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Apple’s WWDC 2014 in pictures

Jun02
by on June 2, 2014 at 7:55 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Roundups, WWDC

There’s a lot of news to catch up on from today’s annual Apple Worldwide Developers Conference, but just in case you’re not quite ready to take them all in, here are some sights and scenes from the event at Moscone Center. Getty Images/Justin Sullivan Getty Images/Justin Sullivan Getty Images/Justin Sullivan Getty Images/Justin Sullivan Apple announces a slew of new features with the introduction of iOS 8, including refreshed app interfaces, interactive notifications and several new SDKs. HomeKit, one of Apple’s freshly unveiled SDKs, aggregates smart home apps into one control panel. iOS 8 also comes with a new QuickType feature that adds…

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Apple’s WWDC 2014 in pictures

Jun02
by on June 2, 2014 at 7:55 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Roundups, WWDC

There’s a lot of news to catch up on from today’s annual Apple Worldwide Developers Conference, but just in case you’re not quite ready to take them all in, here are some sights and scenes from the event at Moscone Center. Getty Images/Justin Sullivan Getty Images/Justin Sullivan Getty Images/Justin Sullivan Getty Images/Justin Sullivan Apple announces a slew of new features with the introduction of iOS 8, including refreshed app interfaces, interactive notifications and several new SDKs. HomeKit, one of Apple’s freshly unveiled SDKs, aggregates smart home apps into one control panel. iOS 8 also comes with a new QuickType feature that adds…

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Everything Apple announced at WWDC 2014 in one handy list

Jun02
by on June 2, 2014 at 7:22 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Roundups, WWDC

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It’s a wrap! Here’s a handy recap of all the announcements Apple made at its Worldwide Developers Conference this year. OS X Yosemite Apple announced its latest version OS X Yosemite (OS X 10.10) which features the flat design first unveiled with iOS 7 last fall. Also new: a Dark Mode that changes the menu bar to a translucent black hue and new dock icons. Search via Spotlight now also integrate results from a variety of resources, such as the iTunes store and Apple Maps locations. OS X Yosemite also features a slew updates to its Mail and Safari apps. Users can now send files up to…

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Apple announces iOS 8 beta is available today to developers, public release this fall, and no iPhone 4 support

Jun02
by on June 2, 2014 at 7:03 pm
Posted In: Apple wwdc, Around the Web, Gadgets, Mobile

At its Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) today, Apple announced that its iOS 8 beta will be available today, with a public release slated for this fall. The company also revealed the iPhone 4 won’t be supported, meaning iOS 7 will be the latest major release for the device. As you can see in the slide below, iOS 8 will be available for the iPhone 4s, iPhone 5, iPhone 5c, iPhone 5s, iPod touch 5th generation, iPad 2, iPad with Retina display, iPad Air, iPad mini, and iPad mini with Retina display. If you have one of these devices as well…

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Apple announces Swift, a new programming language for iOS and OS X

Jun02
by on June 2, 2014 at 6:48 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, WWDC

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Apple today announced a new programming language called Swift at WWDC, which will replace Objective C as the language developers use for building iOS and OS X apps. Craig Federighi announced the new language on stage saying, “We’ve used Objective-C for 20 years, and we love it. But we wondered what we could do without the baggage of C.” Federighi confirmed that Swift code and C can live in the same app together, too, so developers can upgrade their code as they go, rather than replacing it in one go. There are a number of changes from Objective C, some of which are detailed…

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