Thursday, February 18, 2016

iClarified - Apple News and Tutorials

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iClarified - Apple News and Tutorials

John Mcafee Offers to Decrypt San Bernardino iPhone, Prevent the 'End of America'

Posted: 18 Feb 2016 01:53 PM PST



John Mcafee is offering to decrypt the San Bernardino shooter's iPhone free of charge so that Apple isn't forced to build a back door into its devices. He made the offer to the FBI in an open letter published by TechInsider.

Mcafee notes that the FBI is unable to decrypt the phone because it won't hire the most capable hackers.

"The FBI will not hire anyone with a 24-inch purple mohawk, 10-gauge ear piercings, and a tattooed face who demands to smoke weed while working and won't work for less than a half-million dollars a year."





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PayPal Releases Completely Redesigned App for iPhone

Posted: 18 Feb 2016 01:35 PM PST



PayPal has released a completely redesigned app for iPhone and iPod touch featuring more account info, a new request money flow, new start screen, and more.

Send money to almost anywhere in the world in just seconds. Manage all the ways you send, receive, and spend money at a glance - it's all here.

What's New In This Version:
• A completely refreshed design
• New start screen that provides faster access to your most important account info and the top actions you take
• Send and Request Money pages that can be personalized with the people you exchange money with most - including your phone contacts
• Completely new request money flow that allows others to pay you with just one click
• Greater account info including 3-years of history and how you funded your payments and the money you sent
• Yes, basically everything is new





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Apple Releases Updated Version of iOS 9.2.1 to Fix 'Error 53'

Posted: 18 Feb 2016 11:41 AM PST



Apple has released an updated version of iOS 9.2.1 via iTunes to fix an issue that could brick iPhones or iPads serviced by unauthorized repair shops. The Guardian first noticed the issue that was caused by replacement of the Touch ID Home button by an unauthorized technician.

Apple describes what users may encounter:

After you try to update or restore your iOS device in iTunes on your Mac or PC, you might see error 53 in iTunes and "Connect to iTunes" on your device. Error 53 appears when a device fails a security test. This test was designed to check whether Touch ID works properly before the device leaves the factory, and wasn't intended to affect customers.





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Dual Camera iPhone 7 and Pink iPhone 5se Concept [Video]

Posted: 18 Feb 2016 09:26 AM PST



CURVED/labs has posted a new concept video for a dual camera iPhone 7 and a pink iPhone 5se.

The new iPhone [5se] is supposed to have a 4-inch-display and the overall design of the iPhone 6s with most technical features of the iPhone 6, besides the newer A9 chipset. And although the launch of the iPhone 7 and the bigger iPhone 7 Plus is expected for September, the rumor mill is already spinning. According to some reports, Apple could drop the headphone jack. Also the company could modify the back of the smartphone regarding the antenna bands. Besides that the iPhone 7 Plus could feature a dual-camera.






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Apple Launches New iPhone 'Trade Up With Installments' Plan

Posted: 18 Feb 2016 08:04 AM PST



Apple has launched a new iPhone 'Trade Up With Installments' plan that lets users trade in an old iPhone or other smartphone, apply that value to a new iPhone, and pay off the remaining cost of the new iPhone in installments over 24 months. The plan is only available in the U.S. and in Apple Stores, reports CNET.

If you're trading in an iPhone in good working condition, the payments range from about $15 to $35 a month, depending on how many models you jump up to. If you're switching from the iPhone 4 to the 128GB iPhone 6S Plus, for instance, you'll pay $35.37 a month. But if you're moving from an iPhone 5 to an iPhone 6, you'll pay $14.54 a month.

The new program joins Apple's basic trade-in program and iPhone Upgrade Program. The basic trade-in program pays users up to $350 for an older or damaged iPhone. The iPhone Upgrade program lets you get the latest iPhone with AppleCare+ by paying in 24 monthly installments. When a new iPhone comes out you can simply take yours to the Apple Store and trade it in for the new model and restart your monthly payments.





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Apple's Chief Chipmaker Johny Srouji Profiled

Posted: 18 Feb 2016 07:44 AM PST



Bloomberg has posted a profile on Apple's Senior Vice President for Hardware Technologies, Johny Srouji. An Israeli who joined Apple after working at Intel and IBM, Srouji speaks Arabic, French, and Hebrew, and is described as compact and intense.

"Hard is good. Easy is a waste of time," he responds when asked about increasingly thin iPhone designs. "The chip architects at Apple are artists, the engineers are wizards," he says. "When designers say, 'This is hard', my rule of thumb is if it's not gated by physics, that means it's hard but doable."

Srouji runs what is probably the most important and least understood division inside the world's most profitable company. Since 2010, when his team produced the A4 chip for the original iPad, Apple has immersed itself in the costly and complex science of silicon. It develops specialized microprocessors as a way to distinguish its products from the competition. The Apple-designed circuits allow the company to customize products to perfectly match the features of its software, while tightly controlling the critical trade-off between speed and battery consumption.





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Microsoft Launches 25 Person Group Video Calling for Skype

Posted: 18 Feb 2016 07:19 AM PST



Microsoft has announced the launch of 25 person Skype group video calling. The feature is rolling out now to users on iPhone, iPad, and Android in Western Europe and North America. The roll-out in these markets should be completed over the next week or so with full availability worldwide expected in March.

For the ultimate get together experience, group video calls are in glorious HD quality and optimized specifically for the device you're using, giving a more natural feel to the call. The person talking is displayed front and center and video is immersive and full screen. Audio is also crystal clear, thanks to our SILK Super Wide Band audio codec in our cloud conferencing stack. To achieve this, we're proud to have worked with one of Microsoft's biggest partners, Intel, which helped enable us to optimize SILK Audio specifically for Azure running on Intel processors.

The group video calling feature was previously limited to 5 participants but is now capable of conferencing 25 participants. You can flip between a grid view and a focus view where Skype automatically focuses on the active speaker, or lets you choose which participant to 'Pin' to the stage.





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You No Longer Need an @Gmail Email Address to Use Gmail [Video]

Posted: 17 Feb 2016 11:22 PM PST



Google has announced that it's now possible to use Gmail without an @gmail email address.

For the last year, you've been able to access your email from other providers, like Yahoo! Mail or Outlook.com, in the Gmail app on Android. And we've been getting lots of great feedback from those of you that do. Many of you would like more of Gmail's powerful features, like spam protection and inbox organization, on these accounts—but don't want to go through the hassle of changing your email address. We agree. So starting today, if you use Yahoo! Mail or Hotmail/Outlook.com, you now have the option to Gmailify your inbox.

Gmailify links your existing account to Gmail, letting you use all its features without having to leave your current address behind. To use the feature, open the Gmail app, sign in to your email account(s), and enable Gmailify.





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AppKed

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AppKed

CleanApp 5.1 – Application deinstaller and archiver.

Posted: 18 Feb 2016 05:36 AM PST

CleanApp 5.1

CleanApp is an application deinstaller and archiver…. Your hard drive gets fuller day by day, but do you know why? CleanApp 5 provides you with insights how to reclaim disk space. There are definitely tons of unused files on your hard drive – CleanApp will help you to find and delete them. CleanApp 5 has been re-developed from scratch and offers a comprehensive and convenient user interface.

Delete applications completely. Any app you install and run in OS X creates a large number of associated files in your system – hidden in places you wouldn’t expect them to be. Therefore, free hard drive space will shrink continuously – even if you delete the software after testing and especially if you are trying out lots of applications. CleanApp 5 brings light into the darkness and helps you to tidy up your system.

CleanApp relies on sophisticated methods for analysing files and applications. There is even a background service monitoring all file activity – this way, no application can hide anything from you. Furthermore, CleanCommunity significantly enhances CleanApp’s ability to find unnecessary data eating up space on your hard drive. By using our giant database with uninstallation information about virtually thousands of applications, tracing down leftover files becomes even more reliable.

System maintenance. OS X runs maintenance scripts at predefined intervals, removing for example temporary files that haven’t been used in a long time. If you use your computer heavily, these intervals might be too long. CleanApp allows you to run maintenance scripts manually and to speed up your system this way. CleanApp is also able to scan and repair your file system or rebuild the Spotlight index.

Acorn 5.3 – Bitmap image editor.

Posted: 18 Feb 2016 05:26 AM PST

Acorn 5.3

Acorn is a new image editor built with one goal in mind – simplicity. Fast, easy, and fluid, Acorn provides the options you'll need without any overhead. Acorn feels right, and won't drain your bank account.

  • Take screenshots using Acorn and edit them right away.
  • Chain together image filters to create stunning effects.
  • Layer based image editing, an industry standard.
  • Make new images and layers using your built-in iSight.
  • Easy image and canvas resizing, just by changing the size of your window.
  • Take advantage of every pixel of your monitor with full screen image editing.
  • Tablet sensitive for pressure strokes and using the tablet's eraser.
  • Vector shape and text layers.
  • Freeform, elliptical, rectangular, and magic wand selections.
  • Gradients.
  • Create and apply custom text styles.
  • Control opacity and blending modes for each layer.
  • Write plugins using the Python scripting language, as well as in Objective-C.
  • GPU powered. The same graphics card that makes your gaming experience smooth, helps Acorn fly through the toughest of graphics operations.

Gestimer 1.1.3 – Create reminders using a unique gesture.

Posted: 18 Feb 2016 05:20 AM PST

Gestimer 1.1.3

Gestimer is a beautiful Mac menu bar app for those little reminders during the day. Simply drag the Gestimer menu bar icon onto the screen to create your reminder.

Do you constantly check the time while using your Mac because you don’t want to forget to leave the house in 10 minutes, to pick up the kids at 4pm, or to turn off the stove in 3 minutes? With Gestimer you can create such short-term reminders quickly and easily.

  • Drag & drop a quick reminder with this beautifully designed Mac menu bar app
  • Quickly add descriptions to your reminders
  • Receive a notification for your reminders

RightFont 3.2.0 – Manage and find fonts quickly; integrates with Photoshop and Sketch.

Posted: 18 Feb 2016 05:16 AM PST

RightFont 3.2.0

RightFont is a lightweight font manager with a clean, beautiful interface. It offers many features which help you manage all your local fonts with ease.

  • Font-Management Access Anytime Directly From Your Menubar
  • Mark Any Font as Starred With a Click
  • Create and Manage Font Lists
  • Access Fonts Directly in Adobe Creative Cloud (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Flash, AfterEffect), Sketch, Etc.
  • Instant Search Results as You Type
  • Change Font Preview and Font Size in Realtime
  • Find the Right Font Faster
  • Easily filter fonts by classifications (Sans Serif, Serif, Script, etc.), font width and font weight. Even Google fonts and Adobe TypeKit fonts are listed separately for you.
  • Effortless Integrations – You can use RightFont app with design software. With a simple double-click, the font used in your text layer can be changed.

SmartAlbums 2.0.11 – A revolutionary software that will allow create photo albums fast.

Posted: 18 Feb 2016 05:12 AM PST

SmartAlbums

SmartAlbums is a revolutionary software that will allow create photo albums fast and really fun! Easy installation, saving time, creative! Experiment with design, mix and arrange the photos … Use your predefined templates, or use the opportunity to create your own. SmartAlbums established photographers and graphic designers with the use of innovative technology, which is very easy to use.

ALBUMS ARE NOW EASY

EASY SET UP

  • No need to know bleeds, safe
  • zones, or any other print jargon.
  • Pick your print company & album
  • size, and we set up the rest.

SAVE TIME

  • No more designing spreads or
  • searching for templates.
  • Simply pick your images and
  • immediately see a design.

BE CREATIVE

  • With Dynamic Album Design™
  • experimenting is fast & easy. Change
  • spread designs, add & delete
  • images, and switch photos instantly.

Viscosity 1.6 – Graphical user interface for OpenVPN.

Posted: 18 Feb 2016 02:06 AM PST

Viscosity 1.6

Viscosity is an OpenVPN client for Mac, providing a rich Cocoa user interface for creating, editing, and controlling VPN connections. Viscosity provides a complete OpenVPN solution for OS X 10.5 Leopard, and does not require any additional downloads or software.

With Viscosity and OpenVPN you can securely connect to your home or company network from a remote location, protect your network traffic when using public or wireless networks, access websites with country restrictions, and tunnel through restrictive firewalls and proxy servers to give your computer full Internet access.

Viscosity can connect to any VPN server running OpenVPN, including most popular free and commercial VPN providers. Viscosity allows connections to be completely configured through a GUI, without any need to know how to use the command-line or OpenVPN’s configuration-file syntax. Advanced users still have full manual control over configuration options if desired.

Features include:

  • Cocoa GUI
  • Connection and traffic statistics
  • Multiple simultaneous connections
  • Robust DNS Support
  • Keychain integration
  • System proxy integration
  • Deployment features designed for enterprise
  • Easy connection importing
  • Growl integration

Greeting Card Shop 3.0.4 – Create cards for life’s special moments.

Posted: 18 Feb 2016 01:52 AM PST

Greeting Card Shop 3.0.4

Greeting Card Shop helps you create cards for life’s special moments. Whether you’re sending an invitation for a birthday, or sharing your sympathies, the software makes it easy to stay close to those who are important to you. The fastest, easiest way to create greeting cards and invitations!

Labelist 9.0.4 – Design and print labels, envelopes, letterheads (was SOHO Labels).

Posted: 18 Feb 2016 01:47 AM PST

Labelist 9.0.4

Labelist is the #1 label software for Mac and includes everything needed to design and print professional labels, envelopes, and letterhead. It comes with:

  • hundreds of templates;
  • a stunning collection of matching label, envelope, and letterhead sets;
  • 100+ super-masks;
  • and an amazing collection of artwork.

Labelist is compatible with over 2,500 popular label, DVD/CD label, and envelope stocks including those from Avery, PaperDirect, DYMO, APLI, Formtec, and more.

Boom Recorder 8.6.5 – Audio recorder for live events, film.

Posted: 18 Feb 2016 01:41 AM PST

Boom Recorder 8.6.5

Boom Recorder is a multitrack field recorder. It has been designed to be used during the high stress production of a tv/film shoot, a concert, or a live stage performance. Boom Recorder has many metadata fields that is are used during a film production, making it easy to keep track of the many audio files in post production. For concerts and live stage performances it is possible to record up to 128 (Boom Recorder Pro) tracks continuously for many hours.

Features:

  • 16-bit, 24-bit integer, and 32-bit float sample formats.
  • 48 kHz, 96 kHz, 192 kHz, and other sample rates, with optional fake pull up for each.
  • Broadcast WAVE Format (BFW) audio file format; compatible with most digital audio and video editing workstations.
  • Can either jam or continuous sync against timecode signal read from any audio channel, or use wall clock time in cases where no timecode signal is available.
  • Long recordings are continued over multiple 2 GB audio files.
  • multi-polyphonic file handling; allows multiple copies of audio in mono, stereo, and polyphonic audio files.
  • Stores metadata such as project, scene, take, roll, date, and track names in the iXML chunk and in the sound reports.
  • Solution for reading BWF files into Final Cut Pro with timecode.

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Metadatics 1.5.5.1 – Powerful audio metadata editor.

Posted: 18 Feb 2016 01:37 AM PST

Metadatics 1.5.5.1

Metadatics is a powerful and advanced audio metadata editor. It supports batch editing of most common audio file types including MP3, M4A, AIFF, WAV, FLAC, APE, OGG, WMA, and more. Lookup metadata from online sources, rename files based on metadata, or manipulate metadata using one of the many built in functions. Metadatics provides all you need to edit metadata with ease and flexibility.

Features
  • Batch Editing – Edit multiple files at once quickly and easily.
  • Functions – Metadatics has a number of built in function to quickly manipulate data. Replace text, remove characters from the beginning or end of a tag, generate number sequences, copy from tag-to-tag, and much more!
  • Online Sources – Search for album artwork and tags from sources including Amazon and MusicBrainz.
  • Album Artwork – Metadatics supports reading and writing multiple images per file. Artwork can be extracted from files and saved as a separate image file. You can also search for artwork from online sources including Amazon.
  • File Rename – Generate directory structures and rename files based on metadata.
  • Support For Many Metadata Formats – Metadatics supports reading and writing ID3v1, ID3v2, MP4, Vorbis, APE, and ASF tags all from a variety of audio file types.

GraphicConverter 9.7.5 – Graphics editor with powerful features.

Posted: 18 Feb 2016 12:35 AM PST

GraphicConverter 9.7.5

GraphicConverter is an all-purpose image-editing program that can import 200 different graphic-based formats, edit the image, and export it to any of 80 available file formats.

The high-end editing tools are perfect for graphic manipulation as well as the ability to use Photoshop-compatible plug-ins. It offers batch-conversion capabilities, a slide-show window, and so much more.

Yate 3.10.1 – Tag and organize your audio files.

Posted: 18 Feb 2016 12:29 AM PST

Yate 3.10.1

Yate was developed for people who are serious about tagging and organizing their audio files. The application was designed from the ground up for Mac users. It is a 100% Cocoa-written application and uses its own tagging library. Yate will tag mp3, m4a, aiff, flac, wav and dsf files.

Yate has a long list of features; most importantly, an innovative scripting system called actions. Actions can be used to update all of an album’s tags with a single operation. Yate also supports integration with Discogs, MusicBrainz, AcoustID and iTunes. All changes can be easily reverted and individual changes can be undone in any order. Whether you want to automatically or manually tag your files, Yate can do it all!

Sync Folders Pro 3.2.9 – Automatically sync any number of folders.

Posted: 18 Feb 2016 12:12 AM PST

Sync Folders Pro 3.2.9

Sync Folders Pro synchronizes any number of local folders on-the-fly whenever there are changes, or on external drives either manually or at a set time (when connected).

The app synchronizes folders with or without filter for folder names and / or file names.

Sync Folders Pro is perfect for backup to USB, memory cards, disks on remote computers on your network, or folders on Cloud services (Dropbox, etc.). It’s compatible with OS X 10.9 and Retina displays.

Try it for free with the free version, which is available on the website, and compare the sync speed and stability versus similar apps (for more than 50,000 files). The comparison of two folders (6.24 GB and 92 470 files in each folder) is one minute.

Features:

  • Sync any number of folders same time.
  • 6 modes of synchronizing.
  • Tracking deletions in synchronized folders, real 2-way sync.
  • Automatic synchronization on the fly, when there are changes.
  • Schedule your synchronization for any time.
  • Synchronize Macs across a network.
  • Synchronize external drives (USB, memory cards, etc.) with your Mac, and vice versa.
  • Synchronize between local folders Mac and folders on Cloud services (Dropbox, etc.)
  • Powerful filter for files and/or folders on the entry and/or exclusion.
  • View the latest changes in synchronized folders. Quick view last changes and Finder integration.
  • Saving the synchronized files in a specific location («Del folders»). Using this mode you are insured against accidental deletion of files, and can always return all the files even if you are re-sync a few times. Structure of folders and subfolders stored in the «Del Folder».
  • Each sync task has the status showing when it was done last time.
  • Run as menu-bar app.
  • Work in the background.
  • Save / Load the settings to the file.
  • Logging of the synchronization process.
  • Localization of the application in multiple languages (Český, Dansk, Deutsch, English, Español, Français, Italiano, Nederlands, Norsk, Polski, Português, Slovenski, Suomi, Svenska, Ελληνικά, Pусский, العربية, 한국어를 지원합니다, 中国的, 日本人).
  • The ability to create your own localization based on available localization (user’s localization).
  • Save / Load the version of the localization to / from the file.

iLock 2.0 – Password-protect any OS X application.

Posted: 18 Feb 2016 12:05 AM PST

iLock 2.0

iLock password-protects any OS X application from unauthorized usage without modifying anything in your system settings and/or applications. It is safe to use!
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