Apple’s WWDC 2014 Keynote
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iOS 8 – 3rd parties can use TouchID – cannot gain access to your personal security info though
iOS 8 – you can install 3rd party keyboards if you do not like Apple’s new one
iOS 8 Apple allowing developers to build widgets and extensions – new photo app will allow 3rd party filters
TestFlight beta incorporated into iOS 8 – making beta testing easier for developers
iOS 8 explore tab, trending searches, editors choice logo and app bundles from the App Stor
New Siri features – Shazam built-in
First 5GB iCloud storage free, 20 GB $1, 200 GB available for $4
New iPhoto – light adjustment – brightness, contrast, granular levelling options – simultaneously
New iPhoto gives full access to all your images in iCloud on any device. Editing tools also improved, colour correct, auto straighten
iPhoto improved! syncs all your photos across all your devices, provides smart suggestions
New HealthKit – works ith 3rd party apps – gives control over your information – Apple working with fitness info and the Mayo clinic – drs get real time info with patients
iOS 8 expanded password protection –
iCloud Drive – allows you to work with a single version of a document on all devices – yes even Windows machines
iOS 8 – Group messaging improvements – name threads, add & remove people, share location thread. iMessage – tap to talk feature
iOS 8 new keyboard layout – Quicktype – context sensitive – makes suggestions on how you speak to that specific person!
iOS 8 new keyboard layout – Quicktype – context sensitive
Spotlight makes suggestions, directions, news, apps from app store, films at cinemas and films to purchase/stream too.
Mail on iOS 8 – tag and dismiss emails, swipe them to the left hand rail message list
Home button double-tap to view your favourite contacts – they are all in circles – very much like Facbook.
Double tap on screen allows you to view your contacts, view tabs, left rail for bookmarks.
iOS 8 – iOS 8 new features – interactive notifications – iOS 8 new features – interactive notifications – pops up at top of your screen, pull down to respond
Apple sold 100 million iPod Touches, 200 million iPads and over 500 million iPhones
OS X Yosemite available to developers today and free to everyone else in the fall/autumn
Receive and make calls from your Mac or iPhone – new feature
If Mac without WiFi – it will give you the option to link to your iPhone in your list of networks – easy tethering.
Hands off new feature in OS X Yosemite – various devices aware of each other, email composed on iPhone will populate an icon to your Mac
New AirDrop in OS X Yosemite works between iOS and Mac
New features in mail allow you to add in markup – e.g. Skitch, plus zoom into specific sections of images before sending
Apparently you can obtain two more hours of battery life when watching video with OS Yosemite Safari – standards compliant
OS X Yosemite Safari now standards compliant – does not require plugins to play video.
OS X Yosemite Safari – faves bar not visible by default – faves pop up when you click on address bar. Delivers RSS feeds in sidebar, sharing
New mail in OS X Yosemite faster message fetching, reliable synching – new Mail Drop feature email 5GB docs. Separates files from email – puts into iCloud, forwards a link to the file along with the email.
iCloud Drive – all your iCloud drive files availabe in folders from Finder now – auto-synched across devices, all searchable and taggable.
New Spotlight on OS X Yosemite very similar to Google functionality
Revamped OS X Yosemite – notification centre refresh – tabs, spotlight reworked, dark mode, Calendar – day view – new widgets #ESPN
New version of OS X announced – OS Yosemite – comes with a new design. Reworked typography and iconography. More clarity and usability – window title bar is translucent – refreshed trash can/rubbish bin. OS X Yosemite comes with a dark mode, dark grey toolbars.
Tim Cook is up! He’s currently reciting the history of WWDC – when it all started back in 1990. WWDC Live coverage – youngest developer in the audience just 13. 9 million registered devs – 50% increase over 2013. Over 40 millions copies of OS X 10.9 Mavericks have been installed – over 50% of Mac Users.
Joanne Carter
Joanne Carter, creator of the world’s most popular mobile photography and art website— TheAppWhisperer.com— TheAppWhisperer platform has been a pivotal cyberspace for mobile artists of all abilities to learn about, to explore, to celebrate and to share mobile artworks. Joanne’s compassion, inclusivity, and humility are hallmarks in all that she does, and is particularly evident in the platform she has built. In her words, “We all have the potential to remove ourselves from the centre of any circle and to expand a sphere of compassion outward; to include everyone interested in mobile art, ensuring every artist is within reach”, she has said. Promotion of mobile artists and the art form as a primary medium in today’s art world, has become her life’s focus. She has presented lectures bolstering mobile artists and their art from as far away as the Museum of Art in Seoul, South Korea to closer to her home in the UK at Focus on Imaging. Her experience as a jurist for mobile art competitions includes: Portugal, Canada, US, S Korea, UK and Italy. And her travels pioneering the breadth of mobile art includes key events in: Frankfurt, Naples, Amalfi Coast, Paris, Brazil, London. Pioneering the world’s first mobile art online gallery - TheAppWhispererPrintSales.com has extended her reach even further, shipping from London, UK to clients in the US, Europe and The Far East to a global group of collectors looking for exclusive art to hang in their homes and offices. The online gallery specialises in prints for discerning collectors of unique, previously unseen signed limited edition art. Her journey towards becoming The App Whisperer, includes (but is not limited to) working for a paparazzi photo agency for several years and as a deputy editor for a photo print magazine. Her own freelance photographic journalistic work is also widely acclaimed. She has been published extensively both within the UK and the US in national and international titles. These include The Times, The Sunday Times, The Guardian, Popular Photography & Imaging, dpreview, NikonPro, Which? and more recently with the BBC as a Contributor, Columnist at Vogue Italia and Contributing Editor at LensCulture. Her professional photography has also been widely exhibited throughout Europe, including Italy, Portugal and the UK. She is currently writing several books, all related to mobile art and is always open to requests for new commissions for either writing or photography projects or a combination of both. Please contact her at: [email protected]
