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  • fallen101

    Google I/O overview

    By fallen101, in OSx86,

    Google just announced Chrome coming to IOS!
    This coming a few months after Chrome was released forndroid. As with iOS 6 and Mountain Lion, you are able to "Cloud sync" tabs.
    With Chrome you'll be able to do that, but across all platforms and devices.
     
    You're reading a tutorial on your computer on how to install Mac OS X 10.7. Now you have a few choices you can try to remember everything, or print it, ORR now you can open Chrome on your iPad, iPhone, or iPod.
    Download it here http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/chrome/id535886823?mt=8
     

     
    Also coming to iOS is Google Drive. As you might have known back in April, Google announced Google Drive.
    With Google Drive, you are able to store anything you might need to. Books, music, documents, anything - just name it and you are able to store it. What this means now is, you'll be able to stream your music, view your PDF's, etc.
    You'll also be able to edit your google document files from iOS. It syncs across all your devices so no need to worry about it not saving its all in the cloud of google. Google gives you 5 GBs for free. Need more? Pricing starts at $2.49 / Month for 25 GB.
     
    <table border="1"><tr><th>GB storage</th><th colspan=9>Cost/Month</th></tr><tr><td>5GB</td><td>25GB</td><td>100GB</td><td>200GB</td><td>400GB</td><td>1TB</td><td>2TB</td><td>4TB</td><td>8TB</td><td>16TB</td></tr><tr><td>Free</td><td>$2.49</td><td>$4.99</td><td>$9.99</td><td>$19.99</td><td>$49.99</td><td>$99.99</td><td>$199.99</td><td>$399.99</td><td>$899.99</td></tr></table>
    Storage with Google Drive is pretty cheek. I honestly don't see anyone using more than 100 GB at most. You can cheek it out at
    https://drive.google.com/start
  • Ed
    Check out this hugely interesting post on Quora from Kim Scheinberg, the wife of an Apple engineer who allegedly sparked the switch to Intel:
     
    I've been meaning to tell this story for a while.
     
    The year is 2000. My husband (JK) has been working at Apple for 13 years. Our son is a year old, and we want to move back to the East Coast to live near our parents. To do this, my husband will need to be granted permission to telecommute. This means he can't be working on a team project and needs to find something independent to do.
     
    The plan to move is a long-range plan. JK lays the groundwork early to start splitting his time between his Apple office and his home office. [by 2002, he is working at home full-time in California.]
     
    He sends mail to his boss who, coincidentally, was my husband's first hire when he started at Apple in 1987:


    Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 10:31:04 -0700 (PDT)
    From: John Kullmann
    To: Joe Sokol
    Subject: intel
     
    i'd like to discuss the possibility of me becoming
    responsible for an intel version of MacOS X.
     
    whether that's just as an engineer, or as a project/
    technical lead with another person - whatever.
     
    i've been working on the intel platform for the last
    week getting continuations working, i've found it
    interesting and enjoyable, and, if this (an intel
    version) is something that could be important to us i'd
    like to discuss working on it full-time.
     
    jk
     
    * * *
     
    Eighteen months go by. In December 2001, Joe tells JK, "I need to justify your salary in my budget. Show me what you're working on."
     
    At this point, JK has three PCs in his office at Apple, and another three in the office at home, all sold to him by a friend who sells custom built PCs (can't order them through the usual Apple channels because no one in the company knows what he's working on). All are running the Mac OS.
     
    In JK's office, Joe watches in amazement as JK boots up an Intel PC and up on the screen comes the familiar 'Welcome to Macintosh'.
     
    Joe pauses, silent for a moment, then says, "I'll be right back."
     
    He comes back a few minutes later with Bertrand Serlet.
     
    Max (our 1-year-old) and I were in the office when this happened because I was picking JK up from work. Bertrand walks in, watches the PC boot up, and says to JK, "How long would it take you to get this running on a (Sony) Vaio?" JK replies, "Not long" and Bertrand says, "Two weeks? Three?"
     
    JK said more like two *hours*. Three hours, tops.
     
    Bertrand tells JK to go to Fry's (the famous West Coast computer chain) and buy the top of the line, most expensive Vaio they have. So off JK, Max and I go to Frys. We return to Apple less than an hour later. By 7:30 that evening, the Vaio is running the Mac OS. [My husband disputes my memory of this and says that Matt Watson bought the Vaio. Maybe Matt will chime in.]
     
    The next morning, Steve Jobs is on a plane to Japan to meet with the President of Sony.
     
    * * *
     
    They would assign two more engineers to the project in January 2002. In August 2002, another dozen started working on it. That's when the first rumors started to appear. But for 18 months, only six people had any idea that the project even existed.
     
    The best part? After Steve goes to Japan, Bertrand sits JK down and has a talk with him about how no one can know about this. No one. Suddenly, the home office has to be reconfigured to meet Apple security standards.
     
    JK points out to Bertrand that I know about the project. In fact, not only do I know about it, I am the person who named it.
     
    Bertrand tells JK that I am to forget everything I know, and he will not be allowed to speak to me about it again until it is publicly announced.
     
    I guess he had some kind of 'Total Recall' memory wipe in mind.
     
    * * *
     
    I've lost track of the many reasons that have been given for the switch to Intel, but this I know for sure:
     
    No one has ever reported that, for 18 months, Project Marklar existed only because a self-demoted engineer wanted his son Max to be able to live closer to Max's grandparents.
  • Ed
    Apple's highly anticipated WWDC 2012 began yesterday afternoon in San Francisco. Apple’s CEO Tim Cook delivered a keynote speech highlighting what the company has been working on recently. Quite a few things have been said so we present you the summary of the main announcements from WWDC 2012.
     
    Mountain Lion, the newest version of Mac OS X gets a July release with new features including AirPlay Mirroring, in addition to Game Centre from iOS, stronger integration with iCloud for sharing and storing content, and a new Messages app to replace iChat. Plus there will be an app for Reminders and Notes. More excitingly, it will include the voice-to-text Dictation function from the current iPad. The price will be around $30 and will be available for downloaded and installed directly from the Mac App Store.
     
    Coming later in the year is iOS 6 with more than 200 new features for the iPhone and iPad. However, owners of the original iPad won’t be able to download it as the device will not be able to support it, but the iPhone 3GS will.
     
    Apple's star product was undoubtedly their next generation MacBook Pro, which features a Retina display and, according to Time Cook, it pushes the limits of performance and portability like no other notebook, being the most advanced Mac that Apple has ever built. It drops legacy technologies such as ethernet and the DVD drive in favour of are thinner, sleeker form factor, being as thin as Apple's ultra-portable MacBook Airs. New feature "Power Nap" can keeps the new MacBook Pro updated even when it is asleep, so once awake you’ll find new emails, reminders, photos and documents all there ready to go to.
     
    With the iPad becoming increasingly popular with Apple's users, it was revealed that following the release of iPhone 4S, iOS 6 will ensure that Apple’s intelligent personal assistant Siri is also available on the iPad. Sticking with iOS 6, Facebook gets to be built-in across the board, much like Twitter in iOS 5 and is weaved into various aspects of Mountain Lion, allowing you to post updates and pictures and links from different apps and programs with just a click. iCloud gets more advanced and updated version, and in iOS 6 it brings a Shared Photo Stream to create different picture libraries updated instantly as soon as you snap a shot on your iPhone or iPad.
     
    Apple bids goodbye to Google maps with their new mapping app which will feature turn-by-turn navigation and amazing 3D Flyover birds-eye views. It also includes real-time traffic information that can be read out by Siri, who can even suggest an alternative route or give ideas for nearby places to stop, shop, eat and fill up with fuel. However, some of the coolest features such as Flyover and turn-by-turn navigation will only be available on iPhone 4S and iPad 2 or later models, leaving the iPhone 4 and first-generation iPad out-to-dry.
     
    The MacBook Air models received an update with new 3rd generation Intel "Ivy Bridge" processors that are considerably faster than the previous version. The new Air will also offer up to 512GB of flash storage via a solid state hard drive, which means lightning-quick access to programs and other features making the new MacBook Air twice as fast as the previous model, plus they will come with a pair of USB 3.0 ports and capacity for up to 8GB of RAM. In terms of prices, they start from US$1000 for the base 11in model and all the way up to US$1500 for the top end 13in model.
     
    Apple also quietly updated its AirPort Express base station whose specs include simultaneous 2.4- and 5-GHz bands, support for legacy 802.11 b and g devices, a 10/100 Fast Ethernet WAN port and a 10/100 Fast Ethernet LAN port. The new AirPort Express retains the one USB 2.0 port supporting a printer, suitable for laser printers, as well as a 3.5-mm audio minijack for analogue or optical digital sound, but loses it's handy plug-in-the-wall form factor.
     
    As was expected, quite a few things have been revealed from Apple at WWDC2012, but with no news on the Mac Pro can we expect to ever seen an update to Apple's only tower computer, or is it about to meet the end of its days?
  • PookyMacMan
    Will the new iPhone have a larger screen? Prototypes being tested have a 3.999 inch screen (rectangular dimensions are 1.9632 x 3.484 inches), but it goes farther than that: Apple is not extending just the display size, but also the resolution. Instead of a 640x960 resolution, the prototypes have a 640x1136 resolution; this is much almost a 16:9 ratio, meaning widescreen videos will not have "black bars" and will fill the entire screen without any cropping. The larger resolution also means that it is likely that in iOS 6 could be a fifth row of icons above the dock. The home button will remain, but so far it seems that the prototypes have a new dock connector incompatible with previous Apple mobile devices.
  • PookyMacMan
    Most of us know that the latest MacBook Pro, Mac Mini, and iMac units are equipped with the high-speed Thunderbolt protocol, but no PC motherboards (both for purchase and in prebuilt machines) contain it. Now, ASUS has release not one, but two Intel-certified motherboards with Thunderbolt, the P8Z77-V Premium and the P8Z77-V/Thunderbolt. MSI has also released a Thunderbolt ready motherboard, the Z77A-GD80, but it has not been certified by Intel at this time of writing. So far there have been no reports on whether Thunderbolt works in OS X on these motherboards.
     
    Image courtesy of Engadget.com
  • Larx

    10.7.4 is OUT !

    By Larx, in OSx86,

    What's New in Version 10.7.4
    The 10.7.4 update includes general operating system fixes that improve the stability, compatibility, and reliability of your Mac.
    PLEASE REPORT AFTER UPDATE. GOODLUCK ! :wink2:
    OS X Lion Update 10.7.4 (Client)
    OS X Lion Update 10.7.4 (Client Combo)


  • Ed
    If there's one product that's hotly anticipated in the next 12 months, it's got to be the forthcoming Apple TV set.
     
    Samsung and other leading brands of LCD TVs have been peddling their smart TVs, yet Apple's remained largely hush on the subject, delivering subtle updates to their set-top box solution, the Apple TV.
     
    New ramblings emerging from analyst Peter Misek at Jefferies sees increased speculation after he went on record to state that Apple's smart TV sets are "far more than a TV. It is a display, gaming center, media hub, computer, home automator, etc."
     
    It's previously been reported that the smart TV from Apple will be available in 3 sizes, ranging from 32" to 55", and now Misek's declaring that the average sale price will be $1,250, making it affordable for mass consumption.
     
    Misek also said that he believes specialty components in China have begun to ship to Apple's suppliers, albeit in "small quantities".
     
    The Apple TV sets, or "iPanel", is expected to be released at the end of this year. Get your credit cards ready, folks.
  • PookyMacMan
    I would like to bring to your attention our MacMod of the Month project. Please share with us your Mods and compete for our monthly and yearly awards.
     
    We asked user PunkNugget to take charge of it, as it is in fact his idea. We'll try to reward the best yearly Mod with a prize. If you have already posted a topic (with your Mod) which could be moved to this new forum, just let me or a global mod know, and we'll move it.
     
    About the project leader, PunkNugget:
    He is a 15+ year Mac owner. He wanted to build his own personal Custom PC and figure out how to get his copy of Mac OS X to work with his new PC, since he kept hearing about "Hackintoshes."
     
    That's how he eventually found InsanelyMac.com and also wanted a place where we can DISPLAY our Hackies with PRIDE! We asked him if he would be willing to participate, and hence the reason why we have MacMod of the Month.
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