How To Turn On HandOff Feature in iOS 8 and OS X Yosemite

The handoff feature was introduced at Apple World Wide Developer Conference back in June 2014. It allows iOS devices such as iPhone and iPad running iOS 8 to work seamlessly with a Mac running OS X Yosemite.

For example, you can start writing an email on your phone and finish it off on your Mac. The same goes vice versa. This feature includes Mail, Safari, Pages, Keynote, Numbers... all of Apple apps frankly.

However, this feature is not automatically turned on. If you find yourself wondering why the heck it is not working. Here is how you do to turn this feature on.

For iOS devices, go to Setting --> General --> Handoff... --> Turn on Handoff

For Mac, go to Setting --> General --> Turn on Handoff (near the end)

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Intellij Products Free for Students

Congrats new and old students of computer programming. Jetbrains has announced on its website that all of its products including notably Intellij IDEA (Java) and AppCode (Objective-C) and others are free for students.

If you have your school email address or ISIC card, apply right now to receive all of their products for free. You will get a license which is valid for one year. After that, you will need to reapply.

This is a very good deal since the Intellij IDEA is a fantastic product for Java programming. Besides Java, it can also do web development which supports many popular frameworks from Spring to Play to Vaadin. It also supports a lot of languages including Python, Ruby and so on.

Note: If you're not a student, it is not the end. Intellij does provide a community edition for its Intellij IDEA. Community edition means free so ... it turns out those students will get the ultimate edition of IDEA which supports Java EE.

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iOS 8 Reset Can Erase Your iCloud Documents

According to Macrumors, using Reset all settings would result in all of your iCloud documents including Pages, Numbers, Preview documents and other kinds.

This happen when you go to Settings -> General -> Reset -> Reset all settings.
Even though the popover says "This will reset all settings. No data or media will be deleted", the phone system is going to erase your online documents. 

So to be safe, back up your documents using your Mac running OS X Yosemite. It is because only OS X Yosemite has the feature to access iCloud Drive directly. And that's how you can copy and paste all of your iCloud documents to a safe location.

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Apple's New Era with Tim Cook

Yesterday, September 9th, Apple stunned the world again with a new product category, the Apple Watch. Accompanying with the watch was the release of iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus and the Apple Pay.

The event started quickly into the new iPhone and wasted no time to introduce Apple Pay, a new payment system on iPhone 6. Then Apple reserved almost 1 hour of the event to talk about Apple Watch. This stunning little device rekindles technology, art, and fashion into one personalized gadget.

So if we pay close attention to the way Apple was before and the way Apple is now, there are some significant changes:

1. Product names are accompanied by Apple Logo.
   
   
   
   
2. There seems not be called iDevices anymore. With Apple Logo, Apple brand starts to shine explicitly through each product.
3. iPhone events and WWDC will be likely to happen every year from now on. WWDC happens in June and iPhone + iOS happen in September.
4. There are more videos to explain the product and the process of making it.
5. The rounded factor will become a main design thing for Apple devices. This design belongs to the design chief Jony Ive.
6. Apple starts making ads in house. 
7. Relentless hiring of talents across industries. Noticeably, the hiring of Burberry CEO, Angela Ahrendts.

Hopefully, more interesting things will come in the next year. With this September event, 2014 just marks a new key chapter in the Apple's story, or shall I say, Apple's post-Steve era.

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