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>>>CONTRIBUTORS GO BIG Or GO…?

There’s a new war being waged in the world of smartphones, and the conľict isn’t limited to just the manufacturers. This time iPhone supporters are in the midst of a heated debate: should Apple supersize its ľagship product to meet the threat posed by fatter phones, or stay the course with its smaller size? J.r. Bookwalter For months the Internet has been rife with is a recovering independent rumors of new sporting 4.7-inch and filmmaker whose tech 5.5-inch screens. If the talk is true, the smaller credentials include of the two models shouldn’t require much of an daily news, product adjustment for people used to the 4-inch display reviews and feature articles. of current iPhones. Even so, the possibility of any An experienced veteran change at all has put some folks on edge. When of film and video post- surveyed via the Mac|Life Facebook page, nearly production, he can frequently 80% of 300-plus respondents were wary of any kind of size increase. be found lining up first to buy “Cell phones should be able to Ľt into regular-sized pockets,” commented the latest Apple products, but Kyle Stockdale, voicing the most commonly listed concern. Steve Sylvia also enjoys a trip to the dark reiterated the criteria employed to determine the shape of the side with Android or Windows original iPhone screen: everything needs to be within thumb’s reach when used Phone every now and again. with one hand. Others feared that a focus on size might distract Apple from developing more innovative enhancements; that a company famous for blazing trails was now content to follow paths paved by its competitors. Of course, some of the people we polled did want to see a size increase, and extolled the beneĽts of using a wider screen to watch , play games, and read books. Surely Apple’s best opportunity with a bigger iPhone lies with customers who have gone elsewhere to get what it doesn’t currently oļer. The easy solution is to keep one version of the iPhone at the current size or close to it, while also oļering a signiĽcantly larger model. Maybe that plan has already been put in place by the time of this printing, during the June 2nd keynote for the Worldwide Developers Conference. The sooner the better, because Apple is missing out on the fastest-growing segment of the market. andrew hayward Before we get the issue started, I’d like to quickly point out that we’ve is a freelance writer from freshened up the design. This is still the same Mac|Life you know, just a little Chicago who has been clearer and cleaner, a bit easier to read and navigate. We hope you enjoy the covering iOS and Mac games, changes – be sure to drop us a line at [email protected]. apps, and happenings for more than five years — and previously spent about half of that as an editor at Mac|Life. He’s looking forward to a bigger, flashier iPhone, but not too big: a 4.7-inch display sounds just about right.

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“AFTER A DEcADE of innovation, the company’s well has run Has Apple dry,” declared Howard Gold of The Wall Street Journal after Apple’s last earnings call. It’s a common complaint, and one that’s often countered by pointing out that Apple’s biggest Stopped innovations have come several years apart – it’s not fair to demand a game-changer every year. Innovating? This is true, though it ignores just how fertile the mid-2000s were for Apple: there was a major new product category or Analysts look past iteration in fundamental shift coming every year, from the in 2005 through to the Intel switch, the iPhone, the Apple TV, and search of a new product category Ľnally the MacBook Air in 2008. Then came the iPad and Retina BY MATT BOlTON displays two years later in 2010. Since then, you could argue that the iPad mini and are big additions, but largely, Apple has released products that iterate on what’s already there. The question is whether more new product categories are what’s needed to sustain the company, or whether it can keep

10 AUG 2014 maclife.com Feed your mind. Feast your eyes.

Ari Partinen and the iPhone 7 Super-resolution images could come growing simply by improving on its courtesy of ex-Nokia expert BY lEIF JOHNSON existing devices. There’s an air of frustration or NOkIA’S SMARTPHONE DIvISION supplier collaboration and technical impatience behind claims that Apple may have been officially acquired by marketing in multimedia segments.” doesn’t innovate any more. The iPhone , but that doesn’t mean Interestingly, Apple has already was a game-changer. The sight of a that the long-time Apple rival gets filed a patent that covers “super- MacBook Air sliding out of a manila to enjoy the Finnish smartphone resolution based on optical image envelope was barely believable. People maker’s talent as well. Former Nokia stabilization,” meaning that your want to see that again. They want Apple camera engineering executive Ari next iPhone (or more likely an to turn existing ideas (like the watch or Partinen tweeted that he will “start iPhone several generations down TV) into products with iPhone-levels of a new chapter in Cupertino, the pipe) could rapidly take a series California” in June. Here’s why this of images at a range of slightly impact. Rene Ritchie of iMore says this is a big deal. offset angles. These images could won’t happen: “There isn’t a business as Partinen’s influence can be found then be stitched together by a big as the iPhone, not for Apple, not for throughout all levels of Nokia’s proprietary image processing anyone, and there won’t be again.” mobile camera division, but he’s engine, resulting in a “super- perhaps best known for his work in resolution” image. HOPEFUllY, THAT ISN’T TRUE – perhaps developing Nokia’s PureView Who better to bring this to reality a huge opportunity lies outside the technology. PureView-equipped than Ari Partinen? computing industry (much like the way phones, such as the Nokia Lumia Ari Partinen revealed Nintendo has announced it will move into 1020 (pictured right), can take the move to cupertino health products to expand its business, 41-megapixel images and smash on his Twitter page. for example). But even if it is, it’s no them down to smaller, breathtakingly detailed harbinger of Apple’s doom, because every photographs with the help of year, Apple dramatically improves its on-chip processing and pixel existing products. There is innovation oversampling. As a bonus, the to be found in battery life, convenience technology performs well in low and usability, and ignoring these areas light and has a zoom function is what Apple’s competitors often get that manages to maintain the wrong. And it’s why the company doesn’t image’s high quality. just throw out any old watch or TV concept and call it a Ľnished product. APPlE HAS AlREADY made a “I think for Apple, the pressure name for itself with the impressive is to get it right,” Carolina Milanesi, capabilities of the camera in the iPhone 5s, but Partinen’s of consumer insight Ľrm Kantar experience with Nokia could make a WorldPanel, told CNBC. “It’s not so much great phone camera even better. getting in quickly, it’s getting in there A quick look at Partinen’s the right way... It’s not in Apple’s style LinkedIn page states that he was to rush things, especially when it’s part the “Lumia Photography Lead at of the bigger picture.” Perhaps taking Nokia,” and his duties involved the time to do things properly is the real “working in the fields of mobile innovation, especially in an industry photography, image quality that’s all-too-happy to throw any old verification, verification me-too product at the wall. up-streaming, third-party management and collaboration,

maclife.com AUG 2014 11 >>>Start

Do oddities like SENSOREE’s GER Mood Sweater herald a future of tech-fashion?

Earphones (LG FR74) oļer another take on wearable gadgetry, capable of tracking your metabolic rate and maximum oxygen consumption, and spitting out the data to an iOS app. Nod has a Bluetooth ring it would like you to buy, giving you the ability to gesture-control connected Bluetooth devices with a wave of your hand. SENSOREE has developed the GER Mood Beyond Sweater, which “interprets emotion and displays excitement levels instantly the Wrist with an illuminated collar.” It’s not the only biometric-inspired clothing around Today the , tomorrow the either – OMSignal has incorporated Ľtness tracker tech into a line of body- iWatch, the iRing, and the iShirt hugging shirts that monitor heart rate, BY dean evans breathing and movement. In the future, perhaps we won’t need LG’s FR74 headphones WITH aLL THIs talk of iWatches and smartwatches or high-tech bracelets. let you listen to your Ľtness bands, it’s easy to forget that Engineers at the University of Illinois at favorite tunes while monitoring your heart there’s more to emerging wearable Urbana-Champaign and Northwestern rate and breathing. technologies than gadgets that you University have developed prototype strap onto your wrist. Glass wireless monitoring patches that can be is undoubtedly the most high-proĽle stuck onto the skin. “We designed this (and expensive) plaything in this device to monitor human health 24/7, but new category, a head-mounted 640 x without interfering with a person’s daily 360 display that gives the wearer the activity,” said Northwestern University experience of looking at a 25-inch screen professor, Yonggang Huang. “It is as soft from about eight feet away. But there’s as human skin, wirelessly powered, and still more to wearable tech. can send high-quality data about the The MeMini camera is a wearable HD human body to a computer, in real time.” video camera with a twist. It constantly Now that’s wearable tech. records loops of footage – adjustable from 10 seconds to 5 minutes. So any surprise moment you’d like to save has already been captured. You simply press a button to store it. LG’s Heart Rate Monitor

12 AUG 2014 maclife.com Feed your mind. Feast your eyes.

vITaL sTaTs 830 A recent tablet survey from J.d. power And AssocIAtes reveals that the cheaper tablets get, the less satisĽed tablet owners seem to be. While overall satisfaction is generally trending downward, Apple’s ipAd stIll leAds the pack with an overall satisfaction rating of 830 out of 1000, with the report noting that it “performs highest in all study factors except cost.” sAmsung follows in the rankings with a score of 822, with Asus at 820, AmAzon at 817, and Acer lagging behind on 769. Bigger iPhones, 25% sharper displays According to Apple InsIder Is Apple testing a 1704 x 960 pixel screen? (www.appleinsider.com), 25% of iPhones sold in Q1 2014 were of One Of the questions a 4.7-inch version, this screen space to insert the venerable iPhone 4s variety, surrounding Apple’s would create a display design elements that potentially adding around 10 rumored transition to with a resolution of 416 had to be sacrificed for million new customers for Apple. larger iPhones centers ppi and the same 16:9 smaller screens. The iPhone 5s was the big on what Apple plans to ratio of the iPhone 5s; Playing devil’s seller (71%), the iPhone 5c do with the device’s a 5.5-inch unit would advocate, celebrated not so much (4%). screen resolution, and theoretically sport the analyst Ming Chi-Kuo 9to5Mac’s Mark same resolution but of KGI Securities, Inc. Gurman suggests that feature a pixel density claims that Apple will Apple is testing an of 356 ppi. not opt for an improved 1704 x 960 The report claims increased resolution $18.3 billion display for the units. that the enhanced out of a desire to Compare that to the resolution will make maintain some When it comes to selling things current resolution for everything on the uniformity in the way online, AmAzon is far ahead of the the iPhone 5s, which is screen sharper, but the apps look across pack. It moved $67.8 billion worth 1136 x 640. sizes of various icons devices. He believes of products in 2013. But Apple With those new and screen elements that Apple will make raked in $18.3 billion in online sales specs, any new 4.7- or common to iOS will not the 4.7-inch device with in 2013, wresting the number two 5.5-inch iPhones would change. Most of the a 1334 x 750 Retina position away from oĿce supply be able to give us changes in that regard display, retaining the stAples better images than will come from third- existing pixel density of company via a 24% what we’re familiar party developers, who 326 pixels per inch. increase in online sales. with from Retina may simply take Either way, we’ll know displays. In the case of advantage of the extra soon enough.

maclife.com AUG 2014 13 >>>Start

OSX 10.9.3 enhances 4K support and improves the reliability of VPN connections.

display, Apple posted a support document (http://support. What’s inside apple.com/kb/HT6008) outlining some of the potential pitfalls, as well as detailing DisplayPort-compatible 4K displays. A Os X 10.9.3? handful of models from Sharp, ASUS, Dell, and Panasonic will only support single-stream transport (SST) at 30Hz, while four additional models can be set for 60Hz multi-stream transport Ahead of an expected OS X 10.10, Apple (MST). The support page will tell you more. enhances 4K support for future Macs Beyond that, 10.9.3 is a relatively lightweight patch, with the only other signiĽcant feature being the return of of the ability BY LEIf JOHnsOn anD J.R. BOOkWaLtER to sync calendars and contacts between Macs and iOS devices. It also improves the reliability of VPN connections using IPsec and includes the latest version of . Intriguingly, owners WHILE 2014’s WWDC points the way to the next version of of recent MacBook Pro with Retina Display and MacBook Air the Mac OS, Apple released OS X 10.9.3 to general users last models have reported an increase in the maximum VRAM used month after close to two months of developer testing. Along by the built-in Intel HD 5000, 5100, and 5200 graphics chips with several minor improvements, the update enhances 4K after updating to 10.9.3. A similar boost has also been spotted on display support for the new Mac Pro and the 15-inch MacBook 2012 models with Intel HD 4000 graphics chips. with Retina display. Also included in the update is a signiĽcant Another notable feature awaits in the associated update improvement to iTunes’s podcast interface. to iTunes, with adds an “Unplayed” tab to your subscribed The new 4K support will allow objects in 4K displays to look so it’s easier to Ľgure out which episodes you haven’t sharper instead of simply smaller, and text should thus be more listened to. In addition, iTunes now also allows you to stream readable now on the relevant displays and onscreen elements episodes for the feed itself without having to return to the should be more visible. Rather than leaving users to blindly iTunes Store, and it lets you automatically delete episodes after Ľgure out the best way to connect their Mac to a new high-def listening to them in their entirety.

14 AUG 2014 maclife.com Feed your mind. Feast your eyes. 6 tech Marvels Built By Ex-apple staffers Apple’s design and engineering excellence stretches beyond Cupertino

Flipboard in 2010. allows GO you to discover and sEE MORE at: curate your news www..com/ that interests you 1237433 from around the web and share it with your friends. engineers, product The Square Card Reader (above) was created by former Apple engineer Jesse Dorogusker. designers and Tony Fadell (above right) is the famed “Father of the iPod” and founder/CEO of Nest. executives. LinkedIn Before creating the aPPLE attRaCts tHE best and the business network Paper (iOs app) brightest, but the problem with the all android devices lawyers claimed that LinkedIn, Reid At Apple, Mike best and brightest is that they won’t Most people know Rubin’s “inspiration Hoffman worked as Matas worked on necessarily stay with you forever. Some that Android creator for the Android a user experience the user interface hires may think a little too diļerently Andy Rubin co- framework” came architect at Apple. A for the iPhone and founded Danger, from the time he serial entrepreneur, iPad. As design to be comfortable in Cupertino, the smartphone spent in Cupertino. Hoffman founded lead for the iOS others may decide to risk everything firm that Microsoft the ahead-of-its- app Paper he’s on a moonshot rather than settle for bought in 2008. time social network responsible for corporate conformity. But not everybody Socialnet, and was a one of the most Some left because Steve Jobs started knows that a decade flipboard founding director of beautiful iOS apps before he founded Evan Doll was PayPal, too. you can buy. acting all weird to them, and some cut Danger he was a a senior iPhone short their Apple tenure because, let’s manufacturing engineer at Apple, face it, Sam Sung is a terrible name engineer with Apple. and he co-founded for someone who works in an Apple In 2011, Apple’s the social news app nest square Store. (Sam Sung actually worked Nest’s creator, Tony Card Reader Fadell, is famed as Square’s payment for Apple in Vancouver, much to the “the father of the system wasn’t Internet’s amusement. He now works iPod”. He’s not the invented by a for a headhunting company.) Former only ex-Apple brain former Apple Apple employees are everywhere. that joined the staffer, but the Here’s a selection of devices, services Googleplex when latest version of Google bought out its card reader and startups whose stories began when Nest this year. The comes from a team their Apple adventures ended. firm employs an headed by former Flipboard co-founder Evan Doll (right) was a estimated 100-plus Apple engineer senior iPhone software engineer at Apple. former Apple Jesse Dorogusker.

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>>>Enter the stylish and angular Illum, the second camera from Lytro that uses a light field sensor to allows the focus point to be shifted after the image has been captured. Yes. After. In fact, the software that comes with the Illum makes it possible to use virtual camera controls in post-processing to adjust (depth of field), focus, and perspective, as well as tilt.

16 AUG 2014 maclife.com Mini Mobile Robotic Pocket Printer www.zutalabs.com, $240

>>>A printer that you can fit in your pocket? It’s not so far-fetched. This Kickstarter-funded robotic printer looks suspiciously like a wireless mouse. But position this gadget on a blank piece of paper and it can print out pages from your iPhone, moving over any size of paper on tiny robo-wheels. The micro inkjet inside reportedly lasts for over 1,000 printed pages and the battery lasts for an hour on a full charge.

Tile www.thetileapp.com $19.95

>>>Lost your keys? Can’t remember where you left your bike? If only you’d put a Tile on them. These compact GPS devices can be attached to all sorts of devices and objects, enabling you to track their location via an iOS app. The battery lasts a year and when it dies, Tiles are so cheap that you just order up a fresh one.

Glowdeck www.glowdeck.com $249.99

>>>This wooden box doesn’t just hide a pair of high-quality stereo speakers, a noise-cancelling microphone, and Bluetooth 4.0 technology. The Glowdeck isn’t just a smartphone dock with the ability to wirelessly up your iPhone (Qi-compatible case required). Nor does it just have the ability to display iOS notifications on its built-in LCD. No. It also glows...

maclife.com AUG 2014 17 >>>Start Feed your mind. Feast your eyes.

>the lifer All this talk about the iWatch is missing the point. rik MysleWski wonders whether we can build tiny processors efficient enough to power one

aven’t heard of “wearables” A7 chip that powers your iPad Air and may be wearing is powered by an ARM – the Next Big Thing™ in iPhone 5s. “Wait a minute,” you may Cortex-M3 design, which is a full 32- your digital life? You haven’t counter. “Didn’t Apple design that bit processor using a combination of Hbeen paying attention! The chip?” Yes and no: Apple assembled power management tricks to keep its Fitbit, the Jawbone UP24, Samsung’s it with the help of contributions from battery life ludicrously high. bigger-than-your-head Galaxy Gear others, including the A7’s 64-bit smartwatch, and of course Apple’s architecture – the way a chip handles and speaking of ludicrousness, long-rumored iWatch – all want to be instructions – licensed from a British among the M3’s siblings is the M0+. your indispensable companion when company named ARM. This li’l fella is a mere 0.035 square you’re living what the buzzerati call millimeters in area, but is still a fully “the quantiĽable life.” arM doesn’t Make chips. It designs programmable 32-bit chip with 12,000 architectures and chip guts, licenses transistor gates. Put this guy in a Wearables Will count your them for loads o’ cash to partners smart pill, swallow it today, have it heartbeats, steps, and stairways; such as Apple, and collects a royalty perform some medical miracle while monitor your blood pressure, glucose, for each device sold. This ARM “IP” – sailing down your alimentary canal, and oxygenation levels. Not only will intellectual property – powers the vast and then… uh… recover it tomorrow. wearables be on your wrist and nose, majority of smartphones and tablets, but also in your shoes, on your clothes, plus a whole lot more: ARM IP is in but no arM M-class IP is potent on your skin, and, yes, eventually in thermostats, egg beaters, data centers, enough to power the rich iOS your gut or even your bloodstream credit cards, TVs, you name it. experience required for an iWatch. – the Fantastic Voyage without the Cook & Co. would require moving up shrink-o-matic Sci-Fi action. Which brings us back to wearables. the food chain to ARM’s 32-bit A-class That Fitbit or Pebble smartwatch you processors, likely the Cortex-A5 or “all Well and good,” you might Cortex-A7. think, “but where will Apple and all the other wearables players the cortex-a5 jump-started Ľnd microprocessors small the smartphone category enough to Ľt into tiny devices, some years back. But ARM’s powerful enough to quantify Cortex-A7 can come in at my life, and power-eĿcient around 0.25 square millimeters, enough so that I don’t have to and when running at 500MHz, recharge a battery every time I still provide impressive turn around?” performance and battery life while sipping from a power pack good question. And we’ve got a just one-tenth as generous as a

good answer: from the same company An Apple iWatch will need a high performance smartphone’s. This is the architecture that helped put the smarts inside the but low-power processor like ARM’s Cortex-A7. that may soon quantify your life.

>>>Rik Myslewski was editor-in-chief of MacAddict from 2001 until it transformed into Mac|Life in 2007, and now writes for The Register, which is “biting the hand that feeds IT” daily at www.theregister.co.uk.

18 AUG 2014 maclife.com

>>>Start Feed your mind. Feast your eyes. $50 iTunes Card How would you spend 50 bucks on , movies, books, TV shows and apps? BY dean evans

Things A LiTTLe 300: rise LAzAreTTo ThoMAs Bird ToLd Me of An eMpire Jack White WAs ALone Biz Stone Sullivan Stapleton, Eva $10.99 Mike Bithell $9.99 Green, Lena Headey In this follow-up to 2012’s $8.99 When creative giants like $19.99 HD ($14.99 SD) Blunderbuss (“stranger and This quirky iOS title (originally Biz Stone squeeze their When 300 came out in 2006, more fascinating the closer a Flash web game) gained a knowledge and experience it wasn’t just memorable for you listen”, said Rolling cult following on Mac, PC, and into the pages of a book, Gerard Butler yell-spitting Stone), the former White PlayStation 3/Vita. At first they’re bound to have some “This is Sparta!” No. It also Stripes frontman plays around glance, it’s difficult to see life lessons worth listening fused filmmaking and graphic- with a variety of musical why. You control a series of to. Twitter’s co-founder is a novel style to dazzling effect. styles. “High Ball Stepper”, geometric shapes, navigating case in point, and Stone tells Sure, the sequel doesn’t have the first track to be released, through progressively a fascinating story about the same visual impact but it is a wash of reverberating challenging blocky worlds. But making something out of offers up more swords-and- rock riffs and brisk Bluesy the abstract design, clever nothing and how hard work sandals fantasy. There are piano bursts – a powerful platform puzzles, and offbeat isn’t the road to success more spectacular set-pieces – and beguiling instrumental narrative voice-over (by unless you start with a good this time on dark, angry seas; from gentle beginning to Brit author/humorist Danny idea. Contraints can challenge more bloody swords; more its raging end. The title Wallace), make it something of creativity, but they can also stern, bearded faces, swinging track, “Lazaretto”, is a more a treat. Dig it out. You won’t empower it. Twitter’s 140 swords, and washboard- traditional track, channeling a be disappointed. character-limit hasn’t exactly chested warriors. And more funky 70s vibe with echoes of held back the social network. shouting. It’s not high-art Jamiroquai. The album will be cinema. But it’s certainly fun. on iTunes starting June 10.

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20 AUG 2014 maclife.com

22 AUG 2014 maclife.com iCloud >>>Feature

Whether you’re backing up your iPhone, finding a lost iPad, or creating Keynote presentations, iCloud can do it all By ray aguilera apple’s iCloud has come a long way stay organized, and use all your Apple since 2011. It started out as a successor devices to their fullest potential. to the oft-maligned MobileMe, and We’ve covered everything from has since morphed into a powerhouse the basics of creating and sharing collection of features and services documents with iWork for iCloud, to designed to enhance and change avoiding spam with iCloud aliases, the way you work with Macs and iOS building contact groups for faster devices. From storing documents in messaging, privately sharing your the cloud and editing them across all photos with close friends, and more. your devices, to easily sharing and So much more, in fact, that you syncing photos, and even tracking may Ľnd yourself quickly outgrowing down your lost iPhone, iCloud has your free 5GB account. But we’ve got expanded into a powerhouse suite of that covered too, from how to upgrade tools that you can use to enhance your account, to how to slim down your Apple experience. your iCloud account so that you aren’t To make sure you’re getting the paying for more than you have to. most out of iCloud, we’ve rounded up If you haven’t been keeping up with 15 of our favorite ways to put iCloud all of iCloud’s functions, or if you’re to work for you. And since it’s free jumping into iCloud for the Ľrst time, and baked into every Apple product, we’ve got plenty of insider tips to help iCloud is the perfect way to do more, you make the most of it.

maclife.com AUG 2014 23 >>>Feature iCloud

UsinG iWork for iCloUd

when you only had a single computer, keeping track of said, if Apple suddenly decides to do something weird, your work documents was easy. But now, you might work don’t say we didn’t warn you. on something at home in the evening, and then return to it Using iWork for iCloud is surprisingly smooth. Opening a from the oĿce the next day. You also might want to use your new document in Pages, for example, even oļers a collection iPad to take a Ľnal peek at your proposal, before sending it of document templates that any seasoned Pages user will to your boss during a meeting. Manually moving documents recognize. Working in documents is straightforward, and between all those locations would be incredibly inconvenient, the Format Panel on the right side contains a plethora of but iCloud makes it simple. Even better, with the new iWork common formatting tools. All three are robust enough for for iCloud, you can seamlessly transition from your home and regular use, though we have noticed occasional slight lags work Macs to and other devices – and even borrowed on slower Wi-Fi connections. computers when you’re away from your own machine. With iWork for iCloud, document collaboration is a snap. The promise of “everything, everywhere” access was one Sharing a work-in-progress is as simple as clicking the share of the key selling points of iCloud. Using Documents in the icon. A share link appears in a pop-up, which you can copy Cloud, iWork apps like Pages, Keynote, and Numbers all and paste as needed, or click Send Link to open an iCloud talk to each other, seamlessly email message pre-populated keeping your in-progress “everything, everywhere with a link to your document. documents updated on all For added security, you can add your devices. aCCess was one of the a password to shared Ľles, and To sync documents, make key selling points” you can restrict viewers’ ability sure Documents & Data is to edit your documents. The activated in iCloud on all best part is that your recipient your devices. For even more control, you can specify which doesn’t even need an iCloud account to view, edit, download, applications are able to use iCloud for document storage (see or otherwise interact with your shared iWork for iCloud #5 Manage Your Storage for more on managing your iCloud documents. For iCloud users, logging in oļers advantages, storage space). including tight interaction with the other iCloud apps. But iCloud doesn’t stop there. Apple has released iWork While iWork for iCloud is not a full replacement for for iCloud, which is essentially a suite of web-based versions iWork on your Mac or iOS device, the ease of use makes it a of Pages, Numbers, and Keynote. To access iWork for iCloud, contender when compared with other online productivity simply sign into your iCloud account, and click the icon for suites. There are even a large number of keyboard shortcuts whichever iWork app you need. Of course, Apple is careful to baked into the various apps to maximize your productivity. point out that iWork for iCloud is in beta, so elements of the Even though they’re still in beta, Apple has regularly released suite could substantially change or even stop working at any updates for iWork for iCloud, and now that iWork apps come moment. But unlike other companies who get by on working free with any Mac, iPhone, or iPad, it’s clear that iWork for betas for years, Apple is known for only releasing polished iCloud is going to play an increasingly important role in products, and iWork for iCloud feels pretty solid as-is. That Apple’s software strategy going forward.

24 AUG 2014 maclife.com find your missing deviCes 2 UsinG iPhone/MAC

while we’re still waiting for the cellphone industry to Play a sound does exactly what it says on the tin. your device come up with a solution for bricking stolen phones (and killing will repeatedly emit a high-pitched alert tone. This is useful if the resale value in the process), Apple’s find My iPhone feature you’ve lost your phone in your house, for example, and need help can help you keep track of your various devices in the event that locating it. The alert sounds at maximum volume, even if your something gets lost or stolen. phone is switched to silent, or the ringer is set to a lower volume. Though it’s called “find My iPhone,” the device-tracking stop the tone by clicking the button again on iCloud.com, or by features work just as well for iPads and Macs. you just need to tapping or clicking the ok button on your Mac or ios device. make sure you activate the feature before one of your devices lost Mode lets you display a message on a lost device, such as gets lost. on a Mac, go to system Preferences > iCloud. Check the a contact number. it also enables you to see where a device has box next to find My Mac. for ios devices, you can turn the feature been, so you can see if someone is moving with your device in on at settings > iCloud > find My iPhone. tow. Activating lost Mode also lets you lock your device remotely, once you’ve activated find My iPhone, you can locate your immediately requiring your passcode to unlock it. device by logging into your iCloud account. if your devices are if locking your device isn’t enough security, you can also stop online, iCloud will display their locations on a map. anyone looking at your personal data by performing a remote wipe At the top of the window, click on All devices to choose a of your device with the erase function. on , your device will specific device. from there, you can use a couple of different continue to display a custom message, even after being erased. features to find a lost or stolen Mac, iPhone, or iPad. your data is deleted and you still might get your phone back. keep up to date CAlendAr shArinG/sUbsCribe/synC

keeping up with your own a challenge to know where Calendar, choose File > New calendar is hard enough. Add everyone is. While calendar Calendar Subscription… in partners and kids, sports sharing is one of iCloud’s and paste in a calendar it’s easy to keep everyone in the loop teams, and work colleagues, oldest features, it’s still URL. Creating your own with Calendar sharing. and it becomes even more of underused, and one of the public calendar (or sharing best ways to put iCloud to an existing one) is just as work for you. easy. From Calendar, select You can share calendars a calendar and choose Edit in two ways. Public > Share Calendar…. Check sharing is just that: public. the box for Shared Calendar, Anyone who has a public and use the Share button to calendar’s URL will be able copy the link into an email, to see whatever’s on that Facebook message, or post. calendar, including whatever If you need more control information you include in over who sees your calendar, events. Public calendars are you can privately share it great for sharing meeting with speciĽc individuals. times, sports schedules, To do that, enter names or and other events that don’t email addresses of people change frequently. Anyone you would like to share that can subscribe to a public calendar with. You can also calendar to view it. specify whether recipients Subscribing to a public get “View” access or “View calendar is simple. In & Edit” capabilities.

maclife.com AUG 2014 25 avoid spam WiTh iCloUd eMAil AliAses

spam suCks. It’s turned the Gear icon in the email from a useful tool lower-left corner. Choose into that thing that you Preferences… then click dread looking at every day. on the Accounts tab. Your When you do Ľnally open iCloud account will be your email, there are only listed on the left. Click on three important messages Add an alias… and enter in there, scattered amongst your desired email alias. the 45 other pieces of You can also enter a spam, newsletters, and display name (it’ll appear sales pitches from every in the From Ľeld when you website or store you’ve send email with this alias), ever done business with. a label, and a label color. Using iCloud’s email The label and color will alias feature, however, be used when displaying you can stem the tide of your mail, so that you can junk email and return your diļerentiate messages inbox to a cleaner, more sent to your alias from organized, and far more those sent to your actual useful state. An alias is like email address. Click OK, an alternate email address, and then Done to set up but it all goes into the your new alias so it’s ready manage your storage same inbox in the end. This to be used. 5 saves you from having to Helpfully, iCloud 5Gb of sPACe rUns oUT fAsT check multiple accounts, enables you to create up and allows you to do things to three such aliases for signing up for iCloud nets you 5Gb of free storage like quarantine spam, or your account so you can from Apple. but before you get too excited, realize that we’re use a separate address for use them in diļerent talking about 5Gb per account, not per device. if you have work and personal email, ways. You can temporarily multiple Apple devices, they’ll all be sharing the same 5Gb. all without having to leave deactivate an alias at any Apple will be happy to sell you more storage space (see #9: iCloud’s services. time (received messages to buy More iCloud storage), or you can use a few tips to better To set up a new alias, that alias will bounce back manage the storage that you have. log in to your account to the sender), or delete an on a Mac, go to system Preferences > iCloud and click at iCloud.com. Click on alias for good when you no Manage.... ios devices will find the same controls in settings > the mail icon, and then longer need it. iCloud > storage & backup > Manage storage. from there, you can manually control the data stored in your iCloud account. device backups frequently use the largest chunks of data. Therefore, it’s a good idea to check to see if there are backups in your iCloud account for old devices that you no longer use. The second large space hog is usually your Camera roll. in most cases, you can remove Camera roll from your device backups, since you should be using Photo stream (see #11: share and sync Photos with Photostream) to sync your photos anyway. When you turn the Camera roll switch to off, backup copies of photos are deleted from your iCloud storage, but the originals stay on your device. if this doesn’t clear out enough space, you’ll need to cull your iCloud storage on a per-app basis. switch them off individually to reclaim space. And don’t forget, your iCloud organize the crush of email by adding aliases to your iCloud account email uses storage space, too.

26 AUG 2014 maclife.com iCloud >>>Feature

restore an ios deviCe over the air no MAC ConneCTiviTy reqUired

anyone who’s ever photos and videos in your When using iCloud backup, upgraded an iPhone, or had to Camera roll, device settings, your device will automatically replace a lost or broken one app data, home screen back up every day when it’s knows that you can restore a organization, , connected to Wi-fi, turned on, phone to a previous state by ringtones, and visual locked, and connected to a plugging it into iTunes. but voicemail. it’s important power source. iCloud will also let you back up to note that iCloud backup To restore your device from (and restore) your iPhone or does not include data that’s an iCloud backup, all you have iPad’s contents from the cloud. otherwise already in iCloud, to do is choose restore from To turn on iCloud backup such as your contacts, iCloud backup in the setup for your device, go to settings calendars, bookmarks, mail Assistant, which appears when > iCloud > storage & backup. messages, notes, shared photo you power up a new device. if flip the switch to on, and tap streams, My Photo stream, you need to roll back a working back Up now. your device will and documents you save in ios device, you’ll need to wipe immediately begin backing iCloud using ios apps and Mac it clean first, and then use the up to iCloud, allowing you apps. syncing for this data can setup Assistant to restore to restore a device without be controlled using your iCloud it. To wipe your device, go to needing to connect to iTunes. settings (see #5: Manage your settings > General > reset > iClould backups include the storage for more on using erase All Content and settings. following: Purchase history, iCloud for these data types). That should do it.

WiTh iCloUd

how many different logins and passwords When you add another device, there are do you have? With nearly every app, website, two methods of verifying your account. If and service requiring you to log in, you’re you have another device that’s authorized to most likely drowning in account credentials. use your iCloud Keychain, you can verify the iCloud Keychain makes sharing passwords, new device by typing in your password when logins, and other private data simple, even prompted by OS X. Alternately (if you’re across multiple Macs and iOS devices. adding your iPhone while you’re away from

keychain adds a few To set up iCloud Keychain, open System your Mac, for example), you can verify using extra steps to verify Preferences > iCloud and click the box next the security code you created when you set that you’re you, in order to protect your most to iCloud Keychain. In iOS, the settings are in up your Ľrst device. important data. Settings > iCloud > Keychain. You’ll be asked So what does all this work get you? From to enter the password for your Apple ID, then now on, when you’re using Safari on any of prompted to create an iCloud Security Code. your devices, your usernames, passwords, Enter a four-digit code and enter it a second and even your credit card information can time to verify. Next, you’ll be asked to enter be auto-Ľlled. Better yet, you can even store a telephone number that can receive text multiple credentials. Just delete the pre- messages. This number will be used when Ľlled info (if any), and click or tap on the you want to add additional devices to your Ľeld to bring up a list of possible options iCloud Keychain. from your Keychain.

maclife.com AUG 2014 27 keep your Books in synC WiTh ibooks

for voraCious readers, iBooks is reading, no matter where you read for even quicker access to your favorite a godsend. It allows you to carry dozens them. With the slider switched On, reading material on your iOS device, (or thousands) of books loaded onto you can start reading an iBook on your simply email the Ľle to yourself, and use your iPhone or iPad. Mac at home, and then switch to your the iOS Open In… option to add items to Integration with the iBooks store iPhone while you commute to work, your iBooks library. makes it even easier to add content to continuing where you left oļ. your devices, and thanks to the launch The other option is the Sync of iBooks for Mac with OS X Mavericks, Collections slider. This enables you you can now read your iBooks across all to create various collections of iBooks your Apple devices, Macs included. To content, as a way of grouping and get the most out of iBooks, you should organizing your Ľles. If you choose check to make sure that iBooks is to sync collections, any changes you switched on across all your devices. make will be reľected across all your In iOS, the most important iBooks devices – it’s convenient, but there are settings can be accessed through a couple of caveats. Settings > iBooks. In particular, Unfortunately, iBooks sync only pay attention to the settings for works seamlessly with content the following two options: Sync downloaded via Apple’s iBooks Store. Bookmarks and Sync Collections. But that doesn’t mean you can’t use The former will make sure that you it with your own content. You can maintain your place in books you’re sync epubs and PDFs with iTunes, or

Buy more iCloud storage beCAUse 5Gb is rArely enoUGh

your iCloud aCCount comes with 5Gb of in addition to your free 5Gb, so buying 10 gives free storage and Apple makes it easy to upgrade you 15Gb total. Chose your desired plan, and it. Tiered plans start at 10Gb for $20 all the way click next. enter your Apple id, and you’re all Apple gives you 5Gb of storage up to $100 for 50Gb of iCloud storage. Prices set. Plans are annual, and automatically renew for free, but you can buy more from your Mac or ios device. are annual, and you can upgrade at any time each year. if you end up buying too much space, from your Mac or an ios device. here’s how. you can also downgrade your storage. The new from your Mac, open system Preferences pricing will take effect on your next billing date. and choose iCloud. To the right of the gauge that you can also upgrade or downgrade your shows your usage, click Manage.... The next pane iCloud storage from an ios device. To do so, go shows all of your iCloud data (see #5 Manage to settings > iCloud > storage & backup. Tap buy your storage for tips on optimizing your data). in More storage, and choose from the available the upper-right, click buy More storage.... options. Tap buy, enter your Apple id and your from there, you can choose from Apple’s password, and the changes to your account will various pricing options. Any space you buy is take effect.

28 AUG 2014 maclife.com iCloud >>>Feature

use safari seamlessly aCross deviCes WiThoUT ConneCTinG To A MAC

what happens when you’re deep important or interesting pages, even as To access iCloud bookmarks from into surfing the web on your Mac, but then you go from home to the office and back. safari on a Mac, click the cloud button in it’s time to leave for work? you could iCloud can even tame your bookmarks, your toolbar (if it’s not there, add it by bookmark all the pages you’ve got open keeping them in sync across your devices right-clicking the toolbar and choosing and come back to them later. or you could no matter when or where you add to Customize Toolbar…). The pop-up menu even copy and paste a bunch of Urls into your collection of favorite browsing will display open tabs from your other an email and send it to yourself. either destinations on the web. devices. on mobile safari, tap the new would work, but neither is particularly supercharging safari with iCloud is Page icon in the lower right, and swipe elegant, nor does it take into account the simple. on a Mac, head over to system upward to display tabs from other devices. multiple screens and devices you interact Preferences > iCloud, and make sure the To use reading list, simply click on with every day. safari switch is set to on. in ios, you’ll the Plus icon next to safari’s location bar. With iCloud, you can instantly and find it under settings > iCloud. flip that The link will be added to your reading effortlessly send your open tabs to all switch or check that box on all your Apple list, which can be explored by opening the your other Macs or ios devices. you can gear, and your browsing experience will be sidebar and clicking the reading list icon. even add items to a reading list with a seamless across all your screens thanks to in ios, access your reading list items by single click, ensuring that you don’t lose this feature of iCloud. tapping on the bookmarks icon. share and synC photos WiTh PhoTo sTreAM when iCloud made its debut, Photo to your iPhoto or Aperture library on prompted to name your new stream. On Stream was one of the most heavily your Mac. To turn on the feature in the next screen, enter recipients (auto- promoted features. Designed to iPhoto, open Preferences > iCloud and completed from Contacts, of course), automatically sync your pictures across make sure Automatic Import is checked click Create and you’re done. Recipients all your devices, Photo Stream promises under My Photo Stream. From then can now view your shared stream, and to simplify taking and sharing pictures on, any snaps you take will be added even add their own shots. on your Apple devices. Unfortunately, permanently to your photo library. there’s still a great deal of confusion Photo Stream holds the last 1,000 about what Photo Stream is, and how or 30 days worth of photos, and iPhoto you can best put it to work. only syncs when the application is In Mavericks, Photo Stream has been running. So if you don’t open iPhoto for tweaked slightly. Turn it on by going more than 30 days, or add more than to System Preferences > iCloud and 1,000 photos since the last time your clicking the Photos box. The Options… library synced, Photo Stream may miss button lets you choose which of the two some of your earlier images as they roll main features you’d like to use. oļ due to the built-in 30-day/1,000 My Photo Stream uses iCloud to picture limit. accomplish two things: Ľrst, it pushes iCloud’s other great pic trick is your last 1,000 photos out to all of the shared Photo Streams. Now you can devices linked to your iCloud account. privately share a set of photos with Now, you can snap photos on your friends and family, without having to iPhone or iPad, and be able to view all of post them on public sites. To create a them together in Photo Stream. shared photo stream on an iOS device, Photo Stream can also be used to simply select some photos, and tap the automatically save your mobile photos Share icon. Choose iCloud, and you’ll be

maclife.com AUG 2014 29 >>>Feature iCloud

ContaCts & Calendars anywhere WiTh iCloUd.CoM

sure, iCloud is great at keeping up its sleeve that you might find useful. your Contacts up to date across all your for example, did you know that when devices. but don’t forget that you can viewing a Contact card on the web, you also access contacts even without your can click the address to bring up a Google iPhone or Mac handy. simply go online Map of that location? Additionally, clicking and visit iCloud.com, enter your account an email address will create an email using

Use iCloud.com for quick access credentials, and click on the Contacts your iCloud email address. to contacts and calendars. icon. iCloud gives you full read and write iCloud’s also got your calendars ready access to your iCloud contacts, which is to go wherever you happen to be. from great for making changes on the go from the iCloud.com web interface you can a borrowed computer, or in emergency check your calendars, create new events, cases when you lose your iPhone. After all, and even send event invitations, thanks to who remembers telephone numbers any its integration with your Contacts. better more? Certainly not us. yet, any changes that you make to your Any edits you make online will be calendars are instantly available to all your reflected on your other devices, and devices, syncing seamlessly via iCloud to iCloud’s also got a few other handy tricks keep you right on time.

And sAve yoUrself TiMe And efforT

ContaCt groups are fantastic Return. To add people to your Contact a contact while All Contacts is selected, time-savers. Using Contacts on your Group, select their contact name from iCloud will prompt you with a warning Mac, you can quickly address an email the center column, and then drag them message, giving you a chance to cancel to an entire group of recipients, without into the Group. the deletion. having to manually add each one to If you make a mistake, you can every message. Groups are convenient remove a contact from a group by for work colleagues, friends, or family, selecting the group on the left, and and any other groups of people that you then selecting the contact in the group tend to contact at once. list in the center column. Press the Unfortunately, the Contacts app on Delete key to remove the selected iOS doesn’t allow you to create and edit Contact from the Group. groups. But all is not lost. You can edit Don’t worry, you won’t accidentally groups on your Mac, or use the iCloud delete a contact this way. If you want interface to create a new contact list. to Ľnd it again, select All Contacts in To do so, log in to your iCloud account the group list, and scroll to your desired and choose Contacts. In the far-left contact, or use the search box at the

column, tap the Plus sign, and choose top of the center column. As another you can’t create contact groups on ios, but New Group. Name your group, then hit safeguard, if you do attempt to Delete you can do it from the iCloud web interface.

30 AUG 2014 maclife.com

>>>Feature iCloud

store and stream your musiC WiTh iTUnes in The CloUd & iTUnes MATCh

many people’s musiC collections live as MP3s scattered on various devices. iCloud can simplify your digital collections, allowing you to stream and download your tunes across all your connected devices. There are two components to iCloud’s iTunes integration. iTunes in the Cloud is free, and it allows you to download iTunes purchases on multiple devices. Even better, you can use iCloud to automatically download new purchases to your devices. Setting up automatic downloads is simple. In iOS, store your own files go to Settings > iTunes & App Store. Scroll down to the 15 in moBile doCuments Automatic Downloads section, and use the switches to conĽgure the content you want to auto-download. ACCess yoUr files AnyWhere You can set these download preferences on a per- device basis, which allows you to automatically download you’re already using the path manually. from new music to your iPhone, but restrict new apps to your documents in the Cloud, finder, choose Go > Go iPad, for example. right? if not, see number one to folder... and enter: ~/ Another setting to keep an eye on is the Use Cellular on this list. As the backbone library/. find the folder Data switch. If you’re lucky enough to still have an of iCloud, documents is a called Mobile documents — unlimited data plan, go ahead and turn it on. Otherwise, slick way to allow access this is where iCloud stores users on capped data plans should leave it oļ to avoid to all your important stuff your documents to Go data. surprise data charges. across multiple Macs (and To use it, simply drag files On a Mac, you can set iTunes to automatically ios devices). but what if or folders into this location. download diļerent types of content by going to iTunes you’d like to sync other To make it easier, you can > Preferences... > Store Preferences and selecting the documents that you use from create an alias of the Mobile appropriate checkboxes. multiple machines? documents folder, and move If you have a lot of music that didn’t come from iTunes, of course, you could use it to your desktop or dock you may want to look into the iTunes Match feature. For a third-party service like for quick access. $25, you can sync libraries of up to 25,000 tracks. Items dropbox or sugarsync for A (slight) word of warning, you did not purchase from iTunes will be matched with file syncing. or you can trick however: this is definitely an their iTunes counterparts, and everything else will be iCloud into syncing anything off-label use of iCloud. in our uploaded to Apple’s servers. you want, whether or not you tests, it works fine to sync use it in iWork. docs among several Macs, you’ll need to make sure but you should steer clear that your iCloud account is of any of the other data files set up to use documents inside that folder. you might in the Cloud. To do that, even want to add your own open system Preferences files to a subfolder of Mobile and select iCloud. scroll to documents, just to make it documents & data, and make even clearer which are your sure the option is checked. own files, and which are data now all you need to files created by iCloud. While do is find the folder that this works for Macs, since iCloud uses to sync your there’s no way to navigate documents. os X hides iCloud’s file system on ios, certain system folders, you can’t use this method to for $25 a year, iTunes Match will let you stream your entire music library to all your Macs and ios devices. so you’ll have to enter move files on mobile devices.

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Copyright © 2014 SmileOnMyMac, LLC dba Smile. PDFpen, PDFpenPro,TextExpander and the Smile Logo are registered trademarks of Smile. INVESTIGATES christopher phin buckles up to discover whether Apple’s iOS-in-the-car system’s got the mileage ypical apple. Having Connect your iPhone 5, 5c or 5s conquered the market for to your car and you have access to a Tsmartphones, tablets, personal range of built-in apps – notably Maps media players and high-end for turn-by-turn navigation, Music, computers, Apple was expected to Messages and Phone – as well as some mount an assault on either the living third-party apps such as Spotify on room, with the long-rumored Apple the car’s built-in display. It’s not TV screen, or on the wrist, with the just a dumb mirror of what’s on your iWatch, the current obsession of the iPhone’s screen, though. What you tech echo-chamber. So while we were see on the car’s dashboard instead all looking there, suddenly the war is a version of the app optimized for for tech dominance opened up on an in-car use; that means big buttons, unexpected front: cars. decluttered interfaces and an Apple introduced CarPlay, its iOS- emphasis on Siri for hands- and in-the-car system, at the Geneva distraction-free interaction. Motor Show in March, along with As well as those mentioned above, Ferrari, Mercedes-Benz and Volvo. Apple has partnered with Honda, Attempts to get smartphones and, a Hyundai, BMW, Ford, Mitsubishi, little longer ago, just your music into Jaguar, Nissan, Peugeot, Citroën, the car are not new, whether that’s Toyota and more. We’re expecting to using an adapter that runs from your see a trickle of CarPlay-enabled cars iPod’s headphone jack to a fake on the road by the end of 2014. cassette, or the emerging MirrorLink system that mirrors a smartphone’s display to a screen in your car. But actually, describing apple as CarPlay has been done with typical ëpartnering’ with brands might give Apple attention to detail and that’s you the wrong impression. what makes it interesting. The more we spoke to key >>>

34 AUG 2014 maclife.com CarPlay >>>Feature

We didn’t see it coming, but some Apple magic could be on its way to your dashboard.

maclife.com AUG 2014 35 >>>Feature CarPlay

“some car makers are evaluating retrofitted solutions so you could add carplay to the car you already have”

>>> manufacturers and developers, doing what Apple tells them to? “It is presumably it trusted Apple to get it the clearer it became that Apple is fair to say that we have not perhaps right.“The aim was (and is) to make controlling the relationship. It was an oļered the best-in-class ICE (in-car operating the phone as convenient as Apple employee demoing CarPlay in a entertainment) systems in the past,” possible for the customer,” Benjamin Ferrari at the Geneva Motor Show, not a Ferrari spokesperson revealed to us, Oberkersch of Mercedes-Benz said, someone from Ferrari; it is Apple to “and that we always intend to be class “and to facilitate highest possible levels which all the manufacturers defer when leading in every aspect of what we of safety during the journey.” Volvo’s questioned about future developments; provide to our clients. Therefore, we David Holecek echoed: “The utmost it seems to be the looming specter of had to develop a strategic partnership importance for us is to make sure we Apple stopping companies that are with a similar company that reľects deliver something that is as intuitive making third-party CarPlay apps from best in class, is a leader in innovation and as easy to use as possible. Safety is talking to us about the process. and an aspirational brand.” The at the core of Volvo, and we’re applying message isn’t hard to interpret: Ferrari that thinking to all of the connectivity didn’t have the skills (nor resources) and infotainment aspects.” Why then are such prestige marques to develop an in-car system that it This all sounds great, sure, but it as Ferrari seemingly rolling over and felt was good enough for its cars, and seems like you’ll have to buy a new car to actually get CarPlay, and even that’s currently impossible since not one is on sale. Companies are cagey too about saying exactly when cars will go on sale, and in what models CarPlay will be available. Ferrari, for example, has only committed to adding CarPlay to its FF and California models (which makes sense since they’re ‘grand tourers’ rather than track or performance cars). You might choose to read between the lines in this statement from a Ferrari spokesperson, though: “We have not yet made any oĿcial announcement about if, how, or when the CarPlay system might be adapted for inclusion in the 458 Italia or F12berlinetta, since the ICE system in those cars is built directly into the instrumentation panel in front of the driver, not as a separate ‘touchscreen’ unit in the center of the dashboard that can be used by either driver or passenger.” Volvo is a little more bullish. “It Adding CarPlay to older cars means adding a screen somewhere on the dashboard. won’t be standard because it is Apple-

36 AUG 2014 maclife.com A centrally-mounted CarPlay unit could be used by either driver or passenger.

speciĽc,” says Holecek, “so we won’t be Ľtted to any car, but the company systems – and is certainly cheaper be forcing it on people that are not quickly distanced itself from that and than a $200,000 Ferrari California! using iPhones, but it will be an option had no further comment on the Volvo is also looking at retroĽtting, on all the upcoming Volvo models.” matter. It’s very likely that CarPlay but thinks it’s an inelegant option. That’s clear then, but there are still would necessitate authentication “It’s something that we’ve been many details of CarPlay that are not hardware to work, so aftermarket discussing quite a lot,” Holecek tells yet fully worked out. Volvo says that solutions would need to be created in us, “but there are many [technical and it hasn’t set a price for adding the partnership with Apple. interaction] hurdles on the way. The optional CarPlay abilities to future Happily, some car makers are now way that our solution diļers (from models; “We are doing some research evaluating retroĽtted solutions so that Mercedes or Ferrari) is that since we with the customer clinics to see what you could possibly add CarPlay to the have a larger portrait touchscreen, we the value is for people,” said Holecek. car you already have. Mercedes-Benz can oļer the CarPlay interface as an (Some cynics might interpret that as tells us that it’s looking seriously at integrated solution in our overall user ‘we’re testing to see how much people implementing a system similar to interface content, so you’re not will stand us charging’.) its Drive Kit Plus (essentially a dash- replacing our user interface with mounted screen for its cars that CarPlay – it’s sort of an integrated piece connects to your iPhone using the head of it, but you still have access to all the unit), and that the price will be in-line general stuļ that we’re oļering.” so you have to buy a whole new car with Drive Kit Plus – so somewhere Adding CarPlay to older cars would just to add CarPlay? Rumors started between $500–$800. That’s expensive, mean adding a screen somewhere that Pioneer was busy working on an for sure, but it’s about on par with on the dashboard. “With the current aftermarket CarPlay system that could many similar in-car entertainment models, the way that they are built

maclife.com AUG 2014 37 “it has been rumored that you’ll soon be able to connect your iphone Wirelessly to a carplay system rather than by the cable”

>>> when it comes to entertainment, our standpoint it adds a lot of value for Future developments are at Apple’s we would have to go down Mercedes’ or people deeply in the iOS ecosystem. We whim, too. For example, it has been Ferrari’s route,” said Holecek, “which do not see this as a temporary thing – rumored that you’ll soon be able to is basically to fully replace the user that we would later on replace it with connect your iPhone wirelessly to a interface with CarPlay, and we feel that our own things. On the contrary, we CarPlay system rather than by the that will not make it a very useful see this as a complement to what we Lightning cable, but Oberkersch is experience in the car context.” oļer because this gives you a lot of the cautious: “As of now, Apple does not standard apps, which means that we support Wi-Fi within CarPlay. So an can focus on creating more of the fully announcement that CarPlay will work it looks like you won’t be able to add integrated experiences that you can with Wi-Fi could only be done by Apple CarPlay to an existing car, then – and if only do when you are actually in the car itself. Our engineers work together you’re thinking about buying a new car itself, natively.” with Apple on a daily basis, so as soon (because it has CarPlay), that’s a huge investment, and you’d likely want to know that CarPlay has a future. Again, it seems like it’s basically up to Apple – Will manufacturers like which is unsurprising really since it’s a Mercedes-Benz replace feature of iOS. their existing in-car tech with Apple’s CarPlay? Here’s Ferrari again: “CarPlay is a feature that customers with iPhones will be asking for the future and we will support it as long as it is available.” And here’s Benjamin Oberkersch of Mercedez-Benz: “CarPlay runs on the iPhone, so as long as Apple supports CarPlay, it might be used in our cars.” David Holecek at Volvo is even more explicit in his assessment: “Of course a lot of this is a bit up to Apple in terms of how they will continue evolving and supporting CarPlay. I think that from

38 AUG 2014 maclife.com CarPlay >>>Feature

as Apple will announce news about last major one was Nokia with their old Wi-Fi, we will do so too!” Symbian platform – but also MirrorLink It seems likely, then, that CarPlay in itself didn’t put enough emphasis on will be around at least for a few years, making the user experience smooth. but car makers are understandably It was more of an engineering eļort hedging their bets – even if, for Ferrari, in terms of solving how to bring over 90% of its customers use an iPhone. whatever you see on your phone into Reading between the lines, it sounds the car, whereas CarPlay is much more like an Android equivalent of CarPlay about how we can, in the best possible isn’t that far from launch. “We’re user interaction way, oļer the iOS working very closely together with functionality in a smooth and seamless Google,” Oberkersch says. “As soon as way in the cars.” Google brings its own Android-based That’s a diļerent attitude to the vehicle infotainment system to market, one major CarPlay holdout, the Mercedes-Benz customers will also be Volkswagen Group (which includes able to use the Android world in their Bentley, Lamborghini, Porsche, CarPlay doesn’t currently support wireless connectivity. But it’s surely a future option. vehicle.” Holecek echoes that very Bugatti, Audi, Škoda, as well as VW closely: “Volvo are not siding with just itself). It wouldn’t comment on why one party in this. Apple has been Ľrst it wasn’t supporting CarPlay, but out with something actually being the group’s Sebastian Schiebe said connect with an iPhone in the future.” launched, but we are in discussion with that: “With the second generation Both the Volkswagen Group, and the possible similar support for Android Modular Infotainment Platform (MIB), MirrorLink’s parent organization, the phones as well, as and when Google will Volkswagen oļers as one of the Ľrst Car Consortium Group (CCC), seem be oļering similar functionality.” car manufacturers the possibility conĽdent that Apple will adopt to connect an Android or Windows- MirrorLink in addition to CarPlay, but based smartphone via MirrorLink. The that doesn’t seem in-keeping with volvo at least, though, is prepared MirrorLink technology allows certiĽed Apple’s personality, and it’s worth to call MirrorLink, an alternative apps displayed on a smart phone to be noting that Apple is a glaring omission cross-platform system supported by transferred to the touchscreen of the from the CCC’s list of members. Android and Symbian (though not iOS), vehicle. Through a scalable and ľexible something of a failure. “MirrorLink hardware- and software-design of the never really took oļ,” Holocek tells us, MIB, Volkswagen is able to realise fast With the mac, iPhone, iPad, App “both because it didn’t get the traction integration-cycles to fulĽl customer Store and iTunes (and the Apple TV and with the major phone makers – the needs. So there will be a possibility to iWatch?), you might worry about Apple Ľghting a battle on so many fronts. Will it be like the dark inter-Jobs era when it was making dozens of products – and none terribly well? Even though it seems like a big new thing, CarPlay is just a bullet point on a list of iOS features, and since iOS is clearly central to Apple’s future – it may be Apple’s future – its longevity seems assured. In its recent advertising, Apple has assured us that iOS devices are as at home on top of mountains and under the waves as in the or the living room. CarPlay is the Ľrst move it has made to adapt the iPhone’s UI to a particular environment, but it might be that in years to come we suddenly realise this was a hint at the future: the future where iOS powers everything.

maclife.com AUG 2014 39

>>>Feature

ince 2004, podcasting has been the perfect way to Screate online radio shows, and to get yourself heard with surprisingly little fuss or expense. A podcast is basically an audio Ľle, and an RSS feed that software can check to automatically download new episodes. Some are simply people talking. Others are professionally produced, aļairs with music, ads and sponsors. Only a minority are pay-to-play. Subjects range from banter to academic discussions. There are many levels to aim for, from using a headset mic to investing in professional equipment. Here’s how to get started, whatever you need and whatever you know! >>>

AUG 2014 41 >>>Feature Podcasting

Jump into podcasting How to create your show on a budget, without too much technical difficulty

As with most creative projects, importantly, multiple recording modes—bidirectional the temptation is always to rush out for sharing the microphone (not ideal, but doable 1 and buy lots of expensive equipment for bringing a friend into a podcast without needing and the fear is that you’ll actually an audio interface/ for multiple microphones), have to. You don’t, though. There are omnidirectional for general recording, and cardioid, for professional podcasts out there that are using top-of- just recording in front. The same company also oļers the-line microphones, but that’s not the expectation a slightly odder-looking but also popular microphone your audience will have. Do you have a basic desktop called the Snowball (guess what shape it is!) for around microphone that records audio that isn’t painful or $60. This also allows for omnidirectional and cardioid annoying to listen to? Then honestly, you’re likely Ľne. recording, with its own mini-tripod. Another popular Whatever microphone you use, you’ll want do a little choice is the Samson CO1U, with a Podcasting Pak editing to clean up the sound anyway, but don’t panic: containing it, the stand and a shock mount (which nobody expects you to be radio quality. prevents noise from desk impacts or the microphone being nudged) that’s usually sold for around $130. if you’re prepAred to spend a little money though, Whatever microphone you opt for, plan for a couple you can get some decent equipment relatively cheaply of add-ons. In particular, as hardware goes. The usual recommendation is the you should always record Blue Yeti, which is around $100. This uses a USB you’ll want to with a pop shield. This is connector rather than requiring mixers and other clean up the a piece of fabric in a ring extra gear, oļers great sound quality, and, most sound, but that can be attached to your don’t worry: stand or otherwise put in front of the microphone, The shape of Blue’s nobody expects Snowball offers an you to offer which catches the p-p- omnidirectional plosive sounds made recording mode, npr quality! and comes in white, while recording and p-p- aluminum or black prevents them exploding (but not blue). into your listener’s ears. It’s also worth setting up a stand so that you can get the microphone in the right place and close to your mouth, though a big pile of books often makes for a cheap and eļective substitute there. Other gear can largely be skipped though, unless you absolutely need it. You don’t need an expensive mixer for a regular podcast. You don’t need shock mounts unless there are a lot of vibrations you can’t do anything about. And you don’t need to Ľll your recording room with acoustic foam to kill a little bit of reverb that nobody will even notice. (That said, if you can record in a room with soft furnishings and some space rather than in a closet or a room full of hard surfaces, that will help.)

42 AUG 2014 maclife.com The most important > Share the air with Skype thing about Blue’s Yeti mic is its range Recording a podcast of recording modes, over the Internet is which makes it suitable for any very popular. Skype is podcasting scenario. by far the easiest way to pull in as many participants as you like without needing mixers and extra gear, though it’s not quite a Co-recording a podcast using Skype is absolutely one-button process possible, but be careful of practical problems. (at least, if you want it to sound good). the Skype call. The other glitches, not The best way to best Mac tool for this least if one person’s handle things is for is Call Recorder from connection is poor. everyone to record Ecamm, which is $30. Recording everyone their own audio (using Only one participant separately won’t fix headphones), and needs it. This app can that, but it will make have the podcast’s automatically record, it easier to do things designated editor put and it can split a two- like silence someone them together in one person chat to make who’s accidentally file. Get everyone to it easier to edit. interrupted, and it clap at the start to The main problem helps with general make it easier to sync with using Skype is editing and getting a the parts later on. that you can’t avoid consistent volume. It’s If you don’t mind people talking over a little more hassle to going a little cheaper, each other, brief set up, but the effort you can simply record audio cut-outs and pays dividends.

With the microphone set up, you need software to podcasts can be downloaded, again in terms of their record your podcast. Many options are available, but size. The bigger your audience, the faster you’ll use it you can deĽnitely do worse than the completely free up, especially if new listeners routinely download the Audacity (audacity.sourceforge.net) for both recording whole archive. Finally, additional services vary in terms and producing the audio. You’ll Ľnd a guide to using it of usefulness, but statistics reveal if anyone’s listening, in our July issue, but in short, if you can click a button and whether it’s worthwhile seeking sponsorship or marked ‘Record’, you’ll be able to use it. advertising. Popular podcast hosts include LibSyn (libsyn.com), which starts at $5, and Jellycast (jellycast. the trickiest pArt is choosing a host for your com) that oļers a plan with a £10 (about $17) setup fee Ľles. If your have a website with a decent amount of without ongoing monthly costs unless you exceed 25GB bandwidth (or a small audience) you can self-host. of bandwidth. Otherwise, you need somewhere to store the Ľles and You can also submit your podcast to the iTunes Store. handle the RSS feed. Podcast hosts come in many This is the directory that matters—see bit.ly/1mGsdiw. shapes, sizes and prices, but typically sell services You’ll need your Ľrst episode ready to go, the RSS feed in tiers based on storage, bandwidth and services. to point iTunes towards, and an attractive ‘cover art’ Storage is typically a monthly increase, for instance Ľle to show in the store. Once added to the directory, each billing cycle, another 50MB or so rather than a few regularly ask (don’t nag) your listeners for reviews. gigabytes up front. Bandwidth covers how often your Every little bit helps when trying to get attention.

maclife.com AUG 2014 43 >>>Feature Podcasting

taking your podcasting professional Want to upgrade? Take full control of your show

while you don’t need fancy tools and equipment for a successful podcast, 2 there’s no denying it can be useful. The Ľrst thing to consider is a better microphone. The most popular mid- level name is Rode, whose Podcaster and Procaster are among the most aļordable routes to great audio. They are functionally the same, but the Podcaster connects to your Mac over USB, while the Procaster requires a separate XLR audio interface. The latter is the better option if you plan to have other participants in the room though. Simply plugging in multiple USB microphones isn’t going to work. Hacking together a Ľx is a waste of time if you’ve already spent the money on good gear, and using a splitter to pull note that the multiple sources into the rode podcaster microphone jack is a bad idea from the start. For a microphone is a mic you such as the Rode Podcaster, you must sit still stickinG with the have to cozy and focus on Podcaster for simplicity, it up to it: you need to sit a few rather than couldn’t get much easier: centimetres away plug in, install drivers, when speaking kick back with (this is known as start recording. It’s a "eating the mic"). solid piece of hardware, and the beneĽts over a cheap microphone are quickly obvious. It’s an end-address model – you talk into the end rather than the side – that does a great job of ignoring nearby sound, and it has a built in pop Ľlter. It can be a little unusual at Ľrst because you have to talk mere inches away – or "eat the mic", as it’s known. With clean audio, you can crank up the gain without too much trouble if you have to sit back a little way, but there’s only so much leeway. This is very much a mic that demands you sit still and focus, rather than something to kick back with.

44 AUG 2014 maclife.com > Recording with two

With a decent omnidirectional Setup (found in Applications > microphone, it’s possible to do a Utilities) does allow for creating group podcast with everyone an "aggregate device" that pulls sitting around the mic and just in different sources, but it’s a talking. But as ever, the easy bit of a hack, and not ideal. through its regular audio cable podcasting purposes. When way isn’t always the best. Doing The fix is a dedicated audio rather than directly. you’re at the point of buying that is a problem if people interface. The exact one to The Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 is a dedicated equipment like this speak at different levels, or if use… well, that’s where things good starting point, at around though, it’s also not worth they are sitting at different get complicated. It depends on $150 for two XLR inputs, with a buying the cheapest possible distances from the microphone. how many inputs you need, light to indicate levels and option, either. Ambition has a In an ideal setup, everyone whether your requirements step whether the volume is causing tendency to grow with needs their own microphone. up all the way to needing a clipping, plus a headphone jack equipment, and therefore Unfortunately, your Mac only full-on mixer, and whether your for monitoring. spending a little more to get has one line-in port, and it only microphone requires "phantom" Prices inevitably vary, but as better components will typically wants to handle one sound power – that is, electricity before, it’s not necessary to result in better sound and fewer device at once. Audio MIDI transferred into the microphone spend a massive amount for blemishes, like crackling. Another thinG thAt makes it a good starter buy are optional accessories. The Rode Podcaster, for example, works perfectly with the Rode PSA arm and shock mount, together around another $150. The arm is great for clamping onto a desk’s edge to bring the mic close and to push it away. That said, while the arm supports the Podcaster with no problem, don’t expect it to also handle a secondary pop-Ľlter. Adobe Audition On the software side, while Audacity is Ľne, it lacks is part of Adobe’s Creative Cloud the presets and more advanced tools that many editors subscription, so want. Two popular, higher-end choices are Reaper and related piece that you need to keep full control owners of older versions can Adobe Audition. Audition is part of Creative Cloud, and over, if you’re reluctant to pay money each month, save up to 40% a good choice if you already subscribe to that service. or don’t want to risk relying on one podcast host. upon purchase. Reaper looks more intimidating at Ľrst glance, but PodcastGen (podcastgen.sourceforge.net) can be is far cheaper. A discounted $60 license is available for installed on your existing website, or a CMS such as individuals, educational or non-proĽt organizations, WordPress can be upgraded with a plugin to make and businesses not pulling in $20,000 a year, which episodes as easy to publish as blog posts. This retains your podcast is unlikely to exceed. The free download control and makes it far easier to switch hosts later on. gives you the full tool to experiment with for 60 days. Your website will provide bandwidth that might Both apps oļer many compelling features, not be Ľne for a small audience. General Ľle hosting least non-destructive editing, meaning you can revise services like Dropbox can also work short term, but decisions as much as you like. They have presets and you’ll hit their limits eventually, especially with a free Ľxes for everything from simulating the sound of account. The best value service for a growing podcast a larger room to getting a booming radio voice, and is Amazon S3, for which you’ll pay only what you need mitigating issues such as too many esses for comfort. – visit calculator.s3.amazonaws.com to see prices. The downside? If you get a visitor spike, you could end up with reGArds to hosting, you needn’t roll your own paying a lot for it. You also don’t get the stats and other storage and RSS, but you might want to for a business- niceties that you do with a dedicated host.

maclife.com AUG 2014 45 >>>Feature Podcasting

podcasting on the go Who needs a studio when you have a microphone, an iPad and someone to talk to?

quality rather than simply sitting back and recording, and it’s sensitive enough for interview situations without a multiple microphone set-up.

the first biG cAtch is that the iPad doesn’t provide enough power for most of these mics, so you’ll need a powered USB hub to provide it. Snowball? No problem. Yeti? Too thirsty for the CCK. The second is that you’ll want to plug in the iPad, because its battery will quickly be devoured by recording. Trust us, the only thing that’s worse than running out of power mid-session is Ľnishing it, thanking the guest, and realising you have no recording. For most podcasting, just plugging in a microphone will suĿce. It is possible to go further though, with audio interfaces like the Alesis iO Dock For $9.99 you can treat bossjock studio as your own (two inputs, phantom power) as well as portable soundbite set-up, and cutting out the middle-man with mics make podcasting a breeze. designed to plug straight into the iPad/ iPhone. Always double-check the ports so fAr, we’ve been looking at ways to though. Not all hardware has been upgraded to Apple’s directly feed audio into your Mac. That’s Lightning connector, and even if it has, there won’t be 3 not the only way though, and not even a quality jump from going through a dock versus a wire necessarily the best. If your Mac is in a and the CCK. (If anything, the iPhone’s signals may poor environment, you might be better cause a problem unless Airplane Mode is enabled.) oļ recording elsewhere. In fact, it doesn’t need to be On the software side, GarageBand would seem the present. A digital recorder such as the Zoom H1 will obvious tool, but its focus on songs is a problem – you work just as well – its Ľles can be moved to the Mac can’t record long enough for a podcast. All you really later for editing. need on the go is audio recording, and a tool that can Or, you could use an iPad. You’ll need a couple of access the microphone and display the information things to make this work, most notably the Camera you need (the waveform, in particular, to watch out Connection Kit (CCK). This comes with a USB connector for clipping). Good tools for this kind of thing include that works with many of the most popular podcasting Rode’s Rec (though App Store reviews show it currently microphones on the market, including the Rode does not handle bigger Ľles particularly well), Recorder Podcaster, the Blue Yeti and the Blue Nessie (see right). Plus HD and RecPad, which oļers the handy feature of The latter is especially eļective for recording in the loading in a script so that you can read along and record wild, because it tries to control and improve your sound audio simultaneously.

46 AUG 2014 maclife.com > Getting your podcast on iTunes

While people can find will use automatically iTunes’ File menu with podcasts in many if provided. You can your feed’s URL. Be ways, people expect use tools like Google’s aware that tricks such every podcast to be free Feedburner as stuffing keywords on iTunes. It’s easy (feedburner.com) to into your podcast and free to publish on embed metadata into summary will not go iTunes, though you’ll a general stream – its down well with the Blue’s Nessie is great need the iTunes app SmartCast feature powers-that-be. Once for recording – its and an Apple account. uses the full category your feed is submitted built-in pop filter Visit bit.ly/1hrjvhs to list, keywords and the to Apple, it’s checked and internal shock mount allow it to begin the process, crucial "explicit" flag. and you’ll receive an automatically produce which mostly consists To test your feed, email upon approval. a finished sound with an expert’s touch. of providing a feed provide the Subscribe It can take a week for URL, a description to Podcast item in it to become available. and cover artwork. The main pitfall is that your server has to be "byte-range support enabled", meaning people can stream the file rather than having to download it all. Many file hosts aren’t. You can embed metadata, including To initiate a podcast submission to iTunes, start by an iTunes category, typing in the Podcast Feed URL. iTunes will talk you which podcast hosts through the steps.

for editinG, the precision of a mouse is always going taking a full studio out on the road. It’s also possible to to beat swiping, and your Mac will handle large Ľles and export the Ľnished mix and edit it elsewhere if a few complicated eļects better. That said, you don’t have to things need Ľxing up, though Bossjock doesn’t have wait, with tools like Hokusai (free, in-app purchases) any tools for doing that on its own. and TwistedWave ($9.99) ready to give it a shot. Bossjock studio ($9.99) treats recording very whether or not you can upload your completed diļerently to most tools, making it more like running podcasts directly from the iPad depends on the service a live radio show. Before recording, you load it up with you’re using. Thanks to sandboxing, the oĿcial app for music, audio, sound eļects and other components that your service may be unable to access them, forcing the you might want to include. Then you start recording use of tools such as Dropbox as a go-between. Some and trigger them on , so intros, music, stings and tools oļer other options, such as email, which can other bits all get out of the way of the microphone. work if the Ľnal Ľle isn’t too big (as an uncompressed It’s a great tool for making podcasting more of a format, it will be; as an MP4 without lots of music, it’s performance than an engineering exercise, with the probably going to be Ľne) or FTP, which LibSyn oļers goal that once you’ve made a recording, you’re done as a way of getting a Ľle onto its servers without going and can get on with your life. It won’t be to everyone’s through the web. Even given the worst case scenario, taste, however, and is best for those who are already it’s rarely going to be long until you’re back at a Mac microphone-conĽdent, but it’s a clever alternative to and can copy the Ľle out the old fashioned way.

maclife.com AUG 2014 47 aPP liFe ThiS monTh’S moST inTeReSTinG iPhone & iPaD aPPS Microsoft Excel for iPad Time to delete those third-party spreadsheet apps

FRee (office 365 subscription required) Developer Microsoft www.microsoft.com Platform iPad Requirements iPad running iOS 7.0 or later

Wherever Word interface that doesn’t skimp on travels, Excel cannot features. In particular, the iPad

be far behind – and at touchscreen is put to great use The app is free but requires an Office long last, Microsoft here with a customized keyboard 365 subscription for full functionality. has allowed the world’s number expressly designed to make data crunching favorite to follow the entry easier. Why include the Ľle management and output. money trail straight into the App entire alphabet when entering Like Word, there’s currently Store with a touchscreen version numeric data? Excel for iPad no way to print or save to PDF, built just for iPad. Alongside the switches between the two with and both apps suļer from new Word and PowerPoint apps, only a tap, which is also all spotty OneDrive cloud syncing, Microsoft Excel for iPad ends it takes to leap from sheet to which is unfortunately the only years of suļering with less- sheet within a single workbook. option available. We frequently powerful third-party solutions Switching between Home, Insert, discovered duplicate saved Ľles, that have been all too happy to Formulas, Review, View, and particularly after opening on the encroach in Redmond’s absence. Table modes is equally easy. Mac and then returning to iPad. Like the Word app, Excel We had no problem opening a The boTTom line. When it for iPad is in most respects a variety of Ľle formats (including comes to actually getting work superior eļort over the venerable CSV and legacy XLS), although in done, Excel for iPad is another Mac application, oļering many cases we were prompted to home run for Microsoft, although an impressively clean user convert and save an entirely new the company seriously needs version before being able to edit. to go back to the drawing board Excel for iPad is free to download, when it comes to actual Ľle but you’ll need to purchase an management. J.R. bookwalTeR OĿce 365 subscription to actually do anything beyond viewing Ľles. Microsoft ExcEl for iPad A new Personal plan makes this Free to download cheaper than ever at $69.99 per year for one computer and tablet, Superb touchscreen control although we’d still like to see Replaces third-party spreadsheet apps that Microsoft introduce a cheaper never offered full Excel compatibility mobile-only option priced at Requires an Office 365 subscription to get $49.99 or less. the most out of it Subscription grievances Flaky cloud file syncing and currently no way to print a file or output a PDF Excel for iPad offers a better experience than the old Mac app aside, Excel for iPad only truly and works surprisingly well with the touchscreen. stumbles when it comes to GrEat

48 AUG 2014 maclife.com Tough testing, trusted ratings >>>App Life Microsoft PowerPoint for iPad Presentations on the go

FRee (office 365 subscription required) Developer Microsoft www.microsoft.com Platform iPad Requirements iPad running iOS 7.0 or later

Together with Word and When viewed as a complement to an Excel, PowerPoint for iPad existing Office 365 subscription, however, makes up Microsoft’s newly PowerPoint for iPad delivers a lot of bang PowerPoint has made an impressive (though somewhat handicapped) transition to mobile. mobilized Office trilogy. for the buck, with an intuitive set of tools This trio of apps feature a touchscreen for creating or editing presentations on comes to playing completed slideshows. user interface often slicker than their the go. The only real exception is when the Lecturers can scribble notes using a virtual desktop equivalents, but more importantly, app winds up being hamstrung by iOS file pen, but the app lacks any kind of true documents can be opened and edited management restrictions. presenter view and the AirPlay support is with complete confidence that they’ll look For example, images from iPad photo frustratingly limited to mirroring for now. exactly as they do on Mac or PC. albums (including Camera Roll and iCloud) The boTTom line. PowerPoint for iPad Editing or sharing files from iPad can be imported with ease, but content succeeds at making presentations finger requires a monthly or annual Office 365 stored elsewhere is strictly off limits — friendly, but Keynote still blows this app subscription – otherwise, PowerPoint is including OneDrive, which is otherwise out of the water when it comes to actually little more than a document viewer. At a the only cloud storage option available for showing them. J.R. bookwalTeR minimum of $6.99 per month or $69.99 saving files. PowerPoint also isn’t nearly per year, it’s an expensive proposition. as robust as Apple’s Keynote when it Good Hitman GO An addictive stealth board game for iOS

$4.99 Developer www.square-enix.com Platform Universal Requirements iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch running iOS 7.0 or later

Hitman GO takes place on a disguise can fool him altogether. These series of game boards with goodies add extra layers of complexity to a grid overlay, populated the puzzles on offer, but they build on a by security guards, night solid foundation of stealth gameplay: line watchmen, and unwitting police officers. of sight, pattern recognition, and timing The iconically chrome-domed are just as important to Hitman GO as must sneak his way through each diorama, they are in its freeform predecessors. This one space at a time, while completing version is to assassinations what chess objectives and avoiding detection by the is to medieval warfare, and the result is a patrolling enemies. more cerebral take on the series. If need be, Agent 47 can “kill” other The boTTom line. A clever and stylish pieces by occupying their space on the puzzler. Hitman GO brings elegant stealth board. In keeping with the series’ tradition, mechanics to a mobile platform and a fresh 47 also has a few tricks at his disposal: a genre to mine. JoSePh leRay well-thrown rock can distract a wandering Quietly does it. Stubborn brute force won’t get guard, for example, but a color-coded ExcEllENt Agent 47 very far in turn-based Hitman GO.

maclife.com AUG 2014 49 Tough testing, trusted ratings

Third Eye Crime never gets too tough, however, as there’s a consistent logic to the design and plenty of leeway for individual play styles. There are multiple ways to solve every level, while optional goals – such as not being seen or collecting all the loot – The game blends a distinctive noir comic book add an extra element of strategy style with top-down stealthy gameplay. and challenge for anyone eager to embody the master thief persona. You’ll soon learn that there’s an art to misdirection, Third Eye Crime: Act 1 and it provides a special thrill EDITORS’ CHOICE when you pull it oļ perfectly. Super-slick film noir detective story These are not your typical video game guards; they’ll $2.99 developer Gameblyr www.gameblyr.com Platform Universal hunt you down relentlessly and requirements iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch running iOS 6.0 or later intelligently, working as a team to methodically search every Film noir combines Ľlm noir convention on its head, nook and cranny for you (and beautifully with casting you not as a private dick also, when you have one, your graphic novel but as Rothko, a telepathic art accomplice). The chase is every aesthetics and stealth thief dragged into a mess he’d bit as thrilling as the sneak, puzzling in Third Eye Crime, the have rather avoided. and a jazz soundtrack you’ll be debut eļort from the ex-Bungie Rothko’s uncanny ability humming for days backs a noir- team at Moonshot Games. With to read minds enables him to inspired story told beautifully in a story full of twists and turns anticipate where guards will sliding panels, graphic novel- and a smooth lead character, look for him. Glowing red trails style, between chapters. it’s a super-slick oļering, and show where they think you are The boTTom line. Third Eye there’s plenty of great level – or where you might be – while Crime serves up a masterful design to back up the style. This shaded blue arcs reveal their line blend of stealth puzzling and iOS original turns one particular of sight. Rothko moves along the noir-inspired storytelling, with paths you trace for him, either misdirection cleverly applied on ahead of time or on the ľy – both counts. richard moss often both, as you quickly adjust your plans. Your job, of course, Third EyE CrimE: ACT 1 is to stay out of sight whenever possible and never be where Smooth, slick aesthetics. Great music the guards think you are when Guards act intelligently and consistently. they arrive at that point. It’s Compelling, well-told story easier said than done, though, Stellar level design and each of the 118 levels leaves Minor issues with small movements and less margin for error than the using items while stationary. Need to last; the second act (of three) complete all but two levels in each chapter especially ups the ante. AWESOmE

50 AUG 2014 maclife.com Tough testing, trusted ratings >>>App Life Scanbot Making mobile scanning a breeze

$0.99 developer doo GmbH www.scanbot.io Platform iPhone or iPod touch requirements iPhone or iPod touch running iOS 7.0 or later

No matter how many different Scanbot's foolproof interface can attest scanners we've tested over to, but it doesn't come at the expense the years, we've still yet to of professional features, including high- find a truly elegant solution. resolution output, a low-light indicator, Scanbot makes it simple to scan documents and We're constantly stymied by blurry images, and automatic edge detection. Our final crop them without ever leaving the app. and slow, clunky interfaces. Even the products weren't always perfect, but the simple, camera-based apps on our iPhones powerful cropping tool and one-touch The app’s interface does a nice job of have their shortcomings, and we often find enhancer fine-tuned things nicely. prompting you with tips on how to take ourselves retaking and cropping images Scanbot is the first app from the better scans, but we would have liked a until we get them right. creators of the now-defunct doo storage little more control over our documents, With a gorgeous interface and a good service, so we were hardly surprised to most notably a perspective or skew tool to developer pedigree, we had high hopes for see a tight integration with the cloud. But straighten crooked scans and flatten folds. Scanbot. There's a clean, simple aesthetic we weren't expecting such comprehensive The boTTom line. The first scanning app that runs through every screen, helping synergy. Nearly every major service is we actually use regularly. michael simon you capture and organize your documents represented, and you can set your image with ease. The priority here is speed, as to automatically upload to your favorite. GrEAT

Checkmark 2 1Password for iPad $5.99 $6.99 Developer Snowman www.builtbysnowman.com Platform iPhone or iPod touch Developer Gamloft www.gameloft.com Platform Universal

The paid keep them backed up and 1Password for numbers, 1Password can also follow-up to a synced across multiple iOS iPad is the first serve as a vault for software popular original, devices (not natively on app we installed licenses and other sensitive Checkmark 2 iPad yet, sadly). A slide- on our new iPads. or valuable information. And intelligently uses geolocation out panel assembles to-do It makes keeping unique, since everything is protected data to create more useful items into When, Where, and complex passwords, logins by your secure password, you reminders. It also debuts Lists categories, and the and other information secure, can rest assured that your a new Lists feature for iOS 7-style user interface and it works in tandem secrets are safely locked away organizing to-do items in a is plenty intuitive. A new with desktop and iPhone in the unfortunate event that more traditional fashion. Location Groups feature is versions to keep everything someone steals your iPad. Although Checkmark does also a godsend for shoppers, in sync. You’ll never have to 1Password is our favorite pretty much everything although it gets its location worry about forgetting your Mac password manager, and better than Apple’s own data from , which super-secure, 18-character it works nearly as well on iPad Reminders, the app couldn’t isn’t as robust as Google. password for the office as on our desktop. import nor access such The boTTom line. Not an network, or even worse, use The boTTom line. It’s an existing lists. Thankfully, it easy transition from Apple’s the same simple password for elegant solution for managing took only a few moments Reminders, but worth it in the everything because it’s easy secure data on iOS devices. to recreate them with long run. michael simon to remember. J.r booKWalTer more powerful tools, and In addition to things like Checkmark uses iCloud to GrEAT website logins and credit card EXCELLENT

maclife.com AUG 2014 51 >>>App Life Yomi A digital card game with a real kick

$9.99 developer Sirlin Games www.fantasystrike.com Platform iPad Requirements iOS 6 or later

The key to winning a match in to avoid getting hit. Instead of physically a fighting game is predicting moving a character, however, you’ll be what your opponent will drawing cards from a deck that offers do and then punishing him several possible offensive and defensive or her once you get the opening you're commands. The key to winning lies in waiting for. Focusing on this more mental knowing your deck and understanding how component of the genre, Yomi for iPad each card can help you at different times. introduces aspects of poker and rock- And with 10 unique characters ranging paper-scissors to turn that combo-happy from defensive tanks to nimble hitters, experience into a strategic card game that Yomi gives you plenty of room to develop still feels like you’re fighting. your favorite play style. A match in Yomi is like one round in a The boTTom line. Intricate yet fun to fighting game: both sides try to take down learn, Yomi mixes fighting and card games the opponent to zero health with a mix into a neat package. giancaRlo saldana of basic attacks, combos, and specials, Each turn in Yomi provides that fast-paced guarding every so often or jumping away EXCELLENT feeling of exchanging blows with an enemy.

David Trials Frontier $0.99 FRee Developer Fermenter www.fermentergames.com Platform Universal Developer Ubisoft www.ubisoft.com Platform Universal

David's blissful, can unlock later, is designed Although this top, hazard-filled courses serenely to fit an emotional theme. Trials game (with explosions and fire and sparse world In Anger, a writhing mass of broadly echoes more explosions), and that is populated floating diamonds pursues its console encroaching sense that if you by multitudes of terrifying your hero, while Anxiety puts counterparts, its soul has don’t spend some money on two-dimensional shapes, all you in a maze suspended been ripped out and replaced in-app purchases very soon, hell-bent on snuffing the life above an altar that shoots with the festering guts of a the game’s going to slam the out of your little box-shaped dozens of glowing squares. stinking freemium business door shut in your face, often, hero. All you have in your Weird and wonderful. model, and then spray- hard, and repeatedly. defense are your wits and David never stops being painted in mobile-friendly With controls that balance agility, along with a special excruciatingly hard. That colors and cuteness. Yes, on a knife-edge between projectile ability that takes a difficulty manages to work this is still a physics-oriented irksomely twitchy and few seconds to charge. in its favor, though, acting as bike-balancer, set across reasonably solid, this is a David’s physics-driven a touching metaphor for the ludicrously difficult-to- Trials game in name only. rumination on the struggles trials of life. traverse tracks, but it lacks The boTTom line. Expect of life feels almost poignant The boTTom line. An refinement and elegance. endless, soulless grinding to at times, and its abstract abstract game that’s as tough It’s now largely about appease cartoon simpletons. design works mostly in its as it is pretty. RichaRd moss taking on missions from cRaig gRannell favor. Each of the eight main demanding toon characters, levels, and another that you EXCELLENT larger-than-life, over-the- WEAK

52 AUG 2014 maclife.com Tough testing, trusted ratings Union Almost magical image compositing

$1.99 developer Pixite LLC www.pixiteapps.com Platform Universal Requirements iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch running iOS 7.0 or later

Pixite continues its string of image, a foreground subject, and a mask clever iOS image-tweaking layer to combine the previous two. You tools (following Tangent can load any image from your device into and Fragment) with Union, those three slots (but not snap a photo a compositing app that moves away directly into the app via the camera), as from shape-based blending and instead well as generate solid or gradient color approaches the process in a more backgrounds, with gesture-based resize, conventional manner. Union is designed to reposition, and rotation controls for all combine images by knocking out specific layers. There are also cleanup brush colors as transparent, while borrowing and eraser tools for manually adding or some mojo from the company’s previous removing transparency. apps. It’s a pretty slick affair. That said, it The boTTom line. Union is an intuitive still lacks some key features for optimum and fun app for combining images but it’s image blending. missing a few features. david biedny Union’s process is based on three Union has an intuitive interface and offers lots essential image layers: a background GOOD of creative image-compositing possibilities. Garden Plan Pro Tips and tricks for budding gardeners

$7.9 9 developer Growing Interactive www.gardenplanpro.com Platform iPhone or iPod touch Requirements iPhone, or iPod touch running iOS 6.0 or later

Gardening may look easy, representation of your gardening area, but there's a subtle art to it. including any flowerbeds, pathways, Even if you're just growing or shrubbery that may adorn it. When herbs on your windowsill, searching for plants to add, you'll find far Map out your garden and search the built-in each plant needs careful management, and more than a list of common flora: select plant library to see what you can grow. the slightest deviation in your watering or one of the nearly 200 varieties of greens fertilizing schedule can result in withered and it'll tell you optimal planting time, notes in the app's barebones journal. We leaves and small, undernourished stalks. spacing, position, and soil saturation, along also had some trouble with moving plants Garden Plan Pro thinks it can help. With a with a few extra tips and tricks for more around, and experienced iCloud slowdown comprehensive strategy that maps every advanced gardeners. It can also tap into and syncing issues. square inch of your plot of plants, the app location services to tell you what will grow The boTTom line. Garden Plan Pro will doesn't just keep track of your seedlings, best in your particular climate. help you pick and plant the garden of your it offers tips and guidance that promise to But while we enjoyed designing our dreams, but the app isn’t as helpful with get your garden off the ground. garden, the app isn't quite as useful as it making it grow. michael simon Freshly redesigned with a clean could be. The only way to keep track of iOS 7 aesthetic, you can make a scale watering or rotating plants is by entering SOLID

maclife.com AUG 2014 53 >>>Applife

APP LIFE ROUNDUP 6 Tasty Restaurant Apps Hungry? Find your nearest eatery and pay with your iPhone BY J.R. BOOkwALtER

Feeling hungry? Many restaurant calendar and even invite friends. chains now oļer free mobile apps Papa's in the house and on to make it easier to Ľnd locations your iOS device as well. Using just near you, and some of them now an iPhone, papa JOhn'S pizza even allow customers to pay with (Free, iPhone) packs a full-featured their iPhone as well. It's time to pizzeria into the palm of your hand. start whetting your appetite with You can custom-order pies from the best and brightest of eatery- all across the USA, save favorites related apps, and thankfully we've for later, and rack up free pizzas rounded up eight of the best that thanks to Papa Rewards, with can be downloaded from the App pickup or delivery and cash, credit, Store right away. Bon appétit! or even check payment options at When it comes to restaurant Check out the new Wendy’s app, which now most locations. lets you pay with your smartphone. apps, StarbuckS (Free, iPhone) is Starbucks too rich for your a poster child for the nearly perfect to customization of your favorite wallet? Fear not: dunkin' dOnutS experience. The app can be used to menu items and more nutritional (Free, iPhone) also has a mobile app pay at 7,000 U.S. shops and another information that you can shake the with most of the same rewards, 2,500 Target and Safeway locales, proverbial stick at. and it will even give you a free oļering virtual tipping, Passbook Now that's what we call customer medium beverage just for signing support, email gifting to friends, service: Five GuyS burGerS & up for its DD Perks loyalty program. and tracking or redeeming rewards. FrieS (Free, Universal) allows Customers can also load a virtual One of the hands-down tastiest customers to pay for orders with a DD Card, create one to send to a fast food joints there is, Wendy's credit card using their iPhone, iPad, friend, purchase via Passbook, and recently revamped its My Wendy'S or iPod touch, and then skip the did we mention that it's the only (Free, iPhone) app to allow for line upon arrival and saunter into app on our list that oļers fresh, mobile payments; that’s in addition any nearby location for fast pickup tasty donuts? We’re sold. using only a name. Better yet, they'll wait until you show up to prepare the fries, so they'll still be hot and fresh-tasting by the time you get back home. If your taste buds are hankering for something more cultured than fast food, Opentable (Free, Universal) can help you lock down reservations at more than 20,000 restaurants across North America. Recently overhauled with a fresh iOS 7 look and feel, OpenTable makes it easy to see what's nearby and then book your reservation

The popular Starbucks app offers mobile in just a few taps. Once booked, Dunk yourself into the DD app and keep payments and reward tracking. the app can add the dinner to your track of those tasty loyalty perks.

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Oppo PM-1 Headphones that cost $1,070 more than Apple’s EarPods

$1099 manufacturer Oppo www.oppodigital.com requirements Any devices with 3.5 mm stereo input

here’s really no other way of saying it: these to wear even for very long periods. The principle headphones cost more than $1,000. That’s means of connecting the PM-1s to audio sources Tright, $1,099 for a pair of headphones, is a removable 6.35mm OCC cable, but you also enough to buy you 37 pairs of Apple EarPods; get a 3.5mm cable for connecting to the standard 22 iPod shuffles; or the metaphysical concept of headphone ports on your everyday gadgets. shame. But suspend your disbelief and come with But of course, when you’re wearing these us on a journey through the PM-1’s credentials and things, you don’t care how they work or the maybe, just maybe, you’ll get to the end of this science behind them. All you want is for them review in the belief that they’re worth it. to sound interstellar. And they do. We’ve never Oppo, of course, is better known for its kick-ass listened to headphones that sound as clear, Blu-ray players and more recently its Android precise, and potent as these. Under the right smartphones. The PM-1 headphones are the first conditions, the sound is mesmerising. For $1,099, such products Oppo has made, and the result of you would expect nothing less. many years of research, development, and testing We’re a bit of a cliché when we test by a team of chemical and materials scientists, headphones, always heading straight for the Pink acoustic engineers, and a flock of wild audiophiles Floyd CDs. The pops and zips and beats of Animals captured in the jungles of Madagascar. have never sounded so alive. Close your eyes, These are not the first headphones to carry and those initial acoustic calling-card twangs on EDITORS’ an extraordinary price tag. But what makes the Wish You Were Here will convince you that Dave CHOICE Oppos stand out is the technology inside them. Gilmour is performing live in front of you. It’s the The PM-1s use a new implementation of planar subtle tones that stand out the most, coming magnetic driver technology, which consists of through with the kind of sonic definition you OppO pM-1 a super-thin, seven-layer diaphragm that has a normally only get from a live orchestra. Flawless sound quality spiralling pattern of flat conductors etched into The practicality of the Oppo PM-1 is far more it on both sides. These conductors carry the questionable than the performance. Oppo says Very comfortable electrical signal from your music source, and are they’re designed for all uses. But if you’re going Firm fit suspended between precise magnets both in front to spend $1,099 on a pair of headphones like Amazing build quality and behind. Because there are twice as many this, you really do need to be listening to lossless Expensive! conductors in a more dexterous magnetic field, formats some of the time. Through a high-end Not that pretty you get higher sensitivity, better damping, and player and a headphone amp. In a soundproofed, more drive force. padded room. With the lights off. And you’re going Limited sound isolation On the outside, the planar magnetic Oppo PM-1s to need a beard. Did we say expensive? are solid and sturdy, with lambskin-lined earpads The boTTom line. Brilliant, mesmerizing, and AWESOME for maximum comfort. They’re super comfortable spellbinding headphones. james rivingTon

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maclife.com AUG 2014 57 >>>Reviews Family Tree Maker for Mac 3 Substance over style in the latest version of this genealogy app

$29.99 Developer Avanquest ancestryshop.com Requirements OS X 10.5 or later, Intel CPU, DVD drive for installation, internet access for online features

process doesn’t preserve TreeSync connections, so you have to unlink the tree on Ancestry.com before uploading your Ľle as a new online tree. Other changes won’t set pulses racing, but prove themselves where it matters, making your family history that little bit easier to manage. You can now copy and paste a person’s facts to someone else in your tree, retaining all associated information. Better still, you can paste the fact to the target’s immediate relatives at the same time, which is perfect for census records and other shared events. Other tweaks are similarly minor, but welcome. A new global sort option lets you display children by birth order, while you can also more easily export individual branches of your tree. The Places database has also been tweaked, so locations can now be grouped by city, state, or country. Duplicate facts are easily merged, and a collection of new and improved Click and drag to The family history market has shifted in the reports makes sharing research far simpler. navigate around the new Family View – perfect for two years since Family Tree Maker for Mac 2 All of these tweaks strengthen FTM’s finding lost cousins. was released. Major updates to both Reunion existing feature set, but its media management and MacFamilyTree have seen them close the tools continue to compare poorly to both gap considerably, although FTM does manage MacFamilyTree and Reunion, while the Smart to stay on top – just. This third iteration is a Stories narrative tool, introduced in the PC relatively low-key release, concentrating on making version back in 2011, is still absent. solid improvements. The boTTom line. Gripes aside, Family Tree There is one new feature of note: the Family Maker for Mac 3 is a worthy upgrade. It delivers View. This provides a traditional top-down view some solid improvements in key areas, helping of your tree as an alternative to Pedigree View, to keep its historically shaped nose ahead of its and makes it far easier to browse larger trees. nearest rivals. nick PeeRs Version 2 introduced TreeSync, a means of keeping your family history in sync between Mac, Ancestry.com, and your iPhone or iPad Family Tree through the free Ancestry app. FTM 3 makes maker 3 this more reliable, plus it syncs a lot more The new Family View is information between your devices. It also easy to navigate tightens privacy controls by letting you mark Copy and paste facts photos as “private” to prevent uploading. Superb web and There are still annoyances, most notably mapping tools that you can only link one tree to one computer TreeSync feature still at a time. FTM 3 also switches Ľle format to undercooked match the PC version, which means a lengthy You can now copy and paste facts between two or more GreaT conversion if upgrading from version 2. The people in your tree.

58 AUG 2014 maclife.com Tough testing, trusted ratings

This simple device uses Bluetooth to communicate with your iPhone and Siri. Siri Remote One of the cheapest, easiest ways to get iOS in your car, but is it practical?

$79 manufacturer Mobile Home www.drivewithsiri.com requirements iPhone or iPod touch with Siri/Voice Control, factory or third-party Bluetooth hands-free system/device

pple’s CarPlay is in the news (see page events, input navigation queries, and more. It 34), but what if buying a new car isn’t has no screen of any sort, so if you want to do Apossible in the next few years? As something that requires visual interaction with alternatives go, perhaps Mobile Home’s Siri iOS, you need to have your iPhone docked or Remote will suffice. It’s cheap, simple to set up, cradled somewhere on the dash. and gives some access to iOS in the car. Having full access to Siri in the car is pretty Siri Remote is a Bluetooth-based patch- exciting. Once the device has been set up you Siri remote through that links your car’s hands-free function don’t have to worry about syncing it again. You (or equivalent third-party device) and Apple’s don’t even need to turn it on and off. In our tests, Easy to set up and use Siri voice control system, giving access to the Siri works as well using the Remote as it does Siri voice control iPhone’s Siri-based features as you drive. Its directly on a phone. The catch? You need an unchanged single button duplicates the functionality of Internet connection to operate Siri, which is not Requires a mobile holding the home button down on an iPhone to always possible on the move. Internet connection wake up Siri. You can send and listen to texts, The boTTom line. In some ways a joy to Patchy response to Siri emails, and social network updates, control music use, in others very frustrating. In/out Internet activation playback, make phone calls, set up calendar connections are a problem. Jeremy laird GooD

maclife.com AUG 2014 59 >>>Reviews

Mail Act-On adds a toolbar to compose windows, with Mail Act-On 3.0 options that affect outgoing email. Create rules and templates to efficiently manage an email flood

$29.95 Developer Indev www.indev.ca requirements OS X 10.8 or later,

As you already have Mail, a competent email for example to Ľle it with a single keystroke. that’s free with OS X, you might question Making rules is simple — a similar process to paying for an add-on like this. However, heavy creating Smart Albums in iTunes. email users may Ľnd Mail Act-On indispensable. Beyond shortcuts, actions can be performed It’s designed to simplify email management, letting using Mail Act-On’s ľoating window. During a you define rules, create actions for filing and other move action, mailboxes are Ľltered much like workflow tasks, and adjust outbox messages before Spotlight results. The process is faster than in and after they’re sent. the previous version, but the window has less Rules and settings live in Mail’s preferences. clarity and more visual clutter. A better new Mail act-On 3.0 Mail Act-On renames Mail’s rules to Inbox feature is templates; these enable you to create Great for fast filing Rules and adds Outbox Rules and Act-On Rules. boilerplates that include tokens for names and Outbox Rules can pre-process mail, for example subjects. The system is again usable, but wasn’t Useful template system changing the “from” address when sending quite accurate enough to trust with a blind Ideal for power users to contacts, delaying delivery, or appending “quick reply”. Some irritating UI text. Post-delivery, messages can be ľagged, The boTTom line. Worth a look if you spend elements and alerts can sound. Act-On Rules are similar, ages Ľling email. Probably essential if you can GREat but designed for applying to received email, use its templates and rules. Craig grannell

60 AUG 2014 maclife.com Tough testing, trusted ratings AKVIS OilPaint 2 Become a digital Da Vinci and convert your snaps into paintings

$49 Developer AKVIS akvis.com Requirements OS X 10.4 or later, Intel/G5, 4GB RAM, 2GB disk space

AKVIS OilPaint 2 is a surprisingly easy way to turn photos into mini masterpieces and create stunning digital art without spending hours layering on light and tone. In some cases, the process only takes a few minutes. It’s available as a standalone app in four ľavours, as well as a convenient plug-in for Adobe Photoshop and Photoshop Elements. The software is easy to handle. Simply import a photo, then apply one of the custom Ľlter settings using the sliders on the right or use one of OilPaint’s predeĽned options. You can change everything from the brush- stroke density and size, to the thickness of digital paint, to give your work a more detailed or impressionistic feel. You can also edit the canvas and save any settings you specify for later. Your painting is then rendered each time to achieve optimum results. There’s a quick preview tool for you to this new version of the software, there’s also Rather than apply an image-wide filter, you see a sample of your Ľnal work. a History Brush, which enables you to paint can choose where Unlike standard Ľlters, in OilPaint 2 the back in areas of detail. Or you can call upon brushstrokes appear. brushstrokes match the contours of your an “Oil Brush” tool to add more paint eļects, photo rather than appearing in set places on while a smudge tool enables further tweaking. the screen, which makes the Ľnal images All of which allow you much greater ľexibility seem much more crafted. You can further than a traditional oil painting Ľlter and let Ľne-tune your image by deĽning brush- you produce stunning results with ease. stroke directions using the Stroke direction The boTTom line. More than just another tool. This tool is great for making sure that Ľlter, OilPaint turns photos into paintings the contours on a face are correctly deĽned. In with its great range of tools. AleX ThomAS

AKVIS OIlPAInt 2

Excellent image output Edit and save presets Fine tune effects Rendering of paintings not instant You can adjust various elements of the brushwork, With a little time, AKVIS OilPaint 2 enables you to including stroke length and stroke intensity. transform your favorite photos into works of digital art. GREAt

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Western Digital My Passport Pro 2TB Desktop-style RAID storage in a pocketable, portable drive

$299.99 (2Tb), $429.99 (4Tb) manufacturer Western Digital www.wdc.com Requirements Mac running OS X 10.6.8 or later

ortability seems to be ever more important to creative pros, with powerful laptops such as the MacBook Pro with Retina display often Pshedding as much weight as possible. Being thin and light often means shedding a hard drive in favor of solid-state storage. That’s great for performance, but it means paying through the nose for space. If you’re working with massive files on the move, you often can’t do without space and sacrificing performance isn’t an option. The My Passport Pro might be the answer. It’s a Thunderbolt drive that powers itself over a single Thunderbolt cable, and contains two 1TB hard drives. You can choose to have these arranged for performance as a striped RAID 0 array, meaning that you get to use the full 2TB of space and also get the maximum possible transfer speeds. Alternatively, you can have them set up as a mirrored RAID 1 array, meaning that you sacrifice performance and only effectively use half of the storage space. But you get increased safety, because every file is stored on both drives and you don’t lose anything if one fails. A dedicated Mac app makes it easy to switch between the options. Portability is key. The drive is about 5.5 inches long, 3.15 inches wide and 1.06 inches thick. It weighs 1.01 pounds, which isn’t overly heavy, but when combined with its small size, it feels extremely dense. The solid aluminum exterior adds to this. It feels like a really solid unit to hold. The Thunderbolt cable is built into the unit, and when it’s not in use, it wraps all the way around the outside in a rubber groove. There’s no Thunderbolt passthrough (adding one would require an external power supply – a mains adapter – making it less portable), so if you’ve got a string of devices, this needs to go at the end. The silver and black color Western Digital scheme reflects its premium standing, which is, in turn, reflected in the My PassPort price. At $299 for the 2TB version, it’s not cheap, but neither is it totally Pro 2tB unreasonable. A 4TB version is also available, priced at $429.99. Great striped drive Tested in the striped RAID 0 configuration, transfer speeds peaked at performance over 200MB per second, which is superb for a non-SSD portable drive. Set Good capacity/ to mirrored RAID 1, speeds drop to around half. In use, the drive is quiet at performance balance first, but the fan at the back can kick up a pretty notable whirr that’s high- Easy-to-use tools pitched, and yes, somewhat intrusive. Loud fan whirr The boTTom line. On the one hand, you could say that the Western Digital My Passport Pro is just a faster, more spacious portable drive. Thunderbolt-only configuration On the other hand, you might be a creative pro looking at a bus-powered portable striped RAID and thinking “I need this in my life!” And you No SSD option probably wouldn’t be wrong. maTT bolTon great

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Despite the compact size of the My Passport Pro, Western Digital has squeezed two 1TB hard drives inside.

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The Folx interface is simple, straightforward Folx Go+ 3 Pro and easy to use. How fast can you go with this new version of the download manager?

$19.95 Developer Eltima software mac.eltima.com Requirements Mac OS 10.8.3 or later, 64-bit processor, 20.8 MB hard disk space

Folx Go+ 3 is the latest download manager from is the control over downloads that the software Eltima. The software is designed to help you allows. One other added bonus is the ability to more easily manage large downloads or multiple add tags to downloads, making it easier to Ľnd downloads in a user-friendly interface. Perhaps your stuļ when you’ve collected all your Ľles. its most interesting ability is to manually There’s no doubt that Folx Go+ is a niche set download speeds, so if you want to get a product. For most people, the standard large Ľle, and have the time to wait, you can downloader in Safari is adequate, but if you’re get it without that one Ľle monopolizing your using mobile broadband or a slow connection Internet connection. and need to get hold of large Ľles, this app can You can split downloads into manageable really help you out. If you’re not sure what Folx Folx Go+ 3 chunks of up to ten threads too. Furthermore, Go+ can do for you check out the Free version of Looks good this new version of Folx Go+ also lets you the software. All it really lacks is four options, pause and resume downloads at will, which is namely the threaded downloads, iTunes Easy to use fantastic for those really big downloads where integration, automatic/manual speed controls Limited usefulness you have a slow or patchy connection. In the last and download scheduling. No obvious speed version of Folx there was only a limited speed The boTTom line. Folx won’t give huge speed improvements improvement and the same is true again here. improvements, but it does make downloading GREAT But that’s not the whole story. The real beneĽt easier. ChRisTopheR bRennan

64 AUG 2014 maclife.com Tough testing, trusted ratings VideoGIF 1.0 Convert videos to animated GIFs

$19.90 Developer PearlMountain Technology Co Ltd www.pearlmountainsoft.com/videogif requirements Mac OS 10.7 or later, webcam or a video file to use

The animated GIF refuses to die. Even in our era of high-speed web access, it’s regularly used and it’s even making a comeback on websites that want to show moving images on index pages. The idea behind VideoGIF is to take a webcam image or video and turn it into a mini animation. Webcam recording only worked during testing when manually reducing capture settings, but dragging videos from Finder or iPhoto was Ľne. The built-in video editor is usable if basic, making it simple to trim iBetterCharge 1.0 footage, add effects and text, and resize the output. Annoyingly, you can’t preview looping until export, meaning you often to- Get iOS battery info on a Mac and-fro between the editor and export panes. Free Developer Softorino Exporting allows you to tweak frame-count and delay, but www.softorino.com/ibettercharge output Ľle-size is omitted. Videos can be saved to Finder or requirements Mac OS 10.7 or later, at least one shared through Tumblr, email or Messages but, frustratingly, iOS device, Wi-Fi sync active in iTunes for each you can’t save your edit set-up for any project. connected device The boTTom line. Converts videos to animated GIFs easily, but its shortcomings frustrate. Craig grannell The iBetterCharge software sits silently in the menu bar, waiting until any iOS device on the same network (and with “Sync this iPhone/iPad over Wi-Fi” enabled in iTunes) is down to 20% of its full charge. You then get a Notification Center alert to plug said device in. Simple, but also hugely useful. It’s an idea that’s so obvious and convenient we can’t believe Apple didn’t think of it first. There are a few options, such as ignoring specific devices, defining at what charge level a notification appears, and whether a second notification occurs when the device is charged. The version we tested had minor issues, once not seeing a device (fixed after a reboot) and annoying cropping of device names. The developer already has these on a fix list, and even the version we saw is highly recommended. The boTTom line. A great idea that we reckon should be rolled directly into OS X. A no-brainer, given that it’s free. Craig grannell

VideoGiF 1.0 iBetterCharGe 1.0

Simple video editing options and the ability to add effects and text Reminds you when iOS devices need some extra juice Limited file output size and no way to save your settings Some connection issues SoLid Great

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The rubberized UP24 comes in three sizes and an array of new colors.

66 AUG 2014 maclife.com Tough testing, trusted ratings

Jawbone UP24 The smartest fitness tracker around, at least until Apple announces an iWatch

$149.99 manufacturer Jawbone www.jawbone.com/up Requirements iPhone 4s and newer, iPod touch 5th gen and newer, iPad 3rd gen and newer, iPad mini and newer

he smart and sporty Jawbone UP24 is the most fashionable, lightweight and comfortable fitness tracking wearable you can buy, Tand it has a beautiful app to match. Of course, some functionality is sacrificed in the name of vanity. For starters, there’s no display on the device itself for on-demand workout stats or a web-based portal to chart the quantified self data it silently collects. All metrics have to be synced to an iOS app, but the UP24 improves over the original UP with Bluetooth wireless syncing to make data uploads almost effortless. Battery life takes a hit, but it will still last an impressive seven days. As its name suggests, this new version of the UP can truly be worn 24 hours a day without the need to take it off between syncs. The flexible bracelet is coated with the same incredibly smooth non-latex rubber and if you want to check your fitness stats, you need to fire up the companion iOS app, which is full of rich color and helpful wellness tips, plus detailed activity and sleep analysis tracking options. Your activity is represented by a vertical orange bar that shoots up with more physical movement and is based on the number of steps taken and miles or kilometers traveled. Additional readouts include active time, longest active time, longest idle time, total calories burned, active calories burned and resting calories burned. It’s almost the full spectrum of fitness metrics. Flights of stairs climbed is the one missing stat. Unlike the Fitbit Force, there’s no altimeter sensor inside. But the Jawbone UP24 is arguably a more accurate tracker than the Force and its idle alerts cause the bracelet to vibrate whenever you’re inactive for a set amount of time. Other exercise motivators include “Today Jawbone UP24 I Will” challenges (get to sleep earlier, drink more water, walk further, etc.) Wireless syncing added and the ability to find teammates among your contacts. The UP24’s sleep Stylish and lightweight tracking capabilities, meanwhile, chart whether you’re sound asleep, restless Soft rubber for comfort or awake in bed. It’s surprisingly accurate for a fitness bracelet, which can also replace your alarm clock with silent, wrist-vibrating wake-up calls. iOS compatible The Jawbone UP24’s fashionable, lightweight design makes it easier to No display for wear for a full 24 hours and the activity and sleep tracking metrics make it on-demand stats useful day and night. Our only gripe? The 2.5mm power jack makes it fiddly No web app to charge – it comes with a 2.5mm-to-USB charger, but it’s too easy to lose. Fiddly 2.5mm stereo The boTTom line. With Bluetooth, the UP24 is $50 more expensive than jack for charging the original, but until Apple releases an iWatch, it remains one of the slickest GReaT fitness wearables you can snap onto your wrist. mATT SWiDeR

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Read-it-later just got better – ReadKit is the best place to read ReadKit 2.4 feeds on your desktop. The best read-it-later desktop feed collator just got even better

$6.99 Developer Eltima software mac.eltima.com Requirements Mac OS 10.8.3 or later, 64-bit processor, 20.8 MB hard disk space

It’s been almost a year since Google brought reading a pleasure – but navigation is now even down the shutters on its RSS aggregator Reader, easier thanks to keyboard shortcuts that let you simultaneously opening the doors for a new jump from article to sidebar, and collapse and web feeder to emerge victorious. But that never expand folders in a snap. happened, partly because of users’ loyalties to ReadKit also keeps separate preference a variety of existing sync services oļering free proĽles for each account – even multiple and paid-for features. Fortunately, Readkit accounts within the same service – so if you EDITORS’ works to corral all of these services into one neat like to group or sort feeds diļerently to those CHOICE desktop interface, and with the arrival of v2.4 it piped in from Pocket, for instance, now you can. does “read it later” better than ever. ReadKit’s performance held up admirably when Support has been added for syncing Fever, we drag-and-dropped articles between diļerent ReadKit 2.4 NewsBlur, Delicious and Pinboard, the latter feeds, set up smart folders and drilled down Honed interface two allowing you to keep oŀine copies of to news stories using tags. And the proverbial Broad service support bookmarked sites. But even if you use none of cherry on this digital cake? The inline match the supported services, ReadKit now has its own highlighting upon a search query. Speedy performance native RSS sync engine, and it works ľawlessly. The boTTom line. ReadKit brings RSS content Multiple accounts The interface retains its pared-down, clean- into a single interface, making even the dullest aWeSOMe cut look, with features like Focus mode making feed a pleasure to read. Tim hARDWiCK

68 AUG 2014 maclife.com Tough testing, trusted ratings Dead Island A tropical paradise where zombies fester among the coconuts

$19.99 Developer Techland techland.pl Requirements OS 10.8 and newer, Intel Core i5 2.7GHz, 8GB RAM, NVIDIA GeForce GT 640M 512MB

Techland started development on Dead Island in 2005, but the zombie-themed Ľrst-person action-RPG hybrid didn’t shamble onto shelves until 2011. Three years later, publisher Deep Silver has Ľnally deigned to grace the App Store with a Mac port, but it’s no surprise that the game’s design, writing, and structure feel a bit dated almost a decade into things. As the name suggests, Dead Island is a zombie action game set on a sprawling tropical isle called Banoi. Players split their time between a beach resort, a small city, and a research lab, but each area has an sensibility that allows players to explore freely and seamlessly. Banoi shows hints of being a responsive, dynamic world – if you don’t help other survivors right away, they may die before you can reach them, for example – but it’s mostly a collection of similar-looking beaches and pool bars, peppered with characters that range from Dead Island’s enemy scaling aļects its Faster zombies like to move in close for a bite, stereotypical to predictable. role-playing game mechanics, too. Because but activating a quick- Enemy survival increases with diĿculty every enemy gets stronger alongside you, time event will knock them to the ground. level, but Banoi’s zombie denizens also it never feels like you’re actually getting respawn constantly, making it impossible to stronger, just keeping up. This takes some clear out oft-traveled zones permanently. of the fun out of gaining new skills and This design ľub is exacerbated by a constant weapons. Dead Island shines brightest during need to backtrack. While these mechanics are combat, however. Players have access to a DeaD IslanD a staple of the role-playing genre, here they variety of attacks and weapon types, and the Combat is tense and combine tediously, and few of the quests are game places a particular emphasis on keen varied, with a broad set interesting enough to support them. aiming. It’s a fun and engaging system, even if of interesting, hit points aren’t all that balanced. unpredictable interactions From there, zombies can be poisoned, run over in a truck, set on Ľre, or kicked into Exploration and online multiplayer are deep water. A nice mix of enemy types, a seamless diverse arsenal, and useful terrain give rise Respawning enemies, to interesting situations, and Dead Island’s fetch quests, combat stays fresh for most of its remarkably backtracking, and long running time. A co-op mode only makes mission structure make Dead Island feel tedious Dead Island’s hacking and slashing better. at times The boTTom line. The mix of role-playing Role-playing elements game mechanics and Ľrst-person combat are tacked on and don’t doesn’t always work, but its B-movie setting play to the game’s strengths Dead Island is nothing if not grisly: Ted B. is the first of and ľexible combat keep things lively, even if many characters dealing with the death of loved ones. the zombies aren’t. Joseph leRay okay

maclife.com AUG 2014 69 >>>Reviews Secrets of Rætikon A 2D adventure with a papercrafty feel

$9.99 Developer Broken Rules www.brokenrul.es Requirements Mac OS X 10.6 or later, 2GHz processor, 1GB RAM, Intel HD 4000 Graphics or better

Reconstructing statues requires clumsily picking up pieces with your talons and trying to position them properly, which inevitably means dropping them time and again to grab from a diļerent spot. Enemy animals prove incredibly tenacious, and there’s not much you can do besides take the beatings they dish out and hope you Ľnd a small window in the barrage to grab what you need and get away. Often there’s some sort of distracting element in the world to Ľnd, but we felt so worn down by the constant attacks that it was diĿcult to summon the drive to continue ahead. Beyond teaching its controls, Secrets of Rætikon opts to let you Ľgure out how the world works on your own – which would be Ľne, except there’s no middle ground between times when the game is too heavy-handed and when it’s not helpful at all. For example, each area is Secrets of Rætikon is Like the bird it puts under your command, punctuated by a series of wind gusts that aim undeniably attractive, Secrets of Rætikon is beautiful and majestic, to point you in the right direction through the but its cumbersome tasks detract from that beauty. with a papercraft-esque aesthetic that lends its terrain, which distracts from what ought to be cartoonish natural settings incredible charm. a relatively free-ľowing experience; you’re a Soaring through the 2D terrain and soaking bird, after all. But despite those cues, Rætikon in the sights, it’s diĿcult not to soak in the conversely fails to provide a map screen that serenity – but there are other qualities not shows how areas are linked, or even indicators borrowed from its starring creature. to point you back towards another area. Even Nimbleness and ľuidity come to mind, as this the alluring sights can’t make up for the feeling brief indie adventure delivers a cumbersome and of getting lost in this punishing place. frustrating experience beyond its attractive veneer, The boTTom line. The pretty Secrets of SecretS of and somehow irritates both with linear level Rætikon aims high, but sadly crashes more rætikon design and a lack of direction. often than it climbs. AnDRew hAywARD Beautiful 2D artwork Secrets of Rætikon takes the form of a Interesting premise breezy puzzle-solver of sorts, tasking you with

Between cumbersome guiding the orange bird through interconnected mechanics and constant locations to Ľnd glowing runes throughout attacks from other the world and deliver them back to a massive creatures, performing tasks is incredibly monolith. Obtaining each rune means frustrating snagging tiny icons throughout each area, No map to detail the rebuilding broken statues, and overcoming world layout threats from rival birds and other creatures, Linear nature takes typically by utilizing the environment around some of the fun out of you. Unfortunately, you’re a tiny and largely being a soaring bird defenseless avian, so all but the Ľrst part proves Bringing the glowing beacons back to this monolith drives weak pretty awkward and unwieldy. the core of the experience.

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Dark Energy Reservoir Never run out of battery power and charge two devices at once

$129 manufacturer Dark Energy http://darkenergytech.com Requirements iPhone, iPad or iPad mini

ark Energy is probably wondering when battery technology will keep up with Deverything else. Perhaps that’s why we have the Dark Energy Reservoir, an 8,000mAh battery pack barely bigger than an iPhone. The Dark Energy Reservoir is a small brick of a battery. Two USB ports are used for charging your devices, and the microUSB port between them is used for charging the device itself. Using the Reservoir is easy: when the battery pack is fully charged, you simply plug your USB cables into it and into your phone or tablet. It can charge two devices at once, but that’ll suck the power out of the Reservoir a little quicker. Once your devices are plugged in, you just press the power button on the Dark Energy Reservoir and they’ll start charging. If there aren’t any devices connected and you press the power button, the light indicators will glow to show you how much juice is left in the thing. There are three dot lights, each representing about 33% of battery life. Having 8,000mAh in a slim, pocketable device

is hugely convenient, especially at a time where Dark EnErgy The Dark Energy our smartphones are getting greedier for more rEsErvoir Reservoir is only slightly bigger than an iPhone, juice. Our only gripe is the price. At $129, it’s Slim and light measuring 5.5 x 2.69 x quite expensive. The Mophie Powerstation Duo, 0.47 inches and weighing 8,000mAh capacity just under 6 ounces. with 12,000mAh is the same price, but you get more capacity for your money. Can charge two devices simultaneously The boTTom line. It’s easy to use, looks the part, and gives you confidence that your phone or Slightly expensive tablet won’t die on you. mARC FloReS grEat

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Despite its small size, it can be tricky to place the Spot Trace somewhere that evades the attention of thieves and doesn’t block the all-important satellite signal.

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Spot Trace Protect your valuables and track them by satellite

$99.95 manufacturer Spot www.findmespot.com requirements Mac with an Internet connection, any iOS device (for tracking)

wn something valuable and potentially connection, allowing you to track objects beyond mobile and prone to theft? A motorcycle, cellular range, for instance on the open ocean. Oboat, car, RV or even an ATV? Wouldn’t If all that seems like a good deal, here’s the it be good to track its position and even receive snag. You’ll also need a service plan to use the automated alerts within moments should it device. One year costs $99.95, with the Extreme unexpectedly move? Enter the Spot Trace Tracking upgrade another $99.99. The basic plan personal GPS tracking device, a multi-purpose allows tracking every five, 10, 30 or 60 mins. The GPS gizmo the size of a box of matches. Extreme tracking plan improves on this, reducing The basics of the Spot Trace involve a small the intervals to 2.5 mins. black box containing the GPS hardware and Both initial setup and the various web-based detection. It’s powered by four standard interfaces can be a little confusing, although AAA batteries (provided), delivering up to 18 it’s not entirely impenetrable. We weren’t sure months of battery life. You also get a mounting whether the device supported being attached to cradle with a quartet of sharp screws and a an object that was located out of satellite range. few adhesive pads. That gives you the option In other words, could you use the Spot Trace on of attaching the cradle permanently or simply a car in a locked garage and rely on it to wake sticking the device on in a more temporary way. up should the car leave that location? As it turns As compact as the Spot Trace is, it’s worth out, the answer is no. remembering that this is a GPS device and so But for the most part, the Spot Trace works requires line of sight to function. Global Telesat pretty well. During our testing, we received email Communications, which manufactures the device, alerts almost immediately once our test asset (a says it can pick up satellites through fibreglass, car) started moving. If you’re wondering about glass and fabric. But it won’t operate through accuracy, it’s in line with general GPS devices. metal. That places some limitations on where you But since it doesn’t use roads as reference Spot trace can locate the device. points, you’ll find the accuracy isn’t quite as Once configured, Spot Trace automatically good as an in-car GPS. As for battery life, that’s Very compact sends a text and or email with your asset’s GPS tricky for us to judge definitively given the large Wide range of uses coordinates when movement is detected. You can time frames. However, it’s claimed the absolute Long battery life also view and track online via a web interface. worst case scenario for tracking a device that’s Easy online tracking Various alerts can be set up too, including for constantly moving is three days. movement, if the device has been turned off, or if The boTTom line. For tracking large objects, Expensive service plans the battery is running low. You can also manage such as vehicles, the Spot Trace could be just the Doesn’t work out of GPS and track multiple devices from one account. thing for peace of mind. That said, likely annual range The core functionality works via satellite, fees for the basic service plan suggest that this Can be tricky to install including both GPS tracking and sending alerts. probably isn’t a device for easy use by general and set up So the device does not require an Internet consumers. jeremy laird Great

maclife.com AUG 2014 73 >>>Reviews Fract OSC Unlock the neon key to a psychedelic synthesizer

$14.99 Developer Phosfiend Systems fractgame.com Requirements OS 10.7 or higher, Core i5 2.2GHz or equivalent, 6GB RAM, Radeon 6750M or equivalent

More than its surrealist cyberscapes or ambiguous puzzles, the weirdest thing about Fract OSC – the debut project from the Montreal-based husband-and-wife team called PhosĽend Systems – is its premise: it’s a Ľrst-person exploration and puzzle game, set inside a busted music synthesizer. PhosĽend provides few explanations or clear-cut goals, and it’s up to players to explore the world and piece the game’s mechanics together. This vague aimlessness might cause frustration (the game could really use a map), but that ill will is softened by Fract OSC’s beauty: rich navy caverns open onto neon green sites, while cantilevered spires tower over the landscape and glow electric pink. Abandoned monoliths pulse with ambient electronic music, swelling and deflating in time. Even when you don’t know where you’re going, traveling through Fract OSC’s low-poly, textureless landscapes Most puzzles have a reciprocal eļect with This complete-the- circuit puzzle has one is a pleasure. For the most part. the game’s music, too. So much so that Mogi of the game’s best Once you Ľnd them, Fract OSC’s puzzles Grumble’s sparse electronica is as much a accompaniments. are more welcoming. The game isn’t more guide and a reward for a puzzle well solved as forthcoming with info, but most of these tests it is a soundtrack. Completing these puzzles fall into established types: there are panels restores a piece of the synthesizer that houses to rotate, circuits to complete, and pipes to Fract OSC’s surrealist wonders. After solving align. Fract OSC’s best puzzles, however, a few, players are free to use this in-game fract osc take advantage of its musical theme. One synth to create and mix their own tunes. set requires players to use a beat sequencer Tapping out a simple melody is easy Landscapes and soundtrack combine for and a looping melody to time a nearby set enough, but some of the synth’s options unmatched atmosphere of sliding gates, for example. can be more obscure. Arrangements can be Connection between shared and exported to sites like YouTube or music and puzzles Bandcamp, and a Studio mode gives players bolsters both full access to the music creation tools. Synthesizer feature is Fract OSC’s synth is a remarkably in-depth well supported and toy, but without a stronger connection to the dense rest of the game, it’s more of a curio. Players Stingy with information, will come back to Fract OSC because of its and the large world makes navigation neon beauty and clever puzzles, not to unlock difficult and puzzles the rest of the gadgets on the synthesizer. hard to find The boTTom line. Austere, surreal, and Not much overlap beautiful, Fract OSC is an ambitious debut between Studio mode and normal gameplay Mysterious beacons dot a misty shoreline. Fract OSC is eļort and a fascinating addition to Ľrst- vague, but the world is alluring. person puzzle games. Joseph leRay good

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Netgear VueZone You get what you pay for with these wireless home security cameras

$229.99 (subscription required for extra features) manufacturer Netgear www.netgear.com requirements High-speed Internet connection and an available port on your router

The trouble with most supposedly wireless accompanying infra-red light – plus the network cameras is that while they may base station and four mounts. The cameras connect wirelessly for data, they still need one are about the size of a hen egg and have a wire: power. This means that you’re limited maximum resolution of 640 x 480 pixels, in where you can place the cameras, because capturing at three frames per second. The they still need to be plugged in. frame-rate doubles if you drop the resolution This is the problem Netgear has set out to to 320 x 240 pixels, but that’s small and solve with its VueZone system. The cameras nowhere near full-motion video. There’s no are battery powered and so can be positioned optical zoom obviously, and no physical pan wherever you want, thanks to some simple or tilt. No microphone either. but clever hemispherical mounts. Cleverer And that’s the problem. Yes, VueZone is Netgear still, the cameras aren’t designed to be on all easy to set up, but the quality of the video VueZoNe of the time. They activate when you watch a doesn’t make the grade. Netgear tells us that Easy to set up video feed via the web or the iOS app, or when battery life was its primary concern when Small, easily- motion sensors detect movement. designing VueZone – HD sensors would repositionable cameras So far, so clever. You can buy the VueZone require more power. There is a 1600 x 1200 Flexible system system in a range of conĽgurations – starter pixel Snapshot mode, but this HD option isn’t Not expensive packs, if you like – and add to your set-up available if you’re on the free (Basic) tier of with extra cameras (the system supports up the VueZone service plan. Poor quality video to 15), window mounts, infra-red lights and The boTTom line. It’s a novel approach and Motion sensitivity waterproof outdoor cases. the setup is pleasantly simple. But the video sometimes triggers late We tested the VZSX2800 system, a pack quality is poor and the Basic service plan Subscription required for some features that gives you two cameras – one able to doesn’t give you all of the features you might view in the dark, when paired with the expect as standard. chrisTopher phin oKaY

maclife.com AUG 2014 75 ASK TECH SUPPORT & TECHSPLANATIONS Be sure to enter the calendar feed URL exactly as it is shown on the Outlook share page.

your account information. When you complete the process, you will be able to select the calendar feed. If your Outlook account doesn’t support Exchange, then don’t worry, you are still in luck. Outlook.com gives you the ability to generate an iCal feed of your Calendar events that can be imported into the Calendar application on the Mac. And the good news is that this process isn’t difficult to do. To start, simply navigate to your Outlook web calendar, then click Share > [The Name of Your Calendar To Share]. Click the Get a Link option, Outlook will give you and you will be presented with a URL a read-only ICS feed for an ICS feed. Copy this URL and that can be imported into the Calendar navigate to Calendar > File > New application in OS X. Calendar Subscription in the Calendar application on your Mac. At this point, simply, paste in the URL, and click the Subscribe button. THE OUTLOOK ISN’T GOOD Once you’ve subscribed to the A family member recently switched to a new iMac from a PC. appropriate ICS feed, the new calendar will appear in the sidebar of the OS X The data transfer went smoothly except that I cannot add Calendars application. There’s a catch, his Outlook calendar to the Mavericks calendar. In iOS 7, it however. This is a read-only feed, was easy because Outlook is one of the choices listed when which means that you cannot create adding accounts. How can I do this on the Mac as well? new events and have them synced back to Outlook. Of course, you can Unfortunately always import the imported calendar isn’t actually available on the Mac, but locally, and then begin using iCloud you can still add an Outlook calendar to sync your calendars in Mac OS X in and solve this problem if you have a the normal way. little patience. If you are running OS X Mavericks, Sounds nasty head to System Preferences > Internet Whenever I try using headphones Accounts, and click on the New Account with my iMac, the internal speakers button (+). If your account supports remain active, so I get audio If your email account supports Exchange, then you can easily sign through the speakers in addition Calendar, it should show up in by clicking Exchange in the new to my headphones. Why is this right inside of the Calendar application on your Mac. account selection panel, then entering happening and how can I fix it so the

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sound is only coming through the headphones output? This is an issue that can easily happen if you are using USB-based > Rebuilding a mailbox headphones. By default, OS X will keep playing sound through the internal Almost all of my file accounts have become speakers even after a USB headset has folders in my Mail app corrupted over time. This been connected. Fortunately, this is are fine, but one called corruption can happen for easy to correct. Various has some any number of reasons, Follow these steps to correct the problems. The four folders but is usually resolved very issue, and get your Mac playing audio inside of “Various” all easily by rebuilding your through the desired location: have the same problem: email accounts. 01. In the top left corner of the screen, any email that I put To rebuild the Mailbox for click on the Apple logo and select inside of one of those four one of your accounts, select “System Preferences”. folders becomes useless. the Mailbox or Folder in the

02. Select the “Sound” System If I select one of them, and sidebar (if the sidebar isn’t Rebuilding your email Preference Pane. I select one of the emails, shown, from the menu bar mailboxes can improve the reliability of the emails 03. Go to both “Output” and “Input”, I can see that the email is select View > Show Mailbox contained within. and select your headset in both menus. there, but I cannot read List), and then select If the change does not take place the content of the email. Mailbox > Rebuild. During during this process – it will automatically, close the menu (by Any email filed in there this rebuild, you should not populate again once the re- pressing the red button in the top left sort of disappears in that quit the Mail application. download completes. corner of the window), and reconnect way. What have I done, and This rebuild process will You can use this rebuild the headset. how can I fix it? remove all local copies of feature whenever you have This set of steps should only need If you deal with many messages on IMAP and messages that appear to be performed once when your email accounts and Exchange accounts, and will garbled, missing, or when headphones experience this issue. thousands of messages re-download the messages relevant emails don’t show every week like we do, then and attachments from up using a routine search My insomniac Mac you may be experiencing the server. Don’t worry if using the built-in “Entire I have a late 2012 iMac running an issue where the email your mailbox looks empty Message” feature. Mountain Lion, and I’ve been having trouble with my computer entering sleep mode recently. It’s supposed to go to sleep after 30 minutes of inactivity, but sometimes it simply doesn’t do it. Other times it wakes Here are some of the highlights up from sleep mode automatically, of the tech note: and I come home to discover that the > Energy-saving preferences could computer has come to life without be set improperly. Ensure that when me doing anything. Any ideas? you go to System Preferences > Energy There could be several things that Saver, that the slider for setting the are causing your Mac to wake up, or not computer’s sleep setting is set the go to sleep, and it can be a bit difficult way you wish. to troubleshoot this issue to find out > Other users could be waking the One solution is to disable Wake what that cause might be. machine remotely using shared from Network to ensure that Apple does, however, provide a resources. Ensure that if you connect connected computers don’t accidentally wake your Mac. Knowledge Base article on the issue. to your computer using network This is an attempt to help users pick the access that you disconnect in order solution for their particular situation for the computer to go to sleep. You > Bluetooth devices such as keyboards and ensure that all settings are can disable network wake by going to and mice can wake your computer if a properly enabled. It should help your System Preferences > Energy Saver, key or button is pressed. Try switching computer to both sleep properly and and unchecking the option for “Wake off these Bluetooth peripherals when stay asleep when you want it to. for Wi-Fi Access.” your Mac is not in use.

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>>> You can view the full list of involved, just as long as you have an troubleshooting steps by visiting this Internet connection. link: http://bit.ly/ml_sleepissue To enable iCloud syncing on your iOS device, navigate to Settings > First Contacts iCloud, and sign in with your iCloud What’s the best way to copy my account. If you don’t have an iCloud contacts and calendar information account, then simply sign in with your from an iPad to an iMac running Apple ID and you will be prompted to Mavericks? The iMac is new and has create one (you can also go to www. no information stored on it. .com to sign up). After signing in Once enabled on the Mac, your Contacts and The best and easiest way to place or signing up for a new account, simply Calendars will begin syncing between the Mac as well. the contacts on the new Mac is to sync ensure that the options for Calendars them over to the computer using iCloud and Contacts are enabled. sync for Calendars and Contacts. This Once you have enabled iCloud on > iCloud, and sign in with the same will ensure that the information stored your iOS device, then you can sync iCloud account that is used on your iOS on your iPad is copied verbatim to the the stored contacts, calendars, and device. Once signed in, ensure that the other devices connected to your iCloud more with your Mac. To do this, open Contacts and Calendars options are account with any additional steps Apple menu > System Preferences checked under the iCloud preferences. The nice thing about this is that when you make a change on your Mac and iOS devices, all of the Calendar and Contact changes will be (almost) immediately synced between all of the > Missing Utilities folder devices, keeping you up-to-date without any worry of connecting up your Please help. I believe devices to each other manually. that I have accidentally deleted some of the Flying without pings default applications that I frequently fly on Alaska Airlines, came with OS X, and I’m which uses GoGo In-Flight Internet. not sure how to go about I am unable to connect using my iPad reinstalling them. I’m or iPhone. I have noticed people with missing my entire Utilities using it without issue. Do folder under Applications. you have any suggestions to help? How can I get these In-Flight Wi-Fi can be tricky to get applications back onto my to work from time to time, but there computer system? are some troubleshooting steps that The default applications you can do to fix a device that won’t bundled onto your system connect. Follow these steps, and you usually requires messing Reinstalling OS X is the only way to get back the default should be able to connect without issue around with the Terminal applications once they have been removed from your system. to the In-Flight Wi-Fi: to remove them, and even then, they can be difficult using the Option key, and When reinstalling OS X, > Forget the network. The first to remove. Fortunately, you select “Recovery HD.” none of your content will be thing that you should do if you are can get them back by simply Selecting this option will overwritten, but you should experiencing an issue connecting to reinstalling your version of boot your computer into always create a backup the network is to navigate to Settings Mac OS X. the Recovery partition. beforehand just to be > Network > [Network Name], and once If you are running OS X From here, select “Reinstall safe. Once reinstalled, the here tap “Forget Network.” After the Lion or greater, then you OS X,” then follow the default applications should network has been removed from your can start up your computer instructions to reinstall. reappear on your Mac. known networks, try connecting back to the GoGo wireless network and activating the connection again. > Renew DHCP Lease. If you are still

78 AUG 2014 maclife.com unable to connect, then navigate to Pages will Settings > Network > [Network Name], prompt you to save older Pages and tap the “Renew DHCP Lease” documents button. This will request a new IP in the newer version address and negotiate some network when saving settings with the wireless network. 4.x-created documents. Usually doing this will get your device back on the network without any further issues. > Reset Network Settings on iOS. If you are yet still unable to connect, then there is one more option that you can try. Navigate to Settings > General > Reset > Reset Network Settings. After doing this, all of your network settings will be forgotten, and you will be required to re-authenticate the connections with your wireless networks. This can usually fix pesky Wi-Fi and other networking issues that your device may be experiencing. Remember that in order to use GoGo In-Flight Wi-Fi, you must open Safari (or another web browser installed on your device) and complete payment seems all but impossible. Can you dropping the icon to the Dock icon for before your device will be fully advise what I need to do in order to Pages 5.x. This will force Pages 5.x to connected online. Even then, you are open these documents? open that document. limited to some of the services that Version 5.x of Pages will gladly When you go to Save a Pages 4.x you can access with in-flight services. open documents created using Pages document using the newest version Check with GoGo for more help with 4.x, however there are some caveats. of Pages, you will be prompted to connecting your device online at: By default, whenever you have Pages Upgrade the document to the new 5.x http://custhelp.gogoinflight.com 5.x installed on your Mac, older Pages file format. You will have the option to documents will open in the newest Make a Copy if you want to keep the Pages problems version of Pages whenever you double- original 4.x document, or Upgrade I upgraded to OS X (10.9.2 click on the icon. the document. Selecting Upgrade will Mavericks), but I need to be able to This may not always be the case, upgrade the existing document and open an older Pages document that so you may need to right-click on the overwrite the older file format with was created with Pages version 4.3. Pages document and select “Get Info” the newer one. Since I upgraded to Pages 5.1 that (you can also click on the document Of course, you may still need to came with Mavericks, this operation and press Command + I). Once you're in export your Pages 5.x documents to the Get Info panel, you’ll need to ensure the older format so that they will work that the newest version of Pages is with older versions of Pages when selected in the “Open With” drop- sending your documents to other down menu. This will ensure that the people. If this is the case, then you can correct version of Pages will open the easily export a Pages 5.x document to document on your system. This step work with Pages 4.x. To do this, simply is important because 5.x documents open File > Export > Pages ’09. cannot be opened with Pages 4.x. This is because Apple changed the file Apple TV tips format with the latest version of Pages. I use an Apple TV, and I was You can also manually open the wondering if there is any way to save Reset the Network Settings on your device document in the newest version of movies or a TV series that I want to alleviate software-related connectivity issues on iOS. the Pages software by dragging and to watch on my computer hard

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>>> drive so that I can watch them later? the remote AirPlay device on your local I have DSL, which makes it difficult network instead of playing the content to stream my shows. The old Apple on your computer. TV used to save my shows to its Another way to handle this is to set built-in drive, so I could watch them up iTunes Home Sharing. To enable this, any time. Is there any way to do this checkout the Apple guide located here: with the latest Apple TV? http://bit.ly/ml_appletvsharing Absolutely! Using AirPlay, you can purchase your shows, movies, and Sync holes other iTunes Store content on your When I got my new iPhone 5s, I did computer using iTunes, then play it a sync to iCloud. The problem was back over your local network to the there was music on the cloud that Apple TV. Because streaming the I don’t want any more. How can I content from your computer to your get rid of iCloud-stored music so it Apple TV happens locally, the speed doesn’t re-sync every time I sync depends on your wireless router rather back up with the cloud? than your Internet connection. There are two ways that music To begin, purchase any content from could sync to your device, and we’ll the iTunes Store: Movies, Music, and TV cover both of these ways and show you shows all work with AirPlay. Next, once how to get rid of the music that has the content files have downloaded, synced to your device. navigate to iTunes, and begin playing The first way that music can get the content using the latest version of onto your device is through a feature the iTunes software. of iTunes in the Cloud, which is that In the toolbar of iTunes, you’ll notice previous purchases will show up and an AirPlay icon (this is compatible can be streamed to your device. You iTunes in the Cloud purchases can be disabled in settings. with all current generation Apple TV are not able to get rid of music from hardware). Clicking this icon will show this section since music purchased from a list of all the AirPlay-compatible your iTunes account is linked to your this feature will ensure that all music devices found on your local network. account for the life of the account. To that has been downloaded or that is Clicking one of these devices, then disable iTunes in the Cloud purchases, stored in iCloud will no longer be shown playing the content through iTunes will visit Settings > Music, and disable the in the Music app. divert the currently playing content to option for “Show All Music.” Disabling Another feature that could be at issue is iTunes Match. This paid feature allows music that you’ve stored in your Selecting the iTunes library on your computer to sync AirPlay button will over the air to your iOS devices. This prompt iTunes to divert the content option can be disabled By going back to an Apple TV into Settings > Music, and disabling connected to your local network. iTunes Match. This will, of course, cause all songs (not just the ones that you don’t like) to stop showing in the Music app. At this point, Apple does not provide finer-grained controls for picking which music is synced to your mobile devices through iTunes Match.

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Apply a Zoom Burst Effect Mimic in-camera motion blur with help from Photoshop Elements

If you’rE fEElIng crEAtIvE and If the shutter speed is too slow, you run the risk of reQUires ambitious with your photography blurring the subject as well as the image’s edges. > Photoshop skills, you can twist the lens barrel to You may also over-expose the shot when shooting Elements, some zoom in or out from your subject while with a slow shutter speed in bright sunlight. photos shooting with a slow shutter speed. It’s much easier to shoot your subject with a LeVeL This combination of lens movement and a slow faster shutter speed to capture every detail, and shutter produces a dramatic burst of motion blur then add a zoom burst eļect using a Ľlter in > Medium that radiates outwards from your central subject. Photoshop Elements. This helps you to get the it wiLL tAke An in-camera-produced zoom burst eļect adds a perfect balance between detail and motion blur. By sense of dynamic movement to the shot and helps adding blur in Photoshop Elements you can take > 20 minutes draw the eye towards the main subject. It also control over how much blur the subject receives, helps to hide any distracting objects at the edge without worrying about the hit-and-miss of the frame. approach of twisting the lens at diļerent speeds. An in-camera zoom burst eļect can look great We’ll put the Guided editing mode’s new Zoom but, it’s a real challenge to capture one eļectively. Burst eļect through its paces, and then show you If your shutter speed is too fast, you won’t see how to add the eļect manually for more advanced much motion blur around the edge of the frame. zoom-blur eļects. By gEorgE cAIrns

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The built-in Zoom Burst effect is new to Photoshop Elements 12, but our manually created effect can be done in earlier versions of the software, and is really the the background in this photo Motion blur added to create slightly takes away from the a dynamic photo that clearly best way to get the look subject’s face as a focus. focuses on the face. you want.

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A layer mask effectively allows you to control the transparency of specific areas of a layer. You can paint it on your layer as if it were a drawing tool, and if you choose a soft brush, it’s a great way to blend images quickly.

Crop the Shot Add the Zoom Burst Effect Open up your image in Photoshop Elements. Next, click the Add Zoom Burst button. This Click the Guided tab. Scroll to Photo Effects and click uses the Radial Blur filter to make the streaks of motion Zoom Burst Effect. To crop the image, click the Crop blur radiate from the center. Click the Add Focus Area tool and drag the crop handles inwards. We dragged button. Drag across the face to fine-tune detail and the crop so the face was centered. Click OK. blur. Click Apply Vignette to darken the corners.

Apply the Effect Manually Adjust the Settings If you prefer, you can apply the Radial Go to Filter > Blur > Radial Blur. Set Blur filter manually while preserving the shot’s original Method to Zoom, Amount to 40, and Quality to Draft. composition. Go to the Expert editing mode, and in the We dragged the Blur Center preview upwards so the Layers panel, click the Background layer, then choose streaks of zoom blur emanated from nearer the top of Layer > Duplicate Layer. Click OK. the frame (where the subject’s eyes are). Click OK.

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Even if you’re happy with the results from using just the built-in Zoom Burst effect in Guided Set Up the Brush Tool Blend the Sharp and Blurred mode, it’s worth trying to Streaks of blur now come from the subject’s Click the layer mask, make sure black is the do it manually too – you face (instead of from the center of the frame). Choose foreground color, and paint over the face. This pokes might prefer the subtle differences, and find you Layer > Layer Mask > Reveal All. Grab the Brush tool. a hole in the blurred top layer, revealing the sharper can make it fit your Choose a soft round tip from the Brush Preset picker. details below. Reduce the Opacity of the top layer to picture even better by We set the size so the tip covered his face. 93% to blend the zoom blur with the bottom layer. making some tweaks.

maclife.com AUG 2014 83 >>>Create Locate a Lost Device Set up the free Find My iPhone service to keep tabs on any device

ThaT momenT you realize you’ve using a web browser on your Mac, or the Find My REQUIRES misplaced your phone, tablet or laptop iPhone app on iPad or iPhone. If your device’s > An iCloud can be a nightmare. But, with Apple’s location is available, it’s then possible to make it account Find My iPhone service (it’s called play a sound (to help you Ľnd where in your house LEVEL that, but it works on iPad and Mac too), you can – it’s got to), display a message on the screen (so in most cases – track down where it is. Using that whoever Ľnds it can contact you) or even wipe > Easy Wi-Fi networks for all devices, and phone signal its contents (if you decide it’s gone for good) – IT WILL TAKE and GPS data for mobile devices, you can pinpoint though even then, it can’t be reactivated without the location of your Apple gadgets almost information from you. You do need to make sure > 5 minutes anywhere in the world. The devices respond to the thieves can’t access it, though, so set up a request as long as they are connected to the passcode on iOS devices or a password on Macs. Internet. You can look up your device’s location By ameLia LameLLe

Enable the Service Find Your Lost Device Device List To start, you need to enable iCloud If you do misplace your device and If you’ve got more than one device and switch on the Find My iPhone service. need to locate it, open the Find My iPhone linked to your iCloud account, click All On iOS, this is in Settings > iCloud, with a app on an iOS device. Alternatively, go to Devices to see them all. In the entry for switch labelled Find My iPhone/iPad. On the icloud.com on any computer, sign in, click your missing gadget, look for a green Mac, go to System Preferences > iCloud and Find My iPhone and wait a few moments as dot next to it, which indicates its current sign in. Scroll through the list on the right, it tries to locate your Macs, iPad, iPhone or location is available. Tap or click its name and check Find My Mac. iPod touch. to see the location on a map.

NoTIfy mE Total Wipeout? Lost Mode WhEN foUNd Click the dot on the map or the Tap this option and enter a phone If your lost device isn’t connected to the name in the list and you get options to number so the finder can ring you. Tap Internet when you try to locate it, you play a sound or erase the device – but use Next, enter a message and tap Done. If needn’t keep checking back manually. the latter only as a last resort if it’s been your device is offline, it’s locked next time Just tap or click “Notify me when found”. You’ll then receive an email when the stolen, because once you erase it, you’ll no it connects, and your message shows on its device is located, as well as a pop-up longer be able to track its location. Using screen. When you get it back, unlock it with alert on any other devices linked to your Lost Mode is a better option. your existing passcode. iCloud account.

84 AUG 2014 maclife.com How to do anything on your Mac, iPhone & iPad Tweak iOS 7’s appearance Not happy with iOS 7? You can change a surprising amount…

The changed deSign in REQUIRES iOS 7 has been divisive, > An iOS 7 device but as of iOS 7.1, there are a few ways to tweak its LEVEL appearance. Some options, such as > Easy Reduce Motion, speed up your phone by disabling animations. Others, such IT WILL TAKE as Button Shapes and Bold Text, make > 5 minutes some of the “cleaner” elements of iOS 7 easier to use. Get started in Settings > General > Accessibility. BY MaTT BOlTOn

Larger Text Bold Text A slider here lets you Apple has already control the size of text in bumped up the thickness of any app or system area that the system text in iOS 7.1, but uses Apple’s dynamic text you can make it bolder still feature, making it all larger. with this option. You have to The Larger Accessibility Sizes restart your phone for it to switch allows larger options! take effect, though.

Button Increase Reduce On/Off Labels Shapes Contrast Motion This adds “on/off” This option adds an outline Reduce Transparency makes This option turns off most icons to the round switches and color to many text- see-through backgrounds of iOS 7’s transitions, such in iOS, making it easier to see based buttons. To see its more solid; Darken Colors as the zooming of the Home their current status. It’s great effect instantly, look at the does exactly what it says; or multi-tasking screens, as for those with trouble seeing “General” back button in the while Reduce White Point well as the parallax effect and some colors, or in apps that top-left corner of this screen. makes whites… less white. bouncy scrolling-in Messages. have monochrome switches.

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Design Your Own Dock Make changes to your Dock, with spacers, stacks and visual effects

The DOCk pane within System enables you to write to the Dock’s preferences Ľle, REQUIRES Preferences provides options to turning on (or oļ) hidden preferences, and further > OS X 10.8 or change many aspects of the Dock’s changing the nature of your Dock. Terminal is later appearance and behavior. For example, one of those apps that tends to scare newcomers, you can adjust its size, edge position (left, bottom, but playing around with the Dock is a good LEVEL right) and magniĽcation level when you hover the introduction to using the tool. > Hard cursor over icons. Additionally, there are two You should Ľnd any apprehension disappear minimization eļects to choose from, and settings as you successfully enter a command or two and IT WILL TAKE for toggling the app-launch bounce, Dock see the changes to your Dock. If you don’t like > 10 minutes auto-hide, and active application indicators. what you end up with, the process is also entirely But System Preferences doesn’t tell the whole reversible. You can merely turn oļ everything story, because Apple hides a number of extra you’ve turned on, but a quicker way to revert the options from the user interface. Even so, you Dock is to replace its preferences Ľle with a back- can access them by using Terminal, found in up, which we’ll also show you how to do in this /Applications/Utilities. This command-line tool tutorial. BY Craig grannell “if YOU DOn’T like The Changes ThaT YOU Make, The prOCess is enTirelY reversiBle”

How to Make Changes to Your Dock Using Terminal

Copy the Preferences Restore Preferences Go Nuclear Before editing your Dock, make a To restore your backed-up Reverting the Dock to default copy of its preferences file. In Finder, hold preferences, copy the file you saved out in depends on the OS that you are running on Option and click Go in the top bar. From the Step 1 to your Library’s Preferences folder. your Mac. In Mountain Lion, simply trash drop-down menu, select Library to open For Mountain Lion, entering killall Dock in com.apple.dock.plist from the Preferences the hidden user Library folder. Within, open Terminal restarts old settings. Mavericks folder and use killall Dock in Terminal. For the Preferences folder and find com.apple. has more aggressive caching, so type Mavericks, delete the file from Terminal: dock.plist. Now hold Option and drag the defaults read in Terminal and drag the file defaults delete com.apple.dock; killall file to the Desktop, thereby making a copy com.apple.dock.plist from the Library to it. Dock. Or, reset the Dock to run apps with of it. Store this in a folder elsewhere that Hit Enter, then killall Dock to restart the defaults write com.apple.dock static-only also includes the date the copy was made. Dock with your settings. -bool true; killall Dock.

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How to Customise Your Dock

Pin the Dock The Dock can be pinned to a corner. Use defaults write com.apple. dock pinning start; killall Dock and it moves to the left or top. Use end instead of start to move the Dock to the right/ bottom; “middle” is the default. Adjust Dock Transparency Bring back Mountain Lion’s transparency with defaults write com.apple.dock hide-mirror -bool true; killall Dock. To make hidden apps’ icons semi- transparent, use defaults write com.apple.dock showhidden -bool true; killall Dock. In both cases, switching true for false reverts to Add App Spacers default settings. Invisible spacers can be added to group apps. Each time you Activate use this command, a new spacer is Single-app Mode added: defaults write com.apple.dock OS X has a single-app mode, which persistent-apps -array-add ‘{tile- means if you click a Dock icon, every data={}; tile-type=”spacer-tile”;}’; other app is hidden. Activate using killall Dock. Replace persistent-apps defaults write com.apple.dock single- with persistent-others to place a spacer app -bool true; killall Dock. Again, on the right-hand side of the Dock. To replacing “true” with “false” reverts this get rid of one, right-click it and select TAKE A ShoRTcUT setting to OS X’s default. Remove from Dock. The idea of this tutorial is to update Change the Define Custom the Dock and also familiarize yourself Hiding Delay Dock Stacks with Terminal. However, if you want Remove the show/hide animation with Stacks are folders added to the right side Dock changes but don’t fancy doing any of that pesky typing, install defaults write com.apple.dock autohide- of the Dock. OS X has hidden custom TinkerTool (http://bresink.com/osx/ time-modifier -int 0; killall Dock. Revert stacks for recent items. Each time you TinkerTool.html) and use the various by using defaults write com.apple.dock use defaults write com.apple.dock options found within its Dock section. autohide-time-modifier -float 1; killall persistent-others -array-add ‘{“tile- Should you later decide you want to Dock, or adjust “1” to experiment with data” = {“list-type” = 1;}; “tile-type” = revert all changes, TinkerTool has a Reset option (to pre-TinkerTool state or different animation speeds – for example, “recents-tile”;}’; killall Dock, a stack is defaults), but also follow the three- 0.5 is faster (half the time) and 2 is added. Right-click to show documents, step back-up advice elsewhere before slower (twice the time). servers or favorite volumes/items. using the app, just in case.

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Secure your Mac Tighten your Mac’s security to keep files and web accounts safe

When you firSt set up your Mac, the reQuIreS only security measure that’s enforced > OS X 10.7 or is that you add a password to your user later (some account. The Setup Assistant makes no techniques mention of extra measures you might want to work with earlier versions) enable, even though several are built into OS X. The features we’re about to look at are defenses leVel against physical attack, rather than protection > Easy against online attacks. The measures are particularly important if you work in an open It WIll tAKe environment, such as a library, an oĿce, or a > 30 minutes café, and if your Mac is stolen, because they help to keep your data under lock and key. One thing that isn’t covered here is FileVault, which encrypts everything on your Mac so it’s out of your Ľles. You can store your recovery key unreadable to anyone who doesn’t have your with Apple, but three questions must be answered password. It’s what you might call a nuclear precisely for access, so this also carries a risk. option, though, and carries a risk: if you lose both FileVault is extremely secure, but its seriousness your password and backup recovery key, which means we don’t recommend it for everyone. lets you reset your password, you’re forever locked By AlAn StoneBridge

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fully protect

To protect critical settings, log in from an Administrator account, open the Security & Privacy pane, click Turn Off Automatic Login Obfuscate Login Details General, then click the Automatically logging into a user account on The login window shows account names by Advanced button and startup is risky. After holding down the power button default, leaving passwords to be input. Under Login ensure “Require an Options, switch to “Name and password” so both administrator” password to turn off the Mac, a restart is all you need to gain details to access system-wide access. Automatic login can be disabled under Login need to be entered. Changing Fast User Switching to preferences’ is checked. Options in the “Users & Groups” preferences pane. show an icon stops names being read from the screen.

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ShArIng SerVIceS

Features in the Sharing pane allow you to log into a Mac remotely or simply copy files. In particular, Restrict Your Abilities Request Password to Wake review the options under Daily, it’s safer to use a Standard account, but Waking a Mac from sleep gives access to Screen Sharing and File Sharing to ensure your an admin is needed for system changes. Create a new whatever account was left signed in. Under “General” Mac and its contents admin in the Users & Groups pane, log out, then into in the Security & Privacy pane, turn on the option that can’t be accessed by just the new account. Select your regular account and clear requires a password to wake, and set how soon it’s anyone connected to the “Allow user to administer…” to reduce its rights. needed. Longer than the “5 seconds” option is risky. same network.

Tighten Keychain Security Lock the Keychain Your password also protects your Keychain, In the same menu, choose “Change Settings…” giving access to its contents to Safari’s AutoFill feature, for options that lock the Keychain upon sleep or after for example, just by logging in. To require separate inactivity. In the app’s preferences, you can add a menu consent, open Keychain Access, right-click “login” in bar icon to show Keychain status and to lock it. When the Keychain list and choose “Change Password…” locked, system services may prompt you for access.

QuIcK tIp

A strong password is one that isn’t easily guessed by a person or worked out by a program. Generally speaking, a An Unplugged Hole Set a Firmware Password good password includes Without a firmware password, Recovery Mode Restart your Mac and hold Command + R at letters, numbers and gives the unfettered ability to reset any account’s the chime. Choose Utilities > Firmware Password Utility. symbols, but beware that symbols may be assigned password from Terminal. The Keychain password is Set a password and don’t forget it – you’ll need it on to different keys than unaltered by this, so an intruder won’t be able to read occasions such as restoring your Mac from Time usual at the firmware website logins, but they will have access to local files. Machine, and to use other startup key combinations. password screen.

maclife.com AUG 2014 89 >>>Create Add Titles to Your Movies Incorporate titles into your project in Adobe Premiere Elements

Look AT AnY MovIE or TV REquiRES show and you’ll be hard > Adobe Premiere pressed to Ľnd one that Elements 12, doesn’t contain titles video clips somewhere. You can have opening titles, ready to use closing credits, and anything in between, LEVEL such as location information and lower thirds to introduce people. No matter > Easy how visual your story is, you’ll probably it WiLL tAkE want your viewers to read something at some point, if only to know who helped > 30 minutes bring your project to completion. Adobe Premiere Elements oļers a range of credits and titles, organized into categories, to help you create a distinctive and coherent look throughout your project. You’re not forced to follow regimented guidelines, and with dozens of titles to choose from, selecting the right look for The way titles work is extremely similar, your project could keep you busy for a while! although not identical, between Quick and Expert You can choose a no-frills title, but it’s fun to modes, so we’ll be focusing our eļort on the experiment with the fancier ones. Making movies former. Open up an existing project (or create is supposed to be a creative process, after all, and a new one) and let’s see how we can create and an animated title sequence can give your movie customize titles in Premiere Elements. more personality or a professional look. BY STEvE PArIS

quick tip

When working with a title, two white rectangles are shown over your clip. These tell you where to The Titles Library Browse by Category place your text so that it With your project open, click on Titles & Text at At the top of the panel is a title, most likely set won’t be cropped by any the bottom right. As with transitions, this panel can be to General. Click on it to reveal additional categories. device you watch the resized by dragging its top edge up or down, but you’ll You can also click on the left and right arrows on either movie on. Text inside the inner rectangle is within notice that there are more choices available this time, side of the title to navigate through them all, or choose the so-called safe zone. and you won’t be able to see all of the options at once. the category Show All to display them all together.

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A ‘lower third’ is a title positioned in the bottom third of the screen, out of the way of the action, often to relay a person’s name and to give context to their appearance. This term is often used in news and documentaries.

Adding a Title Text Editing Drag a title onto your project. It doesn’t matter Double-click on the placeholder text to initiate where exactly you add it since you can move it around. the editing mode, so you can write over the generic It’s represented by a purple rectangle, above your text. Hold down the Command key to reveal draggable existing clips. You can alter its duration to last as long handles around the text box that you use to alter its as you need it to, by dragging its left and right edges. dimensions, along with the size of the text inside it.

Adjustments Mode To the right of the preview area are text editing The last group of options is labeled Mode. From options. You can use this panel to change the font type, here you can choose to select or create a horizontal or size and style. Clicking on the paint palette brings up vertical text layer, and you can have more than one text a Color Properties window, where you can change the layer per title. The last option, the cursor icon, lets you color of your text, right down to individual letters. select parts of your title and move them around.

quick tip

Premiere Elements doesn’t come with titles pre-installed. Dragging one of the thumbnail Changing Styles Get Animated previews into your The Adjustments panel has four tabs. The The Animation tab lets you apply motion to project will make the second one, Style, allows you to apply a specific look your text so it appears or disappears in different ways. app download the file it needs. You can right-click to any element of your title, whether that’s text or You can only apply one animation per title; add another on a title and choose another element. To do so, ensure the object you want and it overwrites the previous one. The Shapes tab can “Download all” to get to alter is selected, and then click on the style to apply. be used to add extra decoration to your titles. them all immediately.

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Become a Pro at iOS Pages Powerful publishing on the move is now even easier with Pages

All Of the iWork apps got a those, too. Images can be replaced with photos REQUIREs makeover with the release of iOS 7, from your Photos app, and there are dozens of > An iOS device and when you buy a new device, all shapes available for you to add to documents. running iOS 7, three are provided for free. We particularly like the image masking feature, Pages Using Pages on an iPad is a much more which lets you choose which parts of an image lEVEl pleasant experience than on an iPhone because to display or hide. of the screen size, and creating documents on The range of style options for objects is huge, > Medium your iPad is straightforward, largely thanks to and text formatting options are also diverse. It WIll tAKE the templates provided and the eļective use of When you’re done creating, your work can touch controls. be sent wirelessly to an AirPrint-compatible > 20 minutes Start by choosing one of the 63 available printer, saved to iCloud, or shared using email. templates, and then customize it until it Ľts the There’s no doubt that Pages on iPad is much bill precisely. Don’t like the headline typeface? easier and more fun to use than the small- Change it. Size and color? You can change screen version. BY ChriStiAn hAll

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How to Make Pages Within Pages

tool Getting a New Page Adjust Page Margins school Sometimes, Pages’ minimalist interface To adjust the size of your document, you can can be irritating. Here’s a case in point: you could manipulate the page margins by using the ruler. To Pages on iPad benefits spend a long time trying to work out how to get show the ruler, tap the wrench icon at the top of the from iWork for iCloud, so you can create, edit the app to start a fresh new page in a multi-page screen and enable Settings > Ruler. To align your and sync documents document, when the command to do this is hidden text, set the tab stops along the ruler to align text between several devices in plain sight behind an icon. With the keyboard on the left, right, center or decimal point. Tap on the in a few seconds. When showing, simply tap the + button at its top-right ruler to place an insertion point, or hold and drag you launch Pages for corner to reveal the options you need for inserting a tab stop icon until it’s in the correct position. You the first time, you’re asked whether you want line breaks, column breaks and the all-important can insert as many tab stops as you want. To hide it to sync using iCloud. page breaks, as well as footnotes and comments. the ruler and the keyboard, tap the bottom-right key.

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How to edit text like a Pro

Selecting Text Using the Spellcheck Undoing Text Errors It’s not obvious how to select text in Suspected misspellings are shown Sometimes you move an image Pages. You can double-tap to select a word, with a dotted red underline. To correct accidentally or make a mistake while you’re or triple-tap to select an entire paragraph them, double-tap on the mistake and then typing. This is easily fixed in the iPhone at once. To select all the text, either tap and tap Replace… and pick the correct word version of Pages by simply shaking your hold, then choose Select All from the menu from the suggestions. If there’s only one phone and then selecting either Undo or that pops up, or use Command + A on a available suggestion, you’re shown this as Redo, as appropriate. If this doesn’t work, paired Bluetooth keyboard. To adjust the soon as you tap on a word, and you can tap make sure you’ve tapped Done or finished selection, tap one of the blue handles to to accept it. This menu also tells you if the your current task and then try shaking your grab it, and then drag your finger forwards spellchecker is totally stumped and has no phone again. On the iPad, tap the bottom- or backwards through the document. replacement word available. left key to reveal an Undo key.

How to Make documents More interesting

Anchoring Images Cropping Pictures Skim Long Documents Images and shapes can be anchored If the picture you want to use is the Even with flick gestures, it could so they move with the text – this is usually wrong shape for your page’s layout, you take you a long time to scroll through a big referred to as an inline image – or made can use the Edit Mask command under the document. Thankfully, Apple has thought to float above the text, with the option Image tab in the Paintbrush menu. This about this: tap and hold for a split second of wrapping text around the graphic. Tap lets you crop images, as well as zooming at the right of the screen, and up pops the + at the top of the screen to insert an and panning the picture inside the mask. the navigator. Slide your finger slowly up image, and then tap the Paintbrush icon at It’s a bit like moving a huge poster around and down the screen, and you will see the top of the screen. Tap Arrange > Wrap, outside a window, except you can alter thumbnails of your document’s pages to and choose your anchor and wrap options. the size of the window, and the size of the the left of your fingertip. Lift your finger to Icons help to describe their effects. poster as well. jump to the displayed page.

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How to go even further With Pages

Undo/Redo Adjust Margins Image Watermarks If you delete something by mistake, Tap the wrench icon and choose To turn an image into a watermark, or if you’ve mistyped something, you’ll Document Setup. The view changes to a add the image, then resize it to fit where want to be able to roll back your changes. vertical page preview that shows the you want the watermark to appear. Tap the There’s an Undo button at the top-left page’s margins. Adjust these by tapping Paintbrush icon, choose the Style tab, and corner. Tap and hold it to reveal the Redo and dragging the arrows. Alter the paper then choose Style Options > Effects. Drag option. On an iPhone, you can simply shake size by tapping Change Paper Size at the the opacity slider to the left. Options to add the device to bring up the Undo option. bottom of the screen. a shadow or reflection are also found here.

Create Tab Stops Headers and Footers Page Numbers Bring up the ruler by tapping on With your document open, tap the To add page numbers, follow the some text. Select the text you want to wrench icon and then choose Document same route as for headers and footers, adjust, and then tap on the ruler to insert Setup. At the top and bottom of the but when you tap on either the header or tab stops. Double-tap a tab stop to change page you can type a header and a footer in footer box, select Page Numbers from the its type: a diamond indicates center- the boxes. The text you type is added to the pop-up menu that appears until you start aligned, a triangle pointing left is right- Section Master, so the header and footer typing. Select a presentation style from the aligned, while a circle is decimal-aligned. appears on every page. menu, and then tap Done at the top left.

ImpoRt Tidy Up Find Text AttAchmEnts Tap Documents at the top left to While viewing a document, tap the see your files. Tap Edit and then tap all but wrench and choose Find to reveal a search You don’t have to use iTunes on your Mac one of the documents you want to put in bar. In it, enter the text you want to find. to get existing documents into Pages on a folder. Tap and drag one of the selection Instances of that text are highlighted, and your iPad. You can send Pages or Word documents as an attachment to an email. and the other items will follow it. Drop the the arrows at the right step through them. On receipt, tap and hold the attachment’s selection onto the remaining, unselected Tap the cog on the left to find and replace icon in the email and select Open in document to put them all in a new folder. text, and for stricter matching options. Pages from the options that appear.

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>>>Next Feed your mind. Feast your eyes. Next Big Things The gadgets, services, and issues that we’re looking forward to

WWDC 2014 Battery Breakthrough return of the By the time you read this, the 2014 Apple For the past several years, the secret uSB Drive Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) to better battery life hasn’t been about Think that iCloud killed off the flash drive? will have come and gone, its focus squarely developing better, more efficient batteries. Not so fast. Hyper/Sanho Corporation on iOS 8 and OS X 10.10. While iOS 7 Instead, it has been about “saving power”. recently launched a Kickstarter campaign introduced the new love-it-or-hate-it flat While current Lithium-Ion battery to build the iStick, the world’s first USB UI, it’s still far from being a fully polished technology can’t be pushed any further, flash drive with an integrated Apple product. Improvements to Siri, Maps, and hope might lie in a battery breakthrough by Lightning Connector. The prospects of Calendar, plus the arrival of the rumored Power Japan Plus (powerjapanplus.com). this gadget becoming a reality are rock- new fitness apps are long overdue. The company claims to have invented a solid. At the time of writing, the $100,000 On the Mac, meanwhile, Mavericks 10.9.3 revolutionary Dual Carbon battery, which campaign had received over $580,000 in wasn’t a major overhaul and a future OS could last longer, charge faster, operate funding. Find out more at kickstarter.com. X 10.10 (with a Californian codename to cooler (so no more exploding laptops), and Simply do a search for “iStick”. match) will potentially do more to bring doesn’t use any toxic or rare materials. the desktop software in line with changes Don’t get too excited. This new carbon to iOS. We’ll have a full report on WWDC technology is aimed at replacing li-Ion 2014 in our next issue, digging behind the cells in future electric vehicles. But it could headlines to look closely at what Apple’s also find its way into our future MacBooks, latest announcements and plans for the iPads, iPhones, and perhaps even our NEXT ISSUE ON SALE future really mean to you. fitness-orientated Apple wearables. July 22

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