Jugendstil
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This forces me to embrace iOS 7 on principle alone.
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WWDC13 Thread of iOS 7 & Mac OS X 10.9, where a whole new world's developing
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This forces me to embrace iOS 7 on principle alone.
victreeb3l
Member
im kinda upset that i gave that dude a click. motherfucker
Technosteve
Banned
it's snappy but it crashes alot so eh?
Mr. Wonderful
Member
Two years or so ago, they drastically increased the power output and added an additional pair of antennas to the AirPort Extreme which made huge gains in it's range and made the 5GHz band actually useful. If you've upgraded from a model from before then to an ac, unless the ac has been nerfed somehow, you should have much better range, or you're being unrealistic as to what kind of range you're going to get. If you're going through two floors and a bunch of walls or something, yeah, the signal is going to be weaker.
It's the ac specification, which requires both an ac router AND an ac device, that can be tailored to route signals around obstructions like walls, floors, and ceilings.
jts
...hate me...
Speaking again of the Extreme/Time Capsule, I'm kinda bummed that it lost the Kensington Lock (which has been a trend in more recent Apple products, unfortunately).
I want to get one of these, but. How do I keep it safe in a semi-public environment? It's a /$300 piece of equipment.
I want to get one of these, but. How do I keep it safe in a semi-public environment? It's a /$300 piece of equipment.
Speaking again of the Extreme/Time Capsule, I'm kinda bummed that it lost the Kensington Lock (which has been a trend in more recent Apple products, unfortunately).
I want to get one of these, but. How do I keep it safe in a semi-public environment? It's a /$300 piece of equipment.
Could some tell me why i should buy a super expensive router? You can get the best Asus router for much cheaper. This is a serieus question. Are there some "magical" apple features?
jts
...hate me...
The router itself costs $200, which I don't find absurd for a bleeding-edge wireless device, with 802.11ac, beamforming, all gigabit ports, crazy range and other advanced functionality. $300 gets you the Time Capsule version, with a 2TB HDD inside, which comes super-handy if it's serving a Mac-dominated environment.
But I do wish these could backup iOS devices as well. Bummer.
As a guy who has worked network admin jobs, Apple's routers are by far the simplest and most reliable routers on the market. Never had one issue with either my Time Capsule or AirPort Extreme over years, compared to constant issues with routers from other companies. Never had to reset my Apple routers once
Valkyr Junkie
Member
The best Asus router has the same MSRP as the AirPort Extreme: $199.
The $299 one has a HDD inside for backups.
PotatoeMasher
Member
Pretty much. I miss some of the advanced stuff I was able to do with a router running dd-wrt and Tomato, but I haven't needed to even think about resetting my router for the past few years.
The only thing I wanted from a new Airport Extreme was USB 3, which they didn't deliver. The one place where I'm happy to use an external hard drive regularly is tethering it to my router, but USB 2 is a no.
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
The consensus best router pick right now is the Asus RT-N66U or the Asus RT-AC66U if you want AC compatibility. The Extreme is considered to be a high end router (very stable, high quality), but doesn't generally compete on performance-for-price with other high end consumer routers. For consumers who don't know anything about anything, it's a good brand to point them to, though. Better than some off the shelf D-Link.
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But even Macworld admits that the Asus routers are probably a better buy than the Apple routers Review: Apple's AirPort Extreme is a safe choice (April 2013)
Macworld said:
NekoFever
Member
My Time Capsule is the only router I've had that hasn't had to be restarted regularly. In fact, in the 3+ years I've had it, the only times it's been restarted have been for firmware updates.
I've had an Airport Extreme for 3 years, and it never, ever froze, hang, or hiccuped on me.
I can't speak for the newer models, but my experience has been absolutely flawless.
jts
...hate me...
That isn't considering the new one. While looking odd, being tall should mitigate the whole internal antenna thing. It's basically a big antenna by itself.
But anyway, can anyone help me? I don't want it for home usage, but for work, where we have really really bad wireless. And we have costumers that demand better. And yes, safety is a concern.
It's only been 7 months since software design was put under Ive's domain. There are 3 months until September.
jts
...hate me...
Ha, well I don't mean it will be better than the Asus one, but it should help it not to have a so noticeable shorter range.Pfft, Asus will just add a fourth antenna. As always wait for reviews and benchmarks.
Edit:
Put it behind a locked glass cabinet?
It still has a lot less flexible design that the Asus, where you can point the antennas anywhere so they're always vertical no matter what position you put it in, you can wall mount it etc.
But as our company is dominated by Apple devices, down to a Mac mini serving a Filemaker database for management, the other perks that come with the Extreme or Time Capsule make up for it.
Glass/acrylic cabinet... hmm not sure if very feasible but I'll look into it.
Liu Kang Baking A Pie
Member
Same Airport experience for me. The Express is pretty basic, but I've had two Extremes in the last few years and I have only ever reset them when they were updating.
CrunchinJelly
formerly cjelly
Holy shit the 10.9 notification centre is 100% linen free. It looks so... plain.
Side-mounted dock has some weird Aero-esque filter on it, too.
Side-mounted dock has some weird Aero-esque filter on it, too.
Somewhat likely. Considering how they pushed "this can run 4K displays" and the talk about how you could expand it greatly via Thunderbolt, to me it would be odd if they didn't offer a TB expansion chassis and high-rez displays to match when it comes out. I understand Apple doesn't want to step on peoples toes regarding Thunderbolt but especially for the new Pro I want something sleek to stack under it like the Mini, and that cries out for at least one first-party option.
I really, *really* hope that Ive doesn't have the power to flatten OS X in the next release. I don't want my OS to look like Windows 8 and Vista had a baby; get rid of the leather if you want, but don't remove my gradients and my gel buttons. (Although I guess bringing back more color would be good.)
EDIT: Just noticed they seemed to increase the size of the actual window buttons back to the classic size. Thank god. I wasn't sure what the point of making the buttons smaller than their actual targets was. Anyone with the preview tell me if they are recessed like 10.5-10.8 or popped out like 10.3 and earlier? Can't tell from the screenshots.
My biggest issue with iOS 7 is the new omnibar in Safari. Because it handles both URLs and searching the keyboard makes the space bar tiny and adds a .com button next to it. It's going to take a lot of getting used to before I stop pressing .com in place of a space when trying to search.
Hate to break it to you bro, but the window controls are totally unchanged from 10.7/10.8.
Liu Kang Baking A Pie
Member
I had to disable Ad-block to get it to work.
so this is where the apple fans hang out mostly? here is a question for you:
I have a $50 apple store gift card. What is there to buy? The only product I own that I use is my iPhone 4s. I don't think I want ear pods. I can buy half of an Apple TV but I see no purpose in owning one(half of it is a joke, I can easily pay for the other half lol). I've considered buying a $50 iTunes card with it but I don't know if there are $50 worth of apps I want/need.
on a completely different note, is there a way to stop safari from refreshing every time i go back to it in iOS 7?
I have a $50 apple store gift card. What is there to buy? The only product I own that I use is my iPhone 4s. I don't think I want ear pods. I can buy half of an Apple TV but I see no purpose in owning one(half of it is a joke, I can easily pay for the other half lol). I've considered buying a $50 iTunes card with it but I don't know if there are $50 worth of apps I want/need.
on a completely different note, is there a way to stop safari from refreshing every time i go back to it in iOS 7?
LyleLanley
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LyleLanley
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devildog820
Member
Like some have already quoted, the best ASUS router is the same price (or even slightly more expensive). The time capsules are great if you have Macs you need to back up. Saved my ass several times. The magical Apple features are that it works really well, never crashes, and gives excellent performance.
I haven't worked network admin jobs, but I have done plenty of lab work and the Airports always made my life easier. ASUS routers are just as good though (and were even better than the previous generation Airport Extremes).
The two routers Stump talked about are great at going through walls too. My buddy had an Airport, but had a lot of concrete in his house (Florida building codes, don't ask) and he had a bad signal on the other side of the house. Got the RT-N66U and it cleared up the problem. However, I've heard the new airport does the same in preliminary tests, now that they have better antennas.
Treefingers
Member
lol, newly purchased apps in Mavericks have these really tacky animated sparkles around them until you launch them:
so strange.
so strange.
Mysterious
Banned
Hi guys. I just signed up for an iOS developer's account right after the iOS 7 announcement, and I was wondering, what is the best way to get started on iOS app development? Naturally, I would want to try making an iPhone only app at first to get aquatinted with the tools. Are there any good tutorials out there? I downloaded the XCode 5 beta as well.
And just out of curiosity: Is porting from iPhone to iPad "simple", or would you have to make an entirely separate build for the iPad app?
And just out of curiosity: Is porting from iPhone to iPad "simple", or would you have to make an entirely separate build for the iPad app?
smokeandmirrors
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https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/navigation/index.html
These should be available inside Xcode
and no it shouldn't require a different build iirc.
Also this:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0321884213/?tag=neogaf0e-20
but there should be one for iOS 7 coming around it's release, but a lot of the fundamentals from that book shouldn't necessarily change too much.
also objective-c by steve kochnan(?) is a good start if you feel like buying a book and haven't programmed in objective-c yet.
Treefingers
Member
The Big Nerd Ranch books are great if you're just getting started.
devildog820
Member
iTunes U has a Stanford course that covers iOS 6 but you should definitely watch those lectures. Makes a HUGE difference.
well i can switch apps for two seconds and then safari needs to reload the webpage. very annoying because i lose the spot where i was reading when i have to answer a text
hm definitely interested now. now i need to decide if i should wait for a hardware refresh
watch these: they are incredible -- https://itunes.apple.com/ca/itunes-u/ipad-iphone-application-development/id473757255
edit: I used these for job training about 1.5 years ago and I've been a full time app developer for 1 year.
lol, newly purchased apps in Mavericks have these really tacky animated sparkles around them until you launch them:
so strange.
It must be one of those things they hadn't managed to catch yet...
Ugh.
LyleLanley
Banned
Keylime
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Clearly a jailbreak feature you added!
...well shit. Still makes no sense that that's in there.
Treefingers
Member
On further inspection it's all newly downloaded apps, and thankfully only the first time you open Launchpad. Still really silly effect.
Has anyone done a comparison between iCloud Keychain and 1Password? 1 adore 1Password, but a native solution is tempting.
Awesome, thanks.
Awesome, thanks.
The Real Abed
Perma-Junior
I just tried to find Gayborhood in the Google Maps app to see if it was there too and it made me realize just how much nicer Apple's app actually is now. I couldn't read Googles at all with satellite underlay on. Apple's fonts are so much clearer and bigger and easier to read.
Keylime
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I forgot to check this out and just played around with this...i was able to set up my iCloud keychain...but can't figure out how to generate passwords or save them.
Will have to check it out later. I know they went over it at the keynote.