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A colleague told us that Ars Technica is using a photo from 37prime Flickr stream in one of their articles titled:
How to make your own bootable OS X 10.9 Mavericks USB install drive
This photo was taken back in December 20, 2010. It is the Software Reinstall USB Drive included with MacBook Air.
Kudos to Ars Technica for choosing the photo.
Mozilla Firefox 25.0 Beta 10 is now available.
Pixelmator 3.0 FX is out now.
What’s New in Version 3.0
Pixelmator 3.0 FX is the most advanced version of Pixelmator to date, introducing lots of new features and improvements, including the following:
- Layer Styles: Thanks to non-destructive Layer Styles, creating polished and advanced compositions is now so much simpler, faster, and more enjoyable
- Liquify Tools: Shape images in multiple ways—slightly twist an element, add an artistic detail, or completely distort an entire image
- New Image Editing Engine: The new state-of-the-art image editing engine harnesses the full power of the latest OS X technologies making Pixelmator feature rich, yet blistering fast
- OS X Mavericks support: Tags, Multiple-Displays, App Nap support and more
Coinciding with today’s special event, Apple releases iOS 7.0.3 build 11B511.
This update contains improvements and bug fixes, including:
- Adds iCloud Keychain to keep track of your account names, passwords, and credit card numbers across all your approved devices
- Adds Password Generator so Safari can suggest unique, hard-to-guess passwords for your online accounts
- Updates lock screen to delay display of “slide to unlock” when Touch ID is in use
- Adds back the ability to search the web and Wikipedia from Spotlight search
- Fixes an issue where iMessage failed to send for some users
- Fixes a bug that could prevent iMessage from activating
- Improves system stability when using iWork apps
- Fixes an accelerometer calibration issue
- Addresses an issue that could cause Siri and VoiceOver to use a lower quality voice
- Fixes a bug that could allow someone to bypass the Lock screen passcode
- Enhances the Reduce Motion setting to minimize both motion and animation
- Fixes an issue that could cause VoiceOver input to be too sensitive
- Updates the Bold Text setting to also change dial pad text
- Fixes an issue that could cause supervised devices to become un-supervised when updating software
Glad to see iCloud Keychain is back in iOS 7. Having used incarnations of iOS 7 beta, I really missed iCloud Keychain in the GM/Public Release versions.
In addition to that, iOS 7.0.3 includes fixes for accelerometer issue in iPhone 5c and iPhone 5s.
The updated GarageBand is somewhat available at both iTunes and Mac App Stores. I am able to download the iOS version while the OS X version is still not available.
Apple introduces new MacBook Pro with Retina Display at its October 2013 Special Event. Both models are available starting today October 22, 2013.
13-inch MacBook Pro with Retina Display:
15-inch MacBook Pro with Retina Display:
Phil Schiller also introduces iPad mini with Retina Display during Apple October 2013 Special Event.
iPad mini with Retina Display starts at $399 and ships late November.
