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Apple, the Apple logo, Mac, and Macintosh are registered trademarks of Apple, Inc OOD RSREBOSKRAATOOA™ B Apple reveals OS X 10.11 El Capitan, promising better speed and other upgrades From pinnins to showil grade includ tops, this OS X up- jail, and more. BY GLENNFLEISHMAN pple has brought Yosemite to the mountain: El Capi- tan, specifically, which is the name of OS X 10.11 as well as a peak in Yosemite National Park. Revealed at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco, El Capitan is intended to reach a higher point, but not dig new ground. Craig Federighi, Apple's senior vice president of software engineering, emphasized the release is about an improvement in experience and performance. El Capitan’s (go. macworld.com/elcapitan) announce- ment focused on small points of irritation and big bumps in efficiency. NEW OPTIONS. Safari adds pinning, letting users keep particular pages readily avail- able. The sites will be regularly updated in the background to keep them up to date. In a feature that received plenty of applause among the audience, Safari will now make it easy to reveal which tab or tabs is playing sound, and let audio be muted with a single click in its tab. Safari can now push web video to Apple TV as an isolated stream, showing just that content and not the entire desktop Apple emphasized new gestures that borrow from iOS, such as swiping left in Mail to reveal a Delete button that can be tapped. In Mission Control, a three-finger upward swipe Gta Fae tan Vion Maton Mente Format Widow Helo reveals every desktop window in a single layer. Any window in Mission Control can be dragged to the top of the screen to create a new desktop space. Federighi also showed off in Mail a new option for hiding windows within an app without minimizing them: Switching to the inbox minimizes a message you're composing to the bottom of the screen with its window bar showing. An image can be dragged from a message being viewed on screen into the docked window. Mail also provides better hooks into calendars and contacts, 7 MOREI0S gestures have come to OSX, including swipe left to delete in Mail. EL CAPITAN and allows tabbed windows to manage different email threads. The new release provides better options for working among multiple apps with improved use of full-screen mode, especially with 16:9 ratio and similarly broad monitors. Clicking and dragging the green window-resize button uses Exposé to show other available apps. Drop onto another app, and El Capitan creates a full- screen, side-by-side working view of both SPOTLIGHT ON INNOVATION Little features also receive small and large tweaks. The Spotlight results window can be resized and moved— Federighi joked “that's innovation!” But Spotlight now encompasses more natural-language queries, like “docu- ments | worked on last June.” Spot- light also encompasses more up-to- date information, including weather, ELCAPITAN puts more power into creating desktops in a revised Spaces Bar. video results from the Internet, transit information, and, Apple's constant on all platforms, stocks. The Photos app now supports third-party editing tools, and will sport minor interface improvements that Yosemite users will seemingly have to wait for and upgrade to get. Geotagging, available in iPhoto and absent in Photos 1.0, will return in Photos for El Capitan, as well as better handling of Faces. Wiggling one’s finger on a track- pad or shaking a mouse enlarges the cursor on screen to make it more easily visible, useful on a Retina screen for which a higher-density display option was chosen. Maps adds long-awaited transit directions, which can be pushed to an iPhone. And the old standby Notes, the butt of many jokes, gets a refresh. It can now handle media, URLs, and map locations alongside text, and sync via 8 iCloud across all iOS and OS X devices you use with the same account. NO SPEED LIMIT Apple also emphasized performance improvements to address ongoing complaints about delays, spinning cursors, and other odd lags in speed in Yosemite, sometimes in comparison to previous releases of OS X Federighi said that apps will launch up to 1.4 times faster, switching between apps will be twice as fast, and PDFs will open in Preview four times as fast. On the graphics side, Apple is bringing its Metal framework to OS X, making graphics rendering 40 percent more efficient. For games, 1 Hot Beach Escapes drawing performance can be ten times faster. Game developer Epic showed a Metal-based game it built, called Fortnite (fortnite.com), and said its developers saw a 70-percent reduction in CPU use compared to OpenGL. On the professional production side, Federighi said that Adobe was able to pull an eightfold improvement in After Effects rendering. Adobe is committed to adopting Metal across its OS X apps, he said. The new version is available to CAPTAN developers now and in a public OSX 10.11 will beta (go.macworld.com/applebeta) mee users asa free in July. It will ship to users in the ‘ieatade ti fall as a free upgrade. m fall [ese] SPOTLIGHT IN THE FINDER 190 VSL la CABO SRRTTOSAM ION TOm me How to run advanced Spotlight searches in the Finder Spotlight searches in OS X Yosemite's Finder comes with tools to hone you searches and help you find what you need. BY KIRK MCELHEARN potlight, Apple’s search technology, has been available on Macs since Mac OS X 10.4, back in 2005. For many years it remained relatively stable, offering no new features. But with OS X Yosemite, Apple added a slew of new search results to Spotlight. Ifyou use Spotlight, you may only invoke it to search for, say, contacts or emails, or the occasional file. But Spotlight can search for much more: it can search the web, find information on Wikipedia, convert pounds to grams (or dollars), define words, and more. In other articles, I've looked at Spotlight basics (go.macworld.com/ spotbasics) and have shown you how to construct search queries (go. macworld.com/spotqueries) with Spotlight. In this article, | move from Spotlight to the Finder, and show you how to perform even more advanced searches. When you search in the Finder, you're actually searching the Spotlight index on your disk; you just perform your searches from the Finder's search field instead of the Spotlight menu. And, when you move to the Finder, you have even more power to search. eee te Searching “Documents < Bouse. 1 es Macbet ° a eae ; Seok Thee IID ss = Sores vom | Tne rwn- soem cal hi = eres : Arve | El mm tanta — —=_ EB Screenshots THE TRAGEDIE OF MACB...- Shakespeare, William.epud a Maced THE TRAGEDIE OF MACBETH. (74) ee 2, Volume 3 - 1839-1895 pat Volume & - 1636-1838.pa ‘THE TRAGEDIE OF MACB... Shakespeare, Wiliam mobi |e Documents» ft Othe Fie > Emerson Journal PFS > 9 Volume 61842-1844 pat 1 of nictns PRESS COMMAND-F toopena search window in the Finder. You can limit your search to the folder you're in when you start the search, or expand it to include the contents of your entire Mac SPOTLIGHT IN THE FINDER . —— = | we os as ae . wt acts seh srt 3 Bo mos on = D Al|mraanian im rmonin an comng ens hP mwa = Used Audio Files. ‘Audio Files used by Logic project Pr ACD Used dates Date when the tam wes used $3 Drop Used EXS24 Instrum. EXS24 inatruments used by Logie project es peat pees epee ns ye oa \ lage || eaetomtpretarinertinaoratmetshe ieee Died ltresvenorac vars taosveraty ogepsier =po | om Saumancben ines ae osonrarte oP bom | ted |vaestkias oo eeraearte amo nach pe | cig Weestamecns tee og, | enfoce Orahenhono= ae miso | zs Coot 1 START A FINDER SEARCH then select the column headers to sort There are several ways to access Spotlight in the Finder. You can open a Finder window and click in the search field at the top, or you can press Command-F to convert any open Finder window into a search window. You can also access the Finder window search after you've started a query in the Spotlight menu (useful if you've got too many results). Simply scroll down in the results list until you get to the bottom and click Show All in the Finder; Spotlight will open a new Finder window showing the results of your search. If the Finder displays your search results in Icon view, you'll probably ‘want to switch to List view to get a better look at your results. You can by name, kind, or date. If you want more column headers visible, press Command-J and select other columns from the View Options window. HONE YOUR SEARCH The Finder window's search bar contains several options for tailoring your results. When you start typing search terms, the Finder pops up a menu asking if you want to restrict your search terms to file names only. And you can click on This Mac to change the target of your search from the folder you were in when you started searching, to the con- tents of your entire Mac. ADD CRITERIA On the right side of the Finder 12 WHEN YOUSSELECT Other from the first menu, you'll see a lst ofall - _ thefile attributes Spotlight recognizes. To make one of these H items appear in the ‘main menu, place a checkmark to the right ofits name. window's search bar is a plus-sign button. Click it to display two menus; by default, the first is set to Kind, and the second is set to Any. But there are other options to choose from. To narrow down your results, start by selecting one of the criteria in the first menu, such as Created Date, Last Opened Date, or Name. Or choose Other to call dozens of other options, including Authors, Audio Bit Rate, Email Addresses, Recipients (people who received a certain file), Layers (names of Photoshop layers), and much more. Click on the check box next to an item if you want it to appear in the first menu for easy access in the future. As you select different options, the second menu changes dynamically so you can set the appropriate parameters (such as - YOU CAN USE QUOTES TO SPECIFY THAT A SEARCH SHOULD LOOK AT THE EXACT PHRASE YOU TYPE L a dates, numbers, and so on). If you're looking for a particular type of file, keep the first menu set to Kind, and use the Any menu to select from Images, Documents, Movies, and more. (It's the same as using the kind: keyword, which | discussed in How to create good queries in Yosemite's Spotlight (go. macworld.com/spotqueries), only you don't need to remember the keywords or manually enter them.) You can access more file types by choosing Other from the Any menu and then entering a kind of file in 1m Searching “This Mac THISSEARCH COLLECTS < =| a Ye "20" POF Document © allthe PDF files Nee St ‘Searching “Tin hc opened in the past Search: GELB “Documents” ‘Sve = month. When you're Kind 's (POF 5 done, you can click Last opened date: ts | within last 1 months S ‘on Save to store the ane ate ast pera search inthe sidebar for future use. Fe denon 72086 pat aA FE enon oco-720Ae ere = 7a heed Bi cont ctom pt panei [Bh contin 11h A013 5 — BB me conetcrmnn 1 ra 90 50 a oe en ee 13 SPOTLIGHT IN THE FINDER ae renee nie Seem © BB Be ami the text field, such as Excel or MP3. COMBINE MULTIPLE QUERIES. Sometimes a search requires more than one set of criteria to summon the results you want. Finder window searches let you specify as many parameters as you want. Say you want to search for all PDF documents you've opened in the past month. To do this, leave the first menu set to Kind, and set the Any menu to PDF. Click on the plus sign in the search bar to add another search parameter. Set this one to Last Opened Date Is Within Last, enter 1 in the box, and select Months from the last menu. Spotlight will display all PDF files you created or updated within the past month. Although it’s not obvious, you can use quotes to specify that a search should look at the exact phrase you type; just type quotes around your search terms. You can also use Boolean search terms to set up a Finder search, to exclude criteria or to. create an OR search. Once you have one condition set up, you can add a Boolean term to your next condition by option-clicking the plus sign. The plus sign will turn into an ellipsis (..), and you'll get a new pull-down menu with options for Any (OR), All (AND), or None (NOT). SAVE SEARCHES FOR LATER What if you plan to search for recently created and updated Word files once a month, so you can back them up? There's no reason to manually type the same commands every time. You can save yourself some work by preserving the 4 RICHARD It HOUDAHSPOT CAN perform complex searches using your Mac's Spotlight indices. You can even preview your files in the Quick Look pane. searches you run regularly as smart folders. To save your current search as a smart folder, click on the Save button in the search bar, enter a name for the folder, and select a location to save it in. Enable the Add To Sidebar option if you want to make your smart folder a permanent fixture in that locale. Whenever you open this smart folder, Spotlight will run the search again and update the results with all files that fit the criteria. If you want to change your search, or add or remove criteria, simply open the smart folder, click the action button (the gear icon), and select Show Search Criteria. WHEN SPOTLIGHT ISN’T ENOUGH You may feel that the above isn’t very user-friendly. It’s a bit finicky to mess with all those menus and criteria. If you want a better way to search your Mac with Spotlight, a third-party app such as $29 Hou- dahSpot (go.macworld.com/hou- dahspot) might be for you. Hou- dahSpot accesses your Spotlight indices, searching exactly the same way as the Spotlight menu or Finder windows. But it brings the power of advanced searches front and center. Instead of needing to learn arcane keywords and remembering Boolean operators, HoudahSpot lets you access complex searches using a series of menus. HoudahSpot also lets you save searches as templates, so you can access them again at any time. Spotlight is very powerful. With everything you've learned here and in the articles I've linked to within this one, you'll be able to find any file on your Mac, no matter where it's, hiding. Take some time to learn how to make complex Spotlight queries, and you'll find files in seconds. m 5 What Jony lIve’s new job means for Apple design The company's first ever Chief Design Officer will play a bigger role than ever. 16 ithout designer Jony lve, Apple as the world knows it wouldn’t exist. Macs, iPhones, and iPads certainly wouldn't be as iconic without Ive's indus- trial magic. The Cupertino company has always prized Ive’s skills, but now the former senior VP of design is joining CEO Tim Cook and CFO Luca Maestri in the C-suite as Apple’s first ever Chief Design Officer. Ive established a signature look for Apple's core device lineup and ushered in a new product category this year with Apple Watch. In his new role, which takes effect July 1 and was announced in a memo (go.macworld. com/ives-cdo) from Cook to Apple employees as well as a glowing profile of Ive in The Telegraph, the design chief can focus his ambitions on high-level, grand-scale design projects like Apple headquarters, and pethaps even a car. CHANGES FOR HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE Ive has long held a pivotal role within Apple, and Cook, in his employee memo, said Ive’s new title is “a reflection of the scope of work he has been doing at Apple for some time.” Ive now holds close to 5,000 patents on designs he has created at the company. “He's not just a designer. That's why he works directly for me,” former Apple CEO Steve Jobs said of Ive in Walter Isaacson’s 2011 biography. “He has more operational power than anyone else at Apple except me. There's no one who can tell him what to do, or to butt out. That's the way | set it up.” Ive already controlled all of Apple product hardware and software IVEIS OVERSEEING the design of Apple's. brand new campus. design, a role he assumed after software chief Scott Forstall left the company in 2012. That job came with a senior vice president title. His new role affords him an even bigger impact on Apple design—and not just its devices—but also gives more 7 MACUSER JONY IVE design control to new VP of Indus- trial Design Richard Howarth and new VP of User Design Alan Dye, who have both worked with Ive on Apple design for years. Dye’s role in the Apple Watch's software design was detailed in a recent New Yorker profile of Ive, and Howarth is cred- ited with guiding the design of the original iPhone. The two will handle the daily management responsibili- ties of their respective teams, freeing Ive from the necessary drudgery of administrative work IVE’S NEXT MOVE Some have speculated that Apple is establishing Dye and Howarth as Ive's potential successors, which makes sense. Ive has been at this, for a long time, and might want to exit on a high note in the next few years. But for now, he plans to travel more, turning his attention r HE HAS MORE to new Apple OPERATIONAL POWER Stores, which THAN ANYONE ELSE AT are growing APPLE EXCEPT ME. ever more L 4 grandiose in their designs, and the under-con- struction Apple Campus 2 in Cuper- tino. According to The Telegraph, Ive has his hand in every design detail of the new headquarters, including the desks and chairs employees will use. In the New Yorker profile earlier this year, Ive described the design of the building's staircases, the elevator control panels, the employee secu- rity-card readers—minute details you wouldn't expect from a Chief Design Officer, but that Ive clearly relishes. He would rather design than be a middle layer of management. m 18 You might know Joshua. He loves video games, and he owns enough to know they’re not all meant for kids. That’s why he reminds his friends (at least the ones that have kids) that they all have big black letters on the box to help parents find the ones that are best for their families. You can learn about those ratings at ESRB.org C Los\Angeles, CA ESRB ENTERTAINMENT SOFTWARE ¢ D SSRN is EVERYONE I EVER [Tr anes owy ie] MACUSER Reviews CLEANMYMAC 3.0 $999 AT A GLANCE: If you're constanty trying to find ways to get more storage space on your Mac, CleanMyMac could be a good investment. PROS: © + Fasy tose. + Lots of options to find Se unnecessary fs. CONS: + Unexpected default behavior with application interrupts. PRICE: $40; $20 upgrade CLEANMYMAC 3: MAKE capo MORE ROOM ON YOUR CROWDED HARD DRIVE BY CHRIS BARYLICK CLEANMYMAC 3 IS the new version of MacPaw’s catch-all utility to scan your Mac and remove gigabytes of assorted kerfuffle and gunk that, builds up over time. Like its previous versions, CleanMyMac 3 (macpaw.com/cleanmymac) wraps itself around a series of tests and services and works to remove generally unused, developer-oriented, extraneous, and backup files associated with your most commonly used applications that take up available disk space. CleanMyMac 3's selection of available tests has grown to add tools such as an uninstaller, general maintenance, online privacy functions, and file shredder to its previous suite of tests. This is on top of the Smart Cleanup, System Junk, iPhoto Junk, Mail Attach- 20 ments, iTunes Junk, Trash Bins, and Large and Old Files scans that comprise the cleaning utilities and work to make CleanMyMac 3 your intended catch-all Mac utility of choice. All of these tests can be customized and configured as needed—and with a better preference layout than found in CleanMyMac 2. Where a given test might tell you that you can save a certain number of gigabytes by deleting files, CleanMyMac 3 gives you fine control as to which files are deleted. CleanMyMac 3 adds several new scans and tests, but the overall product still holds together; the new features don't feel bolted on and the app doesn’t feel overly bloated. The tests can be configured, there's a good range of preferences, and nice touches like extensive informa- tion about your Mac's hardware (including a health status for your hard drives, remaining battery life for a notebook, and available RAM) show good attention to detail. Additional features like a scheduler allow you to designate when you'll be reminded to run tests (and the tests them- selves work as advertised—the new uninstaller coming in handy with removing assorted programs). CleanMyMac 3 comes in handy in a world filled with incredibly fast but still relatively small solid-state drives, where regaining a dozen or so gigabytes of space certainly isn’t a bad thing. On my late 2013 model 21 IFYOU don’t fee! like dealing with the fine details of your cleaning, you can use CleanMyMac 3's Smart Cleanup. REVIEWS | CLEANMYMAC 3.0 Mac Pro, with its minimal 256GB flash storage, CleanMyMac 3 was able to retrieve 18.1GB of storage space, and the computer ran without a hitch afterward. To its credit, MacPaw took the CleanMyMac 2's more-frenetic-than-a- happy-puppy user interface and dialed it down a bit, which makes it a bit more helpful in this new version. Each test function now includes a brief explanation as to what the test does and what it repairs. This doesn’t go into developer-level explanations, but it serves to tell you what you're about to do and what changes will be made, giving you sufficient information prior to clicking the Scan or Clean button. This dovetails nicely with the program's access to preference files and settings that might be a little hard for a casual user to find. For example, the Privacy module allows easy access to cookies, saved passwords, and other preferences for your web browser of choice, saving you some digging around in preference and extension menus by putting these things in one location. 22 WHEN YOU remove an app, CleanMyMac 3's uninstaller makes sure you're not leaving any app files behind, 48Me SECURELY ERASE files with If there is one caveat, it's that CleanMyMac 3 attempted to launch : CleanMy Mac 3’s new itself during the interrupt screens that sometimes come up when running shredder. another application. This was easily worked around by configuring the preferences to ignore these interrupts, but it's also a behavior I've never seen before. BOTTOM LINE CleanMyMac 3 is in a tough, competitive field against other all-in-one spring-cleaning utilities for the Mac, including the oft-hated MacKeeper. And one could argue that its end results achieve what assorted free- ware/shareware utilities could do at a price of $40 for new users and $20 for upgrade users. Still, it’s nice to be able to remove gigabytes of kerfuffle from your Mac; the program and its tests work well, and it can be readily configured as needed. It's worth your consideration. 23 REVIEWS PRODUCTIVITY BUSYCONTACTS KEEPS YOUR CONTACTS CLOSE, AND SOCIAL MEDIA FEEDS EVEN CLOSER BY JEFFERY BATTERSBY KEEPING YOUR CONTACTS WRANGLED can be a challenge, especially when you have to hop between Mail, your calendar, your contacts, and social media apps to keep tabs on everything that might be going on in your personal orbit. BusyContacts, a new contact-manager-cum-customer-relationship-manager from the folks at BusyMac, attempts to simplify and centralize all your contact needs into a single app, helping you keep tabs on everyone without having to leave the BusyContacts app. BusyContacts works its magic by linking to and collecting informa- tion from Apple's Mail, Contacts, and Messages apps, and your social media accounts, gathering that information into a single, multipaned 24 BUSYCONTACTS, 1.0.2 $o6: AT A GLANCE: BusyContacts is a contact manager for 0SX that makes eating, finding, and managing contacts more efficient. PROS: + Links contact information with email and social media accounts + Integrates well with BusyCal + Track all your contact information in one application CONS: + Need BusyCal to fully integrate your calendar + Afew interface quirks Prick $50; $80 for bundle with BusyCalendar. COMPANY: busymac.com window that lets you select a contact and see your personal interactions with them as well as their social media feeds. While BusyContacts is great at using OS X’s existing apps for most of this integration, there's one small and somewhat annoying caveat when it comes to calendar info: If you want to pull your upcoming schedule into the application, you're going to have to commit to using BusyMac’s BusyCal calendar app— BusyContacts offers no direct integration with Apple's Calendar app or any third-party calendar applications. It's a curious shortcoming, and one that may make it a deal killer for those simply looking for a good, basic CRM tool. (BusyCal is $50, and a bundle of BusyCal and BusyContacts is available for $80.) THE SETUP Getting started with BusyContacts is a snap. Open the app, and you're walked through a multistep process that gives BusyContacts access to your contacts. If you're using Apple’s two-factor authentication for your iCloud data, you may need to create and use an app-specific password for BusyContacts to gain access to your personal information. For BusyContacts to pull information from your contact's social media feeds, you may need to have related accounts set up in the application’s Accounts preference. | say may because BusyContacts will pull some- one's Twitter feed without requiring that you have your Twitter account set up, but it cannot pull Facebook information, even if you have your contact’s Facebook account information, without your having set an account up. This makes sense, because for most Facebook feeds you can't see information unless you're logged in. Adding social media has the effect of importing all contacts from each 25 2: BUSYCONTACTS CAPTURES and centralizes email and event information forall your contacts. REVIEWS | BUSYCONTACTS © @ Untodin eat 5) Philip Mictsels | val 1B UM, tsi tl aa ucts mip tae Bob Miller (@phllpesstals } Toe aap Koa co Liles Lusk: Pip Mekal mae ses Sen Fc yA Ect er nan we (ia es Nhe aoa me : ies oop 8O My eA | = | ‘Seth Mnookin Bar Leccsth ‘Date & Teme Craig Mos Now Yor aye Bruce Moiy Joe Monaco Rages Sms Car Monto asl of your sources into BusyContacts. The upside of this option is that you can see all your contacts and their related social media feeds in one place. If you have the same contacts in each source, the application lets you link them within BusyContacts, but in order to avoid displaying duplicate contacts you also need to “combine” the linked cards to change the way you see them. This merge doesn't actually combine the contacts into a single record, it just changes the way contact information is displayed. This isn’t difficult to do, but can be a mite confusing if you don't take the time to go through the documentation. Oddly, even though | have a Twitter account set up on my Mac and | follow most of my contacts, BusyContacts’ built-in Twitter feed always displays a Follow button, even for contacts | already follow. THE WORKFLOW As soon as you step through the initial setup process, BusyContacts’ usefulness is evident. Select a contact and you'll see your most recent email conversations right alongside your selected contact. Double-click a mail message and the Mail app will open that message. If you have BusyCal installed, a list of future and recent events will appear above the list of related email messages. Scroll down past the mail list and you'll see 26 Eat (je Philip Michaels ose: @PhpAicnaele te b © cPnipsricnses ‘ t's Make a Rusty Nal tmoerkst y b © ePriowichaes en J to make reguar commutes to that Ma Clare: You are stuck na gocless, H ancorcingy UNTIL YOU figure out how to combine linked cards, BusyContacts displays all your contacts from every address book you link to. items the contact has posted on social media. i The beauty of BusyContacts is that it’s ONE OF BUSYCONTACTS’ effortless. Beyond the initial setup there is BEST FEATURES IS nothing you have to do to corral the informa- ITS ABILITY TO LINK tion. If an email message is sent to a group of CONTACTS WITH EVENTS people, that message will be linked to each of CREATED IN BUSYCAL. those contacts and every email message, Messages conversation, and social media feed is searchable within BusyContacts. One of BusyContacts’ best features is its ability to link contacts with events created in BusyCal. This works two ways. You can create a new event from within BusyContacts, which opens BusyCal, creates a new event, and adds the contact to BusyCal’s contacts field, or you can create a new event and manually add associated contacts to BusyCal's contacts field. In both instances you will see the event when you select that contact in BusyCon- tacts, and it’s quite easy to add or remove contacts for an existing event. While | love the way BusyContacts links related information for selected contacts, | did find the way you create events, create notes, or otherwise initiate contact to be a bit uneven. The application offers several ways to initiate these events, but those options aren't always where you expect to find them. For example, BusyContacts lets you use an Action menu and a contextual menu to perform contact-related tasks. But you can't use a contextual menu when clicking on a contact to start a FaceTime call. Instead you have to use the action menu or Control-click the contact's phone number to initiate a call. Likewise, you can’t use the Action menu to add a tag to a contact. In short, it seems that the Action menu could have been eliminated altogether and the same tasks could have been performed using a contextual menu. The separation of tasks between these menus seems unnecessary. BOTTOM LINE As a first iteration contact-management app, BusyContacts has much to offer. Easy setup and centralization of every tidbit of your contact informa- tion, including email and social media feeds, makes it effortless to keep an eye on everything your contacts are up to. But, while BusyCal integra- tion is a huge benefit, it's also a limitation if you're happy with your current calendar app. In addition, some minor interface quirks, while not deal killers, make BusyContacts unnecessarily inconsistent. m 27 4 13-INCH RETINA MACBOOK PRO: THE FORCE IS WITH APPLE'S WORKHORSE LAPTOP BY ROMAN LOYOLA FROM THE OUTSIDE, the new 13-inch MacBook Pro with Retina display looks like the MacBook Pro we've come to know from the recent past. The major changes to the laptop are only apparent once you start using the machine: increased speed, and a new Force Touch trackpad that provides new input functionality. The changes are most certainly welcome, but overall, they may not be enough for anyone who bought a 13-inch Retina MacBook Pro within the past three years to upgrade. But if your laptop is older, or you're thinking about upgrading from a MacBook Air, you'll see great benefits. 28 13-INCH RETINA MACBOOK PRO iii AT A GLANCE: if you have an older non-Retina Mac laptop, it's a good time to upgrade, Obviously, you'll see a huge performance boost. But you'llalso be wowed by the Retina display, and the Force Touch trackpad is cool PRICE: ‘B:inch Retina MacBook Pro/2.7GH2 12868 fash storage: $1,299 ‘B:nch Retina MacBook Pro/29GHz 25668 flash storage: $1499 ‘B:nch Retina MacBook Pro!29GHa: $1,199 COMPANY: apple.com < Trackpad [ ) (EEIEEIEE ser 200m ore Gestures 1 Look up & data detectors Force cick with one finger ip Steondary click ick with two fingers. ‘Tap to click Tap with one tnger Click pressure ‘Tracking speed ght Medium Fim Slow Fast (© Force Click and haptic feedback ick, than press firmly for Quick Look, Look Up, ‘ang variable speed media contr's. —_—_< ‘Set Up Bluetooth Trackpad... ? THE NEW FORCE TOUCH TRACKPAD When you press it, the 13-inch Retina MacBook Pro’s Force Touch trackpad feels like it clicks, but the click you actually feel is haptic—tech- nology is used to create a sensation of clicking. For longtime MacBook users, you can notice a difference when the new 13-inch Retina Mac- Book Pro is off: You can still click a trackpad on an older MacBook that’s powered off, but tap on the Force Touch trackpad and it feels dead, like you're pressing against the laptop case itself. The Force Touch trackpad has sensors to detect how hard you're pressing. You can press to click like you normally would, but you can also perform a Force Click by pressing a little harder; you'll feel a second, more pronounced click. Force Click has different functions; it can be used for Quick Look in the Finder; Force Click on a date and a pop-up appears to add an event to Calendar; it can activate Look Up; it shows a preview when you Force Click a web link; and much more. I've always used the trackpad as a last resort. | prefer a mouse because my fingers fumble when | have to do things like clicking and dragging to select part of an image or a section of text. But Force Click has me using the trackpad more often because it's so useful. | don’t see myself ditching the mouse soon, but | could be using it less and less. 29 YOU CAN ADJUST the amount of pressure needed to perform a click in System Preferences + Trackpad. REVIEWS | 13-INCH MACBOOK PRO WHAT ELSE IS NEW WITH THE 13-INCH MACBOOK PRO WITH RETINA DISPLAY The other updates are inside the laptop. Apple replaced the Intel Haswell processors in the 13-inch Retina MacBook Pro with new Broadwell processors. The $1,299 laptop has a dual-core 2.7GHz Core i5 processor, with Turbo Boost (go.macworld.com/tboost) support up to 3.1GHz, 3MB of shared L3 cache (go.macworld.com/wisegeek), and 128GB of flash storage. The $1,499 model has the same processor as the $1,299 version, but it has 256GB of flash storage. The $1799 model has a 2.9GHz Core iS processor with Turbo Boost support up to 3.3GHz, and 512GB of flash storage. (Ona side note, Apple updated the 15-inch Retina MacBook Pro during this review process. We'll have a review of those laptops coming soon.) Along with the processor upgrade comes a graphics upgrade. The new Intel Iris Graphics 6100 is still an integrated graphics processor, but Apple says it's 40 percent faster than the Iris Graphics 5100 inte- grated graphics in the previous Retina MacBook Pro. Apple also says the flash storage is up to two times faster than before. Last but not least, Apple says that it has improved the battery life of the 13-inch Retina MacBook Pro, touting ten hours of “wireless web” use and 12 hours of iTunes movie playback. The previous model was rated at 9 hours for both use cases. (Battery life is addressed in this month’s feature on page 80.) PERFORMANCE As expected, the performance difference between the new 2.7GHz and the 2.9GHz Retina MacBook Pro is marginal, with the 2.9GHz laptop about 5 percent faster than the 2.7GHz laptop in Geekbench 3 (pri- matelabs.com/geekbench) tests. But remember, the price difference between these models doesn't just cover the processor upgrade; it also includes more flash storage capacity. Even when compared to last year’s 13-inch Retina MacBook Pro, the new models are only 7 percent faster than the older laptops they respectively replace. In order to see gains over 10 percent, you have to compare the new laptop to models released in 2013. The graphics improvement is much more impressive: The new 13-inch 30 THENEW 13-inch Retina MacBook Pro has the Force Touch trackpad. The keyboard hasn't changed, however. Retina MacBook Pro had a 29 percent increase over last year’s models in the Cinebench OpenGL tests. It's not the 40 percent that Apple touts, but Apple's testing was done with a different benchmark that includes three video games. In the Black Magic Disk Speed Test, the 13-inch Retina MacBook Pro posted an average write speed of 1156.1 MBps and an average read speed of 1299.9 MBps. The performance charts for Geekbench and Cinebench are posted here (go.macworld.com/retinat3mbpchart). The charts include data points from the MacBook, MacBook Air, and recent Retina MacBook Pros for your reference. BOTTOM LINE I've always been a fan of the MacBook Pro with Retina display. Though my personal preference is for the 15-inch model, the 13-inch models | tested are attractive laptops in their own right. If you have an older non-Retina Mac laptop, it's a good time to upgrade. Obviously, you'll see a huge performance boost. But you'll also be wowed by the Retina display, and the Force Touch trackpad is cool. (If you're sticking to your older Mac laptop because of its matte display, you'll be disappointed to find that Apple no longer has a matte display option. It's glossy only.) However, if you bought a 13-inch Retina MacBook Pro in the past couple of years, you might want to stick with your laptop a bit longer, since you may not consider the speed gains worth the expense. The Force Touch trackpad is a great new feature, but it’s not vital to your workflow and not enough reason alone to upgrade. m 31 REVIEWS HAR 13-INCH MACBOOK AIR: NICELY BLENDS PERFORMANCE AND PORTABILITY BY ROMAN LOYOLA NOW THAT THERE'S a new ultraportable laptop in town in the form of the 12-inch MacBook, what's the deal with the MacBook Air? It's still an active part of Apple's lineup, and in case you missed it, was updated on the day the 12-inch MacBook was announced. The 13-inch MacBook Air changes are relatively minor, but its standing in Apple's lineup is what changed the most. While the MacBook Air is still an ultraportable laptop, there's a newfound emphasis on its value—the four recently refreshed models make up the affordable end of Apple's laptop lineup. 32 43-INCH MACBOOK AIR AT A GLANCE: The MacBook Air marches on as a sold, ightweight laptop with enough performance fora large numberof users to serve both onthe road and on an office desk PRICE: ‘B:inch MacBook hr 12868 flash storage: $999 ‘B:inch MacBook Air 25668 flash storage: $1199 COMPANY: apple.com WHAT’S NEW WITH THE 13-INCH MACBOOK AIR The major update to the MacBook Air is a straightforward CPU and graphics upgrade. Both the 11-inch and 13-inch models sport a dual-core 1.6GHz Core i5 Broadwell processor that supports Turbo Boost up to 2.7GHz and 3MB of shared L3 cache. This replaces a dual-core 1.4GHz Core i5 Haswell proces- sor in last year's model. The new graphics is an integrated Intel HD Graphics 6000 chip, which replaces the Intel HD Graphics 5000 The Thunderbolt implementation has been upgraded to Thunderbolt 2. And the 13-inch MacBook Air also has faster flash storage—Apple says it's two times faster than before. That's about it for the upgrades. There's no Retina display; it’s the same display found in previous models. The trackpad isn’t a Force Touch track- pad it's the old Multi-Touch model with which you're probably familiar. Compared to the Force Touch trackpad, the MacBook Air's Multi-Touch trackpad is much louder when you press to click, and the clicking feeling is much more pronounced. The keyboard is the same, it’s not the new butter- fly keyboard in the MacBook. (For me, that's a good thing. I'm not a fan of the MacBook's keyboard.) And there’s still the standard 4GB of memory, though you can upgrade to 8GB for an additional $100 PERFORMANCE The speed boost over last year's 1.4GHz Core i5 Haswell MacBook Air is modest. In Geekbench 3 (primatelabs.com/geekbench) tests, the new 1.6GHz Core i5 Broadwell 13-inch MacBook Pro was 10 percent faster in multi-core tests, and about 8 percent faster in single-core tests. I ee ao Bean APPLE DIDN’T change the PTT TTT TTT TT TT errr MOGGGEGOCoeess eo Ba =] MacBook Pro. -_ TPT ITTTTITTI J O29 Be 12) aa8a REVIEWS | 13-INCH MACBOOK AIR THE13:INCH MacBook Air weighs only 3 pounds, andis 10 to 15 percent faster than earlier models. The improvement is, of course, much more noticeable when you compare the new MacBook Air to the 2014 and 2013 models—the speeds are 10 to 15 percent faster. Compared to the new 1.1GHz MacBook, the MacBook Air has a distinct performance advantage. The MacBook Air was 28 percent faster in multi-core tests, and 22 percent faster in single-core tests. When it comes to graphics performance, the new MacBook Air takes a big leap over the new MacBook and last year’s MacBook Air in the Cinebench OpenGL (go.macworld.com/cbench) test, posting a 29 percent improvement on both computers. The new MacBook Air still lags behind the new 13-inch Retina MacBook Pro, but not by much: about four frames per second. To gauge the speed of the 13-inch MacBook Air's new flash storage implementation, | used Blackmagic’s Disk Speed test (go.macworld.com/ dspeed). The 2014 MacBook Air with 256GB of flash storage had average write speeds of 520 MBps and average read speeds of 676 MBps. The new MacBook Air was impressive, posting a write average of 619.7 MBps and a read average of 1318.4 MBps. To see Geekbench 3 and Cinebench performance charts, click here (go.macworld.com/mbat3chart). The results also include older model Retina MacBook Pros for your reference. ANEW PERSPECTIVE When Apple first unveiled the MacBook Air in 2008, it made what was then considered severe compromises in order to achieve a small and lightweight form preferred by mobile users. But just when you think you 34 can’t make a laptop even smaller and lighter—— [~ 7 and make more compromises—Apple releases IT’S NOT THAT THE STANDARD the MacBook. DISPLAY IS THAT BAD, IT’S Instead of thinking of the MacBook Air primarily THAT THE RETINA DISPLAY IS as an ultraportable laptop, perhaps the MacBook THAT GOOD Airis better defined first as the lower pricing tier of | Apple’s laptop line. The 11-inch models are $899 and $1,099, and the 13-inch models are $999 and $199. They're priced below all the other laptops, except for the $1,099 non-Retina MacBook Pro. They don't have the same number of features as za] the MacBook Pro—no Force Touch trackpad, no Retina display, 4GB RAM, and so forth—but that's expected on less expensive models. The MacBook Air is still worth your consider- ation as an ultraportable laptop: It weighs less than three pounds and is very thin. Carrying it is still a lot easier than carrying a MacBook Pro. But there's now the MacBook for users who think “< ¥ even the MacBook Air is too big and heavy, and that device connectivity and speed can be sacrificed to make an even lighter laptop. For those people, the MacBook is for | A them. That all under consideration, something has to be said specifically about the MacBook Air's display. My everyday work computer is a 15-inch Retina MacBook Pro (lucky, | know), and because I stare at a Retina screen every day, switching to a standard display feels like a noticeable step down in image quality. It's not that the standard display is that bad, it’s just that the Retina display is that good. BOTTOM LINE The MacBook Air marches on as a solid, lightweight laptop with enough performance for a large number of users to serve both on the road and on an office desk. They might suffer from a case of feature envy, but more features would surely result in higher prices. If you can, consider getting a MacBook Air with 256GB of flash storage, unless you're OK with heavily relying on cloud storage. m 35 What We're Raving About This Month GOPRO HERO+ LCD GoPro's latest is the $300 Herot LCD (gopro.com), featuring built-in Wéi and Bluetooth support that let you connect the camera to a corresponding app on your iPhone or iPad. From there, you can take a look at shot previews, have total camera control, and then share your footage to Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, or more. But we understand you're only allowed to purchase it for surfing, skydiving, or skydiving into the surf. JOEL MATHS 36 LUTRON CASETA Lutron just baked Homekit into its Caseta (casetawireless.com) lighting system, so you can use the Caseta app and alittle help from Siri to control your lights room-by-room through your iPhone or iPad. We recommend its $230 Homekit-enabled Wireless Lighting Starter Kit, which includes a Smart Bridge, two plug-in dimmers, and two remote controls. You can buy an addi- tional wall dimmer for $60 each, and more remote controls for $15 ach.—CAITLINMCGARRY 37 Hot Stutt 38 What We're Raving About This Month CALDIGIT THUNDERBOLT STATION 2 At $235 with a t-meter Thunderbolt cable ($200; caldigit.com), the CalDigit Thunderbolt Station 2 is a pretty good deal. It sports a handsome vertical standing “Titanium Grey” aluminum box with rubber feet to let you rest the dock on its side. More importantly, it features a pair of eSATA ports on the rear, alongside two Thunderbolt ports, two USB 3 ports, gigabit Ethemet, and HDMI. The front has a USB 3 port, a microphone jack, and a headphone jack. Added bonus: If you download CalDigit's Thunderbolt Station Utility, you'll get a menu bar item on your Mac that allows you to eject any items that are connected to the dock and are on your Mac's desktop. -ROMANLOYOLA STAND-UP CO EVERY NEW ART FORM HAS ITS FIGHT FOR FREE SPEECH. OUR TIME IS NOW ( 2) VIDEQOGAMEVOTERS.ORG < Messages Your Apple ID Verification Code is: 5716 Your Apple ID Verification Code is: 4864 QIwWlETRITL YUP! Pore AISTDOTFIGIHIJTKIL It's the littl Apple has BY JARED NEWMAN pple’s iOS 9 has plenty of major features to look forward to, such as a more intelligent Siri, transit maps, and, and side-by-side iPad apps. Just as important, however, are the little things—the minor headaches of previous iOS versions that Apple is now getting around to alleviating. To recap, here are six iPhone and iPad annoyances that will disappear in iOS 9: 1, ALESS-CONFUSING SHIFT KEY Pop quiz: On the default iOS key- board, are the letters uppercase when the shift key is gray, or white? Unless you bother to memorize, this issue has likely been a constant source of confusion since iOS 7. (The answer, by the way, is white.) As 9to5Mac notes, hitting shift in iOS 9 will toggle the letters on the key- board between uppercase and lowercase, so there’s no ambiguity about what you're about to type. 2. AMUCH SMALLER OS UPDATE With iOS 8, updating from an older device required a whopping 4.6 GB of free storage space. This was a huge barrier for people who wanted the latest software, and likely contrib- uted to slower-than-usual adoption. Apple says iOS 9 will only require 1.3 GB by comparison, so even 16GB iPhone and iPad users will have an easier time upgrading 3. ROTATION LOCK FOR THE iPHONE MUTE SWITCH The iPhone might not have needed a dedicated rotation lock switch when screens were smaller. But the iPhone No Service # 3:08 PM —_ Settings Airplane Mode a Wi-Fi Yuk +3) Bluetooth On a eseisSiiV.\B iOS 9 FIXES 6 and iPhone 6 Plus can practically act as miniature iPads, so you might want to quickly enable landscape mode for videos and pictures before switching back to portrait-only. MacRumors notes that iOS 9 will have an option to repurpose the iPhone's mute switch for rotation lock, just like you can on the iPad. 4. A SEARCH FUNCTION FOR SETTINGS As the iPhone has grown more sophisticated, its settings menu has become much more complex, with dozens of mazelike submenus. It probably won't get any simpler in iOS 9, but at least you'll be able to find specific settings with a dedicated search bar at the top of the app. 5. A WAY BACK TO SAFARI We've all been in the situation where a website really wants you to install its iOS app, and you either end up in the App Store by accident or get, maliciously redirected. As MacRu- mors points out, iOS 9 will add a “Back to” button when you hit an app link from Safari, so you can easily return to the browser. JUST AS IMPORTANT, HOWEVER, ARE THE LITTLE THINGS—THE MINOR HEADACHES OF PREVIOUS iOS VERSIONS THAT APPLE IS NOW GETTING AROUND TO ALLEVIATING. L 6. A PROPER APP FOR iCLOUD DRIVE After resisting the idea of an iOS file manager for years, Apple took a step in that direction with iCloud Drive in iOS 8. But while this service provided a common storage directory for apps, it didn’t have a centralized app of its own for users to manage their files. With iOS 9, users can expose a proper iCloud Drive app through system settings, bringing Apple's online storage solution in line with competitors such as Dropbox and Google Drive. m 42 | Dwar ome hte dL in 5 (Sitdrimeet: Dirinice) whe STRUGGLE WITH HUNGER tesSei = Sui: 7.\B) ANDROID PAY How Google took a page from Apple to secure Android Pay Android Pay is incredibly similar to Apple Pay, and not just in name BY CAITLIN McGARRY 44 ncase you missed it, Google launched a new mobile pay- ment service at its annual I/O developers conference. It’s called Android Pay (go.macworld.com/androidpay). But didn’t Google already have a mobile payment service? Yes, yes, Google Wallet. That’s not going away—in fact, it’s getting a reboot as a peer-to-peer payment service—but Android Pay works a lot more like Apple Pay than Google’s last attempt. That's a good thing. Google Wallet required you to wake your phone, open the Wallet app, and enter a pin number if you decided to protect the app with a passcode, all before waving your phone near the payment terminal. That's a lot of work. Android Pay will work just like Apple Pay: Upload your card informa- tion to the app, and Google will create one-time account numbers to. represent your actual card number, so merchants never see your infor- mation. Then hold your Android phone near a payment terminal and watch the screen come to life with your cards already stored inside. Tap the card you want to use, and authenticate your purchase with your fingerprint (a feature like Touch ID that's new to Android M, go.mac- world.com/androidmfingerprint), Sounds more than a little familiar. GOOGLE GETS SERIOUS ABOUT SECURITY—SORT OF But Google was years ahead of Apple when it came to NFC pay- ‘APPLEPAY AND ‘Android Pay both rely on tokenization and fingerprint authentication to protect your purchases. ifesSei = Sit-.\B) ANDROID PAY ments, you say? Well, yes, but it certainly didn't perfect them. First, Google lacked support from three of the four big carriers, which were backing their own mobile payment service called Softcard, which folded into Google. The company also found a rival in Visa, which was developing its own NFC payment option. And at last count just a few months ago, Google Wallet had support from just over 300,000 retail locations, a far cry from the 700,000-plus that are on board with Android Pay, plus the 1,000 apps that support Android Pay purchases. Then there's the not-so-small issue of security, which Apple went to great lengths to perfect. Android Pay uses tokenization to create virtual representations of your real card numbers, just like Apple Pay. The big difference between the two services is that Apple uses a Secure Element, a physical chip inside your phone, to store your encrypted financial data. Android Pay, like Google Wallet before it, uses Host Card Emulation, storing your encrypted data in the cloud. That can be off-putting. Google Wallet also stored all of your transac- tion information, including time, date, and geolocation, within the Wallet app. So helpfull And so creepy. Android Pay is now far more secure than its predecessor, thanks to r- ANDROID PAY USES TOKENIZATION TO CREATE VIRTUAL REPRESENTATIONS OF YOUR REAL CARD NUMBERS, JUST LIKE APPLE PAY. L tokenization and fingerprint authenti- cation, though it sounds like the service still stores information on what you bought and when—you'll be able to see “transaction details right on your phone,” Google said in a blog post announcing the new service. NO FINGERPRINT? NO PROBLEM Google's biggest Android issue is fragmentation—the fact that not everyone can install the latest version of its OS at the same time— so it made Android Pay backward- compatible to devices running KitKat and up (two OS versions ago). But only the latest version of Android supports fingerprint authentication for purchases, and not all Android phones have fingerprint sensors. If a phone lacks a fingerprint sensor, or if the phone isn’t on Android M, then Android Pay reverts to a passcode or pattern unlocking mechanism, losing the security inherent in fingerprint authentication to begin with—and basically making the new feature new in name only. 46 4 | Apple has the advantage of being able to push out software upgrades instantly, which means every iPhone owner with compatible hardware (6, 6 Plus, or Apple Watch) could imme- diately start using Apple Pay on launch day. And while it would be great if Apple fans with older iPhones could use Apple Pay, too, the security features just aren’t in place (unless you have an iPhone 5, 5s, or 5c and an Apple Watch). Don't have a fingerprint sensor in your iPhone? Sorry, no Apple Pay for you. Better safe than sorry. But Google beefing up its mobile payment service to compete with Apple is good news, because it forces both companies to improve. For instance, Android Pay works with your rewards cards and loyalty programs, which Apple is reportedly planning to add to Apple Pay. Once retailers finally move to NEC payment terminals, paying for stuff with your phone instead of a physical card will at long last become the norm. m FINGERPRINT AUTHENTICATION IS KEY to Apple Pay—not so much for Android Pay. 47 TechHive News, tips, and reviews covering phones, tablets, apps, and all the other tech in your life. Video players @lechHive Comcast makes its pil a 4K DON'T-MISS VIDEO PLAYERS| TechHive heloeye you find your tech sweet spot. We steer you to products you'll love and show you how to get the most out of them. hhive.com | Follow us go to go. macworld.com/ padnquilivid on eee. Pad & Quill transforms a hunk of wood into an elegant Apple Watch stand Inspired by a 100-year-old pocket watch stand, this Minnesota-based company created a home-grown charging stand for Apple's smartwatch. BY JULIO OJEDA-ZAPATA 50 o design a charging stand for the timepiece of the future, Brian Holmes looked to the past. A few years ago, his grandmother gave him an old pocket watch that had once belonged to his long-deceased grand- father. He needed a way to show off the timepiece, and vaguely remembered seeing elegant, collapsible wooden stands made for this purpose. Scouring the Internet, he found and snapped up a couple of these stands, both about a century old yet in decent condition. One of them turned out to be a reasonably good fit for his grandfather's pocket watch. Holmes runs Pad & Quill (padan- dquill.com), a Minneapolis-based Apple accessory maker that is best known for iPhone and iPad cases consisting of wooden frames wrapped in fine book-like bindings. But the Apple Watch required a very different kind of accessory—and those pocket-watch stands became Holmes's inspiration The company now offers the Luxury Pocket Stand for Apple Watch, a compact wooden watch holder that folds shut for convenient transport—a feature that makes it unique among the torrent of Apple Watch stands coming on the market. The $70 Pocket Stand, carved out of American cherry, African mahog- any, or American walnut, is made entirely in Minnesota. Its pieces are carved from wood planks with a CNC router, a sort of computer-controlled cutting machine, at a rural plant northwest of the Twin Cities. The pieces are transferred to Holmes's Minneapolis workshop for more sanding, final finishing with r ACCESSORY MAKERS, IS TAKING A LEAP OF FAITH WHEN DESIGNING GEAR FOR L SUCH A NEW DEVICE furniture-grade oil, and assembly. The result is an accessory with two hinged pieces, one serving as a base, and the other an angled platform for the Apple Watch. Cut- outs for the round charger and its cord essentially let you make those part of the stand. Holmes said he could not release his stand until he had a watch and charger to put on it for final tweaking, including adjustments to the wooden grooves where the charger and its cord rest. But he said the stand was 51 “d HOLMES, LIKE OTHER APPLE- iheSei sui TB) PAD & QUILL much easier to design than an iPhone case, which requires more precise guesswork about an unre- leased handset’s measurements. That's not all Pad & Quill has in store for Apple Watch owners. Other Apple Watch gear includes a $99 Timber Catchall, a wooden charging stand that has a larger base with compartments for your iPhone and keys; the $50 Roll Up Kit, a trifold leather case; and for $120, the Luxury Travel Kit combines the Luxury Pocket Stand with the Roll Up Kit. Also $120, the Luxury Travel Pouch combines the stand and a cotton-lined leather pouch BETTING ON THE APPLE WATCH Holmes, like other Apple-accessory makers, is taking a leap of faith when designing gear for such a new device. Any such launch “is kind of fretful,” Holmes acknowledged. “You design a product, you see what you think people would like to buy, but until you've announced it, you have no idea how well it will do.” He had doubts about the watch stand while it was being developed, for instance. “Maybe this is just stupid,” he recalls thinking to himself. But the orders have been rolling in. “We've seen enough sales that we feel this is worth the investment,” Holmes said. “This looks like a product we will be able to keep selling for the rest of the year” Pad & Quill finds itself in a fairly secure position because of a highly 52 ‘THE LUXURY POCKET STAND with its inspiration. and Brian’s grandfather's pocket watch, diversified product line. Its Apple Watch line will initially be small potatoes compared with its gang- buster trade in cases for iPhones, iPads, and one version of Amazon's Kindle e-book reader. These are what made the company profitable just two years after its founding in 2010. The iPhone and iPad cases, which look like elegant leather-bound books when they are closed, are also made in Minnesota. The frames are stamped out of wood sheets at the rural facility. The frames are then refined at Pad & Quill’s Minneapolis workshop and then transferred to a St. Paul book- binder, where they are sheathed in leather and lined with meticulously measured colored paper. “| love design, and working with craftsmen,” said Holmes, who runs his company with his wife, Kari. “When | have a rough idea for a product, a vision, we sit down and banter about what is possible. It's a constant dance of creating some- thing, and I'm constantly getting educated about how wood and leather and canvas work.” & 53 iOS CENTRAL BiaVieiisy ZAGG FOLIO FOR iPAD AIR 2 $95 AT A GLANCE Allin all, the Folio fsa quality ZAGG FOLIO: iPAD AIR 2 mi KEYBOARD CASE CAN BOOST ose PROS YOUR PRODUCTIVITY = foremost + Magnets turn wake or put BY JASON CIPRIANI ard layout is spacious WIRELESS KEYBOARDS for the iPad come in all shapes and sizes. Some duplicate Apple’s Smart Cover approach by only covering the screen “a when it’s not in use. Others forgo attaching to the iPad, letting users ois decide which case to use. And some keyboards offer complete protec- tion. Such is the case (forgive the pun) with the Zagg Folio (go.macworld com/zaggfolio). Pai makes the case hen you tap the sc + Touch-typists wil dislike the The Folio is available in black or white, complete with a faux-leather amount of travel in the keys back to add an appealing flair to its otherwise mundane plastic housing. ter turning it connects to IT’S A KEYBOARD, TOO, The keyboard itself is fairly standard as far as Bluetooth keyboards go. 54 The top row of keys are iOS shortcuts, such as a lock key, the home button, media controls, and a Spotlight button. The rest of the keyboard follows the standard QWERTY layout, with keys that are ample in size. Typically, when | switch between wireless keyboards (which is often) the first hour or two is riddled with typos from having to adjust to the size of layout of the keys. That didn’t happen to me with the Folio. The keys are spaced just right and feel bigger than most keyboards I've tested. One complaint about the keys, however, is that they have almost too much play. They tower high above the plastic housing and can be pushed down until they're almost even with it. The extra depth slowed my typing speed ever so slightly. It's not a major complaint but something touch-typists will likely take issue with. One thing | consistently noticed during my testing was the lag in-between turning on the keyboard and connecting with my iPad. On very few occasions did | experience the connection to be nearly instant as | normally experience with other keyboards. The majority of the time there was a two- to three-second delay between seeing the green power button light up and the connection being made with my iPad. can only guess the issue lies with the Folio. r REMEMBER TO HOLD IT DOWN THE KEYS ARE SPACED The housing provides for an adjustable JUST RIGHT AND FEEL BIGGER THAN MOST KEYBOARDS I’VE TESTED. 7 ‘IAGGFOLIO FORIPADAIR2 55 ies Seis Sui T NB) REVIEWS ZAGG FOLIO 135-degree viewing angle. Though when you have the viewing angle maxed out, the case becomes top-heavy. The result is a keyboard that’s prone to falling off your desk or table when you tap on the iPad’s screen. And that’s with a normal touch of the screen to, say, tap on a back button. I had to get into the habit of leaving one r- ALL IN ALL, THE FOLIO ISA QUALITY KEYBOARD-CASE COMBO FOR SOMEONE LOOKING TO KEEP THEIR INVESTMENT SAFE AND ADD A PRODUCTIVITY TOOL TO THE iPAD. hand on the keyboard to hold it down with L_ the other hand tapping or swiping my way through apps. HOPE YOU LIKE LANDSCAPE The biggest downside to the Folio is that you're locked into using the iPad in landscape orientation with a keyboard below it. You can remove your iPad from the case at anytime, but removing it and putting it back in defeats the main purpose of a Folio-like product: protection. Besides, removing your iPad from the Folio isn’t an easy feat—it takes a bit of work to do it (by design, no doubt). BOTTOM LINE Despite my gripes about connection lag or it being top heavy, | found the Folio to be a delight to use. The familiar spacing and layout of the keyboard cuts down on the learning curve, and | felt confident in the level of protection. Allin all, the Folio is a quality keyboard-case combo for someone looking to keep their investment safe and add a productivity tool to the iPad. Now, who can | talk to at Zagg about this “Warning” sticker just below the keys? It's annoying and | can't get it off. m 56 5 Plant a Billion (rees Join The Nature Conservancy to plant a billion trees, one tree at a time, in the fight to end climate change at plantabillion.org TheNature G Conservancy Protecting nature. Preserving life. iOS CENTRAL BiaVieiisy GLASS PLANNER: iPHONE APP HAS THE BASIC TOOLS FOR KEEPING YOUR SCHEDULE BY JASON CIPRIANI COUNTLESS APPS FILL the App Store, many promising to help keep you organized and on task by applying the same basic method, but with a slight twist. Recently highlighted by Apple as a best new app in the iTunes Store, Glass Planner (go.macworld.com/glassplanner) is the latest entry into this already crowded space. Only the team behind Glass Planner are proud of the approach it takes when helping you get things done. That approach is composed of three different parts. 58 GLASS PLANNER $8: AT A GLANCE Glass Planner sets itself apart {rom the rest ofthe pack by ‘compiling all of your calendar ‘entries and tasks into one list, with one view. PROS + Intuitive, interactive interface + Cloud integration CONS: + Tutorials are everywhere + No dedicated iPad app + Lacks natural-language Input for new events PRICE: Free PLAN, ACT, DONE At the bottom of the app you'll find three different tabs, each represent- ing a different step in the process of getting things done. Naturally, the first step in using any task-management app is planning. The Plan tab will show you a broad view of your schedule, complete with a list and a calendar view. Act is where you go when you want to view your immediate schedule, and mark tasks off as complete or reschedule appointments. The Plan and Act tabs also allow you to create new calendar appoint- ments, tasks, or calendar notes. The first two items are familiar to nearly everyone, while the latter is simply a different name for an all-day calendar entry. The Done tab is nothing more than a Cs) list of recently com- pleted appointments Put trash out and tasks. Interactions within the app consist of dragging and drop- ping for rearranging tasks and swiping to reveal further actions. 10:48 AM Award assembly It’s reminiscent of Clear (go.macworld com/clear07), another task-management app, complete with fun sound effects. I would like to see Glass Planner add a natural-language entry method, so that entering “remind me tomorrow at 4 to pick 59 HeSeis iT BS) REVIEWS | GLASS PLANNER up food” would result in a new task being created without any further interaction. Whereas entering “pick up food tomorrow at 4” would translate into a calendar entry. As it is now, entering anything with a set due date and time requires a fair amount of tapping and selecting various details. ASINGLE VIEW TO KEEP YOU MOTIVATED Where the developers feel Glass Planner sets itself apart from the rest of the pack is that it compiles all of your calendar entries and tasks into one list, with one view. Instead of bouncing between a view of appointments in your calendar, and then another view for tasks. I happen to rather like this approach. | have a hard enough time remembering to enter tasks in a to-do list, and the last thing | want to do is hunt and peck around multiple apps or screens to view entries. In short, Glass Planner does a good job at presenting the information | need, when | need it. LACK OF iPAD APP HURTS When an app takes a different approach to a common action, as Glass Planner does with task management, it's imperative a user have access to the service across multiple devices. Granted, the app creates an iCloud calendar of its own, making it possible to view content on your other Apple devices, but that calendar lacks Glass Planner’s unique management tools, so it hurts the overall experience. TOO MANY TUTORIALS The first time | launched Glass Planner, | was greeted with a welcome video. This is fairly standard for apps, so | watched it and came away with a basic understanding of what to expect from the app. 60 Then as | began to tap my way through each screen, going from Plan to Act to Done, and back again, | was greeted with a pop-up tutorial. Tap on a button to create a calendar entry, yet another pop-up is presented. Want to create a task? You guessed it, another tutorial is presented. | understand wanting to help users learn an app, but hand-holding through every single screen isn’t necessary. In 100 PM fact, it's a quick way of scaring off users altogether. BOTTOM LINE Glass Planner has the basic foundation of a solid task-management app, but it's currently lacking features such as an iPad app counterpart Fs ’ (and going one step ake part) and natural-lan- guage input to speed up the process of entering appointments and tasks. The tutorials left me feeling that the app is harder to use than it actually is. When it comes down to it, there’s nothing radical enough about Glass Planner to justify the prompts. If you're someone who relies solely on your iPhone to stay on task, You Should Know. t to Task Tasks r Glass Planner is worth a fair shot. But if you're someone who uses multiple devices for planning, you might want to hold off until the iPad app is released later this summer. 61 iOS CENTRAL BiaVieiisy ULYSSES FOR iPAD 2.0: POWERFUL, FEATURE-FILLED TEXT EDITOR HAMPERED BY FILE SYNC BY JASON CIPRIANI LAST YEAR, | reviewed Ulysses Ill for OS X, explaining that it “is much more than just a Markdown editor [...] as it includes a good number of organizational features.” Since then, The Soulmen, the app’s developer, has updated the OS X app to version 2, and introduced an iPad app. The $20 Ulysses for iPad (ulyssesapp.com) attempts to reproduce the OS X experience—interface and features—on an iPad, and does so quite well. | prefer using apps that have both iOS and OS X versions: | find it makes my computing experience smoother if | shift between devices. If you feel that way, you know that the iOS version of your favorite app can't be an exact copy of the OS X version, but you want it to be as close as possible. The Soulmen previously released an iPhone app called Daedalus Touch (daedalusapp.com), which offers some compat- 62 ULYSSES FOR iPAD $599 AT A GLANCE Ulysses for Pad is a nearly ing app. Its ed, but ifyou use sion, youl like the iPad version, PROS + Powerful Markdown editor + Duplicates most ofthe features of the 0S X v + Doesn't support Dropbox PRICE: $20 ibility with Ulysses, but does so in a confusing manner. Ulysses for iPad, however, is nearly a mirror image of the OS X app, allowing you to smoothly switch from one to the other. Like the OS X version, Ulysses for iPad displays Markdown syntax in what some people find a more user-friendly manner, coloring different types of text, and displaying links, images, and footnotes behind tokens. (You may like or dislike this, depending on how you are used to working ## “I will fight with him upon this theme, Until my eyelids will no Longer wag." Hamlet T met with the doyen of Shakespeare scholars, Stanley Wells, to discuss this question.| FN) Professor Wells, together with Paul Edmondson, his collaborator at the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, recently published a free ebook, called Shakespeare Bites Back [AN], to counter these arguments. He was moved to do this for two main reasons: "Because the conspiracy theorists are vocal and getting a lot of publicity, partly through the film Anonymous... \[and] because it’s spread to the academy. There are two universities now ~ one in Anerica, one in England ~ where you can do courses in authorship.” ‘Anonymous ([THDB]) tells the story of Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford, one of sone 77 candidates for Shakespeare's ghost writer, (“It’s a bad film, very complicated, a silly 10,468 A 8 0 ; ™ " & Q @¢ 63 feeders iT Ee REVIEWS | ULYSSES with Markdown.) When I say you can switch smoothly, | only mean as far as the inter- face is concerned. Ulysses syncs your files via iCloud, and you can't just start writing on a Mac and switch to an iPad; you need to wait for iCloud to update your file. This isn’t Handoff, where you can truly switch from one document to another across devices (assuming Handoff works with your hardware); this is iCloud’s “Will it sync?” syncing, the kind that sometimes takes several minutes or more. Unfortunately, iCloud sync conflicts are common, and there is a complicated procedure to get the apps back in sync (ulyssesapp.com/faq/#icloud). I've lost data too many times with apps that use iCloud to be comfortable with trusting my files to it. When your files do sync, you'll find that the iPad version of Ulysses is nearly exactly the same as the OS X version. This is no mean feat. Ulysses for iPad starts by reproducing your file organization; at least for files on iCloud (you can store files on your Mac with the r AS FAR AS ENTERING TEXT IS CONCERNED, ULYSSES IS ONE OF THE MOST EFFICIENT TEXT EDITORS I’VE USED FOR iOS. OS X version and they won't show up on the iPad). You can create folders—what Ulysses calls Groups—that appear in both versions of the app and organize your files as you want. You may want to keep a library of files accessible, along with documents you're currently writing, and Ulysses lets you do that efficiently. You can also access “external files” saved on iCloud Drive by other apps, or on Google Drive, Box, and others. But the process isn’t as smooth: you cannot create files from Ulysses for iPad on these cloud services, only open files already there. And the app’s biggest weakness is that it does not support Dropbox at all, even though the interface confusingly suggests that it does. As far as entering text is concerned, Ulysses is one of the most efficient text editors I've used for iOS. It offers a useful button bar that gives you quick access to some basic Markdown tags and special characters. There's a counter button at the left of the ribbon, which expands to show words, characters, pages, and more (you can custom- ize which counters to display). Ulysses for iPad also supports TextEx- pander snippets if you have that app installed. If you use a hardware keyboard with your iPad, you can also use a number of keyboard 64 shortcuts to work more efficiently. There are far too many features to cover in this review. Ulysses offers themes, tags, lets you make inline comments or notes, and you can share files or open them in other apps on your iPad. You can preview and export files in plain text, HTML, ePub, PDF, or RTF (though the built-in preview window doesn’t update in real time; you need to refresh that window for changes to be displayed). BOTTOM LINE Ulysses for iPad is a mature app that you can use on its own as a powerful Markdown or text editor, and it provides a complete writing environment. It's even more powerful if you use Ulysses for OS X. The ability to sync files between the two platforms allows you to write anywhere and stay up-to-date—when iCloud works. I'd be a lot more positive about this app if it worked with Dropbox, and | would think that, given Dropbox's popularity, a lot of users would prefer storing files there than on iCloud. m 65 iOS CENTR. REVIEWS To view this Video, go to go.macworld. com/voycevid VOYCE IS THE WELLNESS MONITOR FOR DOGS THAT MAKES WEARABLES VIVIDLY RELEVANT BY JON PHILLIPS EVEN IF YOU RETIRED YOUR FITBIT or Fuelband to a desk drawer long ago, you may still find room in your heart for another activity-track- ing wearable. No, not for you—for your dog. The Voyce health and wellness monitor (go.macworld.com/voyce) bypasses human biology entirely, and sets its sights on Canis familiaris, a species with much less capricious technology habits. Yeah, it's another canine wearable. But instead of merely recording pawsteps, the Voyce band also tracks resting heart and respiratory 66 rates, two biometrics that can provide deep insights into a dog's health. My border collie mix, Whiskey, has been wearing Voyce for just over a month, and I've gathered a wealth of interesting data about just how much activity and sleep she's really getting—along with reports on her vital signs that would otherwise require specialized veterinary equipment. Voyce just dropped its price from $300 to $200, but requires a pricey $15 monthly or $150 yearly membership plan. It’s also limited to dogs with 12-inch necks or larger. It’s also got an annoying, ever-blinking LED, and looks like cold, sterile medical equipment. And the Voyce data dashboard is web-only, and loads rather slowly. The manufacturer, i4C Innovations, says it’s working on fixing some of these issues, but even the 1.0 version of Voyce is supercool technology. The collar tracks Whiskey's heart rate and breathing when she’s at home, kicking back on the couch—cool, calm and perfectly content. And this is the big innovation that should be of particular interest to veterinarians. AMONTH’S WORTH OF DOGGIE DATA The collar was originally slated to be available by summer 2014, but Voyce hit a snag with FCC approval. The device's special patented technology is a sensor that uses low-frequency radio waves to measure heart rate (tracking pulses of the carotid artery) and breathing rate (tracking muscle movement in doggie’s chest). The FCC finally landed on a protocol for testing and certifying this application for dogs, and now the Voyce band is shipping. Every day for the last month, I've been checking Whiskey's heart rate THEVOYCE COLLAR quickly picks up scuffs, making an already industrial-looking band look a bit more janky. 2} VOYCE Whiskey Trends April21- May 18 & wonm ® Acdanote @ txportto Por SSSA SSS SSS HERE'S AMONTH of Whiskey's respiratory data. It would be nice if Voyce added days of the week to its calendar view. and respiratory data, and her readings have been blissfully normal. | haven't seen any alarming heart rate spikes, and her breathing rates have varied between a relaxed 11 and 16 breaths per minute. The Voyce band takes these two readings when your dog is at full rest, and then reports a three-day rolling average. This rolling-average approach smooths out the natural variability of canine heartbeat and breathing rates, presenting only baseline measurements that can show trends over time. But here's the really important thing, according to Voyce: Because the measurements are collected when your dog is perfectly calm, the readings will be much more instructive than anything measured during the cortisol-driven 68 VOYCE HEALTH (AND WELLNESS, MONITOR s008 AT A GLANCE data on a dog's act and rest + Shares heart and breathing ates—data that once equired equipment. battery fe, easy emotional duress of a veterinary visit. To this end, the Voyce platform includes a Vet View that gathers up all relevant data and exports it to PDF. You can then send the file to your pet doctor to provide him or her with a deeper level of diagnostic insights. Voyce says its technology is greater than 90 percent accurate when compared to a Holter monitor (go.macworld.com/holter) or Televet (go.macworld.com/televet). These unwieldy veterinary devices measure a dog's heart rate at rest, but just aren't practical for continuous, every- day use. WHAT TREND DATA CAN REALLY TELL US If you check your dog's Voyce data regularly, you may even be able to PROGRESSIVELY SHORTER spot a developing medical problem. To this end, Voyce gives your dog a__PERIODSof uninterrupted . rest might indicate your new voice in her own health and wellness effort. dons in pain For example, elevated heart rates can be an 7 indication of pain, fever, : vesace aly an Of, wosemwevoun eS De 14% or infection. Elevated respiratory rates might suggest a heart problem or an issue with your dog's endocrine system. The Voyce platform also reports your dog's longest periods of uninterrupted rest. So, if you notice these periods are getting shorter over time, your dog may be suffering from arthritis, hypothyroidism, or even cancer pain. Ifyou see sudden spikes or gradual upward swings in either any, ovemauioaae metric, you shouldn't i vs, . panic, but rather take the 69 ese ui TE REVIEWS | VOYCE data to a vet who can triangulate heart and ale breathing rates with rest wrens uve and activity data. i. Amanda Landis-Hanna, i4C’s Director of Veteri- nary Medicine, describes a scenario: “If | see that resting respiratory rate jump from, say, 12 to 25, | know there’s something that need to have a conversation about. If the resting heart rate os normally hangs out around 60, and suddenly jumps up to 100, 110, 120—all of which are very elevated in a resting gu ruepayWE shot Whiskey's @ 201 8" 134 se 50% see patient, but normal ina —_Voyce video, she got 50 per- stressed-out patient in cent more than her normal daily activity. Here we see an my hospital—that’s important information.” The Voyce team doesn’t want to turn pet. parents into hypochondriacs, so the platform includes a library of professionally sourced articles on health, behavior, and nutrition, among other topics. There's also a symptom checker tool to help users identify specific problems. “What we've found with the pet parents who are using Voyce is not that they're trying to diagnose their own dog, but that they feel much more in tune,” says Landis-Hanna, who's been a practicing vet for 13 years. “They're tracking trends, they're reading the articles and better educating them- selves, so that when they go into the vet office, they hourly breakdown. WHISKEY NEVER demonstrated any discomfort wearing the Voyce, but it looks a bit ike a shock collar or a GPS tracker feel they're speaking the same language. And a for parolees. 70 better educated client is generally more compliant, meaning if | can explain the benefit of blood work or X-rays, the pet parent will do those if they're able to, getting us closer to the diagnosis.” DEEP DIVES INTO ACTIVITY AND SLEEP Throughout my testing, | sifted through Whiskey's data with interest, observing how much exercise she was getting at doggie daycare on weekdays versus time spent at dog parks on the weekends. The Voyce dashboard's activity data shows periods of low, medium, and high intensity levels, as well as estimates of miles covered, all based on accelerometer readings. It doesn’t, however, show actual pawsteps. In other words, it's not Fitbit for dogs. Nonetheless, it was interesting to observe that Whiskey's activity during really busy daycare visits exceeded her activity when | only gave her two 35-minute walks on a really lazy Sunday. The dashboard doesn't report sleep like a human activity tracker would. Instead it reports rest, which combines actual sleep with simple sedentary activity like kicking back on the couch and waiting for the fun to begin. | was surprised to discover that Whiskey's average daily rest ins CRNA CUTS TH count is 21 hours a day. That exceeds the estimated 80 percent of intensity levels of Whiskey's combined sleep/rest time that’s taken root as conventional wisdom, but _ tivity onthe day we shot . her video. Clearly, the Voyce Dr. Landis-Hanna confirmed that Voyce is showing most dogs aren't saam Ines he chats anal quite as active as experts have always believed. graphs. Intensity > Fa z 10PM 2AM n ese ui TE REVIEWS | VOYCE ‘AMONG OTHER SERVICES, your subscription fee pays for a growing collection of articles written by vets, behaviorists, nutrionists and other experts. For what it’s worth, I'm not worried that Whiskey is under-exercised. Looking at my Voyce dashboard, | can identify her most active days and correlate her numbers to nighttime behavior. On the days when Whiskey has even approached 20 percent activity time, she’s been absolutely wiped out at night, suggesting she's passed her limit. The dashboard also shows an estimate of calorie burn (helpful if you've identified a weight gain problem), and reports how many hours your dog has spent in direct sunlight. This last metric can prove especially useful if you're concerned your dog walker isn’t doing his or her job. Depending on the data set you're looking at, the dashboard can show you daily, weekly, monthly, and even yearly views. So, for example, when you're in the daily view, you can check to see the precise times when your dog was active and enjoying sunlight. The monthly view is available for all data sets, and is most helpful for spotting health trends. That said, I wish the dashboard mapped calendar dates to days of the week. This would make it much easier to compare weekday activity to the same metrics on the weekends. A PORTAL FOR ALL YOUR DOG'S DETAILS The Voyce dashboard is packed with features. In addition to tons of interesting articles (for example, “Can my dog handle group walks?” and “How to train a rock solid recall”), there's a goal-setting tool (for instance, lose 5 pounds over three months) as well as a function for setting reminders for vaccines, appointments, and routine care. You can also log 72 all of your dog's health and nutrition details, such as which shots are up to date, what she's allergic to, and exactly what kind of food she eats. Your subscription fees cover all these features, and also pay for storing your dog's data on the Voyce servers. It's a robust platform, but it’s worth noting that all popular human wellness wearables come with free monthly cloud service. As for the dashboard itself, it's easy to navigate on a desktop display, but it loads too slowly. | often found myself impatiently waiting for Voyce’s servers to update Whiskey's charts. Another gripe: There’s no mobile app. Instead, the website employs a “responsive” design that automatically adjusts the user interface for smaller devices like tablets and smartphones. It sounds good in theory, but the render on smartphones is cramped and not intuitive. | also found the phone experience amplifies already annoyingly slow load times. On the upside, Voyce says it's working on a mobile app that will enable push notifications and other niceties we've come to expect from activity tracking apps. NOT THE WEARABLE FOR DAINTY DOGS As for the collar itself, well, let's just say it’s not ready for Project Runway. THECOLLARLOCKS ONTO your dog's neck with a burly, lacking fastener. It’s not pretty, and the Voyce band doesn’t currently support toy breeds. ese ui TE REVIEWS | VOYCE IMAGINETHIS BRIGHT LED entering your room in the middle of the night while you're sleeping, | want Whiskey's coat to look lush and healthy, but I'm not interested in doggie fashion, so Voyce's cold, institutional aesthetic doesn’t bother me (and | know it doesn’t bother Whiskey). Still, its general look and feel evokes a shock collar—or possibly even a GPS monitor that you might see on a criminal under house arrest. It's not a glamorous look, and that might be a deal breaker if you named your dog Princess or Buttercup. Battery life is rated for seven days, and | found this estimate to be accurate. The collar is waterproof down to one meter, so feel free to enter DockDog competitions. Data syncs with Voyce’s servers over Wi-Fi every four hours or on-demand via a button press. You can add up to 10 Wi-Fi networks, allowing you to sync pretty much everywhere your dog regularly visits. The Voyce collar currently comes in four sizes, supporting necks as scrawny as 12 inches and as burly as 32 inches. That's a wide range, but if you intend to buy Voyce for a toy breed, you'll have to wait for i4C Innovations to miniaturize the collar further. The company is targeting the Q4 2015/Q1 2016 time frame for that next step. Ideally, the Voyce sensor is supposed to settle at the 6 o'clock posi- tion below a dog's neck. Whiskey's collar always seems to be pushed off to one side, but I've never seen any evidence of uncollected data. The 74 Voyce team says as long as the sensor housing is sitting between 3 and 9 o'clock, data collection should be fine. As you can see from the photos in this article, the plastic collar picks up scuffs and dirt. Like the basic aesthetics, this doesn’t bother me. However, | am bothered by the collar’s bright, blinking green LED, which serves as a visual indicator to confirm the band is working. When Whiskey enters the bedroom in the middle of the night, the LED lights up the whole room—and that negatively affects my health and wellness. Whiskey doesn’t show any indication that she’s annoyed by the LED or even wearing the collar in the first place, but clearly i4C knows the LED is a friction point for humans. The current LED has an auto-dimming feature for low-light situations, and the company says this will improve even Baer iten ayen mes toni bacco Gar 5 eae VERSION IS ON THE WAY. CAN YOU PUT A PRICE ON A L FAMILY MEMBER’S HEALTH? With new pricing in June, i4C Innovations is dropping the cost of its Voyce hardware to $200, but is increasing the price of its mandatory membership plans by 50 percent. Granted, $150 a year is a low recur- ring cost for a platform with such promising health benefits. Because have you seen a vet bill lately? Still, | have to once again point out that Fitbit, Jawbone, Withings, and other human-activity tracker companies don't charge membership fees. The collar isn’t pretty, but that isn’t a deal breaker. The platform doesn't have a mobile app, but one is coming. The band won't fit toy breeds, but a smaller version is on the way. And the blinking green LED is distracting, but i4C is working on a fix. In sum total: Voyce suffers a number of version 1 problems, but the most serious ones are being addressed. “Casual” pet parents will bristle at the idea of paying membership fees, but “casual” pet parents prob- ably shouldn't care for pets in the first place. Would | buy Voyce if total cost of ownership added up to $1,000 a year? Probably not. Instead | would lean on my vet to spot trouble signs. But $350 a year isn’t an exorbitant price for all the interesting insights and diagnostic data that Voyce provides. m 5 a iOS CENTRAL What'snew at the App Store PAPER Everybody has loved Paper (fiftythree.com/ paper) as an app that spurs and shows off your creativity, but now its developers are getting more work-minded. The newest features are grouped together under the label “Think Kit’—users can now create flow diagrams, org charts, axis lines, and wire- frames, create freeform color fills for trend lines and pie charts, and cut to rearrange shapes and create patterns. 76 Movie of the Day! Like movies? Like MOVIE bargains? Movie of the DYNA Day! (go.macworld com/movieoftheday) features a different movie from from the Fox archives each day, heavily discounted for download to your iTunes video library. All deals are available for 24 hours. Fit Men Cook We're suckers for self-improvement apps. The $3 Fit Men Cook (fitmencook.com/ app) iOS app offers more than 100 healthy recipes from health expert Kevin Curry, and a plan to do all your cooking two days a week, so you can have healthy food available to eat during the rest of your busy week. Addapp Addapp (addapp.io) takes the input from all your wearables—like Fitbit and Jawbone, along with a whole range of health- related apps—and converts the information into daily, personal insights about what you're doing to get healthy, and what you can do to improve. It's not just feedback—it's affirmation.—1oEL MATHIS A Case with a Screen... in the Back! This month's iPhone cases brings you fitness-forward options from Belkin and Griffin and extended battery life from Griffin, Mophie and PowerSkin. POPSLATE For those times when one screen just isn’t enough, the PopSLATE (iPhone 6; $129; popslate.com) is an Apple-certified case that comes with a dedicated secondary screen made from e-paper— the kind of display also used by Amazon's Kindle. The screen is powered by a rechargeable 240Ah battery that lasts about a week under normal usage and can be charged via USB. It connects to your iPhone via Bluetooth, and can be used to display your favorite images and text, or play a slideshow of your choosing, AIRCHARGE When charging cables become your worst enemy, the Aircharge (iPhone 6; $40; air-charge.com) offers the convenience of wireless charging while protecting your iPhone 6 from drops and other hazards. The case features a protective bumper to help ie. prevent damage around the iPhone's edges, +) and lets you recharge your iPhone 6 with any Qi-compatible charging dock by simply aircharge placing it on the charging pad. (Note that most wireless charging solutions aren't certified by Apple) iOS CENTRAL iPhone Cases ithout any ill eff Slim and stylish, the Sport-Fit Pl Armband (iPhone 6 and 6 Plu: belkin.com) comf complimentary MVP meme ame x-month MapMyRun > keep you on your up to 1.2 meter: about 30 minutes GRIFFIN We've got another running band for you: The Adidas Armband (iPhone 6; $30; griffin.com), a nylon armband with a built-in key holder. Its pocket for the iPhone 6 has a clear window that is touchscreen compatible, so you can pause your running app or play a new song without having to take your iPhone out. Italso and a port for your ear buds or a heart rate monitor. Its design prevents excessive moisture from building up, keeping you cool and comfortable during your run POWERSKIN The Spare (iPhone 6; $80; power-skin.com) incorporates a 2200-mAh battery to let you use your apps and chat all day long. MFI certified and NFC compatible, the case doesn't interfere with Apple Pay, and comes in space gray, silver, or gold editions that match the iPhone's original finish BAT TERY LIFE TESTS: GO ALL DAY WIT APPLE’S MAC LAPTOPS BY ROMAN LOYOLA big part of evaluating laptops is battery life. Since the tests take so long, our reviews of the new MacBook, 13-inch MacBook Air, and 13-inch Retina MacBook Pro appear without hard data for battery life (the MacBook review [go.macworld com/snell] had Jason Snell’s observations while working day to day). Battery life is one of the most common concerns readers have when Apple releases new laptops. It’s an impor- tant data point; no one wants to be stuck with a dry battery, and Apple uses batteries that are not user-replaceable. 81 FEATURE BATTERY LIFE TESTS Iran two different battery tests on the new MacBook, 13-inch MacBook Air, and 13-inch Retina MacBook Pro. The first test I ran produced results that jibe with Apple's specification. The second test produced results that fell quite short, but there are a lot of factors that influence how long a battery can last. In case you are interested, the three laptops had the following settings: > Screen brightness set to 75 percent (starting at zero, press the screen brightness up button on the key- board 12 times) > Automatically adjust brightness off BATTERY TEST: > Wi-Fi off for the iTunes movie playback test > Notifications off > In Energy Saver system preference (Battery Tab): + Turn display off after: Never + Put hard disks to sleep when possible: Checked + Slightly dim the display while on battery power: Unchecked + Enable Power Nap while on battery power: Unchecked iTUNES MOVIE PLAYBACK iTunes movie playback battery life results: 2015 Mac laptops MEASURED IN HOURS:MINUTES, LONGER BARS ARE SETTER BATTERY TEST: PEACEKEEPER WEB USE Peacekeeper battery life results: 2015 Mac laptops MEASURED IN HOURS MINUTES, LONGER BARS ARE BETTER The first test | ran was a looped playback of an HD video in iTunes. Apple’s specs for iTunes movie playback are: > 18-inch Retina MacBook Pro: Up to 12 hours » 13-inch MacBook Air: Up to 12 hours » MacBook: Up to 10 hours: The MacBook was the only laptop that didn’t meet its specification, but it was only about 40 minutes short. Still, you're going to be able to watch several movies or maybe even a whole season of “Game of Thrones” ona trans-Pacific flight. BATTERY TEST: PEACEKEEPER WEB USE The second test | ran was the Peace- keeper Universal Browser Test (peacekeeper.futuremark.com), which has a battery-test component. | used this to test what Apple calls “wireles