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Create, Pays, (Moc User Macworld, and the Macworld logo are registered trademarks of Intematonal Data Group, In. and used under license by IDG Consumer & SMB, Ine. ple, the Apple logo, Mac, and Macintosh are registered trademarks of Aople, Inc 10 things that iTunes does right iTunes 12 has its share of problems. But there are several tasks that iTunes is good at. pple’s iTunes gets a lot of criticism, including a lot that | dish out, and much of this criticism is justified. Tunes has lots of problems syncing iOS devices, iTunes Match and iCloud Music Library are confusing, and the interface, particularly in iTunes 12, is confusing. To be fair, though, iTunes does get a 41. CD RIPPING lot right. You can condemn it for many If you remember back in the days problems, but it's good to sometimes _before iTunes, CD ripping software—at take a step back and give it credit least on the Mac—was far less user- for the features that work so well that __ friendly than iTunes. You had to manu- you hardly pay attention to them. ally enter tags for your music, and then I've picked ten things that iTunes move the files into iTunes or whichever does right, app you were using to play your music. iTUNES 12 iTUNES 12 iTunes made big improvements by unifying the process of ripping, tagging, and adding music to your library, and also through the integra- tion of Gracenote to fetch tags for most of the CDs you rip. While iTunes may rip some CDs slowly, this seems to be more because of the CDs than the app itself. | rip a lot of CDs with iTunes, and it acquits itself well. 2. PLAYLISTS The ability to create and manage playlists is one of the revolutions of digital audio. Instead of only being able to listen to the tracks you copied to an MP3 player in a folder, iTunes lets you make as many playlists as you want. They're easy to set up, and easy to, manage, and you can even organize them in folders if you have a lot of them. 3. SMART PLAYLISTS Playlists are one thing, but when they got smart in iTunes 3, that changed everything. You can set up playlists to find music by specific artists or genres, music you added recently or years ago, music you've played a lot or never listened to. And you can shuffle them too. 4. VIDEO PLAYBACK iTunes’ ability to play videos lets you watch anything in your iTunes library on your Mac or PC, at home or when traveling. If you use iTunes to man- EE Aon Lyris Options Sorting File Paying in The Band Grate Dead 1972-11-18 - Oklahoma City, OK - Dave's Picks Vol. 11 Dead + 1972 ‘Album is a compitation of songs by various artists the Cancet age your video library, it’s a lot easier to play videos from iTunes than from a video-only app. You can watch your favorite movies or TV shows with the app, and it remembers where you stopped if you haven't finished watching a movie. If you're watching episodes of a TV series, it shows you which ones you've seen. SETTAGS for your files in iTunes. 5. FILE TAGGING iTunes is certainly not the only media-management app that tags digital media files; they all do. But iTunes does it quite well. While you may not like the way the Info window is laid out, or the way you navigate it, it's still very efficient, and a lot easier to use than that of many other apps. 6. CONTENT DISPLAY While iTunes 12 mixes things up as far as navigating libraries is concerned, iTunes does offer a lot of different ways to view your content. You can view music by album, artist, gente, or song, and the Column Browser lets you drill down through your library. Other types of content have similar views. You can choose how to view each library—Music, Movies, etc.—and each playlist. It can be hard to grasp, but it's quite flexible. 7. HOME SHARING iTunes lets you share your library over your home network. Yes, this is fraught with problems, and sharing a large library to an iOS device generally doesn’t work. But it’s easy to share your music library throughout your home, allowing other people in your family to listen to your music easily. You can also share your library to an Apple TV, which puts all your media at your fingertips in the living room. (I know, this is often glitchy too.) This ability to share your content with your family is very practical. If only Apple could get all the kinks out of it.. 8. REMOTE CONTROL Apple’s Remote app for iOS lets you control iTunes playback on a com- puter. This is great if you're streaming music via AirPlay to a speaker, say, in your bedroom. Or if you're just sitting in the living room, streaming music through an Apple TV. 9. THE iTUNES STORE When Apple went into the music CONTROL MUSIC with the Remote app onan i0S device. iTUNES 12 retail business, it wasn’t a big sur- prise, but it changed the landscape of the music industry. Now, the iTunes Store sells music, movies, apps, books, and more. It's generally easy to navigate, and the seamless process of buying digital content and having it download to your library is nearly foolproof. 10. APPLESCRIPT If you use a Mac, you have the ability to extend iTunes using AppleScript. Thanks to Doug Adams, whose website Doug’s AppleScripts (go. macworld.com/dougscripts) for iTunes houses hundreds of scripts, we have the ability to do alll sorts of things that iTunes can’t do, such as manage files, change tags, work with playlists, and much more. It’s great that Apple has provided support for AppleScript in iTunes, and | hope it continues to do so. m @ © @ Search-Replace Tag Text Target: 3 selected tracks Choose tag to edit: Name Search for: Playing (x) Case sensitive Entire word Replace with: [ Playin’ Quit SEARCH-REPLACE TAG Text, one of the many useful AppleScripts that make iTunes easier to use. Dwiomhte 1 in 5 Cildun iv Cumnce) who STRUGGLE WITH HUNGER macusen Twitter on the Mac: Do your job, or get out of the way tof Twitter's Mac app has stalled, and maybe Twitter should cal hree years ago Twitter broke its covenant with the third-party developers (go.macworld.com/twitter1) who helped fuel its initial growth and create some of its most innovative features. The message was clear: Twitter was in charge of its own platform, and while other Twitter apps would be tolerated, they would only be so in limited fashion and for a limited time. Today Twitter is a company in turmoil, with investors such as Chris Sacca clamoring for change (go.macworld. com/sacca) after the exit of former CEO Dick Costolo and the interim takeover of cofounder Jack Dorsey. What can't be disputed is that Twit- ter's Mac app—introduced in 2011—is an extreme example of how Twitter has squandered the past few years. It drove third-party developers off of its platform in order to exert control, and then proceeded to bungle its app development. Twitter for 10S, while it has its issues, is generally considered to be a competent app. (I don't use it—I'm still clinging to Twitterrific. And of course, so many people love Tweet- bot for iPhone.) Unfortunately, Twitter has withheld most of its new innova- tions (such as the contents of the Notifications tab, including a list of who follows, retweets, and favorites you) from third-party apps, so even the most impressive third-party app is hobbled out of the starting gate. On the Mac, though, it's been a disaster. | use Twitter for Mac every day because | rely on the contents of that Notifications tab, and because Tweetbot has never really appealed to me. (Unfortunately, the Mac version of Twitterrific is so old that it's essentially unusable.) How bad is Twitter for Mac? So bad that it fails to support numerous features introduced with fanfare by Twitter itself. The new Mute feature, which lets you block out communica- tions from people you don’t want to hear from without blocking them entirely? Not only can you not initiate a mute from Twitter for Mac, but I've found that when | mute someone from Twitter's Web interface, many of their tweets still appear in my timeline. Tweet quoting, rolled out earlier this year (go.macworld.com/tweet), is still not supported on the Mac version of Twitter. Tweetbot (Mac and iPhone) and Twitterrific (IOS) were both updated to support it almost immedi- ately, and are the richer for it. Then there are the bugs. Too frequently | click on a tweet in Twitter for Mac, only to have it display the contents of an entirely different Tweet in my 13 TWITTER ON THE MAC. timeline. I've seen this bug consistently for months, if not years. | also find the app will often bog down and become unusable unt I quit, but then again, sometimes it just quits on its own. But perhaps Twitter's just given up on the Mac. The tweet announcing tweet-quoting specifically didn’t mention the Mac version, and the app itself hasn't been updated since October. | use Twitter on the desktop all the time, but | understand how mobile should probably be Twitter's focus. WHOSE APP IS IT ANYWAY? Stil, couldn't this have all been avoided? This is Twitter's platform. It could've placed stricter rules on the third-party apps favored by geeks like me while allowing them to continue innovating on the platform and growing their own businesses, but the rules were too onerous and develop- ment is slowly grinding to a halt. If Twitter doesn’t have the resources or inclination to properly support platforms like the Mac (or, quite frankly, iOS and Android), perhaps it should rethink the decisions made by the prior regime and find a way to let other developers apply their expertise to the problem. Alternately, maybe Twitter should figure out how to use its huge team of app developers to create first-class native apps for not just iOS and Android, but the Mac and Win- dows too Finally, there’s the nuclear option: Force everyone on the desktop to use Twitter’s website. After all, there's no native Facebook app for the Mac. This is true, and yet | use Twitter far more than | use Facebook for just this reason! With a dedicated Twitter app, I can dip in and out of the social stream as it suits me. | never remember to look at Facebook when I'm sitting at my desk. It's a tumultuous time for Twitter. It needs new leadership and the overall Twitter product needs to get a lot better. | agree with Chris Sacca’s HOW BAD IS TWITTER FOR MAC? SO BAD THAT IT FAILS TO SUPPORT NUMEROUS FEATURES INTRODUCED WITH FANFARE BY TWITTER ITSELF. argument that Twitter could truly become our watercooler when it comes to live events (go.macworld.com/live), from TV shows to sports to breaking news. There's a lot of work to be done. But as Twitter gets its house in order, maybe it can consider giving a little love to its apps? They sure could use it, especially Twitter for Mac. And if you can't bother making a good Mac app, could you consider handing the keys to competent Mac developers and stepping out of the way? ml 4 SAND-UP c EVERY NEW ART FORM HAS ITS FIGHT FOR FREE SPEECH. OUR TIME IS NOW <) VIDEOGAMEVOTERS.ORG 20 time- saving tips for Office 2016 for Mac 16 PRODUCTIVITY? SWEET! ffice 2016 for Mac was a long time coming, but it brings plenty of new features and better feature parity with the Windows version than ever. Microsoft has done a lot to streamline the experience, with a customizable, collapsible Ribbon as well as cross- platform keyboard shortcuts, but with any major Office update, there’s bound to be a learning curve. These tips for Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook, and OneNote should come in handy. Office 2016 is available for Office365 subscribers, with a wider release in September. OFFICE 2016 TIPS 6 PowerPoint SEX En teaert Toots Skin Show Waow Help G&D F(a) ai) © S Mb Wns 1057 AM re) “ a mM Clip Organizer’ to use the Dy Office DON’T FORGET TO SAVE! This is probably our most important tip: Don't forget to save! When Apple introduced Auto Save and Versions into OS X, many @ Mac users started losing our ingrained habit of hitting Command- S often. Unfortunately, Office 2016 (except for OneNote—more on that in a bit) doesn't take advantage of Auto Save. So don't forget to save often. Versioning is also missing, but on the plus side, fans of Save As will find the command in its rightful place in the File menu. 18 STORE YOUR FILES IN ONEDRIVE OR SHAREPOINT Ifyou need access to your files from anywhere, Office 2016's built-in OneDrive & SharePoint integration @ makes cloud storage simple. To save to your OneDrive or SharePoint account, click the Online Locations button in the lower left corner of a Save dialog box. Choose your existing account from the list, or click the + button to add another location. What's the difference? Glad you asked. OneDrive is a con- sumer product for cloud storage, like iCloud Drive. Aimed more at businesses, SharePoint acts like an intranet, letting teams share and collaborate on files. 19 OFFICE 2016 TIPS 20 e 3 fe AVERAGE[H2 2.2) j r n 3 tte Peace = oy . ote Copy Unk 2 |ateremneen Sap ns 2h 4 afew] \ Drongen atc O2/derewt2 (GB Sena Anachment : tes Ol Toes 08 ours totter wea son cons ne oars : onan on sure ; 4 roe urireie mom evra ae oenornie nue yeon? : tes sane 4 wee eons ne ountots mn Twn np onarea : a erm : vet ouaerane oe marae “eo ermnos ne ries Bp un wnot B a0 duran £E 2 96/26/2005 ou con > a0 owas x too ovine 3 latesa wed mes avowrete rons yoe hase: 1 den tod mp yeiooe — ors coca ‘Sharing Optone SHARE DOCUMENTS WITH A CLICK Office 2016 has made sharing your documents super easy— just click the silhouette icon in the upper right corner of the window. From the pop-up sharing menu, you can invite people to collaborate, copy a public link, or send the document as an email attachment. If the file is stored locally on your Mac, you'll need to move it to the cloud first in order to invite people or copy a public link, which only takes two clicks. 21 OFFICE 2016 TIPS JUMP AROUND WITH DOCUMENT NAVIGATION Use the Navigation pane to easily move around complex documents. To view the Navigation pane, go to View + © Sidebar + Navigation. Click on an item in the list to jump directly to that section of your document. The Navigation pane also tracks your location in the document as you edit, highlighting the section you're currently working on. 22 TWEAK STYLES QUICKLY Apply and create styles quickly with the new Styles Pane. From the Home tab, click Styles Pane on the far right. Apply a @ style by clicking its name in the list, or use the New Style button to create a brand-new style from scratch. If you have a document with many applied styles, check the Show Styles Guides box to toggle on a color-coded guide to alll the styles that have been applied to your document. 23 OFFICE 2016 TIPS AutoCorrect: English (US) Show All © Automatically correct spelling and formatting as you type Math AutoCorrect _AutoFormat as You Type {Show AutoCorrect smart button © Correct TWo INitial CApitais Capitalize first letter of sentences Capitalize names of days Gi Capitalize first letter of table cells @ Replace text as you type Exceptions. AutoText Replace: [ With: { ) 1 ( ) ! SAVE TIME WITH AUTOCORRECT Speed up your writing with AutoCorrect. If you frequently misspell the same words over and over again, add them to © your AutoCorrect dictionary. Choose Tools + AutoCorrect, and add entries to automatically fix your terrible typing habits. You can also add to your AutoCorrect dictionary from Word’s automatic spellcheck. Control-Click a misspelled word, and use the contextual menu to add its replacement to AutoCorrect. 24 @ Excel File View Insert Format Tools Data Window Help Undo Typing "Name" in 1:1 %Z 1 Roster Repeat Center Alignment RY View a rn a & | ogmene #®X Ss 9%. Bom : Copy #C (o} 7 Foret Paste B Number » Paste #V a Cal Sy 89 s Paste Special aeV Fill > E F ¢ ' 1 Name Clear > 2 Jack K. Pennington ect All a 2003 3 Autumn L. Garner net HA howz 4 Giacomo E. Parsons Delete. 2004 5 Michael M. Lee Sheet > poo lucas H. Sheppard 2006 Stuart V. Mueller Find > pois 8 Upton 8. Cash pois 9 [ienettea. vous [Start Dictation fnfn 2014 postin tnt Emoji & Symbols “3¢Space /209 Jarrod ©. Glenn 42014 2 Eve L Heath sia or 07/03/2007 3 Hadassah Floyd —_—_Saarbr@chen aus 11/29/2008 4 Ronan R. Ferrell Colchester 8647 04/10/2012 Aurora 0. Crut 9363 98/21/2003 6 Xantha 8. Harris Dudrele 3231 11/36/2001 USE UNIVERSAL EXCEL SHORTCUTS If you work on both Macs and Windows computers, you know how frustrating keyboard shortcuts can be. Now, you © can use (most of) the same Excel shortcuts on your Mac as you do on a PC. Mac-centric Command-key shortcuts still work (and show up in menus), but Windows shortcuts you already know will also work in Excel. There are a few exceptions, so check Microsoft's handy cheat sheet. 25 OFFICE 2016 TIPS Pret cai os wee Bruel AA Og Printer: Caron MXBSO eres £00378F7CEAS » a" Prete: Fast Prning on Pin Paper oe a Paes A POF Stow eats cos PRINT TO PDF FROM EXCEL Excel hasn't always played nice with your Mac's PDF functions. Thankfully in Excel 2016, the problem has been solved. In the @ Print dialog, select Save As PDF in the PDF drop-down menu, and Excel will create a single PDF file from your Excel spreadsheet. 26 aS fie AVERAGE 212) USE FORMULA BUILDER Spreadsheets are great for crunching data, but writing just the right formula can be a process of trial and error. @ Formula Builder is a boon for users who aren't up to speed on Excel's syntax. Shift-F3 summons the new Formula Builder, giving you point-and-click access to even the most complex Excel formulas. 27 OFFICE 2016 TIPS Cck to ackd notes PERFECT YOUR PRESENTATION WITH PRESENTER VIEW | A. Your presentations will be flawless with PowerPoint’s new Presenter view. From here, you can see the current slide, I le next slide, and a scrollable thumbnail view of your entire PowerPoint deck. Clock and timer functions will keep you on pace, and your notes for each slide are easily readable so you won't miss any important points along the way. 28 Avunations > Py Select 18 Pectrge Adding/Formatting Slides Ul» Pgh Cick the Tmeline to he ett € o LayoUF tab to eight 4 10 change BETTER POWERPOINT ANIMATIONS Now you can fine-tune animations from the new 1 2? Animations Pane. It offers easy access to sounds, © timing, and other animation parameters to get just the effect you're looking for, all in one place. 29 OFFICE 2016 TIPS oduction PowerPoint is a very commonly used, irly powerful presentation software from icrosoft. In your academic career (undergrad, jraduate, or professional) there is a good ance that you have been or will be exposed b this tool. Furthermore, most of you will need use it. This slide show is intended not only to je presented as a user guide to PowerPoint, but to be distributed as a way to practice what you learn as you lear it CROSS-PLATFORM TRANSITIONS After spending hours getting your latest presentation just 1 3 right, you test it on your Mac and find out that some of the @ transitions aren't available, leading to some unwanted results. Thankfully, that problem is finally solved. Microsoft has added new transitions to PowerPoint 2016 for Mac, bringing it in line with the Windows version. Hooray for cross-platform compatibility. 30 ganze Partly Sunny Precipitation: 20% WEATHER INFO IN OUTLOOK Outlook can display daily weather information at the 1 4 top of your calendar. Click on the forecast to pop out a @ larger view, with additional information, and a link that takes you directly to MSN.com’s forecast page, with additional local weather information for your location. If you'd rather be surprised when you step outside, simply uncheck a box in Preferences. 31 OFFICE 2016 TIPS Aoconiert Muang New Tosmy Gate ay Wom Weak em, [pcre Bock > 40> Tuesday, July 28, 2015 Pace tor vacation, SCHEDULE WITH SIDE-BY-SIDE CALENDARS. Ifyou're juggling multiple calendars, Outlook 2016's new 1 e) side-by side option is great for spotting conflicts. To @ display multiple calendars side-by-side, simply select them using the checkbox in the Navigation pane. Outlook will then use your current view to display multiple calendars in adjacent tabs. Uncheck them to close, or use the X button on a calendar's tab to hide it again. 32 ...OR OVERLAY MULTIPLE CALENDARS Of course, sometimes you need to see everything at 1 6 once. With multiple calendars displayed, click the Overlay button in the Organize tab to consolidate multiple calendars into a single view. Clicking the Overlay button again will toggle your selected calendars back into side-by-side mode. 33 OFFICE 2016 TIPS Mail USE THREADED CONVERSATIONS IN OUTLOOK Conversations view is improved in Outlook 2016 1 7 Your incoming mail will automatically be sorted into @ threaded groups, and you can act on entire threads, or individual messages. Click the disclosure triangle to display individual messages in a thread, or turn Conversa- tions off by clicking View + Arrange + Conversations. 34 FIND WHAT YOU NEED WITH FILTERS Outlook offers some excellent tools to quickly drill 1 8 down to just the messages that matter right now. @ From Outlook's Home tab, the Filter button quickly displays only certain messages, such as mail received today, this week, or this month. You can also filter for messages with attach- ments, unread emails, and several others. One of our favorite features is the ability to filter by category. It requires a bit of work—you'll need to split senders into relevant groups, but once you do, you can separate out messages from your boss, family, or whatever other group you need at the touch of a button. 35 OFFICE 2016 TIPS «= for 7.28 PASSWORD-PROTECT YOUR NOTES OneNote is great for collecting and organizing all sorts 19 of information. But some things are better kept away @ from prying eyes (especially since OneNote syncs across all your devices). To keep your private information out of the wrong hands, use OneNote’s built-in password protection. To lock down a section of your notebook, choose Notebooks + Sections + Password Protection + Protect This Section. Enter a password, and keep the bad guys out of your stuff. 36 For Macworld View 4) Q Q 100% "| fm S . Paper Zoom Zoom «> Page Wit Password Hide Deleted Color Out in Protection Authors Notes Ray's Notebook + | = Sine Last Sync: 10:34 PM DB ay's Notebook @ Copy Link © Chose ONENOTE SYNC Unlike the rest of Office 2016, OneNote saves your data automatically, syncing it @ via your Microsoft account. This enables you to access your OneNote data across multiple Macs, PCs, or handheld devices. To check when your OneNote notebooks were last synced, click the notebook’s name, and then the arrow to the right of the name. m 37 idden collection of vin Macworld Vault tage Macs Inside the Ah BYROMANLOYOLA PYRAMID OF MAC TOWERS This is a combination of G5 Power Macs and 2008 Mac Pros. Apple used this basic tower design for over seven years. Apple is so focused now on lightweight, small computers, and the aluminum tower was everything but lightweight and small. With that in mind, here’s a disclaimer: Do not attempt to build your own pyramid of aluminum Mac towers. They are heavy machines, and lifting one above your knees is a difficult task. That tower up top? It nearly fell on my head when | tried to place it there. (The things | do for you people.) | really don't want to hear about Mac enthusiasts inspired by this picture who were crushed by an avalanche of G5 Power Macs and Mac Pros. Don't do it. 39 MACWORLD VAULT WALLSTREET POWERBOO This Macintosh PowerBook G3 was code-named Wallstreet. Two things that struck me about this laptop as | inspected it some 17 years after its release: | really like the feel of its keyboard, and the six-color Apple logo under the screen (which, according to Wikipedia, was the last time Apple used this logo on its hardware). 40 MACBOOK AIR AND WALLSTREET Sitting on top of the Wallstreet PowerBook G3 is a 13-inch MacBook Air (which wasn't in storage). | wanted to see how many MacBook Airs | could stack before it equaled the height of Wallstreet. But | got distracted by the next laptop... a bees MACWORLD VAULT PISMO POWERBOOK The Pismo PowerBook came a generation after the Wallstreet PowerBook G3. It was the last G3 laptop. 42 See the broken hinge on this Titanium PowerBook G4? This laptop was in bad shape. | used a similar machine during my stint as a MacAddict/MaclLife editor. Good laptop. 43 MACWORLD VAULT This one is white. Or it was white. 44 Ruwiuiiiaililid ili iii MACINTOSH SE FDHD No vintage Mac collection is complete without an original Mac 128K. But we don’t have one, so | guess that makes our collection incomplete. We do have a Mac SE FDHD, though. My first Mac was an SE FDHD, which | bought while | was in college. 45 free MACWORLD VAULT CDA CINAC GRAPHITE iMAC The graphite iMac was part of the third generation of the iMac line. This was the first model to have a slot-loading optical drive. 46 GUcge Sols iS FLOWER POWER iMAC There's a Bondi Blue iMac in storage, but | was too distracted by the Flower Power iMac to take a picture of it. | did not find a Blue Dalmatian iMac, however. 47 MACWORLD VAULT eMAC The flat-panel iMac made its debut in 2002. The CRT-based eMac was released soon afterward. It was a more affordable all-in-one made available through education channels. 48 iMAC (FLAT PANEL) In 2004, | was hired as a reviews editor for MacAddict. During my first month there, | attempted to upgrade the RAM in a 17-inch flat-panel iMac. (I never liked calling it the “sunflower” iMac or the “iLamp.”) | reassembled it improperly and ended up destroying the computer—which was on loan from Apple. My boss was furious and | thought | was going to be fired, but Apple forgave me. 49 free MACWORLD VAULT MAC G5 AY NSD | was never a fan of the look of the iMac G5. To me, it made the computer look too much like a kitchen appliance. | still see one or two in public schools today. 50 oy Tae > RACK OF ALLIN-ONES Ilike this picture because it shows the changes Apple's all-in-one has gone through over the years. 51 MACWORLD VAULT APPLE MICE I've never been a fan of the Apple mouse. It prioritizes style and sacrifices function. It's a very personal piece of hardware, so everyone has an opinion. Whatever works for you. m 52 How many light bulbs does It's no joke: climate change is a critical issue for all life on Earth. But can the actions of one individual really make a difference? Visit nature.org to calculate your impact on the world around you and learn about steps you can take to make the world a better place for us all. The Nature ¢ Conservancy nature.org/calculate Protecting nature. Preserving lite” MACUSER Reviews MOVE TO APPLE MUSIC 1.1.6: TRANSFER YOUR SPOTIFY AND RDIO PLAYLISTS TO APPLE MUSIC BY KIRK McELHEARN SO YOU'VE BEEN USING SPOTIFY for a while, and you've got a sidebar full of playlists, with songs and albums you've been saving. That's quite a digital collection you've got there. But now Apple Music (apple.com/music) has come on the scene, and you want to switch. Spotify won't help you—you can't export your playlists, at least not in any usable format—and iTunes has no way of importing your music. What do you do? Go through each and every song on Spotify and search for it on Apple Music? Nah, that'd take too long; you want to listen to music, not fuss around. Fortunately, the $5 Move to Apple Music can help you out. Working with both Spotify and Radio, this app 54 MOVE TO APPLE MUSIC 1.1 tee: AT A GLANCE: Itcan't match everything in your Spotity o Rao playlists, but it can cover a vast majority ‘of songs and save you alot of work, especially if you have a lot of playlists you want to bring into Apple Music PRICE WHEN RATED: BS makes a pipeline between your accounts, finding what you've stored on the former services, and adding them to your Apple Music library. Launch iTunes, fire up Move to Apple Music, and then choose which service you want to import music from; for now, it's limited to Spotify and Rdio. (Note that if you're using Beats Music, Apple makes this migration a snap.) Follow the instructions to allow Move to Apple Music to be able to slip itself in between the two. This requires that you click the heart button on any song or playlist; Move to Apple Music detects this, and uses the information it gleans to be able to add music to your Apple Music library. (It leverages the public application programming interface for Apple Music, querying it for specific songs, to be able to add them to your library.) Next, you see a list of playlists; choose the ones you want to import. Move to Apple Music looks at your songs on Spotify or Rdio, one at a time, and attempts to match them with songs on Apple Music. This isn’t a . . . CHOOSE WHICH PLAYLISTS quick process; the app only checks one song every 30 seconds, in order tg import into your Apple to “keep the iTunes API happy.” Music library. ° Move to Appie Music a y y Select Name Tracks @ Avant-garde classics @ Bach Cantatas - Koopman 1,518 @ Bach Cantatas - Kuljken 336 @ Bach Cantatas - Suzuki 1,254 @ Bernstein's Music Lectures 40 Bill Evans -The Secret Sessions 4 @ Bob Dylan - Tempest Pre-mix a2 @ Brian Eno- Musician, Composer & Producer - Complete Chronological Collection 163 55 REVIEWS | MOVE TO APPLE MUSIC e Move to Apple Music Transferring @ Brian Eno - Blank Frank - 2004 Digital Remaster =) 26 MOVE TO APPLE MUSIC MOVETO Apple Music Bear in mind that at 30 seconds a song, it can take along time to import _ Importing songs. your music. And Move to Apple Music, while practical, doesn’t match everything. Some songs are tagged differently on the two services, and some songs simply aren't available on Apple Music. | imported music from my Spotify account, and, in my tests, the results varied widely from about 80 percent matches for rock or jazz to less than 50 percent for classical music. When Move to Apple Music has finished, you can download text files of your playlists, which you can then import into iTunes (File + Library + Import Playlist), so iTunes can regroup your songs in the same structure as on Spotify or Rdio. You can also download a list of songs that weren't found, so you can, if you wish, try and manually find them on Apple Music. The app is not without issues. The first couple of versions of Move to Apple Music were a bit buggy, but the developers have worked very hard to fix these issues, and have released a number of updates in the first few days of the app’s existence. The time it takes to import every- thing may throw you off; when | first ran the app, it told me it was going 56 thing may throw you off; when | first rc ran the app, it told me it was going THE TIME IT TAKES TO IMPORT to take 188 hours (| have some EVERYTHING MAY THROW YOU 22,000 tracks in Spotify playlists). | OFF; WHEN | FIRST RAN THE APP, then decided to only import a few IT TOLD ME IT WAS GOING TO TAKE playlists at a time, rather than wait 188 HOURS (I HAVE SOME 22,000 for everything to get copied. TRACKS IN SPOTIFY PLAYLISTS). I'd like the matching to be better, = but | understand that, especially for classical music, this isn’t easy. | have lots of long playlists of classical music on Spotify, many of which were compiled by ulyssestone, on his Spotify Classical Playlists website. | understand the limitations of Move to Apple Music, and | only wish it could be more efficient. BOTTOM LINE If you've got a music collection on Spotify or Rdio, it's a no-brainer to spend $5 and have much or most of it imported into Apple Music; it'll save you a lot of time. You just need to be patient. = 57 WES REVIEWS 2 a 2 2 a . : Hi, I'm Nathan. I'm a writer and “; editor in central Virginia. I tell Lt stories for fun and profit. oe ee ee ee WEB AND COMMUNICATIONS SOFTWA EVERWEB 1.8.2: WELL-CRAFTED WEB DESIGN APP KNOWS ITS LIMITS AND OFTEN SURPASSES THEM BY NATHAN ALDERMAN NO SINGLE MAC WEB DESIGN APP offers the ideal blend of power and accessibility. But Rage Software's EverWeb (everwebapp.com)comes closer than most, helping you build attractive, useful sites with minimal hassle. 58 EVERWEB’S CLEAN, logical interface puts everything right where you need it. AWEB-DESIGN APP THAT PLAYS NICE Every element of EverWeb's simple interface is easily in reach when you need it, and out of your way when you don't. The central layout win- dow’s surrounded by your site structure on the left, a toolbar along the bottom of the screen, and a multi-tabbed Inspector pane for adjusting individual elements on the right. EverWeb includes numerous modern, fully editable templates, each with multiple page types and a mobile version. You can also build sites from scratch with a pleasantly powerful layout engine—though | did sometimes wish for adjustable guides or a grid to keep my layouts tidy. | used the Master Pages feature to create a common header and (after some initial confusion and a trip to the help files) footer for every page on my site. EverWeb supports full-width design elements, too, but it’s tough to center-align them with other objects. The program seems to orient itself by the center of your monitor, not its own window, so elements get shifted too far to one side. Still, | felt like EverWeb helped me far more than it fought me. Plenti- ful, well-made tutorial videos make its modest learning curve even gentler, with many more answers waiting in its searchable online knowl- edgebase. SIMPLE LOOKS, SURPRISING DEPTH EverWeb lacks ultra-precise CSS styling. You can apply uniform borders, padding, and drop shadows, and its CSS-based shapes offer adjustable color settings for different rollover states—useful for making buttons. But you can't fine-tune styles for individual sides of an object, create and manage custom CSS classes, or adjust sitewide styles beyond default link and shape colors. EverWeb doesn’t build in —~ 59 EVERWEB 1.8.2 il AT AGLANCE With a deep feature set and a well-thought-out interface, EverWeb i one ofthe best options for new or casual web designers PROS + Reasonably extensive abilities and drag-and-drop widget library + Smart designs easy to learn and use + Extensive, free video tutorials and free or inexpensive add-ons ‘cons + Limited support for mobile! responsive design or other advanced features + Some discrepancies between hhow fonts render inthe app ‘and on your site PRICE WHEN RATED $80 software only (10n-mandatory $50 renewal required for updates!support after 365 days of ownership); $100 software and Hosting Lite; $200 software and Hosting Pro. ‘COMPANY Fagesw.com REVIEWS | EVERWEB TWENTY POUNDS ‘ OF HELL IW THE <= SHAPE OF A CAT. blog support, though a help video promises that feature in future versions. And like many of its rivals, EverWeb doesn't do HTML tables or bullet-pointed lists, unless you want to write that code yourself. Still, the drag-and-drop widgets EverWeb does offer are impressively powerful and intuitive. In seconds, | assembled a decent-looking photo gallery and an attractive image slider, dropped in a Google map, built a contact form, and embedded HTMLS audio and YouTube video to a test page. All worked perfectly when viewed in my browser. EverWeb’s CSS menu widget works very well—up to a point. It updates automatically based on your site’s structure, and you can easily exclude pages from it if you don’t want them listed. With little effort, you can adjust the menu’s look, spacing, and rollover behavior. But the menu's designed to work best horizontally; you can squeeze the options into a vertical column, but any drop-down submenus will appear awk- wardly on top of the successive links. There's also no way to shrink the menu down to a space-saving icon for mobile pages. | was especially impressed by the PayPal widget, which hooks smartly into that service's infrastructure to create moderately full featured online stores. Few rival programs offer any e-commerce option this powerful, 60 WHILEIT DOESN'T OFFER precise CSS styling, EverWeb's options are still ‘good enough to make a slick, modern-looking site. and the few that do charge extra for it. You'll find even more widgets hosted on or linked from EverWeb’s site. Many are free, while others come in $6 packs grouped by type and capabilities. EverWeb also wins kudos for superbly simple asset management. You can drag images, PDFs, ebooks, and other files directly into your asset library, then easily call upon them for backgrounds or links. When you're ready to take your site live, EverWeb will upload it via FTP, export the files to be uploaded elsewhere, or send it to EverWeb's own integrated hosting service (whose annual cost isn’t included in the basic purchase price). WE CAN WORK IT OUT Even when it hits its limits, EverWeb often tries admirably to offer ANIMPRESSIVE election of you a way around them. The results aren't spectacular, but they readymade widgets, each work well enough. easily customized, enable . ae you to enhance your site For example, there's no built-in roster of web-safe fonts to use, and with photo galleries, image no simple way to add your own. But EverWeb's smart enough to add sliders, and more. 61 WNP 5) REVIEWS | EVERWEB Ae | f orn AL N f NATHAN 4 EverWeb a necessary code enabling any Google Fonts you've already installed on your computer. (I did notice that EverWeb displayed Google Fonts oddly, pushing them farther down from the top of their text boxes than the browser did. But once you know that quirk, you can adjust your design accordingly) The program's help site also links to step-by-step instructions for using EverWeb's assets library and custom header and footer code to slip third-party web fonts into your design—a little extra work, but still more than most rivals can offer. And while EverWeb doesn't offer adjustable breakpoints or other responsive design features, it does provide the aforementioned mobile- ready templates, plus easy options to redirect a page to a mobile counterpart. You'll have to create extra pages—consuming extra server space and bandwidth—to support mobile users. And EverWeb assumes your site’s at the top of your server's directory structure. If it's buried a few folders deep instead, the redirect feature breaks, and you'll have to manually specify the full address of each mobile page, rather than just picking its name from a list. This rudimentary support is still better than none. Compared to my experiences trying to set up responsive designs in other apps, | found it a lot easier and less aggravating to just build dedicated mobile pages here. It took me about 12 hours total to build both desktop and mobile versions of a sample site. EverWeb's resulting code wasn't the cleanest, 62 [ASYOUDESIGN, bear in mind that some fonts might not display quite the same in your browser as they do in EverWeb. duplicating CSS stylesheets and i JavaScript code on every page in EVERWEB’S RESULTING CODE ways that increased file sizes and WASN’T THE CLEANEST, load times. But EverWeb's creators DUPLICATING CSS STYLESHEETS say version 1.9 will add svelter, AND JAVASCRIPT CODE ON EVERY smarter coding. PAGE IN WAYS THAT INCREASED FILE SIZES AND LOAD TIMES. BOTTOM LINE LL. =| EverWeb doesn't do everything perfectly. But it does enough things well, and does them in such a considerate, user-friendly way that | consider it one of my favorite web apps among those I've tested. Pro designers will want a program with more oomph, and complete novices have even simpler alternatives that'll still yield good results. Everyone in between should definitely give EverWeb a try. 63 REVIEWS @ POWERPHOTOS: TAKE BETTER CONTROL OF YOUR PHOTO LIBRARY IN PHOTOS FOR OS X BY GLENN FLEISHMAN WHILE PHOTOS IS STREAMLINED AND ZIPPY compared to iPhoto, its stripped-down approach can be confusing. PowerPhotos takes some of the shock out of Photos for OS X by helping bridge the gap between old and new. Fat Cat Software's app offers assistance in migrating iPhoto libraries, managing multiple Photos libraries, and viewing images and videos in a different way. It’s more flexible, to be sure. When launched, PowerPhotos shows—under an Operations listing— Migrate iPhoto Libraries, which can also be selected later from the File menu. This lists all iPhoto libraries that it can find via Spotlight; you can 64 POWERPHOTOS 1.0 $698 AT A GLANCE: PowerPhotosis an extremely useful addition as an enhancement for any Photos user trying to perform tasks that fall outside of Photos restricted purview. PROS: + Manages multigle Photos libraries + Provides a different approach to search results + Finds duplicates cons: + Can't merge Photos libraries PRICE WHEN RATED: $20; $30 bundle with iPhoto Library Manager COMPANY: fatcatsoftware.com add others manually. r The migrate operation lets you THE MIGRATE OPERATION manage creating Photos-compatible LETS YOU MANAGE CREATING libraries without babysitting the Photos PHOTOS-COMPATIBLE LIBRARIES app, and shows progress and errors. It WITHOUT BABYSITTING THE can also migrate several libraries from PHOTOS APP, AND SHOWS the same interface instead of requiring PROGRESS AND ERRORS. multiple iterations of quitting and = ad launching Photos with the right key held down. PowerPhotos doesn’t merge Photos, iPhoto, or Aperture libraries. Its predecessor, iPhoto Library Manager, can merge iPhoto and Aperture libraries. POWERPHOTOS' FIND DUPLICATES feature creates an album with all the images FINDING DUPLICATES marked as duplicates that Once you have Photos libraries migrated or created, you can use you accepted. oe Pe Aenean Sr os al ——d all 65 REVIEWS | POWERPHOTOS 1.0 v Show File Select in Photos Nov 24, 2007 Nov 24, 2007 1 Clear Action @ P Assign Keyword K hwaoose 4 YB@AddtoAlbun A EY e Mark As Keeper e PowerPhotos’ duplicates feature (File + Find Duplicates). | apparently AN IMAGE DEEMED to be a have 43,169 photos in my master Photos library, and | hadn't spotted duplicate that should be . . discarded can be swapped many duplicates in my perusal. PowerPhotos found over 1,000! If you to be the one kept, among have multiple Photos libraries, you can scan across them, too. other operations. The app gives you several choices for deciding how to let it identify duplicates, including excluding hidden photos, images marked with “duplicate” in the keyword field, and photos that it's already placed in a special album. Comparisons can be based on the content of an image (Exact Match), which looks for byte-for-byte identical versions of either the original image or any modified version you've stored. Or, you can opt for filename and date, which includes minor variations in filenames commonly used with duplicates. Even with my huge library and using exact matches, it only took about 20 minutes on a 2014 Mac mini while | continued to work on tasks in other apps. Once the pass is complete, you can review pairs or multiples of images and make sure your matches are correct. If not, you can switch which image in a set you want to be the “keeper” or discard the match entirely, among other options. 66 When you're done reviewing and click Apply, instead of deleting the files or moving them to the trash, the images are placed by default into a special duplicates album, which you can then review in Photos to dump into the trash. LIBRARY MANAGEMENT While you might use Find Duplicates once or rarely, the ability to easily review and switch among multiple Photos libraries is a must-have feature for many users, based on the email we've received at Macworld. Some iPhoto users set up multiple libraries, one per year, or with other divisions that they want to maintain and have access to. PowerPhotos can’t overcome iCloud Photo Library's limit: one Photos library is a THEFIND DUPLICATES feature master to which iCloud syncs allows Sac Image matching * or matching against a With a Photos library selected, PowerPhotos lets you select Moments combination of filename as items in its navigational column. Albums and Smart Albums are also —_and date Find Duplicates — Setup Choose Libraries To Search Comparison Options Drag in one or more libraries you would like to ‘Specify what tests should be done to identify search for duplicate photos. duplicate photos. + @ Exact match ° siemens Compare original photos Ocompare modified photos Match on filename + date Exclusions... 67 REVIEWS | POWERPHOTOS 1.0 Migrate iPhoto Libraries {© Photo Ubrary Migration Succeeded) Photos Library 1B @ Photo Litrary Not Migrated on CS 4719/15, 932 AM (Crece any ote Horanee that you would bee Yo grate ta Pmoton. then cick the Migrate button to migrate them 6 ‘Check All Check Unenigrated shown. But where it shines compared to Photos is with its list view and as a middle ground for search between Photos very basic option and Smart Albums. Click the list icon at upper right, and PowerPhotos shows a thumbnail that can be sized from tiny to enormous, and then a host of associated data, allowing easier scanning through and sorting. By default, it just shows a few items, like Title and Date. But pop into View + Show Columns, and you can add Description, Place, Faces, Size, and more. This works well in association with its find feature. Type in a word or more, and PowerPhotos searches across all of an image's file data and metadata. But then you can opt to broaden to search across all librar- ies the app is managing, and narrow to match that text only across Title, Filename, Keywords, Faces, Place, Description, and Moment. While you can achieve this with a single library using Smart Albums in Photos, it's not interactive nor can it provide the compact density of a detailed list. 68 Add iPhoto Library MIGRATING LIBRARIES from iPhoto and Aperture to Photos can be managed with more élan within PowerPhotos. [Boze tari 1300 PBR rou snare ave Fico we ser oye sae si oe — anon at 10 Bam i pecans "Cera remeron sous Some Onan anes. ga see 20. Ome ave Fe no ae iiss ig camel Otamene maar W007. Beate Fan Feeareran, Stee Wer 4. A eet tesco s od jfeaae a. WOR 7984. Ree Ra Pereen tentiree —4ii8 Sem Oe Bem 00 Aarne entire 2808 — Bin a ate W008, 7862. Sear Rot Pegorar 2aM0 Grim Brmcorasnew — aot nom N38 Fev cw BOTTOM LINE THELIST VIEW IN PowerPhotos PowerPhotos is an extremely useful addition as an enhancement for any Photos user trying to perform tasks that fall outside of Photos’ restricted purview. It's also worth the price for one-time use if you're just trying to move iPhoto libraries over and remove duplicates after doing so across all of them. Fat Cat offers PowerPhotos for $20 or as a bundle with iPhoto Library Manager for $30. Owners of iPhoto Library Manager 4 get PowerPhotos at no cost. Fat Cat may add a Photos library merge later, but it's not guar- anteed as a future feature. 69 provides a lot of detail ina ‘compact format for quick scanning. REVIEWS Au! DNS SOF RAPIDWEAVER 6.2.3: A GOOD START FOR BUILDING WEBSITES (ACCESSORIES SOLD SEPARATELY) BY NATHAN ALDERMAN IF YOU WANT TO QUICKLY ASSEMBLE a sleek website without too many bells and whistles, RapidWeaver (realmacsoftware/rapid- weaver) provides an excellent option. If you want to do even more with your site, RapidWeaver can help you there, too—but it'll cost you a good deal extra. NOT BAD FOR THE BASICS A freshly installed copy of RapidWeaver 6 feels like a more sophisticated version of Karelia’s friendly, super-simple Sandvox (go. macworld.com/sandvox). Both programs allow you to quickly build up the structure of your site in a left-hand navigation menu, selecting from a variety of different page types, including contact forms, blogs, and photo galleries. Both build in FTP capabilities, so that you can create and upload your site without switching to another program. 70 il AT A GLANCE Rapidleaver wil let you build a good-looking site right out ofthe bor, but to take full advantage of its power, you may need to buy expensive add-ons. PROS + Includes five modern, responsive themes, with support for blogs, podcasts, and more + Buin FTP to easily upload your site + Flexible, extensible framework with tons of user-created add-ons ‘CONS, + No WYSIMYG design tools, and limited ability to customize designs + More-powerful add-ons and new themes are often expensive + Photo galleries render poorly in some themes PRICE $80 COMPANY realmacsoftware.com And both offer a wide selection of premade themes to apply to your content. Most of RapidWeaver 6’s themes, like Sandvox's, feel dated—one theme's name clearly betrays its 2007 origins. But the new version does include five attractive, modern themes that support responsive design. Cleverly, the themes come preset with versions for multiple devices and screen sizes, ensuring that your site will look equally good on an iPhone, an iPad, or a Mac. That's one of the smartest, least headache-inducing solutions for responsive design I've seen among the web design programs I've tested thus far. But it also exemplifies one of RapidWeaver 6's biggest trade-offs: You can present your content within an appealing template, as long as you're OK with surrendering most of your control over how your site will look. To its credit, RapidWeaver’s Master Styles settings let you tweak each design's colors and font sizes, and sometimes cycle between different preset header images. But you can't easily replace those stock images with RAPIDWEAVER SEPARATES the content of your site from its look and feel; after you've edited the information on each page, you can see how itll look in various themes. n REVIEWS | RAPIDWEAVER 6.2.3 . : : : The Hot White Light one of your own. In some themes, you can’t change fonts, while others RAPIDWEAVER DOESN'T OFFER only offer a handful of different options. And beyond adding or removing _ WYSIWYG egiting—you can look at how your site will appear online, but you can’t make changes in that view. sidebars, you have very little control over the layout of individual pages. SPLIT PERSONALITY RapidWeaver makes the odd decision to keep its edit and preview modes separate. You make changes in the former, then click the adja- cent tab to see the results in the latter. This works better for some page types, such as blogs and contact forms, than for others like basic styled text. And while taking away the styling does allow you to concentrate on the substance of your site, | quickly tired of having to flip between modes to get even a rough idea of how my changes would actually look. RapidWeaver gets points for augmenting its basic text styling abilities with bullet-pointed and numbered lists—a surprisingly rare feature in modern Web editors—and the ability to determine whether any images you drag and drop into your layout will align left or right. But that’s about the limit of your ability to customize the text or how it appears. Once you give up any hope of making your site look like anything other than what your chosen theme's designer intended, RapidWeaver 72 gets a lot easier to work with. | ultimately pieced together a small but appealing site in roughly an hour. MOSTLY HITS, WITH A FEW MISSES RapidWeaver 6’s blog and contact form pages impressed me with their balance between rich features and simplicity. You can add new blog entries or contact form elements in an iTunes-like list view, then edit each of those items individually. RapidWeaver's blog features include thoughtful, thorough support for podcasts, with spots to upload audio files and add episode descriptions. And its contact forms will work automatically as long as you upload them to a server running PHP. | wasn't so wild about its photo gallery page, though. Adding photos and captions gave me no trouble, but in two of the themes | tested, images displayed in bizarre and unappealing ways, either cut : eer a 4 " THOUGHIT'S SLIGHTLY FINICKY, off in a self-playing slideshow or overlapping each other's captions 7 off ina selr-playing Pere e RapidWeaver’s builtin in a grid view. FTP capabilities add to its RapidWeaver's FTP support also required some trial and error. convenience. 1B Sample Site I ‘Themes Media Snippets Protoco SFTP ‘Tho path may wary fram hoxt to host. 73 REVIEWS | RAPIDWEAVER 6.2.3 Nathan Alderman | Writer Even after the “test connection” button gave me the all clear, my site ‘EVEN WITHOUT EXTRA would still fail to upload. | was mere moments away from sending add-ons, RapidWeaver provides a decent selection of page types and well- comprehensive online support site—when a lucky glance through the designed themes with Console logs they'd asked me to send helped me figure out that I'd ‘which to buld your site, slipped in a / to the directory path that shouldn't be there. Even then, my upload failed the first time because of “missing files,” though a subsequent attempt worked just fine. Realmac a help email—after following the excellent directions on their KEEP YOUR WALLET HANDY If you want to exercise more of your own creativity with RapidWeaver, prepare to pay more than the basic program's $80-ish price tag. Real- mac Software maintains a deep, robust, and thriving repository of add-ons created and reviewed by enthusiastic RapidWeaver users. The offerings range from beautiful, responsive-ready themes to powerful new page types that dramatically expand what RapidWeaver can do. The popular Stacks plug-in adds drag-and-drop multicolumn layouts, and can itself be customized with additional page elements from other users. Other plug-ins provide basic content management systems, 74 online stores and payment processing, and more. | don't begrudge a well-earned payday to the hard-working folks who made these tools. But at $25 or more a pop for many themes and plug-ins, the cost could quickly prove prohibi- tive to users on a budget. Realmac also makes money by charging subscriptions for advanced video tutorials on its support site, including guides to Stacks and L a IF YOU DON’T MIND POURING YOUR CONTENT INTO SOMEONE ELSE’S SLICK DESIGN, RAPIDWEAVER’S A GREAT CHOICE FOR BUILDING SMART SITES IN A SNAP. other plug-ins. Fortunately, Realmac offers a good series of basic overviews for free, along with the aforementioned helpful text guides. BOTTOM LINE If you don't mind pouring your content into someone else's slick design, RapidWeaver's a great choice for building smart sites in a snap. Same goes if you want to easily build a more personalized and powerful site, and don't mind burning cash to do so. But if you want to indulge your creative side and craft a more personalized site for a one-time price tag, rival offerings like Blocs and Sparkle might prove more your speed. lm 5 What We're Raving About This Month GRIFFIN LIGHTRUNNER Finding a comfortable running armband for the 47-inch iPhone 6 can be a challenge, but the $40 LightRunner (griffintechnology.com) is one of the best out there. Its adjustable neoprene band is comfortable even during longer runs of 5-plus miles, and a mixture of cloth and rubber will hold your iPhone securely in place without ever letting it touch your skin. The LightRunner also has a window that protects the phone's screen while still recognizing touch, and there's even a cutout for the Touch ID fingerprint scanner. But the LightRunner’s main purpose is safety: It has built-in flashing LED lights for night runs, and you can even choose between a slow, steady flash or a fast one.~CAITLINMCGARRY 76 MONOWEAR NYLON FOR APPLE WATCH Monowear’s $60 Nylon band may seem basic, but this brightly- colored strap is eye-catchingly different from any other third-party Watch band out there. It's sturdy, and features a thick chrome buckle and two chrome loops that are sewn in place. The band comes in black, red, turquoise, pink, purple, gray, and olive green; all of the colors feature bright chrome hardware, and the black, gray, and olive green colors also offer the option of black hardware. Monowear (monoweardesign.com) is all about matching the adapter color to your Watch casing, so you can choose matte silver or polished silver adapters to create a customized look.~SARAHJACOBSSON PUREWAL Hot Stuff STIR KINETIC DESK M1 Stir's $2990 Kinetic Desk MI (stirworks.com) is a well-built, comfortable workstation with an electric motor that can quickly, smoothly adjust between sitting and standing positions. But it's more than just a desk that goes up and down: It has a 5-inch capacitive touchscreen embedded in the surface, sensors that know if you're at the desk or not, and artificial intelligence to learn your habits and nudge you toward healthier ones. Once you create your account with your height, weight, gender, and goals, the screen will track your sitting and standing movements and show your progress over each day, week, month, or year with your goal clearly marked. When it's time to switch positions, the desk uses an optional feature called WhisperBreath to prompt you—it subtly raises itself ever so slightly, and then lowers back down. Yes, the Stir Kinetic Desk M1 is expensive, but if you can afford it, it’s hard not to like.sustEocHs 7B 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 Gees Or ae (fe 80 What lies beneath: What you need to know about content blockers in iOS 9 Safari iOS 9's abil socint hal t ri that BY GLENN FLEISHMAN pple let loose a bombshell at WWDC in June for websites that feature advertising: Safari in iOS 9 would support Content Blocking Safari Extensions (go.macworld.com/blockex); so, too, will El Capitan, although OS ’s Safari already allows extensions of all sorts Apple didn’t put too fine a point on it. These extensions well, they block content. (They don’t apply to Apple’s iOS 9 News app’s ads nor its iAds in any app.) Many oceans of virtual ink have been spilled over what it will mean. To sum up, sites that rely on mobile visitors who use iOS to generate advertising views and click-throughs as part of how they fund themselves may be out of luck. To try it first hand, | tested three beta content blockers against the latest public iOS 9 build: Adamant, Blockr, and Crystal. (That they go A, B, and C is absolutely coincidental!) These extensions are from develop- ers who plan to release versions when iOS 9 ships. What | found on newer iOS devices is that the time to load isn’t affected as much as what's being loaded that you don't see, which continues to be downloaded long after you're interacting with a page. | tested several popular news and Mac-related sites using the fourth- generation iPad (late 2012 model). | first used Safari's settings to clear any cached data (Settings + Safari + Clear History And Website Data), to make sure already loaded JavaScript, Load Time after Web Cache Reset No blocker 12 6 7 4 23 5 Daring Fireball 2 BD Aftonbladet 6 4 Forbes 3 2 NYTimes 3 4 Le Monde 5 5 Vox a 5 Buzzfeed 7 6 Huffington Post 5 5 The Guardian 5 3 media, and CSS didn't distort load time. | then ran a stopwatch against each page load from the moment | tapped the link to the moment the page was usable. You'll see many comparisons that tracked from entering a URL to when the final referenced item was loaded; | didn’t employ that, because | was 81 Blockr enabled The Web is getting slower 0000: = comms |The Web is getting slower looking at how long it takes for a page to be usable. The difference is minimal to substantial, depending on the site. Another interesting tidbit: Many iPad or mobile-optimized sites aren't sub- stantially different with content blockers installed or not. Even sites that take an egregiously long amount of time to load on the desktop and are festooned with stuff other than content have clearly migrated rapidly toward more stripped- down mobile presentation. It’s interesting to look at Buzzfeed, a pioneer of native advertising, in which editorial content is developed for advertisers and presented as sponsored stories or other items. The ie}-Tei sui 7-\B) CONTENT BLOCKERS homepage for Buzzfeed with and without Blockr enabled to block ad networks and privacy-dubious scripts differed only in about a second of load time, and only one advertising element disappeared. The biggest differences were seen behind the scenes: By blocking a variety of non-content items from downloading, megabytes per site are saved on the first load. (Some of that is cached for subsequent loads, so it’s not overhead for every page.) And JavaScript-based tracking of your behavior from blocked scripts while you use a site, which can include keeping track of how long it takes you 82 HERE'S CNN, filtered (left) and unfiltered (right). to perform a task, what you hover over, and what you click, is fully disabled. This reduces battery drain while also improving a site’s interactiv- ity. (In July, Monday Note's Frédéric Filloux ran some numbers on desktop ad (go.macworld.com/monday) blocking and mobile page load- ing that are worth reviewing.) Blockr's unique feature is an option to block all media. While this may seem extreme, if you're on a slow connection (like T-Mobile users roaming internationally on 2G or a bad hotspot network), or you have a bandwidth cap or are charged for usage, such an option keeps the web available without having to switch to a specialized browser—and, wow, do pages load even faster. HOW CONTENT BLOCKING WORKS Content blockers are much simpler even than OS X Safari extensions, which are written in JavaScript. Instead, they're a series of instruc- tions, rather than a software program. Apple examines all the loaded content-blocker instructions, com- piles them to execute faster, and runs through them for every single retrieval, whether a full webpage or any media, style sheets, scripts, or other content retrieved from a page. This approach to performance makes them ideal for mobile Safari, but also © ‘ache « Benen a BY Prvacy Bicker « will aid with filtering faster (and using less battery power on laptops) for desktop Safari. The filters are written as a seties of statements about what URL or URL pattem is to be affected, and then what behavior should take place against it. This includes an optional resource type, such as an image, document, a pop-up, and the like, so that only that kind of data is affected. (For all the technical details, the WebKit team’s Surfin’ Safari blog entry (go.macworld. com/webkit) has oodles.) For any matched item, it’s also possible to filter depending on whether it's fed from the same origin as the webpage that's loading it, or from a third-party site. Ad networks and other tracking systems have ways around this, such as running subdomains that are customized to the sites that are feeding them out. BLOCKR PROVIDES a number of configuration options about what precisely gets filtered out. PODCAST 83 He}-Tei sui 7-\) CONTENT BLOCKERS BuzzFeep #272220 BuzzFeep ome a) ed Finally, a filter doesn’t have to block a page entirely. While it can do so, it can also just strip all cookies or strip specific CSS (Cascading Style Sheet) selectors. These two options have two dramatically different purposes. Cookies are one way to feed a unique identifier to a browser, which it stores and then sends back every time it requests a page or other item from the same server (or sometimes, same domain). Unfortu- nately, there are a lot of other ways to bypass the limitations of regular browser cookies by using evercook- ies and supercookies (go.macworld. com/cookies). Blocking browser cookies won't prevent determined tracking networks from seeding other kinds of IDs. Apple could expand the filters to disallow access to some HTMLS-based features that are used to keep a cookie persistent when it shouldn't be set in the first place or after it was intentionally deleted. Stripping out CSS might sound a bit obscure if you don't design or develop webpages, but it's straight- forward. HTML defines the bones of a page, like the girders of a sky- scraper, and contains the innards— text and images and other stuff—just like an office contains workers and furniture and printers. CSS is the glass and metal panels covering the skyscraper, while also painting the BUZZFEED’S NATIVE ADVERTISING approach means there's very litle different between afiltered (left) and non-fitered (‘ight) page. 84 outside and creating the walls and cubicle barriers: It defines how things appear, including the dimensions and placement of both fixed layout areas and boxes that can seemingly float above the page. ACSS “selector” defines the scope of what style definitions apply to. They can be used to attach to an HTML element, reused for multiple parts of a page, or define a specific structure, which is used for those floating boxes among many other purposes. By allowing a blocking filter to strip out specific selectors, it can suppress advertising overlays or other annoying or intrusive behavior. Apple allows any combination of content-blocking extensions to be enabled at once via Settings + Safari + Content Blockers. And you can override all content filters by holding down the reload button for a few sec- onds. Instead of a simple reload, it becomes a “reload without filtering.” HOW THE FILTERS WILL WORK IN PRACTICE Content blockers have to be pack- aged inside of apps, though the apps themselves can be exceedingly simple. In testing just three extensions, I've already seen a lot of variety. When we get to the release stage for iOS 9, | expect a huge ecosystem of filter apps, some more sophisticated and configurable than others. < Safari Content Blockers Adamant Blockr O costal Some will be simple. At this stage of development, Crystal is just a holding place for rules set up by the devel- oper. Adamant has a couple of settings. Blockr has a full configuration screen with three kinds of blocking types, and the ability to whitelist in the app portion. We'll definitely see a lot of baroque options over time. If Ghostery winds up implemented as an exten- sion, it wouldn't be able to show its pop-up display, but could offer all its intricate and per-network choices on the app side. There will definitely be a market for apps that focus on blacklisting and whitelisting. The former is easier, because it's a subset of everything on the Internet, and developers will carve out area like anti-phishing and anti-malware, which will be a great thing to install for relatives and friends who don't care about technol- ogy, but want to browse safely. 85 i0S9LETS YOU select one or more installed blockers to use with Safari He}-Tei sui 7-\) CONTENT BLOCKERS Whitelisting apps will be more complicated, because they will need to block everything and only allow a subset, such as child-appropriate sites (by whatever standards they pick) or sites that never feature adult content or obscenity (again by their defini- tions). Apple says that too many over-broad matches are a problem, and the WebKit team’s blog post notes, “Using too many of them can cause the rule set to be rejected.” Because rules can be updated remotely and dynamically, this seems like a Safari limitation: It will opt to ignore rules if they wind up exceeding some thresholds at compilation time. Some blockers will surely offer sync via iCloud or other services to allow any user-customized settings, like whitelisted sites, to be kept the same across multiple iOS devices— and perhaps OS X. The differentiation isn’t going to come in performance, since Apple ultimately controls how that works in practice. Rather, it will be by features, usability, and cost. APOST-AD WORLD? AT&T recently performed a dubious experiment at two airports in the Washington, D.C., area: it injected JavaScript code into pages being loaded by users of the free Wi-Fi network that overlaid advertising on websites. Discovered by a privacy 5:38 PM 44949 world.com C i recent Dr Request Desktop Site H Reload Without Content Blockers and security guru, AT&T quickly stated the experiment was over and HOLD DOWN the reload button in iOS 9 with content-blocking filters enabled to get an unfiltered page. intended to be limited. (I wrote in a Private | column why this was a terrible idea (go.macworld.com/att) on AT&T's part) This sort of behavior could be prevented with content blockers, because ad networks that employ such tactics quickly wind up on the darkest of blacklists, as privacy violators or script invaders, rather than just purveyors of commercial information. A recent Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism report found in a survey that 47 percent of everyday online news readers in the U.S. and 39 percent in the UK regularly used ad-blocking software. Between this injection, the large amount of data loaded that’s not content related, slower load times, and privacy concerns, | expect content blockers in iOS will have the same level of popularity. m 86 HELP KEEP i N PL AY. 000 KIDS WILL BE + DIAGNOSED WITH CANCER THIS YEAR. Children are our gfeatest hope for the future. Let's be their greatest hope too. Caincerstrikes infanfsland children. For teens and young adults, survival can depend on tfeatment by a pediatric oncologist, designed specifically for them. The St.Baldrick’s Foundation and Stand Up To Cancer are funding groundbreaking collaborative research to bring the most effective therapies to kids fighting cancer. To learn how you can help keep these kids in play, go to stbaldricks.org/inplay and standup2cancer.org/pediatrics. St. Baldrick’s FOUNDATION Conquer Chiidhood Cancers s Founda ler able 601 To ConeFleeBiegien ofthe ble oxyantion. Google mak the Android life in’t ab or about a year now, I've been joking that it’s entirely possible—if you want—to have the Android experience on an iOS device. Why not? While Apple keeps its own app offerings pretty strictly tied to its own devices (Apple Music being a forthcoming exception to the rule), Google is more willing to take customers wherever it can get them. Don’t have an Android phone? That's fine: Google has an app for many of the things you already want to do on your iPhone, like email, instant messages, news, streaming music, and, of course, maps. So | wondered: How well could | survive for one week using just Google apps on my iPhone? Here were my ground rules: First, | would clear my phone of apps and shuffle the native, undeletable stock iOS apps off into a folder. Then, I'd download all the Google apps | thought | might use in the course of my daily business. Then, just for fun, | decided that if | needed an app that wasn’t a Google product, I'd at least make sure it exists in the Google Play store for Android users. And if a Google app could replace a third- party app, I'd try to use the Google app instead. The apps | downloaded: Google, Calendar, Chrome, Docs, Inbox, Maps, Google Play Books, Google Play Music, Google Play Newsstand, Google Photos, and (ahem) Google+. What did I find out? Google works hard to provide alternatives. But it can’t—in part because of Apple’s rules—provide an entire ecosystem across iOS. Overall, some of the apps were pretty good. Some of the apps were merely OK. And one was Google+. (Suffice it to say: It wasn’t long before the Facebook and Twitter apps reappeared on my phone.) FLIP A COIN There are some areas where Apple’s and Google's offerings run neck-and- neck on iOS. Apple Music made its debut just a couple of weeks before my experiment, and there's a lot to like about the new service. Before that update, though, the current iteration of Google Play Music (go. macworld.com/playmusic) might've beat it handily since it already offered a Spotify-style streaming service. The problem? If you just use the mobile version of the app—and for a week, that’s what I did—you can come away not knowing that streaming service even exists and thinking Google's music offering is more of a Pandora competitor. Why? Because there’s no 89 ifesTei = Sut-.\B) GOOGLE APPS in-app signup for the service. Go to the service's website (play. google.com/music) and sign up for $10 a month, and suddenly your mobile music choices are much broader. It has Sonos support (which Apple Music doesn't have yet), comes with access to the YouTube Music Key beta, and lets you upload up to 50,000 tracks a la iTunes Match for no extra fee. | still ike Apple Music more, for two main reasons: First, Beats 1 radio (go. macworld.com/biradio) is awesome, and Apple appears ready to expand on that success. Second, for $15 a month, | can share my Apple Music account with my entire family. It's a nice option that saves me money. As for Chrome: While it's my default browser on my Mac, it's iffier on iOS, thanks in part to Apple's mobile browser restrictions. The advantages: Chrome had better voice-search options than Safari, and it has a Notification Center widget. But | like Safari's ability to save bookmarks as app icons. A toss-up, but I lean toward Safari here. Finally, Google Docs is in many ways inferior to Pages, which offers more sharing options (including AirDrop compatibility) and more templates for starting precisely the kind of document you want to create. If you're wanting to collaborate with other people on a document—a Listen Now It's Sunday afternoon Play music for Brand New Cleaning the Having Music House Friend Easy = » feature both services offer—well, more of your friends and colleagues are probably using the Google option. Because so much of what | do is straight-ahead text composi- tion—no fancy newsletters for me—'ll stick with Google Docs, but if you're an advanced word processing app user, Pages might be the way to go. WHERE GOOGLE BEATS APPLE There are places, though, where you can see Apple's future in Google's work. The most obvious spot is Google 90 GOOGLEPLAY MUSIC isa solid streaming service, but you'll have to head over to its website and sign up to take advantage of ll ofits in-app offerings. 16 PM My Library ow The, . ee’ lilantic The New York The Atlantic Times ° a) W. ‘The Guardian TheWeek.com GOOGLE PLAY NEWSSTAND is awesome. We'll see if, ‘Apple's forthcoming News app stacks up when it launches with iOS 9. Play Newsstand (go.macworld.com/ gpstand). It looks less like Apple's about-to-be-defunct Newsstand— which was a container for separate apps for each periodical—and more like Apple's forthcoming News app (play.google.com/newsapp) that will launch with iOS 9. Publishers feed their content directly to Google, which standardizes the layout and fonts across all the publications. Now that Google Reader is long dead, this ONE THING THAT DID SURPRISE ME? HOW MUCH | LIKED USING GOOGLE PHOTOS. is a pretty handy newsreader—and it’s staying on my phone, at least until iOS 9 debuts and | can see how Apple's new offering performs. I'm also a big fan of Google Calen- dar, mostly because, well, it looks pretty. My default is to use the app’s Agenda view, which just shows me a list of my upcoming appointments—a feature that isn't available in my iPhone's default Calendar app. Google Calendar also automatically overlays some types of items with appropriate artwork, making organization a bit more fun to peruse. It won't surprise you, perhaps, to discover that Google Maps is still more useful than Apple's native Maps offering, especially for city-dwelling public transit users. In Google Maps, | can click on my location and see what buses are coming by that corner and when. When I tried to discover similar information in Apple Maps, the app helpfully showed me other apps that could help—including Google Maps. | don’t need to be told twice. Apple Maps will be getting public transit support for 10 major 1 ifesTei = Sut-.\B) GOOGLE APPS US. cities when iOS 9 launches—and my hometown of Philadelphia made the cut—but in the meantime, I'll stick to Google Maps. One thing that did surprise me? How much | liked using Google Photos. I've never been much inclined to use iCloud, in part because of the expense: Flickr's terabyte of free storage is too good for me to pass up. Google Photos will store unlimited photos at what Google calls “high resolution,” which tops out at 16 megapixels—plenty for iPhone photos, with the exception of big panoramas. Or you can opt to store your photos at their original resolution, which Google recom- mends for people who shoot with a DSLR, for example. That option will hit your 15GB of free Google Drive storage first, and once that's gone you'll pay $2 per month for 100GB or $10 per month for 1TB. I'm fine with the free unlimited tier—and perhaps as a result, Google also seems to upload photos much more quickly. I'm also tickled by Google's Assistant feature, which automatically creates pictorial story- books and short videos out of the images you capture. You can edit them, discard them, or share as-is. WHERE APPLE WINS Where Google fell short the most, interestingly enough, was in the Inbox Updates 1 new Henry Finder, Unroll.me Victor Fiorillo tagged you in a... Facebook Promos 7 new » Bespoke Post, Handy Jocelyn Craft Mathis mention... Facebook Rebeccah Heinrichs ment Facebook realm of communications. Apple's default Mail app makes it easy to sort good communications from bad—just award a VIP star to your correspon- dents whose missives you can't miss. Google’s Inbox app tries to separate good from bad, but does so by dividing your mail into three inboxes: Inbox (where your important mail is supposed to live), Updates, and Promos. That leaves you shifting between boxes more often, which is kind of a pain. If it or the regular old Gmail app in iOS behaved more like its Android counterpart—that is, if it 92 GOOGLE’S INBOXES ORGANIZES your email, butit’s not completely intuitive. let you tie in Exchange corporate accounts (go.macworld.com/ exchange)I'd be tempted to use it. One advantage it has over the native app? It opens links directly into Chrome, if you have it, instead of insisting on Safari. Apple’s Mail, meanwhile, is also more likely to work with your work email: It's compatible with Microsoft's Exchange system used by many large companies. During my Google Week, | made my company’s Outlook account forward emails to my Gmail account, but it was far from a perfect solution when you know an inte- grated email app is available. (Better yet? Microsoft's Outlook app does incorporate Gmail, and does a terrific job of separating priority email from less-important stuff) Email is not the only way to communicate, of course. In truth, I've long preferred Google Hangouts’ video-chat feature to FaceTime, if only because so many of my relatives and friends use Android phones, making FaceTime untenable. My mistake? Thinking | could use Hang- outs to replace SMS messaging on my iPhone. | turned off SMS and missed a few texts from my wife. (Sorry, honey.) WHO’S BETTER, WHO’S BEST Where Google fell short the most— on iOS anyway—was with its plain old Conner Barwin Google app. It's clearly meant to replace, or at least be an alternative, to Siri. You can leave reminders to yourself on this app, and you can do voice-enabled searches on the app. It wants to be an assistant, letting you know when your next flight is, or how the weather is today, or even your favorite team's score. The problem: There's no widget for Apple's Notification Center, which limits the Google app. You have to click through to do a search or to see your reminder. Which means if you're trying to use Google instead of Siri or 93 GOOGLECHROME and Google News are the only Google apps that have a Notification Center widget. ifes-Tei = Sut-V.\B) GOOGLE APPS Reminders or for searching, you're moving a bit slower. Here's the thing: Google would prefer you do your business on all of its apps—the company builds its busi- ness on all the information you generate when you interact with it. Apple, too, has reasons for wanting to create a seamless ecosystem so you're never tempted to leave iOS-land. A smart user doesn’t have to let either company get the upper hand, though—and based on my week with this experiment, there’s no reason to. There are some things Apple does better than Google—certainly, at least, on iOS. But there are some things that Google does better, even on Apple’s own platform. 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That's right: Klingon SwipeKeys (swipekeys.com; $1) downloads the original font on your phone and lets you text with your friends in this sci-fi cult language. 100 HANGKEYS This free iOS keyboard gives new definition to the phrase “words with friends.” HangKeys (go. macworld.com/hangkeys) creates the stick figure hanging tree and lets your friends guess letter after letter until they figure out the word—or give up trying. eoeee ATRT F 4:21PM 73 61%mD> < Messages Tinder Date13 Details Guessed letters: 1] Send Send VIDEOGAME Edit A|BICIDIE|FIGIH| ||J|K LMNOPQRSTUV R..et Quit wx YZ 101 eee ATaT = +24 PM 79 70% my < Messages Group Details ) Be there in one min 1 rmhome| Send c rp @ ° o < 9~ eG 0D alt y » oe ne £ SY 4 S 908 @e 6 6 -oOoc S97 5 @ THUMBLY KEYBOARD Having a text conversation while holding a cup of coffee or carrying groceries can be quite the predica- ment. Thankfully the Thumbly Keyboard (thumblykeyboard.com; $2) makes it easier than ever to type with one hand. 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This iOS key- board is best for playing a silly prank on your friends. 103 Hes-Teis\yis7-\) iOS KEYBOARDS DISNEY GIF KEYBOARD “* tore ans Pe There are a ton of gif key- I coecs ow swage boards available inthe ADP gam ° Store, but ifyou have a soft gp spot for the wonderful world of Walt Disney, then this free Disney Gif keyboard (go. macworld.com/disney) is for you. The gifs are organized by movie and also by cat- egory from “sassy” to “villa- nous.” This iOS keyboard is not just limited to Disney's kid flicks, either. The company has included gifs from its other properties, including Pixar, Star Wars, and its ABC TV channel. Sent tram my Pact " wee : matey «= BROAD CITY ae carce New Message 2 KEYBOARD gut © This free iOS key- cee board (go.macworld com/broad) was inspired by the funny ladies behind Comedy Central's hit show Broad City. So expect a batch of crazy emojis, gifs, and stickers for all those “yas kween” moments in your life. 104 VIDEO: 5 weird iOS keyboards for expressing your wacky self Psitmoji © 5\ Try these third-party keyboards to communicate with Klingon symbols, customized emojis, or even Lil’ Wayne rap lyrics. 105 The best cam apps for iOS The App Store is teeming with apps for shutterbugs, and filtering through all of them can be harder than capturing a clear photo of Bigfoot. So we put the best, most buzzed-about camera apps to the test. 106 ot only is the iPhone one of the most popular point- and-shoots on the market, if you had to pick one feature that sets it apart from its smartphone competi- tors, it would have to be the camera. The secret is in Apple’s proprietary image signal processor, which handles things like autofocus, face detection, and noise reduction to reduce the strain on the main processor and optimize the camera for iOS. But while the iPhone takes excep- tional pictures right out of the box, Apple’s Camera app only scratches the surface of what its 8-megapixel sensor can actually do. Through a set of powerful APIs, Apple has given developers far more control over the camera than it offers in its own app. Access to professional-caliber controls like shutter speed, ISO, and white balance have brought out the very best in Apple's innovative iSight camera, elevating it beyond the expectations of a humble smart- phone. So naturally, the App Store is teeming with apps for shutterbugs, and filtering through all of them can be harder than capturing a clear photo of Bigfoot. That's why we put some of the best and most buzzed about camera apps to the test. | snapped tons of pictures and me adjust light and focus without tweaked more settings than | ever sacrificing the Camera app’s greatest have before, and the apps that strength: The ability to quickly performed best were the ones that capture a moment. let me shoot most consistently. They Ultimately, this list was made offer a robust set of features that let based on three factors: Interface, 107 WHETHER YOU'RE photographing people, trees, or tree people, Camera+ will help you capture just the perfect shot. ifes-ei = Sus-Y.\B) CAMERA APPS ease of use, and, of course, features. And while we can all surely agree that every app on this list will help you take stunning photos, don’t take it personally if your favorite didn’t make the cut. (Truth be told, the app | used most before writing this barely gets a mention.) Camera apps are some of the most subjective around, so it's entirely possible that I've overlooked a great one. » BEST: CAMERA+ Debuting alongside the iPhone 4 some five years ago, Camerat (campl.us; $3) quickly became the go-to Camera replacement and set the standard for shooters, bringing things like image stabilization and exposure control long before Apple did. But it hasn't rested on its laurels. Currently in its sixth iteration, Cam- erat is continuously the best in its class, with a tremendous set of features, fantastic editing, and a blissfully customizable interface that lets you choose exactly how much control you want over the camera. Camera+ has followed Apple's lead when it comes to the interface, making it feel familiar while cutting down on the amount of fumbling you'll need to do to snap a quick pic. It looks extremely basic—you'll see the familiar circular shutter button, a toggle for the ¥ Settings flash, and the option to flip cameras— but Camerat showcases its strength in extremely subtle ways. You'll see the ISO, f-stop, and white balance dis- played prominently, but the adjust- ment bars are neatly hidden behind slide-up menus, keeping the shooting area nice and clean while still letting you quickly bump up the ISO or adjust for a dark room. The shutter button is flanked by shortcuts to the in-app editing room and its bountiful settings. Inside, you'll find tons of toggles that affect 108 ‘THESETTINGSIN Camerat alone are worth a thousand words. your shooting, view settings, and workflow, from how your photos are taken to where they're saved. It'll take some time to dig through all of them, but once you get it to your liking you'll have a veritable dream shooting machine at your fingertips. Camerat also offers a top-notch editing environment, with dozens of filters, crops, tints, and frames to perfect your masterpiece. It has a customizable Notification Center widget for quick photos, selfies, and pro tips, and an Apple Watch com- panion that works as a remote, like Apple’s Camera does (though live previews will have to wait until watchOS 2). But what gives Camerat an edge over its competitors is its tremendous versatility and intuitiveness. Whether you're into funky filters or exact exposure, you'll be hard-pressed to find a camera that offers a better experience and produces such consistent results. of the best cameras in the business, the Visual Supply Co started out offering presets for Aperture and Lightroom that emu- lated the look of classic Kodak, Fuji, and Ilford prints in an effort to bridge the worlds of digital and film cam- RUNNER-UP: VSCO CAM Back before it made one eras. VSCO Cam (vsco.co/vscocam; free) continues in that vein, offering an elegant, clean camera that puts a heavy focus on classic creativity and inspiration. It's this respect for photography that makes VSCO a standout, from the carefully crafted interface that gives photographers full control without cluttering the viewing area to its excellent array of filters that tastefully tweak your pictures with professional presets. ‘Asa camera, VSCO's extraordinarily minimal interface has a somewhat longer learning curve than Camerat. It 109 VSCOCAM might look minimal, but it maximizes the power and potential of the camera, iOS CENTRAL Bela TW NI75 certainly stacks up when it comes to control—you'll be able to manually adjust white balance, exposure compensation, focus, shutter speed, and ISO—but figuring out how to properly use it requires a good deal of exploration. It’s kind of like picking up a high-end DSLR for the first time: You can make a few minor adjustments and still take an excellent photo, but you'll be much better served by mastering its controls. But once you understand the interface, VSCO offers an unparal- leled experience for photographers. It's not just about toggles and slid- ers—from the precision adjustment controls to the “big-button mode” that lets you tap anywhere on the screen to snap a pic, everything is designed to help you turn what you see into a work of art worthy of Apple’s “Shot on iPhone 6” campaign. VSCO doesn't offer the usual editing and cropping tools you'll find in do-it-all camera apps. Rather, you can select from a dozen or so presets that do all of the fine-tuning behind