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Cool findings by Studio Neat, makers of Frameographer:
What Apple means by “dynamically selected intervals” is they are doubling the speed of the time-lapse and taking half as many pictures per second as the recording duration doubles. Sounds complex, but it’s actually very simple.
Make sure to check out the table with numbers and the videos. In typical Apple fashion, the default solution is clever and simple, leaving room for third-party apps to offer more.
Bing Translator, the action extension that was demoed at WWDC ‘14, has become available on iOS 8 today with an update to Microsoft’s Bing app. I’m not a Bing user, but I was curious to check out the extension as it intrigued me since the original demo by Craig Federighi in June.
Apple aired two new iPhone commercials last night, showcasing the new size of the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus as well the improved cameras on both devices.
Narrated by Jimmy Fallon and Justin Timberlake, the ads are called “Huge” and “Cameras”. In the first ad, Fallon tries to explain the additions to the new iPhones with Timberlake simply remarking that they’re “huge”. In the second ad, they go into more detail about new features such as time-lapse mode, Slo-Mo at 240 fps, and image stabilization, showing various parts of iOS 8’s UI from the Camera and Photos apps.
Apple announced yesterday that 10 million iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus units were sold over the opening weekend, a new record for the company. You can watch both ads below.
Evernote released version 5.6 of their Mac app today. Hidden behind a seemingly minor update is a series of important changes to the desktop app that make it faster to sync and that bring welcome new features not available in Evernote for iOS.
The Evernote blog has the details, but, to sum up, I’ve found Evernote 5.6 (public beta testing started a few months ago) to be faster and more reliable than before both in terms of sync and startup times. I’ve seen less conflicted copies of notes (they used to be a problem in shared notebooks) and there’s a ton of other fixes and improvements in the note editor. For instance, images can now be resized and checkboxes are larger and easier to click.
Two of my favorite changes include an easier way to create tables inside notes…
…and the ability to look for specific notes with Spotlight. Here’s how an Evernote search looks like in Yosemite:
Combined with version 7.5 for iOS (which added a great share extension), it’s been a good month for Evernote on Apple platforms. I like that the company is making good on their promise of improving their apps throughout 2014.
Georgia and Rene have made the best video about one-handed use for the new iPhones I’ve seen to date. Short, practical examples (replace the Starbucks cup with an espresso in my case), and I’ve finally seen what Reachability looks like in motion.
For someone with relatively big hands, this gives me hope:
The iPhone 6 holds up relatively well. Even with my tiny hands I can still walk, type, and drink effectively. I do have to alter my grip slightly, in the same way I had to alter it when I went from the iPhone 4s to iPhone 5, but it remains extremely doable. Part of that is the thinner, rounder body, which is larger than the iPhone 5 but lighter even than the iPhone 4s. So, it might take some getting used to, and you might have to give your brain a few days to wire in new habits, but you you be just fine.
Work doesn’t stop when you leave your desk (although most intranet software will have you believe that).
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Serenity Caldwell has a great overview of the capabilities of the new iPhone 6 camera.
I’m mostly going to let the demo video I took (starring Hayley Contagious of the Boston Derby Dames) speak for itself. We shot, cut, and posted this in under two hours, using only an iPhone 6—no tripod, no Steadicam, no accessories. In fact, every shot you see in that video was with me running around in boots following Hayley’s motion—I wasn’t even on skates to try and stabilize the camera.
I’m particularly glad that Serenity published several photos and videos shot on the iPhone 6 (not the Plus) in real-life scenarios (dance floor photos? Very welcome example). These give me confidence that I’m making the right decision this weekend.
Developed by Paul Hudson, View Source is a $0.99 Universal app that, as the name largely implies, lets you view the source code for webpages (HTML, CSS, and JavaScript) in iOS’ Safari with an action extension.
