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For travel, drop protection or a little splash of colour, bags, sleeves and cases can add a new dimension to your favourite piece of tech. So what do you choose?
MAC EMERGENCY! (PART 2) Macs crash, freeze and misbehave just like any other computer. In this two-part guide, we prepare you for when they do.
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SECRETS iOS 7 FAQ The apps iOS 7 could kill Can your smartphone replace your camera? Secrets of the Finder’s path bar Typography for all HELP GROUP TEST Portable projectors ■ Optoma PK320 Pico Projector ■ Aiptek PocketCinema V100 ■ Acer K135 LED Projector ■ BenQ JoyBee GP3
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MAC EMERGENCY Part 2:
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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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iOS 7 FAQ Something as different as iOS 7, tipped for release this month, is sure to raise questions. Following is an overview based on what we’ve seen and heard from Apple to date. iOS 7 also takes design cues from your content, tinting the controls and panels with colours from the photos behind them. Apple’s Jony Ive spoke at WWDC about layering the interface, with panels such as Notification Center and Control Center visually residing ‘on top’ of apps and the home screen.
THE BASICS What’s the biggest change with iOS 7? Where to begin? The entire look and feel has seen an overhaul, with flatter icons, less skeuomorphism and thinner typefaces. That said, anybody who has used iOS will probably feel at home: Apple hasn’t changed the home screen much, and the basic gestures and interactions are mostly the same. How is the new look different from the old look? How did you feel about green felt? Wood bookshelves? Stitched leather? We hope the answer is ‘not great’, because they’re all gone in iOS 7. In their place is a cleaner design that’s largely about simple lines and icons. These aren’t just subtle enhancements, either – they permeate every bit of the interface.
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Easy multitasking. The interface for switching among open apps now displays thumbnail images along with icons.
Will I have to relearn how to use my phone? Launching and using apps is more or less the same, but you have a few new things to learn. For instance, you’ll be able to swipe up from the bottom of the screen to summon Control Center (a panel for commonly used system features). And a new swipe-from-the-left-edge gesture sends you to the previous screen. When will iOS 7 be available? Apple says it will arrive in our spring, which has become something of a standard for iOS releases. iOS 6 debuted last September; iOS 5 came out in October 2011. (Before that, both iOS and the phones it powered were on a winter release schedule.) When iOS 7 becomes available, you should be able to upgrade the same way you could with iOS 6: either by downloading the new OS via iTunes or by taking advantage of iOS’s overthe-air updating capabilities.
What devices will support iOS 7? You’ll need an iPhone 4 or later, an iPad 2 or later, an iPad mini or a fifthgeneration iPod touch. (Or, of course, whatever new mobile hardware Apple may release between now and iOS 7’s official launch.) • Specific features have more stringent device requirements: • Panoramic photos are available only on the iPhone 4S or later and the fifth-gen iPod touch. • You can’t shoot square still photos or video on the iPad 2; all other devices can use this feature, however. • For the nifty new live camera filters, you’ll need an iPhone 5 or a fifth-gen iPod touch. Putting filters on after the fact in the Photos app is an option for the iPhone 4 or later, the third-generation iPad or later, the iPad mini and the fifthgeneration iPod touch. • To AirDrop a file to friends, you need an iPhone 5 or later, a fourthgeneration iPad or later, an iPad mini or a fifth-gen iPod touch. You also need an iCloud account. • Siri remains limited to the iPhone 4S or later, the third-generation iPad or later, the iPad mini and the fifth-gen iPod touch. And if you desire a new Siri voice, keep in mind that initially it will be available only in English, French or German.
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THE SYSTEM Did Notification Center change? Although you still summon Notification Center by swiping down from the top of the screen, it has a new translucent appearance, and it offers some different information. In addition to storing your notifications, as it did before, it has a tab where you can view only your missed notifications, as well as those from the day in a new Today view. That last feature acts a bit like Google Now, giving you an overview of what’s slated for today, including the current weather, upcoming appointments on your calendar, stock quotes and a paragraph about what’s in store tomorrow. What’s up with multitasking in iOS 7? You can still switch apps by doublepressing the Home button, but the switching interface has changed: It now resembles the old interface for switching pages in Safari on iOS 6 and earlier, where you see a thumbnail of the page. A row of app icons still appears below, and you can swipe back and forth to find the app you require. Force-quitting apps is a bit different – instead of tapping and holding the icon, you flick a thumbnail up to dismiss it. iOS 7 finally brings full multitasking, so any app can run in the background and provide you with up-to-the-minute information as soon as you switch to it. If any app can run in the background, what about battery life? Apple has spent a lot of time making sure that battery life won’t suffer from the new multitasking. The feature tries to collect updates from different apps and run them all at the same time, and keeps an eye on both power efficiency and the current network situation to ensure that the activity doesn’t run down your battery before you find a charger.
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Anything else? If you’ve ever grumbled while navigating three levels deep into Settings to turn off Bluetooth, you’ll love Control Center. This new panel, which you can summon anywhere in iOS by swiping up from the bottom of the screen, gives you easy access to common settings, including Airplane Mode, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Do Not Disturb, Orientation Lock, Brightness, AirDrop and AirPlay. You’ll also find media playback controls, and icons for frequently used apps and utilities.
THE APPS What’s new with the Camera app? The significantly overhauled Camera app offers four modes: standard camera, square camera, panorama and video camera. You can swipe back and forth between them. The app also now includes live photo filters that you can apply to your still or square shots. They’re even nondestructive, in case you want to remove them later. What are Moments and Collections? Made for those people who end up with thousands of pictures in their Camera rolls, Moments and Collections offer a better way to organise photos. Just as iPhoto on the Mac can sort pictures into events, Photos on iOS can use metadata such as time and location to create different Moments. Collections are larger groupings of Moments, often all the photos you took in a general area (say, around your house) during a time period of several months. You can zoom out even further to a yearly view. So iOS 7 has AirDrop? Yes, it does. AirDrop in iOS 7 lets you exchange files such as photos, Passbook passes and contacts between two iOS-device users over Wi-Fi or Bluetooth, without any configuration. AirDrop appears in the
Photo fun. iOS 7’s camera app comes with a set of filters.
Share sheet, along with conventional items such as Mail and Messages; you can even use it to share multiple items with multiple people at once. Files end up in the appropriate app, and are encrypted in transit. You can change permissions to determine whether everybody can share with you, or only certain people nearby (or people in your contacts). What we don’t know is whether iOS devices will be able to AirDrop files with Macs. What’s new with Safari? Apple’s web browser has some new tricks up its sleeve. The search and URL fields have merged into one field that suggests URLs, bookmarks and search results as you type. In addition, your favourites are readily available from that screen, giving you one-touch access to bookmarked sites. And the minimalist interface vanishes into the background as you scroll, giving you even more space in which to view content. A new tab interface lets you scroll more quickly through open pages; you’ll also notice the same continuousscrolling reading List and Shared
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