Category: Announcements

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Square Wallet and Square Register now support Gift Cards

Square has just updated Square Wallet and Square Register adding Gift Cards support.

Square Wallet – iOS | Android

What’s New in Version 2.5

  • Gift cards, just in time for the holidays! Square Gift Cards are the easiest way to send a personalized gift to anyone, anywhere in the United States.

Square Register – iOS | Android

What’s New in Version 2.5

  • Accept gift cards for your business from Square Wallet, Passbook and printed QR codes.
  • iPhone 5 support and various improvements.

Unfortunately Square Register is not compatible with Nexus 7 (yet).

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Credibility Denied: The New York Times Edition

Let’s give The New York Times benefit of the doubt. Maybe the editor had a bad week.

An article on The New York Post by Quentin Hardy is quoting Rob Enderle. Seriously, Rob Enderle? What happened? Is it because nothing quotable from Carlos Mencia?

Let’s put it this way, Rob Enderle has decades of experience for being wrong. Anyone remember the “Fifth Column” gibberish from Enderle? (That’s a link to MacDailyNews instead of to Enderle’s original post.)

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Network Blackout Survival Kit

Armed with a Nexus One and a MacBook Pro, I was able to bring Internet connection back to the office earlier today. On Thursday, we lost both Internet and phone service. We have contacted our service provider to resolve the issue. Both Internet and phone were still down on Friday. So I used my Nexus One to create Wi-Fi hotspot and connected my MacBook Pro to it. Then I shared the Internet Connection from the Wi-Fi through the Ethernet to the office router. We managed to survive the day.

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Google Apps for Business no longer offers new free account

Starting December 6th, 2012 Google Apps for Business no longer offers new free account.

Starting today for all new customers:

  • Individuals wishing to use Google’s web apps like Gmail and Google Drive should create a free personal Google Account, which provides a seamless experience across all of our web services on any device.
  • For Businesses, instead of two versions, there will be one. Companies of all sizes will sign up for our premium version, Google Apps for Business, which includes 24/7 phone support for any issue, a 25GB inbox, and a 99.9% uptime guarantee with no scheduled downtime. Pricing is still $50 per user, per year.

Existing Google Apps for Business users are not affected by this change.

Please note this change has no impact on our existing customers, including those using the free version. And as before, Google Apps for Education will be available as a free service for schools and universities. Also, as the first cloud productivity suite with FISMA certification, we’ll continue to offer Google Apps for Government for $50 per user, per year.

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Apple updates Final Cut Pro X, Motion and Compressor.

Apple updates Final Cut Pro X, Motion and Compressor.

Final Cut Pro X

What’s New in Version 10.0.7
This update improves overall stability, performance and compatibility including:

  • The Letterbox effect “Offset” slider has been restored
  • Fixes an issue when creating a single layer DVD
  • Fixes an issue where some third-party effects could cause Final Cut Pro to hang during background rendering
  • Fixes an issue where some third-party transitions would incorrectly use black instead of source media
  • Adds support for editing MXF files that are still ingesting
  • Fixes an issue rendering Motion Templates containing Image Units

Motion

What’s New in Version 5.0.6
This update improves overall stability and performance including:

  • Fixes an issue where Image Units were removed when a project was saved
  • Fixes issues when working with multiple documents on dual displays

Compressor

What’s New in Version 4.0.6
This update improves overall stability, performance and compatibility including:

  • Fixes an issue with the upload of clips of greater than 1 GB to Vimeo

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Gmail 2.0 for iOS

Gmail 2.0 for iOS is now available, somewhat.

What’s New in Version 2.0

  • Multiple account support
  • App redesigned with a new, cleaner look
  • Search predictions as you type
  • Infinite scrolling inbox
  • Respond to Google Calendar invites inline
  • Interactive Google+ posts support
  • New welcome experience

For some reasons, the App is not avaialable for download at the time of this posting.