Apple’s Q1 product updates were announced this week without an official press event like what usually accompanies its bigger products refreshes. A new Product RED iPhone 7 and 7 Plus, a new 5th generation iPad, an updated iPhone SE, and new and updated Apple Watch bands and iPhone cases were all introduced.
There is still a chance Apple could hold a spring event for other new product updates with April rumored for a possible iPad Pro update unveiling. But are you planning on getting any of this week’s newly announced products? MoreFiled under: Apple 23:38 Uhr. As if the collection of gear in IK Multimedia’s AmpliTube 4 wasn’t already impressive enough, the music tech company has released another new collection of great high-end sounds and effects in the new Fulltone Collection for AmpliTube. Featuring a wide range of tones from the classic to the contemporary, the new collection promises “boutique sound for the discerning musician” inspired by guitarist and composer Michael Fuller’s vision for quality stompboxes. The Fulltone Collection includes three powerful processors that work great in both music production and creative sound design, which, thanks to IK’s usual focus on hyperrealism, provide all of the mojo and feel of the original Fulltone hardware folded into the intuitive design of AmpliTube.
22:10 Uhr, 22:00 Uhr. During its annual shareholders meeting today, Starbucks announced that it will soon allow customers to send gifts through Apple’s Messages app and Apple Pay. The new functionality will arrive for customers in April alongside Microsoft Outlook integration that will similarly allow users to gift beverages through the app. In addition, the company announced that it’s expanding the My Starbucks barista feature it first launched earlier this year to let customers order with voice commands and messaging: moreFiled under: Apple 19:11 Uhr.
Comm-Unity Networking System has updated its CNS Image FileMaker Pro plug-in to version 2.1 which includes bug fixes, more thread-safety, and CNS Core updates. It’s available immediately at for both macOS and Windows.
CNS Image is a FileMaker plug-in for working with images stored in container fields or stored on the hard drive. On the most basic level, you can use CNS Image to import images from the hard drive into FileMaker container fields and Export images from container fields to the hard drive using hard-coded paths or dialogs. Read more 19:02 Uhr. Keep up with the best gear and deals on the web by signing up for the 9to5Toys Newsletter.
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Currently offering 69 apps (normally worth $2,227.29), you can use all of them through Setapp, free for the first month and $9.99/month after. Even if you use just a few of the included apps often and the others when the need arises, the service makes a whole lot of sense versus subscribing to each individually or buying outright for what might be a one-time use. And you’ll never have to worry about updates as you get the latest and new apps as they’re added. There are also no ads or in-app purchases in Setapp. Here’s how it works: moreFiled under: Apple 18:02 Uhr. If anyone had asked you to describe Apple’s pricing strategy in a sentence, this would – until recently – have been extremely easy to do. Apple aims to sell premium products at high margins to upmarket demographics.
The company had shown almost no interest in more affordable products pitched to those on tighter budgets. But Apple has long recognized that you need a way of building your long-term customer base, and one good way to do that is to get them when they’re young. Apple has made considerable efforts over the years to get its computers into schools and colleges, and to make them more affordable to students through its education discount. The MacBook Air line too has been priced at a level where it is just about affordable for those who would otherwise buy cheaper Windows laptops – again, in no small part because Apple wants to attract younger buyers whose lifetime value to the company will be substantial. But as one analyst recently observed, ther 16:29 Uhr. Instagram has steadily been introducing new features to its photo and video sharing service, and that appears to be paying off. TechCrunch reports that Instagram has shared it now has 1 million monthly active advertisers, up from half that in September and just 200,000 a year ago.
Instagram’s user base includes 400 million daily active users with 80 percent of all users following a business, the report adds, and Instagram plans to leverage that with new features. MoreFiled under: Apple 16:29 Uhr.
Agile Tortoise has announced Interact Scratchpad 1.0 for the Mac. The menubar app brings the popular natural language contact creation tools of Interact for iOS to macOS. You can type or paste in blocks of text with contact information and let Interact parse names, addresses, phone numbers into a complete contact record in your default Contacts account. This lets you create new contacts, or add information to existing contacts quicker than ever, according to the folks at Agile Tortoise. Read more 14:47 Uhr.
RoGame Software (www.rogame.com) has announced ScaleMaster 2, an upgrade to the music app for macOS. The software was specifically designed to help with scales in a theoretical and practical context.
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Serving as a practice environment and reference for over 200 scale types, ScaleMaster 2 includes 9 virtual instruments, a music notation interface, a full GM sound library and much more. Version 1.0.3 has been re-designed from the ground up with a modern interface. Read more 08:01 Uhr, 8:00 Uhr. Amazon today updated its Amazon Music app for iOS devices to version 6.4.0, adding a small but important new feature: support for CarPlay. With the latest version of the Amazon Music app, Amazon Music subscribers who own a vehicle equipped with CarPlay can access their music directly through the CarPlay interface when an iPhone is connected to the car.
Amazon Music is available to Amazon Prime subscribers, with two million songs, playlists, and stations included in a membership. Separate Amazon Music Unlimited subscriptions are also available for on-demand listening to 'tens of millions' of songs, with pricing starting at $7.99 for Prime members ($9.99 without a Prime subscription). A lower-cost Echo-only plan is also available for $3.99 per month. Amazon Music can be downloaded from the App Store for free.
Direct LinkRelated Roundup: CarPlay Tags: Amazon, Amazon Music Unlimited Discuss this article in our forums 01:01 Uhr, 1:00 Uhr. Apple has updated iTunes for iOS and tvOS to version 12.6, which lets you rent videos once and watch them on multiple screens. However, it requires iOS 10.3 and tvOS 10.2, both of which are in beta testing. With the “rent once, watch anywhere” capability, you can rent a movie on one device (iPhone, iPad or Apple TV), then finish watching it on another (iPhone, iPad or Apple TV). Prior to iTunes 12.6 you had to finish watching a film on the device from which you first rented it. Read more 00:02 Uhr.
Mac’s Rants & Raves Episode #266 As I mentioned last week, I’m not a fan of the subscription software model. I am, however, a huge fan of all-you-can-slurp subscriptions for other things. For example, I’ve gladly paid for Netflix, Hulu, and HBO on-demand for years; I’ve been an Apple Music subscriber since day 1; and I expect to continue subscribing to all of them (except, perhaps, HBO) for the rest of my days. Setapp: Netflix for Mac Apps I was reminded this week of something I wrote about here on Valentine’s Day 2017—a service called Setapp, which was brand new at the time. While I don’t particularly care for the subscriptions model when applied to a single app or suite like Adobe Creative Cloud or Microsoft Office 360, I am a fan of Setapp, a subscription software service that gives you access to full versions of more than 100 high-quality Mac apps, all for just $9.99 a month.
I’m a huge fan of the all-you-can-slurp subscription model as long as the content is compelling. Last year I said the overall quality of the apps was high and it still is. Back then there were around 60 apps; a year later there are more than 100, with new apps added regularly. In addition to nearly doubling the number of apps included in your $9.99 subscription, Setapp now includes a slick little file browser that breaks the apps into ten categories—lifestyle, creativity, developer tools, productivity, Mac hacks, writing and blogging, education and research, maintenance, task management, and personal finance.
Ten categories plus search make it easy to find the right app for the job. With a comprehensive description of every app, and ultra-fast search, it’s never been easier to find the appropriate app (or apps) for just about any task. And, the Apps don’t Suck Among the included apps is my favorite text editor, Ulysses (see Dr. Mac 5-31-16), and at least five utilities I already owned and love: iStat Menus, Screens, iMazing; Image2Icon, and Gemini.
Other top-notch apps include the website building tool i used prior before I found Squarespace (RapidWeaver); a terrific folder synchronizer I already used (ChronoSync Express); and several useful network utilities including NetSpot and WiFi Explorer. I’ve got more apps in my Applications folder than most people (600+), but even so I’ve discovered several cool apps I now use regularly: A slick little outline maker (Cloud Outliner); a nifty Pomodoro timer (Be Focused); a mind-mapping tool (XMind), an app that greys out everything except the app you’re using (HazeOver); and a fantastic app for tracking your time and productivity automatically (Timing), to name a few.