iPhone 6S: 3D touch display used as a scale

The iPhone 6S can be used as mobile scales. The software developer Simon Goldman draws on the 3D touch screen of your smartphone. However there's a catch: The app is currently only available on a jailbreak iPhone usable.

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With the iPhone 6S also smaller objects can now be weighed. This emerges from a video of the software developer Simon Goldman. The app "Plum-O-Meter" to use the 3D touch display and recognize how much push the objects on the screen. A handy display tells you how hard, for example, a plum. The app is still in a very early stage and may show no information on actual weight, but only reflect comparative values in percent.

According to developers, it works only with objects that have a minimum weight on the scales - so grapes are, for example, too easily, so that the smartphone could detect a change in the display. Another hook there are also: Plum-O-Meter is currently only works on an iPhone with Jailbreak 6S. Whether the software is suitable for the normal App Store, we can not say at the present time, unfortunately. A video shows the detailed operation. More interesting news you read on our iPhone 6S Topics page.

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150 new Emojis for iOS 9.1 & OS X, longer duration for Apple Watch

Apple has released new updates for iOS, OS X and OS Watch. Some innovations share iOS and OS X, for example, a whole new set of emoji. For Watch Apple OS optimizes battery life. Otherwise, there are a lot of bug fixes and stability improvements.

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At Apple we worked hard and has completed the same for three systems. Particularly interesting is the update for iOS. Apple has released the first major update for iOS 9 after the two minor updates. iOS 9.1 is now available for download. iOS 9.1 can with all compatible iPhones, iPods and iPads (ie for iPhones from the iPhone 4s, for all iPads touch except the first generation and the iPod from the fifth generation) are loaded as over-the-air update. Alternatively, you can download the update via iTunes.

iOS 9.1 also fixes problems with email accounts. Among other things, it hooked as some users with pop email accounts with the correct display of unread emails. Fixed also was an error causes the search function in Mail not handed in 100 percent complete results.

Improvements in live photos, email and multitasking

The release notes for iOS 9.1 promises in addition to the 150 new Emojis with support for Unicode 7.0, and 8.0 Emojis an innovation for the live pictures that Apple introduced with the iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus: The camera now recognizes whether the iPhone is moved up or down, and then no longer takes this movement to circumcise or recording automatically.

The release notes for iOS 9.1:

When recording live pictures is now recognized automatically when the iPhone is raised or lowered, so that these movements will not be recorded.
More than 150 new Emoji characters with full support for Unicode 7.0, and 8.0 Emojis.

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OS X El Capitan in the test: Better Performance for the Mac

Once Apple has extensively modernized with OS X Yosemite 2014, the OS X El Capitan followed by the fine-tuning design and user interface of its Mac operating system this year. Apps have been optimized, some loose screws were tightened and added some new features carefully.

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Particularly striking is the good performance of the new system in WebStandard test. Even on older devices leaves OS X El Capitan a meaner impression than its predecessor.
Again change the font

The design transition from OS X, begun last year, Apple has continued with the recent operating system on a smaller scale. Obvious change is here (again) a new system font. It is only with OS X Yosemite Apple has changed the font to the annoyance of many users on Helvetica Neue, in OS X El Capitan now comes San Francisco for use. This is a designed by Apple itself font that is already in use in watch OS and the recently released iOS 9.

Facelift for programs

Otherwise, Apple has barely bolted to the design and the user interface of OS X El Capitan. Everything looks largely like under OS X Yosemite. Only some programs that have not yet received a facelift last year, have been updated. First and foremost here is the disk utility mentioned that scored missed a significantly fresher and more modern touch and thereby seamless fit into the design of the operating system.

Better Performance

Another area where Apple has worked apparently, is the performance of the operating system. OS X El Capitan significantly better than its predecessor. We have tested the operating system on an older MacBook Pro 2011th So buttery smooth animations like OS X El Capitan had OS X Yosemite definitely not to offer - even though the MacBook is connected to an external 1080p monitor. Laying program window into the Dock, call Mission Control or switch between Spaces is possible largely without any lag.

Dashing System

Apple thus seems to have put a focus on the performance of the operating system in the development of OS X El Capitan. The company also promises on his website that even actions like apps launch, switch between apps and PDFs or mails open by a multiple run faster than they are with the predecessor. Subjectively, the system will this promise also accessible - OS X El Capitan feels snappier to blow some.

Metal for OS X

Another performance improvement concerns the graphical interface Metal, the first from Apple with OS X El Capitan on the Mac. Metal was introduced last year with iOS 8 and to reduce the overhead compared to interfaces such as OpenGL and OpenCL, which the developers are more performance available. This powerful graphics made possible especially in games but also professional software, which relies on high-performance GPU, benefits from Metal.

Developers are asked

Metal is not supported by all devices that run under OS X El Capitan. As a rule of thumb, at least one Mac from the model 2012 or newer is required. In addition, developers must implement the new graphic interface only in their software. And in this area were criticized last. Dan Ginsburg from game developer Valve ("Half-Life") explained that there was no reason to rely on proprietary graphic interfaces such as DirectX 12 or Metal.

Split View

In addition to the improvements already mentioned OS X El Capitan has learned a few new features this fall compared to last year introduced changes but quite manageable from. Biggest change is probably here the Split View mode is in the two programs share the entire screen. While under Windows for many years is one such function of the standard repertoire, one previously had for recourse to third-party tools on OS X.

No intuitive operation

Solved really ideal, the new function is not. While you have to just drag a program window to the edge under Windows to dock it on one half of the screen, the function under OS X is far less intuitive. Because the use of split view you have to hold down the button and drag the window to a half of the screen in the window control (traffic light colors). Alternatively, you can open Mission Control and drag an application window to another full-screen app.

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