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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 ...

Reshared post from +Princeton Macintoush Users Group 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. #pmugnjblog Embedded Link About the Lion Recovery Update Google+: View post on Google+ Post imported by Google+Blog. Created By Daniel Treadwell.

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”. Google+: View post on Google+ Post imported by Google+Blog.

Apple unveils iBooks Author, a Mac app for easy interactive e-book authoring (via The Apple Blob) Apple’s Roger Rosner, VP of productivity software, showed off Apple’s new iBooks Author on Thursday at Apple’s special media event in NYC. iBooks Author is a Mac app that provides tools to help anyone publish interactive digital books, complete with rich media features. Google+: View post on Google+ Post imported by Google+Blog.

Apple Announces “iBooks Author” Mac App, Available For Free Today (via MacStories) At its education media event in New York, Apple’s Phil Schiller just announced iBooks Author, a new Mac app for authoring books. From an intuitive interface that takes advantage of the desktop’s real screen estate, authors will be able to create and manage interactive books to use in the new iBooks 2, also announced ...

iBooks 2.0 Now Available (via MacStories) Following the announcement at the media event in New York City, Apple just released a major new version of iBooks, iBooks 2.0. As we detailed in our overview, iBooks 2.0 is mainly focused on enabling textbook support – Apple has cut deals with a series of publishers to bring iBookstore-based textbooks to the United States, and iBooks 2.0 brings full ...

>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 (http://www.vintage.org/2012/east/bio.php?id=1579) at the VCF East 8.0 at 12:30pm on May 6. (via (http://www.vintage.org/2012/east/))

Not sure how I would benefit but I would love to attend. BlogWorld is the first and only industry-wide trade-show, conference, and media event dedicated to promoting the dynamic industry of new media. Learn about Content Creation, Distribution, Monetization and Social Media Marketing strategies, including step-by-step techniques and leading-edge tools from the most successful and influential Bloggers, Podcasters, Vloggers, Web TV & Radio Broadcasters, Social ...

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 since its beta software using it as part of ...

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 that turned out to be a brilliant ...