Khürt Williams>Dan Kottke was Steve Jobs’ college buddy, India travel companion, Apple 1 board builder, and Apple employee #12. He helped design the Apple II series, Apple III, and Macintosh. He will [lecture](http://www.vintage.org/2012/east/bio.php?id=1579) at the VCF East 8.0 at 12:30pm on May 6. (via [Vintage Computer Festival](http://www.vintage.org/2012/east/))
The Lightroom 4 beta introduces quite a list of features, including a completely new book-creation module, expanded support for video, soft proofing capability, and geo-tagging of still and video images via a Google Maps-powered module. (via dpreview) I’ve been using the beta for a few days and I love it. My only regret is that … Read more
If you look at the two tablets that have succeeded — the Apple iPad and the Amazon Kindle Fire — both Apple and Amazon have treated their tablets as simple screens connected to powerful sets of software and services. Amazon spent a year getting its services lined up before it even launched its tablet, and … Read more
* LOCATION: Stuart Hall, Room 6, Princeton Theological Seminary, (Alexander St), Princeton, New Jersey. See http://pmug-nj.org/ for map and directions. * WHEN: Tuesday, January 10, 2012, 7:30 p.m. * FREE: Open to the public * CONTACT: Khürt Williams * PHONE : 609-375-8479 * EMAIL: publicity@pmug-nj.org Google+ is the latest attempt at social networking from Internet … Read more
One of the least mentioned features of the new Mail app in iOS 5 is encrypted email. iOS 5 allows the user to send digitally signed or encrypted email to protect your electronic communications. I’ve [written about digital certificates](http://islandinthenet.com/2008/10/14/digital-certificates-and-signatures/) before on this blog. The idea is to use a special key — a digital certificate … Read more
