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| Wireless Magic Mouse from Apple with Multi-Touch Posted: 22 Oct 2009 06:42 AM PDT Apple has announced the launch of its new wireless Magic Mouse, which the company claims as the world's first mouse to utilize Multi-Touch technology, featuring a seamless touch-sensitive enclosure that allows it to be a single or multi-button mouse thanks to the advanced gesture support, allowing left or right handed users to scroll in any direction and to pan a full 360 degrees by simply touching anywhere on the smooth, seamless top shell. This also incorporates powerful laser tracking engine that's far more sensitive and responsive on more surfaces than traditional optical tracking engines. Furthermore, Magic Mouse connects wirelessly to your Mac via Bluetooth wireless technology, delivering a reliable, secure connection up to 10 meters (33 feet) away. Philip Schiller, senior vice president for Worldwide Product Marketing at Apple quotes Apple is the Multi-Touch leader, pioneering the use of this innovative technology in iPhone, iPod touch and Mac notebook trackpads.Apple's Multi-Touch technology allows us to offer an easy to use mouse in a simple and elegant design. According to Apple, Multi-button or gesture commands can be configured from Magic Mouse preferences pane in System Preferences.Apple's new stylish Magic Mouse comes standard with every new iMac which is slated to be available later this month for a suggested retail price of $69, compatible with Mac OS X version 10.5.8 or later. Apple has announced the launch of its new wireless Magic Mouse, which the company claims as the world's first mouse to utilize Multi-Touch technology, featuring a seamless touch-sensitive enclosure that allows it to be a single or multi-button mouse thanks to the advanced gesture support, allowing left or right handed users to scroll in any direction and to pan a full 360 degrees by simply touching anywhere on the smooth, seamless top shell.
This also incorporates powerful laser tracking engine that's far more sensitive and responsive on more surfaces than traditional optical tracking engines. Furthermore, Magic Mouse connects wirelessly to your Mac via Bluetooth wireless technology, delivering a reliable, secure connection up to 10 meters (33 feet) away.
Philip Schiller, senior vice president for Worldwide Product Marketing at Apple quotes
According to Apple, Multi-button or gesture commands can be configured from Magic Mouse preferences pane in System Preferences.Apple's new stylish Magic Mouse comes standard with every new iMac which is slated to be available later this month for a suggested retail price of $69, compatible with Mac OS X version 10.5.8 or later. |
| Posted: 22 Oct 2009 05:53 AM PDT Microsoft today formally released Windows 7, its latest in a long line of computer operating systems that are meant to bridge the gap between man and personal computing machine.Windows 7 promises a streamlined interface, support for touch screens, and security features that, while robust, don’t interfere with users’ day-to-day interactions with their computers, the software maker claims. Best Buy is offering free shipping on Windows 7 computers, while Web merchant Amazon pledged to deliver the product on “launch day” for a nominal fee. In a harbinger of its potential popularity, Windows 7 pre-sales were the top seller in Amazon’s software category as of early Thursday.I am just waiting what will be the prices when it comes in India. Microsoft needs Windows 7 to be a hit, given that the company’s software sales have experienced sharp declines in recent quarters. Windows sales were off 13% in Redmond’s last fiscal year.Microsoft claims Windows’ major problems have been fixed with Windows 7, which is said to be significantly more user friendly than its predecessor Vista. Microsoft also has introduced new tools designed to ensure customers can run Windows 7 on their PCs, laptops, and mobile devices. The full version of Windows 7 Professional is $299, with upgrades going for $199. Windows 7 Ultimate is priced at $319, with the upgrade version at $219. The full version of Windows 7 Home Premium is priced at $199, with an upgrade from Vista or XP costing $119.
Microsoft today formally released Windows 7, its latest in a long line of computer operating systems that are meant to bridge the gap between man and personal computing machine.Windows 7 promises a streamlined interface, support for touch screens, and security features that, while robust, don’t interfere with users’ day-to-day interactions with their computers, the software maker claims. Best Buy is offering free shipping on Windows 7 computers, while Web merchant Amazon pledged to deliver the product on “launch day” for a nominal fee. In a harbinger of its potential popularity, Windows 7 pre-sales were the top seller in Amazon’s software category as of early Thursday.I am just waiting what will be the prices when it comes in India. Microsoft needs Windows 7 to be a hit, given that the company’s software sales have experienced sharp declines in recent quarters. Windows sales were off 13% in Redmond’s last fiscal year.Microsoft claims Windows’ major problems have been fixed with Windows 7, which is said to be significantly more user friendly than its predecessor Vista. Microsoft also has introduced new tools designed to ensure customers can run Windows 7 on their PCs, laptops, and mobile devices. The full version of Windows 7 Professional is $299, with upgrades going for $199. Windows 7 Ultimate is priced at $319, with the upgrade version at $219. The full version of Windows 7 Home Premium is priced at $199, with an upgrade from Vista or XP costing $119.So who’s buying this,Check out one Windows 7 RTM video below Click here to view the embedded video. |
| Posted: 21 Oct 2009 09:16 AM PDT I was wondering the next release version of Wordpress would be 2.9 but one more update to 2.8 i.e 2.8.5 has be released.This would be termed as a security hardening update to the DOS attacks which were frequent few months back.According to the official Wordpress Blog this is not an urgent upgrade, but it has the goal of hardening your install, so upgrading is recommended. Some of it’s features are
Wordpress recommends that all sites to be upgraded to this new version of WordPress to ensure that you have the best available protection.So go update now.If you think your site may have been hit by one of the recent exploits and you would like to make sure that you have cleared out all traces of the exploit then we would recommend that you take a look at the WordPress Exploit Scanner. |
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