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ECO-Friendly Battery-Free BlueEye Mouse
OWC Announces Mercury Aura Pro Express SSD Upgrade For 2010/2011 MacBook Air
Sleipnir 3 for Mac Web Browser Supports Tabs Operations: Swipe, Pinch-In
Apple Certified Refurbished MacBook Airs Now As Low As $699
Bean 3.0.5 Free Word Processor Update Released
AuthenTec Launches Fingerprint Security Solution for Apple Mac OS X Lion Platforms
DriveSavers Data File Recoveries for Apple Users Tops Six Billion
ECO-Friendly Battery-Free BlueEye Mouse
Genius, a Taiwan-based maker of computer peripherals, has announced what it claims is the world's first battery-free wireless mouse that is recharged within minutes - DX-ECO BlueEye Mouse.
Your editor is a big fan of the Logitech Solar Keyboard For Mac that's been my main inout device for the past six months or so, and this Genius Mouse sounds like an ideal companion device.
Genius says the BlueEye DX-ECO's battery-free design has built-in a gold capacitor to expand recharge life up to 100,000 times; plus it can be ready for a full day's use after only a three-minute charge. The Genius BlueEye technology lets you work virtually anywhere, connecting to you Mac or PC via bi-directional 2.4GHz RF from up to 15 meters and anti-interference technology to ensures working smoothness. Also supported is hot key 4-way scrolling, access to Previous/Next Page, Flying Scroll, and dpi adjust between 800 and 1600 dpi. The DX-ECO's tiny super mini USB pico receiver can be stored inside the DX-ECO in transit or storage.
DX-ECO Features
• 2.4GHz 7-button Battery-free mouse
• 1600 dpi BlueEye engine
• Flying scroll to hyper scroll document browsing
• Works on dusted glass, marble, thick carpet, sofa upholstery
• Ergonomic design with rubber comfort on thumb grip
The DX-ECO's suggested retail price will be $39.99, and it should be available at major resellers in the USA & Canada soon.
For more information, visit:
http://www.geniusnet.com/
What Bill Gates Wrote To The Dying Steve Jobs
The Telegraph's Mary Riddell says that Microsoft's founder has become "the people's plutocrat," pledging to pupils at a south London school he visited last week that ninety-nine percent of his personal fortune, estimated at $40 billion, will be given away.
Ms. Riddell also quotes Bill Gates commenting on his sometimes stormy relationship with the late Steve Jobs, saying:
"Steve was an incredible genius who contributed immensely to the field I was in. We had periods, like the early Macintosh, when we had more people working on it than they did. And then we were competitors [but] we enjoyed each [others' work]....
"He spent a lot of his time competing with me. There are lots of times when Steve said [critical] things about me. If you took the more harsh examples, you could get quite a litany...."
However, Gates relates that in 2007 he and Jobs did an event together, and "he couldn't have been nicer," and that some months before Jobs's death, Gates paid him a long visit during which Gates says the two IT titans spent literally hours reminiscing and talking about the future. Later, with Jobs's death imminent, Gates wrote to him, affirming how he should feel great about what he had done and the company he had built, as well as Jobs's children, who Gates had got to know, but the letter was not a gesture of conciliation, since "There was no peace to make. We were not at war. We made great products, and competition was always a positive thing. There was no [cause for] forgiveness."
Gates adds that after Jobs's death, his widow Laurene called to tell him that Jobs had appreciated the letter and kept it by his bed.
For the full report visit here:
http://tgr.ph/xonIMR
You can also read Bill Gates's annual letter at:
http://bit.ly/xiwfqw
OWC Announces Mercury Aura Pro Express SSD Upgrade For 2010/2011 MacBook Air
The new OWC Mercury Aura Pro Express SSD For MacBook Air 2010-2011 Edition can boost storage capacity up to 8x the factory maximum and support extreme data rate speeds over 500MB/s.
Designed & built in the US from domestic & imported parts, these drives feature"
• Chip Based Data Encryption: 128-bit AES-compliant;
Intelligent "recycling" for advanced free space management.
• Best in class error correction (ECC) and SandForce RAISE (Redundant Array of Independent Silicon Elements) technology provides RAID-like data protection and reliability without loss of transfer speed due to parity.
• SandForce Processor with 7% over-provisioning maximizes read and write performance to greatly extend the endurance and overall reliability of the drive.
• Up to 100X greater data protection than what the highest rated enterprise class conventional hard disk drive (HDD) provides.
• SandForce DuraClass technology with Ultra-efficient Block Management & Wear Leveling offers highest endurance, performance and power efficiency in a SSD.
• Some of the drive space in OWC SSDs are allocated for RAISE - which provides real time data redundancy, ECC Error Correction, and reserve cell space. Example: An OWC Mercury Aura Pro Express that's 240GB in size with 7% over-provisioning is actually a 256GB drive with 7% allocated for data management, and to maintain the drive's high-performance level.
• Unlike most SSDs on the market today, the OWC Mercury Aura Pro Express uses advanced DuraWrite wear-leveling and block management technologies to keep Read/Write performance at peak while others see performance fall.
3G Models:
• More Speed
- Up to 68% faster in real world uses
- Up to 3.5X faster in critical 4K random reads/writes
• More Storage
- Offers nearly 8x factory SSD capacity
• Maximum Capacity & Performance Boost Over Factory SSD
- SandForce 1200 Series Processor
- Tier 1/Grade A Asynchronous NAND
- Up to 68% faster than factory SSD in real world uses....sustained writes up to 275MB/s
180GB
$264.99
240GB
$399.00
480GB
$1,079.00
These drives support MacBook Air 2010 & 2011 with Apple Model Identifiers "MacBookAir3,1; MacBookAir3,2;
MacBookAir4,1 and MacBookAir4,2"
Extreme 6G Performance & Increased Capacity
- Over 500MB/s Read & 450MB/s Write
120GB
$259.99
240GB
$499.99
480GB
$1,149.00
For MacBook Air 2011 with Apple Model Identifiers "MacBookAir4,1 and MacBookAir4,2"
- Tier 1/Grade A Toggle Synchronous NAND
- SandForce 2200 Series Processor
- Offers nearly 4x factory SSD capacity
- Utilizes 6G SATA bus in 2011 MacBook Air to deliver over 500MB/s data rate performance
For more information, visit:
http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/SSD/OWC/Aura_Pro_Express
Sleipnir 3 for Mac Web Browser Supports Tabs Operations: Swipe, Pinch-In
Withe the Sleipnir Web browser, when you find a webpage you want immediately with simple Touch Gesture, pinch-In on the trackpad to view all tabs. You can smoothly glide to the next tab just by Swiping a webpage. Pinch-In to enable "TiledTab", then you can switch tab groups by Swiping. When "TiledTab" is enabled, you can use Magic Mouse and Swipe.
For you to focus on web browsing, Sleipnir 3 for Mac's user interface appearance is simple. Most-used functions are designed in compact shape, such as addresses being displayed small and progress bars for downloading files being integrated.
Addresses are usually displayed small but you can change display with a click or command + L. You can also search opened tabs, bookmarks and history.
Sync Bookmarks on Mobiles
Fenrir Pass, a free cloud service, lets you sync bookmarks automatically with popular Sleipnir Mobile for iPhone / iPad and Sleipnir Mobile for Android. You can access to your Bookmarks anytime from outside and/or home. You can sync Sleipnir Bookmarks with iPhone, iPad, Android and Windows.
New in Sleipnir 3 for Mac (3.1):
• Faster tab usage achieved by added gestures. Just like when scrolling, you can draw with 2 fingers (1 finger with Magic Mouse), or move the mouse cursor while holding down the right click button of the mouse. Also, if you use Hold And Go, you can quickly browse through links you are interested in, one after the another.
- Draw an "L" letter to close tabs (Connect 2 "L" letters to close all tabs)
- Draw a clockwise circle to refresh a tab (2 clockwise circles to refresh all tabs)
- Restore tabs by drawing a squarish "U" letter
- Draw up then right/left to go back/forward
- Hold And Go: Hold down a link to open in the background
System requirements:
• Compatible with OS X 10.6 / 10.7
Free
For more information, visit:
http://www.fenrir-inc.com/us/mac/sleipnir/
Apple Certified Refurbished MacBook Airs Now As Low As $699
The Apple Online Store has cut prices on some Apple Certified Refurbished MacBook Airs.
Apple Certified Refurbished MacBook Air 1.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
- Originally released October 2010
- 11.6-inch LED-backlit glossy widescreen display
- 2GB memory
- 64GB flash storage
- NVIDIA GeForce 320M graphics
- FaceTime camera
$699.00
Apple Certified Refurbished MacBook Air 1.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
- Originally released October 2010
- 11.6-inch LED-backlit glossy widescreen display
- 2GB memory
- 128GB flash storage
- NVIDIA GeForce 320M graphics
- FaceTime camera
$799.00
Apple Certified Refurbished MacBook Air 1.6GHz dual-core Intel Core i5
- Originally released July 2011
- 11.6-inch (diagonal) high-resolution LED-backlit glossy widescreen display
- 2GB memory
- 64GB flash storage
- Thunderbolt port with support for up to 2560-by-1600 resolution
- FaceTime camera
- Intel HD Graphics 3000
$849.00
Apple Certified Refurbished MacBook Air 1.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
- Originally released October 2010
- 11.6-inch LED-backlit glossy widescreen display
- 4GB memory
- 64GB flash storage
- NVIDIA GeForce 320M graphics
- FaceTime camera
$849.00
You can check them out at:
http://store.apple.com/us/browse/home/specialdeals/mac
Bean 3.0.5 Free Word Processor Update Released
Bean 3 is a small, easy-to-use and free rich text editor and lightweight word processor designed to make writing convenient, efficient and comfortable. A fairly extensive bugfix version 3.0.5 release is now available.
Lean, fast and uncluttered, Bean starts up quickly, has a live word count, page layout mode, full-screen mode, regular expression search/replace, multi-column text, inline graphics, detailed statistics, and much more, and its user interface is easy on the eyes. While MS Word, OpenOffice, etc. try to be all things to all people, sometimes you just want the right tool for the job. That's Bean's niche. For example, Bean doesn't do footnotes or use stylesheets and is only partially compatible with Word's file formats. Also, it allows in-line graphics, but not floating graphics.
New in Version 3 are an optional single-window tabbed interface layout, template documents with boilerplate text, a split view, a two-up layout view, freeform headers and footers, plain text editing, and other improvements.
Bean features:
live word count
make template documents with boilerplate text
free-form headers and footers
page layout view (optional 2-up)
alternate colors option (e.g., white text on blue)
split-window editing
full screen editing
date-stamped backups
selection of text by text style, paragraph style, color, etc.
find panel allows regular expressions (pattern matching)
all of Cocoa's good stuff (dictionary, word completion, etc.)
Bean natively reads and writes these file formats:
.rtf format (rich text)
.rtfd format (rich text with graphics)
.bean format (identical to .rtfd)
plain text (Unicode and legacy)
.webarchive format (Apple's web archive format)
Bean transparently imports and exports these formats:
.doc format (MS Word '97, minus images, margins, and page size)...more info here
.docx format (Word 2007, minus images and some formatting)...more info here
.odt format (OpenDocument, minus images, margins, and page size)
Bean can export all of the above formats to these formats:
.html (web page format)
.doc compatible (with images intact)
New in Version 3.0.5:
• Added a work-around to avoid crashes on Leopard involving fontSetChanged
message (20120112-1).
• Lion's dictionary popover can become stuck when a full screen window is closed or switched away from, causing a crash. Fixed (20120124-1).
• Attached sheets (Save panel, etc.) can become lost when a full screen window is closed or switched away from. Fixed (20120108-1, 20120122-1).
• Replaced _blinkCaret override with yet another fix when moving text views between windows (20120112-2). This might also fix the mysterious missing text cursor problem.
• Paste Font Family & Ruler menu item now enables itself correctly (20120108-2).
• Fixed a regression in Bean 3.0.4 where Review Changes before Quitting > Discard Changes could momentarily show a Do You Want to Save the Changes You Made in the Document? alert on one document (20120123-1).
• Fixed a bug where the Show Info panel could reappear unexpectedly when switching document windows after its being closed with the close button (20120126-1).
• Undo now restores paragraph attributes changed after a deleted paragraph break (20120119-1).
• The Inspectors font popup menu now reloads when the available fonts change (20120122-2).
• The Inspector now shows the typing attributes at the text cursor (i.e., the text attributes to be applied if text is typed there) rather than the attributes of the character following the text cursor (20120125-1).
• Added Polish localization. Thanks Wanarek!
• Note on the Dictionary Popup Crash under Lion -
An OS X bug causes the dictionary popover in Lion to become stuck when the user preference controlling the zoom-open window animation is turned off,
followed by an immediate crash (but only on apps not compiled for Lion only). The following terminal command fixes the problem, but also re-enables the animation (change YES to NO to disable it again):
System requirements:
• OS X 10.5 Leopard, 10.6 Snow Leopard, or 10.7 Lion
• An older version (2.4.5) is still available compatible with OS X Tiger 10.4+
For more information, visit:
http://www.bean-osx.com/Bean.html
AuthenTec Launches Fingerprint Security Solution for Apple Mac OS X Lion Platforms
AuthenTec has announced the availability of the new fingerprint security solution - including an Eikon fingerprint sensor and TrueSuite identity management software - for Apple Mac laptops and desktop computers running on Lion and Snow Leopard operating systems.
The new Eikon-TrueSuite offering from AuthenTec includes the following features:
• Web site logon (new) logon to websites with a swipe of the finger; no need to type passwords
• QuickLaunch (new) launch and logon to favorite websites; associate websites with different fingers
• Easy fingerprint enrollment/setup
• Mac logon
• Fast user switching
• Automatic updates (new) ensure your software always incorporates the newest features
The new Eikon fingerprint reader for Mac and matching TrueSuite user software will be available in March for $59.95 from Apple.com, Amazon.com and AuthenTecs Web store (store.authentec.com).
"Based on the strong demand from the Mac community, we are pleased to offer a fingerprint security solution with features and functions that enhance the user experience and support the newest Apple OS," says Tom Aebli, AuthenTec Vice President of Software and eCommerce. AuthenTec is pleased to offer Mac users the same fingerprint security and convenience features already enjoyed by millions of Windows PC users.
AuthenTecs software and eCommerce business supports the millions of fingerprint sensors already integrated into laptops, tablets and mobile phones. The software and eCommerce portfolio includes AuthenTecs TrueSuite identity management software, Eikon fingerprint readers for PC and Mac, KeepVault online backup services, and mobile and PC applications that enhance security and the user experience.
For more information, visit:
http://authentec.com
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DriveSavers Data File Recoveries for Apple Users Tops Six Billion
DriveSavers has announced that the company has recovered over six billion data files for Apple users since the company's inception over twenty-five years ago. Six billion data files are equivalent to the amount of data stored in the Library of Congress, one of the largest databases in the world. Videos, digital photos, financial files, personal documents, address book contacts, calendar entries and music are examples of the types of data that is recovered.
Scott Gaidano, president of DriveSavers, lost business critical files on a Mac floppy disk many years ago. Disappointed and frustrated, Gaidano along with Jay Hagan, decided to attempt to recover the data which lead to the two gentlemen starting their own data recovery business. Today, DriveSavers recovers data from iPads, iPhones, iPods and essentially any storage device (Apple or non-Apple related) that has suffered common or catastrophic data loss. DriveSavers has pioneered the data recovery industry by demonstrating best practices, methods and security standards for recovering data safely and securely.
As innovative Apple products continue to emerge and become immersed in the mainstream of businesses and consumers, DriveSavers anticipates that more critical data will be stored on these amazing devicesand lost due to user error, physical damage, mismanagement and software or hardware failure. And, we anticipate that recovering the data will become progressively complex, especially with the use of SSD technology in many of these products such as the iPad and iPhone. DriveSavers claims to have more expertise, technology and capabilities to successfully recover data from Flash memory-based solid-state devices than any other data recovery company.
For more information, visit:
http://www.drivesaversdatarecovery.com/
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