Day One for Mac, the highly rated journaling app that was hailed by Apple as last year’s Mac App Store App of the Year, has just been issued a major update from developer Bloom Built. When it updated Day One for iOS with PDF export and printing and other enhancements late last February, Bloom Built noted that it would also significantly update Day One for Mac. Well, the day for Day One for Mac’s new significant update has finally arrived. The latest update to Day One for Mac also happens to add support for PDF export and printing. But that’s not all, as it also delivers the following notable improvements: Add Current Location (Maps, Foursquare, Custom locations coming soon) Use Photo Date / Time when adding to entry Use Photo Location Weather Drag Photo to App Icon to create new Photo Entry Increased Photo Resolution to 2100 pixels Retain Photo Exif data inside image file Hashtag Autocompletion Open in Marked App Default to show “All” entries in Timeline Show Backups in Finder Button Auto-Hyphenation with indentations Increased Backup Limit Convert All Hashtags Button (Advanced Settings) Support unicode input in URL handler The new version of Day One for Mac is available now in the Mac App Store as a free update or as a new $9.99 download. The app is compatible with any Mac running OS X 10.7.4 or later. In case you haven’t heard, Day One for iOS, which is normally priced at $4.99, is currently available for free in celebration of the App Store’s fifth anniversary. As part of its 5 Years of App Store promotion, Apple is giving away five landmark games and five groundbreaking apps, including Day One, for a limited time.

One of the more subtle changes made in iOS 7 beta 3 concerns the operating system’s “2x” compatibility mode, in which iPhone-only applications can run in a “blown up” version on an iPad. In the latest prerelease mobile software, Apple has utilized Retina display-optimized iPhone applications in order to improve compatibility mode on non-Retina iPads, according to MacRumors........................

The website explains:

with the advent of Retina displays on the iPhone supporting apps at 960×640, Apple moved to take advantage of those higher-quality assets to provide a better viewing experience on the iPad for those apps that do not have native iPad interfaces. Since the introduction of the third-generation iPad last year, Apple’s Retina iPads have been able to tap into the Retina assets in iPhone apps to display higher-quality 2x apps, and with iOS 7 beta 3 Apple has now brought that capability to its non-Retina tablets.

For an idea of the change, check out the below image, in which the App Store app is shown running on an iPad mini in compatibility mode in iOS 6 (left), and in iOS 7 (right). As you can see, the right-hand image is crisper, fonts are clearer, and user interface elements look better, despite the app nevertheless displaying in compatibility mode.

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Furthermore, the “1x” and “2x” toggle button, which allowed users to switch between iPhone-sized or blown-up app views on an iPad, has disappeared. The new feature in iOS 7 beta 3 appears now to be the default mode of viewing Retina-optimized iPhone apps on a non-Retina iPad.

In fact, the above change is markedly similar to the functionality of RetinaPad, a jailbreak tweak that launched in the Cydia Store way back in 2010. As such, it looks like another iOS 7 feature which borrows from the jailbreak scene has been discovered.

Interested in learning more about iOS 7 beta 3? Be sure to see our pick of the software update’s best features.

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