iPad By Davis: “Gameplay video of Plants vs. Zombies 2” plus 19 more

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• Gameplay video of Plants vs. Zombies 2
• WWDC 2013 session videos now available for viewing
• What do you think of the iOS 7 homescreen? [Poll]
• Resume Designer for iPhone and iPad review: Create good looking resumes on the go, no computer required!
• Will FaceTime audio bring VoIP calling into regular, everyday smartphone use?
• How OS X Mavericks will save you power and boost performance
• Apple posts new video titled 'Making a difference. One app at a time.'
• iOS 7: All the features you might have missed!
• Review – Quiz Apps: World Football for iPad
• New MacBook Air uses screaming fast PCIe SSD
• WWDC 2013 podcast: iMore + Iterate + Debug
• Instapaper creator Marco Arment's take on what iOS 7 means for developers
• iOS 7: Which Features Will Work on Which iPad Models
• Talk Mobile Gaming Week Recap: The best things you said
• How to enable closed captioning in iTunes U for iPhone and iPad
• Deal of the Day: 46% off the Incipio OVRMLD for iPhone 5
• The Ashton Kutcher jOBS movie actually going to release, pegged to open August 16
• AirPort Utility 6.3 for Mac pushing out, support for new AirPort hardware and Time Capsule
• Asphalt 8: Airborne shredding its tyres this summer for $0.99
• WWDC 2013 keynote now available to download from iTunes

Gameplay video of Plants vs. Zombies 2 Posted: 12 Jun 2013 09:13 PM PDT Plants vs. Zombies 2 was announced not long ago, and we got to spend some time playing it here at E3. You'll find a lot of the same strategy game elements as the original, but there's a ton of added depth on multiple fronts. One of them is plant food, which can be collected by dropped particular kinds of zombies. That plant food can be used to temporarily super-charge an individual plant - perfect for those tense moments when your well-laid plans crumble before your eyes. The levels themselves have many additional elements. Different level layouts present tactical challenges, such as tombstones that block direct lines of fire, rail sections that allow for mobility (though eating precious tiles), and missing ground tiles that can only be attacked and defended by air. These kinds of level elements are randomized, ensuring that no two rounds will play the same. An ongoing theme is a whole host of new gesture controls. If you're willing to drop a few of your hard-earned coins, you can flick back zombies, in addition to a few other gestures, and sun points can be gathered by swiping, not just tapping. Plants vs. Zombies in its current form has enjoyed tremendous longevity, but this new version will add so many extra layers of depth. The story of playing through a wide variety of historical eras provides a new range of cute novelty that's well beyond the current game, too. Free-to-play is kind of a foregone conclusion at this point, but the groundwork for that kind of structure was already pretty well-established in the original PvZ. Apparently you'll be able to access the "couple of dozen" new plants and zombies on your own through regular gameplay, and only a select few of the original PvZ plants are tucked away exclusively behind in-app purchases. PvZ 2 is coming out July 18, but in the meantime, you can hit up their website for more info and updates and check out the screenshots below.

WWDC 2013 session videos now available for viewing Posted: 12 Jun 2013 05:18 PM PDT If you're an Apple developer but weren't able to attend WWDC 2013 in San Francisco, that doesn't mean you have to miss out on all the sessions taking place. Apple has begun posting the over 100 session videos to their developer portal for your viewing pleasure. In addition to the sessions being posted online, if you've downloaded the WWDC 2013 app, you'll find the videos posted there as well with full support for AirPlay.  As of right now, there is approximately 30-40 seessions available for viewing and more will be added daily as WWDC 2013 wraps up. Keep in mind, you do need a registered developer account in order to access the content. Source: Apple

What do you think of the iOS 7 homescreen? [Poll] Posted: 12 Jun 2013 02:45 PM PDT What do you think of the iOS 7 homescreen? We got some great feedback from everyone on yesterday's poll on the overall looks of iOS 7, but today we're going to dive a little deeper; the homescreen. One of the most immediately noticeable changes from iOS 6, the iOS 7 homescreen is a point of massive debate. Some love it, others hate it, and a good chunk of folks sit somewhere in the middle undecided. So today, we want to know; what do you think of the iOS 7 homescreen? The colors are different, the icons are different, and for some it doesn't matter what fancy design techniques went into it, they just don't like it. On the other hand, some people are really digging it. iOS has had the same underlying appearance since the introduction of the very first iPhone back in 2007. Less than a year after Jony Ive was handed the design reigns, what we saw announced on Monday was quite, quite different. So, what do you think about it? We want to hear your thoughts on the new homescreen, so drop a vote up top and jump into the comments with your thoughts!

Resume Designer for iPhone and iPad review: Create good looking resumes on the go, no computer required! Posted: 12 Jun 2013 02:40 PM PDT Let's face it, no one really likes creating and updating their resume. Unfortunately, it's a task we all must face at one time or another. Resume Designer for iPhone and iPad takes some of the pain out of writing resumes by letting you create, edit, and send them without ever having to touch a desktop computer or an application such as Pages or Microsoft Word. Resume Designer starts off by allowing you to choose from several pre-made templates, or you can choose to start off with a blank canvas. There are several default sections already set up such as objective, references, work experience, and contact information. There are more to choose from that you can easily insert or you can create blank fields and add titles and information on your own. After you've entered all your information and created fields, you can start editing the look and feel of your resume. This includes editing margin spacing, text styles, and more. When editing spacing and text sizes, you'll see a live preview of what you're editing and how it'll change your resume. Under your profile section, you can even add a photo of yourself to personalize your resume even more. Once you're done, you have several options when it comes to distributing your resume. You can either choose to print paper copies off via AirPrint, email it directly to someone, or open it in another compatible PDF app. Choosing the email option will simply insert the PDF into a blank email where you just have to type in the recipient and a message if you choose. The good Makes sending resumes on the go possible if you aren't near a desktop computer A decent amount of customizations available including fonts, margins, spacing, etc Adding a picture gives a nice touch of personalization iCloud sync will store all your resumes and keep them synchronized between iPhone and iPad Cover letters support as well Much better interface than a lot of resume apps currently available The bad Work experience should probably have another field for company instead of just title and description Still not as powerful as creating a resume on a desktop, but it gets the job done The bottom line Resume Designer is a great way to store and keep track of your resumes on the go. If you ever run into a situation where you need to get a resume out quickly and can't get to a computer, it will get the job done pretty painlessly. The ability to store multiple resumes and cover letters makes it easy to have a resume readily available for different purposes. While Resume Designer can't completely replace some people's needs for a desktop editing suite, it can definitely get you out of a pinch or handle minimal resume needs with very little effort on your part. $3.99 - Download Now

Will FaceTime audio bring VoIP calling into regular, everyday smartphone use? Posted: 12 Jun 2013 02:25 PM PDT FaceTime audio has been jokingly referred to since its WWDC 2013 introduction by some, as the phone. While this may be amusing to some, the wider picture is something potentially more important. In adding audio only calling to FaceTime, Apple has created their own Skype. And, with it, opened up VoIP to the masses. VoIP calling is nothing new. We've had Skype for a long time, and it has become pretty much the global standard. BlackBerry too has voice calling within BBM -- the soon to be cross platform BBM -- so Apple isn't even the first to integrate a proprietary service. The downside to both of these, on iOS at least, is that they require a separate application. FaceTime is built in to iOS 7, which gives it an advantage the others will never have. Every iOS 7 user will have acces to FaceTime audio. As such, all of your friends, your parents, grandparents, will all have a free VoIP service that they may not even recognise as such. Jargon is scary, and third-party services rely on the people you want to get in touch with having an account on the same service. If someone calls you on FaceTime audio, it's basically indistinguishable from a regular phone call. How about telling your grandma in Australia she can call you from her iPhone completely free of charge, just the same as making a phone call? FaceTime audio is available right within the contact listing for anyone it's an option for. You don't have to worry if someone has it, because if they don't, you hit the phone call button instead. iOS 7 takes away the necessity for you to worry about finding out if someone has the same service as you, what their login name is, any of that. You can just pick up the phone, and call them. So it really could be VoIP for the masses. You don't need yet another account and yet another third-party app. You just pick up your phone, find a contact, and call them. There is now a separate FaceTime app within iOS 7 on the iPhone, as there has been always on the iPad, but the same calling options are available from within the contacts, where FaceTime has always resided on the iPhone. Apple had a similar kind of hit on instant messaging with iMessage. It's just there, you don't need to do anything special or download any special apps. And that's what matters to most average users. FaceTime audio isn't necessarily a Skype killer, but it's got huge potential in the space.

How OS X Mavericks will save you power and boost performance Posted: 12 Jun 2013 12:44 PM PDT OS X Mavericks is the first OS X build to be named for something other than a big cat (Apple has run out of feline names, so they're switching to place names). it takes its name from a popular big wave surfing spot in northern California, not too far away from Apple's headquarters in Cupertino. And indeed, Mac users will be catching some big waves when Mavericks makes its way into the Mac App Store this fall. Mavericks' claim to fame (the place, not the OS) is the giant waves it produces - 25 to 80 feet high, the biggest in California. They happen when the wind and the water interact with an unusual rocky reef formation under the surface. Some of the most important changes to OS X Mavericks are also under the surface, where Apple has emphasized dramatically improved power and memory management. Apple sells more laptops than desktops, so it's no wonder the company wants to make Mavericks as thoroughly optimized as possible for the MacBook Air and Pro experience. But all users will benefit. Sipping power without sacrificing horsepower Timer Coalescing, App Nap, and Safari Power Saver are all new Mavericks features designed to extend battery life. Timer Coalescing enables the CPU to drop into low power mode more frequently, while App Nap intelligently observes what an app hidden behind other windows is doing. And if the app isn't running background tasks that need to stay active - playing music, for example, or processing data - App Nap slows it down, thus conserving juice. Similarly, Safari Power Saver helps to reduce Safari's power consumption by not loading cycle-sucking plug-in content until you actually want to watch or interact with it. iTunes HD is another place in Mavericks where power reduction has been emphasized. The new version more efficiently uses the graphics hardware inside the Mac, reduces disk access and makes audio playback more energy-efficient - that adds up to up to 35 percent less waste than before when playing video, says Apple. Jogging your Mac's memory It's easy to open a bunch of apps and a bunch of windows without thinking about how that impacts your Mac's available memory. Mavericks introduces Compressed Memory - it compresses data from inactive apps, making more memory available when it's needed. This reduces the size of swap files that need to be written out to disk when physical memory is short. Smaller swap files mean less disk access, which translates into improved performance. How improved? Apple is estimating that Maverick's responsiveness under load is about 1.4x better than Mountain Lion. Waking from Standby mode sees an even bigger benefit: 1.5x better than Mountain Lion. Some of these new technologies will require buy-in from developers to get the most benefit, so it's good that Apple's providing developer builds of Mavericks now and giving Mac devs time to optimize before the OS is released this fall. We'll all benefit from the changes once they're here.

Apple posts new video titled 'Making a difference. One app at a time.' Posted: 12 Jun 2013 12:38 PM PDT Apple has just posted a new video to their YouTube channel entitled Making a difference. One app at a time. which basically highlights show apps have actually impacted people's lives and in many instances, made their lives better. The entire video highlights different ways in which people all over the world have used apps to either learn, help others learn, or enhance their lives. Apps like Proloquo2Go, Skyscape, and many others have actually helped people learn, communicate, and in some instances, even made things in their daily lives possible that weren't before. You can check out the entire video for yourself above. Source: Apple YouTube channel

iOS 7: All the features you might have missed! Posted: 12 Jun 2013 12:25 PM PDT When Apple unveiled iOS 7 at WWDC 2013 on Monday, they spent most of their time talking about ten major features of the new OS, including a refreshed interface, better multitasking, and iTunes Radio. But, as with past years, they also spent a couple of minutes highlighting additional features that, while they enhance the user experience, don't merit a five or ten-minute explanation of of their own. The following is a breakdown of other features that we know of that users will see when iOS 7 is released: Phone, FaceTime, and Message blocking - Block messages, phone calls, and FaceTime calls from unwanted individuals. Handwriting recognition for multiple Chinese characters Improved Mail search Per App VPN - VPN settings can be changed on an app-to-app basis. Activation lock - Prevents someone from wiping and then reactivating your device without your Apple ID and password. Read more [here] (http://www.imore.com/find-my-iphone-toughening-ios-7-requires-apple-id-erase-phone). Inclinometer - Devices running iOS 7 will be able to determine your elevation. Long MMS support View PDF annotations - View annotations, probably inside of iBooks, and perhaps email attachments as well. Enterprise single sign-on - Enter a username and password once to access any enterprise app that requires that username and password. FaceTime audio - Audio-only calls over Wi-Fi. Notification Sync - Notifications from apps on the iPhone and the iPad will be able to sync across devices, allowing users to dismiss once and be done with them across on every device. Wi-Fi HotSpot 2.0 - If a user is able to access public Wi-Fi hotspots, like those provided by cellular carriers, for instance, they will be able to connect to them automatically. App Store Volume Purchase - Volume purchasing already exists on the App Store, but it isn't widespread. This could be an expansion of the program. Do Not Track in Safari - Prevent websites from tracking you after you leave them, depending on website participation. Night mode for Maps - Makes Maps easier to use at night. Managed app configuration Scan to acquire Passbook passes - Scan a code using your iPhone's camera to add passes to Passbook. Turn-by-turn walking directions Italian, Korean, and Dutch dictionaries Maps bookmark syncing - Users can now bookmark their directions and sync them across devices, most likely including the new Maps application in OS X Mavericks. Chinese-English bilingual dictionary Smart download of TV episodes - We don't know exactly what this is, but it could mean that your iOS device will download new episodes of TV shows that you have a season pass for when they become available in the store. Tencent Weibo - Support for the Chinese microblogging service. There are undoubtedly many other features present in iOS 7 that won't be talked about until after iOS 7 ships in the fall.

Review – Quiz Apps: World Football for iPad Posted: 12 Jun 2013 09:51 AM PDT Quiz Apps: World Football is a World Cup trivia quiz game for the iPad and iPhone. I'm a huge football fan and I rate the World Cup and the Summer Olympics as probably the two greatest sporting events ever. So I'm pretty much always in the mood to tackle some World Cup and football trivia. This game promises to be challenging and fun – here's a little of its App Store description: Are you ready for the challenge? Test your knowledge about football with Quiz Apps: World Football. World Football is a fun and fast game in which you can find everything about football including players, teams, coaches, goals, championships… 3 different game modes will challenge you whether you are relaxing at home or just need a short fun break on-the-go. The rich content will provide you with months worth of entertainment. I was keen to see if the game is as challenging as it claims, and I gave it... Read the whole entry... »         Related Stories Zendesk iPad App Looks Great Concert Vault for iPad: Awesome Collection of Live Concert Audio and Video Today's Best iPad App Ever: Petting Zoo   This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

New MacBook Air uses screaming fast PCIe SSD Posted: 12 Jun 2013 10:27 AM PDT The new Mac Pro isn't the only new Mac model with PCIe-based Solid State Drive storage. The new MacBook Air, which began shipping this week as soon as it was introduced on stage at WWDC, also uses the technology, according to Ben Lovejoy at 9to5Mac. Previous MacBook Air models - and all other Macs - have used Serial ATA (SATA) for their main storage. The new MacBook Air is the first shipping Mac model to use PCIe as its primary storage interface instead. SATA 3.0 transfer speeds top out at 600 megabytes per second, but MacBidoulle benchmarked write speeds of more than 668 MB/s, with read speeds of more than 729 MB/s. And even with that, the PCIe 2.0 2x interface that the MacBook Air uses isn't the bottleneck - it can work at up to 1 gigabyte per second downstream and upstream. As faster SSDs become available, you can expect to see even greater performance. If you have a Mac Pro (not the shiny and new one, the old and busted big box), you can drop in a PCIe SSD card from OWC and others. Impressive performance for Apple's lightest weight laptop, and an early indication of what we can expect down the road as more Mac models adopt this new technology.

WWDC 2013 podcast: iMore + Iterate + Debug Posted: 12 Jun 2013 09:57 AM PDT Guy English of Debug, Marc Edwards and Seth Clifford of Iterate, and Rene Ritchie of iMore team up to talk WWDC 2013 with guests Mark Kawano, Don Melton, Dave Wiskus, Dan Morin, Brad Ellis, Brent Simmons, and more! Also: Hall of Fame awards! Subscribe via iTunes: Audio | Video Subscribe via RSS: Audio | Video Download directly: Audio | Video This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

Instapaper creator Marco Arment's take on what iOS 7 means for developers Posted: 12 Jun 2013 09:57 AM PDT Marco Arment of the popular read it later service Instapaper has an interesting take on what iOS 7 means for app development and how it's a great opportunity to take advantage of an already saturated market. Apple has set fire to iOS. Everything's in flux. Those with the least to lose have the most to gain, because this fall, hundreds of millions of people will start demanding apps for a platform with thousands of old, stale players and not many new, nimble alternatives. If you want to enter a category that's crowded on iOS 6, and you're one of the few that exclusively targets iOS 7, your app can look better, work better, and be faster and cheaper to develop than most competing apps. Marco makes a great point and talks about a lot of the challenges developers will face when it comes to updating apps and making them backwards compatible. Read all his thoughts in their entirety at the link below and then let us know how you feel about how development will change this time around. Do you agree or have a different view? Source: Marco Arment

iOS 7: Which Features Will Work on Which iPad Models Posted: 12 Jun 2013 08:43 AM PDT iOS 7 is the next generation of the iPad and iPhone operating system, due to be released to the public this fall. It will be compatible with the iPad 2 and above, but … there's a little more to compatibility than just that. Apple has made clear that not all features of iOS 7 will work on all compatible devices – and there are some stark differences between features available on latest gen devices and those that are a couple of years old. The iPad 2 is a clear example of this – according to a features table put together by Gizmodo it will be getting only *one* of the major new features of iOS 7 – iTunes Radio. The table also shows that the iPad 3 will not get the AirDrop feature (for easy sharing of photos and documents with nearby friends). Here's the table showing which features will be available on which iPad model: If you're an iPad 2 owner and you're excited about iOS... Read the whole entry... »          Comments All of the "NEW" features of "7' have been available in ... by Justin Ryan Apple is giving users just another reason NOT to keep buying ... by Tom Law Related Stories iOS 7 and iPad: Features, Compatibility & Details Quick Thoughts on iOS 7 and the iPad iPad Really Took a Back Seat in Apple's iOS 7 Demo   This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

Talk Mobile Gaming Week Recap: The best things you said Posted: 12 Jun 2013 08:39 AM PDT Capping off the first week of Talk Mobile 2013, we gathered up the Mobile Nations Editors-in-Chief and hosts Cali Lewis and John P. of GeekBeat.TV to discuss how the week went down. Read on for our hand-picked comments from the week and thoughts on each from our editors. Talk Mobile 2013 has been a long time in the works, possibly even longer than the interminable teasing of #TM13 we did in the weeks leading up to the launch. Now that the first week is out of the way, we'll give you a bit of a primer on how Talk Mobile is going to work going forward. As mentioned before, we've picked ten topics in mobile that we're going to discuss, attempting to move past the debates over features and specs to a forward-looking conversation about how we these advanced devices actually impact our lives. In order to give ourselves some breathing room, we'll be doing these weeks every other week, so this week was about gaming, we're taking this week off, and next week Talk Mobile will be back to spark a conversation about, well, you'll just have to tune in to find out.

How to enable closed captioning in iTunes U for iPhone and iPad Posted: 12 Jun 2013 08:38 AM PDT If you use iTunes U in order to view and listen to courses, you may have noticed that some of those courses have support for closed captioning. For users with disabilities, iTunes U also allows you to turn on closed captioning by default so whenever it's supported, it will use it. Here's how: Launch the Settings app from the Home screen of your iPhone or iPad. Scroll down and tap on iTunes U Turn On the option for closed captioning. iTunes U will now obey that setting and implement closed captioning for any lessons or courses that support it.

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The Ashton Kutcher jOBS movie actually going to release, pegged to open August 16 Posted: 12 Jun 2013 06:41 AM PDT The Ashton Kutcher jOBS movie which originally should have launched on April 19, is actually set to release finally on August 16, four months later. Initial reactions to the movie were mixed to say the least, but in a couple of months time the general public will get their chance to see it. Initially Open Road Films decided to pull the release due to insufficient time to market it properly. Presumably then, launching in August, we'll start to see more and more of it in the coming weeks and months. August 16 is the nationwide launch in the U.S, so at the moment there's no word on if and when international viewers may get to see it. However good or bad it may be, we'll admit to being a little curious to see it. Who's with us? via The Verge

AirPort Utility 6.3 for Mac pushing out, support for new AirPort hardware and Time Capsule Posted: 12 Jun 2013 05:20 AM PDT To go with the new AirPort Extreme and Time Capsule announced at WWDC 2013, Apple is now pushing out an update to AirPort Utility for Mac. Version 6.3 allows you to set up and manage the new AirPort Express and Extreme, as well as the new Time Capsule. In addition, it also provides you with the facility to configure the 802.11ac WiFi on these devices alongside some enhanced remote management features. To update head on into the Mac App Store and click the updates tab, or via Software Update.

Asphalt 8: Airborne shredding its tyres this summer for $0.99 Posted: 12 Jun 2013 04:19 AM PDT Gameloft has released a teaser for the next installment in the Asphalt series, and it looks absolutely incredible. Asphalt 8: Airborne is due to land sometime this summer, but ahead of that we get to see some beautiful looking screenshots and this teaser trailer. The price has also been revealed, and it will cost us just $0.99. Asphalt 8 will feature tracks in a wide variety of locations, from the deserts of Nevada, to London, to a revamped Monaco circuit from Asphalt 7, all with alternative routes to explore. Environmental conditions play a role in how the tracks behave, and we're promised snow, dust, and rain. The physics engine has been re-engineered for Asphalt 8 as well, so we're told to look forward to pulling off "death-defying stunts, destroy objects in your path, and catch major air off ramps." Nice. Asphalt 8 will also feature multiplayer in both synchronous and asynchronous forms, with the latter more recently seen in EA's Real Racing 3. Gameloft certainly has our attention, and we're looking forward to getting our hands on this one. Excited? Source: Gameloft

WWDC 2013 keynote now available to download from iTunes Posted: 12 Jun 2013 03:47 AM PDT The WWDC 2013 keynote may have been streamed live, and then posted to the web, but what if you don't have time to watch it in one sitting? As is usually the case, Apple has now uploaded the entire thing to their Apple Keynotes channel available in iTunes, so you can download it to your iPhone or iPad and watch it on the go. If you haven't yet watched it, hit the link below, load it up, and grab a cup of coffee -- or three -- and enjoy the ride. Source: iTunes

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