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How to manage your data

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Features MAC EMERGENCY! (PART 1)

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Regulars

Macs crash, freeze and generally misbehave just like any other computer.

In this two-part guide, we’ll prepare you for when they do.

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STORAGE BREAKDOWN

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There is a range of storage products on the market for you to choose from, so how do you know what’s right for you?

We break it all down.

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HOT STUFF iSNAP APP GUIDE 3 OF A KIND Mac apps: Chat clients iOS apps: Health BUSINESS Point of sale systems MAC GEMS STEP BY STEP Syncing your iPad using iCloud

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SECRETS Understanding iOS’ password security Managing a mobile photo shoot How to find a missing Mac Type special characters in OS X HELP GROUP TEST PHOTO PRINTERS ■ Canon PIXMA MX926 ■ Epson Expression Premium XP-700 ■ HP Photosmart 7520 ■ Brother MFC-J825DW

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MacBook Air (mid 2013) Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5 Netgear Universal Dual-Band WiFi Range Extender Veho MUVI X-Lapse Crumpler Pinnacle of Horror Zensorium tinké Denon Cocoon Home Belkin Thunderbolt Express Dock Logitech UE 4000 & UE 6000

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How much data are you storing? Do you really know? And how do you share that data? Is it backed up? When you start thinking about all the different information you store – movies, documents, photos, email, financial records in accounting systems – it becomes apparent that most of us are holding on to more information than we realise.

There is a range of storage products on the market for you to choose from, so how do you know what’s right for you?

ANTHONY CARUANA breaks it down.

Storage breakdown

Simple. iCloud is a simple online solution for music, images and documents storage. Apple provides 5GB free and data is accessible across iOS and Mac devices.

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Fast fixes for the most common Mac problems.

Nobody ever said the Mac was perfect. (Well, OK, some people do, but you can't take them seriously.) Macs crash, freeze, refuse to turn on or go online, and generally misbehave just like any other computer though maybe not as often or as severely.

Hence this two-part guide. We'll tell you what to do when apps freeze up, when your Mac slows down, when OS X goes into a kernel panic, when the internet refuses to work, and when the Trash refuses to empty. Such crises may be rare, but they do occur and, when they do, you want to be prepared.

By Joe Kissell & Ted Landau IllustratIons by WIllIam Duke

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he annual Worldwide Developers Conference is one of the highlights of the year for Apple aficionados.

Held in San Francisco, WWDC sees 5000 of the biggest Apple geeks gather to listen to a group of smart Apple engineers go over some of the latest technology Apple has been working on for the prior 12 months.

WWDC 2013 DIDN’T DISAPPOINT The highlight of this year’s show, held in June, was the iOS 7 preview, where Apple showed off the biggest change to iOS since the 2007 release of the original iPhone.

Alongside iOS 7, Apple also announced updated MacBook Airs, gave a sneak peek of the upcoming Mac Pro and announced the next version of OS X, called Mavericks (Apple has finally given up on the cat names).

Many articles, post WWDC, have focused solely on the new graphic design treatment iOS 7 has received.

At first glance, the design language certainly looks more than simplistic.

For example, the Safari icon looks like it was designed as a first project in Adobe Illustrator. However, it’s important to remember that this redesign has come about in less than eight months, since Jony Ive was promoted to head of design at Apple.

Apart from the radical redesign, other aspects of iOS 7 are great.

Multitasking has received a dramatic rethink – the system nearly supports full multitasking. Apps can open and receive data in the background, so that when you go to use them, they are up-to-date. App updates can also be triggered in the background via a push notification, something that was previously impossible.

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Switching between apps is now a better experience too. Users still access multitasking by double tapping the home button, but instead of seeing app icons, you now see screenshots of each app. If developers code their apps correctly, these screenshots can also be updated in the background to provide users with a real-time view of what is happening in the apps.

While the fundamentals of iOS have changed, there has been a lot of work done on the movement within the system. For instance, when launching apps and moving between the home screen, apps zoom in and out from the app icon. It takes a while to get used to, but it feels like you are always floating between apps rather than moving between an app and the home screen. This animation comes thanks to a full physics engine built into iOS 7 that developers have access to.

Notification Center is finally on its way to being half-useful, now providing a ‘today’ option that provides a summary of what’s on today, plus other information like

travel times between your current location and important destinations, like work and home.

The App Store has received some modest UI updates: A new tab shows popular apps ‘near me’ – a useful feature that reveals which apps people are using in your location.

Perhaps the most useful update to the App Store is the ‘auto update’ feature, which updates apps in the background when suitable. I think this feature alone will make a big difference for those who just can’t find time to update their apps.

But my favourite new feature of iOS 7 is the Control Center. Simply swiping upwards from anywhere on the screen reveals a panel of options to toggle system settings, such as Airplane Mode, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi. The panel also features play/ pause music controls, plus four buttons that let you launch the flashlight, calculator, timer and camera applications. Unfortunately Apple hasn’t made this panel userconfigurable yet, but hopefully this is coming in the future. C

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