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Microsoft's latest update to its OneDrive app for iOS lets users view any photos stored on the cloud service on their Apple Watch. The new 5.3 version of the app lets users view their most recent photos and albums on Apple's smartwatch. They can also find any photos by their tags and even delete photos from their Apple Watch. In addition, the OneDrive app update also improves the viewing of any stored PDF files on the iPhone and iPad. Users can now search for text within PDFs and swipe to go from page to page. Finally, the update lets users print PDF files directly from the iPhone and iPad. Microsoft recently announced a new API for OneDrive that offers develop…

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Some custom Apple Watch sport band colors have made an appearance today during the Milan's Salone Del Mobile Design. The Apple Watch went on display today as part of Milan's Design Week, and now it looks like attendees have gotten a look at some custom colors including a red band that we got a peek at earlier today. As seen in the picture below, uploaded to Instagram by Umberta Gnutti Beretta and first spotted by 9to5Mac, the custom colors include what appear to be two new shades of blue, light pink, red, and yellow. It's unclear if we'll see these extra colors eventually make their way to consumers, but it isn't too farfetched to think that Apple may at least o…

John Siracusa has been reviewing OS X since it was in beta. Every release Apple has made has been accompanied by a an in-depth, insightful Siracusa review. Alas, all good things must come to an end. From Hypercritical: Nearly 15 years ago, I wrote my first review of Mac OS X for a nascent "PC enthusiast's" website called Ars Technica. Nearly 15 years later, I wrote my last. Though Apple will presumably announce the next major version of OS X at WWDC this coming June, I won't be reviewing it for Ars Technica or any other publication, including the website you're reading now. We'll still hear John's thoughts on his podcast, ATP, just no longer read them on Ars…

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak is helping to launch a new event in San Jose, California, the Silicon Valley Comic Con, on March 19-20, 2016. Wozniak explained why he was helping to launch this new venture in a memo posted on the convention's website. He said: I'm teaming up with friends to make this happen because I want to give Silicon Valley it's very own kind of Comic Con where everyone can have fun enjoying what they love. Today we're lucky to have so many kinds of entertainment, from movies, TV shows, web series, music, video games, social media and more, and the lines between entertainment and the technology we love so much in Silicon Valley are getting b…

Apple has started sending out tickets for WWDC 2015 to lottery winners. Registration for WWDC 2015, which opened on Tuesday, April 14, closed earlier today. Apple is now sending out confirmations to the winners of the ticket lottery that they have won chance to spend $1,599 on a ticket to this year's conference. The lottery was open to members of the iOS Developer Program, iOS Enterprise Developer Program, and the Mac Developer Program. From Tapbots developer Paul Haddad: Woah. pic.twitter.com/VeqfBOWGLa — Paul Haddad (@tapbot_paul) April 17, 2015 Apple is expected to continue informing lottery winners through Monday, April 20 at 8 p.m. EDT/5 p.m. PD…

A change to the previous version of Microsoft's AutoUpdate utility caused updates to break in Office 2011 for OS X. A fix is ready for download. AutoUpdate 3.0.5 was installed with the last Office update a few days ago. Microsoft has backed off from the mess it made with a new version of AutoUpdate you can download now. The problem only happens if you're using both the Office 2016 preview Microsoft has posted as well as Office 2011. Once you installed the previous version of AutoUpdate, you'd find that it would locate but would be unable to install an update to Office 2011. What's worse, the AutoUpdate program would grab lots of memory and generally make a mess of…

Scott Forstall, formerly the head of iOS Software at Apple, will co-produce a new Broadway musical, Fun Home. Forstall, who led the creation at iOS at Apple, left the company in late 2012 following an executive reshuffling, and has been fairly quiet since. He has just announced that he will be producing the Broadway musical Fun Home. From Scott Forstall: I'm thrilled to be co-producing the Broadway musical Fun Home http://t.co/PqrKKZGcxY opening this Sunday. Bravo to the phenomenal team! — Scott Forstall (@forstall) April 17, 2015 Based on the graphic memoir of cartoonist Alison Bechdel, Fun Home follows Alison at three different ages, and explores her rela…

Time flies: It's been six months since OS X Yosemite's launch. First, we wrote the original gigantic review. Then, we got together and chatted about the operating system three months later. Now, six months after the release of OS X 10.10, the iMore team is back at it to talk once more about Apple's national-park-named operating system. Design Ren: The more I work with OS X Yosemite, the more I love its design and aesthetic. It flows really seamlessly when you're switching between iOS and OS X, and I love the new Safari window more every day. I only wish I had a Retina computer to really take advantage of the new design. Ally: Yosemite fuses iOS and OS X …

Email app CloudMagic has been updated with support for the Apple Watch, bringing its notifications and quick actions to your wrist. One of our favorite email apps for iPhone, CloudMagic is now ready for the Apple Watch. You can view your unread messages, get notifications, and take quick actions, such as archiving and deleting email. This update also includes improvements for the core app, such as support for more languages. You can see the full list of changes below: CloudMagic for Apple Watch Get notified of new emails and take quick actions View unread emails across all your accounts Send a short reply with a single tap or take quick actions like Archi…

The First Person Shooter (FPS) genre has been popular since the advent of games like Marathon and Doom. Looking for some for the Mac? Here you go. There's certainly no shortage of them for the Mac, although I'll readily admit you can't get all the same ones you can get for the PC. Our friends at MacGamerHQ.com have rounded up their list of ten of the best. MacGamerHQ has restricted the list to actual commercial releases, not "pay to play" games that have become popular. No one should want to get nickled and dimed just to play a game. First-Person shooters (FPS) are poster boys and the Mac unfairly suffers in that department. Everyone just assumes that the Ma…

This week Apple opened registration for WWDC, the company's annual developer conference, which will be held June 8-12 in San Francisco. WWDC is a huge deal in the Apple community, but it wasn't always so. I've been going to WWDC since the mid-1990s, when it was a sleepy affair that took place at the McEnery Convention Center in San Jose. Probably the most memorable moment of any of the San Jose-based WWDCs I attended was the last one: That was 2002, when Steve Jobs laid the classic Mac OS to rest — no, seriously, there was a coffin on stage. A worldwide Apple gathering With the death of Macworld Expo and the Cupertino company's focus on invitation-only media ev…

The Apple Watch has put in an appearance at Milan's Salone Del Mobile Design Fair, with Phil Schiller and Marc Newson on hand for the unveiling. The Apple Watch was on display at the restaurant Carlo e Camilla in Milan, Italy, inside glass-covered tables like those found in Apple Retail Stores. Fair attendees could only look at the watches, but not handle them. From Macitynet (translated from Italian): The three collections of the Apple Watch are still right here under our nose, combined with different straps and well protected by a glass plate. For the moment we can only watch them, it is not yet time to feel it on our wrist and touch the new Force Touch display…

Notification Center lets you add handy Today view widgets so you can keep up with your most used apps in just a swipe. That being said, some widgets are going to contain more important information than others. For example, you probably care more about upcoming appointments and meetings in Fantastical than you do what tv shows are coming on tonight. Or maybe you don't. Hey, we aren't here to judge priorities! Regardless of what's more important to you personally, you can easily sort all of your Today view widgets in whatever ordered you'd like. That way the information that's most important to you is readily available right at the top of Today view. Here's how! You…

LaunchBar, a handy utility that gives you instant access to your documents, apps, and more, has hit version 6.3 with improved tag support and the ability to drag multiple items to applications. LaunchBar's improved support for tags in OS X Yosemite adds a number of new capabilities and improvements. You can easily get a list of items under a selection of tags, as well as quickly remove tags from files. Check below for the full list of tag improvements: Sending one or more files to the Add/Remove/Replace Tags actions presents a list of all available tags (as it did before), but you can now select multiple tags from that list. Items can now be sent to multiple t…

A new report claims that Apple is working to launch support for Apple Pay in Canada in November 2015, expanding beyond the US for the first time. While it might be a longer wait than anyone would like, it appears that Canadian iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus owners may be able to use Apple Pay by the end of 2015. A new report, from The Wall Street Journal, says that Apple is working with six major Canadian bank to enable support for Apple Pay in that country. According to The Wall Street Journal: Lenders in discussions with Apple include Royal Bank of Canada,Toronto-Dominion Bank,Bank of Nova Scotia,Bank of Montreal,Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce and National Bank…

My son, conspiring with my daughter, pre-ordered an Apple Watch for me on my birthday the night Apple first made them available. I went for the 42mm Space Gray aluminum Apple Watch Sport with the Black Sport band. I'm not as young as I once was, nor is my eyesight as good, and I wanted the screen size I could more easily see and touch. When it came to additional bands, however, I was less certain about what I wanted. So I booked a try-on appointment at my local Apple Store. I wasn't sure what to expect, but I should have been — it was an amazing experience. Right now, when my iPhone 5c is charging or is in my purse, I miss messages and calls, and I'm hoping the Ap…

Will Carling, a British cyclist, has shown off his Apple Watch which appears to have a custom sport band, as well as a new wall charger for the U.K. Carling showed off photos of his new stainless steel Apple Watch just a week before the official launch of the device on April 24. It also looks like his sport band comes in a new color: red. Carling posted a photo of his watch on Twitter: While this could be the standard pink band, appearing red due to lighting, it's probable that this is, in fact, a red band. Apple often produces Product (RED) versions of their accessories, with portions of those proceeds going to AIDS research. Apple has also given Apple Watches …

On Thursday, Satya Nadella participated in the White House “Champions of Change” event, where President Obama honored individuals who have helped bring about change for working families within their companies, communities or organizations. Nadella introduced the President and spoke about the policy Microsoft recently announced to ensure our suppliers provide 15 days of annual paid time off to their U.S. employees who are doing substantial work for Microsoft. I have always believed that technology has the potential to help people achieve their dreams and propel businesses and societies forward. I’ve seen this at work firsthand in my own life, in the lives of my family m…

Welcome back to another edition of Weekend Reading. We kick it off with stories about developments as a result of Microsoft’s three-year-old carbon fee, exciting ideas from the U.S. Imagine Cup finalists and Detroit entrepreneurs who are revitalizing the city. Microsoft is improving environments and creating healthier lives through an internal carbon fee the company established three years ago that holds all its business groups financially responsible for the cost of reducing and compensating for their carbon emissions. The money collected through this fee has purchased more than 10 billion kilowatt-hours of green power, reduced company emissions by 7.5 million metric …

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The screen real estate and touch surface of the iPad make it an ideal tool for doing some serious photo editing. Whether you want to get rid of a skin blemish, blue a sky, add filters, or something else, there are tons of photo editing apps available for iPad. With the help of services like iCloud Photo Library it's easier and more convenient than ever to shoot on your iPhone and start editing instantly on iPad. Depending on what kind of photo editing you need to do, some apps may be better suited for you than others, and that's exactly what we're going to help you figure out. These are the photo editing apps for iPad we feel are currently the best of the best! …

Apple will be offering Apple Watch Basics workshops at some of their Apple Retail Stores following the launch of the device on April 24. Like the similar workshops for iPhone and iPad, the Apple Watch Basics course is designed to help users become familiar with their new device. Customers will learn about watch features like Glances, faces, and using the watch with their iPhone. From Apple: Bring your Apple Watch—along with your iPhone—and get familiar with your most personal device yet. We'll show you how to get started using Glances, gestures, watch faces, and more. The Apple Watch Basics workshops are so far only listed at select Apple Stores. Check out A…

Microsoft has released a new version of its Bing search app for the iPhone, which includes a number of new features, including a private search mode and more. Some of the other new features in the app include a way to check your Bing Rewards points so you can redeem them for e-gift cards and more. Here's what's new in the 5.5 version of Bing for iPhone Take control of your privacy: Keep your searches private in Private Search Mode Manage your search history: clear everything or specific searches New ways to experience search: Go beyond WEB search and find what you need in your favorite apps New image search experience In-line previews in Video sear…