Tuesday, July 9, 2013, 7:30 p.m. Backup and Recovery tools with Gordon Bell, President of Prosoft

Gordon Bell, President of ProSoft

LOCATION: Stuart Hall, Room 6, Princeton Theological Seminary, (Alexander St), Princeton, New Jersey. See http://pmug-nj.org/ for map and directions. WHEN: Tuesday, July 9, 2013, 7:30 p.m. COST: Free and Open to the general public Gordon Bell, President of ProSoft, will present their award-winning line-up of utilities including: Data Rescue 3, Drive Genius 3, Data Backup … Read more

iOS 7

A new iOS feature, called Activation Lock, disables the iPhone even if a thief has turned it off or erased the data on the phone. Some police officers have called for a feature like this — a “remote kill switch” that renders the stolen phone useless and difficult to sell in the black market. The phone can be reactivated only after the user logs into it with the right Apple ID and password.“We think this is going to be a great theft deterrent,” said Craig Federighi, Apple’s senior vice president for software engineering.Brian Chen – New York Times

iOS and OS X Convergence

Ive — and Apple as a whole — is fond of saying that design is about more than the way something looks, it’s the way something works. OS X Mavericks might be the most iOS-looking version of OS X to date, but it’s a fundamentally different operating system built for a different type of input. It doesn’t matter how many notifications roll across your Mac’s display or how much Calendar, iBooks, and Maps look like their iOS counterparts — OS X is built around point-and-click, iOS is built around tap-and-swipe. That’s a wide gap to bridge. Nathaniel Mott