iOS 7 preview: Photos automagically filters your life into collections, moments, and more
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Just like its partner, the Camera app, the iOS 7 Photos app is newly objectified, gamified, and... filter-fied?
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Forget icons and typefaces, iOS 7 is the birth of dynamic interface
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I've been watching the iOS 7 video over and over again since WWDC 2013. Part of that is because I'm writing our iOS 7 preview series, and part of it is because there's just so much to unpack about what we were shown, it's implications and ramifications. From the moment Tim Cook debuted it on the keynote stage, and the audience's breath caught at the parallax and their smiles intensified...
Apple releases iOS 7 beta 3 - download it now (if you're a developer)!
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Apple has just released iOS 7 beta 3 to developers. It's available both as an over the air (OTA) download and, if past is prologue, it'll be available soon from Apple's developer web site (assuming, of course, you're a registered iOS developer). Apple's public information about iOS 7 beta 3 indicates bug fixes and improvements. iOS 7 is covered under Apple's Non-Disclosure Agreement (...
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Do you want 3rd party software keyboards on your iPhone? [Poll]
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Would you use 3rd party software keyboards on your iPhone? Earlier today, as part of Talk Mobile, we talked about the importance of keyboards. The iPhone has a virtual, software keyboard designed by Kenneth Kocienda et. al, back in 2007. Inarguably impressive for its time, it combined useful auto-completion and auto-correction, and grew to encompass an amazing array of languages and...
iOS 7 preview: Phone, FaceTime, and Messages blocking promises to put an end to annoying contacts
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With iOS 7, Apple is adding the ability to block people from reaching - especially disturbing or otherwise harassing - you via the phone, FaceTime, and Messages. One of the downsides of the constant connectivity we enjoy on the iPhone is constant availability, and while it's annoying when people we know expect us to respond 2/47, it's even more annoying when wrong numbers or malicious...
iOS 7 preview: Lock screen gains access to notifications, controls, some confusion
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The Lock screen exists in some between-space, where your iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad are no longer off or asleep, but nor are they fully awake and functional yet. With iOS 7, however, Apple has greatly increased the Lock screen's functionality, mainly by giving it access to Notification Center and the new Control Center, while retaining its own notifications and fast Camera access.
iOS 7 vs. Instagram vs. Google+ vs. Twitter: Black & White photo filter comparison
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I recently previewed the new Camera app Apple will be releasing alongside iOS 7 this fall, and one of the things that stood out for me the most was not so much the inclusion of built-in photo filters - everyone seems to be adding those these days - but the subtly and restraint shown in which filters Apple chose to include. Not only aren't there any tilt-shifts, frames, borders, or...
iOS 7 preview: Camera gains real-time filters, and... a square
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The Camera app has gotten the same objectified and gamified makeover as the rest of iOS 7, but Apple also managed to sneak in a few new features as well. First is, um,Square mode. The second is Filters. The bigger news, however, is what was taken away, including the signature shutter animation and button treatments are gone.
iOS 7 preview: Multitasking for every app, coalesced and just-in-time
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iOS 7 finally brings multitasking to everyone on the iPhone, iPod, and iPad. And by everyone, I mean every app, at practically any time. Of course, iOS has always had fantastic multitasking. From the very first demo of the very first iPhone by Steve Jobs in 2007, its ability to fade music out, take a phone call, grab a picture and email it, then return to the phone call, hang up, and...
iOS 7 preview: Sprite Kit and UIKit dynamics promise easier games, game-like apps
I've written a lot already about how Apple is changing the interface game by making iOS 7 not only objectified but gamified. It almost feels like you play it as much as you use it. The original iPhone's interface required good enough OpenGL support that it eventually birthed a mobile gaming empire. iOS 7's physics and particle engine -- rumored to have been built by a first-class gaming...