Know More About Mac Pro

For the last few years Mac Pro had not changed in appearance. With the new Mac Pro, Apple not only offers a new case, it shows its deep thinking for desktop computing. Mac Pro or otherwise Power Mac G5 is certainly beautiful and practical, but it nevertheless remained a desktop fairly conventional; a big box full of fans, disks and expansion cards.

While the general public enjoyed multiple avatars iMac all-in- one, Apple was conservative. The Mac Pro is the first Mac fully assembled in the United States in the last fifteen years. Even though it keeps the name of its predecessor, the new Mac Pro is not just another variation on the same theme. However the idea behind its design; you can observe the Apple’s research for over thirty years. This black cylinder replaces the gray towers and beige boxes in the role of computation module agnostic, which the user can expand and specialize functions according to his creative needs.

Apple's website suggests that the Mac Pro is black. The aluminum hood is a rather dark gray, aluminum mirror finish: with this pink paper, the Mac Pro takes a very slight tint of purple hue. Les pictures Worked Apple website suggests that the Mac Pro is black. The aluminum hood is a rather dark gray, aluminum mirror finish: with this pink paper, the Mac Pro takes a slight purplish hue. We can also trace the lineage of the new Mac Pro to Power Mac G4 Cube; the various organs were arranged around a cooling tower and protected by a carcass licked design.

The similarities are striking, but this time Apple has pushed the idea at its peak and the new Mac Pro is nothing more than a pre calculated module, without any form of internal expansion. Towering drives have been replaced by tiny flash drives, race GHz gave way to the race for hearts and graphics cards are equally used by hardcore gamers looking for FPS by scientists looking for a God particle. The Mac pro carries the SSD and you can notice that there would be room for other in second array. The Mac Pro is designed from the inside to the outside.

"Thermal heart” is the backbone of the machine, a radiator triangular prism shaped charge to dissipate the heat of the components attached thereto. Fresh air is sucked from the bottom of the Mac Pro, rises along the thermal heart, and warmed by the top. A single fan at the top of the machine is required to operate the cooling system. The memory modules are distributed either side of the card with processor "hidden" behind the ports.

Each side of the heart receives a thermal daughter board; one for the processor, the other for the two graphics chips, the components which form the true heart of this machine by providing capabilities in general and specialized in computing at very high frequency or massively parallelized. The new Mac Pro only has a single Intel Xeon processor E5 Ivy Bridge -EP, but the hyper -threading "transforms" every physical heart in two logical cores. When starting the machine port groups are lit progressively. In normal operation, only the power button remains lit unless the machine is running.

The Mac Pro contains an accelerometer that serves nothing but detects this movement and triggers the illuminating LEDs. The other specialties are grafted onto these cards, as added accessories where there is enough room for it. The SSD takes place on a graphics card. Memory is four in number only at the side of the processor board. The essential and imperative interface between the internal power and versatility external input I / O, are the dark iridescent armor knights of Mac Pro.

The First 9 Things You Should Do When You Get a New iPhone

Wow, I got an iPhone! Great feeling, though I must say more and more are getting used to this feeling nowadays. With better and higher disposable incomes; iPhones are more common nowadays. When you do get one as your dream buy, there are a lot of things that you need to learn and a few really important things that you need to do as soon as you start handling your phone. I would classify them as the First 9 things to do.

1. Activate your new iPhone: As in the case of any new handset, activation is the first and foremost thing you need to do, as only post activation can you do anything else on your favourite phone.

 2. Install iTunes: iTunes is a great music app that not only allows you to store and play your music but also organize albums, add and remove music, video, photos, apps etc.. A great way to use your iPhone.

3. Create an Apple ID: You got an iPhone because you wanted to enjoy the multiple benefits that come with an Apple phone. An Apple ID is quite mandatory in such a case, as the Apple ID is the best way for you to download a lot of apps on your iPhone and use them. Stuff like iTunes, App store, iCloud and Facetime can be downloaded once you have an Apple ID in place.

4. Set up and Sync your iPhone: Once you have your iPhone, lets sync that up with your PC, as this will help you organize your phone with all your favourite stuff, something that can be really handy when you travel the next time. So connect, sync, transfer and enjoy.

5. Configure iCloud: This is a cloud computing and allows you to organize all your stuff under one single cloud. So once you buy any thing from the app store, it is available on the cloud and can be downloaded any time you need them.

 6. Find my iPhone: This is a lost and find option on your phone that allows you to locate the phone if you have misplaced it, lost it or if it has been stolen. So set that security feature up and rest assured, help is on its way if it goes missing.

7. Built-in Apps: While you may want to buy so much from the app store one you activate your iPhone, there are so many built-in featres that are so interesting and handy. So discover the joys of an iPhone and you dig deeper. Some interesting ones include, email, photos, music, calling, and so many more.

8. Go to the App Store: Once you are settled in, go to the app store and pick up whatever you want depending upon your interests. A great place to shop, literally!

9. Insulate from Adult content: A great feature of the iPhone is the feature that allows the phone to block any adult or pornographic content. This is all the more critical if the iPhone is being used by your child.

DoAT, the iOS app help you to post Google+

You have an iPhone, you read something really interesting on your phone and want to share it on Google+. But, alas, you do not have a way to do it. Fret not, there is something interesting out there and it is called DoAT. Pronounced Do@, this wonderful application allows you to share and post on Google+ on your iPhone.

The latest application from the iPhone stable, supports sharing of content from within this app to Google+. Now you may ponder as how this is possible, as sharing from within one app to Google+ has always been impossible. DoAT uses the mobile version of Google+ for enabling this sharing. This is how you go about it.
When you are browsing on your iPhone using the app and find any page which you feel is very interesting and would want to share it on Google+, all you need to do is hit the G+ icon and a new web browser will open within the DoAT application. What happens next is the surprising part. The name of the page you are planning to share along with a link will automatically be inserted. It will also notify that the sharing is happening from your iPhone via the DoAT. That’s smart marketing, especially when you are introducing a new app in the market. In fact, the social area of DoAT now includes Google+ as well, apart from Facebook.

Let me tell you that this app is not something I can call very legitimate, as it uses a bit of trickery to go around Google+ and with very good reason. This is because Google has not released an API for accessing Google+ and that is exactly the reason DoAT goes around and uses the mobile version to get its work done. This app blends social websites and information portals, thereby picking a category that most matches your phrase or key word as you enter it.

A new app is always a great asset, no matter what value it brings along. Every app will find users and more so when it is connected to Google+, which has around 20 million users worldwide, a number not easy to ignore. All said, two big companies in tech world will not approve of such a bridge so easily, especially coming in the wake of some fierce battling in the tech skies of late, and if you think you want to buy it from the apple app store, then this might take more time than anticipated. There are of course different app stores from where you can pick this up.

Mac 101: Use Automator to extract text from PDFs

Here are some tricks and tips of using Mac 101 the most efficient and user friendly way. I am sure all of us have tried copying and pasting pdf content to some word or pages document. Trust me, the results are quite disenchanting, as the document would end up looking like a kids job, with absolutely no format, messed up lines and diagrams, photos all gone awry, what a mess! And then, the clean up begins, you spend almost 5 times the amount of time putting the entire document back in order, if not more, especially if the document happened to be bigger than normal. Now I have learnt that there is a very simple and efficient way of doing this and yes, it is a Mac application. This magic wand is called Automator.

What is an Automator? This is a user friendly application from the Mac 101 and helps you do what you have wanted to achieve seamlessly for a long time. The steps are quite simple, you need to create a workflow; thereby almost creating a chain of commands that will help you in achieving the end result; without having to go through the entire set of instructions every single time.

Here is how you do it.

1. Once you open Mac, click on applications and open Automator. A prompt then asks you to select a document type. You need to select workflow, and hit enter. This is critical; as it helps you create the command chain I was mentioning earlier. The second command prompt is to select “Ask for finder items” from the files and folders on the far left of your screen. Drag this command to the far right space where it is mentioned as “Drag actions or files here to build your workflow”. This completes step 1.

2. Click on pdf in the far left column and select “Extract pdf text from second column”. This your second chain of command. Drag “Extract pdf text” into the space on the right where you have built the workflow. Now a completed workflow has been created by the Automator.

3. In the Extract PDF Text bubble of the workflow, select Rich text instead of plain text. This is done to retain the original formatting as far as text characteristics are concerned. Now choose location to save your extracted file, give a title and save. Make sure to save as an application and not as a workflow.


Finally, open your Automator application and select the PDF you want to extract the text from. A new Rich text document will be created; from which you can copy and paste the contents into your preferred word document. Though Mac has always trailed windows as far as usage is concerned, a large part of the virtual community still swear by Mac as a great application; and this application called Automator only helps in proving their stand right.

Well, I am sure one of your most long standing issues as far as PDF is concerned is solved now.

Why Apple Hardware Is Redonkulously Over-Powered

Apple has been a pioneer when it comes to new products that take the market by storm, and it is no surprise that even after Steve Jobs, the company seeks to keep and extend its overpowering control of the market share. By pioneering, I mean that Apple always comes up with products which no other organization has thought about, equipping its machines with features that are almost too powerful for the machine to hold and the users to use.

Let us take the example of the 64-bit A7 processor that adorns the iPhone 5S. Does a Smartphone need a 64-bit processor, my god that’s too much.; Its like equipping an aircraft with rocket fuel, when you know that the aircraft will always use jet turbine fuel and never be used as a rocket, at least in the near future. A 64-bit processor can combine with a 4GB RAM, but then that is too much for a Smartphone, which comes with a maximum of 1GB RAM. So that’s a bit of an overloading.

Another prime example is the Mac Pro, a computer which is way too much of a computer. It is superfast, and has an ability to use graphics in ways more than you can imagine, which is ridiculous, as a vast majority of users are hardly going to need such stuff on their computers.

While we argue that Apple hardware is redonkulously overpowered and that such over kill of technically advanced hardware ends up overpricing the machine, there is also the ego that an apple product carries into this world. Such an attitude creates an aura around the product, even though practically speaking, such advanced hardware is of no use unless you have enough practical uses to put these hardware to.

Some advantages though of launching such over powering hardware are: 

a. Higher Benchmarks: By launching a product way ahead and powerful, you are setting higher benchmarks for competitors, where-in they try to match Apple products.

b. Durability: Such advanced products with higher prices also come with longer durability, thereby reducing your costs in the longer run.

c. Once an Apple, always an Apple: An Apple product once bought, becomes so unique that all your future purchases revolve around this product, due to the high initial cost which makes it indisposable as well as the fact that no other product in the market matches the speed and efficiency of such over powering devices.


In the present scenario, such an overkill may seem to be an excess of technology, but in the longer run, such an act of bravado could sow the seeds for inventions in line with such technological advancements from other organizations as well. Hoping for a better technological future!