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MacBook Pro With 2880 x 1800 Display Resolution Coming?
New 2.5 inch High-Capacity Octane SSDs
Woz On The Countercultural Formation Of Apple And Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs: Billion Dollar Hippy
Steve Jobs loses to 'The Protester' as Time's 2011 Person of the Year
SMK Announces the New Bluetooth Calculator Keypad for iMac, MacBook Air, MacBook Pro and Mac Pro Users, Plus All Windows/PC Laptop Computers
Manuscript App For Writers
Data Recovery Guru for OS X: Scan + Recover Deleted Files Simultaneously
MacCleaning Pro Utility Monitors Drive Free Space, Cleans Up System Junk, Quickly Accesses And Unmounts Volumes
How To Print In Grayscale In OS X
MacBook Pro With 2880 x 1800 Display Resolution Coming?
Digitimes' Yenting Chen and Steve Shen report that Apple is likely to launch a new MacBook Pro lineup with a display resolution of 2880 x 1800 in the second quarter of 2012, which, if it comes to pass, would set up a new round of competition for screen resolution specifications in the notebook industry, according to Digitimes' anonymous sources in the upstream OEM supply chain.
Chen and Shen note that while current MacBook Pro models have displays with resolutions ranging from 1680 x 1050 on the 17-incher to a modest 1280 x 800 for the 13" Pro, ultra-high resolutiPress Release Edited splays for the next generation MacBook Pro will further differentiate Apple's products from other laptop brands.
They say that Acer and Asustek Computer also plan to launch high-end Ultrabook models with a display resolution of 1920 x 1080 in the first half of 2012, a substantial upgrade from the 1366 x 768 displays typically found in Ultrabooks.
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New 2.5 inch High-Capacity Octane SSDs
High-performance SSDs leverage the Indilinx Everest platform to deliver superior performance and endurance for a wide range of workloads
OCZ Technology Group, Inc. have launched the Indilinx Everest-based Octane SATA 3.0 and SATA 2.0 SSD series, striking the ideal balance between capacity, physical size, and speed. In addition to being the world's first SSD to achieve up to a 1TB capacity in a compact 2.5 inch format, OCZ's Octane SSD series combines high-speed data transfer rates with record-breaking access times to provide a superior user experience and improved application performance.
"OCZ has reached an important milestone in the development of its own controller technology," says James E. Bagley, Senior Analyst with Storage Strategies NOW. "The high sustained performance, even with compressed files, the rapid boot feature and high access speeds using SATA 3.0 protocol puts their controller technology in the major league."
"Until now SSDs have been tailored for specific applications, forcing users into a product which maximizes performance for a narrow band of applications, but is significantly lacking in others," explains Ryan Petersen, CEO of OCZ Technology. "The Octane Series solves this problem by providing the highest level of performance across varied workloads including mixed file sizes and mixed compressible and uncompressible data, all while nearly doubling NAND flash endurance."
The Octane series leverages the cutting-edge Indilinx Everest platform to deliver up to 560MB/s of bandwidth and 45,000 IOPS and is optimized for the complete spectrum of file types and sizes. In particular, the Octane's proprietary page mapping algorithms allow for steady mixed-workload performance, mirroring real world conditions across a wide range of applications. The Octane series also includes a number of advanced features unique to Indilinx, including innovative latency reduction technology, enabling both read and write access times as low as 0.06ms and 0.09ms respectively, the lowest of any commercially available SSD. This enhances application responsiveness and enables features such as "fast boot" in consumer applications.
Octane SSDs also come equipped with Indilinx's proprietary NDurance technology, increasing the lifespan of the NAND flash memory, ensuring the most consistent and reliable performance as well as minimizing performance degradation even after the drive's storage capacity is highly utilized. In addition, Octane series drives support AES and automatic encryption to secure critical data.
Octane Product Features:
- Dual Core CPU
- Up to 512MB DRAM cache
- 128GB, 256GB, 512GB, and 1TB models
- High sequential speeds:
Octane (SATA 3.0) Read: 560MB/s; Write: 400MB/s
Octane-S2 (SATA 2.0) Read: 275MB/s; Write: 265MB/s
- High transactional performance - Optimized for 4K to 16K compressed files
Octane (SATA 3.0) 45,000 random read 4K IOPS
Octane-S2 (SATA 2.0) 30,000 random read 4K IOPS
- Industry-low latency:
Read: 0.06ms; Write: 0.09ms
- Strong performance at low queue depths (QD 1 – 3)
- Up to 8 channels with up to 16-way Interleaving
- Advanced BCH ECC engine enabling more than 70 bits correction capability per 1KB of data
- Proprietary NDurance™ Technology: increases NAND life up to 2X of the rated P/E cycles
- Efficient NAND Flash management: Dynamic and static wear-leveling, and background garbage collection
- Boot time reduction optimizations
- NCQ support up to 32 queue depth
- End-to-end data protection
- TRIM support
- Industry standard SMART reporting
The OCZ Octane SSD Series is available in models ranging from 128GB-1TB capacities throughout OCZ's global channel.
For more information, visit:
http://www.ocztechnology.com
Woz On The Countercultural Formation Of Apple And Steve Jobs
In an interview with Evan Davis for a BBC Radio 4 Today program about his friend and former business partner the late Steve Jobs, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak said that a counterculture ethos was an essential enlement nurturing the creativity that went into establishing Apple as an innovator and leader that would revolutionise an industry, and that ethos meant letting people wear what they want to, and that allowing creativity in the early days of Apple was far more important than how you dressed or the length of your hair. He also suggested that the mild California climate probably had something to do with Apple's freestyle dress code, noting that it's a lot colder in northern and eastern regions where other IT firms are based.
Covering wide range of topics in a five-minute interview, Wozniak also comments on nationalism and parochial emphasis on school pride and college sports teams as anti-creative forces, and praising the college drop-outs who founded Facebook and Yahoo!
Steve Wozniak's takeaway advice: 'Think for yourself,' noting that "Thinking for yourself is creativity and that's goes right down to what we were talking about dress, the clothing that you wear - you wear what you want to wear," and "What we stand for is creative thinking, being able to figure out different ways of doing things. When you are very structured, almost like a religion, with uniforms, then everybody is the same."
Wozniak also observed that a company like Apple could never have developed in a formal culture likem say, that of Singapore, "where bad behaviour is not tolerated and can get you extreme punishments: Where are the creative people? Where are the great artists, where are the great musicians, where are the great writers?All the creative elements seem to disappear. Though, of course, everybody is educated and has a good job and nice pay and a car."
Asked about Steve Jobs specifically, the Woz said he had always been too close to Jobs to evaluate him properlsays: but that Jobs wasn't a thoroughgoing countercultural icon, noting that "I think he's got a lot of liberal counterculture thinking but then Apple does a lot of very conservative things, we control things and have very little tolerance. For you know, if an engineer tells a friend something then he's fired."
You can listen to the full interview, here:
http://bbc.in/rzbLuO
Steve Jobs: Billion Dollar Hippy
The BBC has created a one-hour documentary about late Apple co-founder and figurehead Steve Jobs.
Broadly considered a brand that inspires fervour and defines cool consumerism, Apple has become one of the biggest corporations in the world, fuelled by game-changing products that tap into modern desires. Its leader, Steve Jobs, was a long-haired college dropout with infinite ambition, and an inspirational perfectionist with a bully's temper. A man of contradictions, he fused a Californian counterculture attitude and a mastery of the art of hype with explosive advances in computer technology.
Insiders including Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, the chairman who ousted Jobs from the company he founded, and Jobs' chief of software, tell extraordinary stories of the rise, fall and rise again of Apple with Steve Jobs at its helm.
With Stephen Fry, world wide web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee and branding guru Rita Clifton, Evan Davis decodes the formula that took Apple from suburban garage to global supremacy.
Note: This program is not available in all regions of the globe, but you can check at:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b018ct00
Steve Jobs loses to 'The Protester' as Time's 2011 Person of the Year
Appleinsider's Slash Lane reports:
Time magazine announced on Wednesday its annual "Person of the Year," awarding the title to "The Protester." Late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs was recognized in a "Fond Farewell" from the magazine, while Apple CEO Tim Cook was identified as one of 2011's "People Who Mattered."... Jobs didn't earn the title or even make the magazine's list of runners up.
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SMK Announces the New Bluetooth Calculator Keypad for iMac, MacBook Air, MacBook Pro and Mac Pro Users, Plus All Windows/PC Laptop Computers
SMK-Link Electronics Corporation has announced availability of the Bluetooth Calculator Keypad. With integrated wireless technology, the Bluetooth Calculator Keypad delivers cordless keypad and calculator functionality for iMac, MacBook Air, MacBook Pro and Mac Pro users, as well as for all Windows/PC laptop computers.
Designed for use with both Apple OS X computers and Windows/PC laptops, the new Bluetooth Wireless Keypad features a numeric keypad for extended data entry and spreadsheet computing. In calculator mode, it also doubles as a stand alone calculator: sending calculations wirelessly to spreadsheets as typed. The Bluetooth Wireless Keypad has a 10 meter wireless range and, for systems with integrated Bluetooth technology, requires no additional Bluetooth receiver.
This wireless numeric keypad doubles as a ten-key for spreadsheets and data entry and as a stand alone calculator. The VP6273 features an LCD display, Bluetooth wireless up to 33 feet. Calculations computed on the keypad can be sent directly into a spreadsheet just like you typed them. Cut the cord and go wireless. For computers with Bluetooth built in, there is no need for any dongle or cord. For those without, it works perfectly with Interlink Electronics Nano Bluetooth Dongle.
"If youve purchased an Apple OS X computer over the past few years, it more than likely came with Apple's redesigned Wireless Keyboard," says John Blair, General Manager of Branded Products for SMK-Link. "This elegant keyboard features a reduced-footprint design that provides, however, no numeric keypad. Whether youre using your iMac, MacBook Air, MacBook Pro or Mac Pro, youll need an add-on peripheral keypad for extended data entry or spreadsheet use. Our new Bluetooth Wireless Keyboard was designed to precisely fill this need, as well as to be the perfect keypad peripheral for Windows laptop computers."
Bluetooth Calculator Keypad Features:
• 12-digit LCD display
• 9-key computer keypad (keypad mode)
• 6-key calculator (calculator mode)
• 2 hot-keys
• Bluetooth V2.0 (10 meter range)
System requirements:
• Bluetooth-enabled system (via built-in native Bluetooth or external adapter)
OS compatibility:
• Windows 2000, XP, Vista
• Mac OS X or later
Compatible with:
Mac OS X computers & Windows/PC laptop systems
Suggested retail price is $59.99
In the U.S., available from the Apple Online Store, other online retailers and from the SMK-Link website:
http://www.smklink.com/
In the U.K., available from the Apple Online Store and http://www.Amazon.co.uk . Suggested retail price is Ł39.99.
For more information, visit:
http://www.smklink.com
Product Page:
http://bit.ly/vatBjc
Manuscript App For Writers
Write novels, short stories, or articles with Black Mana Studios' Manuscript – a simple, powerful app for freelance writers, novelists, journalists, or bloggers that organizes your ideas, plot lines, and character summaries. By utilizing a few simple steps, you can grow your manuscript from an initial idea to a complete ePub formatted novel that is ready to publish on Apple's iBooks or Amazon's Kindle.
Manuscript provides an organized, clutter-free environment for writing, taking notes, or brainstorming ideas. Follow the simple to use steps included within the app to take your book idea from pitch to a publication:
1. Pitch – Create your one sentence pitch that encompasses your entire novel.
2. Synopsis – Outline your entire novel, from start to ending, covering all of your characters and plot lines.
3. Chapter Outlines – Create chapter summaries for each chapter, detailing the key plot points and using your outlines as a guide for writing.
4. Publish – When your novel is complete you can export it into a Word document, PDF, or ePub format, complete with a cover page image. ePubs are the accepted format to self-publish your novel on Apple's iBooks and Amazon's Kindle store.
Tens of thousands of users have written novels, short stories, articles, and blog posts on the go with Manuscript for iPad and iPhone. Manuscript brings all of the features of the mobile versions to you home computer, and includes new and innovative additions that will encourage and inspire the writing process:
• Simple yet innovative interface that provides you with an uncluttered writing environment
• Full-screen mode to eliminate the background noise of incoming email or computer notifications
• Share your manuscript with other devices such as your iPhone and iPad, allowing you to continue writing even when you aren't at your computer
• Import or export an existing manuscript to Dropbox
• Use the color-coded index cards and icons to outline each scene, keep a to-do list, or create a storyboard of your entire novel
• Add, edit, reorder and summarize Chapters, never losing track or having to dig through an entire document for an idea or unfinished plot point
• Sample manuscripts are included so you can familiarize yourself with the layout and tools available within the app
• Keep track of your word count and page count
• Accessibility features make it easy to read and write: Change the font face, size, background color and foreground color. Increase or decrease the font size using the convenient slider
• Exports your manuscript to ePub format for easy self-publishing on Apple's iBooks or Amazon's Kindle
• Attach an exported ePub to an email and open the attachment on your iPad – it will open directly in iBooks
• A video tutorial built into the app can guide you through each step in the writing process
New in Version 1.1
• New feature - Snapshots. Save and load snapshots of your manuscript. The snapshots are stored along with the manuscript file. Mobile devices such as iPad and iPhone will always load the most recent snapshot.
• Real page size in edit mode (A4 or US Letter)
• Zoom based on page size
• Page numbers (select their location in settings)
• Improved settings - Export and Print settings are saved along with the manuscript, set them once, and you will not need to configure them every time.
• Fullscreen mode now have custom zoom mode, which allows to manually configure zoom level.
• Ability to select index cards font style and size.
• Minor bug fixes.
System requirements:
Mac OS X 10.6 or later
$39.99
For more information, visit:
http://bit.ly/uqB3en
Data Recovery Guru for OS X: Scan + Recover Deleted Files Simultaneously
Mac OS X File Recovery has introduced Data Recovery Guru 1.0 for OS X, their new Utility app that recovers files that have been accidentally deleted due to user error or hardware malfunction. Files that have been emptied from the Trash appear gone, but actually remain on the disk until written over by new data. Data Recovery Guru locates and "unerases" these seemingly deleted files. Data Recovery Guru stands out among data recovery apps because it can find and save files that other apps cannot, generates preview thumbnails of recoverable files, and it can recover files at the same time it is scanning for lost files. Employing proprietary algorithms, the app's friendly GUI makes data recovery completely "non-technical."
Even the most experienced Mac users occasionally delete a file by accident. This can be an extremely frustrating, possibly costly, experience, because users rely on their Macs in managing so much of their business and personal lives. Fortunately, experienced users have also learned that files emptied from the Trash are not really removed from the disk. On erasing a file, the disk's file index is instructed that the location of the file is now "free space," and can be used to hold new data. But until it is overwritten, the original file remains unaltered, though it cannot be seen in the Finder. Disk recovery apps perform two related jobs. One, they scan the disk, looking for intact files that the file index erroneously believes are gone. And two, they allow the user to select for recovery any missing file identified in the scan. When successfully recovered, the file again appears in the Finder and is "good as new," ready to be used as if nothing ever happened.
Data Recovery Guru 1.0 for OS X is part of a new breed of disk recovery apps for three important reasons.
First, Data Recovery Guru is uncomplicated and easy to use. The user does not need to make any choices about which of several possible scanning modes they want to use. There are no Beginner, Intermediate, and Advanced data recovery methods. There is one simple default that works flawlessly. Again, unlike some competitors, Data Recovery Guru does not use an esoteric control panel or display window. Rather, the user sees the same Finder window to which they are accustomed. From the sidebar, the user selects the Volume or Drive. In the window's first column are listed folders showing the different types of files that have been located. Then, in the next column is a list of individual files contained in the folder selected. Finally, in the last column is one single file chosen for recovery. This is data recovery for grandparents, unpretentious and user-friendly.
The second reason Data Recovery Guru represents a new kind of data recovery app is that its scan will find deleted files (even some files on failing hard drives) that other apps miss. In addition, it can scan and recover files from an unprecedented number of different kinds of devices, including: Macintosh disks, Windows disks, Linux disks, Unix disks, digital cameras, mobile phones, USB drives, memory cards, CDs/DVDs, and more.
Third and last, Data Recovery Guru does not force the user to wait until the disk scan is complete before they can recover a file. Users can browse through deleted files that are found during the scanning process, while the app continues to scan. Selected files appear as text or graphic previews, displaying the file's content even before it is recovered. The larger the number of files on the disk, the longer the scan time. Data Recovery Guru features a thorough, high-speed scan, and allows users to recover their file the moment it appears in the scan window.
Should additional files need to be recovered, hitting the "Recover" button does not interrupt the ongoing scan.
Feature Highlights:
(*) Undelete files in Mac OS X
(*) User-friendly Finder window interface
(*) File thumbnail previews
(*) Scan for deleted files and recover files at the same time
(*) Finds lost files other disk recovery apps miss
(*) Identifies bad sectors
(*) Recovers files from failing hard drives
(*) Free demo version available for download
"The main benefit of Data Recovery Guru is its ease of use and tight integration with OS X; it looks like a Finder window, but it allows you to view deleted files rather than regular files," stated CEO Ben Slaney of Mac OS X File Recovery. "In the past, data recovery software had an appreciable learning curve, but Data Recovery Guru just works as soon as it's launched."
System Requirements
(*) Mac OS X 10.6 or latter
(*) 2 MB HD Space
(*) 2 GB RAM
Data Recovery Guru 1.0 sells for $99.00 (USD) and is available worldwide directly from the Mac OS X File Recovery website. A free demo version is available for download.
Data Recovery Guru:
http://bit.ly/vstLGK
Purchase and Download:
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Data Recovery FAQ:
http://www.macosxfilerecovery.com/faq/
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MacCleaning Pro Utility Monitors Drive Free Space, Cleans Up System Junk, Quickly Accesses And Unmounts Volumes
MacCleaning Pro is a powerful and handy menubar utility for monitoring drive free space, cleaning up system junk, and quickly accessing and unmounting volumes, making Mac system run faster and perform better. With the features of ejecting all mounted drives by one-click and setting custom space value to raise alarm more than MacCleaning Free, MacCleaning Pro will surely provide more precise, efficient, and secured maintenance of your Mac. This professional disk monitor and system cleanup tool helps users to perfect Mac in all directions.
MacCleaning Pro finds and removes junk files on your hard drive, such as System Caches, User Caches, System Logs, User Logs, User Downloads, Trash, Safari Internet Cache, etc. are all detected and cleaned automatically. It will Free up space within minutes and is claimed to speed up your Mac significantly.
Monitor the free space of all drives & alarm you when the free space is running low. View free space of all external, network, local drives, discs and disk images in single menu. The detailed information will be displayed in both graphical and digital manner in the menu. The intuitional free space information of system drive will be also indicated on the menu bar in real time. It will alarm you if any disk is out of space. MacCleaning Pro manages your disks space in an automatic and efficient way.
Detect every event of inserting and unmounting of external devices
MacCleaning monitors your every event of inserting or ejecting the external storage device; it will notice you in the Tray Icon section each time of action. Drives information are updated in real time. All the drives are grouped and displayed in categories.
Safely eject any individual mounted drive or eject all by one click
You can safe eject your external, network, local drives, discs and disk images by clicking the Eject Button on the menu. Moreover, MacCleaning Pro can eject all connected drives by clicking Eject All on the menu. It will indicate you in Tray Icon when the drive is safely ejected.
Any drive can be viewed in Finder by one click on menu
Any drive, including external, network, local drives, and disk images can be opened in Finder by clicking the menu. You can quick browse the files of the device just by one click on the menu.
Free Space Monitor
This feature can show you how much space is available on all local, connected, discs and network drives with a single click, and it could alarm you each time your disk is out of space. The intuitional free space information will be also indicated on the menu bar in real time.
Removable Device Monitor
The software will monitor your every event of inserting or ejecting the external storage device; it will notice you in the Tray Icon section each time. Drives information are updated in real time.
Mac Cleaning Software Other Features
• Any drive can be opened in Finder by clicking on the menu.
• Pin graphic free space information of system drive on the menu bar.
• Set custom space value to raise alarm.
• Mount and Eject completion indicator.
• Set to launch at login and monitor your disk space at real time.
System Requirements:
Mac OS X 10.6 or later, 512 MB of RAM or more, 2.8 MB of available hard disk space.
$9.99
For more information, visit:
http://www.easemac.com/products/maccleaning-pro.htm
Also Available: MacCleaning Free
MacCleaning is a free and all-in-one Mac cleanup utility combined with disk space monitor and disk ejector. It cleans junk files by one-click and shows your disk space available.
MacCleaning Free offers an easiest way to keep your Mac clean and healthy, let the Mac running smoothly and faster. This tiny menu bar utility alarms you when the disk space is running low. To be alerted in advance, you can move or delete files in time, allowing you to have enough free space again for your Mac to run fast.
Fast Clean Up Your Mac
Free up more space and keep your Mac in health. Just by one click, the junk files will be removed in seconds, including System Caches, User Caches, System Logs, User Logs, User Downloads, Trash, Safari Internet Cache and more.
Disk Space Monitor
Show disk space available in the menu bar and alert you in advance when the disk space is low. Then, you can react to clean or move files in advance, keep your Mac running smoothly, sparing you a lot of time. It will let you know the available disk space any time, showing in the menu bar.
Disk Ejector
Safely eject your mounted drives. External storage disks, CD and DVD disks, SuperDrive, network storage, disk images are all supported. It will also indicate you when mounting or ejecting a device has completed.
Tips: MacCleaning Pro offers an advanced feature to let you eject all the mounted volumes at a time by one-click.
Mac Cleaning Software Other Features
• Open mounted drives in Finder to quickly browse the files by a click.
• Launch at login.
• Pin free space information of system drive on the menu bar.
• Select places to clean up junk files.
System Requirements
• Mac OS X 10.6 or later, 512 MB of RAM or more, 2.8 MB of available hard disk space.
Freeware
For more information, visit:
http://www.easemac.com/products/maccleaning-free.htm
How To Print In Grayscale In OS X
MacFixIt's Topher Kessler says that if you need to print in black and white in OS X, you can, but it may not be obvious how to do it, noting that Apple used to include an obvious setting in its print dialog boxes for color or black and white, but in OS X this has disappeared since these options are now handled by the specific driver for your printer.
However, you can certainly still print in grayscale and there are various ways to do it, although some of these options might be a bit obscure, may only be available on some systems, or might require a few extra steps.
You can check it out at:
http://cnet.co/rrLaXv
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