PBS and Yahoo! added to Apple V

Today as a birthday present (not that Apple really did it for my birthday, but it's a nice thought) on Nvember 19th, Apple released tw new partner channels for the Apple TV. PBS and Yahoo! Screen. This is also good for Yahoo!, which has struggled in the past to have an identity. Yahoo! Screen has been on the iPad for a while, but now yavng t n the Apple TV as well will help beng in a new audience. This might also help PBS get more viewers, and thus more donations from generous viewers. PBS is something we all benefit from, but few donate to. Although you have to activate PBS by either creating a PBS account, or signng in with Google+ or Facebook. And then you have to choose ONE oft he PBS choice to get your content from. Where I live, I get three PBS stations, I had to choose only one. So it's not an ideal implementation of PBS of the Apple TV, but it's better than nothing. 

The travesty that is iBooks

Both the iBooks and iTunes U apps for iOS have been updated with the minimalist style of iOS 7, and they suck! Apple took what was friendly about iBooks and turned it into the Kindle app. Reading a book in iBooks feels exactly like I'm in the Kindle app on the iPad. At this point, I might as well just buy a Kindle and throw out my iPad!

As most people do, I have all my previously downloaded apps backed up on my computer. So reverting to the previous version wasn't a problem for me. Before reverting, I did take a single screen shot for comparison.

The new iBooks app:

The previous iBooks app, which I reverted back to:

The bookshelf also changed, now it looks like the Newsstand shelf in iOS 7.

Skeuomorphism is alive and well in both iOS 7 and OS X Mavericks

Open the Notes app on iOS 7 or the Game Center app on Mavericks, and you'll find that Skeuomorphism isn't completely dead on Apple devices.