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Apple adopts two-factor authentication Apple has enhanced its identification procedure to give users of its iCloud, iTunes and App Store users extra protection from hackers.
The feature, which is initially being rolled out as an option in the US, UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand, will mean that when an Apple
customer signs into their account to make a purchase or to change information, as well as providing their Apple ID password, they will have to enter a unique code in order to prove they really are the account holder. The unique code is sent via SMS to the user's registered mobile phone or can be sent via the Find My Phone app. This extra layer of protection should ensure that even if someone else has managed to get hold of a user's password, without also having their phone, the information is useless.
The system will replace the current system that prompts users to answer security questions when logging in from an unfamiliar IP address or when claiming to have lost their passwords. Security questions usually have answers that, thanks to the almost ubiquitous use of Facebook, are extremely easy to find -- as Scarlett Johansson discovered when her email account was unlawfully accessed and its contents laid bare on the internet. Hacker Christopher Chaney, who was sent to prison for 10 years in December for a stream of such attacks on celebrities, broke into accounts by simply clicking on the ‘forgot password' button and answering security questions such as "what was the name of your first pet?" or "what is your boyfriend's name?" -- information that, when it comes to Hollywood stars, is often in the public domain.
Two-factor authentication is not foolproof but it is one of the simplest and most effective methods of protecting internet users from security breaches. Google has employed the system on its Gmail accounts for a number of years and, following a recent spate of account hacks, Twitter is being urged by the online community to quickly follow suit.
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The iTunes app has taken on more and more roles since it started life as a simple jukebox. It's now responsible for syncing iOS devices, downloading and storing movies and TV shows as well as music, and even matching your music collection with iCloud.
iTunes had started to get a little bogged down with all these tasks so Apple has given it a major overhaul.
iTunes 11 has all sorts of new features as well as a fresh new look and feel, which makes managing your media easier than ever.
The system requirements are a little higher than before and you'll need OS X 10.6.8 as a minimum, and an Intel processor in your Mac. Users of OS X 10.7 or 10.8 will find it in Software Update, and anyone still on Snow Leopard can grab it from apple.com/itunes/download.
The interface is a little different but don't let that fool you: it's faster, smarter and easier to use. There's the Up Next feature for example, which shows you previous and upcoming tracks and lets you jump to them easily.
And a great new Mini Player that has search and multiple AirPlay volume controls built right in. We think it's a big improvement on the last version of iTunes and we know you'll love it too. Read on to find out all you need to know about iTunes 11…
1. Media type chooser
Select the kind of media you want to view to simplify browsing
In the new default view you can choose to see only the media type you want, instead of all your libraries at once, which is often useful. Click on the Library chooser and toggle between music, movies, TV shows, books, apps and ringtones. If you use the Show Sidebar command to return to a more traditional view, you can see all the media libraries in a list, just like in previous versions of iTunes.
2. AirPlay volume settings
The Airplay volume control lets you set different levels for different devices
As well as setting iTunes' master volume with the main volume slider, you can send audio over AirPlay in different ways. If you choose Single, your audio plays on your Mac. If you have any AirPlay-compatible devices like an Apple TV or Airport Express you are able to choose Multiple, and send the audio to those devices too. What's really great is that you can set the volume of each audio stream independently.
3. Up Next and Previous
Right-clicking tracks adds them to your Up Next queue
This new feature lets you see what's queued to play next and if you click on the clock icon, what has been played previously. You can play any track by clicking on it as well as re-ordering them, so you're not limited to a specific play order. Right-click on tracks in the library to add them to Up Next, making you a DJ. This new feature is supported in the latest Apple TV software as well as the latest iOS Remote apps.
4. Advanced search
Advanced Search scours all your libraries for relevent tags
Searching your media libraries just got a whole lot better in iTunes 11. When you start typing in the search field, the program immediately scours even the largest libraries for relevant tags. Results are displayed by Artist, Album, Song and Playlist, and movies and TV shows are included too. If there are lots of results returned for your libraries, the Search window simply shows the top hits and gives you the option to view more results within any given category, meaning that everything stays nice and tidy.
5. Downloads
You can now manage downloads easily within the main interface
iTunes 11 works well with iCloud, and now has a Downloads button and window. The button becomes visible whenever you download content, be it from iTunes Match, a new purchase or a re-download of previously purchased material. Click the button to reveal the Downloads window, where you can disallow simultaneous downloads.
6. Movies and TV shows
iTunes will sort series and keep track of what you've watched
If you choose to view movies or TV shows, iTunes is now pretty good at picking up their metadata and choosing background colours automatically based on artwork, which it also does for albums. If media are properly tagged, it's able to sort them into seasons for you, and again there are links to the Store if you want, for example, to complete any series you may not already have. There's an Unwatched tab too, to quickly show you stuff you haven't yet viewed.
7. Mini Player
Mini Player gives you maximum control in minimum screen space
One of the best new features is the iTunes Mini Player. Click this button and you get a small, sleek and unobtrusive window that controls playback. Better still, it has some integrated controls like full library search, Up Next and Previous and full volume and AirPlay controls available from its small window. It puts the most important playback features of iTunes right at your fingertips and takes up very little screen space, which is especially useful for laptops.
8. iTunes Store
Right-click on an artist, band or series to jump to their catalogue
Click on the Store button to be taken to the newly redesigned iTunes Store to preview, buy or rent content as well as managing your Apple ID settings, billing information and so on. In this view the Search field changes to search the Store rather than your library. Music and videos in your library also have a new option to jump directly to that artist, band or series on the Store, which you can access by right-clicking on content.
9. iTunes Match
Match gets its own dedicated tab
iTunes Match is still there, but in the new view it has its own dedicated tab. In the old view, which you can still use, it lives in the list down the left-hand side. You can turn iTunes Match on or off from the Store menu in iTunes, as well as manually updating it to reflect changes you have made. Remember that the library on your Mac remains the master, and things that you change, add or delete here will be reflected across your iOS devices and other Macs signed in with the same Apple ID.
iTunes and iCloud
iCloud is Apple's online file storage, syncing and streaming system that is increasingly used to co-ordinate everything you do on your Mac and iOS devices. Every Apple ID gets 5GB of free storage space for backup and documents, and it's also used to synchronise your iTunes purchases so that they are available across every device signed in with your ID. iTunes 11 works with iCloud in a number of ways. One new feature is that your previous purchases now appear by default in iTunes 11, whereas before you had to dig into the iTunes Store to find them.
In Match, music stored remotely on Apple's servers is displayed with a cloud next to it
You may have to authorise your Mac with Apple to enable this. If you're not using iTunes Match, you will be able to tell which albums or songs are previous purchases because they will appear with a small cloud icon in the corner of the album artwork. If you are using iTunes Match, many albums will appear with this icon.
There's a new option for Match users too: if you go to iTunes' View menu, you can now choose to show or hide music in the cloud, either viewing all your music or only the tracks you've downloaded or added locally. Everything you have ever bought with your Apple ID can be re-downloaded at any time for free, even if you have deleted the files from your devices.
There's another nice new touch: movie playback syncing. If you watch a movie on one device then pick up another, the movie will start playing from the same place you left off. This works for content bought or rented from Apple, and also for your own movies stored locally.
Got a match?
On the subject of iTunes Match, this is still present, of course, and now works more smoothly than before. For just £25 a year, Apple will effectively host your entire music collection on its servers. Go to Store > Turn on iTunes Match in iTunes and the software will analyse your music library, send the results to Apple and mirror your playlists across all your iOS devices so it's possible to access hundreds of gigabytes' worth of music wirelessly when signed in with your Apple ID.
Any music not found in the iTunes Store will be uploaded, and iTunes on your Mac remains the master list for managing playlists. Music can be downloaded in high quality to your Mac or your iOS devices.
What iTunes Match essentially does is references music that's already on Apple's servers - which is a lot of music - and when you go to play a track from your library, you play that track instead of your original copy. iTunes periodically updates Match while running so new content that you add should be made available. It's an excellent way of accessing your music collection from any iOS device or your Apple TV, over a wireless or a cellular connection if you're away from home.
Get creative with iTunes Match
If you're crafty, there's a clever trick you can use with iTunes Match that's great for freeing up space on your Mac. Activate iTunes Match using your main iTunes library and wait for the matching to complete. Then, create a new iTunes library locally by holding down the alt key when booting, and turn on iTunes Match in this second blank library too using the same Apple ID. You get up to ten device authorisations per Apple ID.
All the music from your other library will be available to stream in the new library, but you can disconnect the original library containing gigabytes of music (or more accurately disconnect whatever drive holds the media files), since it's not being played from there.
Remember to add new music to the old library, match and then stream it from the new one and you have effectively offloaded your library into the cloud. Remember this doesn't work for movies, so consider adding movies to the new library, and storing them locally.
Automatic downloads
Purchased items now appear in your library by default
Another way in which iTunes and iCloud integrate is when it comes to automatic downloads. First start by going into Preferences in iTunes and finding the Store section; there you can switch on automatic downloading of music, apps and books so that when you buy something on one device, it will automatically download to all other devices signed in with that Apple ID, and with auto downloads enabled.
This window also lets you set up auto downloading of pre-ordered purchases. However, remember that you won't always want everything to download to all your devices. If you download a TV series to your Mac there'll be plenty of space for it, but there won't be on an iPhone 16GB. And you might not want a 1GB game bought on your iPad to go to your iPod touch. By setting each device up separately, you can control what type of content gets automatically downloaded.
Apple isn't the only one with its eye on the clock – Samsung has confirmed it is readying a smart watch of its own.
The news comes after months of rumours that the Korean company has been working on a wrist-worn rival to Apple's supposedly-upcoming iWatch.
"We've been preparing the watch product for so long," Samsung's executive VP Lee Young Hee told Bloomberg. "We are preparing products for the future, and the watch is definitely one of them."
Watch out, Apple
He didn't let slip any details about what the wristwatch might feature, but we'll no doubt see it fit into Samsung's ecosystem of products, including the just-unveiled Galaxy S4.
With Apple also keeping a lid on all watch details, we can understand Samsung's resistance to add anything further, though Lee did mention: "The issue here is who will first commercialise it so consumers can use it meaningfully."
But now that Pebble has taken the lead in this reinvigorated market of wearable tech, the race is definitely on for the next big competitor to enter. The question is: who will get there first?
So, it's finally here. Momentum has been building for theSamsung Galaxy S4 almost since the week after theGalaxy S3 arrived last summer!
It's been one of the most anticipated handsets in a while - that explained by the world's obsession with seeing every leak possible. And they came thick and fast, thanks to our friends in China, as the hours counted down to launch.
The Galaxy S4 arrives at a time when the competition has moved up a notch. Here's how Samsung's latest flagship chalks up against the other big boys in school.
The Samsung Galaxy S4 is here!
Galaxy S4 vs the rest: size and weight
Big is beautiful. That's the message we've been getting over the last few years as smartphone manufacturers seem to try to outdo each other on the scales. The Galaxy S2 had a decent enough footprint, the S3 was even bigger.
The S4 continues that tradition, coming in at 5.38 x 2.34 x 0.5/16-inches which makes it exactly the same, height wise, but fairly thinner by width, as its predecessor. It's also a whole three grams lighter at 130g.
The HTC One was fantastic in our review
And it's in good company. Let's not forget the Sony Xperia Z is fairly big in the mitts at 5.47 x 2.80 x 0.31 in and weighing in at 146g, making it similar and only marginally heavier than the HTC One which is delivered at 5.41 x 2.69 x 0.37 in.
We're also massive fans of the Sony Xperia Z
That's not a million miles off the Nokia Lumia 920 which clocks in at 5.13 x 2.79 x 0.42 in, though the Lumia is heavy enough to give you cramp at 185g.
The Lumia 920 is a terrific Windows Phone
In fact, the only one that is out of its depth here is Apple's offering which provides the real alternative to anyone who wants a smaller, yet premium device. The iPhone 5 is minuscule by comparison at 4.87 x 2.31 x 0.30 in and with a weight of 112g.
The iPhone 5 looks tiny compared to the rest
Galaxy S4 vs the rest: screens
One of the most contentious issues when a smartphone is announced these days. Since Apple spoiled many of us with its Retina offering, we've all become more nitpicky than ever, because we know what can be achieved. The Galaxy S2 gave us Super AMOLED Plus and although it didn't have a resolution you'd kill yourself for, the colours really were beautiful.
The S3 was, in some eyes, not the step forward that had been hoped for because Samsung opted for just Super AMOLED 4.8-inch panel with a density that could be marginally picked apart by a very trained eye. It also employed a Pen Tile Matrix here.
5 inch Super AMOLED is the name of the game for the S4
The S4 goes for a slightly larger 5-inch display (still Super AMOLED) of 4.99-inches with full HD 1920 x 1920 and a far higher pixel density of 441ppi. It's, again, a pen-tile matrix with very high pixel density. The gap between pixels has been reduced so we're expecting something that looks far punchier in the real world.
Competition is fierce - the iPhone 5 goes for an LED-backlit IPS LCD flavour. It's only 4.0-inches which is great for some, yet too small for others and giving off 326 ppi.
The iPhone 5's display still looks stunning
Similarly, the Nokia Lumia 920 has a pretty great display with a slightly higher ppi of 332 but that's split over a larger 4.5-inch display. It too is an IPS LCD flavour. The Sony Xperia Z holds its own - this has an amazing display which is TFT and an amazing 441 ppi spread over five inches, but as we explained in our review, it can appear washed out from different angles.
The one to beat here is the HTC One display panel - we're big fans of that Super LCD3 offering with its 4.7-inch screen and 469 ppi, though, as our review explained, we're not massively sold on it when watching video.
Galaxy S4 vs the rest: camera
The S3 was one of the best mobile cameras out there - and the S4 goes one further with a 13MP offering. Plus a 2MP front-facing snapper, which is pretty run of the mill nowadays.
This is one of the main aspects people go for when purchasing a new handset, so is a very important consideration.
Apple reckons its 8MP offering is the best camera it has ever offered, but this at a time when the numbers are creeping into the double digits, much to the humiliation of the Lumia 920 which also offers an 8MP snapper. For example, the Xperia Z is in 13.MP territory as well.
Despite its limited megapixel count, the iPhone 5 takes some great pics in normal conditions
But size isn't everything - as we noted that pictures didn't always look great once shot. Compare that to the paltry sounding 4MP of the HTC One, but a camera that has the Ultrapixel technology, and you see that the number of pixels has barely any relevance compared to other aspects.
Galaxy S4 vs the rest: processor and memory
Of course, none of this makes any difference in the slightest if there is not enough 'oooft' inside to power it all. The S3 was super smooth - although we did notice it go a bit sluggish at times, before the arrival of Project Butter.
As for the S4, forget dual-core. Forget quad core. We have a staggering EIGHT CORE Exynos 1.6GHz processor here. That's bigger than the quad-core 1.6GHz Exynos offering of the Galaxy Note 8 but is obviously of the same DNA!
2GB of ram completes the set, which is the going rate right now. That's double the 1GB RAM you'll find in the iPhone 5 and a real boost to the Dual-Core 1.2GHz processor it holds, but as any Apple fan will gleefully tell you, they rarely experience lag, which goes to show that the OS has just as much responsibility for smoothness.
The S4's specs really blow away what we've seen in the rest of the competition - at least on paper. Sony offers us a Quad-Core 1.5GHz Krait chip and a comparable 2GB RAM which is double that of the Nokia Lumia 920's 1GB, while the Krait processor the Finns give us is dual-core, like the iPhone.
In fact, the highest level after the S4 is the recently announced (and reviewed by us) HTC One which is quad-core 1.7 Krait and, again, has 2GB of RAM.
Galaxy S4 vs the rest: battery size
We've long passed the days when batteries would last all week - now, one day is the most you'll get from a modern smartphone. The problem is when that phone doesn't last even a full day, with tame use.
The S4 packs a fairly huge 2,600MAH pack, up from the 2,100 offering we got on the S3.
The S4's battery
It makes the iPhone 5's 1400MAH battery look paltry, though again, iPhone owners will tell you that they have a decent enough time, which again highlights how much the OS plays a part. Compare that to our thoughts on the HTC One a couple of days back when we struggled to make that 2300MAH battery last, and you'll see what we mean.
As for the Lumia 920, that comes with a 2000MAH pack which we bemoaned in our review, whilst the Xperia Z puts in a stellar effort with the 2330MAH pack powering it, thanks to stamina mode. Similar to our point about the camera, it's more than just sheer numbers that you'll find makes a difference here.
Galaxy S4 vs the rest: OS
Did you think Smart Stay was gimmicky on the S3? Will you care about the screen scrolling to follow your eyes on the S4? If you do, you're in for a treat because despite some claims it wouldn't appear on the final build, it is now official that it will.
Whats more, Smart Pause will know to hold things when you look away. And Air Gestures mean you'll be able to jump to the top of lists, skip music and flick through pictures/answer calls without even touching the screen.
The iPhone is obviously the only Apple device - so has exclusive access to the Cupertino stable of goodies as far as this rabble is concerned. Similarly, if you want a Windows device, you won't find any other offerings in this comparison. But the other three are all Android handsets and have their own unique selling points. Sony is bigging up how the Xperia Z is both resistant to dust and water, which is great if you're an off-roader swimmer.
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Meanwhile, HTC bangs on about its Zoe photos being unique and how the blink-feed home screen will change the world. However, its IR blaster on the newly released HTC One (which we have noted works well) has been fitted on the S4 as well. That unique selling point is no longer unique.
HTC Zoe in action
Samsung's TouchWiz overlay, meanwhile, always looks a bit more colourful and less conservative. Yet, it has, in the past, also been a very solid iteration of Android - which is what these final three run on. The question is - will it be the first to ditch Jelly Bean for Key Lime Pie? And will that make a difference to you? If it does, the S4 will be available April 26th.
Happy Birthday Steve Jobs: The Story Behind Late Apple CEO Who Made Turtlenecks Cool [PICS]
Its Steve Jobs' 58th birthday today and its time to remember the icon who gave the tech world iPhone and iPad. The late Apple co-founder was best known for his visionary leadership and innovation, but he was also known for his unvarying signature look.
Unlike most corporate executives, who wear suits and ties, Jobs was committed to his chosen uniform of a black mock turtleneck, blue jeans and New Balance sneakers.
Before his demise, Jobs himself explained his tailored signature to biographer Walter Isaacson in an interview. He recalled that in early 80's, he asked Sony's chairman Akio Morita why everyone were wearing uniforms in the factories. He was told that after the war, no one had any clothes, and companies like Sony had to give their workers something to wear each day.
Over the years, the uniforms have become a custom and a way of bonding workers to the company. Jobs also recalled that he decided to have that type of bonding for Apple.
Famous designer Issey Miyake designed the uniforms for Sony and so Jobs called him to design a vest for Apple as well. Unfortunately, the idea did not appeal to the everyone in the company, which is when Jobs himself decided to have a uniform for himself. He has also claimed that he asked Issey to make some black turtlenecks, that he likes to make his signature style.
With the reason of why Steve Jobs always wore his Black Turtleneck, Gizbot has come up with some photos of him in his signature style.
