In a wide-ranging discussion, Ted Landau covers his first impressions of Mountain Lion, iWork documents, and the addition of Hulu Plus to the Apple TV. That’s where it starts, but soon veers off into discussions of how social media is influencing our culture, the Facebook IPO and stock performance, whether there will be an Apple stock split and a whole lot more.
This edition of MacNotables is sponsored by Smile, the makers of the new PDFpen for iPad.
Members of The MacJury convened to compare notes and share their first impressions of the newest Mac OS, Mountain Lion, less than 48 hours after release. Their experiences demonstrate the importance of multiple backups when performing a major upgrade, even if the upgrade itself is flawless. The bumps in the road, application upgrades, favorite features, what isn’t working exactly as expected and a whole lot more are shared by the panel of Jeff Carlson, Pat Fauquet, Katie Floyd, Jeff Gamet, and host Chuck Joiner.
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Matt Neuburg is back to help us all Take Control of Using Mountain Lion, and does just that with a new book that will help you get the most out of Apple’s newest version of the Mac OS. Matt discusses what Apple did that surprised him the most, the return of a lost feature, and new options for managing your documents. Matt explains how Mountain Lion has a variety of feature enhancements that amount to “taking the edge off Lion.” The discussion takes a philosophical turn as Matt puts Mountain Lion in perspective with past and possible future versions of the OS.
There are plenty of iPhone camera apps out there, but 645 Pro is different. Mike Hardaker of Jag.gr discusses how their approach focuses on getting a better picture at creation rather than relying on post-processing. Leveraging the lessons learned by manufacturers of physical cameras, 645 Pro delivers more of a pro-camera interface, but that’s not all. With an option to save photos in dRAW—TIFF files and MAX-quality JPEGs, your photos will look better than ever before because of the lack of compression. Mike talks about how they were the first to offer that feature, his approach to crafting 645 Pro, and more.
Mac users have been living in a sandboxed world for a month or so. Ted Landau talks about why the Earth didn’t stop turning, the wins and losses of sandboxing, and what still bugs him about the whole thing. Ted also examines Microsoft’s strategy with the Surface, the reception Google’s Nexus 7 has received, and overarching issues of tablets in general.
This edition of MacNotables is sponsored by Smile, the makers of the new PDFpen for iPad.
