Tag: Apple

As reported by Serenity Caldwell at Macworld, Apple has pushed the sandboxing requirement for the App Store to June 1st along with two other changes/clarifications:

• Applications currently on the App Store and not sandboxed will be allowed to stay after June 1, but only allowed to ship bug fixes.
• Exemptions to the sandboxing requirement will be handled on a case-by-case basis.

I’m not sure if these are permanent changes or just temporary as Apple looks to tighten up their sandboxing requirement or even ditch it altogether.

Serenity Caldwall has written over at Macworld about Ten exciting changes in Mountain Lion.

I’m going to highlight some of my favorites so far:

• Many computers, one account. If true, this could be awesome. It would bring about the idea of a networked identity that you would have access to from anywhere, and it will all be in iCloud. Is it going to be what I want? Probably not, but any time I can take my settings with me will be a huge win.
• Multi-disk backup. Oh. Yes. If it can possibly handle a failover system where it will still backup to the one drive if the other is not present … oh, that will be awesome.
• One-stop software updating. Probably the single most glaring omission in Lion right now is the fact that you have two different areas to get software updates from … and the line between them is not clear. Pulling everything together is a good idea and needed.

Read about the other seven because they might “tickle your fancy” more than these, but the above three are some of the little things that are getting me excited for Mountain Lion.

I’ve just compiled all of my Mountain Lion articles so far so that you can follow what I’ve written so far.

• Decoupling Software
• Gatekeeper
• Game Center
• iCloud
• Notification Center
• Share Sheets
• Twitter
• Airplay Mirroring

That’s it for now. I will be posting more information as it comes out, but this is what Apple has talked about so far.

This. Is. Big.

I thought that Airplay Mirroring on the iPad 2 was a huge deal, but this just takes it to the next level. Being able to mirror your Mac to a TV connected via an Apple TV 2 might be one of the best things to happen to the education market for a long time.

Imagine removing all interactive white boards, all projectors, and a huge amount of cabling in classrooms and instead using products that will work better in a well-lit classroom.

• Large LCD TV
• Apple TV 2
• Wireless or wired network

That’s it. You could get down to just three cables if you wanted: two power cables and an HDMI cable to the TV. The LCD TV would allow for a better viewing experience in the classroom because of the higher brightness and contrast, the Apple TV 2 would allow students to use iPads to present in the classroom at the drop of a hat.

There are problems, as always, but a new version of the “smart classroom” is slowly coming out. No longer are we trying to shoehorn technology into older models (like an interactive white board) but bringing newer technology into the picture and freeing teachers to move around the classroom.

Of course, you can do this in many ways already, but I’m excited to see what Airplay Mirroring can do.

I don’t know who at Twitter has the “in” at Apple, but Twitter is now in OS X as well.

You can tweet from lots of places, it integrates with Contacts, and … I’m sure there is other stuff as well.

That’s. About. It.