Steve Sande

<p>Yesterday, Apple released Mac OS X 10.10.4, providing a number of bug fixes and subtle improvements to the currently shipping version of the desktop operating system. According to Ars Technica, one of those improvements is the <a target="_blank" href="http://arstechnica.com/apple/2015/06/latest-os-x-update-allows-you-to-enable-trim-for-third-party-ssds/" rel="noopener noreferrer">addition of support for TRIM on third-party solid state drives (SSDs)</a>. </p>

<p>If you're already running iOS 9 beta 2 on your favorite mobile device, then you're missing out on Apple Music. Don't worry, though -- you'll be right back in the thick of things early next week when another beta will arrive complete with Apple Music.</p>

<p style="margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px">Certain shows on Apple's Beats 1 will accept requests from listeners. You can submit a request into one of three ways. </p><p>First, pick up the phone. That's totally old school, but so is listening to the radio. Just point your browser to <a target="_blank" href="http://beats1radio.com/requests" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-size:0px">http://</span>beats1radio.com/requests<span style="font-size:0px"> </span></a> to find a list of numbers for customers in 13 countries, including the US, Canada, France, Japan and Germany.</p>

<p><a href="http://apple.com/music">Apple Music</a> is live and ready. You can tune into Apple's 24 hour radio station, <a href="http://apple.com/music/radio">Beats 1</a>, on your iOS device or Mac running iTunes 12.2. That's great, but some customers have their premium sound system connected to their home entertainment system, including the Apple TV. Fortunately, it's easy to listen to Beats 1 via Apple TV. </p>

<p>There day is here. <a href="http://apple.com/music">Apple Music</a> is finally available. Earlier we published a brief <a href="https://appleworld.dreamhosters.com/blog/2015/6/30/move-your-beats-music-membership-to-apple-music">how-to on migrating your existing Beats Music account to Apple Music</a>, keeping your library, playlists and artist preferences intact. Now, we'll explain how to get started with <a href="/blog?category=Apple%20Music">Apple Music</a> from scratch.</p>

<p>I've been listening to Beats 1, Apple's new 24-hour radio station, and I'm enjoying it quite a bit. DJ Zane Lowe is personable and really, <em>really</em> enthusiastic. As a budding fan, I'm interested in knowing what to expect out of the station. Fortunately, Apple has published a full Beats 1 schedule on Tumblr. </p>

<p><a href="http://apple.com/music">Apple Music</a> and <a href="http://apple.com/music/radio">Beats 1</a> are live. <a href="http://beatsmusic.com">Beats Music</a> customers like me have the chance to migrate their accounts over to <a href="/blog?category=Apple%20Music">Apple Music</a>, keeping their library and playlists intact. The process is ridiculously easy. Here's how to migrate your Beats Music account to Apple Music and give the new service a try. </p>

<p>Apple has released iOS 8.4, which introduces Apple Music across iOS devices. There's some interesting non-music changes in this update as well, including several changes to iBooks. </p>

<p style="margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px"><a href="http://apple.com/music">Apple Music</a> launches later today, along with <a href="http://www.apple.com/music/radio/">Beats 1</a> and updates to iOS and iTunes. It's a massive undertaking for the company that redefined the music industry with the original iPod in 2001  and iTunes Music Store in 2003. Now positioned to do it again with a streaming service and global radio station, Apple is coming off of two less-than-successful music projects.</p><p><a href="http://www.theverge.com/2012/10/1/3439168/ping-apple-music-social-network-closed">The music-focused social network Ping never caught on and was closed in 2012</a>. More recently, iTunes Radio failed to capture an audience like that of music streaming rival Spotify. What's different this time around? Apple's Eddy Cue, Jimmy Iovine and Trent Reznor gave interviews this week that answer that very question. </p>

<p>This is my first Health Club post for a while. Between some family issues and then going on vacation, it’s been difficult to get the time to write about health-related apps and topics. I’m currently on a cruise, which is usually considered the antithesis of a healthy vacation. We have a few days at sea (I’m currently between Greenland and Iceland…) so it’s the perfect time to talk about staying healthy while traveling.</p>

<p style="margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px">Apple's Eddy Cue has revealed that <a href="https://twitter.com/cue/status/614632890740027392">Apple is "working to" raise iTunes Match's limit to 100,000 for the release of iOS 9</a>. When responding to a question on Twitter, Cue responded:</p><p>"25k for launch and working to get to 100k for iOS 9."</p><p>Our take on the news:</p>

<p>Eric Slivka at MacRumors notes that <a target="_blank" href="http://www.fistfulayen.com/blog/2015/06/apple-music-and-beats-1-launch-tuesday-june-30th/" rel="noopener noreferrer">Apple Music senior director Ian Rogers made a revealing blog post this weekend</a>, announcing the launch times for iOS 8.4 and the Beats 1 "radio station" on Tuesday, June 30. iOS 8.4 is expected to show up at 8 AM PT, with Beats 1 going live an hour later at 9 AM PT.</p>

<p>The <a href="http://macitconf.com">MacIT Conference</a> is scheduled for July 14-16, 2015 in Santa Clara, California, and if you’d like to attend at a bit of a discount, you have through June 30 to pay just US$795 for your conference registration. Of course, you can <a href="http://www.macitconf.com/promo/appleworldtoday/">use our special promo code</a> and take another $200 off of that fee. </p>

<p>We already know that cats rule the Internet; now we're beginning to find that they're behind the scenes in a growing number of OS X and iOS software development companies. Julia Petryk from <a target="_blank" href="http://macpaw.com" rel="noopener noreferrer">MacPaw</a> sent us not only a wonderful email about office cats Fixel and Hoover but links to a bunch of fantastic photos, too!</p>

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