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October 31 2011
Mac OS 10.8 users already doing external testing
Mac OS 10.8 testers both inside Apple’s HQ and in the surrounding area of Silicon Valley have been spotted in Web Logs by MacRumors. Indeed, looking at our own logs (above), 10.8 users have been hitting our servers since mid-August, though only in numbers that probably could have been faked.
More recently, however, 10.8 testing has grown more abundant, with testers hitting our site every day including on weekends from non-Apple IP addresses throughout October.
Similar patterns emerged in testing OS 10.7 which leads us to conclude that this is still very early testing and it is likely more than a year before we’ll see even public betas of the OS.
Still, very nice to see Apple’s already working on the next big cat.
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February 27 2011
Yet Another Cool OS X Lion Feature – Signature Capture
The screenshots and video demos of Mac OS X Lion keep on rolling round the web; and it is looking better and better to me the more I see of it.
Yet another cool feature is revealed today at 9to5Mac, thanks to a tip from their reader Mime454 – the ability to capture signatures with the Mac’s built-in camera.
It’s called ‘Signature Capture’ and it allows you to write your signature with a black pen on a piece of paper, hold it up to your Mac’s built-in camera, and place it on a document in Preview. The feature works as advertised and is very seamless.
The image capture is also very quick and mostly accurate. We got decent-to-good results in all of ours tests and the best advice we have is to write very clearly. Following Apple’s instruction to use black pen is also a must. Using a blue pen, for example, gave us washed out results. We see this coming in handy a lot, especially in PDFs, and hopefully Apple makes it a framework that other companies can integrate into their applications.
I think this will be a very handy feature, assuming it makes it into the final release of Lion. What do you all think? Would this be a useful feature for you?
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