![]() ![]() ![]() IPhoto’s visual update is dramatic on iOS, minor on OS X. iPhoto is largely the same as before, with the addition of being able to create printed photo books from the iOS 7 version of the app. Ultimately, these apps were redesigned and updated to deliver better performance and improve how interact with these apps. GarageBand retains some old visual qualities for effects pedals, but so do apps like Final Cut Pro X. iPhoto does away with a lot of the skeumorphism that was question in previous versions, as does iMovie and GarageBand. Just like the iWork apps, all of the iLife apps have received upgrades to take advantage of 64-bit processing with the A7 chip on iOS 7. ILife: iPhoto, iMovie, and GarageBand refreshed for iOS 7 and polished for Mavericks. We talk about Apple not having their skin in the game when it comes to services, but this is a unique announcements, and the progress Apple has made emulating their desktop apps for the web cannot be ignored. If you share your file with someone else, they can edit that file using iCloud’s web interface on a Mac or PC. Most importantly, you can share documents with colleagues and they don’t even need an iCloud account or a Mac to work on a document with you in real time. This is Apple’s huge announcement, and it’s honestly a game changer for people looking to collaborate with others. New templates, animations, and transitions all add up to prettier presentations with improved interactivity on iOS 7 and OS X. Keynote gets updated transitions that are more dynamic than before. Apple says they have 30 “cinema-quality” transitions lined up to make presentations pop, with physics based object animations creating a sense of fluid realism. As with pages, the sidebar and toolbar have also been updated for OS X and iOS 7 respectively. What this means is that when you create a timeline of data, comparing various points of data becomes easy since you can interact with graphs in real time via a virtual slider. Numbers gets interactive charts that can be updated in real time. As before, all of your documents sync between iCloud, ensuring that the latest changes to your documents are available across all of your devices. Depending on what you’re doing, such as writing text or working with images, the sidebar changes to reflect things you can do. On the Mac, the previous info panel is no longer a floating palette, but an integrated sidebar that’s not terribly different from the ribbon in Microsoft Word. It lets you access things font styles and text alignment without having to navigate through a popover. Pages gets a new toolbar on iOS 7 and a context aware formatting panel on the Mac. The toolbar, or formatting bar, is placed directly above the keyboard on iOS 7. ![]() Remember, iWork consists of: Pages for research papers, flyers, and documents Numbers for spreadsheets, charts, and graphs and Keynote for slideshows and presentations. iWork is also now available on the web, and those apps are just like their desktop counterparts. It’s all very impressive, but perhaps the biggest news doesn’t even revolve around either of these products. On OS X, updated icons deliver a pop of color while undergoing Safari-like improvements that streamline the experience. On iOS, you’ll get an experience consistent with previous versions of iWork while taking on the visual aesthetics of iOS 7. Apple has updated both the iOS 7 and OS X versions of these apps, updating the look and feel for each respective platform. The heading gives you the short version of what’s happening with all of the iWork apps. ![]() iWork for iCloud works with a Mac or PC using Safari 11.1.2 or later, Google Chrome, or Microsoft Edge.IWork: Pages, Numbers, and Keynote redesigned and now in glorious 64-bit. English and requires an iCloud account and an internet connection. iWork for iCloud is currently available worldwide in Arabic, Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, and U.S. Some features may require internet access additional fees and terms may apply.Pages for Mac, Numbers for Mac, and Keynote for Mac are available on the Mac App Store.Pages for iPadOS, Numbers for iPadOS, and Keynote for iPadOS are available on the App Store.Pages for iOS, Numbers for iOS, and Keynote for iOS are available on the App Store. ![]()
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