In MobileViews Podcast 72, Todd Ogasawara and Jon Westfall discuss:
– Happy 30th birthday to the Apple Macintosh (Jan. 24, 2014)
– Gmail/Google+-ageddon. 1st world problems. Cyber dependency
Ref: TechCrunch
– iWorks for iOS updated
Ref: GigaOm
– App picks
— Pushbullet for Android – Ref: This Week in Google episode 233
– Yay! S. Korea says no to phone bloatware
Ref: ZDNet
Todd Ogasawara and his old friend and special guest, Jon Westfall, talk about their move from Windows Mobile/Phone to other mobile platforms, Microsoft Project Siena for Windows 8.1, and credit card security (COIN, Loop).
This special combined MobileViews and ComicsViews podcast let Todd Ogasawara, Jay Stone, and Emil Reyes catch up on iOS 7, Windows RT 81, Arrow (CW TV show) and Agents of Shield (ABC) in one podcast.
Todd Ogasawara and Emil Reyes discuss the pros and cons of the recently released iOS 7 for iPhone and iPad in this podcast. Neither one bought a new iPhone 5c or 5s. So, their experience is based on upgrades to the iPhone 5, iPad mini, and iPad 2.
They also devote a segment of the podcast to discuss the news that the Computer Chaos Club has found a way to fool the iPhone 5s’ fingerprint reader.
Apple added the HDR (High Dynamic Range) photo feature way back in iOS 4.1 (Fall 2010). After playing with this photo option for a couple of weeks, I stopped using it. With the release of iOS 7 last week, I decided to take another look at HDR on my iPhone 5. However, my first test pair of photos (iOS provides the option to save a normal photo along with the HDR photo) barely seemed to be different from one another (normal vs. HDR) – [see below for the first photo pair].
I ended up creating a test scene that would be sure to look different when comparing a normal photo to the HDR one. The photo above is that test scene. The photo on the right is the HDR version. This time I could see the difference.
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The iOS 7 iTunes Radio feature is a lot better than I expected. So far, it has done a good job of auto-building radio play lists even when specifying non-U.S. artists. This is something that Google Music All Access does very poorly in my experience. This is mostly because Google’s U.S. music store does not have much “world music” from what I can tell. Once it became apparent that I was going to use iTunes Radio going forward, I started looking for an option to make sure all this streaming was done only when I am connected to a WiFi network. I couldn’t find this option.
However, as you can see from the screenshot here, iTunes Music appears to be set by default to only play when connected to a WiFi network. This screen appeared when I paused the stream to run off to a meeting. While walking, I turned on my iPhone to check on my email and noticed the screen shown here (the last thing I did was pause iTunes Radio).