This rumors started by Howard Ward, a money manager for Gamco Investors, during an interview for Bloomberg’s “Street Smart” when it stated that “We’re going to see a dividend announced for Apple at some point in the first half of 2012″. Apple didn’t reverse dividend since 1995, but Tim Cook is not Steve Jobs and may decide to give shareholder a strong signal. Apple has more than 86 billion dollars in cash, that is the stock-market value of Dell and HP together!
DxO Optics Pro is a raw photo file manager, that include many advanced features to enhance the quality of the image, such as denoizing and lens distorsions correction, to unleash the true potential of any digital DSLR (see DxO features here). This is a great tool to obtain perfect image quality, working in combination with Adobe Photoshop or Lightroom. DxO Labs announced it’s new version of DxO Optics Pro for Mac, with improved performance and support of 5000 body-lens combinations. You could download a 30-day Free Trial, and there’s currently a discount price through December 24, 2011: DxO Standard Edition $99 (from $169) and DxO Elite Edition $199 (from $269). If you are a photographer pro or amateur, at least give it a try, you might be surprised by the results!
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As some of you may know, LaCie have presented the Thunderbolt Little Big Disk, but delivery date range from march to april (3 to 4 months!), so there’s only 2 available Thunderbolt peripherals: Promise Pegasus and Apple Thunderbolt Display. Today Sonnet presented the Sonnet Echo, a Thunderbolt ExpressCard/34 adapter, enabling any owner of 13″ and 15″ MacBook Pro or MacBook Air to use ExpressCard/34 cards on their computers (also compatible with iMac & Mac Mini). This open to ability to have eSATA and USB 3.0 ports on our Mac, with up to 5GB/s bandwidth (more than 600MB/s) enough to connect USB 3 SSD or eSATA fast RAID Storage! All that have a price, that is $235 without taxes, shipping and the mandatory USB 3 or eSATA ExpressCard/34. And as you see on the picture, it’s not the cute little adapter on the top (announced), but the big adapter on the bottom (delivered), mainly due to Intel Thunderbolt chips that dissipate too much heat and need a big aluminum box or a fan to stay cool (as in the Little Big Disk!). This is at least 3X the volume of the initial announcement mock-up! With a tag price of 350$ (including
Seagate and Western Digital own more than 90% of the bare hard-drive market, and they announced simultaneously a change on their warranty policy: from 3 years to 2 years or only 1 year for consumer hard-drive and from 5 years for professional to 3 years. Ouch! Starting December 31, it will take effect on every new bare hard-drive bought from this date. So if you need a bare hard-drive, please consider buying it before December 31! Happy new year!!!
My server crashed severly few days ago, and I found it was a great opportunity to rebuild my Mac blog from scratch, to revise editorial line as well as presentation, throwing away years of post to do it better! Welcome on the new Mhackintosh site, where we will give you news about the Mac and OS X world