Michal Ždanský During yesterday's Apple updated both its iLife and iWork software packages for both Mac and iOS, what's more, he offered them completely free to anyone who buys a new device. However, other Apple applications have also received updates. First of all, it is the Aperture photo editor, the podcast client Podcasts, as well as the Find My iPhone utility. Much to our surprise, one of the key applications, iBooks, has not yet been updated.
Openings 3.5
It's not the big update that some might have hoped for, but Aperture 3.5 brings some improvements and fixes a bunch of bugs. Perhaps the biggest news is the support for sharing photos via iCloud, including the ability to add videos to streams, where multiple users can contribute to them.
Places now use Apple maps, integration has been added SmugMug for publishing and syncing galleries, and also added support for filters from iOS 7. There is also a large list of bug fixes, such as applying retouching when exporting, problems with the eyedropper tool that caused black and white dots, problems when processing large panoramas, and more. You can find the full list in the Mac App Store. The update is available for free, otherwise you will have to purchase the application for 69,99 €.
Podcast 2.0
Apple's official podcast app has undergone major changes. The appearance has been completely redesigned in the style of iOS 7, gone are all the signs of skeuomorphism that the application (especially on the iPad) was full of. On the contrary, it has a pleasant clean appearance. After all, the user interface has been largely changed. The application is no longer divided into a player and a store, both parts are integrated in one interface, you can search for podcasts in the Recommended tab, which is the main page similar to iTunes, in Hitparada, which is a ranking of the most popular podcasts, or search for a specific podcast.
Some new features have also been added. Podcasts supports background downloads, allowing users to automatically download their favorite podcasts without opening the app. For each subscribed podcast, you can set how often the application will check for new episodes, from six hours to a weekly interval (you can also only manually). In the player, it is then possible to click on the image of the podcast to view the description of the episode. Podcasts 2.0 is on iTunes free.
Find My iPhone 3.0
Find My iPhone also has a new iOS 7-style look with a simple, minimalist interface. The main view is a map with your devices marked with white bars at the top and bottom. After marking the device, you access the options via the Action button, which displays the option to play sound, lock the device or completely delete data. Find My iPhone is in the App Store free. Surprisingly, the offshoot of the app, Find My Friends, which is a bastion of digital skeuomorphism with fake skin and stitching, has yet to see an update.
I'm a novice, so I apologize for the awkward question, but: does the find my iphone application make any sense on an iPhone if I only have 1x iPhone? if it's stolen from me, it's good for me.. it's only good if I have another apple device, is that right? or can I also add, for example, my friend's iPhone?
and anyway: isn't it better to use find my iphone only on iCloud without having to install anything and have access to it from any computer?
Thanks
I think that if you log into the application with your friend's AppleID, it will find her device.
You do not need to have the Find my iPhone application installed on your iPhone, it is really only used to find your phone, e.g. if you leave it somewhere or if it is stolen, you can look in this application from another iPhone of your friend or iPad when you are not sitting on a PC on the Internet, where you look in iCloud in the Find my iPhone service.
It is important to have the service (Find my iPhone) turned on as such in iCloud, if of course you want to have the phone tracked so that you can find the phone.
So basically there's no point if you only own an iPhone because you'd be watching your phone from your phone. :o) You can track your girlfriend's phone only if you log in on your iPhone in the Find my iPhone application under her Apple ID. If you want to track your friends, girlfriend, your children, etc., take a look at the Find my Friends application, you can set/add their phones there and if they want, you will always see them where they are.
Does anyone know when iBooks will be updated? It is actually the only app after iTunes U that has a design from previous iOS versions.
as for aperture, it still doesn't appear in the as updates to download
Do you have Aperture from the App store or from before?
I had iMovie from the installation DVD and the AppStore refused to update it.
Thomas b.
And how do I update Aperture purchased on DVD?
I don't know if it's just a bug or if it's known, but today I found Garage Band for free on the App store and I don't have a new Ios product. Do you feel the same way?
So I like the fake leather and stitching more than the modern simplification. I feel like it's not going anywhere. It was originally a look that users were familiar with from everyday life, so it looked welcoming and the less skilled weren't afraid of it. Now it has become estranged, by the very simplification it has strangely become unclear, and there is nothing to admire about it. If only it were because it would save system resources and it would run smoothly, but it doesn't. Why do pages on my iPad 4 keep tearing even when just scrolling through the list of documents? Grapes. But at least they fixed a lot of bugs there and it's starting to be usable again. Word won't replace it, but it can be done. And find my friends will also change its coat soon - it also has bugs that need to be fixed.
On the iPad 3 with the old version of Pages, it runs perfectly smoothly, the Pages environment has differently placed controls for work, but they are all there as in the new version, and they look much better and more pleasing to the eyes. The only thing that will push me into the new version is the ability to share documents, which I miss so much, and we are finally getting to something more usable. Unfortunately, serious documentaries are still difficult to create here.
Sure, but he was asking about the app. :o) What you are writing about is a service in iCloud.