Oct/090
Apple’s Magic Mouse
Apple® today introduced the new wireless Magic Mouse, the first mouse to use Apple’s revolutionary Multi-Touch™ technology. Pioneered on iPhone®, iPod touch® and Mac® notebook trackpads, Multi-Touch allows customers to navigate using intuitive finger gestures. Instead of mechanical buttons, scroll wheels or scroll balls, the entire top of the Magic Mouse is a seamless Multi-Touch surface. Magic Mouse comes standard with the new iMac® and will be available as a Mac accessory at just $69. “Apple is the Multi-Touch leader, pioneering the use of this innovative technology in iPhone, iPod touch and Mac notebook trackpads,” said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing. “Apple’s Multi-Touch technology allows us to offer an easy to use mouse in a simple and elegant design.” Magic Mouse features a seamless touch-sensitive enclosure that allows it to be a single or multi-button mouse with advanced gesture support. Using intuitive gestures, users can easily scroll through long documents, pan across large images or swipe to move forward or backward through a collection of web pages or photos. Magic Mouse works for left or right handed users and multi-button or gesture commands can be easily configured from within System Preferences. The Magic Mouse laser tracking engine provides a smooth, consistent experience across more surfaces than a traditional optical tracking system. Magic Mouse uses Bluetooth wireless capabilities to create a clean, cable-free desk top and its secure wireless connection works from up to 10 meters away. To extend battery performance, Magic Mouse includes an advanced power management system that works with Mac OS® X to automatically switch to low power modes during periods of inactivity. The wireless Magic Mouse is powered by two AA batteries which are included.
Pricing & Availability Magic Mouse comes standard with the new iMac and is available at the end of October through the Apple Store® (www.apple.com), at Apple’s retail stores and Apple Authorized Resellers for a suggested retail price of $69 (US).
Magic Mouse requires Mac OS X Leopard® version 10.5.8 or later. Apple ignited the personal computer revolution in the 1970s with the Apple II and reinvented the personal computer in the 1980s with the Macintosh. Today, Apple continues to lead the industry in innovation with its award-winning computers, OS X operating system and iLife and professional applications. Apple is also spearheading the digital media revolution with its iPod portable music and video players and iTunes online store, and has entered the mobile phone market with its revolutionary iPhone.
Oct/090
Your PC Is Cooler than Winter with the CoolIT WS 240 Cooling System
I love summer. Bathing in the sea, having fun in the outdoors with friends and family, plus the “Less is more” fashion trend. However, as someone that’s been around a lot of computers in his time, I don’t like what summer heat does to our faithful desktop companions. PCs tend to heat up pretty badly during this season and often (especially if they are overclocked and use a stock cooling system), they will die on you due to too much heat.
Well, although summer is over, our unquenchable thirst for overclocking still makes custom liquid cooling solutions imperative to have. And here’s where CoolIT Systems comes in with its WS 240 Custom Liquid Cooling solution for the Nehalem platform. Using a 240mm radiator and two water blocks, it makes sure the PC receives the highest gain in system performance, at the same time reducing system noise and increasing the life of your computer’s components.
Geoff Lyon, CEO of CoolIT Systems, declared the following regarding the WS 240 liquid cooling system, “Nehalem is all about power efficiency, and a big element of that is heat dissipation. […] One of the premier advantages of Nehalem is Turbo Boost Technology that takes advantage of the processor’s power based on thermal headroom. With our cooler, the margin is maximized so the clocks are as fast as possible.”
In case you are interested in acquiring it, you should know that the WS 240 goes for about 270 USD, with the price varying, however, depending on your system’s specifications. I mean, what did you think “custom” stood for? So, don’t let the cool winter fool you, ladies and gents, your overclocked computers won’t feel the gentle touch of a snowflake unless you’re computing in the great outdoors.
Oct/090
Apple Offers the BookArc MacBook Stand to Free Up Your Desktop
Minimalism and a tidy working space are the keywords of nowadays expectations of us. I mean, I really like keeping my desk free and clean-looking. This device has been expected for a while since it makes things simpler, more elegant and frees up more space on the desk.
Named BookArc, it is a vertical stand design to fit Apple laptops, from the slim MacBook Air all the way to the MacBook Pro, turning any of those into a desktop computer, when connected to an external display.
Besides the neat minimal look, there’s also a performance enhancement, even if it’s not only featured with the BookArc. Any time a MacBook is running closed, it will dedicate the full video memory to the external monitor, instead of sharing between internal and external displays, which result in increased speed regarding Photoshop, Aperture, iPhoto and other graphics-needy application work-flows.
“Our vision behind BookArc was twofold,” said Andrew Green, co-founder and design principal of Twelve South. “First, we see the MacBook as a beautiful piece of art that deserves to be put on display. Second, using your laptop as a desktop when not on the road is how many Mac users work today, including myself. Running the MacBook in a BookArc tucked behind a beautiful Cinema Display frees up valuable space and provides a less cluttered modern-looking workspace.”
To increase product compliance with the various MacBook models, the BookArc comes with three different sized soft silicone cushions, included in the box, that you can place in the heavy gauge steel stand. With a compact footprint of only 10 x 4 inches, a fraction of what a MacBook normally takes up, it also sports silicone footpads to protect the surface of your desk from scratches, at the same time offering a slip-proof grip.
ou can purchase this as we speak, from the Apple Store and retailers, for $49.99 and they even came with an offer for studios, delivering the BookArc like bottles of beer, in a six-pack, for $249.99.