There are some patent applications this week show that Apple has been working on solving cooling problem of laptops. These days laptop is much faster and more powerful than before, but according to energy conservation law, this means there will be more heat while laptop working, and this leads to electronic components premature damage. Of course, this is annoying laptop users.
The first application shows a cooling system with more sensor will control fan and other active cooling device. This new system called Airflow, it is an advance version of current cooling system.
The second application shows that users could intervene cooling system. Users could not only control the system but also could lower the temperature through USB, web and Fire Wire.
The third document the use of electronic equipment cooling system. This patented formulation can be transmitted to the external heat laptop cooling devices to achieve rapid and powerful effect of cooling.
Finally, the electronic device cooling thermoelectric cooling components described will use the "Peltier Effect". By connecting two different metals current run. When the electron flow from the high-density area to a lower region to achieve the cooling effect.
Seton Hill University, an university in southwest Pennsylvania might become famous from now on. There's a Griffin Technology Advantage Program of this university that every full-time student in fall 2010 will get a new Apple iPad and a 13'' Macbook. Students not only can use their equipment in class but also can use for personal matters. The university has a plan of renew MacBook model every two years, and the most amazing thing is students can take iPad and MacBook away with them after gradation!
The university thinks advanced technology will help students to learn better with a higher efficiency.
According to foreign reports, Boy Genius released some screen shot of MS Office 2011 for Mac. These pictures shows some new features of Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint
Office 2011 is quite alike to Ofice 2010, the different is Outlook will be contained in 2010 package, this will be the first time Microsoft provide a Outlook application for Mac. The most outstanding feature of Office 2011 is a same document could be edited by several different users at the same time.
But I can't stop wondering when we already have Address Book, Mail and iWork in our Macs, what's the point we have another software package to do the same thing?!
According to iPhone Fan website reports, through public technical documentation of Apple in March 15 "Apple Computers: Powering a peripheral through USB" speculated that at least three years ago, Apple began to bulit new USB-powered standard for Mac products, the new standard improved for 12V/12mmA from 5V/500mA, this standard almost equals to the power capacity as FireWire.
Since this new USB-powered standard was attached in all products from late 2007, why release this news now? It is very clear this is a preparation for iPad. The power capacity of iPad is surely far larger than iPhone, if attach your iPad on USB 2.0 to charge, it would take quite a long time, but with is new power standard, charging iPad will be as easy as iPhone.
After analyzing Macintosh products over the past 30 years, British online trade website Vouchers found out if you convert a Apple Lisa into price for today, it could trade 43 iPad(s).
Apple Lisa, the prototype of Macintosh in 1983, was priced 9,995 USD, converted into today's currency it worth 21,745 USD.
In around 1982, Steve Jobs was forced out of the Lisa project, so he joined Macintosh project instead. Contrary to popular belief, the Macintosh is not a direct descendant of Lisa, although there are obvious similarities betweeb the systens and the final revision, the Lisa 2/10, was modified and sold as the Macintosh XL.
The Lisa was a more advanced (and far more expensive) system than the Macintosh of that time in many respects, such as its inclusion of protected memory, cooperative multitasking, a generally more sophisticated hard disk based operating system, a built-in screensaver, an advanced calculator with a paper tape and RPN, support for up to 2 MB of RAM, expansion slots, a numeric keypad, date corruption protection schemes such as block sparing, non-physical file names, and a larger high resolution display. It would be many years before many of those features were implemented on the Macintosh platform. Protected memory, for instance, did not arrive until the Mac OS X was released in 2001. The Macintosh, however, featured a faster 68000 processor (7.89 MHz) and sound. The complexity of the Lisa operating system and its programs taxed the 5 MHz Motorola 68000 microprocessor so that the system felt sluggish, particulary when scrolling in documents.
Just for fun, I found a picture from www.bytecellar.com comparing keyboard of today's iMac and a Lisa 2 keyboard.
2000 After some improvements, Photoshop 6.0, which coded Venus in Furs, cam into market. This time. Photoshop become more easily interact with other software from Adobe. Moreover, 6.0 started a new function, Shape.
2001 A quiet year for Photoshop
2002
Photoshop 7.0 released in this March, code-name Liquid Sky. Before the popularity of digital cameras, Photoshop image processing, or from the vast majority of scanning, Photoshop most of the basic functions has nothing to do with a digital camera. In late 20th century, digital cameras become very popular, Photoshop 7.0 increase Healing Brush tools such as picture changes, there are some basic functions such as digital cameras, EXIF data, file browser, and so on. Photoshop at the same time enjoying great commercial success, but also begun to feel a tremendous threat from peers, including the supplied software and other competitors such Capture One. Thomas Knoll personally responsible for leading a team to develop the PS RAW plug-in.
Major updates of Photoshop 7.0 include a new brush engine, integrated image viewer, custom workspaces and so on. Photoshop 7.0 also released a custom Photoshop Elements package, which replaces the original customized specifically for the LE version of the scanner.
2003
The first time of releasing a X.01 version of Photoshop, which joined the deal at the highest level in digital format RAW plug-ins.
In September, to everyone's surprise, the new version of Photoshop is not called 8.0 but renames it as Photoshop Creative Suite, code-named Dark Matter. CS version of the original raw file plug-ins to improve and become a part of CS, more new features being developed for digital cameras, such as the intelligent regulator in different parts of the brightness, Kawasaki changed the lens correction.
2004
Another quiet year for Adobe
2005
Adobe CS2 released, code-named Space Monkey. Photoshop CS2 is a professional digital image editing and creation of an important industry-standard update. It will serve as an independent software program, or Adobe Creative Suits 2 is a key component to publish. Photoshop CS2 introduced a powerful and precise new standards, providing digital graphics creation and control experience.
2006
Adobe opened an beta version of Photoshop Lightroom, which is a great professional graphics management database.
2007
Photoshop Lightroom 1.0 released.
Red Pill, aka CS3 is also available to users. This new release is Adobe's history, the largest ever held. CS3 suit is divided into six different versions, includes a total of 17 new design software, which for the first time, including the most famous products of the original Three Musketeers Macromedia website.
There are three versions of Creative Suite 3, including Design Premium, Design Standard, Web Premium, Web Standard, Product Premium, and Master Collection. The specific components included in each version different, certain components and services, is also shared by the versions. CS3 in addition to Onlocetion CS3 and Ultra CS3 two components, the remaining components are all native support for Mac, which Onlocetion CS3 needs BootCamp to support.
2008
Adobe released a Flash-based Photoshop.com applications, providing limited image editing and online storage.
Lightroom 2.0 released the same year, by adding 64-bit operations, multi-monitor support.
CS4 is also scheduled to be released this year, code named Stonehenge. Of course, Photoshop is not alone in this. September 23, Adobe has announced the launch a milestone in the industry's products Adobe Creative Suite 4 product family. The product can be applied to all of the creative work flow, it's the industry's leading design and development software. Through radical work flow breakthroughs, designers and eliminate the barriers between development workers.
The new Creative Suite 4 product line includes hundreds of innovative features, and comprehensively promote the printing, networking, mobile, interactive, audio-visual creative process of video production, The product is the entire product line integration of Flash technology to the expressive force and a new high, is the largest to date Adobe software version includes Adobe Creative 4 Production Premium, Adobe Master Collection and 13-based products, 14 integrated technologies and seven kinds of services.
2009
Adobe released the iPhone version of Photoshop, from then, PS landed on mobile platforms.
Our item, vintage man's wear, has been sold on Mar. 16. It been sold as the tagged price, no bargain, but the buyer said that the transporting fee is a bit high, since we are going to send our item to mainland.We think the reason this item been sold is because of the low price of the shirt, and we did a good promotion through Internet, took full advantage of New Media. We posted our item on Facebook, Twitter, and put the message that there's a interesting item on the market on our MSN Messager, followed our nick names, this is a very useful way to spread the words in Mainland China.
About budget: We could say there's nearly no prime cost inside this item, the transporting fee was payed by buyer, all we should do is posting our item online, and take some photos about it.
About using Twitter : We first seach for some key words in Twitter for example "vintage men's wear", "used cloth", "2nd hand cloth", "men's cloth".Then we find the people who tweet about it so we follow that person.Later we tweet our promotion and also tweet our link that's why they know what we are trying to promote.
We think that this is the very good way to be able to join people who actually share the same conversations and interests.
It's been 20 years when this evil software came to our life, already. Photoshop could be seen almost everywhere from publishing industry to schools these days, and even news industry.
In 1987, Thomas Knoll, a PhD student at the University of Michigan, began writing a program on his Macintosh Plus to display grayscale images on a monochrome display. This program, called Display, caught the attention of his brother John Knoll, an Industrial Light & Magic employee, who recommended Thomas turn it into a full-fledged image editing program. Thomas took a six month break from his studies in 1988 to collaborate with his brother on the program, which had been renamed ImagePro.Later that year, Thomas renamed his program Photoshop and worked out a short-term deal with scanner manufacturer Barneyscan to distribute copies of the program with a slide scanner; a "total of about 200 copies of Photoshop were shipped" this way. During this time, John traveled to Silicon Valley and gave a demonstration of the program to engineers at Apple and Russell Brown, art director at Adobe. Both showings were successful, and Adobe decided to purchase the license to distribute in September 1988.While John worked on plug-ins in California, Thomas remained in Ann Arbor writing program code. Photoshop 1.0 was released in 1990 for Macintosh exclusively. (Wikipedia) It became the killer app for Macintosh.
1990 After hard working with Adobe engineers, Thomas finally worked out a new version of Photoshop, 1.0.7. It was only a diskette with 800KB capacity, the program by then was pretty much like Paint in Windows, pencil, coloring, change scale of pictures, eraser.
1991 Industrial Light and Magic, ILM used photoshop created several films and get much positive judgment. Photoshop 2.0 came out. It started Illustrator, CMYK color and Pen tool.
1993 Photoshop 2.5 came to the market, the major character of this version is that it became available in Windows. In this version, Photoshop gain 2 more new function, Filter and Palette.
1994 Photoshop had introduced into Journalism, the Time Magazine cover with O.J. Simpon became the first news picture which been processed through Photoshop. Photoshop 3.0 brought to market this year, and Layer function came into this application. It allows users to process pictures in different layers and combine them into one. Quite easy for now, but it was very creative at that time.
1995 Suddenly, there were many photo editing software in the market, of course, they all try to brought down Photoshop. Live Picture was one of them, the engineers claimed that the Layer function of Photoshop was plagiarism. Adobe finally realized how important Photoshop was, they decided to buy the copyright of Photoshop, and paied 3450 million dollars.
1996 Coded Big Electric cat, Photoshop 4.0 was published in 1996. The major change of this version is the user interface. Adobe decided that Photoshop would be unified with other products of the company, and there would be some changes about the working flow. Some users was a bit dissatisfied about these changes, some even started a protest; but after a while, they took it quite well. Meanwhile, 4.0 also introduced a non-destructive adjustment layers, action, macro, grid, guides, and free transform tools.
1997 Live Picture, number one competitor of Photoshop, dive into a bitter struggle this year, John Sculley, former CEO of Macintosh went for emergency assistance.
1998 Photo 5.0 came to market. This time, History was brought into concept. It's different to Undo, and quite popular in picture software area.
1999 This is a second X.5 of Photoshop, 5.5. The major change made Photoshop start to support imagines for website.
