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New iOS 8.1 features you need to know

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iMessage is now the ultimate texting app for Mac and iOS with the addition of SMS Relays. Any Mac running Yosemite paired with iPhones and iPads on iOS 8.1 can now send and receive SMS messages, so you can stay in touch with your Android buddies on all devices.</div>
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To toggle Text Message Forwarding on/off, go to Settings >> Messages >> Text Message Forwarding and your compatible devices should be listed.</div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">OS X Yosemite can now automatically detect when an iOS 8.1 device is nearby and place it in the list of available wireless connections in your menu bar. Instant Hotspot shows your cellular signal strength and the battery life of your device in the drop-down menu. It requires iPhone 5 or greater and a Mac with Bluetooth 4.0.</span><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">iOS 8.1 brings iCloud Photo Library Beta to the public to replace Photo Stream. The new iCloud Photo Library stores all your photos and video on </span><a class="vglnk" href="http://icloud.com/" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" title="Link added by VigLink"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">iCloud</span><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">.</span><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">com</span></a><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><span style="background-color: white;">so you can view them from other devices. To turn it on, go to Settings >> iCloud >> Photos >> iCloud Photo Library.</span><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">With the release of iOS 8.0, Apple killed the Camera Roll — to the horror of many iPhotogs. But iOS 8.1 allows users to resurrect the classic Camera Roll album after it was replaced by the Recently Added photo.  To turn it back on: Go to Settings >> Photo & Camera >> iCloud Photo Library, switch to off.</span><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></span></div>
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New iOS 8.1 features you need to know

iOS 8.1 is now available to the public. Along with bringing Apple Pay into the wild, this major upda...

iOS 8.1 fixes and new issues

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If you’ve been putting off the iOS 8 update on your iPhone or iPad because of all the issues it had, the iOS 8.1 update should make you want to finally take the leap. Apple’s latest update comes with important improvements and bug fixes, even though some users have reported a few new problems with the update.</div>
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For starters, the update now lets you switch between 2G, 3G and LTE networks for both voice and data, giving you better control over your data usage. Other important updates include the ability to save pictures and videos to your iCloud account and to make online payments via Apple Pay. The latter, however, is available only in the US and UK.</div>
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The iOS 8.1 update also seems to have addressed some performance issues in older devices, as the iPhone 5c we’ve been using feels smoother in operation than since the original iOS 8 update. This could be a result of all the bug fixes included in the latest update, which also addresses the issue which made it difficult for iOS users to pair with other Bluetooth devices, the one that could cause screen rotation to stop working and cases where videos would sometimes not play on Safari. Also, VoiceOver now works with 3rd party keyboards. Many users seem to be happy with the latest update, going by <strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">this thread</span></strong> on Apple Support Communities.</div>
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While we welcome the bug fixes, the update seems to have introduced few new problems. Going by <strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">this thread</span></strong> on the Apple Support Community, many users are complaining that the battery drains quickly after the update. However, as some of the users have pointed out themselves, a reboot after the update resolves this problem. Others have<strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"> </span>reported </strong>that the update causes the iPhone 5s to randomly reboot.</div>
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As with most iOS updates, devices tend to revert older settings after the iOS 8.1 update. For example, location-based reminders and background app refresh settings may get reactivated. You can undo these changes by going to Settings > Privacy > Location Services to revoke location access for apps or go to Settings > General > Background App Refresh to toggle off apps that you don’t want to refresh in the background.</div>
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Apple’s iOS 8 update met with plenty of criticism as it came with a number of <strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">glaring problems</span></strong> including slower Wi-Fi speeds, sluggish performance, battery and iMessage problems. Soon after the update was rolled out, users took it to Apple forums complaining about the problems that cropped up in their iOS devices. The <strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">subsequent updates</span></strong> tried to fix some issues in Apple’s Healthkit app, the keyboard and the Safari web browser, but the overall performance in older devices still lagged as compared to users who had stuck to iOS 7.1.</div>
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Brett Favre's been in the news a lot the last week thanks to Peyton Manning bypassing his career NFL touchdown record on Sunday night in Week 6.</div>
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The soon-to-be Hall of Famer joined the <em style="text-decoration: none;">Doug Gottlieb Show</em> and engaged in a lot of lively talk about his return to Green Bay -- currently delayed by Bart Starr's health -- as well as current quarterbacks. When he compared Tony Romo and Aaron Rodgers, Gottlieb worked in a savvy question about Tom Brady versus Peyton Manning.</div>
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Favre took the guy who just torched his record. But it didn't sound easy.</div>
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"Oh man. Tom has gotten it done lately with a lot less but … that's a toss up. I'd have to go with Peyton I believe," Rodgers said. "But you can't go wrong with either. Tom Brady, everyone's kind of written him off, and I think that's foolish to write him off. He's got a lot of good football left.</div>
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He's spot on about that: both guys are legendary quarterbacks. You can't go wrong regardless of which one you pick. (But you have to imagine Brady will smile and then get angry about the whole thing. I would.)</div>
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Gottlieb also spoke with Favre about his return to Green Bay, which he's planning to postpone because of Bart Starr's health.</div>
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We were hoping to have a sit-down interview with the different decades of football. Myself, Bart [Starr] and Aaron Rodgers. That would've been a great piece as well as take a picture after the game," Favre said. "I kind of invited myself and Bart for that but it would've been a great ceremony. Doesn't look like it will happen. I don't know if we'll make it. I'd rather make it with Bart. Obviously the retirement and the Hall of Fame will be in July — I'm really looking forward to that."</div>
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You can tell Favre gets LOTS of questions about his loyalty to the Packers; understandable given his decision to play for the Vikings at the end of his career. But he says he thinks "we're beyond" any issues "from a negative standpoint" when it comes to his interaction with Packers fans.</div>
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Even if it took him a while to root for the Pack after he left.</div>
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"After I was done playing I guess. Of course being a Viking I couldn't pull for anyone in our division," Favre said. "Once I retired — I mean I'm a Packer for life. When I was a Viking, I was a Viking. And that was hard for a lot of people to accept and it was awkward for me at first. I really enjoyed my stay there and I really enjoyed my 16 years in Green Bay as well."</div>
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The conversation began innocently enough in the Denver Broncos locker room on Tuesday. Several defensive players were asked when did you start watching DeMarcus Ware play in the NFL?</div>
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Was it when you were in college? High school?</div>
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Ware's pass rushing partner grew up in a Dallas suburb, and he had an idea of his earliest memories of Ware.</div>
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"When did you come into the league? 2006?" Von Miller asked.</div>
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"2005," Ware replied.</div>
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"I was a sophomore in high school!" Miller cackled as he laid back down on the black leather couch in the Broncos' locker room.</div>
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Ware shrugged off the joke about his age – he turned 32 in July – and how could he not as he enjoys a career renaissance in his first season with the Broncos. With seven sacks in the Broncos' first six games, Ware has already surpassed his sack total from his final, injury-plagued season with the Dallas Cowboys a year ago.</div>
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And with a nifty half spin move on San Francisco 49ers left tackle Joe Staley that led to one his three sacks on Colin Kaepernick on Sunday, the rest of the NFL has noticed just how well Denver's bet on Ware has paid off.</div>
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"When you sit down and you watch it, you watch it in slow motion, it's really incredible. It was a great move. There's no way you can go out and try to practice something like that. It's just DeMarcus Ware, big-time pass rusher," Miller said.</div>
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The Cowboys cut Ware, their franchise sack leader, in March in largely a money-saving move. But there were football reasons, too, after Ware recorded a career-low six sacks in 2013 while missing three games and being limited in several others.</div>
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But as soon as Ware hit the free agent market, the Broncos pounced, making a three-year, $30 million gamble that Ware had more double-digit sack seasons ahead of him. At his current pace of 1.1 sacks per game, Ware would hit 18 sacks by the end of his first year in Denver. That would be the third-highest total of his career.</div>
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"I never put a ceiling on anything. I just tell myself, 'Where am I at in the 10th game?' I say this is where I am in the pack and I sort of try to distinguish myself in the final six games in how productive I can be," Ware said.</div>
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Perhaps more important than the individual numbers, though, is the collective total for the Broncos' defense. Denver ranks third in the NFL with 21 sacks, despite playing only six games. Ware and Miller are responsible for 15 of those sacks -- more sacks between the two of them than 14 other teams have as a whole.</div>
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It's exactly the type of scenario the Broncos envisioned in March.</div>
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"I just remember thinking, 'What the hell can you do with Von and DeMarcus?'" defensive tackle Terrance Knighton said.</div>
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Opponents have yet to figure out it. The Broncos line Ware up at right defensive end in their base scheme, but he rarely stays there. In a game against the Arizona Cardinals two weeks ago, defensive coordinator Jack Del Rio moved Ware to the left side of the defense, lined up beside Miller, both prepared to rush at the quarterback. Cardinals backup Drew Stanton, clearly flustered at the formation, quickly called a time out.</div>
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Next up to try to solve the Ware-Miller problem is San Diego Chargers quarterback Philip Rivers. Miller, now looking back to full speed after spending his offseason recovering from ACL surgery, has sacked Rivers seven times in six games since 2011. Ware, who played the Chargers only three times in nine seasons with the Cowboys, has never sacked Rivers.</div>
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"They're two impressive guys, obviously they can change a game," Rivers said Tuesday.</div>
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Ware said he owes plenty of his career rejuvenation here to Miller, who he first met when Miller was preparing for the NFL draft in 2011. They stayed in touch during Miller's first three years in the NFL, and now that they are teammates, Ware has been able to fill the role of big brother and mentor for Miller, while Miller has taken much of the pressure off Ware on the field. Used to facing consistent double teams throughout his career in Dallas, Ware said he's found that most opponents are trying to block both Miller and Ware one-on-one.</div>
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"It's still two one on ones, even if you get a tight end chip or a running back chip, it's still the same. We're used to that. As long as you can't chip both of us, as long as one of us are being effective that's what it's about," Ware said.</div>
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Colt McCoy is preparing to start at quarterback for the Washington Redskins on Monday night at the Dallas Cowboys. But Washington coach Jay Gruden classified injured starter Robert Griffin III as a "wild card" possibility after Wednesday's practice.</div>
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Griffin, who suffered a dislocated left ankle six weeks ago in the second game of the season, worked out in black, high-topped shoes. He showed no discomfort dropping back, throwing or making handoffs during the early individual drills that were open to news reporters.</div>
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Gruden hopes to know by the end of practice Thursday whether Griffin is ready to return. Barring that unlikely possibility, McCoy will get his first start since 2011, when he played for the Cleveland Browns.</div>
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So in addition to preparing for the division-leading Cowboys (6-1) on <i>Monday Night Football</i>, is it a distraction for McCoy to have to deal with the uncertainly about Griffin's status?</div>
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"My focus is I'm just going to prepare to start. There's nothing else I can do. The decision is not up to me. What I can control is what I can control," said McCoy, a former four-year starter for the University of Texas.</div>
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McCoy came off the bench to replace struggling Kirk Cousins in the second half of Sunday's 19-17 victory against the Tennessee Titans. McCoy hit 11 of 12 passes for 128 yards and a touchdown and led the winning field goal drive at the finish. So Cousins goes back to the bench after five starts for the Redskins (2-5).</div>
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Last week, Griffin returned to individual drills and took part in a few team drills late in the week. Gruden said RG3, who was not available to reporters, also did team work Wednesday with various units.</div>
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"He looked good. We'll find out from the trainers how he feels right now, and tomorrow morning will be the big thing. Another day's work tomorrow, and we'll see how he progresses," Gruden said.</div>
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Then the coach probably will have a decision to make.</div>
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"Just because I want, A, the team to know who the quarterback is; B, the quarterback to know who the quarterback is; and C, we know for game-planning purposes," Gruden said.</div>
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The verdict won't just hinge on Griffin's ankle and whether the medical staff gives him clearance.</div>
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"It's not so much much watching him run. I think he feels OK running right now," Gruden said. "It's about how he feels tomorrow, and there are certain movements — rolling out to the right, rolling out to the left, cutting back. And we've got to see how he handles that.</div>
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"But the big thing is getting him comfortable in the pocket and throwing the ball, getting his timing down. There's a lot of that that has to take place also."</div>
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Griffin's return could very well be delayed another week or more.</div>
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"I'm in no rush today to make a crazy decision," Gruden said. "If we have to wait for another week or another two weeks (going into a bye week) … then so be it."</div>
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During his two seasons as a starter in Cleveland, McCoy threw 20 touchdown passes and 20 interceptions. Last season with the San Francisco 49ers, he threw and completed one pass for 13 yards. He signed as a free agent with Washington in April.</div>
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During his college career, McCoy threw 112 touchdown passes for the Longhorns and was the Heisman Trophy runner-up in 2008.</div>
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"We know that in college he was one of the most successful quarterbacks to play," Gruden said. "We know he's got talent, he was on the streets, and we needed a third quarterback in training camp.</div>
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"He was a perfect fit. I always liked the way he played, his accuracy, his toughness."</div>
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McCoy was asked if he's a different quarterback than he was in Cleveland.</div>
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"I would say I'm older (28), maybe a little bit stronger, and I think I learned from a lot of my past experiences, and I've watched a lot of the quarterbacks play," he said.</div>
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"And hopefully by doing that, you naturally gain a little bit of confidence in your understanding what is happening."</div>
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He understands the demand to see him play again in Texas will be high.</div>
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"I was going to need a few tickets," McCoy said. "Now it's turned into a laundry list.</div>
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"I'm excited about going back to Dallas. It's going to be a lot of fun."</div>
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Colt McCoy is preparing to start at quarterback for the Washington Redskins on Monday night at the Dallas Cowboys. But Washington coach ...