Innehållsförteckning för 1 June 2015 från MacLife

WHEN THEY start making games on a new platform like Apple Watch, developers have to ask what problem the tech solves. There seem to be two main advantages over the iPhone here: first, the process of receiving and responding to notifications is going to be quicker and more intimate; second, Apple Watch will allow entirely new kinds on input based on movement and biometric data. The former runs the risk of exacerbating some of the most shallow gameplay trends of iOS. The latter could allow games not possible on any other platform. My biggest worry with Apple Watch is a flood of cheap, notification-heavy games. Look at Tiny Tower, a hit game where you build shops and click through notifications to get money and build new floors. There’s an addictive…

ADD A WATERMARK TO EVERY PAGE OF ADOCUMENT – Just to set your levels of expectations for this tip, we haven’t uncovered a way by which Pages can actually add a real watermark – that is, a design that becomes visible when you hold the paper up to a light – to your documents! No, this just adds a light-colored graphic automatically to every page of a word processing document – perhaps a company logo or the word “Confidential.” Once you’ve set up a style, you can then share it with others and add it to your templates Prepare your graphic, and if you’re doing anything even remotely complex, the easiest way to do it is in a page layout document rather than a word processing document (even though you’ll…

This project began with a simple invite. The curator of the UK’s Brighton Festival was keen on the idea of an hour-long performance piece based on the music of Joy Division, and composer and sound artist Robin Rimbaud (scannerdot.com) became the “creative catalyst,” working with members of band Three Trapped Tigers and the renowned Heritage Orchestra. The result was Live_Transmission (joydivisionreworked.com), an ambitious audio-visual performance. “I was given free rein,” says Rimbaud. He and visual artist Matt Watkins began looking through photos of Salford – a suburb of Manchester – where Joy Division formed and of singer Ian Curtis. Rimbaud composed music that “spoke of Joy Division or resonated with the original tunes, harmonies and melodies.” He adds, “The last thing I was interested in was doing cover versions.” The…

LOCATION AWARENESS We love Continuity and the manner in which Apple is thoughtfully increasing integration between devices, but we wish the system would be a bit more intelligent. If you’re busy working on your Mac and a message comes in, you might welcome a notification on your screen. Chances are you won’t be thrilled by all of your nearby iPads and iPhones blaring out the same notification over the next few seconds. We’d like devices to be more aware of their proximity to each other, intelligently feeding notifications and actionable alerts to the device you’re working with, not all of them. Again, this could be optional, should you thrive on cacophony. NIGHT MODE We’d like our eyes to still function at night – too much to ask? When iOS 7…

Free Developer Slide Rule Software, sliderulesoftware.com Platform iPhone, iPod touch Requirements iOS 6 or later Glass Planner is a productivity aid that attempts to seamlessly integrate your calendar and to-do lists. In the “Plan” tab, you create and browse appointments, events and to-dos in a view that resembles Fantastical’s Day Ticker. “Act” forces focus on tasks that can still be completed today, while “Done” is a browsable archive of completed and past items. The app initially overwhelms, but assists with liberal pop-up tutorials and by forcing you to start off in the streamlined mode “Simple Glass.” Don’t skip ahead if you want to get to grips with the concepts. You can then upgrade, although features are split in three (essentially: projects/tags, visuals, and unlimited checklists), with varying pricing and distasteful…

$4.99 Developer Rogue Rocket Games, gunpowdergame.com Platform iPad Requirements iOS 6 or later Destruction is fun – just ask any kid who’s got a bit bored with their LEGO creation, or an adult who’s braved the cold to watch a demolition. Here, you’re laying trails of gunpowder to ignite kegs and make safes go boom, supposedly taking the money to give to the poor, like a pyromaniac Robin Hood. Dragging your finger across the screen lays a trail of the powder, and you’re given extra kegs to lay, cannons to fire, trains to dodge, or any combination of these and more. Watching the chain reactions go off is satisfying, like triggering the endgame in a round of Mouse Trap – except the mouse ends up as paste. It starts simple,…

$1.99 Developer Tinytouchtales, cardcrawl.com Platform Universal Requirements iOS 7 or later Card Crawl turns fighting monsters and collecting treasure into a super-light card game (run by an adorable beast-man in a tavern). The rules are easy: each turn, up to four cards are dealt in front of you. Once you clear three of them, more cards will be dealt. Get through the entire deck and you win. The trick is that there are six types of card: monster, swords, shields, treasure, potions and special abilities. The entire game involves managing the other card types in order to deal with the monster cards, while collecting as much treasure as possible. Each card has a number denoting its potency. On monster cards, it’s how much life the card has, as well as…

Whether you’re hitting the road, the skies or the rails for your summer vacation this year, getting away from your job can be just as stressful as working. Aside from booking the right hotel, keeping the kids happy and praying that it doesn’t rain all week, there are dozens of little things that can end up spoiling your rest and relaxation. But with just a few apps on your iPhone, this vacation won’t leave you in need of another one. When you’re trying to squeeze as much fun as you can into just a few days, Tripomatic (Free, Universal) will make sure you don’t miss a single attraction. With an exhaustive catalogue of popular points of interest you’ll find something to do in whatever city you’re visiting, and the app…

Recently I helped my father with his iMac and I noticed MacKeeper in the Dock. Since I have heard very bad things about this, I questioned him further and he confided that he had used BitTorrent to view some films and that MacKeeper had “just installed itself.” Has he been infected with a virus and what should I do about it? No, your father has been caught by a trojan. If he casts his mind back, he will probably remember that after his torrent download completed, a pop-up message prompted him for his password in order to install the video or a player for it. OS X displays that message to stop third-party apps installing themselves. Of course, if you manually authorize it, OS X allows the software to install…

MAIL IN OS X has always been a sleek email client compared to many, and features Apple adds tend to be really useful. Often they’re things you hadn’t even realized you needed. Markup in OS X Yosemite’s version of Mail is handy for making notes or highlighting areas on an attached image or PDF without having to open it in another app, such as Preview. Say you want to attach a photo and point out a person, or add some text notes. It’s easier to do with Markup than by writing lengthy explanations in a message. Mail Drop is another useful technology that’s new in Yosemite, and it works almost invisibly. When you are signed into iCloud on your Mac, Mail detects when you try to send an attachment that’s…

1 Install SelfControl If you find it difficult to discipline yourself through the working day, delegate responsibility to SelfControl, which blocks specific sites or total internet access. If you’re running OS X 10.7 or later, get the latest version from selfcontrolapp.com – for Mac OS X 10.5 or 10.6, download the earlier edition using the link below the main download button. Launch it. 2 Build blocks Click Edit Blacklist, then the + on the bottom of the floating panel, and add the name of the first site to block. Repeat this for every site that distracts you when you should be working. To block all internet access, including email, add “*”. Bear in mind that some apps use less obvious domains, so while Twitter is at twitter.com, you may also…

THE APPLE WATCH is finally out! After years of rumors, speculation, and two high-profile press events, it’s now a real thing you can strap on and Force Touch to your heart’s content. Whether or not you bought one or even want one, let’s all take a second to stop and admire its beauty… Okay, moving on: what’s next? Hardcore Apple fans are nothing if not insatiable, always craning our necks for a peek at the next big thing. Thankfully, we may not have to wait for long. The next round of big announcements should come on June 8 at the start of Apple’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference, where Tim Cook traditionally takes the stage to reveal the next iterations of Mac OS X and iOS. This year’s updates may not…

APPLE’S RETINA DISPLAYS have offered a huge amount of detail in the screens of its products for several years now. When it comes to inspecting the crispness of photos, there are few better ways. But there’s more to adding detail to images than just the number of dots on the screen. Most people will be familiar with the term “HDR” at this point, if only because Apple makes it a default in the iOS Camera app. It stands for High Dynamic Range, and in photography, it’s the process of combining photos taken at several different exposures to ensure that you get the most detail out of those photos – picking out extra detail in the shadows or highlights that are lost in normal photos, which are exposed for the middle…

1 Tiko www.tiko3d.com $179 People often say that 3D printers need a company to make them Apple-like – when they really mean “to make them pretty.” But if Apple made one, we’d see a whole different design, with its own unique benefits. That’s what Tiko has done. A unibody enclosure adds strength cheaply, its triangular printing configuration is precise yet inexpensive. It offers detailed printing of fairly large objects, despite having a small footprint. It’s safe, it’s wireless, and it’s one of the best we’ve seen. It should be out later this year. 2 Canon XC10 www.usa.canon.com $2,500 This 4K camcorder from Canon looks odd, but it’s designed to be lightweight and ergonomic, and is outfitted with a high-quality 10x zoom lens and optical image stabilization, for clear, close-up footage…

COMBINE ACTIONS - One of the most powerful but least understood of Keynote’s abilities is how it can combine Actions. Select an object, click Animate and then click Add an Effect. Now you can pick from the list of Basic effects to make it move, rotate, or change size or opacity. But you can make an object move, grow bigger, and rotate, say, all at the same time. Apply your first Action, and then click Add Action to add a second. By default, Actions execute in sequence. Click Build Order at the bottom-right, select the second Action and change On Click to “With Build 1,” By mixing Actions with their order, and the On Click, With Build and After Build options, you can make astonishingly complex animations. CONTROL YOUR PRESENTATIONS…

SHARE PAC KAGES OF FILES – At least currently, iCloud doesn’t let you share a folder of stuff stored on Drive, but there’s still a handy solution if you want to give colleagues easy, centralized access to a collection of files. The trick is to create a single document – and it could be in Pages, Keynote or Numbers, depending on which suits you best and how pretty and interactive you want it to be – and then highlight some text (or additionally in Keynote, select an object) and add a link to it. Copy the link to another document hosted on iCloud, and paste it as the target for this new link. Now you can share this document, and an added bonus is that you can link to the…

When most people work too hard, they get achy. When illustrator Michelle Vandy (looknohands.me) put in too many hours, her arms rebelled and essentially stopped working. “I’d landed an architecture internship and was thrilled to – for the first time – work in my chosen field, but I got overly enthusiastic,” she recalls. Long days were followed by longer evenings, illustrating books. A few months in, her arms were so painful she couldn’t even touch things. A period of reflection followed, with Michelle wondering how she could work a lifetime in architecture if she couldn’t last a few months. She chanced upon an inspirational quote: “You can’t control the world around you. The only thing you can control is the way you respond to it.” She became determined to find…

STABILITY It’s time for Apple to squash those bugs and make OS X and iOS rock-solid Apple has gotten itself into a position where it’s expected to release new hardware like clockwork, and with that comes the demand for new and improved software. Every year, OS X and iOS are refreshed, but there’s a widespread feeling that stability suffers and that bugs are commonplace. As much as we enjoy new features in Apple’s operating systems, we’d be even happier if it took a step back from big additions to make sure things don’t crash so much. FACE TIME Apple’s video-chat is frozen in time; surely we should have group chat by now? FaceTime is incredibly easy to use, assuming you want to talk to someone else who has a piece…

$19.99 Developer The Soulmen, the-soulmen.com Platform iPad Requirements iOS 8 or later After what feels like an endless stream of minimalist iOS text editors, it’s a genuine pleasure to have one that’s not simply more ambitious, but excellent. Ulysses on Mac has always impressed with its design, its features, and ability to combine distractionfree writing with exporting, filing and editing tools capable of handling everything from a quick note to a full novel. Ulysses on iPad… is essentially the same app, offering both one of the best standalone editors, and (usually) automatic, invisible syncing between platforms. Assuming that iCloud plays ball, it’s a joy to use – a library of documents and support for external files, with Markdown to handle the basic formatting and support for Styles to export in…

Free Developer Twitter, twitter.com Platform iPhone, iPod touch Requirements iOS 7.1 or later Apps like this are tough to judge. The service is a perfect 2015 blend of brilliance and bafflement. With Periscope, you can live-broadcast video to the world (or to specific people); they can watch, like and write comments on your stream. The performance is good, and while the usual flurry of “pointless!” and “humanity’s doomed!” greeted the app at launch, experimenting with your own Periscopes and watching others (people you follow or strangers) can be a fascinating and rewarding experience. The app itself is… okay. With more than a few dozen viewers, comments can whizz by too fast, we’d like the option to inset your front camera’s feed in the rear’s (so you could show something in…

$2.99 Developer Mikengreg, touchtonegame.com Platform Universal Requirements iOS 5.1.1 or later Puzzle games don’t often carry a weighty, hard-nosed story, but Touchtone makes it work. As an analyst at an intelligence agency, you must decrypt messages by figuring out puzzle screens. The premise is simple: colored lines stream in from the edges of the screen, and you need to direct them to identically colored receiver spots by moving tiles that redirect or split them into their path. This isn’t the most original conundrum in the world – it’s a more elaborate version of the light/mirror puzzles featured in many adventure games – but it’s been done very well. A key part of the challenge is that moving one of the redirecting tiles means sliding the entire row or column that…

Free ($6.99 full game unlock) Developer Plain Concepts, digitalbossmonster.com Platform iPad Requirements iOS 6 or later This digital card game turns you into a large pixely monster – the boss of some unmade NES game’s final level – tasking you with protecting yourself by building a dungeon from cards you’re dealt. Each card will have a different nasty room, from bottomless pits to beasts’ lairs, that can damage the heroes who will come to your dungeon and try to take you down. These rooms often contain treasure, which will attract more heroes, pulling you into a kind of fantasy arms race. All this time, though, there’s more than one of you bosses – you’re competing against AI or local multiplayer to kill the most heroes. This means you’re not just…

$14.99 Developer CatPig Studios, catpigstudios.com Requirements OS X 10.10 or later Radium is a Mac application offering a comprehensive buffet of internet radio stations based on location, category, or direct search. While earlier releases resided in the menu bar, version 3.0 adopts a small on-screen window where the action takes place; clicking the menu bar now hides the UI instead. A better compromise would be an optional setting that restores the menu bar UI for those who want it. Search is lightning fast and we had no problem finding most favorite stations locally or across the country. There are far more stations available here than from iTunes, and others can be added with a URL; the developer also accepts email requests. Playback takes only seconds to begin, and sound quality…

$49.99 Manufacturer Twelve South, twelvesouth.com Dimensions 8.3x2.8x9.6in Angle 18° Unlike stands that raise your notebook right off a desk, ParcSlope just lifts the back, putting your MacBook at an 18° angle, so the screen is elevated, but you can keep using its keyboard. Rubber protects your Mac from scrapes, a lip keeps it held in place, and cables tuck underneath and through the back to keep them mostly hidden. ParcSlope’s elevation is theoretically designed to allow for more comfortable typing. We can’t talk about any very long-term benefits, but we found it discouraged our habit of resting our hands on the Mac’s body. If we did so, we soon noticed the extra bend in our wrists, which served as a reminder about good posture. However, it doesn’t raise the screen…

$299 Manufacturer Logitech, logitech.com Dimensions 8.9x3.3x3.3in Weight 1.9lb Logitech’s little Boom speaker got good reviews a couple of years ago. This new model sticks with the attractive cylindrical design of the Boom and just makes everything bigger and louder. It’s also sturdy, and can cope with being dropped in water up to a meter deep (about 3.3ft), so it’s a good choice for a beach holiday. It uses Bluetooth for wireless streaming, but there’s 3.5mm connector on the base, along with a micro-USB port for charging the battery. The sound quality is good rather than outstanding, but the chunky design does give it a firm bass sound that works well with dance music. There’s also a MegaBoom app that provides an equalizer. However, the real attraction is the MegaBoom’s sheer…

WE KNOW THAT clearing files and folders from the desktop, emptying caches, archiving documents and sorting out iTunes is important to keep our Macs running smoothly. But who has the time to spend hours weeding out files? If you’re a whizz with AppleScript, or love creating new Automator workflows, you can automate much of the process. Most of us, however, are not AppleScript geniuses and while we can get our heads around Automator, we often don’t have the time. Fortunately, third-party apps can help, and one of our favorites is Hazel. Hazel is a System Preferences pane and, optionally, menu bar icon. When it’s running, it will execute all the rules you have created; you can check and uncheck these to dictate whether or not they execute when Hazel is…

1 Create new message Create a new message in Mail. Markup works on images and PDFs, so drag a file of either kind into the message window. Set the image size control (top-right corner) to Actual Size if you’re going to mark up the document. 2 Open Markup tool Place the pointer over the PDF or image and a box containing an arrow appears in the top-right corner. Click it and choose Markup. (The More item takes you to OS X’s Extensions preferences, where you can disable Markup.) 3 Sketch something Select the Sketch tool (far left) to sketch freehand. If Mail detects you’re trying to draw a particular shape it will auto-correct your sketch. In the palette that appears (top left) is an option to use your exact sketch.…

SAFARI IS PACKED WITH features that make your experience of browsing the web much better. The Smart Search Field offers suggestions of websites and recent news items based on the keywords you type. It also includes a shortcut that enables you to cut down on the number of steps you need to search within a site you’ve previously visited. Sometimes a website’s layout and presentation can be discouraging when it comes to reading a long article. Safari Reader extracts the important content from such pages and presents it in a cleaner view that’s easier to absorb. Web pages that you haven’t added to a Reading List but have left open on another Mac or iOS device can be opened on your Mac in a couple of clicks. Safari also includes…

THE MORE YOU use iOS 8 and an iPhone, the more you realize how, really, you’ve got a personal computer in your pocket. The only thing missing from iOS has been programming and automation – until now. Workflow ($4.99) fixes that by bringing a Mac-like Automator tool to the iOS platform. Workflow integrates with other apps such as Calendar, Contacts, Music, Photos and Videos, and can create PDF documents, share items on social media, save files to Dropbox and a huge range of other tasks. These workflows can be run from within the Workflow app, or turned into extensions and accessed through the Run Workflow option in the Share menu. Workflow is so versatile, you may be at a loss with what to do at first, but there are many…

THE VOICE MEMOS app is incredibly useful for making notes without having to tap them into Notes. It is also the go-to app if you want to make an audio recording of a meeting. Once you’ve made a recording, it’s stored in the app and can be played back, edited or deleted. But what if you want to use it somewhere else – on your Mac, for example? You’ll need to get the memo off your iPhone. There are a number of options for achieving this, including syncing with iTunes. Many of us, however, prefer to use iTunes as infrequently as possible, or avoid it altogether if we can. Thankfully, there are several alternative routes to moving your memos to a Mac, although some of them require you to be…

1 The iTunes way Connect your iPhone to iTunes on your Mac using USB or Wi-Fi. Click the phone icon (top left corner of iTunes) then click Music in the categories that appear below. Check the box labeled “Sync voice memos,” and click Sync (bottom right of iTunes). Your memos will be imported into iTunes. You can play them there, or drag them to your desktop to use elsewhere. 2 Using share sheets In Voice Memos, tap a memo then the Share button to see several options, including AirDrop. In Finder on your Mac, choose Go > AirDrop. If both devices have Wi-Fi and Bluetooth switched on, your Mac will appear under AirDrop on iOS. Tap it. When your Mac alerts you, don’t tap Open (which will import into iTunes).…

The March issue of Mac|Life (#99) had a letter that predicted Apple would “be out of the computer market in a few short years.” My advice for the writer: keep your day job. People who purchase Macs don’t want to build their own PCs. How do I know this? Because Macs, iPads, etc, seem to be very popular, and Apple stores are constantly busy. The main difference between Apple and others is that Apple products are for the vast consumer market while Microsoft is for the price-oriented market, “who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.” The letter writer had a selfish viewpoint, concerned only with himself and what he wants, thinking that he counts more than others. To suggest that the majority of computer purchasers would prefer to…

FALLEN: A2P PROTOCOL $14.99 This turn-based squad strategy game is one for fans of XCOM. It plays on that formula by giving you more flexible options on how you spend each turn, which has huge potential, but the start is very staid and slow going. More options open up, though. One to keep an eye on as it gets polished. VERSION TESTED: 0.5.5 STRIFE FREE This multiplayer battle arena game (like big esport hits DOTA and League of Legends) aims to be a fun, competitive, deep game that’s accessible and removes the problem of harsh online communities by limiting communication. It already offers a polished tutorial, and we’ve been having great fun even in beta. VERSION TESTED: 0.9.4…

1 STAR WARS Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, Harrison Ford $19.99 Join Captain Kirk on the first voyage of the Nostromo as it investigates the appearance of a mysterious monolith on the mo… look, it’s Star Wars – just buy it already! Grab the whole original trilogy for the first time on iTunes and learn every line and detail before The Force Awakens lands at the end of the year. You could get the prequel trilogy too for a bundle price, but we’ll leave that up to you. Have you heard of the “Machete order?” The idea is that the best order to watch the films is IV, V, II, III, VI (skipping I), using the original trilogy as the main story, with the prequels fleshing out Vader’s history before the…

PASSWORD-PROTECT YOUR DOCUMENTS – You can do this for all iWork documents, but spreadsheets can contain especially sensitive data, so it’s most appropriate here. To set a password, pick that option from the File menu. You can add the password to your keychain so you don’t have to enter it when you open the file on your Mac, but be wary of this option. Unless you have other security measures in place, such as your Mac requiring your password to wake from screen saver, this could leave the file vulnerable. If you have to convert your spreadsheet to Excel for sharing with some recipients, you have the option of adding a password to the exported file – but remember that this password only applies to this exported version, not to…

Ricky Rouse Has A Gun is a graphic novel that tells the story of a US war deserter who flees to China and ends up working in a knock-off Disney-style theme park outside Shanghai. On Christmas Day, terrorists storm the park, and Rouse becomes a one-man anti-terrorist outfit – except he’s dressed in a giant mouse costume. “So it’s a very serious book,” jokes its author, Jörg Tittel. The book started out as a screenplay but morphed into a graphic novel when Jörg reasoned that “having a bunch of knock-off Disney characters running around an $80 million production is not going to happen very fast.” He recruited artist John Aggs to help bring Rouse to life. “John hand-drew the art, and then scanned it into his Mac to color and…

$2.99 Developer Tinybop, tinybop.com Platform Universal Requirements iOS 7 or later For all the imagination in kids’ creativity apps, they can feel oddly constrained. Once you’ve built the cookie/doll/car, what’s it for? Just taking a photo seems a sad end to the rollercoaster of creation. That’s where Robot Factory aims to fix things. You start with various bot bodies, to which you can attach a selection of limbs, heads and features. There are few rules: anything can go pretty much anywhere, allowing for creations from the cute to the chilling. You can even customize the sounds your droid makes using the microphone. There’s plenty of diversity, but that’s par for the course in apps like this. The added interest should be in the next step, where you test your new…

$39.99 Developer Flexibits, flexibits.com Requirements OS X 10.10 For many of us, keeping up with work and play requires a different kind of calendar app than what Apple provides, and Fantastical 2 is Flexibits’ response. While it has the look and feel of Apple’s own Calendar, Fantastical brings polished power to organizing your time. At first glance, Fantastical might look like a typical calendar app, especially with its fairly standard day, week, month, and year views for your schedule. But it quickly pulls ahead with features like a powerful, smart “natural language” engine that lets you type the names, locations, and times of your events as if you were just jotting them down, then recognizing times and dates too add to the calendar from them. You can even specify calendars…

$29.99 Developer Synium Software, syniumsoftware.com Requirements OS X 10.9 or later, 64 bit processor When compared head-to-head with apps like Adobe Illustrator, Logoist’s lack of options and simplistic approach may make high-end users bristle; it certainly isn’t as complete as Adobe’s app or sophisticated alternatives such as the excellent Affinity Designer. But what Logoist does offer is a fun and enjoyable way to create vector images, which uses the features it has in an interesting and different way. With its three-column layout, everything is on show in Logoist; your layers palette sits on the left, properties on the right, with the image in the center. This can be annoying, since you lose space for your artwork, and familiar elements such as color selection are hidden away in panels (replaced with…

$29.99 Developer Colossal Order, colossalorder.fi Requirements OS X 10.9 or later, Intel Core 2 Duo 3GHz, 4GB RAM, 512MB graphics, 4GB HDD For decades, SimCity was the undisputed king of city builders. With the latest in Maxis’ simulation series a relatively disappointing affair, the time was right for a new contender to take the crown… And now, with incredibly deep, engrossing mechanics capped off by a stunning presentation, Cities: Skylines is a worthy heir to the throne. There are so many things to manage in Cities: Skylines, with budgets, taxes, resources, transportation, and pollution just a few items on the list. Don’t be afraid if you’re new to the genre; the game unlocks more mechanics as cities grow so you’re not immediately overwhelmed. You’ll place a few roads and set…

1 Archive disk images Choose the Downloads folder in Hazel and click + in the Rules pane. Name your rule, set “If” to “all” and set the condition to “Extension is dmg.” Add a condition and set to “date added is not in the last 1 week.” Set the action to “Move to folder” and pick a folder. 2 File statements Keep PDF bank statements tidy by making a rule for the Downloads folder with conditions that match your bank’s URL as the source and files whose kind is PDF. Tell Hazel to move matches to a folder. If filenames include dates, you might use that to file in subfolders. 3 Import to iTunes If you download music from blogs or other websites, Hazel can add it to iTunes. Create…

IT’S ALL TOO easy to sit down to work and find yourself browsing Facebook, Twitter, CNN or Wikipedia 30 minutes later. Permanent online connections are great for research and streaming, but they also represent terrible temptation. We’d never claim manual typewriters represent some kind of golden age, but there were fewer distractions when all you had to look at was ribbon and paper. Indie developers ape these simpler days with distraction-free word processors such as Typed, Writer and Byword, which take you back to basics. Having fewer buttons and toolbars – the idea goes – means you should do much less fiddling and much more working… The trouble is, even in a stripped-down environment like this, it’s still too easy to click elsewhere and start playing in a separate app…

1 Suggestions When you type in the search field, Safari gets suggestions from your chosen search engine. It also lists matches from Favorites and bookmarks, plus Spotlight results – news stories, maps and Wikipedia entries relevant to the search. 2 Quick web search When you use a site’s built-in search, Safari learns how its results are found. Next time, type the site’s address followed by keywords in the Smart Search Field and it will immediately submit your keywords and go to the search results. 3 Read pages easily When you visit a page with lots of text, a paragraph-like icon appears at the left of the search field. Click it for Safari Reader, which strips away extra content for a cleaner view of the text and images. Tools at the…

1 Run through the intro Open Workflow and it walks you through a demonstration. Drag the “Take Photo” icon bar to the right, drag “Make Gif” to the right (drop it below Take Photo), drag “Quick Look” to the bottom of the items and choose from Post on Facebook, Send Email, Send Message or Tweet. This is how you create workflows; tap the Play button at the top. Tap Done when finished. 2 My Workflows You now see a blank screen ready for your own creations. At the top are four icons: Edit, My Workflows, Gallery and Add (“+”). There are two ways to add new workflows: use the Gallery to access others’ workflows, or tap Add and create your own. The Edit button is used to re-arrange and remove…