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MUG/GUMDESERT DREAMS :: Celebrating Five Seasons in the Sonoran Desert
Review by: Gary Miller, Alaskan Apple Users Group Member Conflict of interest disclosure: Wild Horizons provided a free copy of the DVD. Beautiful, informative, and full of wonders. We loved the film, for it really showed how the Sonora Desert changes over a year. Thomas is a talented film maker, both in telling the story of the Sonora Desert, and making it very interesting scientifically. He includes In March 2013, DESERT DREAMS captured the 2013 Directors’ Choice Award for Best “Short” Documentary at the Sedona International Film Festival. In June, it will be showcased at the Maui Film Festival and in New Zealand at the Reel Earth Environmental Film Festival, the leading environmental film festival of the Southern Hemisphere. To view the film’s trailer or download the list of plants/animals or musical instruments used, go to http://www.DesertDreams.ORG. Pogue’s Tech Basics-The Essentials of Electronic Gadgets that Nobody Bothers to Show You
In this country, you need a license to do anything that might get you into trouble—like driving a car, owning a gun, or getting married. But when it comes to technology, they shove you out of the nest without so much as a learner’s permit. Somehow, you’re supposed to be able to intuit how to use your camera, phone, e-book reader, GPS, printer, Web browser, email system, and social network. The more features tech companies add, the more complex these machines get, and the less equipped the average person is to muddle through. Don’t you wish there were such thing as a standard curriculum for technology? A course that teaches you the essentials? Here, for your reviewing pleasure, are the ten tips I shared in my TED U talk at TED 2013 in Long Beach, California. Enjoy! Tap the Space bar to scroll down one screen full on a Web page. Add the Shift key to scroll up again. Much more convenient than groping for your mouse. When you’re filling in a form online, press the Tab key to jump from box to box. For a pop- up menu, just type the first letter of your state or country. For example, to choose Texas from a “State” pop-up menu, type the letter T key twice. For California, just type the letter C key once. For bigger text on a Web page, press Ctrl-plus repeatedly. That is, while you’re pressing the Ctrl key, tap the + key as necessary to enlarge the text. Use the – key instead (also with Ctrl) to make the text smaller again. On the Mac, use the c key instead. That is, press c-+ to make the text larger. On a smartphone, end a sentence by tapping the Space key twice. That shortcut creates a period; adds a space; and automatically capitalizes the next word you type. (Works on iPhone, Android, BlackBerry, Windows Phone.) To call somebody again, tap the Call button on the dialing pad. Doing that puts the most recently dialed number into the typing box, as though you’d just typed it out again. Now tap Call again to place the call. On a smartphone, this trick summons the most recently dialed number. On regular cellphones that have keys, the equivalent trick is pressing the Talk key when you haven’t actually dialed anything yet. You get to see a list of all recent calls. Press the “bypass” key to skip to the voicemail beep. When you get someone’s voicemail, you hear their “Hi, I’m not here” message, and then you hear Verizon’s own recording: “To leave a message for this person, begin speaking at the tone.” All of it eats up your airtime and costs money and is frustrating. Fortunately, you can bypass all of those recordings—and jump to the beep—by pressing the proper key. That’s * for Verizon, # for AT&T, and 1 for Sprint. (T- Mobile recently eliminated its recording altogether, praise be.) It’s ridiculous that you have to know the carrier of the person you’re calling to use this trick. But at least you can learn the proper keystroke for the people you call most often. If you’re really hardcore, you can add a note to yourself by adding the necessary keystroke as a reminder to the person’s address-book entry, like “Chris Jones (#).” Google has lots of cool tricks up its sleeve. Google is not just a way to search the Web. It’s also: • A dictionary. Into the regular search box, you can type, for example, define schadenfreude to see the complete definition, right there beneath your search box. You don’t even have to click anything.
Now when you fully press, you’ll get the shot instantly. No shutter lag. Press the B key to black out a slide. If you’re giving a presentation in Keynote or PowerPoint, press B to black out the slide, so people will pay attention to you instead of your slide. Press B again to bring the picture back. (The W key works, too—to white out the slide.) your eye out for it. In the meantime, I hope this set of ten gets you started! —David Pogue pogue@nytimes.comJony Ive Named One Of Time’s 100 Most Influential People In The World!As the head of Apple’s design team, Jony Ive has been one of the most influential figures in tech over the last two decades. He helped create the iMac, iPod, iPhone, iPad and slew of other Apple products that have hit shelves over the last few years. Now Jony’s putting his mark on Apple’s software too, which makes you wonder if there’s any area of design Jony can’t master. Time just released its list of the 100 most influential People in the world, and Ive is the only Apple employee that made the list.
Happy Birthday, iPad! When You Were Born, Everyone Hated You!
Happy Birthday, iPad! When You Were Born, Everyone
Hated You!
Alex Heath (1:06 pm PDT, Apr 3rd) Cult of Mac
“We want to put an incredibly great computer in a book that you can carry around with you and learn how to use in 20 minutes.” – Steve Jobs (1983) Today is the iPad’s third birthday. It was on this consecrated day that Apple shipped the original iPad with WiFi. It’s hard to believe that Apple has invented and popularized an entirely new market in only three years, but it’s the truth. Tablets just weren’t a thing before the iPad, and now they’re cannibalizing PC sales. As Apple calls it, we’re in a post-PC era. A lot of people mocked the iPad from the beginning. Sure, there were the faithful believes, but many wondered why anyone would want to use a limited, 10-inch slab of glass over a full-fledged laptop. It just didn’t make sense at the time. The iPhone and iPod touch filled the need for portable computing… or so we thought. The question was, as always with Apple, whether the iPad could live up to all of the hype. Looking back, the answer is obvious: yes. The iPad has seen—and continues to see—monumental success, and competitors are still playing catch up. In honor of the iPad’s birthday, let’s take a look at some of its early critics. As it turns out, the iPad was rather hated during its infancy: “Not the company’s next huge growth story. Not now, anyway.” Randall C. Kennedy at InfoWorld: Why Apple’s rumored iTablet will fail big time (Dec 22, 2009) Tablet PCs suck. They’re underpowered, only marginally portable, and awkward to use in anything but a traditional seated position, with a desk to support them. Microsoft and its cadre of hardware partners have been trying for years to create a compelling tablet computing experience — and consistently failed. Yet this year, persistent rumors of an Apple tablet – an “iTablet” — created a real buzz. But to believe that Apple can somehow succeed where all others have failed is to ignore some fundamental realities of tablet computing. Anthony Ha at VentureBeat: Tablets will fail, Google will pummel Microsoft (Jan 4, 2010) Tablet computers will fail to become the Next Big Thing — They’ll get lots of attention, for sure. Apple’s tablet, unless the entire Internet is wrong, will redefine our expectations for the quality of text on a computer display. But a combination of high prices plus lack of a must-have application will keep most consumers away from buying a tablet. Dan Frommer at Business Insider: The Truth About Apple’s iPad: It’s A Big Yawn (Jan 27, 2010) But in the end, Jobs introduced something that is probably going to sell in the range of a few million units this year, much closer to one of the company’s Macs than its runaway hits like the iPod and iPhone. Not the company’s next huge growth story. Not now, anyway. Apple fans hoping for the next revolution — or investors hoping for the company’s next iPhone — should be disappointed. Dan Lyons at Newsweek: Why the iPad is a Letdown (Jan 27, 2010) At the very least, we had hoped a tablet from Apple would do something new, something we’ve never seen before. That’s not the case. Jobs and his team kept using words like “breakthrough” and “magical,” but the iPad is neither, at least not right now. Jeremy A. Kaplan at Fox News: Has Apple Lost Its Mojo? (Jan 28, 2010) The company once notorious for its ability to upend convention and revolutionize markets may no longer have what it takes, worry some technology journalists. Call it the iPad or the iPlod, but the message seems clear: Apple may have lost its mojo. John C. Dvorak at MarketWatch: Hello, giant iPod Touch (Jan 29, 2010) Now that the fizz has dissipated regarding the Apple Inc. iPad, we can objectively look at the device and conclude that it probably will not have the impact on the market that the iPhone had. It’s cool, but no cooler than it’s progenitor, the iPod Touch. In fact that’s what it really is, a giant iPod Touch. If you’ve been looking for a giant iPod Touch, this is the machine for you. John C. Dvorak at MarketWatch (again): The iPad faces industry backlash (Feb 12, 2010) The Apple iPad is not going to be the company’s next runaway best seller. “It’s a nice reader, but there’s nothing on the iPad I look at and say, ‘Oh, I wish Microsoft had done it.’” – Bill Gates Jim Louderback at The Huffington Post: iPad Killer: Truly, Really, I mean It (Jan 6, 2011) OK, it may sound like I’m the boy who cried wolf – but Motorola’s new XOOM tablet is poised to become THE best non iPad tablet on the market when it ships later this year. Rick Aristotle Munarriz at The Motley Fool: This Is the Only Real iPad Challenger (July 7, 2011) Apple doesn’t want you to know the truth. It doesn’t want you to realize that Steve Jobs’ “magical” toy is really just a Margaritaville frozen drink maker. It’s a novelty at first, but then it becomes something that you just whip out when guests come over. And then there’s the infamous Bill Gates comment from Feburary 2010: “It’s a nice reader, but there’s nothing on the iPad I look at and say, ‘Oh, I wish Microsoft had done it.’” And that’s just a few examples. Fast ForwardIt’s clear that no one really understood the iPad’s real potential during the early days. Even our own dastardly handsome and cunning Charlie Sorrell called it “little more than a giant iPhone.” Now Charlie does arguably more on his iPad than anyone else who works at Cult of Mac. Over the past three years, Apple has managed to change the world with the iPad—that’s for certain. Here’s to the next three years! Read more at http://www.cultofmac.com/222141/happy-birthday-ipad-when-you-were-born-everyone-hated-you/#PXQVfDZEJPUyJrvU.99 Street View 1.0: New app brings Street View back to Apple Maps app!Product Review App: Street View 1.0 by Gary Miller, Alaskan Apple Users Group Member Conflict of interest: FutureTap supplied me with a copy of this software app for the purpose of this review The new stand alone app from Where To is Street View, is a great app that I use daily, it very simply to use, provides photos of where you are looking for local businesses, like post office offices, or restaurants. The new app “Street View” integrates with Apple Maps and allows it to easily display the widely popular street view panoramas. If you find it hard to have your Apple device guide you with Maps, when it doesn’t actually show you a Street view of the address, then the new Where To: Street View is the answer, sure is mine. I count on it. best $ .99 you’ve spent, and it’s easily downloadable in the Apple App store. Get it. In iOS 6.0 Apple ditched the beloved Google Maps app and replaced it with an in-house work in progress. One big user concern: the street view feature is missing. “Street View” has more than 300 gallery panoramas. If available for the selected location the user can jump to street view and navigate through the panorama. The mini map in the corner always displays the current position, viewing angle and field of view. The app is preloaded with more than 300 worldwide gallery panoramas. It showcases museums, ski resorts, theme parks and even underwater destinations. The indoor panoramas, such as museums, reach over their impressive multiple floor levels. All recent searches and the selected map type are automatically synced between the user’s devices via iCloud. In a nutshell: Programa gratis para apagar tu Mac sólo una vezA veces no quieres programar un apagado repetido, sólo quieres que se apague tu Mac una vez. Para esas ocasiones este programa es el adecuado. Apágate luego construye una lista de las aplicaciones en marcha y mediante System Events va solicitando una a una su cierre, siempre que no se trate de ella misma. Cuando no quedan más aplicaciones, entonces se apaga el sistema. La app te pregunta cuántos minutos quieres que tarde en solicitar el cierre de las demás apps. El apagado es el standard, no fuerza salida de ninguna app. Es gratis. Lo puedes descargar haciendo click en su icono. Esto te lleva a la página web de Vida Digital Mac, una vez allí, haz scroll porque está un poco más abajo en la misma página de inicio en la sección de: Utilidades gratis para Mac.
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N. de P.: Nuevo TeamViewer Host para Mac
Goeppingen, Alemania, a 17 de mayo de 2011 – TeamViewer, proveedor líder de software para el control remoto y la colaboración en línea, presenta TeamViewer Host para Mac, diseñado para ofrecer acceso 24/7 a ordenadores Mac y servidores.
Este programa, gratuito para uso privado, es perfecto para acceder a información o solucionar problemas en ordenadores o servidores desatendidos. TeamViewer, líder de la industria, se especializa en el acceso remoto a sistemas Windows, Mac y Linux. TeamViewer ofrece además aplicaciones para acceso móvil a través del iPhone, iPad o dispositivos Android, llevando la oficina móvil a cualquier lugar. TeamViewer Host para Mac garantiza que los usuarios tengan un acceso 24/7 a su Mac desde cualquier ordenador o terminal. Cualquier profesional puede acceder a su Mac para recuperar archivos mientras trabaja desde la oficina de casa o cualquier otro lugar remoto. En cuanto a los informáticos, con este acceso permanente a los ordenadores y servidores de sus clientes habituales se garantiza una conexión rápida y práctica. Instalar TeamViewer Host para Mac es muy fácil. El software se puede descargar en un minuto y cada ordenador recibe un ID y una contraseña únicos. Una vez finalizada la instalación, TeamViewer Host se ejecuta como servicio Mac y se inicia automáticamente con el ordenador. Una vez instalado TeamViewer, se establece una conexión inmediata introduciendo el ID y la contraseña del ordenador desatendido. Una vez conectado, podrá controlar el ordenador o servidor como si estuviera sentado delante de él. TeamViewer Host para Mac ofrece una serie de características clave que hacen que esta solución resulte atractiva para los administradores informáticos. El reinicio remoto puede utilizarse para reiniciar el ordenador desatendido. Esto es especialmente importante cuando se instala o se actualiza software en el ordenador. Además, y para asistencia adicional, se pueden cambiar los usuarios durante una sesión sin interrupción. “En TeamViewer siempre estamos buscando maneras de optimizar las posibilidades de conexión,” declara Holger Felgner, General Manager de TeamViewer. “Sabemos que los usuarios de Mac estarán encantados con las posibilidades de acceso permanente además de la flexibilidad adicional que esto ofrece, mientras que los usuarios de Windows y Linux podrán colaborar perfectamente con sus homólogos Mac.” TeamViewer Host para Mac es parte del nuevo TeamViewer 6. El software es compatible con Mac 10.4 OSX y versiones posteriores. Las licencias profesionales TeamViewer ofrecen un número ilimitado de instalaciones de Host. Al igual que todas las soluciones de TeamViewer, TeamViewer Host para Mac cumple con los más altos estándares de seguridad, como la encriptación AES-256. La solución ha sido reconocida por diferentes organizaciones de control de calidad incluida Fiducia, que certifica TeamViewer para uso en el sector financiero seguro. Acerca de TeamViewer GmbH
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Ableton Live lanza primer evento de certificaciones en Español / launches first Spanish-language certification eventDate prisa, límite: el 18 de mayo. Hurry up, deadline: may 18th (En ingles más abajo. English version below.) Ableton, en colaboración con Microfusa, se complace en anunciar el primer evento de certificaciones en español de Ableton Live. Los mejores profesores de Ableton Live de España volarán a Barcelona para pasar dos días de intensas pruebas. Los formadores que demuestren tanto el conocimiento de Ableton Live y sus excelentes habilidades para la enseñanza recibirán el título de “Instructor Certificado Ableton”. Los interesados en participar en el programa deberán enviar su solicitud con una carta de presentación, su Curriculum Vitae y un video demostrativo en el que se pueda observar como realizaría una clase en un centro de formación. Para más detalles: Fecha límite de inscrpción: Fecha del evento: Dónde: Más información: Saludos desde Berlín, El Equipo de Ableton English version - – - – - – - – - – - – - – - – - – - – - – - – - – - – - – - – - Hello, Ableton, in partnership with Microfusa, is excited to announce the debut Spanish-language Certification Event. Spain’s best and brightest Ableton Live teachers will come to Barcelona for a weekend of intense testing. Those trainers who demonstrate both Ableton Live expertise and excellent teaching skills will receive the title, Ableton Certified Trainer. If you’re interested in participating in the program, please send an application with a letter of motivation, Curriculum Vitae and a demonstration video that shows you teaching in a classroom situation. More details below. Application deadline: Event dates: Where: More information: All the best from Berlin, The Ableton team
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In-app-purchase de artículo con (nuevas) interioridades de Apple, vía FortuneLa App de la revista Fortune ha lanzado un artículo sobre el equipo de “management” en Apple, que sólo está disponible como in-app-puchase, que incluye algunas historias en principio desconocidas sobre Steve Jobs al frente de la compañía. Una de las historias habla de como Jobs estaría preparando a su equipo para su futura ausencia, leo en Mac Rumors: Steve Jobs hired dean of Yale School of Management Joel Podolny to run the Apple University, an internal group also featuring business professors and Harvard veterans that are writing a series of case studies to prepare employees for the life at Apple after Jobs. These case studies focus on Apples recent business decisions and internal culture, they are exclusive to employees and taught by top executives like Tim Cook and Ron Johnson. Habrá que comprarlo porque en 9 to 5 Mac también se han hecho eco y se pueden encontrar cosas como éstas:
Y por supuesto parece que ha alcanzado la web, en Mac Stories han sacado citas interesantes Una joya para los que nos gusta la gestión y Apple ¿no os parece?
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(Otra) Comparación entre usuarios de Mac y “PC”Saltando el detalle de que el Mac es un PC (estas comparativas suelen enfrentar a usuarios Mac vs. Windows … hay que tomarlo, como siempre, con cierto escepticismo. Ya sabéis que existe un libro que se titula “cómo mentir con la estadística”… origen: unplggd Por otra parte no deja de asustar cierta identificación ;-)
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Humor Apple …El nuevo producto de Apple, iDea e iDea2, en el blog Marketing Apple ¿Cómo reparar un Mac, un Windows y un Linux? Vía Seguridad Apple
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Apple lanza la “comunidad de soporte”Por fin Apple ha puesto en marcha la rumoreada comunidad de soporte online, los foros de soporte que siempre tuvo remozados aprovechando una seri e de tecnologías para ahacerlos más eficientes. Junto a My Support Profile una herramienta más para darnos mejor servicio (y no tener únicamente controlada nuestra caretera, me temo).
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Foto de la última kedada
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Steve Jobs tendrá lista su biografía “oficial” en 2012Parece que los rumores iban en serio. Edible Apple. “… Simon & Schuster announced this weekend that Walter Isaacson’s authorized biography on the Apple CEO will hit stores sometime in early 2012. The title? iSteve: The Book of Jobs …” Espero que me guste más que la de Woz ;-)
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Creemos…Nuevo anuncio del iPad … declaración de principios: This is what we believe. Technology alone is not enough. Faster, thinner, lighter — those are all good things. But when technology gets out of the way, everything becomes more delightful, even magical. That’s when you leap forward. That’s when you end up with something like this. Vía The Loop.
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Cambia el disco de Time Machine a uno más grandeHoy un compañero se quedó sin espacio en su disco Time Machine, los cambios en todo este tiempo que ha estado fuera, han sido tantos que el (pequeño) HD con el que empezó sus copias no le dejaba seguir guardando. El caso es que se hizo con un disco más grande y él quería “copiar” el contenido del disco 1 en el 2 (más grande) y seguir en él con su Time Machine sin que le dijera “estoy lleno”. Además no le permitía borrar los más antiguos, cosa que tampoco quería. Le dijimos que empezara limpio … a lo fácil ;-) que luego guardara el disco o copiara su contenido en el nuevo disco como una carpeta identificada (habría que pelear un poco con permisos y tal, pero bueno …). Encontró en los rumores de MacRumors una solución que nos hizo llegar: Restaurar con utilidad de discos el disco antiguo (origen) en el nuevo (destino). Cambiar el nombre del disco antiguo (porque se llamarán igual). Verificar que Time Machine sabe que ha de guardar en el nuevo… Hecho. Aquí la entrada que propone la solución (en inglés) y aquí el “hilo” que generó la respuesta. OJO!! Que no lo he llegado a probar ;-)
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El GUM Tarragona se empieza a mover (por fín)Buenas! Después de mucho tiempo con el proyecto parado, porque yo la verdad es que con el tiempo reducido que tengo y la poca experiencia en proyectos de este tipo, me había llevado a dejar bastante de lado el tema. Pero esto por fín ha cambiado. A partir de ahora, el GUM Tarragona ya tiene su dirección oficial al blog y es http://www.gumtarragona.com, por lo que este blog queda cerrado para usar únicamente el nuevo, de modo que os remito al blog oficial para seguir los avances del GUM Tarragona. El tema se está moviendo gracias al empuje de Janale, que ha sido quién ha montado el blog oficial, comprado el dominio, etc. Esperamos que la gente de Tarragona se anime a participar en las reuniones. Un saludo!
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