Tuesday, January 27, 2015

"Alfred" Turns Your iPhone Or iPad Into A Helpful Remote For Your Mac

When most people sit down at their desk to get some work done, their iPhone or iPad gets tossed on the desk and forgotten.



Alfred Remote is a productivity app that wants to change that: It helps you get some extra use out of your iPhone or iPad by turning it into a remote for your Mac.



Want to open an app without clicking your way through Finder or searching for it via Spotlight? With Alfred, you have easy access to your Mac’s dock of apps — all from your phone or tablet. And that’s only the beginning.



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You can also set up Alfred to play, pause, and adjust the volume of your music. You can lock, sleep, or shut down your Mac via your phone as you walk out the door.



Other use cases include launching your favorite websites, pasting clipboard snippets of text, controlling Spotify, sending things to Evernote, and plenty of other time-saving actions through creating your own custom workflow.



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Alfred Remote relies on the already existing Alfred 2 Mac app, which is basically like a souped-up version of Apple’s Spotlight search. You’ll need to download Alfred 2 (available for free right here) in order for your Mac to be able to talk to Alfred Remote, but Alfred 2 is where you can create your own custom workflow actions that string together a series of actions, allowing you to save time by creating shortcuts that carry out larger tasks.



While some of the actions of Alfred Remote are likely easier by using the keys already existing on your keyboard (like volume control), Alfred is a great tool for power users to cut down on clicks and keep their most-used commands ready at their fingertips.



You can download Alfred Remote for $4.99 here, and Alfred 2 (the Mac half of the equation) for free right here.



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"Alfred" Turns Your iPhone Or iPad Into A Helpful Remote For Your Mac

This Super Cheap Android Phone Looks Exactly Like The iPhone 6

Dozens of Chinese technology companies have created iPhone 6 look-alikes that run Android and cost a lot less than Apple’s smartphone. Most of these knockoffs, however, look and feel a bit cheaper and come with low-end hardware compared to the iPhone.



But that’s not the case with Dakele’s latest smartphone.



The Dakele 3 looks more like the iPhone 6 than any other Chinese “clone” out there, and it has high-end components like those you’d find in the iPhone and other premium Android smartphones. And, according to blog GizmoChina, it only costs $240. An iPhone 6 off-contract could cost upwards of $700.



It’s almost uncanny how much the Dakele 3 looks like the iPhone 6. It has the same grey aluminum curved edges and black faceplate. 



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Its circular home button resembles that of the iPhone 6, although there’s no fingerprint sensor inside.



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The back of the phone looks similar too, but it doesn’t look like the camera protrudes like the iPhone 6’s does.



Dakele



At five inches, the Dakele 3’s screen is slightly larger than that of the iPhone 6 (4.7 inches), but smaller than the iPhone 6 Plus’ display (5.5 inches). Its screen is slightly sharper, too, at a resolution of 1920 x 1080 versus the iPhone 6’s 1334 x 750 resolution display. Dakele’s phone comes with 3GB of memory on the inside as opposed to the iPhone 6’s 1GB of memory, which means it should offer better performance.



Dakele’s phone sounds like it comes with a better camera, too, since it has a 13-megapixel sensor on the back and an 8-megapixel sensor on the front. By comparison, the iPhone features an 8-megapixel main camera and a 1.2-megapixel front camera.



It’s hard to tell exactly how impressive the Dakele 3 is without using it, but on paper it sounds like it’s more than fit to compete against the similar-looking iPhone 6.



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This Super Cheap Android Phone Looks Exactly Like The iPhone 6

Google Play Kiosk für iOS bekommt Handoff, Offline-Modus für Lesezeichen und mehr

Soeben ist der Google Play Kiosk für iOS in einer neuen Version in Apples App Store gelandet. Das Update bringt einige Neuerungen mit.



Googles digitale Magazin-App unterstützt nun Apples Handoff-Funktion. Das heißt, der Nutzer kann auf seinem iOS-Gerät (ab v8.0) dort weiterlesen, wo er auf einem Mac bzw. anderem iOS-Gerät aufgehört hat zu lesen. Weiterhin werden nun alle in den Lesezeichen gespeicherten Artikel offline verfügbar gemacht und auch die Textgröße aus den Settings wird nun für die Artikelansicht genutzt.



Auch können nun internationale Quellen entdeckt werden, es werden 16 weitere Sprachen unterstützt, ein Problem mit der Bildschirmdrehung unter iOS 8.1 wurde behoben und die üblichen Leistungsverbesserungen sind enthalten.



Huawei Ascend Mate 7 Smartphone (15,2 cm (6 Zoll) IPS-Display, 13 Megapixel-Kamera, 16 GB Interner Speicher, Android 4.4 KitKat) silber



Bei Amazon ab EUR 415,00 | Gebraucht: EUR 403,26





Google Play Kiosk für iOS bekommt Handoff, Offline-Modus für Lesezeichen und mehr