WWDC 2013 Quick Notes and Anouncements Mac OS X Dubbed Maverick allows you to now use AirPlay with your connected screen as a full second monitor experience. Tweaks have also been made on the back end to the OS to allow for better battery life through power optimization apps. Safari now has an overhauled look including a side bar of your bookmarks that you can browse from directly and article to article scrolling under your Reading list. Claiming less energy use than both Chrome and FireFox. Along with Retina display optimization. The new iCloud KeyChain feature allows you to sync all your passwords and credit card info in one place with encryption. You can also receive Push Notifications from your iOS devices on Maverick, along with automatic App updating in the background. You can do a map search on your Mac and then push it directly to your iPhone. Maverick is coming this Fall. New MacBook Air Line boasts All Day Battery Life using Haswell UIT from Intel. 12 hours of battery on the 11” Air and 9 hours on the 13’” Air. New AirPort Hubs boast improved Wi-Fi with room for an internal hard drive. Sneak Peak at the future of the Mac Pro it’s a sleek black glossy cylinder shaped device with a long list of power house components. It’s 1/8th of the volume of the previous chassy along with a motion sensor that lights up the port locations when turned. iCloud has now hit over 300 Million accounts and will now give you iWork for iCloud similar to the features of Google Docs and Microsoft Office 365. This will be available later this year. iOS 7 HUGE OVERHAUL!!!A new clean lock screen with a moving wallpaper that tracks the motion of your iPhone and adjusts the app icons as you move it. New Gamecenter, Clocks, Weather and much more updated and redesigned. A full screen weather display with animated forecast. Calendar has been cleaned up and given new colors along with the same treatment for Messaging, Mail, GameCenter and Notification Center which is now available from the lock screen. Folders can now host multiple pages. Control Center allows you to swipe up and get to important apps quickly. Multi-Tasking is now for all apps. Safari now has a full screen look with a smart search field and one tap access to you favorites along with bookmark scrolling. You can go backwards to a webpage with a simple thumb swipe, with continuous article scrolling in your Reading list just like Maverick. Control Center is accessed by swiping up from the bottom of the display to access your brightness, flashlight, calculator and even your music. Double Tapping now gives you multi tasking to jump between apps seamlessly. Airdrop allows you to simply share items with your friends without bumping phones and utilizes peer to peer Wi-Fi. Available for the iPhone 5 and 4th Gen iPads. Siri has now been given a similar overhaul along with voice changes which you can use either a Male or Female voice and updated enhancements for using Siri to turn on/off Bluetooth or brighten the screen. iOS in the car gives seamless Siri integration “Eyes-Free”. The App Store has also received a beautiful overhaul along with automatic App updating. iTunes Radio is built right into the Music App with many similar features to that of Pandora, It’s free with ads and ad free for subscribers. Face Time Audio is now available that allows you to make calls over Wi-Fi. iOS 7 will be available this Fall.
Posted on: Mon, 10 Jun 2013 18:59:37 +0000