Intelligence

At a birthday players who lack excellent Thomas Was Alone party last double-jump skills; portions of mmmmhM year, I ended level 6 proved frustrating to up in front of me until I switched from the PRICE: $9 a PlayStation game’s “digital” controls to COMPANY: 3, watching the hidden “analog” controls, Mike Bithell my friend which allow you to tap go.macworld. play Thomas anywhere on the right side to com/thomas Was Alone, jump, and to slide your thumb an eerily anywhere on the left to move. beautiful game about sentient But my occasional timing colored blocks journeying to issues fade into the back- the outside world. We paused don’t know how to time tion by the delightfully Scottish ground when I consider the for cake, and the journey double jumps. But Thomas Danny Wallace, and a carefully game as a whole; it held me remained unfinished for me— Was Alone plays with such crafted story, and the game captive for hours last year, and until the game’s port to the iPad. expectations, throwing in grav- comes to life. If you love for many hours more when I You guide the blocks over ity deformations, new abilities, Monument Valley, Portal, and played it on the iPad. If you’re platforms, acid, and spikes to and “shifters” that alter a other creepy, quirky puzzlers, looking for a puzzle platformer reach portals. Been there, block’s abilities. Pair those you need to play this game. to keep you up late into the done that, fallen to my death a twists with an excellent David A few areas aren’t quite night, smiling all the way, this thousand times because I still Housden soundtrack, narra- polished and may annoy is it.—SERENITY CALDWELL

PHOTO APP VSCO Cam: Snap, Edit, and Share in a Single App

VSCO Cam you to take the photo by VSCO Cam uses its own VSCO Cam mmmmM combines tapping the screen instead camera roll. You can add the picture of the shutter release. photos you take with it to your PRICE: Free taking, image The app’s robust editing regular Camera Roll, or keep COMPANY: editing, and tools—15 in all—give you the them separate. You can also Visual Supply online photo opportunity to adjust expo- import single photos for editing. Company sharing in sure level, color temperature, The app lets you share vsco.co one snazzy contrast, saturation, sharpen- images through Facebook, package. ing, and cropping, as well as Instagram, and Twitter, but it The app takes a little to make less-common tweaks. desperately wants you to getting used to, in part You also get about a dozen submit images to the Grid, because it does so many filters, each of which you can a curated online gallery. things, and in part because fine-tune with an intensity Getting shots into the public the interface mostly consists slider; you can add more via Grid requires passing a of wordless iconography. in-app purchase. Although mysterious vetting process; Once you’re in its camera many of the effects are nice, to make your photos avail- mode, though, it’s a joy to each one has a useless label able to friends, you can just except in a rudimentary way. use. You can toggle the flash, like B1, C1, or G3—only when share a URL for images in VSCO Cam is a great change the display (showing you select a particular effect your own personal Grid. The camera and editing app with a line-of-thirds grid, the and tap it again do you see Grid is a nice idea, but you a half-baked online sharing horizon level, or nothing), that it also has a slightly less can’t promote, like, or feature. It needs only to lock the white balance, and obscure name such as comment on any images, smooth the rough edges in choose a mode that allows Moody, Mellow, or Classic. nor can you discover artists its interface.—DAVE JOHNSON

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SEPTEMBER 2014 • MACWORLD 47 FEATURES

OS X YOSEMITE FAQ: BIG CHANGES COMING TO YOUR MAC THIS FALL

NEW TRANSPARENCY The new user interface in OS X Yosemite inherits some elements of iOS, including a greater use of translucency.

Apple has officially the public beta program (go. THE INTERFACE small interface elements. previewed this year’s macworld.com/beta). So lots of You’ll also find that Apple update to OS X, and we know questions are swirling around What’s this I hear about has dispensed with the 3D its California place name: about OS X Yosemite. Based a revamped interface? design elements of old in Yosemite. But although devel- on what we learned at WWDC favor of flatter, more colorful opers have access to an early (and from testing the early OS Taking a cue from iOS 7, surfaces. And toolbars are version of the new OS now, on a system that Apple loaned Yosemite features translu- simpler. In Safari, for exam- most users will have to wait to Macworld’s Jason Snell), cency not only on the menu ple, the Favorites bar no until the fall to dive in (unless here are answers to some of bar (which you can adjust), but longer appears by default; they sign up for, and get into, the most common questions. also on windows and other instead, you summon Favor-

48 MACWORLD • SEPTEMBER 2014 ites by clicking in a (1--F) still window’s smart-search works within supported field. Yosemite also apps, such as Safari, uses a new system Mail, and Calendar. font, Helvetica Neue. When you hold down the

THE DOCK IN OS X YOSEMITE ADOPTS A FLATTER, TWO-DIMENSIONAL LOOK.

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What has changed in Notification Center?

SPOTLIGHT HAS ACCESS TO A WIDER ARRAY OF Support for third-party widgets INFORMATION, INCLUDING ONLINE SOURCES. is the big news in Notification Center. They will let develop- ers create little code snippets that display things like the current weather, sports scores, online-auction bidding, and more. In addition, Notification Center takes a page from iOS and offers the Today view, which provides a summary of your day’s events, reminders, and birthdays, along with calendar events for tomorrow.

iCLOUD AND CONNECTIVITY

How is OS X more closely connected to my iOS devices?

Your Mac and iOS devices will soon work together in a couple of ways. These new SYSTEM SERVICES Can I have multiple same. The only new pane in capabilities center on iCloud instances of Spotlight? there is Extensions, where Drive and a cluster of features What has changed in you enable and disable the Apple calls Continuity (see iOS Spotlight? No, but you may see certain extensions that show up in Central on page 33 for more). Spotlight search results when the Services and Share iCloud Drive offers you a big Spotlight can now tap into typing in a Safari window. menus plus the widgets for Dropbox-like locker for all your more information sources. Notifications’ Today view. app documents and projects; Besides the files, apps, Will I want to replace my Continuity provides an inte- messages, and other data third-party application With the introduction of grated framework for you to Spotlight can already find, launcher with Spotlight? extensions and widgets, seamlessly access a variety searches now also include has Apple finally killed of services—Phone, Handoff, Wikipedia, Bing, Maps, news, The improved Spotlight off Dashboard? Instant Hotspot, AirDrop, and movie listings, and the should satisfy regular users— SMS—as you move between iTunes, Mac App, and iBooks it’s even better for making Surprisingly, Dashboard your Mac and iOS devices. stores. The Spotlight key quick local queries. But remains, but it is switched off command remains 1- advanced users who rely on by default. You can enable it What does the Phone ; if you do a normal launchers to do productivity- within System Preferences’ part of Continuity do? Finder search by pressing boosting tasks will want to Mission Control pane. It also 1-F, the results won’t include stick with those tools. exists as a separate app, Think of your Mac as a big online sources. available in the Applications speakerphone and dialer for Spotlight is becoming What does System folder, as always. But Apple is your phone. If your phone is more interactive, too. You’ll Preferences look like? strongly advising developers within Bluetooth range of be able to send email, make who still depend on Dash- your Mac, you’ll see caller ID a phone call, or get direc- Other than sporting new board to avoid using it. We’ll information on your Mac’s tions right from the search icons and fonts, System be surprised if Dashboard screen whenever your phone interface. Preferences looks much the survives past this release. receives a call. You’ll be able

50 MACWORLD • SEPTEMBER 2014 to accept or decline the call iPhone is within Bluetooth to exchange files between 8). Any files you drag and drop right from your computer, range of your Mac, the phone the two on an ad hoc basis, into the folder will appear on and, if you answer, to talk and automatically appears (along without the need for an your other devices. listen through your Mac. You’ll with its signal strength and Internet connection; you It looks as though some also be able to initiate calls battery level) in OS X’s system- don’t even have to be on the preliminary support for from your Mac by clicking on wide Wi-Fi menu. If you select same local network. Need to selective sync may exist, via a phone number in Contacts, your phone from this menu, get a photo to your Mac from System Preferences → iCloud → on a webpage, or in an email the handset establishes a your iPhone? Fire up AirDrop. Documents & Data Options. or text message. secure Wi-Fi hotspot and your Want to send a PDF from But iCloud Drive doesn’t yet Mac connects to it—no other your Mac to your iPad? Same appear to have the same Is there SMS support? action required. And your Mac thing. And you’ll also be able robust sync options as Drop- automatically disconnects to limit your sharing so that box offers, nor does it seem to This is cool: If you upgrade when it’s not actively access- only your iCloud contacts can support sharing public links your iPhone to iOS 8, you’ll be ing the network, to preserve see your share requests. to files or folders. This may able to push SMS messages the phone’s battery life. change as the system gets (those “green bubble” texts Is iCloud Drive really like closer to release, however. from buddies who don’t use What about AirDrop? a Dropbox folder? an iPhone to send them) to Don’t I already have that How much space will I your Mac or to other iOS on my Mac? Sort of: You’ll have access to get with iCloud Drive? devices, so you can write and an iCloud folder on both reply to them on any device. You do, but now it’s even Yosemite and iOS 8. That You’ll get 5GB for free, but in You’ll even be able to initiate better: AirDrop now works folder syncs with your Macs the fall you should be able to SMS messages on the Mac. between iOS devices and and iOS devices (presumably buy another 20GB for $1 a Macs, meaning you’ll be able running either Yosemite or iOS month or 200GB for $4. What is Handoff?

Most of us now own more than one Apple device. Although iCloud already helps us sync THE NEW iCLOUD DRIVE MAKES ALL OF THE data between the devices, switching back and forth is still FILES AND FOLDERS THAT YOU STORE IN iCLOUD rough. Handoff aims to smooth MORE EASILY AVAILABLE FROM THE FINDER. out the process: If you start writing an email or reading an article on your iPhone, you’ll be able to pick up where you left off on your Mac. In addition, Apple is provid- ing a framework for third-party developers who want to have their apps talk to each other on iOS and the Mac.

And Instant Hotspot?

Currently, if your cellular carrier supports your iPhone’s hotspot feature, you can configure your iPhone to create an ad hoc wireless connection to your Mac, letting it use your phone’s data plan for Internet access. Under Yosemite, however, whenever your

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APPS when you click the new Tab efficient. It will support HTML5 Has Apple removed the View button in the top-right Premium Video—a digital Reader feature in Safari? What’s new in Safari? corner of the toolbar, you’ll rights management system see thumbnail previews of all that allows protected-video No! The company has only Safari windows are simplified. your tabs in the main window. playback in Web browsers. simplified Reader and Reading By default the browser will If you have multiple pages (For example, Netflix movies List. The Reader icon now show you just a couple of open from a single site, they’ll will play without requiring appears as a series of horizon- navigation controls, a button be stacked within this view. third-party plug-ins.) Safari tal lines to the left of the for displaying or hiding the Below these thumbnails are will also support WebGL, a search field. Just hover over sidebar, the smart-search iCloud Tabs—the ones that JavaScript API for rendering the field, and, to the right of the field, and Share and Tab are open on other devices 3D graphics in a browser. Reader icon, you will see a View buttons. Also by default, associated with your Apple Yosemite’s Safari addition- plus button; click it to send the when you click in the smart- ID. Click a preview or one of ally offers an advanced webpage to your Reading List. search field, it will produce these iCloud Tab links, and Private Browsing mode (in your favorites, represented the page will open in Safari. which Safari doesn’t track or Any changes to the as icons; just click an icon, Safari is adding some of the save your browsing actions). Safari sidebar that Apple and the associated site same sources in its smart- With today’s Safari, Private added in Mavericks? opens. The smart-search field search field as Spotlight is. In Browsing applies to all open doesn’t show an entire URL addition, you’ll have the option Safari windows. With the next Nothing major: The sidebar still by default, just the address of to choose DuckDuckGo version of Safari, you’ll be shows Shared Links (links from the server (“macworld.com,” (duckduckgo.com) as the able to create a window and people you follow on social say) you’re connected to. default search engine. (Duck- devote it—and all the tabs networks), Reading List items, And the title of the page DuckGo offers more privacy within it—to private browsing. and bookmarks. A big upgrade doesn’t display at all unless than many search engines.) The color of the browser is the ability to subscribe to you have multiple tabs open. Apple claims that this new window will change to help individual websites—this is Browser tabs have version of Safari is more you identify private windows. actually the return of RSS changed as well. Although responsive thanks to Java- And you’ll be able to maintain feeds to Safari. On many sites, you’ll still be able to see Script engine optimization, separate windows that aren’t if you click the Share button multiple tabs in a tab bar, and that it is more energy configured to be private. (at the upper right of a Safari window), you’ll see a new “Subscribe in Shared Links” option. This basically adds the contents of that site’s RSS feed to your Shared Links list.

What’s new in Mail?

The two major new features are Markup and Mail Drop. If you’ve ever annotated images in Preview, you’ll understand how Markup works: When you add an image to an email, you’ll be able to use annota- tion tools to mark it up. The tools are remarkably similar to those in Preview—you can add shapes, arrows, and text, and fill out and sign PDF IN SAFARI’S NEW TAB VIEW, YOU’LL SEE THUMBNAIL documents by drawing in your PREVIEWS OF EACH TAB YOU HAVE OPEN. signature or using one you’ve captured with a webcam. Mail Drop is a method for sending huge attachments

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(which can’t make it anything again, but through some email fortunately Apple is gateways). The adding a smart-search service is confined MAIL’S MARKUP LETS YOU ANNOTATE feature and a Favor- to the Mail app. If an IMAGES IN EMAIL ATTACHMENTS. ites button. The attachment is too search field will big, it will be initially prompt you uploaded to your with a collection of iCloud account. If the nearby photos, recipient also uses images taken at the Mail under Yosemite, same time last year they’ll see the (for the nostalgia attachment. If not, factor), and all-time they’ll see a link to favorites; but you’ll the attachment, also be able to search which they’ll click to by date, time, loca- download. Attach- tion, or album name. ments sent via Mail The Photos app has Drop still can’t new image-editing exceed 5GB per features, too: Down- message, though. load an image to your device, and you’ll be What’s new in able to use a bevy of Messages? iPhoto-inspired features to crop, Messages in OS X is straighten, remove getting some cool red-eye, adjust tricks. The tap-to- lighting and contrast, talk feature will let and more. All of those you send quick voice you’ll be able to view SMS Apple follows its usual edits sync across your memos. Like messages in messages from your pals if pattern, we may hear more devices, so the corrected apps such as Snapchat, you also have an iPhone. about the company’s music image will appear in your those snippets will be tempo- offerings in the fall. library immediately. The edits rary and will disappear within Apple didn’t mention are nondestructive: If you minutes of being played Game Center. Is the What about Photos on decide that you prefer the unless you save them. You’ll green felt still around? the Mac? image unfiltered after all, also be able to send multiple you’ll be able to revert it. images or a quick video. A moment of silence for OS X Yosemite won’t ship On top of that, OS X’s Exten- Group texting also gets an green felt: Game Center on with a Mac version of the sions for developers enables overhaul. You’ll be able to OS X now uses the same Photos app, but Apple did the makers of third-party apps name group conversations (for colorful bubbles that first preview an early version of to provide filters and adjust- easier reference), add and appeared in iOS 7. It also has the program that should ments that you could use from subtract users to the conver- the same categories as its show up in 2015. It features within the Photos app. sation on the fly, and leave the iOS counterpart, including many of the same improve- What does Extensions conversation (or click the Do challenges and turns. ments and user interface mean for iPhoto? Good Not Disturb button) if you’re changes found in the iOS 8 question. For many users, the getting flooded with texts. We didn’t hear anything version of Photos, and it feature might replace iPhoto Messages also makes brows- about iTunes, but I sounds like it will use the entirely. It remains to be seen ing images and video in a noticed that there was a iCloud storage locker to if Apple will reposition or thread much simpler; tapping new icon in the dock. upload full-resolution copies refocus iPhoto for a different the Details button lets you see of your images and video. audience, or if iPhoto will any attachments you’ve saved iTunes does indeed have a Having all those images at soon join Dashboard on the in that conversation over time. new icon in Apple’s promo- hand might make you a bit list of Mac technologies And, as we mentioned above, tional materials. Stay tuned: If nervous about ever finding whose days are numbered.

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FEATURES iOS 8 FAQ: WHAT WE KNOW SO FAR ABOUT APPLE’S NEXT-GENERATION MOBILE OS

and iOS 8 will come out only a few days before those new devices hit the market. If we were to venture a guess, we’d say mid-September— that would give Apple time to get its new mobile devices in stores before the holiday shopping season begins in earnest. But again, that’s just an educated guess.

What devices will iOS 8 run on?

Essentially every iOS device dating from the iPhone 4s, the iPad 2 (and its technological twin, the iPad mini without a Retina display), and the fifth-generation iPod touch.

So what’s new in iOS 8?

The mobile OS will have new photo features, big changes in Messages, predictive typing, the first major update to the iOS keyboard, iCloud and iTunes improvements, support for health apps and home automation, an UNDER THE SURFACE iOS 8 brings big improved version of Spot- changes in features and offers a more powerful mobile experience. light, and much more. And then there are Apple’s Continuity features, which will mate Macs and iOS devices Given iOS 7’s visual This time, the focus is on THE BASICS in a slew of interesting ways. overhaul last year, it system features and app wouldn’t have been surprising improvements more than on When is iOS 8 due out? SYSTEM SERVICES if Apple decided to just focus visual tweaks. In particular, the on small under-the-hood update will see a seismic shift Apple says “this fall.” If the Can you explain how improvements in iOS 8. But in the way apps communicate pattern of recent years holds, Continuity works? iOS 8 looks like it will be with each other, giving mobile the company will have a press every bit the game-changer users a richer experience. event in the fall announcing Continuity is a group of its predecessor was. Here are the details so far. new iPhone and iPad models, features that will sync your

56 MACWORLD • SEPTEMBER 2014 data across multiple devices What’s QuickType? the service will recognize the I heard that interactive with little to no effort on your difference between a more notifications made the part. That will include things The iPhone has always had casual tone in Messages and move to iOS. True? like seamlessly transferring Autocorrect. But now the the more formal tone of a files between Macs and iOS feature is getting a welcome message in Mail. It will also Yes! OS X Mavericks brought devices via AirDrop; access- retooling. QuickType, the make different suggestions the notion of Quick Reply and ing files on iCloud Drive from successor, adds a word depending on who you’re interactive buttons to notifica- any device; using your Mac to selector atop your iOS communicating with, based tions on the desktop. Now iOS answer incoming phone calls keyboard for faster input. on your past conversations. 8 brings those features to the to your iPhone; sending SMS When you type something QuickType will learn your mobile realm. You’ll be able to messages from an iPad or in iOS 8, QuickType will habits the more you type, but pull down banner alerts to Mac; starting an email on one attempt to predict the words it will keep that data confiden- quickly reply to texts or email, device and finishing it on you want to use next, offering tial and stored locally on your accept calendar notifications, another; and more. Apple suggestions that are defined device, so you won’t have to or snooze reminders—without previewed Continuity’s not just by the letters you’re worry about your keystrokes having to open the requisite feature set using its own typing but also by the conver- being accidentally (or mali- app. This function should even built-in applications, but sational context. For instance, ciously) revealed to the world. work with third-party apps if apparently third-party apps they enable it. will be able to build in support for the feature, too. What’s that row of people I saw in the iCloud Drive? Does iOS demo of the new finally get a file system? multitasking screen?

It does. But first, a bit about When you double-press the iCloud Drive. Another feature Home button (or use a gesture that will span multiple devices, on the iPad) to open the iCloud Drive is a central multitasking interface, a new storage locker for files and row of icons will appear atop projects you produce using your recently used apps. The various apps on both iOS and icons are avatars of people OS X. You can find out more you’ve recently communicated about it in our iCloud FAQ (go. with. If you scroll to the right, macworld.com/icloudfaq). you’ll see your Favorites list. So, yes, iOS 8 will have From there, if you tap a photo, access to files, and not just you’ll get quick access to from within the apps that buttons that let you call, text, created them. The Document or use FaceTime to video-chat Picker, as Apple calls the new with that person. interface, looks like a tradi- tional Mac-style Open dialog What’s this about a new box. While files, by default, and improved Spotlight? will be grouped according to the application that created Though OS X Yosemite is them, Apple says you’ll be receiving the biggest able to create your own improvements to search folders and organize your tools, iOS 8 is getting its fair documents any way you see share, too. Now, when you fit. In OS X and Windows THE MULTITASKING INTERFACE search in Spotlight, you’ll be (yep, we said Windows), you’ll DISPLAYS AVATARS OF PEOPLE able to access Wikipedia be able to simply drag files YOU’VE COMMUNICATED WITH. information; news; Maps data into the iCloud folder to sync for nearby places; results them between your devices from Apple’s iTunes, iBooks, à la Dropbox. and App stores; suggested

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websites for your query; and connecting to a Wi-Fi net- Sharing group (up to six Family Sharing won’t help us movie showtimes—all in work. It’s a neat way to share people are allowed), which better share a single device addition to the contacts, projects, photos, or video will be associated with a among family members, at email, messages, apps, and without having to fuss with single credit card. That done, least we won’t have to buy music that already appear in network passwords. any member of this group will multiple copies of an app or search results. The same be able to download almost tune—or all share one “Pur- engine will be built into the What’s Family Sharing? any media bought by any chasing Apple Stuff” account. new Safari’s toolbar. Is it a multiuser feature? other member of the group without sharing Apple IDs or BUILT-IN APPS Is Siri getting any Family Sharing—due to debut passwords. (Apple has improvements? with OS X Yosemite—should indicated that not all media I hear there are new bring a measure of sanity to will be eligible for sharing.) Photos features. True? Apple’s virtual assistant got households full of Apple Family Sharing will also let only a short nod in the devices. The idea is simple: If families share photo albums, Yes! It’s almost as if the folks keynote, but a few cool multiple people reside in your calendars, and even the at Apple saw our Photos enhancements are coming home, you likely have just as locations of family members wish list. The Photos app is its way in iOS 8. For one many Macs, iPhones, iPads, and their devices. getting an overhaul that thing, Siri promises to and iPod touches. Each Alas, Family Sharing won’t combines iPhoto for iOS’s become even more respon- member of the clan will be supply user accounts or editing tools with a fully sive. You’ll be able to grab able to join the Family profiles. But even though functioning cloud-storage Siri’s attention without even locker for your images. pressing the Home button: For starters, any photo you Just yell, “Hey, Siri,” followed take and store in the Photos by your command, and the FAMILY SHARING LETS app will be automatically phone will spring into action. uploaded to your iCloud Drive, If you’re thinking this will eat MEMBERS SHARE APP, MUSIC, where your images and video up battery life, don’t worry: AND MOVIE PURCHASES. are stored at full resolution and The device needs to be in their original formats (JPG, plugged in for this to work. PNG, Raw, you name it). All of Even if your device isn’t those images will be viewable charging, though, you’ll still be on any iOS device or on the able to access some of Siri’s Web. Starting in early 2015, other tricks. It will now you’ll be able to upload and recognize words as you say view photos from your Mac, them, rather than waiting until too. And the storage is going you’ve completed your to be dirt cheap: You will get sentence; and you’ll be able 5GB for free as part of your to use Shazam technology to iCloud account, and you can have Siri listen to and identify buy an extra 20GB of storage music (and buy that song from space for just $1 a month, or iTunes if you’re so inclined). 200GB for $4 a month. Because all your photos will Is AirPlay any better? be uploaded to your iCloud photo library, they’ll accumu- Those who use their Apple late quickly. To make it easy TV box as a presentation for you to locate an image, device (or as a good way to Apple is including a smart- share slideshows at a friend’s search feature. The search house) will be excited about field will offer you choices of iOS 8’s peer-to-peer AirPlay photos taken nearby, photos discovery/playback service. It you took at the same time last will let you stream video and year, and ones you’ve marked mirror your device’s display as favorites. In addition, you to an Apple TV without can search for images by date,

58 MACWORLD • SEPTEMBER 2014 time, location, or album name. The Photos app also packs a slew of new editing features similar to those in iPhoto. Among the options are tools for cropping, straightening, removing red-eye, and adjusting lighting and con- trast. Your edits will be uploaded immediately to iCloud and will sync across all your devices. If you decide, however, that you don’t like the changes you made, you can always revert to the original version of the image. iOS 8 also gives develop- ers tools, called Action extensions, that could allow the creators of popular third-party apps to provide features such as filters and adjustments directly within WHEN YOU’RE BROWSING THE WEB IN SAFARI ON THE the Photos app itself. iPAD, YOU’LL SEE ARTICLES YOU’VE SAVED TO YOUR What about the READING LIST DISPLAYED IN A SIDEBAR AT THE LEFT. Camera app?

The Camera app is getting improvements too. Focus and for follow-up, or swipe it all email. And if you type iOS 8. One is the app’s new exposure are now separate the way off the screen to something into an email that tap-to-talk feature, which will controls, and third-party delete it. While you can should go on your calendar, allow you to send quick developers will have full already mark contacts as such as a dinner reservation, sounds and voice memos to access to those settings. In VIPs (a feature added in iOS Mail will toss up a notifica- family members and friends. addition, two time-based 6), Mail in iOS 8 will let you tion that you can tap to add Like messages in apps such features make their debut in slap a VIP label on individual to your calendar. as Snapchat, those snippets Camera: a self-timer and a message threads. (Shouldn’t Safari on the iPad will get a will be temporary, disappear- time-lapse video function. The that be VIT?) This way, you’ll cool new Tab view that shows ing within a few minutes of latter automatically creates a always stay on top of new all the tabs you have open, being played unless you opt time-lapse video from a video replies to that thread, no and groups tabs from the to save them. You’ll also be you’ve recorded, while the matter who they come from. same site into stacks. When able to send a brief video or self-timer gives you more Exchange users will be able you’re browsing, a sidebar multiple images to your flexibility when you take selfies to set their out-of-office will pop out on the left for contact (or contacts) of choice. with your device’s rear camera. auto-replies from within the your Reading List, bookmarks, Speaking of multiple Mail app in iOS 8, too. and Shared Links (which work contacts, group texting in What’s new in Safari Mail in iOS 8 will also get like RSS subscriptions), to Messages is getting a huge and Mail? some new contextual power. further align Safari on the overhaul. You’ll be able to While composing a mes- iPad and the Mac. name your group conversa- Glad you asked. Let’s start sage, you’ll be able to swipe tion, easily add and subtract with Mail. It’s getting some down to minimize it and gain What’s new with the users to the conversation on more gestures: You’ll be able access to the other mes- Messages app? the fly, and depart the to swipe left or right on a sages in your inbox in case conversation (or tap the Do message in your inbox to you need to copy and paste A couple of exciting features Not Disturb button) if you’re mark it read or unread, flag it something into your new are coming to Messages in getting overloaded with

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texts. In addition, you’ll be at-a-glance information—the extend functionality—for platform directly to one device. able to share your location latest baseball scores, for instance, sharing content to a Instead, iOS 8 will connect with a specific group inside example—within the Notifica- Web service, transforming health-related devices and Messages, giving them tion Center window. Apps data, photo editing, changing apps from different makers. permission to find where you will also be able to provide webpages in Safari, and The upcoming OS will are for an hour, a day, or links within the widget to hooking up with Internet feature its own new app, indefinitely. launch the full app. storage providers. Health, which is powered by Messages will also HealthKit, a set of make browsing developer tools that images and video in a enables health and thread easier; tapping fitness apps to report the Details button will your personal health let you see any information into a attachments you’ve shared database. saved in that conver- Connected medical sation over time. devices will be able to iPad users who also pour data into the have iPhones will get HealthKit database, as one bonus feature: the will apps. The Health ability to see and app will give you a respond to SMS comprehensive picture messages from of your health, with a non-iOS users. customizable dash- board that shows you APPS FROM the metrics you care OTHER about most. VENDORS If Apple releases its own health-related Are my apps going device in the future, to be more presumably it will take powerful in iOS 8? full advantage of HealthKit. But users You bet. In the past, can integrate data apps were apps—when from whatever wear- you saw them, you ables and apps they’re were in them. In iOS 8, currently using. This apps will be able to way, Apple doesn’t manifest visually in new MESSAGES’ TAP-TO-TALK FEATURE WILL have to pick a one- ways: as widgets and LET YOU SEND QUICK VOICE MEMOS. size-fits-all winner in a by being projected into fragmented market. other apps. Apple announced partnerships with Nike, What are widgets? as well as with the What do you mean apps I hear Apple is interested Mayo Clinic and Epic Sys- Widgets are miniature can project themselves in health and fitness tems, a software provider for versions of apps that will run into other apps? apps. Does iOS 8 have a host of major hospitals and within Notification Center’s anything like that? healthcare organizations. The Today view. When you install You know how when you use Mayo Clinic, for example, is an app that contains a the Photos app to email a Rumors about Apple entering developing an app that will widget, Notification Center picture, a Mail window the crowded yet underwhelm- let patients’ doctors keep an will let you add it to the appears? App projection is ing wearables market had eye on metrics such as blood Today pane. These are very sort of like that. In iOS 8, apps been swirling. But the keynote pressure and reach out to the simple interfaces through will have the ability to launch announcements revealed that patient if they see something which apps can provide small, short-lived services that Apple isn’t tying its mobile that causes concern.

60 MACWORLD • SEPTEMBER 2014 the Touch ID sensor verifies a person’s identity. The apps won’t obtain any access to your fingerprint data; that remains held in the “secure enclave” area of the iPhone’s processor. But they will get a thumbs-up message—so to speak—when the device has verified your fingerprint.

What’s new for enterprise users?

Apple spent a considerable amount of time during the iOS’S QUICKTYPE FEATURE OFFERS CONTEXTUALLY keynote detailing enterprise improvements—unsurprising RELEVANT SUGGESTIONS AS YOU TYPE. given the iPhone’s increased presence in the workplace. (See Working Mac on page 74 for more on this topic.) And what about home range of devices without nies’ servers. Apple will let First, all apps with sensitive automation? forcing you to use separate third-party keyboards send data will be protected with a single-task apps to control your data, but only if you passcode until you unlock Like HealthKit, Apple’s each gadget individually. agree; so if you don’t like the the device following a reboot. HomeKit isn’t a physical idea of sharing what you type In addition, if you’re an gadget. It isn’t even an app Android is able to install with others, you can say no. enterprise user of Mail, you’ll —not yet, anyway. Rather, third-party keyboards. enjoy several new features: HomeKit is a collection of Does iOS 8 finally add What if I don’t want a You’ll be able to sign and APIs that will enable third- support for this? bunch of apps getting in encrypt individual messages, party makers of connected- my way or causing send Exchange auto-reply home products to integrate It certainly does. In addition to security problems? messages, and distinguish devices such as smart door upgrading the existing Apple email messages sent from locks, thermostats, lights, and keyboard with QuickType, As with most things in iOS, external domains by color. In appliances more deeply into Apple has opened up the you’ll be able to turn apps off the Calendar app, you’ll be iOS 8. That, in turn, could keyboard for third-party in Settings. Apple says these able to view colleagues’ free allow you to coordinate alternatives. This change new app options will be and busy times when sched- multiple devices from differ- allows companies that want to sandboxed and are designed uling meetings, mark events ent companies and to trigger support different languages to be very secure, but the as private, create better actions via Siri. For example, and alternative input methods control will be in your hands. custom repeating events, and telling Siri you’re off to bed to move their keyboards to If you want to tell an app to email meeting attendees. could prompt a series of iOS. For example, Swype go away, you’ll be able to do If your enterprise devices automated actions that would (which uses a system where so in the Settings app. are centrally managed, iOS 8 check that your doors are you type by sliding your finger will give your IT staff more- locked, cut the lights, and across the keys) appeared on Can other apps now use advanced remote device turn down the heat. a sample slide during the iOS’s Touch ID? management functions. It will Apple is working with WWDC keynote. also make it easier for them partners like August, Haier, Some keyboards send your Yes! In iOS 7, the touch sensor to manage user data, to filter Honeywell, Netatmo, Philips, data across the Internet to on the iPhone 5s could serve the apps that can open Withings, and many others to make autocorrect sugges- solely to unlock the phone documents from iCloud develop a secure communi- tions, which is scary if you and approve purchases. But Drive, and to send books, cations protocol that will let don’t want your keystrokes to in iOS 8, apps can be updated ePubs, and PDFs to devices your iPhone talk to a wide be logged by other compa- to unlock themselves when automatically. ■

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http://www.techhive.com/column/clockwise/ 64 MACWORLD • SEPTEMBER 2014 ORGANIZE YOUR iTUNES LIBRARY THE KEY Music has a way of making people a bit compulsive. If you’re going to spend time TO KEEPING sorting your songs, at least do it efficiently. YOUR LIBRARY We asked Kirk McElhearn for advice on tagging tracks—the key to iTunes organi- IN ORDER: zation. Follow his tips, and maybe you’ll GOOD TAGS. have time to actually enjoy all that music.

BY KIRK McELHEARN ILLUSTRATIONS BY MICHAEL SLACK

SEPTEMBER 2014 • MACWORLD 65 ORGANIZE YOUR iTUNES LIBRARY ENTERING DETAILS THE RIGHT WAY TO TAG EVERYTHING

magine what your IiTunes library would be like if all your songs had random characters for their song, artist, and album names. You would never find what you want to listen to. But even if your library’s tags are mostly correct, any For all these reasons it’s a multiple files, select all those listener of popular tunes, you erroneous tags—a good idea to take a close files and press 1-I to produce don’t need to worry much misspelled artist look at your iTunes library the Multiple Item Information about the more esoteric tags. name, for instance, or and ensure that your files’ window, which is largely similar Sticking to the basic items tags are filled in and correct. to the single-item version. should suffice. You need to a song title with a To do that for an individual fill in the Name tag for all typo—may prevent item, simply select a track or TAGGING STRATEGIES songs, but also the Artist tag video and press 1-I to bring You need not enter metadata and maybe the Album tag. You you from locating the up the item’s information in every available tag field, might want to take advantage files you’re seeking. window. The Info tab within but some tags will help you of the Album Artist tag as And if you’ve left this window contains many of manage your music and find well: Many popular songs the item’s tags, but the other what you want to play. Here’s have “featured” artists—a some tags blank, tabs provide additional tag a bit of advice regarding the Beyoncé song with Jay Z, for some of your tracks fields—the Show and Episode appropriate tags to use on example. Such a song should Number tag fields under the different kinds of music. have the Album Artist tag set or videos won’t dis- Video tab, for example. If you Pop, rock, hip-hop, dance to Beyoncé so that it stays play in certain views. want to apply the same tag to music: If you’re a casual grouped with her latest

66 MACWORLD • SEPTEMBER 2014 You need not enter metadata in every available tag field, but some tags will help you manage your music and find what you want to play.

serious about maintaining tant one for these genres. For your classic-rock collection, a Thelonius Monk Quartet add the year in which the with John Coltrane at Carn- album was recorded or egie Hall album, for example, released so that you can you have a few options. You more easily pull up songs could set the Artist to Thelo- ONE AT A TIME 1 To edit tags for a single track, select it and press -I. The tabs in this from the ’60s, ’70s, or ’80s. nius Monk or to Thelonius window let you change different tags and settings. Most of them are in the Info tab. (See “Adding Dates to Your Monk and John Coltrane. Music” below for further And you could assign the album (assuming that you’ve You may wish to fill in the discussion of the Year field.) Album Artist field to either purchased the entire album). Genre tag if you search for Jazz, show tunes, Thelonius Monk, The Thelo- But you could make the Artist music by genre. (See page soundtracks: For these nius Monk Quartet, or tag either Beyoncé & Jay Z or 72 for more about the Genre musical varieties, in addition Thelonius Monk and John Beyoncé (feat. Jay Z) so that field.) If you like to sing along, to the basic tags above, you Coltrane. Or you could leave you can easily find that duo’s go ahead and insert lyrics in may want to enter more the Album Artist blank. It all music later on. the Lyrics tab. And if you’re granular information. The depends on how you classify Album Artist tag is an impor- such an album: Is it a Monk

QUICK TAGGING TIPS ADDING DATES TO YOUR MUSIC

Q: How do I add the composition year to pressing 1-I, each song in my iTunes library? I have entering the year, songs dating back to the 1600s, and I and clicking OK. want to listen to a brief history of music. The real difficulty is A: I’m afraid you’ll have to do the job determining what A VERY GOOD YEAR You can fill this field with the year a piece was written, when manually. The Year tag lets you add a year years to enter in it was recorded, when it was released, or whatever you find most useful. to any track. You could insert the year a this field, as it will piece of music was written, as you want, require a fair amount of research. (Don’t producers, engineers, and so on. but you could instead enter the year the use iTunes’ Get Track Names feature; it Discogs (discogs.com) lists several track was recorded, when it was released, will replace all of your tags for the million albums, with release dates and or even when it was rereleased for a new, selected tracks, and you probably don’t additional information. It’s community remastered version of an album. want that.) I can recommend a few sourced, and you will find a lot of indie Just select a track, press 1-I, enter a places to search for the information. albums there. Finally, for classical music, year in the Year field, and click OK. If you AllMusic (allmusic.com) has a huge I use Wikipedia (wikipedia.org), which prefer, you can enter the information on database and offers detailed credits for provides extensive information about multiple tracks by selecting the songs, many albums, including the names of classical composers and works.

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album with Coltrane joining in, or is it a Monk and Col- trane album? IN-DEPTH The Composer tag can be DESCRIPTION important for this type of Feel free music, too. When using this to use the Comments tag, decide whether to list field to add composers by their surname lyrics, notes, first—should it be Thelonius or other Monk or Monk, Thelonius in tidbits about a song. this field? Use the style that is more natural for you (and therefore easier to remem- ber later on). For these kinds of music, you may also want to add the year of the track, insert- ing either the year the music was recorded or the year the item was released. (This tag is especially useful for creating smart playlists by the Comments field to enter year.) For the Monk and other tidbits such as precise Coltrane at Carnegie Hall recording dates, record labels, album I mentioned earlier, musicians, and producers. for example, I would set the Classical music: For the year to 1957, when the classical items in your library, concert was recorded, even you’ll want to use all of the though the album wasn’t tags noted above, particularly released until 2005. the Composer tag. Think genre or use custom genres cally appropriate for video For songs with vocals, why about how you enter genres, such as Chamber Music, files under the Video tab of not add lyrics? And if you’re a as well: You can stick with the Keyboard, or Opera. Just the Info window. detail-oriented music fan, use one-size-fits-all Classical type any text you desire in For TV shows, you can the Genre field, and iTunes insert the name of the series, will save it as a genre listing. the season number, and the And don’t forget about the episode number. Doing so Grouping tag, which collects will make navigating through tracks under a work’s name. multiseason series with an For instance, you can select Apple TV much easier. all the tracks of a specific Movies don’t need the recording of Sibelius’s String same kind of information in Quartet in D Minor and name their tags, of course, but if them in the Grouping tag. you wish, you can add details Use the tag similarly to how about a film in the Video tab’s you would for an album. For Description field. Unfortu- instance, I might tag that nately, iTunes offers neither a work String Quartet in D Director tag nor an Actor tag Minor – Emerson Quartet. for movies, but you can put Although you can’t view either of those names in the music by the grouping, you Artist field; if you want to can use the Grouping tag in note several cast members smart playlists. for a film, you can place their ALL TOGETHER NOW To edit tags for all the tracks of an album, select those tracks, and Movies and TV shows: names in the Comments field then press 1-I. Again, most of the tags I discuss in this article are on the Info tab. iTunes includes tags specifi- within the Info tab.

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ow that you’ve tagged the media in Depending on where you get I’m slightly tag-obsessive, music (no, I’m not judging you), but only because I want to be your iTunes library, I want to show you N you may have some tracks able to find my music, and how to clean up tags you previously with excellent tags. Other because I use smart playlists applied. What defines a “dirty” tag? Song tracks might have incomplete that depend on accurate information. I’ve downloaded tags. Here are some of the names may have random characters, perhaps. music with title tags of Track 1, ways I correct problems. Or maybe words are misspelled or incorrectly Track 2, and so on. I’ve ripped CDs and discovered that the WHEN YOUR TAGS capitalized, or tracks are attributed to the best available information from ARE A DISASTER wrong artist. Such errors can make it harder to Gracenote (the online data- Let’s start with a worst-case organize your library and find the media you base iTunes uses to fill in tags) scenario: You have songs is insufficient. I’ve gotten music whose tags are gibberish. want. The following tips and tricks will help tagged with extra words, You know what the music is, you sweep out the cobwebs. names, and much more. but you don’t want to spend

70 MACWORLD • SEPTEMBER 2014 Using ‘acoustic fingerprinting,’ TuneUp and SongGenie 2 did a good job of figuring out my music, and they applied tags.

MYSTERY SOLVED SongGenie 2 and similar utilities can identify unknown song files and correct missing or erroneous tags. time playing each track and random year.) I took 500 tracks, com/tuneuptags). The second tracks and try to identify them. entering the tags manually. some of which were popular was Equinux’s SongGenie 2 SongGenie 2 did almost as A couple of apps can step in. and others less known, and ($30; go.macworld.com/ well, finding all but 23 tracks. I set up a test with the help ran them through Doug’s Tag songgenie2). Using “acoustic It didn’t assemble playlists, but of Doug Adams, purveyor of Munger script. The mess this fingerprinting,” both apps did a in its window I could see and Doug’s for script created was amazing. good job of figuring out what play the unidentified tracks; iTunes (dougscripts.com). He I then processed these the music was, and they from that point I could manu- made a custom script that tracks with two apps that claim applied tags to the files. ally update their tags. Song- replaced the Name, Artist, to clean up tags. The first TuneUp found all but 14 Genie, however, did worse Album, Genre, and Year tags was TuneUp Media’s TuneUp tracks and made playlists with than TuneUp on album names, with random characters. (For ($40 per year or $50 lifetime the tracks it cleaned and the getting many incorrect. Both the Year tag, the script used a subscription; go.macworld. ones it couldn’t find. I could apps suffered from a few then review the 14 remaining glitches, too. For example, QUICK TAGGING TIPS WHEN TWO IS TOO MANY

Q: I have a number of artists in my files looked fine. iTunes library that show up twice in I saw no trailing Artists view. In some cases, a few songs spaces after the from one album appear under one artist’s name, occurrence of the artist’s name, and the which can cause remainder show up under a second duplicate entries. ELIMINATE DUPLICATE ARTISTS Change the Artist tag and then change it back. occurrence. How can I fix this? The Album Artist tags were okay, too, and the files were an additional character at the end, say, or A: If the artist has exactly the same all of the same genre. something like The Marx Brothers. Click name in both cases, then this problem Here’s the solution we found: Select OK. Select the tracks again, press 1-I, seems to be a result of tag corruption or all the tracks by the artist, press 1-I to change the name back to the correct unexpected iTunes library behavior. display the Multiple Item Information one, and click OK. This procedure fixed I corresponded with the reader who window, and then change the artist’s whatever it was in the tags that was sent in this question, and the affected name to anything —the artist’s name with causing the duplication.

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QUICK TAGGING TIPS

INSERTING OR EDITING GENRE TAGS

Q: Many of my songs are either missing know, but if you’re certain about the their genre or have an incorrect genre genres you want, then you can use assigned. I know I can go in and manually anything in your tags. edit them, but I am looking for some My strategy is to use genre tags that assistance. Is there a site that provides help me find my music quickly. So, genre labels for songs? within my classical music, I use genre tags such as Keyboard, Opera, and A: TuneUp and SongGenie 2, the two Orchestral. I’ve set up only one Jazz apps I describe on page 71, can clean genre, and I don’t split Rock into up assorted tags, including the genre. subgenres. I do have specific genres, CUSTOM GENRE They’re not perfect, but they can help. however, for certain artists such as Bob Choose a genre from the pop-up Regardless, genres are a personal Dylan and the Grateful Dead; I have so menu, or just enter your own, as I did here. thing. You may want broad genres (such much music by each of them that it’s genre, you may not want to take the as rock, jazz, and classical) or more better they be on their own. time to add any genre tags. detailed ones (like progressive rock, On the other hand, my son, who iTunes offers a number of genres in bebop, and baroque). I’ve written about listens to a lot of electronic music, its Genre tag menu, but you can enter the over-genre-fication of music (go. doesn’t bother to add genres to his files’ your own. Just type a new genre for one macworld.com/genres), which can tags. He just chooses his music by the or more tracks in the Info window and confuse listeners who are not in the artist. If you don’t browse your music by click OK, and iTunes will add it.

TuneUp declared that a Tagging music as you rip it or when you append, or prepend data recording of Bob Dylan’s from different tags. “Forever Young” was by add it to your iTunes library will save Search-Replace Tag Text: , from the apparently you time later, when you decide to fix This script (go.macworld. popular album . everything at once. com/searchtag) performs Both apps found album art, a basic find-and-replace though much of it was wrong. operation for any text in all (Since tracks can come from the main tags. You can, for different albums, that isn’t Albumize Selection script (go. (composers’ names, say), or instance, replace one spe- really the apps’ fault.) And for macworld.com/albumize), and at the end (such as [Live]). cific word with another, or many tracks, both apps failed it will apply track numbers, Proper English Title you can delete a certain to find the genre or found the such as 1 of 10, 2 of 10, and so Capitalization: It irks me to word or phrase by leaving wrong one. Even so, such apps on, so that your albums will see titles such as “Beat It On the Replace With field blank. are useful for cleaning a library. play in the correct order. Down The Line” (it should be I recommend tagging music They can fix a lot, and Song- Artist – Name Corrector: “Beat It on Down the Line”), or as you rip it or when you add Genie 2 can add lyrics. Sometimes tracks have tags in “Girl From The North Country” it to your iTunes library. This the format Artist – Song Name. (which should be “Girl from will save you time later, when TWEAKING TAGS One Doug Adams script (go. the North Country”). This you decide to fix everything at That was an extreme example, macworld.com/artistname) puts script (go.macworld.com/ once. It takes only a minute to however—you’re more likely to the artist’s name in the correct titlecaps) fixes them. tag an album, and the above want to polish your tags. When tag and leaves the song name This Tag That Tag: At tips and tools can make doing I download music or rip CDs, I where it should be. times, tag information is in so simpler. Keep your tags use AppleScripts (all from Doug Remove n Characters the wrong place—the artist clean, and you’ll find the items Adams) to fix inconsistencies. From Front or Back: I use name is in the Album tag and you want a lot more easily. ■ Albumize Selection: When this script (go.macworld.com/ the song name is in the Artist songs lack track numbers, first removechar) to fix tags that tag, for example. This script HAVE QUESTIONS ABOUT put them in a playlist and drag have extraneous information (go.macworld.com/thistag) USING iTUNES? SEND THEM TO them into order. Then run the at the beginning of the name allows you to swap, copy, [email protected].

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Tips, Tricks, and Tools to Make You and Your WORKING MAC Mac More Productive

What iOS 8, OS X Yosemite, and iCloud Drive Will Mean to Businesses

BY RYAN FAAS

HomeKit and HealthKit. Both platforms to access private employee data. pple’s WWDC keynote rely on a variety of technologies to Even in iOS 7, Apple did a good job address was an interesting integrate functionality and highly of creating a boundary that protects mix of user-oriented and personal user information. user privacy. The key challenge now is developer-focused announce- Although neither of these features has for IT to give that kind of assurance to ments.A The company introduced a number an immediate enterprise impact, they every BYOD user. of advances comprising the consumer, do make an iPhone (or other iOS Another issue to contend with is enterprise IT, and developer spheres. device) more personal than that a complete remote wipe of The big question now is what hap- ever before. In a Bring Your a device would erase all pens when the consumer and enterprise Own Device (BYOD) context, personal data. That could spheres intersect, as they are certain to this is guaranteed to make leave an employee locked out do in a world where iOS is the dominant users more concerned about of their own home, as well as mobile operating system in enterprise what information an employer prevent the recording and use and where Apple continues to push for or IT professional can see on a of critical health details. integration among its mobile, desktop, managed device. With full access, an Ideally, an employer’s policy will be to and cloud platforms. employer could even unlock someone’s wipe only corporate data from employ- home or access sensitive medical data. ees’ devices. If, however, the employer HOMEKIT AND HEALTHKIT That said, it’s almost certain that requires a full wipe, then IT should inform In breaking down Apple’s standout Apple has designed these features in a all users about that policy before manag- announcements, let’s start with the new way that will prevent IT from being able ing personally owned devices.

EASY CONNECT Hotspot lets you tether all your Apple devices and share your LTE connection with them.

74 MACWORLD • SEPTEMBER 2014 PHOTOGRAPHY COURTESY OF APPLE NEW ‘SHADOW IT’ TEMPTATIONS DIRECT DROP Easily transfer In addition to HomeKit and HealthKit, content between your iOS and OS X devices with AirDrop. Apple introduced several other OS X, iOS, and iCloud features that are likely to create or exacerbate what is often called information such as the “Dropbox problem”—in which employ- contacts, photos, ees use personal devices and services and URLs. while working with corporate data The iOS version, because they’re much easier to use than however, didn’t live the tools IT provides. Here’s a rundown of up to the full file- Apple’s new offerings. sharing capabilities iCloud Drive and Mail Drop: iCloud of the Mac version. Drive is Apple’s response to services like But that is likely to Dropbox and Google Drive. It’s a big change now as the two platforms feature raises security concerns, as addition to iOS, OS X, and the Web- become much more integrated. Con- work data could flow through nonwork based iCloud interface. Mail Drop, on the cerns still apply, though, about making devices, but such issues could be other hand, automatically uploads large sure you’re sending information to the managed using VPNs. In fact, the use of email attachments to a user’s iCloud correct person and avoiding sharing a VPN would actually increase data account and emails a link to them. sensitive content. security by encouraging users not to The functionality isn’t new—companies Handoff: This cross-device sharing use public Wi-Fi networks. The one such as Dropbox have offered such functionality is a natural extension of challenge, however, is that users might services for quite some time. But these AirDrop. Apple introduced it in iOS 7 and exceed data caps and burn through new features really expand the capabili- Mavericks—mostly visibly in the Mac their monthly allotments of data. ties of iCloud. And the more Apple version of Apple’s Maps—and is ramping iOS app extensions: Apple is finally integrates iCloud into the iOS and Mac it up in iOS 8 and OS X Yosemite. giving developers mechanisms, known as experience, the more automatic it will Handoff is a massive leap forward in extensions, that allow third-party apps to become for users in a usability for people who communicate and share data with other way that third-party have multiple Apple apps. Extensions leverage the sandboxing apps aren’t. That’s Apple has devices: You can start a method that has always been at the heart great for users, but introduced task on your iPhone on of iOS’s app-design architecture. it also creates con- the way to work and One enterprise concern, though, is cerns for enterprise many features pick up where you left how well extensions play with container- IT, as it encourages that are likely off once you get to your ization and data-leakage-protection data to creep into to create or office and fire up your solutions, including Apple’s Managed personal services. exacerbate what MacBook Air. Open In framework, which controls what Mail Drop, as both The concern, how- apps are used to open files. Presumably, a cloud and an email is often called ever, is that the func- Apple will offer some enterprise mobility- solution, is particu- the ‘Dropbox tionality is largely management capabilities to limit this larly concerning, as problem.’ managed by your Apple functionality—likely basing it on whether any large business ID. That means that in apps are managed or unmanaged. document or file may addition to Handoff Text-message and call relaying from be inadvertently stored in a user’s working on your office devices, it’s iOS devices to Macs: This is a feature iCloud account without the sender or almost certain to work on personal with a lot of benefits, including having the recipient even realizing it. devices like your iPhone or the family caller ID on your Mac. But one of the big AirDrop between iOS and OS X: iMac at home. questions is how, or even if, this feature AirDrop is a powerful technology that Thus it’s another core Apple feature will interact with the unified communica- uses Apple’s auto-detection features to that makes it easy to mix personal and tions, VoIP, or even older PBX systems perform direct transfers of content work data on your personal and work many offices use. For small businesses, between nearby devices without users devices, creating data sprawl, and though, this feature will add much of that having to configure settings or be security and accountability challenges. type of functionality at very little cost. connected to the same Wi-Fi network. Instant Hotspot: This is a road iOS messaging enhancements: The Apple introduced the AirDrop warrior’s dream. You can tether your iOS Messages app is getting a whole service for iOS last year, and it’s a great Apple devices together and share your range of new functionality in iOS 8, solution for impromptu sharing of LTE data connection. At first glance, this including support for voice and video

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and preview releases of its operating systems and software. The big challenge here is that you’re talking about allowing untested, and potentially nonsecure, releases into an enterprise environment. That poses security issues as well as user-support issues. So far, however, Apple seems more focused on delivering OS X releases through the program rather than pre- release versions of iOS. Given that enterprise Macs are typically managed more tightly than iOS devices, and that users are rarely allowed admin rights to the Macs, this isn’t likely to pose a huge problem at this point.

EASY SWITCH Start work on your iPhone and finish it on your MacBook with Handoff cross-device sharing. NEW ENTERPRISE FEATURES Apple also used the keynote to highlight messages as well as the ability to share command “Hey, Siri.” That could raise some new enterprise-focused features additional data—including location data— privacy concerns related to sensitive in iOS 8, though it didn’t elaborate on as part of messages. It also offers new health or financial information if Siri is them. The list of new features includes: options for group message threads, such indeed listening in the background, but > More data protection for built-in apps as a do-not-disturb setting and the ability the extent of the concern will depend on > Per-message S-MIME encryption to remove oneself from a given thread. how Apple implements the technology. support in Mail There is some security concern here, App Store bundles: One big change > Thread-based notifications for as these added capabilities introduce a with the App Store is that developers messages in Mail new avenue for sharing sensitive data, can now create app bundles—packages > Auto-reply/Out-of-office support in but they don’t dramatically change what’s of multiple apps offered at a discount Exchange environments possible compared to past iOS releases. price because they’re bought as a single > Information about coworkers’ Markup: The Markup feature, already purchase. This could be a boon for mass availability for use in scheduling events available in Preview and now extended deployments of a suite of apps from a in the Calendar app to Mail under Yosemite, lets users easily single developer for enterprises and Although Apple didn’t spend much highlight and annotate email attachments for other users. This actually has a fair amount of potential for improving Apple currently dominates the enterprise collaboration, but the concept isn’t mobility space and has described that market revolutionary by any stretch. iOS 8’s Notification Center widgets: as crucial to its future growth. Apple is finally opening up iOS’s Notifica- tion Center to third parties, which will likely mean a deluge of new widgets. particularly in the education market. time highlighting its plans for enterprise The company is also making it easier to The question here is whether Apple engagement in either iOS 8 or OS X respond to notifications using gestures— will implement this functionality along Yosemite, the company does currently for example, you can accept a meeting with its existing enterprise/education dominate the enterprise mobility space, invitation without launching the Calendar app licensing programs. If so, will organi- and has described that market as crucial app. It will be interesting to see how zations be required to assign individual to its future growth. companies adapt enterprise apps to take apps from a bundle to separate users or As a result, many of the areas high- advantage of these productivity features. will they need to assign the entire lighted here as potential challenges will No-touch access to Siri: In iOS 8, bundle to a user? likely be incorporated into the compa- Apple seems to be following the trend End-user access to beta/preview ny’s MDM (mobile device management) of allowing for hands-free voice recogni- releases: Earlier this year, Apple framework, which is used to manage tion by providing an always-on iteration announced its AppleSeed program, both iOS devices and Macs in enterprise of Siri that will respond to the voice which allows consumers to access beta and education environments. ■

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OUR TIME IS NOW FIGHT FOR YOUR VIDEO GAMES VIDEOGAMEVOTERS.ORG WORKINGMAC

How to Work at Home With Kids Check out these tips that can help you get work done while looking after kids.

BY JOE KISSELL KID-FRIENDLY TV Children can have their own Netflix lists and watch videos on a computer or an Apple TV.

y wife and I recently I don’t pretend to have all the suggestions that began with the words, welcomed our second answers, because every situation (and “Why don’t you just….” No, we’re not going child, and our older son every child) is different. But I can tell you to “just” find a different job or “just” move has just turned four. When a bit about what’s worked for us. in with the grandparents or “just” suck it Mwe tell other parents that we both work up and try to write books while a toddler is from home, their expressions predict- NOT FOR US screaming at us. ably turn from envy to horror in a matter Let’s start with what we decided not to do. Instead, we use a combination of of seconds. On the one hand, yes, it’s Although our older child is in pre- logic, creativity, technology, and caffeine wonderful that we get to spend so much school for a few hours a day, hauling the to address our problem. time with the kids at this age. On the kids off to daycare for the entire work- other hand, the work we do requires day was never an option for us. Even if LOGIC extended periods of uninterrupted we didn’t mind being away from our Since my wife and I both work from concentration, and those little bundles preschoolers for the bulk of the day, we home, one obvious tactic is to take turns: of joy are nothing if not distracting. How could never afford that quantity of She works while I take care of the kids, do we pay adequate attention to both professional care. and then we swap. Unfortunately, that our preschool kids and our work? Cost and limited space also precluded doesn’t enable both of us to get a full us from hiring a eight hours of work in each day. We do nanny. From time to need to eat, sleep, bathe, exercise, and time we’ve looked spend time alone too, after all. And if you into parents’ co-ops resist rigid schedules, as we do, this can and other informal be a hard road. arrangements where So we do take turns to some extent, people share child- and we address the issue of limited work care duties. But none hours in part by ignoring weekends (with of them have been a an exception I’ll explain in a bit). By good fit. working fewer hours each day but more As a matter of days per week, we can, in theory, achieve policy, we discarded all the same result, while still having enough time left for a full night’s sleep (if the children let us) plus meals and at least a GAME AWAY Educational iPad games help children learn few other day-to-day activities. while playing. The thing is, we don’t get paid by the

78 MACWORLD • SEPTEMBER 2014 hour. It doesn’t matter whether I’ve put in 40 hours this week, only whether chapter 9 is ready for my publisher. Sometimes that requires many extra hours of work. Furthermore, errands, travel, and a thousand other essential activities chip away at our already limited work hours. All this means that no matter how carefully we plan, the parent on kid duty must often spend at least part of that time working.

CREATIVITY Options for combining work and child- care depend a great deal on the kids’ ages. For example, I can work at my standing desk with an infant strapped to my chest in a carrier. And up to a certain age, a child can nap in a bassinet or hang out in a playpen in my office with little effect on my work. Children who have achieved mobility but who are still too RIGHT RESTRICTIONS Enable parental restrictions before letting your kids use your iPad. young to play unsupervised pose addi- tional challenges. Thanks to my MacBook Pro, iPhone, Streaming shows from Netflix or the when your child sleeps.” Getting less and iPad, I can get a certain amount of iTunes Store on our Apple TV, or sleep than I prefer is just part of being a work done while hanging out with the Amazon Instant Video on our smart parent. For better or worse, I compen- kids in the living room or at the play- TV, lets us pick educational shows sate with large quantities of coffee, ground—even though I don’t believe in that aren’t interrupted every few courtesy of a high-tech, one-button multitasking. I can answer brief email minutes with ads. superautomatic coffee maker. messages, catch up with Twitter, and do Both physical toys and iPad apps certain “mechanical” tasks that require engage our son’s attention for hours BEYOND WORK AND KIDS little thought or concentration and can be on end. In fact, we’ve considered Sleep isn’t the only sacrifice we have to make as work-at-home parents. We also find it necessary to curtail recreational Thanks to my MacBook Pro, iPhone, and iPad, I can Web browsing, TV watching, and other get a certain amount of work done while hanging out relaxing activities—to say nothing of keeping a tidy home. And we have little with the kids in the living room or at the playground. time or energy left for socializing. But for the sake of our sanity and family har- mony, we do try to set aside at least one interrupted without serious detriment. budgeting a certain amount of money evening and one weekend morning or That’s a start, anyway. per month for educational iPad games afternoon each week for fun family activi- During crunch times, we might hire a on the grounds that they’re a business ties, with both parents “off the clock.” We babysitter for a few hours, even though expense—apps can help our kids learn sometimes have to force ourselves to we’re both at home. But we also rely while they enable us to get our work put social events on the calendar for our heavily on technology to help. done. We do, of course, enable paren- own good, but it’s worth the effort. tal restrictions on the devices we let But most of all, we try not to focus on TECHNOLOGY our kids use. what we miss from our pre-children days Say what you will about the evils of TV, and feel grateful for what we do have: but in our household, it’s a lifesaver for CAFFEINE lots of quality interaction among family those times when no adult can pay full I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard members, right in our own house; a attention to the kids. But we do try to new parents advised to “sleep when ten-second commute; and the freedom avoid commercials whenever possible. your child sleeps.” But my motto is “work to make our own schedules. ■

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Four Reasons to Get a Remote Control for Your iPhone Here’s a rundown of your best options.

BY JOE KISSELL

our iPhone is smaller than Control media playback: Perhaps many remote controls—and your iPhone is docked across the room, can function as a remote connected to your stereo or amplified control itself. So why would speakers. Or maybe you’re kicking back youY need a remote control for your on the couch while a video from your iPhone (or other iOS device)? iPad over on the coffee table is streaming A few months ago I would have to your Apple TV via AirPlay. A remote thought the idea ridiculous. But it turns would let you pause, play, adjust volume, out that adding a Bluetooth remote or otherwise control your media from control to my iOS devices has enabled farther away than arm’s reach. me to solve some interesting problems Control a presentation: When giving and has made those devices more a presentation from Keynote or Power- useful. If you’ve never considered using Point on an iOS device—especially one a remote control for your iOS devices, that’s tethered to an external display— I’d like to suggest four uses that may you may want to be able to navigate persuade you to try one. your presentation without being right Remote shutter release: Long before next to that device. Some iOS remote anyone used the term “selfie,” people put controls offer this capability. cameras on tripods, set a self-timer, and Activate Siri in your car: I recently ran back in front of the camera to appear bought a used car that has Bluetooth in a group shot. You can put your iOS audio, but isn’t new enough to have Siri SATECHI BLUETOOTH MULTIMEDIA REMOTE device on a tripod too, but the built-in Eyes Free. So, while I can use the car’s Camera app has no timer (although it will microphone to ask Siri questions and get to a keyboard key—but the number of in the iOS 8 version). No worries: Use a the responses through the car’s speakers, buttons, and therefore keys, is limited. button on an easily concealed remote I’d have to dig my phone out of my pocket (You could, of course, use a full Blue- control to snap the picture. (or wherever I’ve stashed it) to press the tooth keyboard as a remote control, but Home button. If I had a Bluetooth remote its size and shape usually wouldn’t be a AIRTURN DIGIT II control mounted in a convenient place good fit for such tasks.) Different remote (such as on the steering wheel), I could controls have different combinations of activate Siri without any fiddling—and virtual keys, which means that not every without taking my eyes off the road. (This remote is suited for every job. So, once tip works even if your car doesn’t have you’ve chosen a task, be sure to find a Bluetooth, as long as your iPhone is close remote control that supports the enough to pick up your voice clearly.) relevant keys. Broadly speaking, such remotes fall into a few categories: PICK A MODEL Multimedia remotes: Remote All Bluetooth iOS remote controls emu- controls designed for multimedia late keyboards—that is, each button maps typically have buttons for volume up

Adding a Bluetooth remote control to my iOS devices has enabled me to solve some interesting problems and has made those devices more useful.

80 MACWORLD • SEPTEMBER 2014 HOMESPOT LOW ENERGY SHUTTER REMOTE CONTROL

and down, previous and next track, Shutter releases: Some iOS remote play and pause, and mute. (When controls contain just a single button, you’re in a camera app, the volume-up which serves as a remote shutter release. button doubles as the shutter release.) The HomeSpot App-Enhanced Low You may also find a Home button (to Energy Shutter Remote Control ($20; IF YOU ONLY activate Siri), a button for hiding and mogeeks.com) and the ShutterBall ($25; showing the keyboard (an essential myshutterball.com) fall into this category. HAD THE TIME, feature, because without it, your iOS Siri-only remote: I know of one iOS device will assume the remote is a full remote that also has a single button—but RIGHT? keyboard, and you’ll be unable to use not for photos. The Mobile Home ($79; NOW YOU DO. the virtual keyboard), and more. Exam- drivewithsiri.com) features a large Home ples in this category include the model button, for activating Siri in your car. ■ I bought—the Satechi Bluetooth Multi- 3-12 MONTH media Remote ($35; satechi.net)—and ASSIGNMENTS iStabilizer’s Shutter Remote for iOS THE MOBILE HOME NOW AVAILABLE. ($40; istabilizer.com). Multimode remotes: If you want to be able to do more than control your media but you don’t want to deal with tons of buttons, you can pick up a Browse the opportunities more-advanced remote that offers on our website at multiple modes—for example, a multi- peacecorps.gov/response media mode, a presentation mode (in which the buttons can control a Key- note or PowerPoint presentation), and an accessibility mode (in which the buttons navigate between apps, icons, and pages, with optional VoiceOver feedback). You switch modes by using a slider or by holding a particular button when you turn on the remote control’s power. Examples include the Satechi Bluetooth Smart Pointer ($60; satechi.net) and the AirTurn Digit II ($40; airturn.com).

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Apple and Beats: What’s the Deal? Here’s a rundown of what you need to know about the acquisition.

BY CHRISTOPHER BREEN

pple recently announced Does all that money go to Will the Beats brand exist once that it was acquiring Beats the founders? the deal is complete? Electronics and Beats Music, Beats was cofounded by Jimmy Iovine Yes. Even though Apple will gain owner- the companies known for and Dr. Dre (Andre Young), but although ship of both Beats Electronics and Beats popularA headphones and a promising they’ll realize several hundred million Music, they will each continue to exist as music subscription service. Here are dollars from the deal, not all of the separate brands. some of the important details of the deal. money will go to them. Companies such as the Carlyle Group What does Apple get from the What is Apple paying for Beats? and Universal Music have invested in Beats deals? Apple is paying $2.6 billion initially and, Beats and will take their cut when the Three things: Beats Electronics, which in the future, will invest an additional deal reaches completion sometime in is responsible for the company’s head- $400 million. the fourth quarter of this year. phones; Beats Music, the subscription

82 MACWORLD • SEPTEMBER 2014 arm of the company; and the services largely on an algorithmic music discov- device (iPhone 4 or later, iPad 3 or later, of both Iovine and Dr. Dre. ery system—in which the service’s music the fourth-generation iPod touch or More specifically, Beats Electronics recommendations are based on the kind later) running iOS 6 or later, an Android makes over a billion dollars a year on of music you’ve listened to in the past or device running Android 4.03 or later, or its headphones and accessories, which the songs you have in your device’s a device. Sonos will add to Apple’s bottom line. On top library—Beats helps you discover music multiroom music systems also support of that, Beats Music gives Apple an via playlists created by people who the service. Currently, however, Beats operating subscription music service, know particular genres inside and out. If Music is not available on the Apple TV. which means Apple doesn’t have to you want to explore jazz, for example, you create one from whole cloth. are sure to find hundreds of playlists What’s the audio quality like? And Iovine and Dr. Dre (who will join that will help you on your way. Through your computer’s Web browser, Apple and will work under Eddy Cue, That, however, doesn’t mean that Beats Music streams the majority of its the company’s senior vice president of Beats has abandoned algorithms tracks as 320-kilobits-per-second MP3 Internet software and services) have altogether. The service will still offer files. A minority that aren’t available at connections in the entertainment suggestions based on artists you like, that bit rate stream at 256 kbps. business that may help Apple with music you’ve listened to, and a mood- On mobile devices the service’s current and future entertainment deals. based discovery system called The standard audio quality is 64-kbps Sentence. You can search the service HE-AAC. You can choose instead to Does this mean that the next by artist, album, and track, as well. stream at a higher quality, namely iOS devices will ship with 320-kbps MP3. The point of using Beats-branded headphones? How many subscribers does lower-quality (and therefore, smaller) Probably not. Currently the least expen- Beats Music currently have? files is to help you stay within your data sive model in Beats Electronics’ head- It has around 250,000. In comparison, plan when you’re streaming over a phones lineup—the urBeats earbuds— Spotify (which, unlike Beats Music, is cellular connection. (For more on Beats, retails for just under $100. Beats might available internationally) boasts more see Help Desk on page 92.) ■ have some say in the design of future than 10 million paying subscribers. headphones, but Apple is unlikely to mix the two brands together in this way. So Beats Music is available only in the United States? Will iTunes Radio disappear Currently, yes. because of the Beats deal? Apple has offered no indication that this How many tracks does Beats acquisition will affect iTunes, iTunes Radio, Music offer for streaming? STYLISH BEATS or iTunes Match in any way. In Apple’s Around 20 million. As part of the press release, Cue described Beats as deal, Apple gains hardware, in the supplementing both the free iTunes What does it cost to subscribe to form of headphones. Radio service and the download busi- Beats Music? ness of the iTunes Store. Individual subscriptions cost $10 a month and permit you to stream to up Wasn’t Beats involved with HTC? to three devices. It was. In 2011, the Taiwan-based HTC If you’re an AT&T customer, you can paid $300 million for a 50 percent stake purchase a family plan for $15 a month, in Beats. It sold back half that share in which allows up to five people to stream 2012, and the rest in 2013. Iovine claims music on up to ten devices. You can try that the deal didn’t work out because of the service for free for two weeks. a culture clash between the two compa- nies. Prior to the HTC partnership, Beats Can I download music from Beats? had teamed up with Monster. Yes. Beats Music allows you to down- load tracks for offline play. What makes Beats Music different from other music subscription Which devices work with Beats? services? You can use a computer with a compat- Beats Music focuses a great deal on ible Web browser (Safari, Chrome, , music curation. Rather than depending or Internet Explorer), a compatible iOS

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conditioner, clothes dryer, dishwasher, Sleep Tight: Ambient heartbeat, crowded room, and train ride. One of White Noise’s highlights is that Audio for iOS you can mix up to five sounds together Check out our favorite to create your preferred audio environ- ambient sound apps. ment. The app also presents the free White Noise Market, where you can BY CHRISTOPHER BREEN download additional sounds at no cost. Sleep: Red Hammer Software’s Sleep ($2; rhsoftware.net) offers more than 100 sounds (some include ambient music) that you can trigger individually or in groups from your iOS device. As with White Noise, you can combine multiple sounds—say, ocean waves with rain and perhaps a bit of waterfall to complete the aqua-themed mix. (In contrast to White Noise, though, Sleep lets you mix far more than five SOOTHING SOUNDS sounds.) Just tap the Mixer button, select Naturespace has some the sounds you want, and then—after wonderfully natural- sounding tracks. tapping the Settings button—adjust the volume of each sound. You can save your mixes for later playback. Sleep also has a store for obtaining extra sounds. If I have one complaint hether you want help sounds during the daytime, but I would about the app, it’s that some of the sound falling asleep or you wish find them too intrusive to sleep to. loops are so short so that you start to to block out the sounds If sleep is what you’re after, you’ll want recognize patterns. And focusing on of an open office, ambient to turn to the store. Here I found a couple that repetition may keep you awake. Waudio can be a useful tool. And it need of terrific rain sounds—Back Home and The Eno apps: Musician/producer/ not be confined to the tiny-speakered artist Brian Eno is widely and tinny-sounding consumer “sleep considered to be the father machines” you find advertised in the With your iOS device you can of ambient music, with such back of in-flight magazines. With your releases as Discreet Music iOS device you can be wrapped in an be wrapped in an otherworldly and Thursday Afternoon. otherworldly environment in seconds. environment in seconds. Eno and musician/software designer Peter Chilvers have AMBIENT AND iOS created a trio of apps—Bloom While not as common as to-do list manag- Treehouse Rain. Back Home is set in a ($4; go.macworld.com/bloom), Scape ($6; ers and Flappy Bird clones, ambient audio suburban environment where you can go.macworld.com/scape), and Trope apps are fairly prevalent on the App Store. hear rain splattering on pavement as well ($4; go.macworld.com/trope). All three These are a few of my favorites. as running through metal gutters (accom- allow you some control over what the Naturespace: Holographic Audio panied by a distant thunder). The quality resulting music sounds like. In the case Theater’s Naturespace (free with in-app of the recording is outstanding. Treehouse of Bloom, you make adjustments by purchases; naturespace.com) is a player Rain is equally good if you prefer a more tapping the screen. With Scape you drag for the company’s ambient nature sounds natural-sounding rain mixed with a touch elements into the screen that modify the in addition to a storefront for sounds you of wind-swept branches. character of the music. And in Trope you can purchase for $2 each (or in bundles White Noise: Tmsoft’s White Noise drag on the screen. priced at $10). The app comes with six ($2; tmsoft.com) is more than just a I’m a fan of Eno’s work and so I enjoy tracks—Daybreak Songbirds, Summer white-noise generator. It includes not the music that the apps generate, but Mountain Valley, Infinite Shoreline, only the kind of nature sounds you’d some people may find it a bit eerie. My Riverwind Dreaming, Rain Into Water, expect (rain, crickets, ocean waves, and guess is that Eno and Chilvers designed and Night at Lake Unknown. They’re wind) but also some unexpected offer- these three apps with interaction in mind. perfectly fine for masking out other ings, such as campfire, cat purring, air And they are a joy to play with. ■

84 MACWORLD • SEPTEMBER 2014 SURE, AT FIRST I WAS A LITTLE TAKEN ABACK BY THE WHOLE PEEING STANDING UP THING. BUT I TAUGHT HIM TO THROW A STICK AND NOW HANGING OUT WITH HIM IS THE BEST PART OF MY DAY.

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Streaming Services You Might Have Missed These five emerging services bring their own twist to the music stream.

BY ANTHONY DOMANICO

he streaming music scene That said, Jango takes a slightly different You’ll encounter ads if you listen for seems like it’s ruled by a few approach than Pandora or Slacker Radio free, but StationDigital also offers a heavyweights, with Pandora, does with ads: Instead of serving them up premium subscription—$4 per month or Rdio, and Spotify slugging it after a certain number of songs, Jango $36 for a year—that removes the ads Tout for your heart, mind, and eardrums. plays one video and/or audio ad per day. while presenting higher-quality audio But that’s only part of the picture. Just as What’s good about Jango: Sound and fewer listening interruptions during a number of lower-profile video stream- quality can be a subjective thing, but I the day. Premium subscribers also get ing services vie with the likes of Hulu and appreciated what I heard on Jango. Music access to a desktop application for Netflix, music streaming services you’ve streams fast—and in contrast to its rivals, listening to the StationDigital service probably never heard of are looking for Jango offers unlimited skips. (Frequent without a Web browser. ways to make their mark. listeners often cite skip limits as one of the What’s good about StationDigital: A Which subscription music service will most annoying parts of streaming radio.) unique reward program bestows stars— emerge as the next Pandora or Spotify? What could be better: Jango’s music virtual currency that you can redeem for We’ve picked five alternatives. catalog is fairly robust, but it’s a bit songs, albums, and other items on the smaller than what you’ll get from more StationDigital store. You earn stars for JANGO widely known services. signing up, sharing, and voting on music, Like Pandora, Jango (jango.com) or just listening to your favorite stations. lets you create personalized radio STATIONDIGITAL What could be better: While the 1 stations based on an artist or song Boasting a library of more than service itself is rock solid, the same can’t you want to hear. Simply type an artist or 20 million songs, StationDigital be said of StationDigital’s mobile apps, song into the search box, and Jango 2 (stationdigital.com) offers curated which need a major interface overhaul. starts playing music that fits the bill. It stations; users can also create a station also offers apps for iOS and Android as of their own based on a particular song iHEARTRADIO well as a decent Web interface providing or artist. The service has apps for iOS Most streaming services let you lyrics, artist info, and even the ability to and Android; it says Windows Phone and create customized radio stations watch the music video when available. BlackBerry apps are coming soon. 3 or use preset genre stations; Jango is a free service, which means Listening via a browser treats you to iHeartRadio (iheart.com) takes the idea a ads. And unlike some of its rivals, it gives karaoke-style lyrics that follow along step further. Here you can create custom you no way to buy your way out of them. with the currently playing song. stations by artist or song, or you can

86 MACWORLD • SEPTEMBER 2014 8TRACKS Several Most of today’s streaming services streaming aim to provide expert or algorithm- 5 developed playlists. 8tracks music services (8tracks.com) is different. With this service, you have you either create a mix of at least eight probably never songs or listen to mixes that other users created. Tons of user-created mixes span heard of are multiple genres, so it’s easy to find music looking for to keep the party going. ways to make A free service, 8tracks has apps for iOS, Android, BlackBerry, and Windows their mark. Phone, as well as a smattering of third-party apps for other platforms. The premium 8tracks Plus offering removes listen to live radio stations from all across You can listen via apps for iOS, ads for $50 per year. the United States. iHeartRadio also allows Android, or Windows Phone, or through What’s good about 8tracks: The you to set a mood or an activity, and it a simple, intuitive Web interface. ability to enjoy user-created mixes gives then plays songs that fit the situation. What’s good about Songza: Songza 8tracks a unique social component. iHeartRadio features apps for iOS, probably has the most creative music What could be better: Each of the Android, BlackBerry, Kindle Fire, and selection tool this side of Beats Music, and 8tracks apps is well designed, but I Windows. You can also get it on connected it gave me the best overall experience. found it difficult to discover content devices such as Amazon’s Fire TV, Logi- What could be better: Its creative among the sea of playlists out there. tech Smart Radio, Roku boxes, Sonos gear, music selection is solid, but its apps Better search tools would greatly Xbox consoles, and Yahoo smart TVs. strain your device’s battery. improve the experience. ■ What’s good about iHeartRadio: iHeartRadio’s presence reaches far and wide. It’s perfect for folks who either travel often or have moved to a new spot and just want to listen to the familiar radio stations from their hometown. What could be better: A major limita- tion of radio stations—and iHeartRadio, by extension—is that they play what they want, not what you want. Other services offer content better tailored to you.

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that appears on the right side of the player, you can rate a track, start Genius, create an iTunes Radio station, and more.

FLOATING CONTROL APPLE REMOTE Equilibrium offers both If you have an Apple remote—the hard- menu-bar and floating ware kind, not the iOS app—you can use window controls. that to control iTunes on your Mac. You can start and stop playback with the device’s Play/Pause button. The click ring surrounding the central Select button lets you move to the previous or next track, as well as raise or lower the volume.

THIRD-PARTY APPS A number of third-party apps permit you to control iTunes without its window remaining visible. Sizzling Keys: Yellow Mug’s free basic version of Sizzling Keys (yellowmug.com/ sk4it) gives you a full range of keyboard shortcuts to control iTunes, set ratings, change the volume, and more. A $5 pro version lets you access other controls from the keyboard, such as skip forward Four Ways to Control iTunes or backward, and shuffle and repeat. Tunelet: The $2 Tunelet by Aeolian Use iTunes without displaying its full interface. Apps (aeolianapps.com) is a menu-bar BY KIRK McELHEARN controller. Click its menu—or press a shortcut—to access controls, view album art, and search your iTunes library. ith iTunes, you can volume, not that of the iTunes app. Equilibrium: The $3 Equilibrium control music playback mutes your speakers, decreases the (sunflowersw.com) doesn’t display the from the window, but if volume, and increases it. name of the currently playing you don’t want the full track in the menu bar, but it has a Winterface visible while you listen to music, MINIPLAYER floating artwork controller. Access you have other ways to tell the app what The iTunes MiniPlayer is a Equilibrium from the menu bar, to do. I’ll show you how to control iTunes floating window that lets you and use its full range of controls. using built-in features as well as third- control iTunes without having You can manage playback, toggle party apps, so that you can hide the the full app visible. To show it, shuffle and repeat, and even select window when you play your songs. choose Window → MiniPlayer, an AirPlay output. The app also or press 1-

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Mac 911 Solutions to your most vexing Mac problems.

BY CHRISTOPHER BREEN

Need an Annotated iPhoto Slideshow? Turn to Keynote

Q: I have some information that I’d like to present to a group via a slideshow that they’ll watch on their computers. I have the pictures I need in iPhoto, but I can’t find a way to annotate them. Is it possible to do so? Doug McGowan

A: Not in an effective way. I’d turn instead to Apple’s Keynote. Launch Keynote, select the White theme, and click Choose. With the latest version of Keynote, the Format button at the top of the window should be high- CAPTION IN ACTION Keynote gives you the power to create slideshows with both images and captions. lighted. In the area below this button, click Change Master and choose the empty slide at the bottom right of the list. You Press 1--B to send that image to Share iTunes Content With should now have a single empty slide. the back so that the caption is exposed. Your Family Right Now Click the Media button at the top of Triple-click the caption to select all of its the window, and in the Photos tab text, and then enter the caption you Q: I’m interested in Apple’s announce- navigate to the first image you want to want for that slide. ment of the Family Sharing feature, use in the slideshow and click it. Key- Repeat this process for additional where you can share iTunes media note will add the image to your slide. slides. Then select all the slides and with your family. Is there any way my Now click the Text button at the top of click the Automate button near the family and I can do something like that the window to add a text box. Enter the top-right of the Keynote window. Click now in Mac OS X Mavericks? text, configure its font and size, and drag Add an Effect and choose a tasteful Frank Stillman it to where you’d like the caption to transition (Dissolve is always a safe appear. With the text selected, choose bet). Finally, choose File → Export To → A: A common misconception is that you the Style tab in the sidebar to the right QuickTime. In the Export Your Presenta- can use just a single iCloud account per and then click Color Fill or Gradient Fill tion sheet that appears, don’t change device for everything that the device from the Fill area. Choose an appropri- the Self-Playing setting in the Playback does. This isn’t the case. Your iCloud ate fill to go with your text. pop-up menu; just choose how long account and iTunes/App Store/iBook- Hold down the

90 MACWORLD • SEPTEMBER 2014 Residents’ Not Available, any other that group something like “hubby”. A: First, you need a Blu-ray player for device using that Apple ID can also Now choose Edit → Edit Distribution your Mac. Connect the player to your download the album. This works not List, and in the sheet that appears select Mac via the supplied cable (likely a only with music but also ebooks, your “hubby” group. You’ll see your USB connection). videos, and apps. To add that account husband’s name along with the email Now, download a copy of MakeMKV in iOS 7, just tap Settings and then tap addresses that appear on his contact (makemkv.com). This is a utility for iTunes & App Store. At the top of the card. Select his Mac.com address so ripping Blu-ray and DVD discs. Launch resulting screen, you’ll see an entry for that it turns black, and click OK. What MakeMKV; from its Source pop-up your Apple ID. If you see another ID you’ve essentially told Contacts is that menu, choose the Blu-ray player. Then there, tap it and then tap Sign Out. Then within this group (of one), the Mac.com choose File → Backup and select a enter the new “shared” ID. address is the default. destination large enough to hold the This procedure may sound pretty Return to Mail, create a new mes- disc’s contents (this could be around close to Apple’s plans for Family sage, and in the “To” field enter 40GB). In the MakeMKV Disk Backup Sharing, which will ship with OS X hubby. When you press the window that appears, enable the Yosemite and iOS 8. Under those key, that address should change to his Decrypt video files option and click OK. operating systems, I imagine that Apple name and use his Mac.com address. MakeMKV will make a copy of the disc will do everything it can to make a At a later time, should you wish to and, in the process, remove its protec- double identity—where you have send a message to a different email tion. This action can take up to an hour. content that you own as well as family- address of his, enter his name rather When you return from lunch, quit owned content—more transparent. than “hubby” and then choose the MakeMKV and then download a copy address you wish to use from the autofill of Computer Application Studio’s DVD Set a Default ‘To’ Address list that appears. Audio Extractor (dvdae.com/download). in Mavericks’s Mail The full version of this software costs Extract the Audio From $38.50, but you can use a free full- Q: My husband has three email a Blu-ray Disc featured trial copy for 30 days. addresses. I almost always want to Launch DVD Audio Extractor, and send messages to his Mac.com Q: I have a concert recording on a from the “DVD source” pop-up menu address, and for years that’s what Blu-ray disc. I’d like to use my Mac choose Folder – Open DVD files from Mail automatically used when I typed to extract the audio from it so I can file folder. Click the file browser icon his name. But when I upgraded to play its music on my devices, but I just to the right of this pop-up menu, Mavericks, Mail decided that I wanted haven’t any idea where to start. and navigate to the folder that holds to send to his Yahoo address. So What do you suggest? the copy of the Blu-ray you just ripped. every time I add him to an email, I Derrick Crandall Click Open within the navigation have to manually change the autofilled address to his Mac.com address. Is there a way to force Mail to always use the same address? Fran Drakes

A: With Mavericks’s Mail, autofill will choose the first alphabetical address, regardless of the order it appears in a contact’s card. For instance, in the case of [email protected], bubba2@ example.com, and bubba3@example. com, bubba1 will be autofill’s choice. To work around this, you can take the choice out of autofill’s virtual hands and tell Contacts and Mail what you want. Launch the Contacts app, select your husband’s name in your list of contacts, and choose File → New Group From Selection. This will create a new untitled group with a highlighted name. Rename PLAYING THE BLU You can pull audio from a ripped Blu-ray disc using a tool such as DVD Audio Extractor.

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window, and the contents of the now-virtual disc will appear. Mac 101 At this point it’s your job to locate the particular audio files you’re after Identify VPN Protocols in OS X by way of the Title and Chapter panes within the app’s window. (The play Q: button in the bottom-left corner can I’m helping out at my spouse’s small office, and I want to configure her colleagues’ Macs with the same VPN configuration I somehow successfully set up for her many help by allowing you to preview chap- months ago. The problem is that I can’t remember which protocol I had originally ters.) When you’ve selected exactly used—L2TP, PPTP, or IPSec—and nothing in System Preferences’ Network preference what you want, click Next. tells me. How can I tell the difference? In the following window, choose the via the Internet output format, sample rate, channels, and bit rate for the extracted audio. For A: When you first set up a VPN connection by opening the Network preference, an iOS device you might choose AIFF, clicking the plus (+) button near the bottom-left corner, choosing VPN from the Interface 44100Hz, stereo, and 16 bits. If you have pop-up menu, and selecting the kind of protocol you’ll use from the VPN Type menu, a surround-sound AV system capable of the Service Name field displays the protocol in parentheses—“VPN (L2TP)”, for example. playing multichannel files, you might Of course, if you change that service name (as most people do), you lose the broad elect to maintain the original six chan- hint OS X provides. Fortunately, there’s another way to identify the protocol. nels and 24 bits. Once you’ve made The three kinds of connections display different options. For an L2TP connection your choices, click Next again. you’ll see entries for Configuration, Server Address, and Account Name. A PPTP Now choose your output location connection adds an Encryption pop-up menu to those items. And when you set up (the Documents folder within your user an IPSec connection, you lose the Configuration pop-up menu. folder is chosen by default) and click Next again. Finally, click the Start button in the next screen, and the app will create the audio files. Move your cursor to the bottom-right can then route that audio through corner of the selected B1 cell until you AirPlay—send it to your Apple TV, for Copy Address Lists From see a black plus (+) cursor. Double-click example. On a compatible Mac running Excel Into Apple’s Mail that corner with the cursor showing, and Mountain Lion or later, hold down the all the addresses in Column A will appear

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SEPTEMBER 2014 • MACWORLD 95 THE SETUP

Ellen Chisa

Product manager, Kickstarter

WHAT DO YOU DO? AND WHAT SOFTWARE? My writing process uses different tools. I work on the backer experience for My favorite software is FuzzyClock. I I draft everything in Day One because it Kickstarter. I try to make everyone also use f.lux, which helps prevent me feels like a journal, plus I can read the else’s job easier. from staying up all night. notes in the iOS app while I’m out. I Most of what I do is on the Internet. copy-paste everything into Hemingway to WHAT HARDWARE DO YOU USE? Chrome is my primary browser. I also use edit. Then I either move it into my blog, I use a 13-inch MacBook Air—the size a Chrome extension called Web Timer, which uses WordPress or to Medium. just feels right for me. And I prefer the which informs me that I spend nearly two A few other favorite things: Pinterest for way the keyboard feels. I never use an hours per day in . My second-most- procrastinating, Spotify for listening to external monitor because the amount used website is Twitter. music, Pocket for saving articles I’ll prob- of screen space overwhelms me. For product management, I use Trello. ably never read, Goodreads for document- I’ve never been much of a tablet I use it to keep myself organized, too. I ing books that I do read, and Product Hunt person. If I’m on a computer, I want to have one board that has columns for each for doing research on cool new stuff. be productive. But I have a Microsoft type of thing I do: Web stuff, writing, art. Surface RT in the kitchen that I use to I also use Google Docs to make notes, WHAT IS YOUR DREAM SETUP? pull up recipes while I’m cooking. and Balsamiq to make mockups. Some- This will sound funny, but I wish I had Right now I use an iPhone 5s. For a times I’ll use Photoshop to modify some- a PC to run PowerPoint on. Office for couple of years, I worked on Windows thing more detailed. I use Sublime Text if Mac isn’t the same. Phone and carried an HTC 8X. After I’m editing code, and GitHub or Terminal dropping and shattering two within a year, to check things in. We use Campfire to INTERVIEW COURTESY OF THE SETUP I decided it was time for something else. keep up with each other during the day. (USESTHIS.COM; TWITTER: @USESTHIS).

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