Showing posts with label iPad. Show all posts
Showing posts with label iPad. Show all posts

Sunday, 8 June 2014

what do you mean by MAC OSX + iOS ?

What will you do when your idevices like iPhone,iPad or iPod touch battery gets over ? so you can work on Mac Mini? or Mac Pro or iMAC like facetime or iMessage etc? well yes and that's what it mean so lets see what's the features we can do


Mac and iOS.
Connected like never before.
When you use a Mac or an iOS device, you’re able to do incredible things. And now when you use them together, you can do so much more. With OS X Yosemite and iOS 8, your devices recognize when they’re near each other, enabling new features that let them work together in even smarter ways. So the best devices now bring out the best in each other.
From Mac to iOS and vice versa. Pick up right where you left off.
When your Mac and iOS devices are near each other, they can automatically pass whatever you’re doing from one device to another. Say you start writing a report on your Mac, but you want to continue on your iPad as you head to your meeting. Handoff lets you switch over and pick up instantly where you left off. Or maybe you start writing an email on your iPhone, but you want to finish it on your Mac. You can do that, too. Handoff works with Mail, Safari, Pages, Numbers, Keynote, Maps, Messages, Reminders, Calendar, and Contacts. And app developers can easily build Handoff into their apps

Start working on a project on your Mac and pick it up instantly on your iPad or iPhone.

Phone. Mac, now answering the call.

Now you can make and receive iPhone calls right on your Mac. When your iPhone rings, you’ll get a notification on your Mac showing you the caller’s name, number, and profile picture. Click the notification to answer, and your Mac becomes a speakerphone. You can also decline the call or respond with a quick iMessage. Making a phone call from Mac is just as easy. Just click a phone number you see in Contacts, Calendar, Messages, or Safari. Dial in to a conference call from a Calendar event, and your Mac automatically enters the passcode for you. And if your iPhone rings while it’s charging in the bedroom, you can answer the call on your Mac in the living room — they just have to be on the same Wi‑Fi network. Because it works with your existing iPhone number, there’s nothing to set up. Just point, click, and say hello.

SMS.More ways to get your message across.

With OS X Yosemite and an iPhone running iOS 8, you can send and receive SMS and MMS text messages right from your Mac. So when friends text you — regardless of what phone they have — you can respond from whichever device is closest. All the messages that appear on your iPhone now appear on your Mac, too. You can also initiate a text message conversation on your Mac by clicking a phone number in Safari, Contacts, or Calendar.


Monday, 19 May 2014

How to Enable AirPlay Mirroring in iOS 7 to Stream an iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch Display Wirelessly

AirPlay Mirroring an iPad to an Apple TV

AirPlay Mirroring sends exactly what is on the iPhone or iPad screen wirelessly over to an Apple TV or a compatible AirPlay receiver app on a Mac or PC like Reflector orXBMC, including the audio stream if one is available. This mirroring feature is great for demonstrations, presentations, picture slideshows, watching video on a larger screen, gaming on a bigger display, recording an iOS device screen, and so much more.

While iOS AirPlay Mirroring is simple to use, how it works can cause some confusion and lead some users to believe it’s not working at all. Furthermore, AirPlay and Mirroring is hidden by default in iOS, and you’ll need to meet a few basic requirements before finding the feature available for usage on any iOS 7 device. This makes it a bit different than how it works from a Macwhere it’s always visible but not necessarily usable, but once you learn how to use it on your iDevice, you’ll find it’s not complicated.

AirPlay Mirroring Requirements for iOS

  • An AirPlay receiver / server – this can be an Apple TV,Reflector, or XBMC, etc
  • The iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch must be new enough to support AirPlay Mirroring, running iOS 7 or newer
  • Both the sending iOS device and the receiving AirPlay device must be on the same wi-fi network

Assuming you meet those basic requirements, you can get started streaming the iOS screen over to a bigger display.

How to Use AirPlay Mirroring in iOS 7+

Before doing anything else, be sure the iPhone, iPad, iPod touch is on the same wireless network as the AirPlay receiver, this is necessary otherwise the two devices won’t be able to communicate with one another.

  1. Power on the Apple TV, or launch the AirPlay Receiver app on a computer
  2. Swipe up from the bottom of the iOS screen to bring up Control Center
  3. Tap the “AirPlay” button
  4. Choose the name of the AirPlay receiver device from the menu, then toggle “Mirroring” to ON to send the iOS screen to the receiver

How to use AirPlay Mirroring in iOS

The iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch screen will now instantly appear on the Apple TV, or the Mac or PC if they are running an AirPlay receiver app.

Using an iPhone mirrored over to a Mac running the Reflector app as an example, this is what it will look like:

AirPlay Mirroring an iPhone screen to a Mac

It’s important to note that the AirPlay option will not be available if the receiver device is not found. Thus, if “AirPlay” is not visible in Control Center be sure the AirPlay receiver is online and active (meaning, if it’s an app that the app is open and running on the computer), and double-check that both AirPlay streaming devices are on the same wireless network.

AirPlay not showing up in iOS is easy to fix

These are the two most significant errors encountered with using AirPlay and AirPlay Mirroring in iOS, and fortunately are extremely simple to resolve. If you find that only audio is streaming over and there is no screen display showing up on the receiver device, you probably simply forgot to toggle the “Mirroring” option ON from the Control Center, so just swipe up again and enable it as described in step 4 above.

Sending an iPhone or iPad display mirrored over to an Apple TV will just display the home screen or open app, with the remainder of the TV having black bars. While AirPlay Mirroring is active, the titlebar of iOS will often turn blue to indicate that mirroring is enabled, I say ‘often’ because it doesn’t happen all the time with all devices, thus it’s not reliable enough to be a guaranteed indicator of AirPlay activity.

As of now, Apple only supports AirPlay Mirroring output to an Apple TV, but if you don’t have an Apple TV yourself you can still use the feature and try it out yourself by utilizing third party apps that run in OS X, Linux, or Windows, like the aforementioned Reflector, or XBMC. The latter app is free, whereas the other two options are paid with free trials, all of which make for excellent apps that are well worth exploring for those interested in wireless streaming of the screen of an iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch.

Turning Off AirPlay Mirroring in iOS

Finished mirroring the iOS screen to another display? Disabling AirPlay Mirroring is super simple:

  1. Flip up from the bottom of the screen to open Control Center again
  2. Tap on the ‘AirPlay’ button (it should be in white) and select the devices name from the list (for example, iPhone or iPad)
  3. Tap “Done” to close out both the AirPLay and the mirrored stream instantly

Simply swiping the “Mirror” option to OFF will turn off the display while keeping the AirPlay audio stream active, thus you’ll want to tap onto the device name to turn off the entire feature.

Of course, the AirPlay streaming feature isn’t limited to mirroring, and the same technology can also be used tostream music and much more.

 mirroring to Macs, not iOS devices.


Friday, 18 April 2014

Apple iPad air vs. samsung pro tablet 8.1

iPad Air is a premium tablet that does not have much competition.


But a full size tablet is not on everyone’s wish-list. Portability factor and price of the device plays a bigger role in the purchase decision. Therefore, you can see many people opting for 8-inch tablets. Let’s compare iPad Air and newly released Tab Pro 8.4 2014.

Dimensions and Handling Factor

The dimensions of the device plays a big role in handling factor. Holding a full-size tablet like iPad Air with one hand is quite difficult. However, the smaller dimensions of Tab Pro 8.4 2014 ensures you can hold and use it with one hand. The dimensions of Tab Pro 8.4 2014 are 8.62 inches (Height) by 5.06 inches (Width) by 0.28 inches (Thickness). On the other hand, iPad Air is a full-size tablet having fairly larger dimensions equivalent to 9.45 inches (Height) by 6.67 inches (Width) by 0.30 inches (Thickness).

Images and Videos

The display of a tablet is an important aspect. The size of the device, pixel density, resolution gives you an idea about the quality of the images and videos displayed on the screen. The iPad Air features a 9.7 inches Retina display that has a high resolution equivalent to 1536-by-2048 that translates into a pixel density of 264 pixels-per-inch. Experts believe pixel density above 150 is quite good for viewing images and Internet surfing. iPad Air’s display is protected by a coating that has less affinity to oil which means accidental finger touches on the screen will not result in fingerprint smudges and the display will look clean most of the time.

The Tab Pro 8.4 2014 is equipped with an 8.4 LCD screen having a resolution of 1600-by-2560 pixels and a pixel density of 359 pixels-per-inch. Experts believe pixel density of 300 or more is quite good for watching movies and also for viewing HD images. The display in iPad air is an IPS LCD screen that is far superior to Super Clear LCD touch screen in Tab Pro 8.4 2014. IPS screen have better viewing angles and you will be able to see accurate colors without any blur. Unlike normal LCD’s the colors on the IPS LCD screen does not lighten with finger touch but remain consistent throughout.

Hardware and Software

Tab Pro 8.4 is equipped with a quad-core processor with 2.3 GHz clock speed and an Adreno 330 GPU. iPad Air features a 64 bit processor A7 and M7 graphics processor. Though A7 is a dual core processor, it is quite power efficient and more powerful than a quad-core processor based on 32-bit architecture. Tab Pro 8.4 has latest KitKat Android operating system while iPad Air has latest iOS 7 operating system. iPad Air has 1GB DDR 3 RAM while Tab Pro 8.4 has 2GB RAM. Both tablets have models with different internal storage space. Tab Pro 8.4 has two models offering 16GB and 32GB storage space while iPad Air offers four different options in internal storage space such as 16GB, 32GB, 64 GB and 128GB.

Price

iPad Air price range – $499 to $799 for Wi-Fi models and $629 to $929 for Cellular models.
Tab Pro 8.4 2014 16GB [Wi-Fi] model costs $369.99.