[accesscomp] FW: iOS 8 additions promise to streamline how you communicate and share, Dan's tip for Wednesday June 4 2014
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Subject: iOS 8 additions promise to streamline how you communicate and
share, Dan's tip for Wednesday June 4 2014
Good morning to all,
I hope everyone who were in the storm in our area is unharmed today.
We had several branches down and power out for several hours. Trucks have
been on our street for most of the morning picking up down branches in the
road and on sidewalks. Have an awsome Wednesday!
iOS 8 additions promise to streamline how you communicate and share
byy Anthony Domanico , Macworld
Jun 2, 2014 12:27 PM
Anthony Domanico is a freelance journalist covering consumer technology.
He's passionate about smartphones, tablets, wearables, productivity tools,
gaming, and streaming.
iOS users will have plenty of new things to familiarize themselves with this
fall. That's when iOS 8 arrives, and Apple's updated mobile operating system
promises a slew of new features and enhancements that aim to help you
communicate and share more easily.
While most of us will have to wait until the fall to really explore the many
changes announced Monday during the
<http://www.macworld.com/article/2158172/live-blog-wwdc-2014-keynote.html>
Worldwide Developers Conference keynote, app makers and developers will get
an early crack at iOS 8, with a pre-release version available now for anyone
with a developer account. Here are the features we're most excited to see:
Description: Description: wwdc ios 8 notificationsPhoto: Serenity Caldwell
Changes to how you interact with Notifications highlight the new additions
to iOS 8.
Notifications: Perhaps most notably, Apple introduced new interactive
notifications that allow you to respond to alerts without having to leave
the app you're in. Get a calendar invitation, and you can respond, all while
continuing to compose that email or-more likely-play that mobile game. You
can also interact with notifications from your mobile device's lock screen,
swiping on a notification to deal with it.
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The multitasking menu in iOS 8 adds contacts to the top of the screen,
allowing you to communicate with them more quickly.
iOS 7 added the ability to double tap the home button to bring up a
multitasking menu. iOS 8 adds most frequent contacts across the top of the
multitasking menu, allowing you to quickly call, text, or FaceTime friends,
family, or other VIPs.
Mail: Mail will get several new tools in iOS 8, starting with the ability to
add an event to your calendar directly from within an email message. Mail
now incorporates several new gestures into the interface, letting you swipe
to flag, delete, or mark an email as unread. Dragging all the way across on
a message will delete it from your mailbox.
Perhaps one of the coolest feature in iOS 8's Mail will be the ability to
minimize drafts by swiping down. With this feature in place, you'll be able
to more easily grab information from one message and put it in another.
Safari: The built-in browser for iOS is in line for a few updates as well.
Safari's quick-glance tab view from OS X comes to the iPad version of the
browser as will the just-announced sidebar slated for OS X Yosemite, which
<http://www.macworld.com/article/2357764/apple-announces-os-x-yosemite.html>
Apple also previewed on Monday.
Search: OS X's Yosemite update also inspires some new spotlight features in
iOS 8. Searching for "Yosemite," for example, brings up the Wikipedia page
for Yosemite, news, and all other kinds of relevant information.
Keyboard: A new keyboard in iOS 8 will use predictive typing to speed up
input. As you type out words with the new keyboard, recommendations for the
next word based on common phrases will pop up; you can then add those to
your message. We've seen this a bit with the keyboard in the
<http://www.techhive.com/article/2092229/swiftkey-note-review-awesomely-fast
-typing-but-limited-to-just-one-app.html> SwiftKey Note app, but Apple's
solution goes a bit further to learn your personal voice (all the while
maintaining your privacy, Apple executives were quick to add during Monday's
keynote.)
Continuity features: Apple wants better integration between all those
devices you own, so iOS 8 is going to let you pick up on your iPad what you
were doing on your iPhone. That includes taking phone calls on your tablet
by more easily creating a portable hotspot for sharing your phone's
connection.
Messaging: Enhancements in the Messages app in iOS 8 focus on group
messaging; you can add and remove people within a thread. Other enhancements
let you name your thread for easily tracking or turning on a Do Not Disturb
setting for a particular thread. You can share your location with people in
a conversation;if they've shared with you, you can see their location on a
map.
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Tap to Talk in Messages lets you send audio or video messages to your
contacts.
A useful addition to Messages is a Tap to Talk feature that sends audio or
video messages to contacts-and yes, it works with selfies, too. Best of all,
you can listen to and interact with these to messages right from your lock
screen just by putting your phone up to your ear.
iCloud Drive: iCloud Drive promises a better way to work across applications
in iOS 8. For example, if you're working in an app such as Sketchbook, you
can open up a document from another application and edit them in that app.
HealthKit: Craig Federighi, Apple's senior vice president of software
engineering, lamented how different health wearables are unable to talk to
each other and share the information they gather. iOS 8 looks to address
that problem with
<http://www.macworld.com/article/2310813/apple-unveils-healthkit-to-integrat
e-health-and-fitness-data-in-ios-8.html> HealthKit, an attempt to take
health stats and put it in a central repository so you can manage it all
from one app. Partnerships with the Mayo Clinic and Epic Systems (who
provide software for many major hospitals and healthcare organizations) will
make it easier for iPhone users to share key health statistics with their
doctors, in order to better manage their health between checkups.
Family Sharing: iOS 8 introduces better management features to let family
members easily share photos, location, reminders, and many other pieces of
information with each other. The chief benefit here: You're finally going to
get to share music, movies, and TV shows you've bought with other family
members. You can hook in up to six devices. Parents in particular will
appreciate new notifications that alert you when your kids try to make a
purchase.
Photos With iOS 8, photos will be integrated with iCloud so that every photo
you take will be available on all your iOS and OS X devices. To help you
sort through all the photos in iCloud, you can search by location, time, and
albums you've set up. And there are smart editing controls that help you
quickly edit and crop photos from your device.
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Apple's Craig Federighi shows off the new photo features in iOS 8.
Siri. Siri also gets some enhancements in iOS 8. Saying "Hey, Siri" will now
let you interact with Siri in your car so you don't have to touch your phone
while driving. (OK Google, that feature may sound pretty familiar to you.)
Siri will also add Shazam integration to help identify the song that's
currently playing on the radio; you can buy that song using voice commands
from Siri. Apple's digital assistant also gains streaming voice recognition
and 22 new dictation languages in iOS 8.
May these words awaken a joyful moment or need to be laid at the foot of our
Devine Triune Father's Throne and lift you're your spirits this week!
The Tree
soaking in the word of God
deepens the depth
and breadth of hidden roots,
intimacy with the spirit of God
grows the height and length
of sun-hungry limbs,
being filled and overflowing
with the love of God
makes the whole tree burst
and blossom with life,
delight yourself in these
and he will honour you
with masterful pruning
for seasons of outrageous fruitfulness
by <http://www.thoughts-about-god.com/poems/ms_tree.html#bottom> Michael
Sawh
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