All-New iMac

Features Stunning Design, Brilliant Display and Faster Performance 

San Jose, CA—October 23, 2012—Apple® today unveiled a completely new iMac® with a stunning design, brilliant display with reduced reflection, and faster processors.* With third generation Intel quad-core processors, powerful NVIDIA graphics and an innovative new storage option called Fusion Drive, the new iMac is the most advanced desktop Apple has ever made. 

“With a stunning design, brilliant display and faster performance, we’ve made the world’s leading all-in-one desktop computer better in every way,” said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing. “The all-new iMac is unbelievably thin, yet packs an incredible amount of performance and technology into our most innovative desktop.” 

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Apple Introduces 13-inch MacBook Pro With Retina Display

San Jose, CA—October 23, 2012—Apple® today introduced an all-new version of its popular 13-inch MacBook® Pro featuring a stunning Retina™ display and all flash storage in a new compact design. At a mere 0.75 inches and 3.57 pounds, the remarkably portable 13-inch MacBook Pro with Retina display is 20 percent thinner and almost a pound lighter than the current 13-inch MacBook Pro.

“The 13-inch MacBook Pro is our most popular Mac, and today it gets completely reinvented with a new thin and light design, fast flash storage and a gorgeous Retina display,” said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing. “With vivid colors, razor sharp text and more pixels than anyone else’s 15 or 17-inch notebooks, the Retina display completely changes what you expect from a notebook.”

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Apple Introduces iPad Mini

San Jose, CA―October 23, 2012―Apple® today introduced iPad® mini, a completely new iPad design that is 23 percent thinner and 53 percent lighter than the third generation iPad. The new iPad mini features a stunning 7.9-inch Multi-Touch™ display, FaceTime® HD and iSight® cameras, ultrafast wireless performance¹ and an incredible 10 hours of battery life²―every inch an iPad, yet in a revolutionary design you can hold in one hand. 

Apple today also announced the fourth generation iPad featuring a gorgeous 9.7-inch Retina™ display, new Apple-designed A6X chip, FaceTime HD camera and ultrafast wireless performance. Both iPad mini and fourth generation iPad come with iOS 6, the world’s most advanced mobile operating system with over 200 new features. 

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This Weeks Meeting

Our meeting Friday, 10-26, will be held as usual at 3:00PM in the Orchid Club. However, both Richard and I will be traveling and will not be able to attend. This means you will not have internet service and one of our most capable teachers (Richard, not me!). Help each other out as best you can. We will both be back next month. Have fun, and learn.

Noteworthy App Of The Month

IMO Instant Messenger

When you maintain two or more instant messaging accounts, it's easy to forget which contacts use which services. If you maintain three or more, the convenience of an IM app is nearly cancelled out by the hassle involved in determining which one to launch each time.

IMO Instant Messenger for iPad and iPhone is an IM service aggregator that lets you view and send IMs from a dozen services, including Facebook Chat, Google Talk, Skype, MSN, ICQ/AIM, Yahoo, VKontakte, MySpace, Steam, and IMO's own client. Features include group messaging, Voice IMs, push notifications, and the ability to send images and video clips.

Courtesy of Smart Computing, September 2012 issue.

iOS 6 Tracks Users For Advertisers

Users got more than an improved Siri and the new Passbook app when they upgraded to iOS 6. Apple's latest mobile OS has given advertisers a brand new way to track your Web surfing. 

It's called Identifiers for Advertisers, or IFA. When you upgrade your existing gadget - or buy a new iPhone 5 - that gadget will be assigned a random IFA number. When you look at a Web page or an app, advertisers see your number and the site you were browsing. Once they know that, it suddenly becomes easy for them to target ads directly to you. 

Apple hasn't advertised this feature much, so not many people know how to turn it off. Plus, the setting isn't where you'd expect. You have to go to Settings>>General>>About>>Advertising. Look for the section labeled "Limit Ad Tracking". Confusingly, by default this is set to Off. In order to stop advertisers from seeing your unique number, you have to switch the slider to On.

 Courtesy of Kim Komando. Read more here - http://www.komando.com/tips/index.aspx?id=13447