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Apple released update for Final Cut Pro X and iMovie

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Service industry has become more and more important to Apple, who has been improving their apps for us. Now, the video edit tool Final Cut Pro X and iMovie has released by Apple.

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This update for Final Cut Pro X allows users to choose more colors for character editing, change the width while adjusting effect parameters, and run Canon Log 3 and Sony S-Log3 / S Gamu3 log processing. And DVD creation is another important feature – for instance, we can improve the fonts and have better image quality in menu and sessions.

This update also fixed some bugs and problems in older versions.

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The iMovie update is basically a maintenance version, addition to the improvement of performance and stability, it also fixed the bug that videos imported from some camcorders may be displayed in light-red tone and some videos shot by some iPhone can’t be seen in the import window.

With this latest version you can have the most powerful combination of Final Cut Pro X – newly designed interface and the focus on your videos. It will be a good match with both Final Cut Pro X and Macbook Pro.

Skype for Mac 7.50 update: easier for sharing

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Skype for Mac 7.50 has just been released. It supports macOS Share extensions, letting users share files, videos and photos more conveniently.

Microsoft said Skype for Mac 7.50 supports Share extensions on macOS 10.10 and higher. Users can directly share files on Skype by selecting them, clicking “Share,” and clicking “Skype” in the menu.

After updating to version 7.50, users can open Skype through Preferences > Extensions > Share Mnue, and use the features.

Last month for MacBook Pro users Apple has added a new feature in version 7.48: Touch Bar support. With Skype 7.48 users have more convenient control of calls. And through Touch Bar, users get to see the object’s name & avatar image and start a video call, the Silence and Hang on buttons are both bright red. Touch Bar has other regular buttons including adjustment for brightness & volume, Siri and Exit.

Skype for Mac 7.50 improves both its performance and stability.

WikiLeaks: Apple macOS used by CIA

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Previously WikiLeaks discovered that iOS vulnerabilities can be used by CIA for monitoring. WikiLeaks threatened Apple that if they doesn’t fix this problem, there will be consequences. Before any responses came from Apple, we learned new reveals already – according to WikiLeaks, not only iOS, but also macOS, which has the vulnerabilities that can be used by CIA.

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Compared to iOS, macOS seems to be less risky though. WikiLeaks pointed out that CIA mainly uses Thunderbolt EFI vulnerabilities in Mac apps, and reboot won’t make them gone. WikiLeaks, however, also found out during tests that reinstalling the system will block the vulnerabilities, meaning hardware update will permanently fix them until the next infection.

When WikiLeaks newly exposed the problem, Apple has responded that more than 80% of the vulnerabilities were fixed through the latest update, and their engineers had been working on fixing the rest. For that, Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks, said they would like to work with Apple, providing information of the vulnerabilities they discover, so that Apple can resolve them with much higher efficiency.

Apple reveals first public sign of macOS 10.13, what will it be called?

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Eagle-eye blogger Pike’s Universum has discovered what appears to be Apple’s first public sign of macOS 10.13, while the next major version of macOS likely won’t be announced until WWDC 2017 opening keynote on June 5.

Specifically, the blog shared a portion of App Store URL, also known as a CatalogURL, for macOS 10.13. It appears to be a secure HTTPS link originating from Apple’s servers, although the screenshot can be forged,  the blog has been providing reliable information, so we think the screnshot should be legitimate.

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We don’t know much about what’s coming in macOS 10.13 at present, but since the beginning of the year, there have been more and more devices running macOS 10.13, presumably as Apple’s engineers work on the operating system update ahead of its unveiling.

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We don’t know what the successor to macOS Sierra will be called, yet in 2014, Apple trademarked a long list of names, which range from popular beaches and well-known cities in California, where Apple is headquartered, to mountains, deserts, and animals.

A list of known trademarked names that have yet to be used: Redwood, Mammoth, California, Big Sur, Pacific, Diablo, Miramar, Rincon, Redtail, Condor, Grizzly, Farallon, Tiburon, Monterey, Skyline, Shasta, Mojave, Sequoia, Ventura, and Sonoma. An entirely different name is certainly possible too.

Office for Mac update: Touch Bar support added

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In October last year Apple has announced that Office for Mac will support Touch Bar. And a few days ago Microsoft has released an update of Office for Mac – the highly anticipated Touch Bar support has been added. Since then users who have the 2016 MacBook Pro can enjoy the features of Touch Bar in Word, Excel and PowerPoint.

Touch Bar will provide features including text formatting adjustment like bold, italic, underline and colors.

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Microsoft also mentioned that while editing documents in full screen, users will find the Touch Bar very practical – the screen displays the document content, and Touch Bar displays various buttons. They will also release a “Focus Mode” for Word with better performance.

In PowerPoint, Touch Bar can help with the image elements, quick demos and text formatting.

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In Excel, users can use the common formula like summation on Touch Bar.

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Outlook will add email management buttons as well as the shortcuts of Skype call, video, desktop sharing.

Last week Microsoft announced Office Insider, aka Office for Mac beta version has supported Touch Bar, and now the official version finally benefits.

Attention: Safari doesn’t support 4K video play on YouTube

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Some Safari users have found that since December last year, they can’t watch 4K videos on YouTube, and the reason could possibly be Google VP9 codec, which YouTube’s UHD streaming technology is now based on. Users also discovered that they can watch embedded videos of 4K resolution on web pages.

On Reddit some Safari users pointed that since December 6th last year, they haven’t been able to watch 4K videos on YouTube. And since 2014 Google has started using the VP9 codec, which is the replacement for H.265 video codec developed by Google, and the H.265 codec is all the time the core technology that supports so many 4K videos. But they never said they will stop providing 4K videos of other formats (such as H.264).

Safari users can still watch the 4K version of the videos uploaded to YouTube before December 6th last year, and everything is normal for Chrome users. Among all those browsers Safari is the only one which doesn’t support the VP9 codec.

What’s confusing is that although users can only select 1440p for 4K videos on YouTube, when embedding to other web pages they can watch the 4K resolution.

Currently all users of all Safari versions are having the said problem. Apple responded, “We don’t support VP9 on Safari, apparently Google has made their mind not to provide H.264 4K videos on YouTube for Apple, though they are fully capable of doing that.”

And Google hasn’t responded yet.

macOS 10.12.2 brings more crashes on PDF

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Has anyone noticed this yet?

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Some users have found that after updating to macOS 10.12.2, PDF crashes more often. Some suggest not using Preview to edit the PDF files, otherwise the user should keep the original file in case of any unexpected crashes.

As for the specific problem, the developer Christian Grunenberg has given the following statement:

Apple wants to provide the general base for iOS and macOS. But the release date was a bit early that Apple has given up some features without considering the compatibility. What’s worse, the old features are now affected and some of them can’t even be used anymore, and users get to find replacement or solutions themselves. The company has so much work to do to fix that.

In other words, Apple thinks more of how macOS compares to iOS. If the company thinks the same of iWork, then the features deleted for that on Mac may return. So I guess there is still something for users to expect.

Mac App Store needs improvement for the purchase list?

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<h2>Compared to the rapid development of iOS App Store, Mac App Store should work harder.</h2>

Since the fresh start of Mac App Store in 2010, it has made a great progress, providing Mac users with better app download experience. But that seems not enough compared to the rapid development of iOS App Store.

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Due to the slow growth in the past few years, Mac App Store has lost the favor of some app developers. According to Macworld, the purchase list on Mac App Store needs to be more user-friendly. Although it’s easy to buy an app, it’s quite inconvenient to find your purchased apps especially on a new Mac computer.

We know that there is a “Purchased” tab on the Mac App Store, where all the purchased apps are listed in reverse chronological order. But if you try to search an app in the upper right, it displays the results from the whole store instead of the purchased.

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Another practical feature of Mac App Store is that you can hide the purchased items in case you don’t want to see them. Generally, when you’re checking a purchased app (removed), you won’t see the price but an “Install” button. Yet when you want to reinstall a hidden app and search for it, you will see its price, that way you may forget you have purchased it before.

Additionally, either Apple itself or developers can remove their apps from the Store anytime, and this will prevent users from reinstalling the app, even though they have bought it.

All the time there are complaints about Mac App Store. When shall we see the improvement?

Apple updated Safari Technology Preview – TouchBar support

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This test browser was released in March 2016, and the features used on Safari’s technology preview may be actually added to the feature Safari.

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A few days ago, Apple pushed an update for Safari’s technology preview, and the browser itself was released in March this year. The features used on the technology preview may be actually added to the feature Safari.

This has been the 19th version, which include the update and bug fixing for HTML format validation, pointer lock API, item import, URL analysis program, web page checker, Shadow DOM, render, etc. Addionally, Webkit and TouchBar have been available now.

The purpose that Apple released the technology preview is to collect feedback from developers and users. Safari Technology Preview and the current Safari are compossible. Because it supports iCloud, all your latest favorites, bookmarks and reading lists on the current Safari will be synced to the Technology Preview. Common users are allowed to download it without developer accounts.

Apple pushed the Beta updates of iOS/macOS 10.12.2/watchOS 3.11

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Apple has released the latest Beta updates of iOS, macOS and watchOS for registered developer group, so that they can download the update from relevant websites or get it via the regisered devices.

The Beta updates of iOS and macOS was pushed two weeks after Beta 3, while tvOS is not included. The specific versions of these three systems are:

1.macOS Sierra 10.12.2 beta 4 (16C53a)
2.iOS 10.2 beta 4 (14C82)
3.watchOS 3.1.1 beta 4 (14S879)

The most obvious change of iOS 10.2 is emoji – images have been redesigned to match the Unicode 9.0, and two new characters have been added. The new iOS and tvOS also include a fresh new “TV” app.

iPhone 7 users will get new wallpapers in the new system. And a celebrating animation has been put on iMessage.

Now both iOS 10.2 and tvOS 10.1 support VOD of streaming media TV, allowing users who have registered cable TV or online services to access specific channels without going through multiple verification.

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