Showing posts with label apple. Show all posts
Showing posts with label apple. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 22, 2017

Good On EFF At The 2016 Apple Stockholders Meeting!

Good On EFF At The 2016 Apple Stockholders Meeting!


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Im a supporter of the EFF, Electronic Frontier Foundation. Heres another free plug as thanks for their excellent work.

EFF to Apple Shareholders: Your Company Is Fighting for All of Us
. . . We’ve long warned that the FBI seeks to undermine the security for technology users, and have been warning that a showdown like this one was coming. Make no mistake, all of us have our security at stake here. There is no reliable way to build a pathway to undermine Apple’s security that will only let in good guys. And once it has built this path, there is no way that the law will limit Apple to using it on a single phone. Neither the technology nor the law supports this. As security expert Bruce Schneier said, either we all have security or none of us does.

So its gratifying to see Apple take this stand to protect the security and privacy of its customers. We are supporting Apple publicly and will be filing a friend of the court brief siding with them because it’s wrong for the government to conscript Apple or any company or coder to write and certify brand new code that they believe, rightly, will undermine security features that protect us all.

This is about all of our safety and resisting government overreach. These are hard battles to fight—we know, we’ve been fighting them for many years. We’re proud of Apple for supporting strong encryption, which at its heart is supporting civil liberties. And we’re proud to stand with them on this fight.

- Cindy Cohn, Executive Director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation
Apples Shareholders Offer Support for Stance Against U.S.
When Cindy Cohn, executive director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, rose during the meeting at Apple headquarters in Cupertino, California, to praise the company, her words sparked a long round of applause from the audience, including Cook on stage.

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Monday, October 31, 2016

Game Center Gets In Mac OS X Mountain Lion Released by Apple

Game Center Gets In Mac OS X Mountain Lion Released by Apple


game centerMac OS X Mountain Lion was released on July 25, 2012. It is the ninth major release of OS X. There are many words about this new operating system for Macintosh computers, some good while some bad.

Mountain Lion brings a lot of great things from iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch to the Mac. With iCloud, users can connect all Apple devices together and work better. Reminders will let nothing slip your mind. Messages with iMessage takes your conversations even further. Receive notifications. Get your Mac in on Game Center.

Game Center is finally shown on Mac. Game Center is actually an online multiplayer social gaming network. It allows users to send friends requests to gamers around the world, start a multiplayer game through matchmaking, track their achievements, and compare their high scores on a leader board. First, Game Center on iOS is only supported on iPod Touch, iPhone, and iPad. After Mountain Lion, it is on the Mac, also.

The features offered by Game Center on Mountain Lion are Notification Center, Notes, Reminders, Messages, Dictation and AirPlay Mirroring, leaderboards, friend info, game matching, and more, just like in iPad. Compared with early versions, it seems still only has basic features, but is starkly different compared with earlier versions of Windows. Though youll have to wait for some features, the collective changes in Mountain Lion are worth the relatively modest $19.99 price to upgrade. eg. Address Book, the ability to display and keep your Facebook friends data fresh in the newly renamed Contacts app, is coming as part of another software update this fall. Gatekeeper keeps you from downloading unsafe programs. You need to connect with Internet, so that your voice will be send to be translated at Apple servers by Dictation.

OS X Mountain Lion Game Center


For developers, is able to create multiplayer games across multiple devices with Game Kit APIs. For example you can play a game on your Mac against a friend on an iPhone or iPad -- a multiplatform approach that mimics what were seeing in the Windows 8 preview, Windows phones, and the Xbox 360.

OS X Mountain Lion Game Center

With iCloud, we are expecting better social-networking interface. If it is able to to log in and see what youre friends are currently playing, so you can join in, suggest something else, or just see whos shirking work on a Friday afternoon, that will be great. This type of capability seems like such an obvious fit for iCloud.

Apple says Mac apps capable of taking advantage of Game Center are coming at launch but only a handful at the start. So, lets wait for Apples next steps on Game Center!


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