Doug Dixon at CES 2012

Posted on February 3, 2012 by Khürt Williams

While we wait in antic­i­pa­tion of Doug Dixon’s talk this month, I thought I would take a sneak peak at what he saw at CES. The fol­low­ing is from his blog:

Ultra­books: Small and light and styl­ish lap­tops (the PC industry’s answer to Apple’s Mac­Book Air). Remem­ber net­books, which were too under­pow­ered and slug­gish? Ultra­books promise to remove the com­pro­mises, with power and capac­ity to be a use­ful lap­top. (Expect a big mar­ket­ing push from Intel and its part­ners.)
 
Thin TV: Flat-screen TVs, with thick­ness and sur­round­ing bezels mea­sures in mil­lime­ters instead of inches. These look like a sheet of glass from the side, and the min­i­miza­tion of the sur­round­ing frame can make them appear to float in the air .
 
Smart TV: Con­nected TVs and Blu-ray play­ers that inte­grate with the Inter­net to pro­vide brows­ing and apps like smart­phones and tablets, and which pro­vide deeper inter­ac­tion with you though voice and ges­ture con­trol, and even face recog­ni­tion to per­son­al­ize for your pref­er­ences. (Yes, your TV now has a cam­era and micro­phone to watch and lis­ten to you.)
 
Dig­i­tal Health: A pro­fu­sion of devices to mon­i­tor your health and exer­cise, and con­nect to smart­phone apps for analy­sis and coach­ing. (Your dig­i­tal scale will post your daily weigh-in to your Twit­ter feed.)
 
Ultra­Vi­o­let: A Hollywood-approved “dig­i­tal locker” for your pur­chased movies and TV shows, so you can buy once and then view across a wide vari­ety of devices, from desk­top to set-top to mobile. This is just start­ing to roll out, but holds the promise of being sen­si­ble and useful.

Source Man­i­fest Tech Blog

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Mac OS X Lion 10.7.3 Update

Posted on February 2, 2012 by Khürt Williams

Apple has released an update for Mac OS X Lion.

The update includes the following.

The OS X Lion v10.7.3 Update includes Safari 5.1.3 and fixes that:
  • Add Cata­lan, Croa­t­ian, Greek, Hebrew, Roman­ian, Slovak, Thai, and Ukrain­ian lan­guage support
  • Address issues when using smart cards to log into OS X
  • Address com­pat­i­bil­ity issues with Microsoft Win­dows file sharing
  • Address an issue print­ing Microsoft Word doc­u­ments that use markup
  • Address a graph­ics per­for­mance issue after sleep on some ear­lier iMacs that use ATI graphics
  • Resolve a Wi-Fi con­nec­tion issue when wak­ing from sleep
  • Address an issue that may pre­vent Safari from open­ing before join­ing a wire­less network
  • Fix a poten­tial issue authen­ti­cat­ing to an SMB DFS share
  • Include RAW image com­pat­i­bil­ity for addi­tional dig­i­tal cam­erasDirec­tory Services
  • Improve bind­ing to read-only Active Direc­tory Domain Controllers
  • Improve bind­ing and login speed for Active Direc­tory users in a domain whose name ends in “.local”
  • Improve reli­a­bil­ity of Dynamic DNS (DDNS) updates by Active Direc­tory clients
  • Allow login with an Active Direc­tory user­name that con­tains a space
  • Improve com­pat­i­bil­ity with Active Direc­tory schemas that have been extended with the “apple-user-homeDirectory” and “apple-user-homeurl” attributes
  • Fix home direc­tory Dock item for Active Direc­tory users with mobile accounts
  • Allow NIS users with MD5-hashed pass­words to log in

For infor­ma­tion about the secu­rity con­tent of this update, please visit: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1222.

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February 14, 2012 The Mobile Life: Highlights from the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show

Posted on February 1, 2012 by Khürt Williams

Doug Dixon

This year’s Con­sumer Elec­tron­ics Show (CES) kicked off the new year with a bang, with over 150,000 atten­dees packed into Las Vegas to check out over 3100 exhibitors in an area larger than 35 (Amer­i­can) foot­ball fields.

The big themes this year were “thin” and “smart”. Thin as in OLED TVs that looked like a sheet of glass, and Intel’s big push for Ultra­book lap­tops (think Mac­Book Air). And Smart was every­where, with even more con­nected Smart TVs and Blu-ray play­ers that pro­vide deeper inter­ac­tion though voice and ges­ture con­trol. But the other half of CES was focused on smaller devices for our mobile lives, with smart­phones and tablets and lots of fun iPhone and iPad accessories.

So come explore the new devel­op­ments from CES, as Doug Dixonreturns for his annual round-up and demos of the next gen­er­a­tion in our mobile lives.

About the pre­sen­ter… Dou­glas Dixon is an inde­pen­dent tech­nol­ogy con­sul­tant, author, and speaker spe­cial­iz­ing in dig­i­tal media and portable devices. Pre­vi­ously a prod­uct man­ager and soft­ware devel­oper at Intel and Sarnoff in Prince­ton, he now con­sults in com­mer­cial and mil­i­tary tech­nol­ogy analy­sis and com­mu­ni­ca­tions, and pro­vides expert wit­ness ser­vices. He is the author of four books on dig­i­tal media, has pub­lished hun­dreds of fea­ture arti­cles, and has pre­sented over a hun­dred sem­i­nars and talks on dig­i­tal media over the past decade. Doug’s arti­cles and tech­ni­cal ref­er­ences are avail­able on his Man­i­fest Tech­nol­ogy Blog and Website.

The gen­eral meet­ing begins at 7:30 p.m. The begin­ners and inter­me­di­ate spe­cial inter­est groups (SIGs) are held from 6:30 p.m. to 7:15 p.m. (see below)

Meet­ing Loca­tion Notice:Stu­art Hall at Prince­ton The­o­log­i­cal Sem­i­nary, room 6 (sec­ond floor) will be the loca­tion of PMUG’s gen­eral meeting.

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The Lion Recovery Update includes improvements to Lion Recovery, and addresses an…

Posted on January 21, 2012 by PMUG on Google+



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The Lion Recov­ery Update includes improve­ments to Lion Recov­ery, and addresses an issue with Find My Mac or Lion Server Pro­file man­ager when using a firmware pass­word.
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iBook 2.0

Posted on January 19, 2012 by PMUG on Google+

Apple Unveils iBooks 2.0

Apple has just announced iBooks 2 at it’s edu­ca­tion themed event in New York. It’s the next evo­lu­tion of eBooks for the iPad that Phil Schiller calls “amaz­ing — graphic, fun, engaging”.

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