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New “MacBook Pro lineup offers the best displays for photographers”
2009
07.05
07.05
Rob Galbraith wrote a piece about the new MacBook Pro lineup. The new line of display’s used for this lineup is said to be much better for photographers.
“What a difference six months makes. Back in January, we wrote about the suitability of the screens in several notebooks for editing photos in the field. At that time, Apple’s MacBook Pro 15 inch was pegged as being acceptable for this purpose, but barely: hue accuracy trailed the other portables we looked at, while the display’s glass front meant it was a battle to keep reflections at bay.
Fast forward to today and the overall MacBook Pro story is quite different: not only does the recently-revamped MacBook Pro 15 inch now ship with a superb colour-accurate display, but the new MacBook Pro 13 inch does too. Plus, the third member of Apple’s MacBook Pro trio – the 17 inch – has both a great laptop display and the option of ordering it in a much-needed antiglare version.
Taken together, the current MacBook Pro lineup offers the best displays for photographers we’ve ever seen from Apple, with a potential solution for the remaining bugaboo – display glossiness – coming a bit later this year.” more here
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15″ MacBook Pro Battery Tests: “Eight, freakin, hours”
2009
06.13
06.13
Via MacRumors….
AnandTech takes a look at the new MacBook Pros released at WWDC last week and focuses on the new non-removable battery design. Apple first introduced the non-removable battery into the 17″ Unibody MacBook Pro last fall with mixed reactions from the community. Apple’s reasoning behind making the battery custom and non-removable has been the ability to incorporate a larger battery that will provide even longer battery life. They’ve also argued that most laptop owners do not carry spare batteries.
Anandtech found the 15″ MacBook Pro got an additional 46% of battery capacity with no additional weight. Improvements were dramatic in their benchmark testing:
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DSLR Remote, next generation cable release for your Canon Eos DSLR
2009
05.22
05.22
Check this out!!! onOne Software submitted our first iPhone app to the Apple iTunes App Store. The new application that is developed is called the DSLR Remote and it is a wireless cable release for your Canon EOS DSLR camera.
more from OnOne’s Blog:
Most of us here at onOne shoot with Canon DSLR cameras. Several of us here also have iPhones. One day we were sitting at lunch and Dan Harlacher our senior product manager said “Hey, wouldn’t it be cool if there was an iPhone app that let you trigger your camera?”
So, from that we convinced Craig, our company president, to let us have one of our engineers build this application and this morning, we sent it off to Apple to be reviewed for the iTunes App Store.
Okay, if you’re wondering how it works, here’s a quick run down.
- You need either an iPhone or an iPod Touch
- You need a supported Canon EOS DSLR
- A laptop or desktop computer running the free companion DSLR Remote Server software
- A USB cable to connect your supported Canon EOS DSLR camera to the computer running the free server software
Read the entire Blog entry here!
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Handi 5Dmk2
2009
05.21
05.21
Handi 5Dmk2 is a handy quick reference guide on the iPhone, covering most of the commonly used functionalities available on the Canon EOS 5D Mark II DSLR, including all Custom Functions and menu settings. It also has a useful Quick Help section for many frequently encountered photographic situations. Handi 5Dmk2 does not require network connectivity so you don’t have to worry about getting a network signal when you are out in remote locations.
No more carrying and flipping through that worn out user manual, or forgetting how to set up your 5D Mark II for a custom white balance
Click here to go to the iTunes App Store
BTW there are also Apps for the:
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Apple Releases the Mac OSX 10.5.7 Update
2009
05.12
05.12
Apple has launched the long-awaited 10.5.7 Mac OS X update to customers today through Mac OS X’s Software Update utility. The new update is said to provide general fixes to the operating system:
The 10.5.7 Update is recommended for all users running Mac OS X Leopard and includes general operating system fixes that enhance the stability, compatibility and security of your Mac.
For detailed information on this update, please visit this website:http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3397.
For detailed information on security updates, please visit this website: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1222 .
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Apple News, New iMac, Mac mini, Mac Pro…
2009
03.03
03.03
….and updated Airport Express and Time Capsule.
In short what has been introduced today:
- Apple today announced updates to its iMac and Mac mini desktop lines, including a 24-inch iMac and a Mac mini with new NVIDIA integrated graphics. For the same $1,499 price as the previous generation 20-inch iMac, the new 24-inch iMac delivers a 30 percent larger display, twice the memory and twice the storage. Apple also claims up to five times better graphics performance in the new Mac mini with the NVIDIA GeForce 9400M integrated graphics..
- Apple today introduced the new Mac Pro using Intel “Nehalem” Xeon processors and a next-generation system architecture. The new Mac Pro starts at $2,499 and features “the latest graphics technology and an updated interior that makes expansion even easier than before.”
and a small surprise:
- Apple has quietly increased the processor speed of their mid-range 15″ MacBook Pro from 2.53GHz to 2.66GHz and the top-of-the-line model from 2.8GHz to 2.93GHz.. The change is unlikely to be noticed in day to day operation but is a distinct modification from the original release. They have also begun offering 256GB SSD upgrade options for the 13″ aluminum MacBook and 15″ MacBook Pro as well.
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Apple releases public beta of Safari 4 browser
2009
02.27
02.27
Apple on Tuesday announced a public beta of Safari 4, a new version of its share-gaining web browser that packs a powerful new JavaScript engine and support for the latest web standards.
Dubbed “Nitro,” the engine in Safari 4 is said to run JavaScript 4.2 times faster than Safari 3. Other new features include Top Sites, for a visual preview of frequently visited pages; Full History Search, to search through titles, web addresses and the complete text of recently viewed pages; Cover Flow, to easily flip through web history or bookmarks; and Tabs on Top, to make tabbed browsing easier and more intuitive.
In total, Apple claims over 150 features in Safari 4
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Photoshop CS4 update now available
2009
02.26
02.26
Adobe has released an update for Photoshop CS4 (Mac|Win). You can also get the update by choosing Help->Updates from within Photoshop. From the download page:
- A number of issues that could cause slow performance have been addressed.
- Pen barrel rotation with Wacom tablets now works correctly.
- Photoshop now correctly recognizes 3D textures edited by a plug-in.
- The quality of the results of Auto-Blend Layers (Stack Images) has been improved.
- A problem that could result in a crash when pasting formatted text has been fixed.
- A crash that could result from a corrupt font no longer occurs.
[On a related note, InDesign CS4 has also been updated (Mac|Win); see the download pages for details.]
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Will Snow Leopard Be On Display At Macworld?
2008
12.19
12.19
Now that Apple has revealed CEO Steve Jobs won’t be giving his traditional keynote at next month’s Macworld Expo in San Francisco and after this year the company will be pulling out of the event altogether, it’s tempting to assume that Apple won’t be coming out with any major news at the event.But Thursday, The Guardian (U.K.), citing sources close to Apple that claim development of OS X 10.5.6 Snow Leopard is progressing ahead of schedule, suggested Apple could use the Macworld pulpit to show off the upcoming version of OS X.
Two new technologies in Snow Leopard have garnered the lion’s share of attention since Apple first started talking about OS X 10.5.6 in June: Grand Central, which adds support for multicore processors and parallel computing; and OpenCL, which lets applications tap into unused GPU computing power.
Some Apple resellers have speculated that these technologies could help Apple capture a larger share of the enterprise computing market. According to Forrester Research, Mac business adoption stood at 4.2 percent at the end of 2007.
Parallel processing will be difficult for Apple to sell, but it’ll give users snappier performance across the board in terms of moving around files, launching applications and using system utilities, according to solution providers.
Larry Stram, CEO of Mac Resource, a Huntsville, Ala.-based Apple reseller, doesn’t see parallel computing having a huge impact in the consumer market, but says it’s fast gaining favor in government and research sectors.
“Computers are so fast now that most consumers don’t really need the speed behind parallel processing,” said Stram. “But for Apple, parallel processing in OS X could represent a real marketing advantage over other consumer-based off-the-shelf operating systems, like Windows,” Stram said.