9to5Mac has the story on this one, and it seems that Apple has seen the backlash of their new MacPro update, and they have deigned to pull the new designation from the MacPro.
It doesn’t make up for releasing an update to the MacPro with zero new technology, but at least it makes me think they realize how much this has pissed people off.
You can now download the Smoke 2013 Free Trial. I am downloading now, and looking forward to trying it out.
You can check out the online Smoke Documentation. And you can go to the YouTube Smoke Learning Channel to get tutorials.
So the nurse came by yesterday and she talked to my surgeon’s main nurse, and for now I don’t have to go get stiches. They have stiri stripped my open chest tube wound after seriously cleaning it out with both beta dine and alcohol. And she left an opening in the middle for it to dry and for to beta dine it 3 times a day, but she will be back today to check on it again.
The Orange on the strips is the betadine.
And here is the whole wound, which is looking so much better, and the bump at the top is almost gone. Honestly the main incision is not going to be nearly as bad a scar as the 2 chest wounds!
Macworld has the story, on the new Airport Express, which was not mentioned in the WWDC Keynote. It basically looks like a white Apple TV now, but now sports a WAN and a LAN connector, and the standard USB and analog/optical audio jack, but it also has the best features of the AirPort Extreme, which is dual band 802.11n support, which will allow macs and iPads to connect over a 5Ghz network, and your iPhone over a 2.4 Ghz network.
And it remains priced for $99 and is available now from Apple’s Web Store.
Dave Pogue in the New York Times has a great article on all the new goodies Apple released yesterday, but for me the most interesting part is what he has to say on the MacPro’s.
Many Apple observers also wonder if Apple thinks that desktop computers are dead, since not a word was said about the iMac and Mac Pro. An executive did assure me, however, that new models and new designs are under way, probably for release in 2013.
Still though, that could really mean the iMac are getting an update soon, and the MacPros will just continue with these crappy updates, but one can still hope that Apple has reversed course and is finally working on a new and more powerful MacPro with the latest technology and powerful NVIDIA support (how about a QUADRO 5000 and a GeForce GTX 690 or at least 680). Still the tech in the MacPro is so far behind at this point, they need to work fast or more and more people will move to Windows in the Interim!
PhotoshopSupport has this story, but the amazing onOne Software has now made Perfect Layers 2 for Lightroom and Aperature now available for free!
I love onOne software. They are great, not only do they make quality plug ins, and give you powerful updates for free (like the 64 bit upgrade with CS5), but they also make earlier versions of their software available for free to get you into their software. Their suite is awesome and well worth the price, I use it all the time!
MacStories has the story on this one. Apple has updated Aperture to 3.3 and iPhoto to 9.3 which not only give them a Retina Display for the new MacBook Pro, but also unify their libraries, so you can make modifications in either program without having to duplicate the images! This is so very cool! If only they would allow third parties to also do this so Lightroom could do the same, but that will never happen! Still this makes Aperature so much more usefull! Very very cool!
Of course it also means programs like iPhoto Library Manager will need to be updated for this new update to work properly, but still this is a very exciting new feature.
Photoshop support has the link to the free 6 Bokeh Brushes from Bittbox, which are free for personal use or $9.99 per file for commercial use.
Adobe Blogs has the news on this one.
Adobe has releases a set of Tablet settings for the Amazon Kindle Fire, Barnes & Noble Nook, iPad 1 and 2 and Android Tablets as well as XDCAM EX and AVC-Intra in MXF wrappers for Windows and for Mac.
And for Mac OS only they have released a set of ProRes 422 Encoding Presets.
Basically you download them and exract them, then open Adobe Media Encoder CS6 and chose Preset > Import and import the presets.
This is great, and these should have come with the program, and they need to make presets for the New iPad as well!
9 to 5 Mac is reporting that in fact Apple has slightly updated the MacPro towers with new Processors, but no Thunderbolt, no USB 3 and no new Graphics cards. This actually makes me more worried that they are killing the MacPro, because who wants a MacPro with so little upgrade? I mean the new processors are nice, but come on. And not only that they are still 2 year old processors, not the latest Xeon’s Intel has released, so while they 12 core is $1200 cheaper than it used to be, it is still old tech.
And if the MacBook’s get NVIDIA graphics cards, why not the MacPro? We want CUDA as well, not the same 2 year old graphics card!
This is not an upgrade. It is a little FU to all us power users!
COME ON APPLE, WTF!