iOS 7

iOS 7 is free and comes with every new iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. iOS 6 can easily update by going to Settings > General > Software Update. Devices that are compatible with iOS 7 iPhone: iPhone4,iPhone4s,iPhone5,iPhone5c,iPhone5s iPod Touch: iPod Touch 5th Generation 16GB,32GB,64GB iPad: iPad2, iPad with Retina Display, iPad Mini Some of features i had looked over. Control Centre Control Centre makes it easy to access the controls and apps from any screen with just one swipe,quickly turn on or off Airplane mode, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and Do Not Disturb. can also access their flashlight, timer, calculator and camera and even be connect to an AirPlay-enabled device and lock the screen orientation. Notification Centre We can swipe down from any screen—including the Lock screen—to access notifications like missed calls, emails and more. The Today feature shows summary of the day, birthday reminders and calendar events. what tomorrow looks like. And can use Missed view to see notifications that haven't addressed in the last 24 hours. Multitasking Multitasking in iOS 7 makes switching between apps quick and easy. With the new thumbnail view, Preview open apps and close them with just a swipe. Multitasking to use apps and updates app content before opening it. Camera Camera in iOS 7 has four shooting formats—still, panorama, video and square—and with just a swipe, switch between formats to capture photos and can use the all-new built-in filters to add effects to the still and square pictures, right in the Camera app. Photos Photos in iOS 7 gives a new way to see pictures and videos based on time and place. Photos creates smart groupings of pictures and videos called Moments, Collections and Years so it’s easy to find photos. And with iCloud Photo Sharing, share photos and videos with friends and family who have an iOS device—and friends and family can leave comments right in the Photos app or add their own photos and videos to the shared stream. AirDrop With AirDrop for iOS, share anything with one person or a group from any app with a Share button. AirDrop detects nearby iOS devices so send pictures, documents, or links with no network or setup required. And can make themselves visible to friends only, or everyone around them.(sharing is between iOS Device). Safari Safari makes browsing the web fast and intuitive. Safari in iOS 7 hides navigation buttons and bars until more content appears on the screen. Browse the web using new gestures—swipe left to go forward and right to go back. The new smart search field combines both search queries and URLs and with tab view, switch between open web pages. Shared Links shows web pages shared by people on Twitter. Siri In iOS 7, Siri has a new look and a more natural-sounding female or male voice and can do even more. Now Siri is integrated with popular search engines and social media like Bing, Wikipedia and Twitter, so when you ask Siri a question, they see more results from more sources. Siri can also help you with more tasks, like returning calls or playing voicemail. App Store The App Store has more than 900,000 apps worldwide, so there's almost no limit to what iPhone and iPad can do. The Apps Near Me feature in iOS 7 helps find apps relevant to their location.

How do I adjust the resolution of my Retina display?

If you need to adjust the display resolution choose System Preferences from the Apple () menu. Choose Display. The Retina display offers scaled resolutions that allow you to have text and objects appear larger on screen, or to make them appear smaller which provides more space on screen. Note: Scaled resolutions do not offer the same visual quality as the Retina setting. Scaled resolutions may also impact graphics performance depending on which applications you are using. Your MacBook Pro with Retina display has 2880 x 1800 pixels and starts up in its native Retina mode, which is the recommended resolution for use on this computer.

Cursor issue when playing full-screen games on Windows 7 via Boot Camp-MacBook Pro (Retina, Mid 2012)

When using Windows 7 with Boot Camp on your MacBook Pro (Retina, Mid 2012), mouse or trackpad clicks may not seem to respond correctly when you play full-screen games. Disable display scaling on HiDPI settings to correct this issue. *Right click the game application's icon. This brings up a Properties dialog box. *Click on the Compatibility tab. *Place a checkmark in the checkbox for "Disable display scaling on high DPI." *Click OK.

Calibrate the battery of Apple Macbookpro/MacBook Air

For any MacBook Pro/MacBook Air user, especially those who travel, a long battery life and top notch battery health are vital. The tips below will help ensure you get the most out of your MacBook Pro/MacBook Air’s battery over its lifetime.

1) Calibrate the battery once ever 1-3 months
Finally, if your battery is showing signs of shorter run times, you may want to calibrate the battery (once every 1-3 months). To calibrate the battery, follow these instructions:

a) Fully charge your MacBook Pro/MacBook Air.
b) Once fully charged, leave it plugged in for at least another 2 hours.
c) Remove the MagSafe power adapter, and use your computer until you get the battery level warning message.
d) Ignore that message and keep running your notebook.
e) Eventually the machine will go to sleep.
f) Do NOT plug it in. Instead, let it sleep for at least 5 hours.
g) After the time has passed, plug it back in, and let it fully charge.
h) Once fully charged, your battery has been properly calibrated.

2) Turn off AirPort Wireless
If you do not require the Internet and if there are no WiFi networks within range, turning off AirPort will considerably save your computer’s battery life. It is also wiser to use an Ethernet cable over wireless if the option exists.

3) Turn off Bluetooth
Once again, if there is no need for a Bluetooth device, the best thing to do is to turn off the Bluetooth feature of your MacBook Pro/MacBook Air.
 
4) Minimize use of iSight Camera
The iSight camera uses plenty of battery power. Keeps its use down to a minimum if trying to extend battery life.
 
5) Remember to eject discs from the DVD drive 
The motor in the optical drive required to spin DVDs and CDs can use a lot of power. Thus, eject your discs to maximize battery life. If you insist on watching DVDs, say on a long journey, rip them to your hard drive first instead.
 
6) Reduce screen brightness
Turn down the brightness of the screen to as low as you can comfortably work, and your battery life will significantly rise. The brighter the screen, the shorter your battery life.
 
7) Turn down/off the backlit keyboard
Similar to the brightness of the screen, keeping your backlit keyboard (if you have one) at its lowest or off will save plenty of battery juice.
 
8) Turn down volume or use headphones
Loud volume on your MacBook Pro/MacBook Air requires more energy. It is more energy efficient to plug in headphones instead if you fancy listening to loud audio/music.

9) Run fewer applications at once/turn off unneeded applications
By running less applications simultaneously, or installing more RAM, you reduce your risks of having unused parts of your memory being called for tasks, thus saving battery life.
 
10) Do NOT disable a CPU core
For all MacBook Pro/MacBook Airs with more than one CPU core, disabling a core is NOT wise. Your MacBook Pro/MacBook Airs chips were designed to run most efficiently with multiple cores active. Disabling one not only requires more power, but also generates more heat. Some users have reported losing up to 40 minutes of battery life by turning off a core!

Inside OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion: Screen Sharing adds drag and drop file transfers

Remote Screen Sharing is enhanced in this summer's release of OS X Mountain Lion, adding support for drag and drop file transfers between the viewer and the remote desktop and enhancing support for virtual displays.

Screen Sharing, a remote access feature Apple first added to OS X 10.5 Leopard to enable viewing or controlling another Mac's desktop, is gaining a feature from Apple Remote Desktop: the ability to drag files from the local desktop into a remote session.

After connecting to a remote host, the local user can now drag files to the desktop, or target a specific app, invoking Exposé to, for example, drag an image file to a Pages document, select the window of the desired document, and place the graphic in the document.

To Read more visit:
http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/12/02/23/inside_os_x_108_mountain_lion_screen_sharing_adds_drag_and_drop_file_transfers.html

Enable AirDrop Over Ethernet & AirDrop On Unsupported Macs Running OS X 10.7

AirDrop is the extremely easy local peer-to-peer file transfer tool that is built into Mac OS X 10.7, it allows you to easily send and receive files wirelessly over a network just by dragging and dropping. It’s a great addition in Lion, but it’s not supported on all Macs.

You can enable AirDrop support on unsupported Macs running OS X 10.7+ by using the following defaults write command in the Terminal:

defaults write com.apple.NetworkBrowser BrowseAllInterfaces 1


Paste that in and hit enter. You’ll need to then kill the Finder with ‘killall Finder’ or reboot the Mac for changes to take effect.

What’s really interesting is that this enables AirDrop over both Wi-Fi and wired Ethernet connections, which basically means any machine running Lion can use it whether or not it has a wireless card. As long as it’s connected to the same network you will be able to see the Mac in the AirDrop list of another Mac running 10.7.

If you ever want to disable this for some reason, you can just use this code.

defaults write com.apple.NetworkBrowser BrowseAllInterfaces 0

Enjoy........

OS X Lion: About Windows Migration Assistant

Summary
With OS X Lion, you can migrate all of the information from your old Windows PC to your new Mac. Lion automatically transfers your contacts, calendars, and email accounts and puts them in the appropriate applications.

Products Affected
OS X Lion
Windows Migration brings the following information from your Windows PC (Windows XP SP3 or greater) to your Mac:

Email: IMAP and POP accounts from Outlook, Outlook Express, Windows Mail and Windows Live email accounts are transferred to Mail. Email metadata such as read, replied, and flagged are transferred from Outlook, Outlook Express and Windows Mail to Mail in OS X.
Contacts: Outlook and Outlook Express contacts, and Windows Contacts from the Contact home directory are transferred to Address Book.
Calendars: Outlook calendars are transferred to iCal
iTunes library, including music, photos, videos and apps and games for iOS devices, except rentals
Home directory folders and content, including Music, Pictures, Desktop, Documents, and Downloads
Browser bookmarks and homepage from Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Safari are transferred to Safari
User settings including localization, locale, and any customized desktop picture

What you need to do first

First, make sure that both the Windows PC and the Mac are on the same network, such as your home network.
Second, to avoid interrupting the migration process, disable automatic installation of updates in Windows.
Make sure know the name and password of an administrator account. The first account created on the Mac is an administrator account.
Note: This process will create a new user account on your Mac to contain the Windows PC information that is migrated over. It will not merge the information with an existing user account on the Mac.


To migrate information from a PC to your Mac

Download to the Windows PC the Windows Migration Assistant installer from here.

Install Windows Migration Assistant, then open it.

Click "Continue" to proceed.


The Windows Migration Assistant will wait for you to open Migration Assistant or use Mac OS X Setup Assistant.

If the Mac is starting up for the first time and Mac OS X Setup Assistant appears

Select the "From a Windows PC" transfer option.
Select the Source Windows PC then click "Continue" to proceed.
The Mac will display a Passcode that should appear on the Windows PC.
The Windows PC will display the Passcode from the Mac then click "Continue" to proceed.
On the Mac select the information to transfer from the Windows PC then click "Transfer" once it is dark to begin the migration process.


On both the Windows PC and Mac you will see a progress bar, messaging about what is being migrated, and estimated time remaining until the migration process is completed.

Next you will complete the "Mac OS X Setup Assistant" process.

Once completed, you can log into the new user account.

Note: At your first login, you will promoted to enter a new password for the user account. See this article about how to choose a good password.

If you are going to use the Migration Assistant from the Utilities folder on the Mac


On the Mac, open the Migration Assistant located in the Utilities folder. To do this: In Finder, select Go > Utilities or press Shift–Command–U (⇧⌘U), then double-click Migration Assistant.

Select the "From another Mac, PC, Time Machine backup, or other disk" option then click "Continue".

When prompted, enter an administrator name and password.

Select the "From another Mac or PC" migration method then click "Continue" to proceed.

When prompted, click Continue to quit other applications. Other applications can't be open on the Mac during the migration process.

Select the PC, then wait for the PC to show the passcode displayed on the Mac.

On the PC, once you see the passcode displayed on the Mac, click "Continue" to proceed.

The Mac will then begin to inspect your computer and build a list of information to migrate.

Select the information you would like to migrate to the Mac, then click Continue to proceed.

On both the Windows PC and Mac you will see a progress bar, messaging of what is being migrated and estimated time remaining. Once completed, you can log into the user account created.

Note: At your first login, you will promoted to enter a new password for the user account. See this article about how to choose a good password.