| IT News Daily | | | This year was all about the messaging app, and for good reason: Social networks behaved abysmally in 2014. Sharing information and photos privately with friends is a compelling alternative to social networks with their ads, weird research experiments, and harassment. | | | Issue highlights 1. The many superpowers of Apple's Preview app: Part 1 2. Themeboard shines a light on everything good (and bad) about third-party keyboards 3. Samsung's Milk VR app brings the virtual reality promise ever closer with full-motion video 4. Samsung brings curved screen from TV to PC 5. Alleged tech support scammers come up with all kinds of alibis to counter complaints 6. Think Retro: When Apple's User Guides explained it all |  | | Apple's Preview app, preinstalled on every Mac for years, is one of the most underused programs ever. Far from being an image preview app, as its name implies, you can use it to convert file formats, grab a frame from a movie, learn the size of a web-based image, sort a folder of images, remove backgrounds, and more. In this first installment of a two-part series, you'll begin to discover the many superpowers of Preview. READ MORE | | The era of iOS openness has had something of a rocky start. What was hailed as unprecedented entrance into Apple's walled garden has seen its share of pushback from Cupertino, with some developers fighting to get even the tamest of features past the gates. Panic was rebuffed when they wanted its Transmit app to be able to upload to iCloud. PCalc was stymied after its developers designed a mini number cruncher for Notification Center. Launcher's customizable shortcuts were deemed a "misuse of widgets." READ MORE | | WHITE PAPER: VMTurbo, Inc. Read this whitepaper for these 3 takeaways: • The complexities of pursuing efficient capacity planning • How to define functional requirements for your capacity management strategy • A capacity management strategy that assures service levels while reducing performance risk and hardware footprint Learn More>> | | Samsung's Milk VR video app, announced Tuesday, marks a tantalizing step forward for virtual reality. The app will let you run full-motion, 360-degree video on the Gear VR headset. Not a movie in a simulated theater environment, like we've seen with Oculus Cinema demos, but a video beamed right to your eyes, bringing VR users ever closer to a real-life experience. READ MORE | | Samsung is trying to smash the status quo in PCs with a new all-in-one desktop computer that has a curved screen. READ MORE | | WHITE PAPER: MaaS360 End users are demanding their own devices in the workplace making IT the shepherds of a potentially unruly flock. The good news is IT can embrace BYOD with security and confidence given the right preparation and technology. Whether you're supporting iOS, Android, BlackBerry or Windows, the rules of BYOD don't change. Learn More. | | Companies sued by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and Microsoft for allegedly defrauding consumers with worthless Windows technical support have spun tales involving flakey Internet connections, it's-not-us-it's-scammers, new management software and unanswered emails to counter hundreds of consumer complaints this year, Better Business Bureau (BBB) records showed. READ MORE | | In the box my iPhone 6 came in, there's a small slip of paper. On one side it tells you what each of the iPhone's five buttons are, and on the reverse it tells you how to switch it on; after that, you're on your own. Sure, there's an electronic manual available in PDF, HTML and iBooks formats for you to download, but that's a far cry from the hefty instructional tomes you used to get when you bought an Apple product. READ MORE | | | | |
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