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G-RAID With Thunderbolt RAID 0 Professional High-Performance Dual-Drive Storage System Now Shipping
One in 15 Households With Macs Infected With Flashback
How LibreOffice Writer Tops MS Word: 12 Features
Apple Throws Free Snow Leopard Bone To MobileMe Users
Urban Lightscape Photo Correction App Corrects And Enhances Lighting
'Heavily Redesigned' Mac Laptops Coming With Ivy Bridge, New Thunderbolt
Get Plain Text v1.0 Converts Copied Text to Plain Text
G-RAID With Thunderbolt RAID 0 Professional High-Performance Dual-Drive Storage System Now Shipping
G-Technology has begun shipping its new G-RAID with Thunderbolt RAID 0 system with capacities up to 8TB and dual Thunderbolt ports. The drive features up to 280MB/sec sustained throughput, an aluminum case with "smart" fan and Kensington Lock slot, and support for Mac OS X 10.6 and up.
G-RAID with Thunderbolt is G-Technology's leading RAID solution, designed specifically for professional content creation applications, features double the data transfer rates of USB 3.0 and over 12 times faster throughput than Firewire 800.
GTechnology by Hitachi's main target markets are creative professionals and prosumers who demand performance, capacity and quality, and it has worked with Intel and Apple to enable Thunderbolt on its product line.
G-RAID is ready out of the box for use with Mac OS X systems and appears to the system as a single, big and fast disk drive. G-RAID also supports Windows systems with a simple reformat.
G-RAID is backed by a standard 3-year factory warranty and unlimited free technical support by representatives experienced with the latest content creation applications.
Feature Summary:
Ultra-fast, high-performance Thunderbolt technology
Double the data transfer rates of USB 3.0
Over 12 times faster than Firewire 800
Dual Thunderbolt ports
Daisy-chain up to 6 Thunderbolt compatible peripherals
RAID 0 for maximum performance
Supports multi-stream HDV, DVCPro HD, XDCAM HD, ProRes 422 and uncompressed SD workflows
Time Machine-ready, plug-and-play setup on Mac OS
Up to 8TB storage capacity
7200 RPM drive technology
Specifications:
Interface: (2) Thunderbolt
Disk Drives: Type 2x SATA II - RPM 7200 - Cache Up to 32MB per drive (64MB on 6TB and 8TB units)
Cooling System: Thermo-regulated, quiet smart fan
RAID Controller: Hardware RAID 0
Size (LxWxH): 9.25" x 5.125" x 3.374"
System Requirements:
Mac OSX 10.6
G-RAID with Thunderbolt is available in 4TB, 6TB, and 8TB capacities
Pricing is $699.99, $849.99, and $999.99 respectively.
For more information, visit:
http://www.g-technology.com/products/g-raid-thunderbolt.cfm
One in 15 Households With Macs Infected With Flashback
Kindsight Security Labs' Kevin McNamee reports that Kindsight has confirmed previous findings by Russian anti-virus vendor Dr. Web and Kaspersky Labs estimates that 6.9% of North American households with a Mac computer have been infected with tht Flashback Trojan horse malware, and that an analysis of network infection statistics from North America showed that 0.75% of home networks were infected with the Flashback malware. McNamee says that passive OS fingerprinting of the network traffic that generated the alerts confirmed that 99% of these infections were from home networks with at least one computer running Mac OS X, and based on a 10.92% OS X market share in North America as reported by IDC Worldwide Quarterly PC Tracker, January 11, 2012, allows Kindsight to estimate that about 6.9% of the home networks with at least one Mac are infected, with the infection rate for Flashback more than half of infection rate Kindsight sees for all Windows malware, demonstratin how vulnerable Mac computers can be when cybercriminals decide to target them.
For the full report visit here:
http://bit.ly/Ic2HFY
How LibreOffice Writer Tops MS Word: 12 Features
Datamation's Bruce Byfield says that when reviewers look at LibreOffice and its ancestor OpenOffice.org, they inevitably assume that it's inferior to Microsoft Office, although undemanding users may find it acceptable.
However, Byfield contends that when you examine LibreOffice and MS Office without assumptions, the comparison changes dramatically - especially true when looking at the respective word processors, LibreOffice's Writer and MS Office's Word, and that far from being the underdog in every circumstance, Writer has at least twelve major advantages over Word, and that together, these advantages not only suggest a very different design philosophy from Word, but also demonstrate that, from the perspective of an expert user, Writer is the superior tool.
Twelve categories where Byfield thinks Libre Office has the edge are:
1) The Navigator
2) The Styles and Formatting Window
3) Page Styles
4) Separate List Styles
5) Frame Styles
6) Hierarchical Paragraph Styles
7) WYSISYG Headers and Footers
8) Custom Properties
9) Paragraph by Paragraph Hyphenation
10) Improved Table of Contents Options
11) Advanced PDF Options
12) Stability, Long Documents, and Recovery
He says these twelve features are not cherry-picked, but rather, a result of going through the menus item by item, ignoring cosmetic differences and concentrating on the major functional ones.
For the full review visit here:
http://bit.ly/HwIQmM
Apple Throws Free Snow Leopard Bone To MobileMe Users
The Register's Anna Leach reports that Apple is now giving away an OS upgrade to as a ploy to wean stubborn users off its MobileMe service and onto its iCloud storage offering. Cupertino's older OSes do not support iCloud. The company has informed MobileMe customers still using the 2007 Mac operating system Leopard that they can have the next version of the OS the 2009 release, Snow Leopard for free, thus enabling an online upgrade to OS X 10.8 Lion ($29.99). The offer only applies to MobileMe subscribers still on Leopard.
For the full report visit here:
http://bit.ly/IRI7qQ
Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard normally sells for $29.00 on DVD, and is available here:
http://store.apple.com/us/product/MC573Z/A
Urban Lightscape Photo Correction App Corrects And Enhances Lighting
Photographers can use Urban Lightscape to correct exposure, make localised brightness adjustments and introduce artificial lighting to photos. for subjects that deserve better exposure than you got in-camera, to rediscover hidden detail obscured by harsh shadows or glaring lights or to to add light in post-production that you didn't have on set
Use Urban Lightscape to correct under- and overexposed parts of an image.
By placing control points with a simple "double-click-and-drag" interface, you can quickly balance the exposure of an image to soften harsh shadows, fix overexposed skies, lighten backlit foregrounds and achieve a HDR toning-like effect.
Use Urban Lightscape to dodge (lighten) and burn (darken) local patches of a photo to highlight and suppress details, directing the viewers eye as you intend.
Clever edge detection enables local adjustments without tedious selections or paintbrush tools.
Use Urban Lightscape to cast artificial lighting into a photo for a stellar effect. Clever interpolation will flood local control point adjustments throughout an image.
Photoshop or Paint Shop Pro user? Buy the plugin version of Urban Lightscape for use within these software packages, for $19.99 USD. This also includes the app version.
Otherwise, the app version of Urban Lightscape sells for $4.99.
For more information, visit:
http://www.indii.org/software/urbanlightscape
'Heavily Redesigned' Mac Laptops Coming With Ivy Bridge, New Thunderbolt
International Business Times's Dave Smith observes that it's been quite some time since Apple overhauled its MacBook Pro laptops, but several sources close to Apple are currently telling customers to hold off on buying a Mac, as Apple is expected to roll out "heavily redesigned" laptops in the coming months powered by Intel's latest Ivy Bridge chip, as well as featuring second-generation Thunderbolt I/O connectivity, a lighter and thinner frame, better battery life, and possibly even a full surface trackpad.
Smith cites Wall Street Journal columnist and veteran Aooke watcher Walt Mossberg advising: "If you're thinking of buying a new laptop this spring, my advice is to think again. "Apple is overdue for redesigned laptops, especially in its MacBook Pro line, and it is a good bet that new, possibly heavily redesigned, models will begin appearing later this year. Current Macs will likely be upgradable to Mountain Lion, but if you buy now, you'll miss out on the likely new hardware." '
Mr. Mossberg is quoted noting that Ivy Bridge CPUs are claimed to offer much faster graphics performance without sacrificing battery life," and that "While some Ivy Bridge laptops will be available very soon, the new chips won't show up in large numbers of consumer laptops until around June. So, even before Windows 8 appears, many consumer laptops you buy now will be outclassed by similar machines that will be introduced this summer."
Smith also reports that Ivy Bridge silicon will not only boost graphics power and multimedia processing by some 65 percent over the last generation Intel chips, is also the first CPU developed by Intel to employ 3D transistors, and the first to natively support USB 3.0, and that sources from Apple's Asian supply chains claim the new MacBook Pro laptops will feature a Retina Display resolution of 2800 x 1800 pixels compared with current MacBook display resolutions ranging from 1680 x 1050 to 1280 x 800.
For the full report visit here:
http://bit.ly/IRvtbq
Get Plain Text v1.0 Converts Copied Text to Plain Text
Alice Dev Team has announced announce the launch of their new utility Get Plain Text v.1.0. This program for Mac OS, is designed to rid users of the hassle presented with copying formatted text. Get Plain Text provides a simple solution for users who want to copy formatted text - the app allows users to convert text to plain text.
"If you use the copy/paste functions in Mac OS, then you know how big of a pain it can be to manually convert formatted text," says Stanislav Kuptsov, CEO of Alice Dev Team. "We developed Get Plain Text to provide a solution to this everyday frustration, and think anyone who needs to convert text to plain text will appreciate how valuable Get Plain Text is. This app will lower your stress level and save you tons of time."
Get Plain Text is a practical utility program offered as a solution to the frustrations faced in converting formatted text on Mac OS. The program converts copied text into plain text without any hassle. It instantly removes all unneeded formatting, including: colors, typeface size, style (boldface, italics, etc.), hyperlinks, images, and anything else that is not plain text.
"Now you can put plain text in your letters and documents using copy/paste functions, without having to clean it up manually," says Kuptsov. "Get Plain Text will convert any bit of text into plain text, no matter where you copied it from (a website, PDF document or elsewhere). You can activate the feature manually, or check "Automatically remove formatting" to make the app take care of it every time you copy something, allowing it to convert text to plain text."
System Requirements:
Get Plain Text v.1.0 requires an Intel based Macintosh, Mac OS X 10.6 or greater and 0.3MB of hard disk space.
Get Plain Text v.1.0 is $2.99 (USD) and available worldwide through the Mac App Store in the Utilities category. Review copies are available upon request.
Alice Dev Team:
http://alicedev.com/
Get Plain Text 1.0:
http://alicedev.com/getplaintext
Purchase and Download:
http://itunes.apple.com/app/get-plain-text/id508368068
Screenshot:
http://bit.ly/JsenoD
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