WEBVTT - What's new with iOS 4? 0:00:00.320 --> 0:00:02.960 Brought to you by the reinvented two thousand twelve Camray. 0:00:03.240 --> 0:00:08.959 It's ready. Are you get in touch with technology? With 0:00:09.080 --> 0:00:18.000 tech Stuff from how stuff works dot com. Hello again, everyone, 0:00:18.079 --> 0:00:20.480 Welcome to tech Stuff. My name is Chris Bullette and 0:00:20.520 --> 0:00:22.680 I am an editor here at how stuff works dot Com. 0:00:23.160 --> 0:00:24.959 Sitting in cross from me, as he always does, is 0:00:24.960 --> 0:00:29.400 senior writer Jonathan Strickland. Come get some Okay, I'm not 0:00:29.440 --> 0:00:32.560 sure where are you going with that Army of Darkness? 0:00:32.680 --> 0:00:35.720 Oh right, yeah, I've only seen parts of that movie. 0:00:36.320 --> 0:00:40.080 It's a good one. So we've had a lot of requests, 0:00:40.440 --> 0:00:43.760 and I mean a lot of requests for us to 0:00:43.800 --> 0:00:47.080 cover a couple of different topics. And uh, we already 0:00:47.080 --> 0:00:50.360 talked once about the iPhone four, So now we're going 0:00:50.400 --> 0:00:52.760 to talk about the operating system that exists on top 0:00:52.800 --> 0:00:57.640 of the iPhone four I O S four. Actually it 0:00:57.720 --> 0:01:02.000 also works on some, but not all, of Apple's other 0:01:02.040 --> 0:01:05.440 devices as well, right, um, Actually, and it doesn't work 0:01:05.560 --> 0:01:08.960 the same way on all of Apple's other devices, which 0:01:09.120 --> 0:01:11.399 makes it kind of complicated. But let's let's start into that. 0:01:11.680 --> 0:01:15.759 Let's start with the iOS thing that's new, right, Yes, 0:01:15.800 --> 0:01:18.080 it used to be the iPhone OS right, But of 0:01:18.080 --> 0:01:22.920 course it also operated the i iPod Touch and um 0:01:22.920 --> 0:01:25.720 just recently of course, with the launch of the iPad UH, 0:01:25.760 --> 0:01:28.040 it is the operating system for that device as well, 0:01:28.080 --> 0:01:29.959 So I guess they decided that they should make it 0:01:30.000 --> 0:01:34.000 the iOS and UH, which is glad they haven't gone 0:01:34.000 --> 0:01:38.440 back to using the version of its old, old, old, 0:01:38.480 --> 0:01:43.360 pre Macintosh operating system Apple sauce. Yeah, it's also the 0:01:43.400 --> 0:01:45.560 fact that they've changed the name to iOS. I mean, 0:01:45.560 --> 0:01:47.720 first of all, to me, that just makes sense because, 0:01:47.760 --> 0:01:50.800 like you pointed out, it's running on it's it's powering 0:01:50.960 --> 0:01:54.360 multiple devices, not just the iPhone. Yes, so to call 0:01:54.400 --> 0:01:57.640 it the iPhone OS is not really that accurate. But 0:01:57.800 --> 0:02:02.200 it also has raised some room mers that perhaps this 0:02:02.400 --> 0:02:05.880 is the future of the Apple operating system and that 0:02:05.920 --> 0:02:11.240 they will slowly back away from the mac OS operating system. Yeah. 0:02:11.280 --> 0:02:15.280 I don't see that really happening necessarily, at least not completely, 0:02:15.320 --> 0:02:17.440 because I think there's always going to be at least 0:02:17.480 --> 0:02:22.080 a little demand for a full fledged mac OS system 0:02:22.160 --> 0:02:25.000 unless the iOS gets so sophisticated that can do practically 0:02:25.000 --> 0:02:27.720 everything that mac OS can do already. UM, I just 0:02:27.760 --> 0:02:32.880 don't see that happening. Just from the the media editing 0:02:33.360 --> 0:02:37.520 uh industry alone would probably flip out. Well, they give 0:02:37.560 --> 0:02:41.880 it this way. The Google Chrome operating system that will 0:02:41.919 --> 0:02:44.800 be powering netbooks in the not too distant future is 0:02:44.840 --> 0:02:47.720 not really intended to be a main operating system either, 0:02:48.240 --> 0:02:51.280 And yet it is also more sophisticated than the Android 0:02:51.280 --> 0:02:55.280 operating system, which is what is operating on handheld devices. Yeah, 0:02:56.680 --> 0:02:59.160 so sorry, but I do think I do think that 0:02:59.360 --> 0:03:02.720 uh well uh, and it's in the same vein that 0:03:02.800 --> 0:03:05.359 Apple does not really intend this to be a full fledged, 0:03:05.400 --> 0:03:08.480 heavy duty, let's run sixty three programs on it at 0:03:08.480 --> 0:03:11.960 once type operating system. Right, so let's talk a little 0:03:12.000 --> 0:03:16.520 bit about IO S four and what what makes it special. Uh. 0:03:16.560 --> 0:03:20.880 And we we just kind of touched on one. Multitasking. Yes, 0:03:20.960 --> 0:03:24.440 that's actually a big one. Yes, limited multitasking. Yes, it 0:03:24.600 --> 0:03:27.640 is limited multitasking. It is not on you know, you 0:03:27.680 --> 0:03:31.160 can't run as many applications as you want in the background, 0:03:31.200 --> 0:03:33.639 all at the same time. And you can't even run 0:03:33.680 --> 0:03:37.240 every sort of application in the background. It's uh, I 0:03:37.240 --> 0:03:40.440 think there were like seven different main types of applications 0:03:40.440 --> 0:03:42.520 that Apple said you would be able to to run 0:03:42.680 --> 0:03:47.360 as background applications. Well, um, it's so it sort of depends. Now. 0:03:47.360 --> 0:03:49.840 Of course, the Apple applications have always been a little 0:03:49.840 --> 0:03:54.280 bit more multitasking friendly, even even before uh, the advent 0:03:54.320 --> 0:03:57.840 of iOS four. Um, you could, for example, play a 0:03:57.880 --> 0:04:00.839 song on and you know, the iPod app and then 0:04:01.040 --> 0:04:02.800 change to something else and you'd still get to hear 0:04:02.840 --> 0:04:05.680 your music. But if you wanted to try that with say, Pandora, 0:04:05.800 --> 0:04:07.720 you know, as a third party application, as soon as 0:04:07.760 --> 0:04:11.240 you uh decided to go check your mail or use 0:04:11.320 --> 0:04:15.680 Safari or some other application, it would drop off. Right. Yeah, 0:04:15.680 --> 0:04:18.920 So now they're allowing third party applications to take advantage 0:04:18.920 --> 0:04:21.920 of this as long as they fall within seven different 0:04:21.920 --> 0:04:24.800 apps services and I've actually got them up here. So 0:04:25.000 --> 0:04:33.040 it includes audio, VoIP Um, push notifications, local notifications, task completion, 0:04:33.720 --> 0:04:37.280 and fast apps switching. As long as it falls within 0:04:37.360 --> 0:04:41.240 one of those, uh, those categories, then it can run 0:04:41.240 --> 0:04:44.440 in the background. If it's outside of those, then it 0:04:44.440 --> 0:04:47.599 it's still will not run in the background. And uh, 0:04:47.640 --> 0:04:49.600 and you have a limit on how many you can 0:04:49.680 --> 0:04:52.880 run at one time, I believe as well, right, and UH, 0:04:53.120 --> 0:04:57.760 if you're hoping that you'll be able to have these 0:04:57.800 --> 0:05:01.320 applications work across uh, you know, as you're using the 0:05:01.440 --> 0:05:04.800 entire operating system. UM, they're not really going to be 0:05:04.880 --> 0:05:06.839 able to do that, nor will you be able to 0:05:07.000 --> 0:05:12.760 uh have one application receiving push notifications while you're running 0:05:12.800 --> 0:05:16.120 another application. Is just not going to get updates like that. 0:05:16.160 --> 0:05:18.119 It's just not intended to do that. And the reason 0:05:18.200 --> 0:05:21.279 that that Apple didn't want to use multitasking in the 0:05:21.279 --> 0:05:24.520 first place was because the company was concerned about battery 0:05:24.560 --> 0:05:28.159 life UM and just the idea of having all that 0:05:28.160 --> 0:05:31.800 stuff running at one time, UM, bogging down the system. 0:05:31.839 --> 0:05:34.240 They wanted it to be a nice, fast user experience. 0:05:34.800 --> 0:05:36.599 But at the same time, they've taken a lot of 0:05:36.640 --> 0:05:39.200 flak for where from a lot of people for not 0:05:39.279 --> 0:05:41.760 offering multitasking as an option. So this is sort of 0:05:41.800 --> 0:05:43.920 I guess this is sort of a compromise if you will, 0:05:43.960 --> 0:05:47.440 that the company is offering UM. And I also should 0:05:47.440 --> 0:05:49.800 say that a lot of my the information that when 0:05:49.800 --> 0:05:52.240 I was researching was came from Ours Technica, which did 0:05:52.240 --> 0:05:55.000 an excellent breakdown of the iOS uh in addition to 0:05:55.200 --> 0:05:59.640 you know, the Apple websites information, so um thanks and 0:05:59.720 --> 0:06:02.240 could to them. Yeah, Whereas I got a lot of 0:06:02.279 --> 0:06:05.800 my information from a c net full breakdown on the 0:06:05.839 --> 0:06:08.280 OS so again, uh, they did a lot of the 0:06:08.320 --> 0:06:10.599 work for us. We're just really kind of reporting on 0:06:10.680 --> 0:06:14.560 it and commenting on it um. But that's probably mostly 0:06:14.600 --> 0:06:17.200 because neither as far as I know, Chris, you don't. 0:06:17.279 --> 0:06:20.880 You aren't. You don't own anything currently running the OS four. Yeah, 0:06:20.880 --> 0:06:23.279 that's uh. Actually, if you want to get into the 0:06:23.520 --> 0:06:26.200 maybe a good segue for the devices that can and 0:06:26.320 --> 0:06:30.160 will run the iOS four. I own a first generation 0:06:30.360 --> 0:06:34.040 iPod Touch, which does not would the very first Chris, 0:06:34.360 --> 0:06:38.080 I'm curious how how long after you bought it did 0:06:38.120 --> 0:06:41.840 the second generation come out? That was about six weeks Jonathan, Yeah, 0:06:41.960 --> 0:06:46.160 six weeks. Uh. Yeah, Well I got it as a 0:06:46.160 --> 0:06:48.320 as part of the you know, every fall, Apple does 0:06:48.360 --> 0:06:50.880 the education deal where if you buy a Mac you 0:06:50.920 --> 0:06:53.760 can get a free iPod or what you really get 0:06:53.760 --> 0:06:55.919 as a credit, which is about the same amount. So 0:06:55.960 --> 0:06:58.440 I used it then and you know, when I went 0:06:58.440 --> 0:07:00.440 back to school a couple of years ago, and that's right, 0:07:00.440 --> 0:07:03.080 and then six weeks later, which is why I think 0:07:03.080 --> 0:07:06.320 it's actually a clearing house and let's get rid of 0:07:06.320 --> 0:07:07.520 the old stuff. We need to get rid of this 0:07:07.600 --> 0:07:09.640 old stock so we can make room for the new stuff. 0:07:09.680 --> 0:07:11.600 The other device I have that will run the iOS 0:07:11.640 --> 0:07:14.080 four doesn't have it yet, and when that's the iPad 0:07:14.440 --> 0:07:17.760 that will be getting it later this year, this year 0:07:17.800 --> 0:07:20.720 being in case you're from the future and listening to 0:07:20.760 --> 0:07:24.119 old podcasts, and we do get that sometimes, so yeah, 0:07:24.240 --> 0:07:28.480 hello to our future listeners. So we hope, we hope 0:07:28.480 --> 0:07:30.320 all our meals are in pill form and that we 0:07:30.400 --> 0:07:33.480 fly in cars, but it probably isn't going to happen, 0:07:33.520 --> 0:07:37.600 so anyway, Yeah, the second generation and third generation iPod 0:07:37.920 --> 0:07:42.040 Touch will run the iOS four and uh, any of 0:07:42.080 --> 0:07:44.800 the generations of iPad after, you know, starting this fall, 0:07:44.840 --> 0:07:47.680 we'll be able to do that. Um the iPhone, Um, 0:07:47.800 --> 0:07:50.160 that's a little trickier, I think. Uh, you know, the 0:07:50.200 --> 0:07:53.559 iPhone three G and three GS will run a version 0:07:53.560 --> 0:07:57.040 of iOS four. Of course, the iPhone four will without 0:07:57.040 --> 0:07:59.880 any problems for the iPhone, for it's the native operating 0:08:00.000 --> 0:08:03.440 system for the iPhone three G and iPhone three G S. 0:08:03.520 --> 0:08:06.160 You have to update your you have to upgrade your phone. 0:08:06.520 --> 0:08:09.680 You have to sink it and upgrade the operating system, 0:08:09.720 --> 0:08:13.840 which in some cases reportedly has been a fairly painless 0:08:13.880 --> 0:08:17.160 process takes like fifteen minutes. But I've I've read of 0:08:17.200 --> 0:08:20.480 other cases where it's taken hours and hours to upgrade 0:08:20.480 --> 0:08:24.120 the operating system UM, and as far as I can tell, 0:08:24.160 --> 0:08:31.400 there's no real uh defining factor that differentiates those. Although 0:08:31.440 --> 0:08:33.160 I did from why I understand a lot of the 0:08:33.200 --> 0:08:37.040 three GS owners had fewer problems than the three G owners. 0:08:37.120 --> 0:08:39.079 So it may just be that the older the your 0:08:39.120 --> 0:08:40.920 hardware is, the longer it's going to take for it 0:08:40.960 --> 0:08:44.160 to upgrade. UM. I don't know that for a fact, 0:08:44.200 --> 0:08:46.960 because I don't I am not currently running anything that's 0:08:47.040 --> 0:08:50.240 running iOS four. I do have one device that can 0:08:50.360 --> 0:08:53.160 run it, which is it's actually not mine, it's my 0:08:53.200 --> 0:08:57.560 wife's up ontouch UM. But I have not upgraded it yet. 0:08:57.760 --> 0:09:01.160 I just haven't sat down to do it. UM. But yes, 0:09:01.360 --> 0:09:03.520 so that's a good, good point that there are these 0:09:03.600 --> 0:09:05.960 various devices that can run the iOS four, not all 0:09:05.960 --> 0:09:09.800 of them are going to have the same UM experience, 0:09:09.840 --> 0:09:12.359 and a lot of that has to do with the 0:09:12.360 --> 0:09:18.560 the hardware that they actual uh uh abilities of that hardware, 0:09:18.559 --> 0:09:20.400 you know, the kind of processors that they have and 0:09:20.400 --> 0:09:23.360 the batteries that they have. UM. Apple does not want 0:09:23.640 --> 0:09:28.800 the user experience to suffer, so certain devices have various 0:09:29.040 --> 0:09:31.559 features turned off, like not all of them can multitask, 0:09:31.600 --> 0:09:34.199 for example. Um, but there are other ones that we 0:09:34.240 --> 0:09:36.079 can talk about. Two. In fact, there's some that are 0:09:36.200 --> 0:09:40.840 only native to the iPhone four. It may eventually come 0:09:40.880 --> 0:09:44.920 out for other devices, but the current generation of devices 0:09:45.040 --> 0:09:49.600 uh cannot access those features. So let's talk about some 0:09:49.679 --> 0:09:51.760 of the other ones though. Uh. Some of the other 0:09:51.760 --> 0:09:56.079 features of iOS four other features. Yeah, okay, Um, actually 0:09:56.120 --> 0:10:00.960 a meal has uh some new features. UM. Maybe less 0:10:01.120 --> 0:10:04.199 exciting if you don't use the mail feature on your 0:10:05.520 --> 0:10:08.480 on your device very much. But there is threading now, 0:10:08.520 --> 0:10:12.839 which I think is a very useful feature. Also unified inbox. Um, 0:10:12.840 --> 0:10:15.280 so if you like, if you have several email accounts 0:10:15.280 --> 0:10:18.679 and you want to combine them all into one inbox, um, 0:10:18.679 --> 0:10:21.840 which sometimes I do and sometimes I don't. Um, you 0:10:21.880 --> 0:10:23.880 know you can do that. And apparently it has a 0:10:23.880 --> 0:10:28.280 little more support for on for the exchange server. Yeah, 0:10:28.320 --> 0:10:31.400 you can actually have multiple exchange accounts. Um. You can 0:10:31.440 --> 0:10:34.600 access multiple exchange accounts from one device now, which is 0:10:35.080 --> 0:10:37.120 is kind of cool if you if you're running let's 0:10:37.120 --> 0:10:39.800 say you're running a business and uh, because you know, 0:10:39.840 --> 0:10:42.679 some people ask why would you have multiple exchange accounts? Well, 0:10:42.720 --> 0:10:45.480 let's say I'm running my own small business, and I 0:10:45.559 --> 0:10:48.720 have one email address for say, sales orders, and another 0:10:48.760 --> 0:10:53.000 email address for product support, then I would want I 0:10:53.120 --> 0:10:55.400 might want to be able to access both in the 0:10:55.559 --> 0:10:58.920 same view, as opposed to having to check one closet, 0:10:59.320 --> 0:11:02.400 open up a set up a client to check the 0:11:02.400 --> 0:11:07.400 second one. That kind of thing. Um. Another thing, uh, 0:11:07.440 --> 0:11:12.439 probably more popular with iPad users is the Bluetooth keyboard support, 0:11:13.559 --> 0:11:17.000 which which is kind of the only way I can 0:11:17.040 --> 0:11:19.520 see myself buying an iPad. I still haven't done it. 0:11:19.600 --> 0:11:22.600 I don't as beautiful as Chris as iPad is and 0:11:23.440 --> 0:11:27.800 ladies and gentlemen. It's within my my site right now. Um, 0:11:27.840 --> 0:11:33.679 I still have not felt the need to buy one. Ye, yep, um, 0:11:33.760 --> 0:11:39.719 let's see. Let's see what home screen customization customizing? But 0:11:39.880 --> 0:11:42.880 now you can, um, and not on all of the 0:11:42.920 --> 0:11:47.360 devices either, but on certain devices, Yes, you can customize 0:11:47.400 --> 0:11:49.880 the home screen. You can also create folders on the 0:11:49.880 --> 0:11:54.760 home screen. Yeah, you can group applications into folders, although 0:11:54.800 --> 0:11:58.160 you're limited into as to the number of applications you 0:11:58.160 --> 0:12:00.080 can do that. I think it's up to twelve of 0:12:00.120 --> 0:12:03.520 per folders. So let's say that you have a whole 0:12:03.520 --> 0:12:06.560 bunch of games, for example, and you don't want all 0:12:06.600 --> 0:12:08.920 those games cluttering up your home screen, or you don't 0:12:08.920 --> 0:12:10.240 want to have, like, you don't want to have to 0:12:10.280 --> 0:12:13.000 scroll through like five or six home screens in order 0:12:13.000 --> 0:12:15.760 to find a particular application. You could group all those 0:12:15.800 --> 0:12:18.320 games into one folder for games, and then you click 0:12:18.360 --> 0:12:20.360 on the folder, and then that would allow you to 0:12:20.480 --> 0:12:24.320 choose the individual game you're interested in without you know so. 0:12:24.679 --> 0:12:26.880 So it makes a one click into a two click. 0:12:27.640 --> 0:12:31.520 And Apple eats to add clicks to stuff if they 0:12:31.520 --> 0:12:33.880 can avoid it. But when it comes to organizing, it 0:12:33.920 --> 0:12:37.560 does make it easier. Yeah. Um, the camera for the 0:12:37.600 --> 0:12:40.760 devices that have cameras now have digital zoom, right, That's true, 0:12:40.920 --> 0:12:44.360 they do. UM. And as a matter of fact, speaking 0:12:44.400 --> 0:12:49.400 of that, UM, you can use the faces feature uh 0:12:49.400 --> 0:12:52.600 and I fellow if you have a Mac computer, UM, 0:12:52.640 --> 0:12:57.120 it will which basically helps you it has face recognition. UM. 0:12:57.240 --> 0:13:01.760 The iOS four will also allow you to you uh, 0:13:02.320 --> 0:13:05.520 identify people certain people in photos. So if I have 0:13:06.320 --> 0:13:09.360 a bunch of folders with pictures of Jonathan in different 0:13:09.559 --> 0:13:12.400 uh you know, different events. For example, I could say 0:13:12.440 --> 0:13:14.120 I want to see just pictures of Jonathan and it 0:13:14.160 --> 0:13:17.800 would bring them all together where I could actually do that. Um. 0:13:17.840 --> 0:13:20.360 And you can also do that on as far as 0:13:20.440 --> 0:13:23.240 geo tagging too, because if you've taken, if you have 0:13:23.400 --> 0:13:27.520 photos that have been tagged by location, UM, it will 0:13:27.600 --> 0:13:30.800 allow you to h to identify, say, you know, pictures 0:13:30.920 --> 0:13:35.200 of Detroit. Um, you would be able to uh be 0:13:35.240 --> 0:13:38.200 able to do you had to pick Detroit. I'm needling you, 0:13:38.640 --> 0:13:42.360 um So anyway, so that's that's sort of nice too 0:13:42.360 --> 0:13:44.680 because if you if you're somebody who has a lot 0:13:44.720 --> 0:13:48.040 of photos on the different devices. UM, and I'm not 0:13:48.120 --> 0:13:50.800 somebody who takes a lot of pictures with my phone, 0:13:50.840 --> 0:13:53.240 but I know lots and lots of people do. Um, 0:13:53.280 --> 0:13:56.920 those are some some nice features that might be useful 0:13:56.960 --> 0:14:00.319 to you in that regard. Yep, you can also search 0:14:00.440 --> 0:14:03.480 text messages now the same way you can search email before. 0:14:03.600 --> 0:14:06.120 So yeah, when you go into text messages, if you 0:14:06.200 --> 0:14:09.640 if you're one of those people who have issued talking 0:14:09.679 --> 0:14:12.800 on the phone for texting, UM, seems to be happening 0:14:12.800 --> 0:14:15.720 more and more often. Yeah, I'm doing it more often. Actually, 0:14:15.920 --> 0:14:19.160 I found that the thing that the deciding factor for 0:14:19.200 --> 0:14:23.080 me was adopting a phone that had a keyboard as 0:14:23.080 --> 0:14:26.000 opposed to having you know, the numeric pad, because with 0:14:26.000 --> 0:14:28.240 the numeric pad, texting is a bit of a chore 0:14:28.800 --> 0:14:31.680 when there's a keyboard, whether it's on screen or it's 0:14:31.880 --> 0:14:34.120 a physical keyboard. In my case, it's a physical keyboard 0:14:34.120 --> 0:14:36.960 because I don't have an iPhone. I've got the Android phone. 0:14:38.000 --> 0:14:42.600 But either way, it just makes texting easier. And so 0:14:42.720 --> 0:14:45.760 that's what you know, I'm old, I don't. I didn't 0:14:45.760 --> 0:14:48.520 adopt texting like the like the kids do, get off 0:14:48.560 --> 0:14:51.440 my lawn. Um, but now you can. You can search 0:14:51.440 --> 0:14:53.840 those texts, which is great because if you remember, hey, 0:14:53.920 --> 0:14:56.320 you know, so and so texted me, like the other day, 0:14:56.920 --> 0:14:58.920 what time the movie was, and you don't want to 0:14:58.920 --> 0:15:01.840 have to search through thirty or forty text to find it. 0:15:02.280 --> 0:15:05.359 It's a good way of of zeroing in on that information. 0:15:05.400 --> 0:15:08.920 They also have a universal search feature, oh yeah, which 0:15:09.440 --> 0:15:13.080 allows you to search the Web or Wikipedia in fact 0:15:13.360 --> 0:15:19.560 for information about specific topics. It's just a little universal search. Um. 0:15:19.600 --> 0:15:23.080 So that's that makes uh, finding specific information a lot 0:15:23.120 --> 0:15:24.880 faster than it used to be. You don't have to 0:15:25.000 --> 0:15:27.640 you know, go into Safari or whatever to be able 0:15:27.680 --> 0:15:34.760 to activate it. And a little bit related to the 0:15:34.760 --> 0:15:39.040 the folders situation is you can now use create your 0:15:39.080 --> 0:15:41.240 own playlists, which you kind of could before with the 0:15:41.320 --> 0:15:44.800 on the go but um, I think they've revamped the 0:15:44.840 --> 0:15:46.840 ability to do that a little bit and refined it 0:15:46.920 --> 0:15:49.440 so that you have more control over the playlist. Well, 0:15:49.480 --> 0:15:52.040 you also don't have to go through iTunes anymore. Well, 0:15:52.080 --> 0:15:54.240 you could create an on the go thing with it 0:15:54.280 --> 0:15:57.240 with an old iPod because you know my my four 0:15:57.320 --> 0:16:00.960 g iPod, which by the way still works black and 0:16:00.960 --> 0:16:04.320 white screen scrorell wheel, you could create a playlist with that, 0:16:04.360 --> 0:16:06.840 but you basically, you know, it would call it on 0:16:06.880 --> 0:16:09.760 the go playlist, and you didn't you know, it was 0:16:10.040 --> 0:16:11.600 pretty limited to what you could do. But you could 0:16:11.600 --> 0:16:13.520 add stuff on on the you know, on the fly. 0:16:13.800 --> 0:16:16.320 I use on the go again, but now you have 0:16:16.360 --> 0:16:18.200 a lot more control over you can you can name them, 0:16:18.240 --> 0:16:21.680 you can edit the playlists right there on the device, 0:16:22.200 --> 0:16:25.360 and you have a lot more freedom with with regard 0:16:25.400 --> 0:16:29.320 to what you can do there. Um iBooks also as 0:16:29.680 --> 0:16:32.880 coming to these smaller devices, not just the iPad. Um 0:16:33.080 --> 0:16:35.000 I could say using it on the iPad is is 0:16:35.080 --> 0:16:37.160 nice because it's it's got a larger screen. I'm not 0:16:37.200 --> 0:16:39.760 sure that I would be using e books much were 0:16:39.800 --> 0:16:42.760 I able to do that on my iPod Touch just 0:16:42.800 --> 0:16:45.560 because the screen is so small. Um, you know, I 0:16:45.640 --> 0:16:48.960 like to do more reading on the screen real estate. 0:16:49.120 --> 0:16:51.280 I do know people who use their I who have 0:16:51.400 --> 0:16:54.240 been using their iPhones and iPods with the Kindle app 0:16:55.320 --> 0:16:59.200 stuff and Stanza too, which is an excellent uh freewhere app. 0:16:59.280 --> 0:17:01.000 So for people like that, it would you know, I 0:17:01.160 --> 0:17:04.560 Books is probably a welcome feature. Then there's there's I Movies, 0:17:04.680 --> 0:17:07.560 which is really for the iPhone for but it's part 0:17:07.560 --> 0:17:10.560 of iOS four right, yeah, but I Movies allows you 0:17:10.600 --> 0:17:15.200 to actually do some minor media editing on your iPhone. 0:17:15.240 --> 0:17:18.840 So when you're capturing video from your iPhone, you can 0:17:18.880 --> 0:17:21.400 actually after after you've captured it, you can you can 0:17:21.520 --> 0:17:25.200 snip off the beginning or end or insert even transitions 0:17:25.240 --> 0:17:27.480 and stuff like that, um, which is kind of cool. 0:17:27.680 --> 0:17:31.199 It's it's certainly a much more skilled down version of 0:17:31.240 --> 0:17:33.960 media editing software than you would find on a full desktop. 0:17:34.080 --> 0:17:37.080 I mean, obviously you wouldn't expect to find anything really 0:17:37.119 --> 0:17:40.439 sophisticated on it, but it allows you to, you know, 0:17:40.480 --> 0:17:43.040 if you're gonna make a quick video and uploaded to YouTube, 0:17:43.080 --> 0:17:45.639 it allows you to cut the dead space out of it, 0:17:45.680 --> 0:17:48.320 which is kind of cool. Yeah, that's actually yeah, it's 0:17:48.320 --> 0:17:53.200 actually I movie singular. Sorry but my bad. Uh, well, 0:17:53.280 --> 0:17:56.880 somebody will right in, so that's true. But they still 0:17:56.920 --> 0:17:59.320 will because they paused it. Yeah I'm sure they probably did, 0:17:59.400 --> 0:18:02.120 but thank you. But yeah, it's a it's a version basically, 0:18:02.119 --> 0:18:04.800 a really scaled down version of the one that you 0:18:04.800 --> 0:18:07.280 would see for the Mac. That's part of the I 0:18:07.480 --> 0:18:11.920 Life Suite. Um, let's see what else? Oh, spell checking? Yes, 0:18:12.320 --> 0:18:15.280 I know you're saying spell checking. You gotta be kidding me, know, Um, 0:18:15.400 --> 0:18:19.400 if you want to be off the automated suggestions so 0:18:19.440 --> 0:18:23.080 that you don't send people nonsense messages that can can 0:18:23.359 --> 0:18:28.760 sometimes be really really embarrassing, spell check is a great feature, yes, 0:18:28.800 --> 0:18:31.240 because I've seen some messages from people who use their 0:18:31.240 --> 0:18:34.480 iPhone and they had the automated uh, you know, the 0:18:34.800 --> 0:18:38.520 suggestion thing going, because you know, you're using that touchscreen keyboard, 0:18:38.560 --> 0:18:41.600 so sometimes you know, you fat finger a couple of 0:18:41.600 --> 0:18:45.960 buttons and then the iPhone or iPod touch or whatever 0:18:46.000 --> 0:18:49.080 suggests the spelling for whatever word you're trying to spell, 0:18:49.160 --> 0:18:51.920 and you accidentally selected and it turns out it wasn't 0:18:51.960 --> 0:18:54.840 the word at all, or even better, what happens more 0:18:54.880 --> 0:18:58.399 often with me. Is I type in a word and UM, 0:18:59.640 --> 0:19:02.639 I the the iPhone OS, which is what I'm still running. 0:19:03.040 --> 0:19:07.520 UM will suggest another word that has the same you know, 0:19:07.600 --> 0:19:10.840 it has essentially the same letters as the beginning, and 0:19:10.840 --> 0:19:13.240 we'll go ahead and auto complete it for you. And 0:19:13.280 --> 0:19:14.879 it wasn't the word I meant to do at all. Now. 0:19:14.920 --> 0:19:16.719 On the other hand, the way it's done now, if 0:19:16.720 --> 0:19:18.639 you want to type i'm and you want to skip 0:19:18.640 --> 0:19:21.320 the apostrophe, you can just type I am and it 0:19:21.359 --> 0:19:23.000 will go ahead and do that. Of course, you wanted 0:19:23.000 --> 0:19:27.320 to type i'll I am you later, then you have 0:19:27.400 --> 0:19:29.600 to go back. You either have to click the or 0:19:29.680 --> 0:19:32.679 tap the X thing no, I don't want to use that, 0:19:33.359 --> 0:19:37.120 or go back and manually enter the apostrophe yourself. Um. 0:19:37.280 --> 0:19:40.880 The new version of spell check doesn't do that. Uh. 0:19:40.880 --> 0:19:43.800 It does what Microsoft Word and so many other word 0:19:43.800 --> 0:19:46.720 processors do now and underlines it and read basically saying, 0:19:46.720 --> 0:19:49.480 are you sure this is the word the word you mean? 0:19:49.760 --> 0:19:51.240 And we'll give you if you tap it, it will 0:19:51.240 --> 0:19:54.960 give you other options, so it will not automatically complete 0:19:54.960 --> 0:19:58.920 things for you and and try to respell things UM 0:19:58.960 --> 0:20:03.879 a different way. There's also a dedicated birthday calendar. Really 0:20:04.080 --> 0:20:06.640 you haven't anyway. Yeah, there's a dedicate you can keep 0:20:06.680 --> 0:20:08.560 track of upcoming This is from c that you can 0:20:08.640 --> 0:20:11.479 keep track of upcoming birthdays with a designated calendar. It's 0:20:11.520 --> 0:20:15.440 accessible directly from the main calendar option, so you can 0:20:15.440 --> 0:20:18.000 have a separate birthday. So I said it comes directly 0:20:18.040 --> 0:20:21.600 from sen That's why I quoted it. Um, But yeah, 0:20:21.640 --> 0:20:24.639 that's the the that's kind of a useful feature if 0:20:24.680 --> 0:20:26.679 you want to have one calendar just for things like 0:20:26.720 --> 0:20:29.159 appointments and that kind of stuff your schedule, and you 0:20:29.200 --> 0:20:31.199 don't want it to be filled with stuff like you know, 0:20:31.400 --> 0:20:34.239 as well as stuff is like Bob's birthday. I can 0:20:34.320 --> 0:20:37.520 see the usefulness of having a separate birthday calendar. That's 0:20:37.560 --> 0:20:40.920 kind of cool. Um. One of the things I thought 0:20:41.000 --> 0:20:43.240 was neat with iOS four is that you can send 0:20:43.359 --> 0:20:47.760 apps as gifts to other Apple customers. Yes, so you can. 0:20:47.840 --> 0:20:50.800 You can purchase it. Let's say that you absolutely love 0:20:50.880 --> 0:20:52.760 this one app and you want to send it like 0:20:52.800 --> 0:20:55.800 it's you know, it's maybe it's uh, I don't know, 0:20:55.840 --> 0:21:00.000 plants versus Zombies or a how Stuff Works app. You think, Hey, 0:21:00.080 --> 0:21:02.920 my buddy Bob would love this. There's there's Bob again 0:21:03.119 --> 0:21:05.960 talking about Bob a lot. Um. We was such an 0:21:06.000 --> 0:21:09.480 important part of Microsoft's history, and yet now he's using 0:21:09.520 --> 0:21:12.720 Apple products for some reason. But Bob would love this. 0:21:12.800 --> 0:21:15.480 I'm gonna buy this app and send it to him 0:21:15.560 --> 0:21:17.399 as a president. You can do that now, which is 0:21:17.400 --> 0:21:21.640 pretty cool. Yep, that's a very very nice within iowas four. Yeah, 0:21:21.680 --> 0:21:24.320 as opposed to telling Bob's that it's an awesome thing 0:21:24.359 --> 0:21:27.160 and then giving Bob and iTunes you know, gift card 0:21:27.240 --> 0:21:29.280 or something so that Bob can give it for himself. 0:21:29.560 --> 0:21:31.439 Because we know that Bob's lazy and he's never going 0:21:31.480 --> 0:21:33.280 to get around to it, so it's much better to 0:21:33.320 --> 0:21:38.199 do it this way. Oh, Jonathan Loo, Bob did not 0:21:38.240 --> 0:21:41.720 come to my birthday party, so and I have all 0:21:41.800 --> 0:21:44.000 right he and I. Things are cold between me and 0:21:44.040 --> 0:21:46.480 Bob right now. I understand. I understand how that works. 0:21:47.400 --> 0:21:51.480 All right. Wow, there's gonna be later this year, there's 0:21:51.480 --> 0:21:54.560 gonna be a game center really yeah, as part of 0:21:54.560 --> 0:21:58.080 ioas four. Yeah, it's a it's gonna have social gaming 0:21:58.480 --> 0:22:01.080