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 ...

Apple released the ninth Mavericks beta of 10.9.3 to developers

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Apple launches the ninth beta, just 8 days after posting on its developer web  the previous version, the beta-eight.So quickly between the two versions could indicate that soon we will have available for the public. 

The goal is the same, focusing attention on the issues that were failing previous betas to try to post the version of OS X 10.9.3 Mavericks with the fewest problems. This from Apple developers indicate the points where they have to influence when finding faults in it.

Aspects of the system to treat are the possible problems with audio and video drivers, the Mail and Safari applications included by default in the system and also a new feature that allows you to synchronize calendar and contacts with local devices via iTunes. Another feature introduced in the latest versions of the beta is the ability to bend pixels to fit 4K monitors from other manufacturers.

iDrive: a life of 100 GB on my iPhone for less than $ 1 / year

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iDrive allows us to save backups of your contacts, photos, videos and calendars, mimicking Apple's cloud to restore a phone from these prints. The key: we have 100 GB in the cloud for less than a euro annually.

No need to seek the plan of a euro price on their website: it is only available as in-app purchase inside the app for iOS. There is also a free plan of 5GB only, but for the price of the 100 GB certainly more than one would pose for backup or even cleaning your data. Remember: a reel of pictures that fills our storage devices always ends up giving more problems than we imagine.

Acompli. Mail and Calendars productivity center for iOS

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There are already many postal operators we've seen for iOS Appleismo go through, all with the intention of wanting to move the email into the era of mobile short messages and in which we find ourselves. And almost all have completed or acquired by someone or having a rather shy success. Now comes accompli wanting to break that tradition by merging the client emails and calendars in a single application.

Accompli is divided into four sections easily accessible from a bottom bar interface: email, calendar, attachments and agenda. Thus we can consult timetables and book related messages inviting phonebook contacts without switching applications, saving many screen taps.



We also have some useful features which we have to respond quickly to short post, as the ability to share our location by integrating an interactive map in the message. 

Accompli is completely free, and an option to consider if our work requires us to look at our inbox and our agenda constantly. Works with Exchange and Google accounts. Additionally you can add optional premium services for businesses and more professional users.