Apple picker Apple was really generous yesterday. Next to its users iOS 5 offered a number of other news and updates. OS X Lion in version 10.7.2 supports iCloud, we have new applications Find My Friends and Cards, with Photo Stream comes new versions of iPhoto and Aperture. The recap can begin…
OS X 10.7.2
In order not to leave Macs deprived of the convenience of iCloud, an update was released with a new version. In addition to iCloud access, the update package includes improvements to Safari 5.1.1, Find My Mac, and Back to My Mac for accessing your Mac remotely from another Mac over the Internet.
Find My Friends
With iOS 5 comes a new geolocation application that can find out the location of your friends. In order to follow someone, you have to send them an invitation, and they have to send you an invitation in response. Thanks to two-way authentication, it is impossible for a stranger to find out your location. If he doesn't want you to be located at any time, there is also temporary tracking in the Find Friends app. If you leave the app for a few minutes, you'll be prompted for your Apple ID password. This provides better security against misuse of this service. We have tested the search for friends for you, so you can see how it looks in practice in the image below.
You can find Find My Friends free on the App Store.
iWork for iOS
Starting today, the new version of the mobile office applications Pages, Numbers and Keynote is available on the App Store. Added iCloud support. Thus, your work will not only be stored locally on the iDevice, but will be automatically uploaded to the apple cloud, which will greatly facilitate the synchronization of your documents. Of course, an internet connection is a must. Of course, if you choose not to use iCloud, you have that choice.
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Both iPhoto and Aperture already support Photo Stream
With the arrival of OS X 10.7.2 and iCloud services, iPhoto and Aperture also received an update. In their new versions (iPhoto 9.2 and Aperture 3.2), both applications bring in particular support for Photo Stream, which is part of iCloud and enables easy sharing of photos taken across all devices. He will have the last thousand photos available on his Mac, iPhone or iPad, and as soon as a new one is added, it will be immediately sent to the other connected devices.
Of course, iPhoto 9.2 also brings other minor changes and improvements, but compatibility with iCloud and iOS 5 is key. You can download the new version of this application for managing and editing photos either via Software Update or from Mac App Store.
In Aperture 3.2, the update is similar, in the settings you can activate Photo Stream and set whether you want to update this album automatically. You can then insert photos from your library directly into Photo Stream. Several bugs that appeared in the previous version have also been fixed. You can download the new Aperture 3.2 from Mac App Store.
AirPort Utility
If you own an AirPort, you will be delighted with this utility. It can display your network topology, allow you to manage your network and its devices, create new networks, update AirPort firmware, and other advanced features related to computer networks. AirPort Utility is in the App Store for free download.
For film fans, Apple has prepared the iTunes Movie Trailers application
They also prepared an unexpected novelty for us today in Cupertino. The iTunes Movie Trailers app has appeared in the App Store and works on both iPhone and iPad. The name itself says a lot – Apple gives users easy access to previews of new movies, which they then sell in the iTunes Store. Trailers have so far only been found on site, in the iOS application you can also view movie posters or track when a film will be available in the built-in calendar.
Unfortunately, the application is only available in US App Store and it is not yet certain whether it will be released for other countries as well. In our country, however, we probably won't see it until movies start to be sold in iTunes in addition to music.
Send a postcard directly from your iPhone
Even another novelty, which Apple showed last week, is not yet available on the domestic App Store. It's a Cards app that lets you send postcards directly from your iPhone or iPod touch. The application offers many thematic suggestions, which you can choose from, then insert a photo or text and send it for processing. You can also choose an envelope.
Apple will print the postcard and then send it to the specified address, in the US it charges $2,99, if it goes abroad, it will cost $4,99. This means that we can also use Cards in the Czech Republic, although they are not available in our App Store. But if you have an American account, you can get Cards free download.
Daniel Hruška and Ondřej Holzman collaborated on the article.
It would be nice to mention that iPhoto 11, i.e. 9.2, costs 12Eček, which is not very nice to me....
The SW Update software downloads it for free, I'm quite curious why SW Update via the Mac AppStore hasn't worked for me for a long time now... :(
Because you're a moron :-D
Excellent article ;)
Is this a bug or am I blind, but does the iPad support that cool GPS location based notification option in Reminders? I was looking forward to it the most and now I can't find it anywhere. Likewise, the ability to switch to the camera from the lock screen. Do iPads not have all this in iOS at all? That would be a big disappointment for me :/
Well, the camera is definitely only for the iPhone, I haven't updated the iPad yet.
Well, I don't know why, but I don't know how to make it work either. I have a 3GS and it's not in the settings…
Ad Ipad + reminders+location: then it doesn't work, I don't know if it will be in another update... it just doesn't work (described in the ibook from apple about ios5 and ipad, confirmed after x minutes of waiting and escalation of the problem from the apple line itself)
Does anyone have a camera on the iphone lock screen? I have 4 and nothing. Does anyone know how to set it up?
double click the home button, I was looking for it too ;))
Hmm, too bad about iTunes in the Cloud. They don't work in the Czech Republic, I hope it's only for now. I have a few albums that I didn't back up before I updated to iOS 5 and now I can't access them.
I also hope that it will be as soon as possible. I have exactly the same problem, I bought 2 albums only via iPhone and they didn't sync. And since the update deleted my entire library on my iPhone, I'm currently having trouble and I'll be waiting a long time for these albums :-(
Everything is great, I would just like to know how to remove the duplicates in iCal that I got after activating iCloud :-| I have the whole iCal scattered, it was a lot of work to get it working, all the calendars, meetings... I'm going crazy. Otherwise, all the toys are great, but the iCal...
AGREE - I have the same problem - how do I get rid of unwanted calendars?
In iCal, a new ICLOUD option will appear in the calendar view option. You have two calendars there, one local (on my Mac) and one in the cloud. Choose which ones you want to stop displaying and they are :) For example, I only displayed those from the cloud.
It's a shame about the Cards application, but Apple will definitely launch it gradually, because the application supports Czech. Can you imagine if 100 people tried a completely new service on the first day? :-)
do you mean financial profit from 100 orders? :) or securing the service as such...
We'll see, try, and then maybe swear. So far, every news is good. :)))
Cau, you don't write anywhere about the Apple TV update where there are quite a lot of changes.. Photostream, Airport mirror,.. but for me the biggest hit is the addition of NHL and that's the cut :)
iCloud is great, but I'm the only one who has the problem that when I want to use it for photos, files and iPad backup, I'll upload it there that day?! :-(
1) I have iWorks bought together with a computer with Snow Leopard from the time when there was no App Store. I don't want to buy the same one for about $60 again. Do I get a normal upgrade via Software upgrade, or am I wrong? 2) Do I have to buy Lion for $30, under which 75% of the applications I use for work do not work (apart from the fact that I don't like Lion at all) in order to communicate with iCloud, or am I at fault with Snow Leopard? Didn't they originally promise before the founder's death that the 10.6.9 update would come with iCloud support?
I have a problem too. All ok, but I can't update iPhoto to version 9.2 (now I have 8.1, pre-installed with iLife09 package in MacBook Pro last November, I didn't hear the update all this time, so I didn't deal with it). I read somewhere that I'm out of luck and have to buy iLife11? Thanks for the info…
I had the mbp in for service and it came back to me with a lion installed, which of course I had already bought before. But I didn't buy a new iPhoto and the new one was already pre-installed there and now when I update it says that iPhoto was bought from another account so I should switch.. When I completely deleted iPhoto the same way in the app store instead of buying it lights up to accept and that too it doesn't work. Does anyone know how to solve this convoluted thing????
Call Apple support, it's bugging you.
I have a 3GS and I can't see the option to go to the camera from the lock screen. Someone already mentioned it here, does anyone know why?
On the lock screen, press the home button twice, the photo icon should appear
Does anyone know what to do if Apple doesn't want to take my payment card after the update? Before that it was fine, but now the "none" option has disappeared and I won't even update the application without entering it... The card is working normally, I was in the bank now
I would like to ask how it is with iWork and iCloud on Mac. I don't have an iPhone or iPad, but I would still like to use iCloud. But I don't see anywhere how to upload the document there. Even if I drag it from the finder window to the browser, nothing.
Do you know, please, through which application / service is the presented message sending between iPhones for free? I mean the original service from Apple, which I think was also presented at the keynote, thanks
Bobo. how old are you.. it depends on the net connection.. that's all like 90% ios app ... skype is a chore because it's over the net..
but I didn't want to know this, I wanted to know the name of the service and whether it is implemented in standard messages or there is a separate iMessage application
It is directly integrated into the SMS interface of tons of iOs, it recognizes when it is on the other side of iOs and sends a message over the Internet.
The stupid thing is that iCloud can no longer sync Keychains :((( Essential for me, so iCloud is passé for me…
Hey, can someone please tell me, do you have the option to synchronize purchased music in iTunes? Because I still only have books and applications there, there isn't even a list of purchased music there, even though according to Apple it should be there...
Has anyone managed to turn on that calendar or reminders on the lock screen? It all works for me, but only in the notification center, but even if I have Locked screen checked in the settings, I can't get the calendar or the weather there... Or is it not possible? From the photos and articles, I had the feeling that it should go here. Thank you
Only missed events are shown on the lock screen, and this also applies to the calendar. If I have an event in my calendar for 13:00 and at 13:05 I look at the lockscreen, I can find the event there. I unlock, lock and the lockscreen is blank again. On the contrary, the notification center is used for an overview of future events (supposedly 24 hours)
Does anyone know how to deal with the Kiosk?? If it works at all...
so, unfortunately, lately I have the feeling that Apple is getting dangerously close to Microsoft. What used to be completely intuitive and worked without user intervention, is now slowly a matter of debugging, searching, testing, error messages :-((( Where will the progress go?
I mean, creating your own photo galleries is also strange... I make a new folder, copy a few photos from the Camera folder into it, but when I delete them from here, the ones in the new folder are also deleted. So what's the point if I have to have the photos there twice?
IMPORTANT-SOLUTION TO MANY PROBLEMS
EVERYTHING YOU POST ERRORS OR YOU CAN'T FIND ENTIRE THINGS IN THE CZ ACCOUNTS, THERE IS SOMETHING MISSING..
THE US ACCOUNT I HAVE IS EVERYTHING, MATCH, ICLOUD MUSIC ETC…
YOU ARE FROM HALF OF AFRICA SO DON'T BE SURPRISED..
Don't know why there is no geolocation in the Notes on the 3GS?
I looked into why I don't have them on the iP4 and found out that the geolocation is there if I enter a note in iCloud. If I use MSExchange comments, it's not there.
Maybe I have a completely stupid question, but still - After updating your iPhone, you see two arrows at the top next to the signal icon that keep spinning. What is it? It is normal? It kind of makes me nervous :-( Thanks
Maybe I have a stupid answer, but isn't it sync by chance? :)
Fina it should have been wifi icloud sync.
DomoKUn - that's what I thought too, but even if I turn off wifi on my iPhone, it still spins?
Fina: Throw screen. And also try restarting the iPhone in airplane mode, first normally and secondly in airplane mode and when it farts, throw the darts.. they wrote on apple com that it will disappear within a few hours on wifi..
Problem with photo synchronization with Aperture 3 on mac and in iPad2 / iPhone 4 with iOS5. Synchronization by cable or wifi will transfer only some albums. For recent albums, only the name of the album and the photos will be transferred. Does anyone have the same problem??? Can someone please help??? Thank you
Someone broke the Cards application. I have a US account, I even have a vpn on so that I have an American IP, and yet when I try to buy and send a postcard, mi cards says that this option is not available in my country. Some idea? Experiences?