Apple Introduces iOS 8 (Part one)

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Following the presentation of Yosemite Apple OS X has also shown another gem, iOS 8, ​​a version that refines everything we had seen so far with iOS 7 further by incorporating a large number of truly useful new features that seem designed to please many of the user's demands.

Continuity, widgets, major improvements to Mail, Safari or iMessajes, more useful than ever Spotlight, iCloud Drive, Health, Family Sharing to share our shopping apps, music, books and movies with up to six family members, advanced editing photography and Photo Stream replacement by a new service that stores all of our images in the cloud without taking up space on the device.

Amazing additions to developers in areas such as fingerprint authentication, high performance 3D graphics and automation thanks to HomeKit, a new platform which incidentally is also integrated with Siri. By the way, we can now turn it without touching anything, just saying "Hey, Siri".

Interactive Notifications

First, interactive notifications, which allow us, for example, respond to a message or an invitation to accept an appointment in Calendar without leaving the app you are currently using. And yes, it also works with the locked device.

Mail, leaner, more powerful

Mail has learned from apps like Sparrow or Clear and now has a new set of gestures to mark a message or delete it. Better yet, if you have ever encountered locked emailing unable to check other mails, anymore: can now drag down the eraser to access any other mail, open it, copy what you want and return to the mail we were writing with another gesture. It is also more intelligent recognizing the content of the emails to add an event from the Confirmation of a reservation and the like.

Direct access to recent contacts




We now turn to the list of recent apps, multitasking view deployed by pressing twice on the home button and happened to also accommodate on its top a list of contacts who have spoken recently. Pressed in any of them we can call, write a message or start a FaceTime video call easily.Ah! And gesturing to the right is our favorite.

Spotlight with steroids

Spotlight has received a major update in OS X Yosemite which is also reflected in iOS 8 allowing access to many of the things we could do with Siri and search the information on Wikipedia or see a movie just starting to write their title. The searches are no longer confined to our own content but extend to the App Store, iTunes, Maps, the latest ...

Alleged leaks of OS X

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No matter how little it is that Tim Cook takes the stage and kick off the 2014 WWDC: there is always time for last minute rumors. This morning we woke up with the appearance of multiple images showing the supposed interface OS X 10.10, which probably will be called Yosemite if we rely on the poster image that has been placed over the weekend at the Moscone Center.

In the images we can see what we imagined: an OS X interface which melts a little more with iOS. Dock fills the bottom of the screen, a control center and notifications that open from the side of the screen, a window lacking Safari title bar and a search engine. The wallpaper is the Mavericks, but it appears that the photographs are taken from a beta system released in March.

Here are the full images originally posted on Reddit by someone who has removed their user account:

Notifyr allows us to see iOS notifications on your Mac

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Notifications of applications are a feature of any smartphone for most of us feel a kind of love-hate. On the one hand warn us what we want but at the other end can be a complicated ordeal becoming controlling. Yet there are applications that allow us to optimize them, one of them is Notifyr.

New iWatch Concept with Flexible Screen and Healthbook

The iWatch could be reality soon and we all want to see with our own eyes. However, while it is official or not, we can see a new iWatch concept, this time designed by Edgar Rios. A really slick design.

We are now in April and as we all rumors point, assuming Apple clock, which we call iWatch will be presented in September. We do not know anything for sure about how it will be, or whether there will finally have the functions.

Despite the lack of official information, small leaks and rumors of both sources inform us that there might be two models, one for men and one for women, although screens are small, have a very good resolution 200 to 300 ppi.

 In addition, other sources claim that Apple is contacting Swiss watchmakers to work on the development of this new gadget. A gadget concepts we've seen more than rumors.

Notifications, Healthbook and iOS 7 in this iWatch

According to the concepts we've seen on the internet, the future of Apple iWatch have round or square screen, buttons and much more or less features. For example, we bring you today, personally do not like too much, but maybe many of you do.

Edgar Rios iWatch been thought to be a rectangular watch with many similar features to the iPhone. Notifications, Healthbook, music player or different clock modes or watchfaces as the Pebble smartwatch are viewing this designer.

Perhaps what I like best is the least likely part of this course iWatch. The watchfaces are perfect for adapting a smartwatch the day, allowing us to customize it to far.

Another characteristic for which the designer is Healthbook bet, the application that Apple has supposedly designed to measure our physical activity and our health. According to many sources suggest, this app would measure the steps we take daily blood pressure or advanced parameters such as blood glucose level.

In my opinion, the more features we link our iWatch more rise in price and probably less battery will last. I'd love to see a simple device, without too many functions and battery, at least 5 days. Is it too much?

And you, do you like this concept? Would you buy it?