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case gets
looks set to continue for
another few months at least,
after an appellate court hearing
Broadwell finally
stumbles to release
After huge delays, Intel’s impressive new chips
are finally getting closer to reality BY MAtt Bolton
Apple entered the ebooks market with Intel’s next-generAtIon chip with HyperThreading
the iBookstore, Kindle devices and processor line, known as Broadwell, (meaning that it can act as four
service were firmly entrenched as the held a lot of promise when it was virtual cores), with Intel HD 6000
market leaders, with 80-90% of users. first announced. After Haswell graphics. Apple has considered
Amazon was also selling ebooks for (Intel’s current processor line) Intel’s HD graphics line as good
a price that was below the wholesale introduced a new architecture enough to run Retina displays in
price it paid to the publishers. Apple for processors and powerful new the past (on the 13-inch Retina
argued that this was “predatory graphics options, Broadwell is due MacBook Pro), and this would be
pricing” to maintain a monopoly, and to refine that architecture, making an especially low power option –
that Apple’s deals to ensure publishers it smaller and less power-hungry, probably no hotter or more energy-
got to set the prices of books (rather while again introducing more hungry than the current MacBook
than Amazon) were made to bring powerful graphics chips. (This Air processors. However, it’s also a
competition to the market. Judge Cote strategy is known as Intel’s “Tick direct replacement for the current
disagreed this was worth consideration, Tock” system, where each big MacBook Air’s processors – Apple
but the appellate judges were more revision to its products alternates may choose to go with something a
open to this argument on appeal. between being a redesign of the little more powerful for the Retina
chips or an improvement in how screen. In that case, the Intel Core
the future Is stIll uncertain. the chips are produced.) Broadwell i5-5257U might be its choice – it’s
The appellate court consists of three was due to give us better Iris a 2.7GHz dual-core chip (with
judges, so even if one is receptive to graphics in the MacBook Pro and HyperThreading) that offers Intel’s
Apple’s case, it may not be the case iMac lines, as well as – most new generation of Iris graphics –
that they all are. For now, the judges excitingly – finally a chip powerful giving it more GPU power than
have reserved their decision, meaning enough while being low power to even the current Retina MacBook
that it could be many months before launch a Retina MacBook Air. The Pros. This might be too hot and
we know anything. If they agree with problem is that Broadwell has been heavy on the electricity for the
Apple, they may send the case back to continuously delayed, meaning rumored ultra-thin new MacBook
Judge Cote for re-litigation. If they find that any products that want to Air design, though. For more on
against Apple, it’s possible that Apple use Broadwell are delayed too. the Retina MacBook Air and its
will take its appeal to the Supreme The good news is that a realistic Broadwell dilemma, see page 50.
Court. In all cases, there’s a lot of release for Broadwell seems to
money at stake – Judge Cote ordered finally be on the horizon, and
Apple to pay $400 million in damages Apple is usually one of the first
Finally… Intel’s
to consumers. That could be reduced companies to get access to Intel’s new chip should
to $50 million, or it could be overturned latest and greatest. A look at the soon be bumping
up the power in
completely by the appeals court. planned Broadwell chip models Apple products.
Apple also had a recent court success offers a few particularly interesting
defending a class action anti-trust suit tidbits for divining what might go
alleging that it unfairly stopped music into a Retina MacBook Air, too. The
not bought from the iTunes Store being Intel Core i5-5250U is a strong
played on iPods. candidate – it’s a 1.6GHz dual-core
Monster Strike:
collect different
monsters then
pinball them
around the
playing field.
Big in Japan can’t buy a win from it. You can’t just
pay more money to get better.”
The key thing that’s exciting
Why the creator of Street Fighter II Okamoto, though, is the connection
that mobile games create between the
left consoles for iOS games players and the creators. “When you
BY Chris hoffman make a console or an arcade game, you
finish it, you put it out, and then it’s
WiTh more Than 14 million downloads over. The thing about mobile games
in its native country, it’s fair to say that and especially Monster Strike is that
Monster Strike – an iOS/mobile title it’s created with the next year in mind.
from Mixi Inc in which creatures fight What I really want the most is to please
each other via billiards-like play – as many users as possible, and mobile
has taken Japan by storm. One of the games provide a way to do that,
game’s designers is Yoshiki Okamoto, because you can make tweaks and
who got his start creating arcade interact with the community more.”
classics such as Street Fighter II and
Final Fight. Switching to iOS gaming
seems like a big departure…
“When making Monster Strike,
I relied more on my arcade experience
Koki Kimura (left) and Yoshiki Okamoto
(right) enjoy Monster Strike’s success. than my console-game experience;
V i Ta L
sTaTs
$20m
Tim Cook announced to Apple
employees that appLe’s
(PRODUCT) RED campaign in the
holiday season of 2014 raised over
$20 million in just one quarter to
help fight AIDS. The campaign
included RED-branded apps in the
App Store, while Apple’s Black
Friday sales went RED, too.
41%
lived with this well much in these widgets, had to remove non-
enough, but after the but it was pointed out pornographic pixel-art
release of iOS 8, there that some of these nudity from the game.
has been an increase in widgets were similar Again, Apple later According to KanTar
high-profile cases where to uses Apple had reversed this decision. WorLdpaneL, the iphone 6 pLus
developers have had proposed on-stage at It’s this lack of has accounted for 41% of all sales
apps approved, then WWDC, when it first consistency that’s the of phones with a screen size of
removed by Apple and announced Extensions. real worry for devs – 5.5 inches or larger – despite
forced to change the It’s thought that there one part of Apple might constrained supply. Larger phones
app, then ultimately could be internal turmoil say an app is fine before still only make up 10% of overall
allowed back into the between the different another rejects it. We phone sales, though.
store in their original teams at Apple – with hope a more coherent
form after a furore on the iOS development solution is coming.
6 Third-Party Apps
Coming To The Apple Watch
Discover the apps you’ll be able to use on Apple’s latest creation
other home
devices without
As an iPhone app, OfficeTime is brilliantly useful, but as a Watch app it could be essential – track
how long you spend in meetings with a single tap, syncing data back to your phone seamlessly. free2go having to find your
Locate and iPhone first!
reserve car2go
EvEn bEforE ThE Apple Watch familiar colorful cars near you that
keynote was over, developers had list of things you can be refueled
started working out what apps they officeTime can check-off – for free driving Citymapper
could create for it, but they had to A terrific example though on the minutes – all on This transit app
wait another couple of months for of how an app can Apple Watch, your wrist. lets you see what
Apple to make the tools available be even more Clear’s trademark buses, trains and
before they could actually start indispensable on swipe to clear is, more you need
building in any meaningful way. the Watch, this in fact, a tap . to get on – totally
As soon as they got their hands on keeps tabs on how home remote live – as you
them, though, they started making, much time you Already available travel across
testing and prototyping all kinds of spend working for for Pebble, Home San Francisco,
apps – and we’ve found six of the clients. Tap to Menelao Remote lets you New York, London
most innovative and promising start the clock as The developers of control lights and and other cities.
options on the horizon. you walk into a this expenses app
The Apple Watch will need apps meeting, and the learned that users
like this – apps that aren’t just well times sync to your found the iPhone
made and easy to use, but that iPhone and Mac. process fiddly.
specifically make sense in how With the Watch
they’re used on the Watch – if it version, you just
has any hope of convincing the speak the amount
public they don’t just want one, Clear you’ve spent; you
but need one too. Popular to-do app can also assign
Clear is coming to categories and Menelao takes the friction out of recording your
the Watch. It’s the geo-tag entries. expenses, so you never forget anything.
contactless scanner
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How I learned to stop worrying and love Aaron
Sorkin’s Jobs movie. Well, love anticipating it,
at least… by LuKE DORmEHL
T
here’s one bit of Apple-related unexpected series of twists revealed Bale, both top choices for the role,
news on the horizon that this month. At first, the news was turned it down. (Sorkin apparently
harks back to the good old good. A veteran of smart Hollywood wanted Tom Cruise.) Natalie
days of 1997, when Apple was movies and TV, Sorkin comes to Portman got out, too, having
clawing its way back to profitability, the Jobs movie with the kind of reportedly been linked with the role
and the iPod, iPhone and iPad were impeccable credits you just know of one of the female leads. Worst of
still unused ideas scribbled down in Apple’s co-founder and legendary all, Sony Pictures ditched the
some vast notebook somewhere in CEO would have approved of. project; selling it off to Universal
a back office at 1 Infinite Loop. For anyone fearing the movie Pictures for little more than the
I am, of course, talking about the would be a “greatest hits” biopic, development costs.
long-awaited Steve Jobs movie. Sorkin put our nerves to rest by While things have apparently
No, not the disappointing 2013 one revealing this wasn’t going to stabilized – Michael Fassbender is
starring Ashton Kutcher, which be a cradle-to-grave bio. The reportedly playing Jobs now – it just
might as well be subtitled “Dude, screenwriter disclosed that (spoiler
Where’s My Mac?”, but rather the alert!) his script takes place in three Sorkin revealed this
official big screen adaptation of different 30-minute scenes, all
Walter Isaacson’s bazillion happening in real time, and all
wasn’t going to be
copy-selling 2011 biography of showing Jobs at product launches a cradle-to-grave
Apple’s co-founder, written by at different stages in his life. (My biography
The Social Network’s Aaron Sorkin. guess: the original Macintosh, the
NeXT Computer, and either the iPod
HOWEVER, LIKE THE APPLE or iPad.) More recently leaked
products whose creation it depicts, emails suggest the locations include goes to show that Hollywood movies
this project isn’t coming together two auditoriums, a restaurant and are no more stable than the beta
easily – as an intriguing and a garage. As anyone who has ever software used at a product launch.
watched an episode of The West Wing Still, I’m excited: as should be
will know, dialogue-heavy walk/talk anyone who wants to finally see
sequences are a Sorkin trademark Steve Jobs done justice on the big
– and make this an enticing screen. (The best version of the
proposition. Walter Isaacson story to date has been the excellent
reportedly teared up after reading it. 1999 TV movie Pirates of Silicon
But from here things went south Valley.) If Aaron Sorkin and director
– at least temporarily. Original Danny Boyle’s movie comes
director David Fincher, who brought together half as well as it should
us Fight Club and The Social Network, do, it will be yet another string in
parted ways with the project. Then Apple’s bow as it achieves total
Hopefully, Sorkin will do Jobs’ story justice. Leonardo DiCaprio and Christian pop culture domination.
>>> Luke Dormehl is the author of The Apple Revolution and The Formula. He is a regular contributor
to Cult of Mac, Wired, Fast Company, The Sunday Times and The Guardian.
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Powerful, superbly designed
and, as always, with plenty
of new features. But there’s
much more to Yosemite than
what’s on the surface
BY AlAn StoneBridge
& KennY HempHill
OSemite
f e at u r e S he new look might take you
t
a while to get used to, but
once you do we think you’ll
love Yosemite. But it’s not
all about the looks, of
course. Over the next few
pages we’ll look beyond Yosemite’s skin
– and even beyond the headline features
– to appreciate the little things. There
are small tweaks and extra options all
over the new OS that can help to make
it even better. To make things easier to
follow, we’ve categorized the tips around
key parts of OS X – from system tips and
Finder to iTunes, dictation and Safari.
Delve into these tips to get a sense of
what has changed, and where to find the
best new enhancements in OS X 10.10.
Finder
Changes to files and folders
review fileS
p witHin more
finder viewS
Previously only
available in Column view, the
Preview Pane can now be used
in Finder’s Icon and List views
by choosing View > Show
iTunes
Preview Pane. In Icon view, it’s Your media revamp
useful as a way to browse a
folder that contains images.
Use the slider (bottom right of
the Finder window) to set icon
previews to medium, then skim >>> QuicK AcceSS to recent Now go to View > Column Browser >
through. Select any file you mediA in ituneS Show Column Browser to return to
want to see larger in the iTunes has provided a Recently iTunes’ oldest layout. For movies,
Preview Pane – no need to Added smart playlist for years, but choose Movie List as the sort order,
use Quick Look! iTunes 12 has a fresh take. When you or Episode List for TV shows.
choose certain combinations of
media kind, view and sort order at >>> tHe mini plAYer
the top of your library, iTunes will If you’re looking for the button that
display a Recently Added group. transforms the giant iTunes window
This makes it easy to find music into a more manageable and
bought in the last few months. You unobtrusive miniplayer, you won’t
can change how far back it looks to find it in its old spot; instead Apple
one, three, six or 12 months under has incorporated it into the playing
View > Recently Added, or it can be window. Just click the album art and
turned off, and it can be hidden for, you’ll be rocking out to tiny tunes.
say, movies but kept on for music.
AtcH renAme >>> metAdAtA editor
B fileS in finder >>> tHe SideBAr iTunes 12 has a new editor for
There’s no need to iTunes 12 no longer displays the making adjustments to track
resort to Automator traditional sidebar in all views. metadata, with a pop-up at the
or to use an app to rename a However, something very similar bottom left to add more fields. If
bunch of files any more – it’s appears if you choose Playlists you prefer the old-style, form-like
all possible from Finder. Select from the views listed in the middle editor, in which checkboxes give a
several files, right-click on one of the navigation bar. clear view of what changes will be
and choose the item with the applied, hold ç and å, right-click
label “Rename [number] >>> tHe column BrowSer your selection and then choose Get
items.” The existing filenames The column browser remains Info. If asked to confirm editing of
can be: prefixed/suffixed with available, but it’s easily missed. multiple items, keep the keys held
additional text; you can search When viewing music, switch the until after you’ve clicked the Edit
for and replace text; or you can sort order (top right) to Songs. Items button.
change all of them to the same
format with a number or the
current date and time added.
General
tips
Terrific tweaks
et Sleeping
l mAcS lie
Do Not Disturb has
a new setting to
prevent notifications coming
through if your Mac’s display
has gone to sleep (on purpose
or after a period of inactivity).
cceSSiBilitY SettingS
A There are two additional visual
preferences for accessibility.
Differentiate Without Color is
intended for people who are color blind,
and it uses shapes instead of just color to
draw attention to status changes. There’s
also Increase Contrast, which adds a black
stroke around objects within windows.
rAffic-ligHt ButtonS
t In Yosemite, the green button
now switches an app to
fullscreen mode. Holding å
gets back the old behavior of resizing the
window to a good fit for its content. In
many apps, double-clicking a window’s
title bar (or combined title and toolbar) has
the same effect, as long as you haven’t set
that to minimize a window. However, it
doesn’t work in every app – Reminders and
Microsoft Word are just two exceptions.
Alternatively, assign a keyboard shortcut
to the Zoom menu item in System
Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts >
Wi-Fi
App Shortcuts > All Applications, but Even easier Wi-Fi!
note that not every app includes that
command. In Microsoft Word, for example,
the equivalent command is “Zoom
window,” but Adobe Creative Cloud doesn’t
have one. Handily, the modified green
button behavior doesn’t affect those >>> diSconnect >>> HotSpot
apps currently, anyway. from tHe vS HotSpot
current wi-fi One benefit of
networK Continuity is you don’t
If you need to have to type a Wi-Fi
disconnect from a password to connect to
particular Wi-Fi network your iPhone’s hotspot.
(if you’re in a public Another is your iPhone
hotspot for instance), relays extra info to your
but want to keep Wi-Fi Mac about its battery,
turned on to continue network connection and
using AirDrop, å-click signal strength, so you
the Wi-Fi status icon. don’t have to turn on
You will now find an your iPhone to check its
option to disconnect connection quality –
from the current click the Wi-Fi icon on
network. your Mac instead.
Safari
Better browsing with Safari 8
AnAge fAvoriteS
m When you create a
new tab or window,
Safari shows icons
for sites chosen as favorites, as
well as others you visit often.
To add a site you’re reading to
the Favorites group, click in the
Smart Search Field, and then
drag the icon from the left of
the page’s address into the
panel that appears below. Drag
the icons of your favorite sites
to rearrange them, or drag one
from the Frequently Visited
group into Favorites.
Ync HiStorY
S You don’t have to
leave tabs open to
carry on reading
>>> SeArcH preferenceS >>> SHow tHe full pages between devices; on
Items relating to search used to be weB AddreSS Yosemite, Safari automatically
scattered between a few tabs in In its effort to take away any and syncs your browsing history
Safari’s preferences, but they’re all distractions from the browsing with your other devices, so
now consolidated in a single tab, experience, Apple has stripped the even if you’ve closed a page on
aptly named Search. web address down to its barest your iPad, you could find it on
The option to change your essentials in Safari 8. Instead of your Mac to read again.
search engine now includes the a lengthy URL with hyphens and
privacy-focused DuckDuckGo slashes, it now only shows you the SS feedS
engine (see duckduckgo.com/ site you’re on until you click into r Safari has never
about). Along with some options the address field. If you want to been very friendly
that existed in Safari 7, you’ll also see the whole address without to RSS, but it
find options to choose whether clicking, however, head over to extends an olive branch in
Spotlight Suggestions – items the Advanced tab in Safari’s Yosemite, so you don’t have to
intelligently picked based on your preferences to turn it on – or you rely on third-party apps any
keywords – are included in the list, can use the shortcut ç+L. more. Bring up the Sidebar and
and whether your Favorites are Obviously, you can still click on it click on the Shared Links panel
shown when you first click the and select the text to copy and (the @ symbol). At the bottom
search field. paste the full link. is a new Subscriptions button.
Click it and you can add an RSS
feed from the site you’re
reading (if it has one).
HooSe How to
c Be contActed
ute Specific screens. Search for “Screen in meSSAgeS
m notificAtionS Sharing” in Spotlight and open Messages’ Video
Click Details at the app this finds. Screen menu includes three items at
the top-right of a Sharing’s initial window can the bottom that determine
conversation to activate Do Not accept an Apple ID. Ask the what communication methods
Disturb for that thread alone. person needing help what are active. You can disable
This setting persists until you email address is listed on the screen sharing, video chats and
return to the conversation and left-hand side of the iCloud audio chats if you like, and
turn it off. You can tell who is pane in System Preferences, stick to text messages.
muted, as you will see a moon then enter that address. The
icon to their left in Messages’ app will show a list of matches ecord Audio
main window. from the Contacts app as you r in imeSSAgeS
type the address. If your Apple Just like on your
creen SHAring ID isn’t in their address book, iPhone and iPad in
S in meSSAgeS the other person will be asked iOS 8, you’ll see a microphone
Click Details at the if they want to share their icon next to the compose field
top right of an screen or block you. Blocked when sending an iMessage.
iMessage conversation and, users can be managed in the Click it and you’ll start
next to the phone/video icons, app’s preferences, where you recording an audio message.
you’ll see an icon resembling can also choose whether to Press the spacebar to stop
two overlapping rectangles. accept sharing requests from recording, and again to send
Click it to find options for everyone or known contacts. the soundbite.
sharing your screen with the If both participants have a
contact, and to request to see Mac with a microphone, the nSwer or mAKe
their screen – handy for connection will start an audio A pHone cAllS
helping with technical issues. call as well. Initially, you can When our iPhones
only observe the other person’s are in our pockets,
creen SHAring screen, although you can move we rarely miss a call, but when
S witHout your pointer over their screen we’re working at our desks we
Help a friend or family meSSAgeS and then click and hold to don’t always hear it buzzing. In
member using Screen
You don’t even have display a highlight if they don’t Yosemite, a notification banner
Sharing and you can now
talk through the dilemma. to start an iMessage to share understand what you’re telling will alert you when a call is
coming in on your iPhone, and
you can answer it on your Mac.
And you can make calls, too;
click a number in Contacts or
Safari and it will start dialing.
In order for phone calls to
work on your Mac, your iPhone
will need to be running iOS 8
(or 8.1 if you also want to see
SMS texts in the Messages
app). Both your Mac and your
iPhone need to be signed into
w
HicH deviceS
receive cAllS
Contacts
Under Settings in Clever contact capability
FaceTime’s
preferences, the checkbox
labeled “iPhone Cellular Calls”
determines whether calls will
come through to the Mac >>> cHooSe wHicH contAct >>> ASSign Alert toneS
you’re using. On your iPad or detAilS Are SHAred to contActS
iPod touch, the same option is When sharing your Contacts card Here’s another example of OS X
found in Settings > FaceTime. with other people, you can choose to now working in closer harmony with
You will of course have to be limit which information is shared. In iOS. Now that your Mac can receive
running iOS 8. Contacts, go to Preferences> vCard phone calls, it provides the same set
then check ‘Enable private me card’. of ringtones as iOS for you to assign
uStomize Now go to Card > Go to My Card, and to people in the Contacts app. This
c text Size then click the Edit button at the means you can tell who is calling
Messages no longer bottom of it. Checkboxes appear even if you’re away from the screen
allows fancy next to the items you’ve filled out, – and you can then opt whether to
customizations for the fonts enabling you to choose which should take the call or not! As with other
and colors of message bubbles be included. Sadly, this ability isn’t details about contacts, ringtone
(a loss for some), but it does available for other contact cards, assignments are synced via iCloud
include a new slider for setting so you can’t quickly choose which to your other devices. Sadly, there’s
a persistent size at which to details to provide about, say, no option to assign custom
present things in the iMessages someone from your team at work. ringtones, though.
window. The seven options can
be found in its preferences
under General.
App Store
Update upgrades
Dictation
Accessiblity advances
Preview
Location off and signing off
How
virtual
reality
will
After 25 years of a
arely does an idea written everyone is watching most closely, includes Oculus DK2 support. (DK
r off as a failure make a currently uses a single, stock Samsung stands for “Development Kit,”
resurgence some 25 years Note 3 display for its screen. Half is not intended for consumers.)
later, but there are good dedicated to each eye, with software That’s a great example of VR in
reasons for it here. Virtual Reality in and a pair of lenses working together action. It’s easy to grasp the basics
the ’90s was a great idea fighting to correct the perspective and help – that instead of seeing a cockpit on
against the painful truth that the turn the flat image into 3D reality. your screen, you’re sitting in one.
technology wasn’t ready for it. 3D was What it doesn’t convey is VR’s most
still in its infancy, games like Doom
were still state of the art, display
technologies were big and bulky, almost as important is that while
and computers were expensive. the first wave of VR had one company
Today, technology has advanced to providing both hardware and software,
the point that a basic smartphone has now anyone can develop games,
enough power to be a VR rig. That’s applications, experiences, movies and
not an exaggeration; Google released much more - the Oculus software
a cardboard-based headset design with development kit being free, and
a couple of lenses on it that anyone plugging into engines such as the
can just slot a phone into, using the popular and freely available Unity.
built-in gyroscope for basic head This means that companies can
tracking. In practice, more technology create unique experiences solely for
than that is required to do it well, but VR, or just support them as an extra;
the basics aren’t much more advanced. space trading game Elite: Dangerous,
The Oculus Rift, the device that for instance, is primarily made for The BBC has created an immersive VR news
brought the dream of VR back and that playing on a monitor like usual, but bulletin to let users see a studio in 360 degrees.
oculus rift
The tech behind the experience
5
2
4
©iFixit www.ifixit.com
important, but hardest to pin down, Sightline: The Chair, doesn’t offer any of a virtual world, they feel they are
feature: presence. Space has depth, jump-scares or particularly creepy in there and they respond differently.”
stretching out to infinity in a way that moments, but a section where you’re A good example of this in action is the
makes the same image on a monitor slowly bricked into an ever-shrinking final Sightline segment, which sees the
look like someone’s just draped a black room still carries an atavistic shudder. player transported to a beam at the top
sheet and sparkled it with stars. of a construction site, just in time to
Another experience, Museum of be sent tumbling down towards a grisly
Games, simply puts static models from virtual end.
various games into a basic set of “novelty Has probably some effect, All of this is with technology that’s
corridors and galleries. Even in the but there’s a big difference in how at least a year away from market,
stark light, monsters you might have people engage with virtual reality,” the current hardware in particular
gunned down in their thousands in a says Sightline’s creator Tomáš suffering from low resolution and
game like Left 4 Dead suddenly become Mariančík. “They clutch their chair for what’s called the “screen door effect”
intimidating horrors. safety when sitting on a beam of a large - being able to see the gaps between
At times, it can be creepy. Looking building, they move their arms close to pixels. The finished version promises
down from a high building is enough their body and are afraid to move when to be far more immersive, hopefully
to trigger any acrophobe, and jumping there are lot of spiky things around with a lighter and cooler headset.
or being dropped down is enough to them, they attempt to grab things on Other technologies are also
send your stomach flying. In Elite: the virtual table in front of them when available or on the way, including an
Dangerous, the sun coming through they put the Oculus on for the first omnidirectional treadmill from Virtuix
your cockpit actually feels warm, just time, they look around and generally (priced $499) intended to be used with
because your brain assumes it is. One behave more naturally. They’re no the Oculus so that you can physically
of the best demos currently available, longer looking at some projection walk and run around worlds; and
controllers like the Razor Hydra with
a Wii-style controller for each hand.
We’re some distance away from
The current Oculus
actually simulating physical objects,
dev hardware is
chunky, but not but the equivalent of force-feedback
aimed at consumers.
(the rumbling of joysticks and
controllers) would be better than
nothing. Even so, early experiments
are already showing other ways to
bring reality into things.
The University of Applied Sciences
Kaiserslautern has one of the most
exciting: combining virtual reality with
a rollercoaster. Users ride the coaster,
but instead of seeing the death-drops
and corkscrews, get to experience an
impossible fantasy ride through the
skies; racing and fighting dragons or
chasing through the woods, with the
real-life motion synchronized with the
VR experience and the ability to look
around in 360 degrees. Imagine
something like a Harry Potter ride that
“ t H e o c u l u s d k 2 a d d s a c a m e r a t H at t r a c k s
yo u r 3 d p o s i t i o n , m a k i n g i t p o s s i b l e to l e a n ”
could actually put you into the world Cantina VR. In terms of characters, sickness that many people suffer with
instead of just showing it on flat early demos are primitive, but there’s the technology.
screens. Ironically, the creators also get already something different about The Oculus DK2 adds a camera that
to claim “These rides feel much more being able to make direct eye-contact, tracks your 3D position, making it
comfortable than riding an Oculus or – with the help of the Oculus’ ability possible to lean around and look at
Rift coaster at home in front of your to track the headset’s movement and something from the side, or to peer in.
desktop,” simply because for once your position – to stand up and have your Elite: Dangerous, for instance, pops up
eyes and ears aren’t left fighting over character rise as well, or shift a little menus and status windows as you look
whether or not you’re moving. to the side to dodge a bullet. around your cockpit, but the current
Much of the focus right now is on generation of VR is too low-resolution
that kind of interaction; the subtle to read them comfortably. The natural
stuff that you’re not even necessarily inclination is to lean in for a closer
tHis kind of project is why at the aware of. Original VR for instance, and look. Previously, that did nothing;
moment people talk less about VR the first version of the Oculus Rift, now, it works exactly as it should.
games than VR “experiences” – though had no concept of moving your head The more invisible the technology,
there are a few games already built for forwards – it could detect movement the more potential it has. One of the
the Oculus Rift in mind, including up and down and left and right, but if most interesting early VR applications
fast-paced racer Radial-G, shooter you leaned in, nothing happened. This was VR Cinema, which gives you a
Time Rifters, and bar game Shufflepuck is a big contributor to the motion personal theater – a huge screen,
Thanks to virtual
reality, you can pilot a
plane, race a futuristic
space vehicle and
much, much more.
a choice of seat, 3D movie effects immersion than 3D movies and Many issues remain unresolved too,
thrown in for free with a supported directorial control. Drone maker Parrot including the way you have to retrain
movie. It also supports multiple has even released a quadrocopter with yourself to move your head to look
viewers, allowing friends to get one of these cameras and VR support, around instead of just glancing with
together to watch a movie in VR, with letting you fly through the air as the your eyes. (If you do that, you just see
the playback synced and microphones drone. a mess of distortion and the edge of the
conveying directional sound to each screen.) To fully flourish, VR needs to
other just if you were sitting there be thin, light and fully wraparound
for real. While at the moment with eye-tracking, and about twice if
the hardware isn’t very comfortable, it Has to be said that much of this not four times the current resolution:
if it can be slimmed and cooled down was being mooted in 1990 as well, and all problems rather easier to describe
a little, essentially everyone can have there’s a chance we’ll be looking back than to cheaply fix.
their own IMAX experience. in 2035 and wondering how we all got Just a few minutes in an Oculus Rift
In other movie experiments, some fooled again. Certainly, at the moment or Sony’s VR headset Project
filmmakers are playing with cameras the technology isn’t mainstream- Morpheus, though, make it clear that
capable of filming between 180 and 360 ready, and a bad debut performance a VR future is one worth hoping for.
degrees. These put you in the middle from the Oculus Rift especially could It’s the potential for one of the biggest
of a place, such as taking a trip through critically wound the entire market technological revolutions since the
Tokyo, or right in the action, but allow before it even has a chance to flourish. invention of the screen – a chance to
you to look around to various degrees, The current DK2 headset, for instance, step into the future in a way the ’90s
allowing for a far greater sense of is still big, heavy, clumsy and hot. could only dream of.
tHe best vr
experiences
rigHt now
> sigHtline vr
Hands-down the best “This is VR!” demo
currently available, Sightline puts you into a
series of vignettes controlled by simply looking
around. With that one, immersive interaction
it takes you from lush fields to blowing up
asteroids in deep space, from dizzying highs
to cramped oubliettes.
> vr cinema
While seemingly simple, this stands as
a great example of what VR can add to an
experience – allowing social interaction instead
of simple passive watching, and wrapping it all
up in an engaging form. Other movie players
are available too, ranging from fictional drive-
ins to fullscreen views.
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The wearable that ticks all the right boxes
> OS X 10.11
Os X and iOs won’t could make it across, Music, public
merge this year, if although that might transport in Maps,
ever. We’d expect the require pairing your and Family Sharing to
iOS-ification of OS X Mac with a Touch be supplemented by
to continue in 10.11, ID-enabled device. As multi-user accounts
with Siri and Control for iOS, we’d expect to like Macs and
Center. Apple Pay see rebranded Beats (whisper it) Android.
retina
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Will Apple jump into the “terrible” TV business?
he rumOred 2014 Apple TV box hub: unlike iOS devices, it never leaves the
didn’t appear. There’s still no sign house, and it’s perfectly placed for all your
T of an Apple TV set, either. Are home automation and entertainment
they coming in 2015? Let’s start needs. HomeKit support has been added
with the TV. We don’t think it’s to Apple TV software, and it positions the
likely yet: while Steve Jobs famously said device as a “remote access peer” that you
that Apple had cracked the TV interface, he can use to control HomeKit devices when
also said that it’s a “terrible” business to you aren’t at home. Rumors also suggest
be in. People don’t replace TVs very often, the addition of a microphone in the device
the margins are awful and global sales are or in the Apple Remote, enabling you to
in decline. A set-top box is a much better control the whole shooting match with Siri.
idea, which is why so many firms have A frustrating thing about the Apple TV is
copied the Apple TV, which is already a the lack of content. While Apple has added
billion-dollar business for Apple. An content in the US, European countries are
update is overdue, though what Apple does lagging behind; this is driving calls for an
with it is up for debate. Would it add 4K Apple TV App Store. If Apple won’t add
support? Turn it into a games console with shows and games, let app devs do it.
an A8 processor? We’d expect more
memory, at least. However, a bigger
change is coming, and it’s called HomeKit.
> Streaming
apple’s dOwnlOad sales which would enable high
are starting to slip. Music resolution audio. The iPhone
downloads aren’t dead, but 6 and 6 Plus can play 24-bit
the money is moving audio (via Lightning), so all
towards streaming – and that’s missing is the music.
Apple has both iTunes Radio Apple’s got that too, thanks
and Beats Music. Those two to its Mastered for iTunes
services will become one. program. So Beats for
Apple’s “Made for iPhone” streaming and iTunes HD
specs support headphones downloads for audiophiles,
connecting over Lightning, then? Sounds good to us.
Rebelsauce
Emulate analogue photo styles on iPhone
99c Developer Last Automaton App Supply, rebelsauce.com
Platform iPhone, iPod touch Requirements iOS 8 or later
Proun+
Take a journey through modern art
$3.99 Developer Engine Software, engine-software.com
Platform Universal Requirements iOS 6 or later
Mix a standard the right approach, so it means iOS is rich with new here, but it’s all highly
color-matching the game can be as complex as tower defense polished in presentation. The
block game with you make it for yourself, which games, and the biggest issue is that some of
a Rubik’s cube and is great. Special cube types Kingdom Rush the levels feel needlessly long,
you get Polyform. There’s a (such as protected armor series has always been one of especially at Normal difficulty.
3D shape made up of cubes of cubes) add more strategy later. its best, offering lush cartoony Why do we have to wait for 15
different colors, which you can We really like Polyform, but graphics and accessible, manic waves of enemies to come
view from all angles. You drop it could be even better. Placing action. Enemies come down set when all our towers are maxed
more cubes on the shape, and a new block in the right place paths to the point you’re and killing everything almost
if you connect four or more can be fiddly, and the time limit defending; you need to build instantly after 10? A big boss at
cubes of the same color, they on levels irked us – it’s more fun towers to attack them and stop the end of the level might upset
vanish. Clear the whole thing as to play in a zen-like way, aiming them. The game might tout your current tower strategy,
quick as you can! Simple. You for the biggest combos. new tower abilities over other fine, but it takes another five
can play just by spamming the bottom line. A Kingdom Rush entries, but it’s waves to get there.
cubes of the same color, but simple and fun puzzle game, all pretty standard – the tower the bottom line. Origins
the game rewards you for with some frustrating elements. types have different strengths, is great fun, but there’s not
building up to eliminate, say, matt bolton such as the fast-paced archers much new to it. matt bolton
seven or eight in one go instead or area-affecting boulder-
of just four. Neither is explicitly Great throwing druids. There’s little Good
1Writer
Will this distraction-free writing app draw the eye?
$2.99 Developer Ngoc Luu, 1writerapp.com
Platform Universal Requirements iOS 8.0 or later
FileThis
A handy online-statement saver
FRee Developer FileThis, filethis.com
Platform Universal Requirements iOS 7 or later
PDFpen 2
The budget-priced PDF app with pro features
$19.99 Developer Smile On My Mac, smilesoftware.com
Platform Universal Requirements iOS 8 or later
Deliveries 6 Stacks 2
$4.99 Developer Junecloud, junecloud.com $2.99 Developer WapleStuff, waplestuff.com
Platform Universal Requirements iOS 8 or later Platform Universal Requirements iOS 7 or later
Few apps benefit now be filled from iCloud Stacks is The magic of this new
from the great Keychain or 1Password a currency version is in its Safari
new iOS 8 (rejoice!), and Deliveries converter app, extension, though. When
features like remembers most-used services, and quite a smart browsing a site in Safari, you
Deliveries (formerly Delivery presenting them in descending one. There’s a huge range of can use Stacks to convert any
Status touch), already the order when adding new entries. currencies, and you can update prices on websites to another
Mercedes of apps for tracking Likewise, tapping in a new to the latest rates with just a currency, with the result sitting
packages from a dizzying tracking number intelligently swipe, as well as see historical in place on the page. It works
assortment of shipping predicts the correct service for data. There are some hidden really well, though again can
providers. Version 6.0 adds you, the kind of timesaving functions in it (such as a confuse – to switch to a second
Notification Center support attention to detail we adore. calculator you can swipe converted currency, you have
courtesy of a Today widget for the bottom line. sideways to reveal) and we find to convert from the first, rather
keeping tabs even when the Deliveries 6.0 proves even the its layout a little confusing than just change what you’re
app is closed, a more refined best apps can still manage to (we’d expect typing to fill in the converting the original to.
UI and slick new iPhone 6 delight, especially now the app green currency at the top of the bottom line. A very,
landscape view. can take advantage of iOS 8. the screen, not the white one very useful and slick app, if
But it’s the little J.R. bookwalteR underneath, but it’s the other quirky. matt bolton
conveniences that make this way around) – but once you get
update rock: Passwords can awesome used to its quirks, it’s very slick. great
rounduP
Board games are enjoying a into space and you’ll face pirates,
renaissance. It’s well deserved, smugglers, meteors and more.
given the wealth of original ideas This iPad version is an impressive
and remarkable designs they’ve been translation of an often ridiculous
showing off. Simply rolling dice and game and, while luck certainly plays
moving counters is a thing of the its part, that doesn’t make it any less
past, and not only is the iPad one fun, or any less funny.
of the best ways to play new games, Part card game, part board game,
it’s also one of the cheapest. part abstract experience, Summoner
Take Pandemic: The Board WarS (Free, Universal) is almost
Game ($6.99, iPad). This race chess-like in its precision, yet
Pandemic is an infectious game all right –
against time to beat the spread of it might plague your dreams. packed with possibilities. Two
sickness (as people the world over players take control of armies
crawl into bed with hot toddies and Warhammer. It pares things down represented by decks of cards,
Netflix) tasks one to four players considerably, giving you dozens of but using cards to fight requires
with saving the world from units instead of hundreds, controlled spending others as a resource. The
dangerous diseases. You work as by straightforward orders according strategy is in what you sacrifice.
a team, dividing up roles such to which flank they sit on. The base game is free, but additional
as Scientist or Quarantine Specialist Nevertheless, it’s still all about factions (each with their own unique
and face a difficult game that rolling lots of digital dice and casting powers) will cost you.
requires diligence and forethought lots of spells, has capable AI and carcaSSonne ($9.99, Universal)
to avoid being overwhelmed; you get offers a respectable amount of is one of the pricier iOS board game
four actions per turn to try to cure skirmish and campaign battles. adaptations, but is absolutely worth
epidemics and save the world. The Again, surprisingly, the game is it. There’s canny AI and single-
only downside is that you and your not tied in with Game Center. player challenges, but this simple
friends have to share the same SuBurBia ($2.99, iPad) is more yet devious turn-based game of
iPad, as there’s no online play. considerate and constructive. building and seizing towns and roads
If your preference is for the Imagine SimCity with hexagonal is best played with friends, and
combative, BaTTlelore: command tiles, specific objectives and much there’s a strong online community.
($9.99, Universal) is the cousin of tighter budgets. It’s a game of Up to five can play, but two-player,
tabletop miniatures games such as city-planning that has you fitting head-to-head games tend to be best.
together high-rises and highways
as you try to build a town both
profitable and attractive. It’s
a balancing act, as the more popular
and more populated it becomes, the
less appealing it looks. As well as
online play, a series of single-player
challenges will keep you hooked.
Then there’s Galaxy Trucker
($7.99, iPad). Any game that starts
with you assembling your vessel
Be a hero and stand up to those giant… trolls…
from a pile of spare parts is never Carcassonne’s competitive medieval town
we’ll be over in the trees, if anyone needs us. going to be a space opera. Head out planning is possibly not historically accurate.
LaCie d2 Thunderbolt 2
with SSD Upgrade
A hard drive with scorching-hot flash storage option
$499 (6tb drive); $299 (128Gb SSD add-on) manufacturer LaCie, lacie.com
Requirements OS X 10.8.5 or later
T
his drive pairs a Thunderbolt 2 connection with a 3.5-inch hard disk that can’t
come close to using all of that interface’s 20Gbps bandwidth. However, the
drive has two such ports, so you can daisy-chain other devices or a 4K
display, while keeping USB ports free.
The disk’s sequential transfer rates are good, peaking at 223MB/sec and
227.2MB/sec, and averaging 186.9MB/sec and 178.7MB/sec when reading and
writing, respectively – but, like any single hard disk, rates are significantly lower
for the random transfer of small amounts of data.
However, LaCie offers an optional SSD upgrade for this drive, which you install
in addition to the 6TB drive. You buy it separately, and it replaces the whole back
panel with one that adds 128GB of flash storage. LaCie refers to the upgraded d2
as a hybrid drive, but it doesn’t operate like one: the SSD isn’t used to cache
frequently used files from the combined storage. Instead, you get two volumes in
Finder, and the burden of manually choosing what’s stored on each.
LaCie says the SSD can read data at up to 1150MB/sec. We measured its peak
transfer rate as 1170.2MB/sec when reading sequentially, and its mean rate as
LaCie d2 850.8MB/sec – 206.6MB/sec quicker than the 2014 MacBook Pro in the same
ThunderboLT 2 test. When writing data sequentially, the SSD peaked at 926.4MB/sec, averaging
wiTh SSd 477.5MB/sec. It also held up well in tests of randomly reading and writing small
upgrade
amounts of data. To ensure the d2’s internal workings would not negatively affect
Extremely fast read speeds with both volumes in use, we set away one task creating a 500GB file on
speeds from SSD upgrade
the hard disk, and concurrently tested the SSD’s performance. Happily, there was
Good transfer rates from no meaningful difference in the SSD’s transfer rates.
hard drive
As a plain hard drive, the d2 performs well enough, but its performance doesn’t
Upgrade doesn’t make a warrant the premium price tag for a drive of its size. As a standalone drive, we’d
true hybrid drive
give it a rating of 2.5 (“OK”) – the speed of the SSD gets the bundle a 3, though.
Limited SSD capacity the bottom line. The basic 6TB d2 is a good drive, but pretty expensive.
SoLid The SSD add-on is very fast, but clunky and still not cheap. AlAn StonebRiDGe
For detailed
definitions of every
score on mac|life’s
ratings scale, go to
maclife.com/ratings.
Typed 1.0
Yet another minimal text editor appears, and this one’s offering Zen
$24.99 Developer Realmac, realmacsoftware.com/typed
Requirements OS X 10.9 or later, speakers/headphones if using soundtracks
MyPhotostream
The Notification Center
widget doesn’t do much,
but it makes your photos
brilliantly fast to access.
We always like an app that makes life that out of the app into any other app, or
little bit easier. MyPhotostream is a simple right-click one for sharing options and
thing: it pretty much just displays your Open In suggestions.
iCloud Photo Stream, so photos taken on The best recent addition to the app is a
your iOS devices pop up there shortly after Notification Center widget, showing up to 16
being taken. Usually, seeing your Photo recent photos. All you can do is click to open
Stream pictures means launching iPhoto, them in the app, but it’s a great timesaver.
and with big libraries on older Macs, that can It’s a shame you can’t upload to your
be kind of a hassle. MyPhotostream lets you Photo Stream from the app, and there are a
get at those photos much more quickly. few areas where the interface could be even
As we said, there’s not much to the app friendlier, but it’s still a superb little utility.
– it’s a window with a bunch of photos in However, it’s currently unknown what will MyPhotostreaM
it. You can change how large the images happen to the app when iCloud Photo Easy Photo Stream access!
appear, and how many are displayed when Library replaces Photo Stream. Fast and simple
launching the app. They’re snappy to load the bottom line. A very useful app, if
Great widget
on a good connection, with pretty much no maybe not essential for all. You might want
waiting around. Double-click an image to to check for certainty over its future before Limited in places
view it larger, and you can drag the photos grabbing it, though. matt bolton Great
Flare 2
Advanced Edit lets you
tinker with applied effects
and create your own
through Snapshots.
There are plenty of photo-editing apps, so the palette on the right and sliding the entire image
good ones need to stand out. Flare offers a across. Keyboard shortcuts flip between them,
variety of built-in effects plus the ability to but there’s no Photoshop-like toolbar. Flare’s
create your own, some film simulation settings “Snapshots” concept is also clever but
and iCloud awareness to sync custom settings counterintuitive: it adds a snapshot of the
to a free iOS app or other Macs. Flare will open current image to part of the Effects palette,
JPEGs or raw images and allows you to choose which is hidden, without saving it and syncing
from 36 effects – including frames, light leaks, it across devices – so you can reassess its quality
monochrome, and some weirder ones – before later. Happily, the app will walk you through its
flare 2 sharing to social media. Your new effects can be functions on launch, if you want it to.
saved and effects applied to multiple images. Flare has a broad range of filters on offer;
Plenty of built-in effects
Unfortunately, the app can be a little obtuse. some of them very fine looking, and the ability
Ability to create Not everyone will guess that the three squares to use them as a starting point and create your
DIY edits
in the top right, next to the box-and-arrow own effects is a powerful one. If, that is, you
Snapshots feature (which is “Export”, incidentally) opens the can get to grips with the interface.
could work better
Effects palette – it’s not labeled. The button to the bottom line. Flare 2 is a decent
Interface is confusing edit an effect is bottom left, and the editing image-filtering app, but the interface is
solid sliders open on the left, closing the Effects tricky to get the hang of. ian evenDen
Logitech Keys-To-Go
Worrying about spills or
other accidents is a thing
of the past with the Keys-
To-Go. It’s the little things…
Tough and slim, Logitech’s latest iPad keyboard is just our type
$69 Manufacturer Logitech, www.logitech.com
Requirements Works with all iOS devices, including iPhone, iPad and Apple TV
Tree 2.0.1
The lightweight outliner of choice
$9.99 Developer Kazuhiro Kawana, topoftree.jp
Requirements OS X 10.9 or later; 64-bit processor
WALTR for Mac move a selected family into a new tab in one click.
Tree rewards users who learn keyboard shortcuts,
and this version adds support for applying color
The best way to sync media to an iOS device labels without taking your fingers off the keys. The
$29.95 Developer Softorino Inc, www.softorino.com software is now 64-bit native for tackling larger
Requirements OS X 10.9 or later, iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad amounts of data, and features shiny new icons. These
features may not sound worthy enough for existing
users to pay for an all-new version, but the asking
A new Mac application, WALTR, has managed to find a way price is fair considering the move to Mac App Store.
to circumvent iTunes’ rigid adherence to MP3/AAC and MP4 Our only complaint is the lack of formatting options
formats. The process is a model of simplicity: launch WALTR when exporting to PDF, which winds up spreading
without iTunes running, plug in any supported iOS device, then horizontal views across multiple pages.
drag and drop your files over. After roughly 30 seconds, files are the bottom line. Tree 2 may be a modest
copied, ready for playback alongside previously synced media feature update, but it’s still the best Mac application
and iTunes in the Cloud content. The real trickery, though, lies for creating outlines. J.R. bookwalteR
in how the software deftly makes unsupported formats – MKV,
AVI, FLAC, WMA and OGG among them – “just work” without
the need for conversion software. Note that MPEG and Divx TRee 2.0.1
files are among the few formats the software currently rejects. Horizontally expandable tree view
Note also that WALTR will use the first image found inside Extensive keyboard shortcuts for working more efficiently
a folder to create a thumbnail. For now, the workaround is to
Requires new purchase for previous customers
temporarily create new folders for each album/video with only
those media files and image; Softorino is working on a solution. Lacks formatting options for PDF export
the bottom line. WALTR is hands down the fastest, most exceLLenT
user-friendly method we’ve ever seen for syncing music and
videos to an iOS device, no iTunes required. J.R. bookwalteR
Mischief 2
Infinite possibilities for digital artists?
$24.99 Developer Mischief, madewithmischief.com
Requirements OS X 10.8 or higher, 64-bit processor, OpenGL 2.0 or greater
M
ischief may not be as well known in digital-painting circles as Adobe or
Corel, but that is about to change. What sets it apart from similar apps such
as Painter or Sketchbook Pro is its infinite canvas. Artwork is no longer
restricted to a landscape or portrait orientation, or set size and resolution. You
can work at any size and zoom in/out with its “trillion times zoom” without your
artwork losing quality or lines becoming pixellated. Artwork is rendered on-screen
in a new way, offering not just the subtlety and softness of pixels, but also the
hard edges of vector. As such, Mischief can be quite processor heavy, but during
testing on our 2012 MacBook Pro we had no noticeable lag and the app worked
smoothly no matter how many layers we used.
The resolution and size of your image is set when exporting, and you can save
images as the entire canvas or just a selection. You are also able to set resolution
and pixel dimensions to ensure high quality for print or a small file size for web.
Although this means a lack of accuracy and precision on your canvas, it also
means you aren’t constrained when drawing. Using Mischief is super simple with
its subtle unfussy interface. With just four floating palettes on-screen, it has a
fairly limited toolset compared to its rivals. There’s only a brush tool, eraser, and
shape tools on offer, and, as such, the app’s functionality is relatively basic too.
For example, when it comes to brushes there are only six defaults available, three
of which are quite similar, with only limited options to further customize them.
There are a couple of neat touches, though, for example, when zooming you can
choose to have the brush size reduce or increase with the zoom ratio, or have it
remain constant – this is great for adding detail or swathes of color with ease –
and there’s also adjustable “smoothing”, which helps remove handshake from
artwork and is a great way to ensure line work has a steady vector-like quality.
Mischief is also configured to work with tablets and styluses; using a stylus and
gestures on our Wacom Intuos tablet was easy and although traditional shortcuts
on the app are subtly different, on a tablet you quickly forget this.
At $25, Mischief is a fair bit cheaper than its more celebrated rivals, such as
Mischief 2 Corel Painter Lite (at $69.99), but that doesn’t mean it’s inferior. And, while
Infinite canvas SketchBook Pro 6 is around the same price, Mischief is an absolute joy to use.
Both Painter and Sketchbook Pro can be unwieldy with their dense menus and
Trillion times zoom
palettes, whereas Mischief is so simple and fun, it’s like using your favorite
Tablet and stylus notebook and pen. As such, you quickly forget you are using an app and you can
compatible
just lose yourself in your drawing instead of hunting around for the next tool.
Basic toolset the bottom line. May lack the depth of its rivals, but it’s one of the
excellent most enjoyable pure drawing apps on the Mac. Alex thomAs
Thunderbolt docks let you connect multiple Our test SSD reached the same rates as other
devices to your Mac by plugging in just one docks offer, but no faster – and slower than
cable. This is Belkin’s second go at making one, when connected directly to a Mac.
and though it looks similar to the first, it’s The dock works with older Thunderbolt ports,
more compact and has a few enhancements, too – though minus 4K support. There’s one USB
including speedy Thunderbolt 2 ports. port and a headphone/mic socket on the front,
We tested transfer rates from an eight-disk and a mobile device can charge through the
storage array connected first directly to a Mac, dock even when a Mac isn’t connected. It lacks
and then tried it through the dock. Performance convenience in one way, though: there’s no
thunderbolt 2 dropped by no more than 34.8MB/sec, meaning option to quickly eject connected drives, unlike
express dock hd the dock won’t bottleneck your system. Even if Elgato’s rival dock. Still, there’s impressive
Good USB 3.0 performance you don’t plan to buy such fast and expensive performance, and the slimline unit looks good
Charges even Retina iPads storage, the dock’s Thunderbolt 2 ports enable a – but it’s not the cheapest out there.
4K display to be connected through it, provided the bottoM lIne. Belkin has made big
Supports one 4K display
your Mac supports the resolution. improvements over the old model, but it’s still
No quick eject for drives Belkin’s old dock limited USB performance to lacking some finesse for use with a MacBook.
great about 200MB/sec, but that isn’t the case here. AlAn stonebrIdge
EverMail
Evernote notes from email, fast
$9.95 developer ChungwaSoft, chungwasoft.com
requirements OS X 10.9 or later, Mail,
an Evernote account
T
he Wacom name is synonymous with quality stylus and pen-tablet solutions.
For decades the company has been connecting computer users to their
screens and, more recently, created desktop-class touchscreens with the
Cintiq and Companion lines. The first Wacom pressure sensitive stylus for iOS
– the Intuos Creative – quickly became a firm favorite.
Fast forward two years and the company has released not one but two
sequels: the Fineline (for note makers) and the Creative 2 (for artists). On paper
(ahem) the obvious difference lies within the levels of sensitivity: the Fineline has
1,024 pressure levels and the Creative 2 has 2,048. The tips of both styluses have
shrunk to less than 3mm and are made of a firm, rounded plastic material, and the
battery is now built in and rechargeable (rather than the AAA battery of the
creative
stylus 2 original Creative Stylus). The Fineline nib is smaller than the Creative 2 (1.9mm
and 2.9mm respectively). The Fineline is slightly heavier, but that includes a
Rests easily in the hand
protective cap, which the Creative 2 lacks. Both suffer from a Bluetooth pen tilt
Three buttons to help issue: angle from left to right and you’ll see a moving offset in the drawn line.
speed up work
In both styluses, the rechargeable battery shifts the centre of balance towards
Buttons are poorly placed the back of the pen. If you’re drawing on a screen for a long time this is an issue;
Currently limited the Fineline is marginally preferable in this regard, though. Both styluses have a
app support rubber cap that shields the micro-USB recharge port and neither feels like the
solid protective end will last the life of the pen. While the Creative 2 has, technically,
three buttons (to the Fineline’s one) the placement leaves a little to be desired.
Most concerning, for both styluses, is the lack of out-of-box app support. At
bamboo stylus
fineline the time of writing, pressure-sensitive support is patchy (with only Bamboo and
Sketchbook flying the flag in a meaningful way). Though the styluses will work
Pen cap and colors
with many apps in terms of connection, this limits their full usefulness. Support
Better button placement will come, but it’s not here just yet.
Works in Sketchbook the bottom line. The winner, by a fine line (ahem again), is the Fineline. It
and Bamboo feels a better shape and weight, the protective cap allows you to pocket it when
Still fairly limited not in use and it certainly doesn’t feel the cheaper of the two devices (though it
app support is). Having used both styluses in the Sketchbook and Bamboo apps, we can’t say
great the difference in pressure sensitivity levels is hugely noticeable. Paul Kercal
Prizmo 3.0.1
Prizmo makes a good
fist of recognizing text,
but it’s not perfect.
While the built-in Image Capture tool is fine In Recognize mode, Prizmo carves up the text
for image-based scans, if you want to extract and images into individual elements, then
text and other elements, you’ll need Prizmo. attempts to generate editable text from them.
It works with a range of input sources, from The results depend on your original scan’s
scanner or image file to iOS camera (over iCloud resolution, plus any corrections. If the quality’s
or USB) or even a captured portion of your good enough there’s little to be done, but you’ll
desktop – useful for translating text from one find all the tools you need if more radical edits
of 40+ languages supported by the program. are required, from retyping text to adjusting
Once your image is imported, Prizmo consists selected objects and changing object types.
Prizmo 3.0.1 of two modes: Prepare and Recognize. Prepare Version 3 is Yosemite-only, with a redesign,
is where you crop your image, with a curvature support for Handoff with the iOS version of
Fast, accurate, powerful
tool for correcting warped scans. You can Prizmo, and improvements to its Accessibility
Better value than ever perform basic image corrections, such as color and VoiceOver features. It also introduces
Curvature tool fiddly balance and lighting. It works well, although extensions to allow the image clean-up and
to use the curvature tool is a little fiddly – changes OCR tools to be used in other compatible apps.
No support for older are only shown after you’ve applied them, the bottom line. Prizmo remains the go-to
OS X builds which can quickly make for a frustrating app for those who want to get more from their
great experience of trial and error. image and document scans. nick PeeRs
Atama Sesame 2
The key fob with locking power
$49 manufacturer Atama, atama.io
Requirements Macs with Bluetooth 4.0
guardian angel
Nice idea to use your iPhone as the locking tool
Very affordable option
Plenty of ability to tweak settings (though perhaps too many…)
The range map is not reliably accurate
solid
Atmospheric, challenging
and out of this world. Go
Beyond Earth to see what
you can achieve.
B
eyond Earth is largely similar to Firaxis’ strategy behemoth Civilization 5,
but set against a backdrop of colonizing an alien world. It retains the familiar
turn-based mechanics, with units spread over a world map divided into
hexagons. Your micromanagement skills will be put to task, from outpost building,
to researching technologies of the future, managing trade routes, and
terraforming the alien soil to improve human survivability.
It feels more than just a polished mod for Civilization though; Beyond Earth
keeps thing fresh by adding new elements to the formula. Progress along the
enormous technology web leads to humanity’s future evolving in accordance with
one of three philosophies: Harmony, Supremacy or Purity. This affects both the
visual appearance of your units and your bonuses. Harmony is a path to greater
understanding of alien lifeforms, so your units become green and adopt bug-like
features; Supremacy’s mechanical approach leads to a more robotic appearance.
a lot of thought has gone into the game design. This is a compelling vision of
what it would be like if humankind tried to set up shop on another planet, and the
trials we might face. It’s a bit complicated to start with, though, and it can feel
bland, not helped by the lack of variation between the faction leaders, aside from
the graphics and limited speech that plays when you meet them.
Once you have a dozen cities and a living, breathing empire, ploughing through
each turn can feel tiresome. Workers and explorers can be automated, and the
CIVILIZATION: game becomes a lot faster when animations are turned off. But trade routes, an
BEYOND EARTH essential part of the economic game, still need to be managed manually. Hopefully
Complex turn-based Firaxis will improve this mechanic in a future patch. Performance is surprisingly
management strategy good, though, and it ran well on Iris graphics on a 2013 macBook Pro. That said, we
Exciting future-gazing recommend avoiding play on the largest of maps if you have an older mac.
and alien environment although we’ve moaned about some aspects of the game, it’s a lot of fun, and
Lacks variation between has the same compelling one-more-turn pull of every Civilization game. Though it
human factions has its blander elements, there are many different ways to win and strategies to
Mechanics can be try out. But it’s short of being a masterpiece, when it had all the potential for it.
tiresome to plod through the bottom line. Beyond Earth is a deep, engrossing strategy game, but it
gOOD could have been far more. orestis bastounis
This War of Mine is a survival simulator about neighbor asks for help. Bruno’s career as a chef
guiding weary citizens through the rubble of makes him efficient with food, but Pavle, a
their city. A few times per week, Franko comes former soccer player capable of dodging the
to your camp to trade: five cigarettes is the rebel snipers, could replace him.
going rate for a can of food in occupied Porogen. This World of Mine is grueling. Resources are
Vegetables are pricey – moonshine or jewelry scarce, and the game’s mechanics are stifling.
This War of Mine
will do – but also more nutritious, and if Katia is You’re only allowed to search location each
Deep, flexible crafting around, she can broker a better deal. night, even if there are several hours left before
system allows for
multiple strategies During the day, survivors purify water, pack the curfew. This rigidity elevates the mundane
homemade bullets and tend paltry gardens. At – finding meat can be a high point – but also
Random characters and
events make each play- night, one person ventures out “scavenging” while blunts This War of Mine’s moral drama: stealing
through feel fresh the others sleep or guard the house. Scavengers to survive isn’t a compelling dilemma when it’s
Writing, music and gather supplies from ruined hospitals and the only option. Still, even when tactical play
gameplay build tension supermarkets, using basic stealth and combat seems impossible, it evinces desperation and
High difficulty limits to avoid or fend off other desperate refugees. futility. You never experience war directly in
options and can be What you find at night affect how much you This War of Mine, but you will learn that Bruno,
emotionally draining accomplish each day, keeping tension high. Franko, Katia and Pavle are collateral damage.
Combat is unclear and Randomized variables can dictate your play: the bottom line. A game that engenders
leads to accidental deaths it is easier to live through spring than winter; empathy through the constancy, immediacy,
good sometimes the value of tobacco skyrockets, or a and sheer volume of its choices. JoSePh leRAY
Terrible pictures
with apple TV
I’ve got several Apple products
including a MacBook Pro running
Mavericks. For some reason, when I
want to connect my MBP to my Apple
Tv, the sound is okay but there’s no
picture in most cases. I don’t have
this problem on my iPad, iPhone or
even my son’s MBP.
Are both MacBooks in the same room?
Because this is a network problem and
your son is most likely just getting much
better Wi-Fi reception than you are. You
can run Wireless Diagnostics (press å
and click the Wi-Fi icon on the menu) and
see if it recommends a different channel
to reduce interference. Switching your
router to use 5GHz networking (also
iPhoto uses fixed templates for calendars and books, with alternative versions that include captions as well. called 802.11n or 802.11ac) will also
improve reception because the 5GHz
portion of the radio spectrum is a lot less
>>> but can see no way to add a description Dock gone crowded than the 2.4GHz frequency used
below each of the photos in it. You can Sometimes when my MacBook Pro is by the older Wi-Fi standards. The iPad
only add details to the cover photo. at home, my family log into its guest and iPhone obviously roam around the
I have Photoshop elements 11, but account. Unfortunately, someone was house, but they can cope with lower
I have not explored it sufficiently yet on it recently but wasn’t able to use bandwidth because the screen
to see if it can do this. I have also it because the Dock was filled with resolutions are usually lower, so there
checked my copy of iPhoto ’09: The question marks. Can you tell me how are fewer pixels for each frame.
Missing Manual and it contains I go about fixing this? Regardless of any improvements you
nothing about this. Those question marks appear when manage to make to your home Wi-Fi, it’s
You can definitely do it in the current the Dock shortcut can’t find the app it also worth experimenting with switching
version (which is iPhoto 9.6). If you select points towards. This can be because the from AirPlay to Beamer (beamer-app.
a calendar page and click the Layout original has been deleted or moved, but com). This seems to offer much better
button at the bottom of the window, in your case it’s more likely to be a video performance than AirPlay.
you’ll see two layout options for each permissions fault.
arrangement of photos. If you log back into your own
The left one is just the photo; the user account (which presumably has
right-hand one has a caption beneath administrator access) and bring up the
it. The thumbnails don’t make it very Get Info panel for the Applications folder,
obvious, but it’s there. If you are you’ll probably find that it doesn’t show
marooned on an older version of iPhoto any sharing permissions for the
that lacks this option, you could use ‘Everyone’ group. This needs to be ‘Read
Photoshop to edit captions onto the only’, at least, in order to be able to see
photos themselves, and re-import the the apps. You can correct this yourself
edited versions into iPhoto, but this is a manually or run Repair Permissions in
Wireless Diagnostics can suggest ways to
good deal fiddlier. Disk Utility. reduce network interference.
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AutomAtor is one of those apps can use the app for creating workflows and
rEQUIrES that, for most Mac users, lurks in miniature apps, which can save you time when
> OS X 10.8 or later, Applications and never gets used. It performing repetitive tasks.
Automator, Preview, has a cool robot icon, but as soon as In this walkthrough we’ll show you how to use
an image to use for you launch the app, it immediately asks you it to quickly create an app that sets up a new email
an icon which type of document you want to start with to a friend, which can be stashed in your Dock,
LEVEL (from a selection of eight). Whatever you click, ready for clicking at a moment’s notice. We’ll also
you’re then faced with a column featuring dozens show you how to use Apple’s Preview to create an
> Hard
of actions, from a variety of categories. It’s not got icon from a photo that will fit right in with your
IT WILL TaKE that intuitive, welcoming feel of the rather more other icons.
popular Apple apps. Start small, build confidence, and the sky’s
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The thing is, Automator is as cool as its icon the limit – as is the amount of time you’ll save
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Applications created
in Automator use files
dropped onto them as
input for the workflow. So
with your contact mini- Get started Add an action
apps, you can drag a Launch Automator and select New Document The Automator sidebar contains a number
document on to one and
from the initial window. Automator’s main window of predefined actions, organized into categories. On
it will be added to the
email as an attachment, appears; select Application, then Choose. This means selecting one, the available actions are filtered. Click
further speeding things that whatever you now create in Automator will be the Actions button, then Mail from the Library. Drag
up for you. saved as a standalone application. New Mail Message to the workflow pane on the right.
JargoN
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actions are referred to
as workflows. The default
doc type in is itself called
a workflow, and can be
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The Dock has been a mainstay of
OS X since the start, a place to stash
Quick look cDock interface
> OS X 10.9 or later, apps and documents as well as easily
cDock 6.0.6 or later see what’s running on your Mac. Settings
Visually, the Dock has seen big changes over The main cDock window provides you with
LEVEL
the years. Initially it was a semi-transparent menus and checkboxes to make changes to your
> Easy white rectangle with subtle pinstripes, which Dock. Changes can all easily be reverted, too.
were eradicated as of OS X 10.2 Jaguar, while in
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OS X 10.5 Leopard the Dock turned into a 3D glass In the Dock
> 10 minutes “shelf” when at the bottom of the screen, which Whenever you hit Apply, cDock relaunches
gradually got frosted as the operating system was your Dock and quits. For this reason, you can always
upgraded further. In OS X 10.10 Yosemite, we’ve add it to the Dock while you’re making changes so
almost come full circle, with the Dock reverting it’s really easy to relaunch.
to a simpler semitransparent rectangle.
If you’re not thrilled with the new Dock, Custom settings
you can use the free cDock (sourceforge.net/ cDock has built-in themes, but it’s also possible
projects/cdock) to make changes. The app is to roll your own; when doing so, two text documents
capable of updating a number of aspects of the are launched, one as a reference and one to edit.
Dock, including the addition of spacers, creating
a “recent items” folder and dimming hidden Menu extra
apps. Note that on first launching cDock, you The cDock menu extra appears when using the
may get a security warning; if so, open System Custom theme; it’s intended to restart the Dock. Quit
Preferences, go to Security & Privacy > General the extra by clicking the icon to access the extra’s
and click Open Anyway. craig grannell menu, and select Quit Dock Refresh.
add a recents stack Show only active apps Mouse over highlights
Set “Add recents folder” to Yes > The Dock, by default, shows both If you’ve added one or more recent
Apply. A new stack appears in the Dock, stashed and running apps, but to only show folders, try selecting “mouse over highlight”
with quick access to recent apps. Right-click running apps and the Trash check “Show in cDock. On restarting your Dock, you’ll see
to switch this to documents, servers, or only active applications” > Apply. This a highlight behind any app you’re hovering
favorites. Run it again to add another makes your Dock into an app switcher. To the mouse cursor over, which helps make
stack (it won’t replace any existing ones). revert, uncheck the option in cDock and your selection easier to spot.
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Wave goodbye to emailing photos, of reading what you’re sharing, it will direct
REQUIRES documents and other files, because them to the App Store and a list of apps it
> Another Mac there’s now a better way: AirDrop. It thinks can handle the item.
running OS X 10.10 or sends files between nearby Macs and AirDrop is available in other places besides
a compatible iOS 7 iOS devices over the air using an encrypted Finder. Click the Share button that appears in
or 8 device, with connection. What’s great is that unlike traditional Safari, Preview, Maps and many other apps to
Bluetooth and Wi-Fi
methods of sharing files there’s no tricky setup share whatever it is you’re looking at. Using
turned on
– the devices involved in a transfer don’t need to AirDrop in this way opens a sheet that again
LEVEL be connected to the same Wi-Fi network (though lists nearby people. Click one to send to them.
> Easy AirDrop still works if they are), as it establishes Wherever you access AirDrop, the words “Don’t
a direct connection. They just have to be close. see who you’re looking for?” appear below the list
IT WILL TAKE When you select AirDrop in a Finder window of people. Clicking this and then “Search for an
> 5 minutes sidebar or choose Go > AirDrop, you’ll see a Older Mac” switches to an older AirDrop that
window with icons for nearby people who can works only between Macs running OS X Lion or
receive files. Control your own visibility at the later. This version of AirDrop can’t talk to iOS
foot of the window. When you drag files and devices, but it works with many more models of
folders and drop them onto someone’s icon, Mac – you can check whether yours is compatible
the recipient is prompted to accept or reject the by referring to Apple’s list at support.apple.com/
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