#MAC LINGON X UPDATE#
The cross-device texting feature is coming as part of the iOS 8.1 update on Monday, but it’s easy to imagine how useful it’ll be to chat with your Android-toting friends from your Mac. Previously, you could only view iMessage notes sent from other iOS or OS X users on your Mac. Unfortunately, Apple hasn’t yet enabled its other new iPhone-to-Mac feature, which allows you to see texts from anyone on your Mac. You can click Show in the notification to show the job in Lingon X. It monitors the folders where jobs can be saved and shows a notification (not when Lingon X is the current app) when a job is added, modified or deleted. I didn’t have any problems accepting calls from my Mac, and the call quality sounded about as good as a Skype call. Lingon X includes an agent that can run in the background and restarts automatically after a restart. This is useful if you don’t always keep your phone nearby, or if it’s stuck by an outlet getting recharged. A dialog pops up showing the incoming call (the same alert that pops up for Facetime calls), and you can choose to answer or ignore the call from your Mac. When you get a call on your iPhone, Yosemite actually lets you use your Mac as a speakerphone. And there’s certainly plenty of potential behind the idea. But if you do, I can imagine Handoff being a lifesaver.
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I’m ranking this below the refined AirDrop and Spotlight search, because I don’t actually use Apple apps very much. For now, the feature, dubbed Handoff, is only limited to those apps, but it won’t be long until we see more developers support it. With Safari, Apple Mail, and Apple Calendar, you can seamlessly continue tasks between your Mac and iOS devices. This is the big feature that Apple is touting as part of its new “Continuity” philosophy between Yosemite and iOS 8.
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Image Credit: Apple Continue working across OS X and iOS devices