iPad By Davis: “Byword 2 for iPhone, iPad and Mac review: New premium option allows publishing to WordPress, Tumblr, Evernote, and more” plus 18 more |
- Byword 2 for iPhone, iPad and Mac review: New premium option allows publishing to WordPress, Tumblr, Evernote, and more
- Camera Noir from Pacific Helm gives you your Gotham back, with style!
- Confession time! How much have you spent on Candy Crush? Tell us, and we just might pay off your bill!
- Apple reportedly still the top smartphone seller in the US, and still growing!
- Apple releases OS X 10.8.4, claims to fix out-of-order iMessage bug!
- How to easily insert new pages in a PDF with Preview for Mac
- Felix for iPad review: Same great gesture for App.net, new bigger size!
- Halo: Spartan Assault announced for Windows Phone 8 and Windows 8, will we see it for iOS?
- Gmail update for iOS adds new inbox support and notification options
- Byword 2.0 for iPad: Offline Docs, New Publishing Options & Lots More
- What's the dark side to mobile gaming?
- DOOORS for iPhone review: A great puzzle game for fans of Crimson Room
- RSS Reader Options When Google Reader Is Shutdown: Lots of Good News
- Take your iOS gaming up a notch with these great accessories!
- App Camp for Girls kicks off Indiegogo fundraiser
- Deal of the Day: 47% off the Seidio ACTIVE Case for iPhone 5
- iMore show 352: WWDC 2013 preview
- WWDC 2013 wish-list: iMore's top OS X 10.9 wants!
- Three UK experiencing widespread data outage, some areas now returning to normal
| Posted: 04 Jun 2013 06:51 PM PDT
Byword, a popular writing app for iPhone, iPad, and Mac, has been updated to version 2 and is more enjoyable than ever. Some of the new features include automatic downloads, full-feature offline support, better integration with other apps, and a premium option that lets you publish to WordPress, Tumblr, Blogger, Scriptogram, and Evernote. Byword offers a beautiful, distraction-free environment that lets you focus on your writing. It supports markdown by displaying formatting changes while you type as well as the ability to preview the final product and even export to PDF and HTML documents. In Byword 2, the Markdown preview has been updated to keep scroll position so that you can quickly see how the specific area you're working on will look fully formatted.
Dropbox support in Byword has also improved, and now you can rename, duplicate, and delete documents even while offline. All documents will also automatically download when connected to WiFi. One of my favorite new improvements is that when on the Mac, Byword will now default to iCloud as the save location. This was the only thing keeping me away from Byword in the past, so I'm quite pleased with the idea of this feature. Unfortunately, iCloud sync isn't working very well. Nothing created on my Mac or iPad is showing up on my iPhone.
The biggest addition to Byword 2 is the new premium upgrade that allows you to publish to WordPress, Tumbler, Blogger, Scriptogram, and Evernote. You simply add a title, tags, categories, and custom URL and fields if you so desire, and hit publish! The upgrade is $4.99. Unfortunately, the upgrade is a separate purchase for each version. The good
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The bottom lineIf you do any sort of writing, Byword is sure to be a fantastic tool that'll help you focus on your work. And since it syncs seamlessly between iPhone, iPad, and Mac with Dropbox or iCloud, you can have your work with you at all times, ensuring you don't forget that brilliant idea when you were standing in line at the grocery store.
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| Camera Noir from Pacific Helm gives you your Gotham back, with style! Posted: 04 Jun 2013 06:48 PM PDT
Rock-star design team Pacific Helm has just launched their second app, the awesomely named Camera Noir. It does one thing, but in typical PH fashion, does it insanely well: Takes black and white photos in the style of the gone-but-not-forgotten Gotham filter from the early Instagram. Yes, this is iPhoneography by gaslight. It's also dynamic. You can see the Noir filter applied in realtime on the view finder, and switch between low, medium, and hi to get the perfect composition and effect. You can even access your Camera Roll to add Noir to most existing photos in post. It's done so well, it can even make your Home screen look like something from a 50s pulp fiction flick.
Photographers have turned to black and white for years to hone their skills and express their craft. Camera Noir is like going out with only a rolls of black and white film. It forces your to play with light and shadow, composition and texture. It makes you better. It gives you no place to hide. Similarly, despite the simplicity of Camera Noir, nailing this filter must have been a colossal amount of work. But nail it they did. I had the chance to beta test Camera Noir, so I've been using it for while, and I love the look. An app, well crafted and fairly priced. There's nothing I like better. Even the Camera Noir website is terrific. I just wished they'd priced it higher. At $1.99, it's a steal. If you're a fan of black and white photography, a fan of the old Gotham filter, or just a fan of great apps, check it out now and post your results in our photography forum.
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| Posted: 04 Jun 2013 04:52 PM PDT
Today's Talk Mobile is all about the dark side of gaming and I have a confession of my own to make: I've spent a chunk of change on my Candy Crush addiction already, and I assume perhaps so have you? Even if you've read my top 10 Candy Crush tips, tricks and cheats, you know sometimes money is the trickiest cheat of them all. It's so easy to do! Each in-app purchase seems small enough, we're busy enough, and we want to beat the game -- and our friends scores! -- badly enough, that we're willing to pay it. And pay it again. And again. And when the rush passes and we look over our bills at the end of the month, all that candy crushing adds up to real money. How much have you spent on Candy Crush to date? What was your most frequent in-app purchase? What was your single biggest? Let me know the details in the comments below and... We'll pick one of you and pay off your Candy Crush bill!1 Ready? Set? Confess!
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| Apple reportedly still the top smartphone seller in the US, and still growing! Posted: 04 Jun 2013 04:52 PM PDT
How's this for doomed? Apple was once again the top smartphone vendor in the three months ending in April of this year, capturing 39.2% of the market for that period. According to the latest comScore report, Apple's share grew 1.4% in a U.S. smartphone market of 138.5 million people. Samsung grew 0.6% to 22%, while HTC, Motorola, and LG all fell less than 1%. Android is still the most widely-used operating system, holding 52% marketshare to the 39.2% held by iOS. But Android dropped by a slight 0.3%, as iOS grew 1.4%. BlackBerry fell to 5.1%, while Windows Phone lost .1%, coming down to 3% marketshare overall. The iPhone continues to grow, though that growth has slowed over the last three-month period. But the iPhone is still growing more than its competition, including Samsung, considered to be Apple's primary smartphone rival. But they're also the only platform that's consistantly growing the U.S., with every other platform falling during the last few measuring periods. Marketshare is not the most important marker of a company's success, but many have used the iPhone's marketshare to crow about Apple losing its luster, but as these latest numbers show, Apple continues to shine in one of its most important markets. Source: comScore 
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| Apple releases OS X 10.8.4, claims to fix out-of-order iMessage bug! Posted: 04 Jun 2013 01:33 PM PDT
Apple has released OS X 10.8.4, with stability, compatibility, and security fixes. Noteably, this update claims to fix an issue with Messages that cause iMessage to display texts out of order, along with Safari 6.0.5.
OS X 10.8.4 is available through the Updates section in the Mac App Store. Easily navigate there by going to the Apple menu and clicking "Software Update". Thanks: Keith 
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| How to easily insert new pages in a PDF with Preview for Mac Posted: 04 Jun 2013 12:38 PM PDT
If you have a Mac running OS X Mountain Lion, the Preview app got some new features that makes handling PDFs a little bit easier. Preview now allows you to insert pages into PDFs without the need for fancy application editing software. You have the option of adding blank pages, scanned pages, or stored pages from documents. Not sure how? Follow along and we'll show you.
While Preview does contain some nice new features, like adding pages, some PDF tasks are still too extensive and will require use of more extensive software. For that, we would recommend checking out something like PDFPen. Especially if you need the ability to manipulate or add fillable fields to PDFs. 
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| Felix for iPad review: Same great gesture for App.net, new bigger size! Posted: 04 Jun 2013 11:27 AM PDT
The popular iPhone App.net (ADN) client Felix has made it's way to the iPad and includes the same elegant appeal with tons of features. What sets it apart from the iPhone version is the new navigation puck that lets Felix be used in a tab-free environment.
Felix for iPad is completely full-screen and includes a small bubble in the lower righthand corner that tigerbears calls the navigation puck. Since swiping on individual posts in Felix opens up a reply window or the conversation, this navigation puck allows you to use gestures to navigate between the different pages of Felix, just swipe on the puck! If you prefer, you can also tap it to slide up a transparent panel that lets you quickly jump to any area of the app.
Felix for iPad also makes great use of pop-ups. I hate it when apps use the entire iPad screen to do something that doesn't need that much space, and the folks at tigerbears have integrated popups just perfectly. When writing a post, viewing a post, and viewing profiles, a popup comes up that allows you to still view what's going on in the stream behind. Felix for iPad also supports all the other great features of its iPhone counterpart including push notifications, multiple accounts, private messaging, saving conversations, drafts, custom links, Twitter crossposting, 1Password integration, read-later support, and more. The good
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The bottom lineFelix for iPhone has been my favorite ADN client for some time now, and I was naturally excited to hear of it's arrival on the iPad. I'm happy to report that the iPad version does not disappoint. The interface, gestures, typography, and design of Felix for iPad is just great.
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| Halo: Spartan Assault announced for Windows Phone 8 and Windows 8, will we see it for iOS? Posted: 04 Jun 2013 11:25 AM PDT Microsoft has announced Halo: Spartan Assault, a top-down action game exclusively for Windows Phone 8 and Windows 8. There has been a lack of exclusive games that would bring users to their mobile platforms, but Microsoft is undoubtedly hoping that the Halo name is big enough to do this. But could we see it on iOS? Honestly, we can't really be sure. But we got Kinectimals, so it's just a matter of time until Spartan Assault makes its way to us iOS users, right? Well, it's all about priorities for Microsoft right now. They need to get phones and tablets into the hands of consumers, and Kinectimals was never as important to the company, both psychologically and financially, as Halo. But it would be odd not to try to get Spartan Assault on iOS and Android at all, right? That's where the real mobile gaming audience, and thus, money, is, so why not go after it sooner rather than later? Perhaps the answer is in Office. Office is taking its sweet time expanding to other platforms, and Microsoft even uses it as a selling point for tablets running Windows 8 and Windows RT. Microsoft seems to see Office as important enough, and enough of a differentiator for their platform, that people will ditch iOS and Android to use it. Regardless of whether or not that strategy will work out for Microsoft in the long term, they might view a Halo game on their platform the same way. Halo is a system-seller, a game that people buy an Xbox just to play. Microsoft wants Spartan Assault to be a game like that. There's little doubt that they want other games to release for their mobile platforms first, or at least well in advance of their rivals. Microsoft is probably working very hard, using the relationships that it has forged with publishers over the years, to get major, triple-A titles on their mobile platforms. They don't want Spartan Assault to be a one-shot, so they'll do what they have to in order to expand the Windows Phone gaming ecosystem. If I had to guess, I'd say iOS users will eventually see this game, but it won't be soon. But right now, Microsoft is hoping that you want things like Office and a Halo game badly enough to ditch your iOS devices for Windows. Do you? Would you switch for Spartan Assault or games like it? And does that mean Apple should start looking for a monster exclusive gaming franchise of their own? Source: Windows Phone Central 
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| Gmail update for iOS adds new inbox support and notification options Posted: 04 Jun 2013 11:04 AM PDT
The new look Gmail inbox started rolling out to the web interface last week, and today's update to the iOS app brings it to your iPhone and iPad. We're not treated to a visual upgrade too, but then, the iOS app has had the slide-out drawer interface for some time now. You have to have enabled the new inbox on the web first, and this is done by hitting the settings button and looking for "configure inbox." If you see that, click it and you're good to go. You select which tabs you want to activate, and these then become available in the mobile version of Gmail. It's supposed to help you gain control of your inbox, and sort out the clutter into more manageable pieces. The good news is, if you don't like it, you can just as easily turn it off and go back to how you were. Also included in todays update are improved notifications -- you can now choose to be notified for all mail, just important mail, or no mail at all on an account by account basis. Sure to be of use to those of us managing several Gmail accounts. The update is available to download right now from the App Store, and once you've taken the new inbox for a spin, be sure to drop us a line in the comments and let us know what you think of it.
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| Byword 2.0 for iPad: Offline Docs, New Publishing Options & Lots More Posted: 04 Jun 2013 09:37 AM PDT
Byword, one of the very best markdown and text editor apps for iPad, has been updated to Version 2.0 today. This is a major update for this already stellar app – adding a number of useful new features and also a superb (paid for) premium upgrade that enables publishing to WordPress, Tumblr, Blogger, Evernote and Scriptogram. Notable new features in the 2.0 update start with impressive new offline capabilities. All Byword documents are now automatically downloaded when connected to WiFi for offline availability, and there's now offline support for renaming, duplicating, and deleting Dropbox documents. I've tried out editing a Dropbox doc in Byword while in Airplane mode and then watched happily as it synced instantly when I turned off Airplane mode. Another handy new feature is the ability to duplicate documents and folders between Dropbox, iCloud, and device storage within...         Related Stories
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| What's the dark side to mobile gaming? Posted: 04 Jun 2013 08:59 AM PDT  Until a few years ago, mobile gaming was confined to Minesweeper, Solitaire, Brick Breaker, and a handful of strategy-style games like the classic Warfare Incorporated. The rise of iOS, Android, BlackBerry 10, and Windows Phone has changed that, bringing immersive, innovative, and addicting gameplay to our mobile devices. Yet the renaissance of mobile gaming has brought with it a dark side -- sometimes the games are too immersive and too addicting. The virtual people in our lives can displace the real ones, if we let them. And sometimes, with the new freemium and premium payment models, that's exactly what the developers intend... But how bad can it get? What's the dark side of mobile gaming? Let's get the conversation started! 
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| DOOORS for iPhone review: A great puzzle game for fans of Crimson Room Posted: 04 Jun 2013 08:25 AM PDT
DOOORS for iPhone is a puzzle game that requires some thinking and a good eye in order to get you through one door and on to another. Anyone who has ever played Crimson Room will most likely find DOOORS vaguely familiar. Each door opens differently and you'll have to figure out how by using the clues you're given each round. DOOORS currently features 62 different levels where you'll need to gain access to the next room in order to advance. Each room will look different and contain different clues on how to unlock the door that's currently in front of you. Along the way you can find items under plants, in corners, and other places that you'll use to help open certain doors. A hint to how to open the next door may sometimes lie in what tools in your tray are available to you in that level.
While some levels, particularly the first few, are pretty basic and easy to clear, each stage will then progressively get a little more trickier. I've spent some time racking my brain on a few before finally figuring out how to unlock the door in front of me. Once you've started playing DOOORS, you can return to the main menu and jump back to any level you've already unlocked. Ones that you haven't gotten to yet won't be available until you've cleared to that point.
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The bottom lineDOOORS is a great game for wasting time and something anyone who remembers playing Crimson Room will enjoy. I've found myself racking my brain on a level only to leave it and come back to it later. I've yet to clear all the levels almost a week later so you'll most likely get a decent amount of game play time before finishing. If puzzles are for you, you'll enjoy working your way through all the levels DOOORS can throw at you.
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| RSS Reader Options When Google Reader Is Shutdown: Lots of Good News Posted: 04 Jun 2013 08:06 AM PDT
This week there is lots of good news about RSS solutions for iPad and iOS apps when Google Reader is shutdown on July 1, and Feedly is right at the center of most of it. Feedly itself offers RSS apps and clients for iPad, iOS, Android, and the Chrome, Firefox, and Safari browsers. Their RSS syncing service is also going to be adopted by the hugely popular Reeder app for iPad and iOS and several other notable RSS apps. I'm one of the many people who was very sad and more than a little worried when Google announced they would be shutting down Google Reader, and with not a whole lot of notice. Since that was announced I've been trying out several alternatives to Google Reader, while also hoping that Reeder would have a good response – as it has been my favorite RSS app on the iPad for a long while now. I've tried Newsblur, Feed Wrangler, and reacquainted myself with Feedly. ...  Related Stories
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| Take your iOS gaming up a notch with these great accessories! Posted: 04 Jun 2013 08:22 AM PDT
Gaming on iOS devices has steadily grown and grown in recent months and years, and now there's some really amazing titles available to play on your iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad. The fun doesn't -- and shouldn't -- stop there, though, as accessory makers have really embraced this and you can now get hold of some fantastic accessories to take your gaming experience to the next level. Here's a taste of some iMore favorites! iCade cabinet for iPadFor the old-school gamers among us, the iCade is the perfect trip down memory lane. Styled to look like a classic 80's arcade cabinet, the Bluetooth enabled iCade gives you the chance to button-mash like the good old days. It works brilliantly with the Atari Greatest Hits app from the App Store, which gives you 100 classic Atari titles to play. The iCade isn't really designed for on-the-go mobile gaming, but it looks fantastic and offers a truly retro experience.
iCade 8-bitty controller
For something a little more portable, yet still keeping with the retro theme, there's the iCade 8-bitty controller. A Bluetooth controller compatible with the iPad and the iPhone, the 8-bitty has a D-pad, two shoulder buttons and four face buttons. It's compatible with any games the iCade cabinet is, including the Atari Greatest Hits, and many more. Unlike the cabinet, the 8-bitty will fit in your pocket, so is perfect for those impromptu gaming sessions wherever you may be.
Fling joystickA clip on joystick is a quick, easy and very portable way to improve your iOS gaming experience wherever you are. One of our favorites is the Fling, which comes in mini and regular forms. The mini is perfect for gaming on your iPhone, while the regular Fling is perfect for the iPad. Both attach to your devices via a suction cup, and you can place them wherever on the display you require them. Where the Fling is perhaps a better choice than some other joystick attachments, is that it resembles more the analog sticks on the PS3 or Xbox, where you can rest your thumb on the stick and slide it around comfortably. HEX3 ApptagThe HEX3 Apptag uses augmented reality to turn your world into a real-life first person shooter. The iPhone clips to the top of the gun attachment -- which in turn can be fitted to a NERF gun -- so what you see down the 'gunsight' is the real world being displayed on the iPhone screen. It comes with a single-player mode, but where the Apptag comes into its own is by way of a multiplayer real-life laser tag game. So, it enhances your gaming experience, and gets you outdoors!
Apple TV
Besides being a great piece of equipment to have in your living room, the Apple TV is also a great addition to your iOS gaming arsenal. Because you can mirror your iPhone or iPad games to the big screen using AirPlay, you still get to control things from your device, but see what's going on right there on your big screen TV. So many iOS games now have such great graphics, that blowing them up to look at on a TV enhances the experience so well. And, at $99 the Apple TV is still a great value for money product.
So, there you have it, a few of our selections to help take your iOS gaming experience up a notch. There's a whole lot more out there, though, so be sure to drop into the comments with your own suggestions! 
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| App Camp for Girls kicks off Indiegogo fundraiser Posted: 04 Jun 2013 06:58 AM PDT
App Camp for Girls is a new non-profit organization based in Portland, Ore. hoping to get its feet off the ground through a fundraising campaign through the crowdfunding platform Indiegogo. There's a huge gender disparity in software development - men dramatically outnumber women. The goal is to get tween and teen girls interested in software development by pairing them with women instructors, helping them to build their own apps and hopefully inspire them to pursue careers in software development. They'd like to scale the program nationally, though it's starting locally in Portland, Ore. The founder of App Camp for Girls is Jean MacDonald. She's a partner at Smile, the productivity application developer for Mac and iOS behind products like PDFpen, DiscLabel and TextExpander. Jean's also an accomplished rock musician. That background gave her the inspiration for App Camp for Girls, as she's a volunteer and former board member at the Rock 'n' Roll Camp for Girls. App Camp for Girls is already on track to have two more sessions this summer, with girls already signing up. The money raised through the Indiegogo campaign will be used to fund and expand the program for the next year. 
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iMore show 352: WWDC 2013 preview
Posted: 04 Jun 2013 06:39 AM PDT
Jim Dalrymple of The Loop joins Rene and Peter to talk WWDC 2013 and what we can expect to see for iOS, OS X, Mac hardware, music, gaming, and more. Also, The Loop Magazine, Talk Mobile, the new iPod Touch, and Beard porn.
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- Can mobile gaming kill the consoles? - Talk Mobile
- WWDC Expectations
- Apple introduces new 16GB iPod touch
- Apple Is Said to Be Pressing for Internet Radio Deals
- The Loop Magazine
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- Rene Ritchie of iMore
- Peter Cohen of iMore
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WWDC 2013 wish-list: iMore's top OS X 10.9 wants!
Posted: 04 Jun 2013 06:05 AM PDT
From Siri to Notification Center, iTunes to iPhoto here are our number one OS X 10.9 wishes -- what are yours?
What does everyone here at iMore want to see in OS X 10.9? Apple does still make a desktop operating system, after all, and let's face it, even trucks need new engineering and body work. Since this is the final week before WWDC 2013 it's the last chance for us, staff and friends alike, to make with the feature requests. So...
To the wish-lists!
Peter Cohen, managing editor of iMore
Breaking out iTunes from a monolithic app into distinct apps designed for separate services, much like how "music" and "video" is distinct from "iTunes" in iOS, is what I'd like to see most in OS X 10.9. iTunes is a bloated, unwieldy mess.
Also, Siri.
Ally Kazmucha, how-to editor of iMore
While not exactly an OS X 10.9 feature, I'd really like an all new, re-worked version of iPhoto that I'll actually want to use. Right now events and imports are a bag of hurt. Huge imports always fail or get broken, deleting events is a nightmare, and organizing photos is impossible.
I've completely given up and use Lightroom for all my photos. Regular people won't want to spring for such an expensive alternative, so it'd be nice to see Apple make iPhoto actually useable. It's the number one cause of my Mac freezing up, which makes me not even want to open it to begin with.
Richard Devine, senior editor of iMore
The thing I'd love to see added most would be Siri. I don't use it half as much on my iPhone or iPad as I would on my Mac. Since I spend most of the day at my desk, Siri could really add to my productivity if I could quickly take voice notes, or fire off a quick email at the touch of a button.
I'd love to see Apple introduce their Podcasts app into OS X 10.9.
Also, I'd love to see Apple introduce their Podcasts app into OS X 10.9, and remove the need to use iTunes for them altogether. The Podcasts app on iOS works just fine for me, and the iCloud syncing across devices is exactly the sort of syncing I've been missing from third-party apps across different platforms. If Apple could build an OS X version that hooks in too, my working days would be complete.
Marc Edwards, co-host of Iterate
On a technical level, I think UIKit (or portions of UIKit) and OpenGL 4.3 support would enable better apps and games on OS X. Further advancement of SceneKit seems like a good idea, too.
I'd like developers to be able to remove apps from sale, but be able to provide updates for existing users. As it stands now, we can't do that, which makes discontinuing products and treating customers with respect very difficult. Mac apps tend to be larger and more complex, so trials would be a welcome addition to the Mac App Store.
I'm fearful of a future where all mainstream computing platforms only install native apps via curated stores, so I hope Gatekeeper's default setting of "Mac App Store and identified developers" remains. I think OS X's current balance of power vs security is great.
Seth Clifford, co-host of Iterate
I've been quite happy with 10.8, so I've not given much thought to 10.9. I know it's going to be a big feature release so they can talk it up, and I don't need all that much more in the OS to get my work done any better. Generally speaking, I suppose I'd want to see more small changes, iterating on and improving the experience delivered between 10.7 and 10.8 as opposed to the jump we saw between 10.6 and 10.7.
Make it cleaner, faster, stronger.
As someone who manages dozens of laptops and desktops in the office, OS updates are more aggravating than enjoyable for me. However, if the overall codebase stays similar but gets fine tuned, it's an easier transition. I've had issues moving people from 10.6 to 10.8 directly (and as such, I have to re-image machines completely) but the jump from 10.7 has been much better. Make it cleaner, faster, stronger.
And get rid of the frakkin' paper on Calendar.
Chris Parsons, editor-at-large of Mobile Nations
Like with iOS, all I ant from OS X is better notifications. I dunno what it is with Apple and notifications — they just can't seem to get it right for me. Notification Center sends me alert not when they come in but whenever the heck it wants to.
All I want is the notifications as the messages are received.
Anthony, videographer
I'd like to see even faster wake from sleep time, especially when it comes to recognizing things like a mouse or the network.
Nick Arnott, security columnist
How is there still not an "Allow All" option?
There's no single big feature that I'm clamoring for in OS X, just a number of smaller polish things. From a menubar that lets you hide items, to window management that can switch between a dual and single monitor setups without requiring manual rearrangement of windows, there are a lot of tiny details Apple could improve on in OS X. As wonderful as the keychain is, have you ever tried switching back and forth between browsers every few months only to be met with a barrage of Keychain Access prompts? How is there still not an "Allow All" option?
Rene Ritchie, editor-in-chief of iMore
Unlike iOS, which is relatively new and still in need of as much patching and polishing, OS X has been around for a decade and does most of what modern computer users need it to do. What that leaves is refitting and refining. Sure, Siri would be nice, just to round out the product line, but everything from iCloud documents to iMessages to Notification Center to full screen apps (on multiple displays) are still good ideas waiting on great implementation.
I'd like UIKit2 on OS X, and more SceneKit, just to see what developers can do with them. A sign that Apple has something in the pipeline to replace the aging HFS+ would be also be well received. But in general, what I'd like to see is what's already here made even better.
What's your number one OS X 10.9 wish?
So that's what everyone here at iMore wants to see! Well, almost everyone. You're the most important part of the site, so your opinion matters to us the most! Tell me, what's your number one wish come OS X 10.9 and WWDC?
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Three UK experiencing widespread data outage, some areas now returning to normal
Posted: 04 Jun 2013 03:39 AM PDT
Three UK is this morning in the midst of a widespread data outage on its 3G network that has affected many of us here at Mobile Nations. While in some areas the connections are starting to return, Three hopes to have the whole network back up and running this afternoon.
The outage is pretty widespread, and those affected by it are unable to connect to the data network at all. Calls and SMS messaging are unaffected it seems, so we can at least contact people the old fashioned way. We're already seeing data return in London and in Manchester, and no doubts other areas in the UK will be coming back online too.
If you've been affected by this, shout out in the comments and let us know where you are and what your current status is. I'm in Lincoln, and still to see my data return.
via Android Central
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