Apple comes up with a new OS 'Mountain Lion'

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Apple is about to launch a new operating system in july. This Mac OS X will be called as 'Mountain Lion'. The Apple Inc. has updated this new OS with over 200+ advance features including iCloud, iMessages, Game center etc. that can make you desperate to buy it.

The main features of Mac OS X 'Mountain Lion' are:

• iCloud:
  iCloud is basically an online storage facility provided by Apple. With iCloud you can store your data in online database and can access it either from your Mac, iPad, iPod, iPhone. So you just need to store data in iCloud and then you can access it from Mac, iPad, iPod or iPhone together. So if you make any changes in any of your apple product then the change will automatically be updated in your other Apple products too. With iCloud your Mac, iPad, iPod, iPhone can work together. But for all this you need to sign-in first from your Apple device and then enjoy hassle free life.

• iMessages:
  iMessages feature will give you an ultimate experience of chatting with your closed ones. You can send photos, videos, etc., messages using Mac, iPhone, iPad or iPod touch. With this feature you can start chatting on your Mac and can shift to iPad or iPhone to continue chatting. In iMessages you can also see when your message has been delievered and when someone is typing a reply.

• Notification Center:
  Notification center will show you all the new updates like an email, a message, a software update, a calendar update. Notification center will keep you updated about the new things. Notifications will be showed up at fixed places on your desktop and will be disappeared quickly so they don't occupies space on desktop.

• Share Button:
  Share button is provided throughout the OS X for easily sharing photos, videos and other things with the application you are on. So sharing becomes so much easy with this button and you can also update directly to facebook, twitter profiles.

• Game center:
  Game center is like a centralised gaming platform for Apple product users. You just need to get sign into your game center account and then you are in the world of games. You can choose from games you want to play and can even challenge your friends and the people from all over the world.

• Gatekeeper:
  With this feature you can download files safely and securely. The Gatekeeper will not allow any malicious files to get downloaded and installed in your Mac. In this you can choose from various gatekeeper security options like to download apps only from Mac store or to download apps from anywhere, etc.

Their are many other exciting features like reminder, new safari web browser, Air play, Power Nap, dictation, etc.

You can update to this new Mac OS X having lots of new features for just $19.99 and enjoy the whole new OS with lots of exciting features.

Enhance your Mac performance

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System performance can decline because of data which is unused and unwanted in the Mac. These unwanted data could result in the decrease of system peformance. These unused data should be deleted regularly to optimize the system performance. The files that need to be deleted are temporary cache files,junk files, duplicate files, log files, Internet browsing history, Universal Binaries, unused widgets, Plugins,unwanted applications etc. So to make your Mac work faster you should delete all these files and folders.

If these files are kept in the system then these unused files occupies memory space and also lowers the Mac processing speed. Like whenever we browse internet then cookies, widgets and plugins related to the web page automatically gets stored in the temporary files. So these files gets downloaded in your Mac without your permission. So you should remove these files on a regular basis manually or by using a tool. Deleting these files manually will be a tough and very time consuming task to do. So for deleting these files you can get a software that will speedup your Mac after deleting these files automatically.

Stellar Speedup Mac deletes all the junk files, duplicate files, temporary files, cache files, universal binaries, used widgets, plugings, and all the data or files that needs to be cleaned up for upgrading Mac performance.

Apart from deletion of all the unused,unwanted and duplicate files this software has some special features also like clean my mac, schedular, automatic uninstaller. With clean my mac feature you can select a specific volume and run the clean up operation for unused files.

Schedular of this software will automatically run the software and will delete all the junk and waste files and with the automatic uninstaller feature you can uninstall application by just dragging it to trash. By dragging into trash the application will be automatically uninstalled and deleted.

This software is available at a reasonable price of $29 on www.stellarinfo.com

You can also check the effectiveness of the software by first downloading the demo version which is available for free. The demo version will allow you to view all the files which are recoverable using the software. You can only view files using demo version but you can't recover. For recovery of software you need to buy the full version of software

How to defragment your hard drive effectively?

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Defragmentation of hard drive should be done to remove the fragmentation of files in the hard drive. Fragmentation of data decreases Mac processing speed and increase the response time by processor. So we need to do the defragmentation of hard drive to make Mac run faster and can give quick response to our actions.

So, for effective defragmentation of hard drive we need a good and powerful tool which can remove fragmentation of data from hard drive totally. Stellar Drive Defrag is an outstanding tool for disk defragmentation.

 

 

 

Features of Stellar drive defrag:

• Defrag hard drive and optimize free space:
  This software helps you to totally defrag Mac hard drive and optimize the free space space together.
  It collects all the scattered data and stored it at contigous memory locations and so all the free space is collected together. This will increase the Mac processing speed as well as system's performance.
  For optimization of free space, this software uses strong algorithms to collect the free space and organize all the free space together to remove fragmentation.
  
  
  
   
• Metadata defragmentation:
  Metadata is data about data. Stellar drive defrag defragments meta data in Mac hard drive. Metadata includes catalouge, allocation, extent flow, and attribute files of operating system. Metadata provides information of files like file creation date, length, last modified, etc. to the operating system when required. So this tool defrags meta data also that results in quick response by operating system.
  
  
  
  
  
• Full defragmenatation:
  With the full defragmentation feature of this defrag tool you can defrag all the data, metadata, unused space properly. This feature will examine the whole sitation of hard drive and then it effectively carrries out defrag process.
  
  
  
   
• Quick defragmentation:
  This software also has a feature of quick defragmentation that allows you to remove fragmentation quickly. With quick defragmentation you don't need to perform the full defragmentation and you can quickly defrag Mac drive.
  
  
• Bootable DVD:
  With this software you can create a bootable DVD. This bootable DVD will boot the Mac in case of system failure or system crash. If you have no operating system installed or your hard drive is empty then also bootable DVD can be used.
  
  
  So Stellar drive defrag is a powerful and effective tool for defragging hard drive to optimize Mac performance and to properly manage all used and unused space.

Do you want to recover deleted or formatted data from Mac?

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Sometimes we accidently delete data from hard disk and then to recover the deleted or formatted data we need a tool which can recover the data effectively. Stellar Phoenix Mac data recovery is a promising tool to recover all kinds of lost data from Mac.

Stellar Phoenix Mac data recovery is an effective software to recover data from Mac volumes in case of deletion or corruption of data. The scanning & recovering process of this software is so much powerful that it recovers almost every instance of the data that got deleted, formatted or corrupted. It supports HFS, HFS+, FAT file systems. It also supports ex-FAT file systems but within some constraints only. This software can fully undelete data even if you have completely emptied the trash.

Features of Stellar Phoenix Mac Data Recovery:

• Recover deleted, lost, corrupted or formatted data:
  It can recover all deleted files and folders from Mac hard drive effectively even if you have pemanently deleted data from Mac. It can undelete data from any hard drive, USB, flash drive, memory card, ipod or any other optical media.
  
  
  Their are two types of recovery :
  1) Quick recovery
  2) Raw recovery
  In quick recovery, Data is recovered very fast and effectively.
  Raw recovery is used when we don't get desired result from quick recovery. Raw recovery recovers data by doing severe scanning of the enitre hard drive sector-by-sector. Raw recovery can recover data even from a severely scratched or corrupted media. Raw recovery is basically done on the basis of file signature.
  
  
• Scanning preview:
  With this software you can see the preview of the recoverable files during scanning too. So you can select the files that you want to recover by seeing the preview.
  
  
• Recovery from optical devices:
  This software can do data recovery even from a damaged or improperly burnt CD,DVD,etc.
  
  
• Create Image of your hard drive:
  This software gives you the facility to create image of your image and you can use that image to recover the data.
  
  
• iPod recovery:
  You can recovers all files, songs, videos, photos and other files from ipod with ease. This tool will allow you to get back all the deleted media file from ipod.
  
  
• Photo recovery:
  With the photo recovery feature of this software you can recover photos and videos from your hard drive. If you have accidently deleted photos and videos from hard drive then you can easily recover them using this recovery tool.
  
  
• System startup disk:
  If in any case your Mac fails to start then you can boot Mac by using system startup disk. This disk comes with this software.
  
  
• Recover the deleted volumes:
  This tool has a special feature of recovering the whole volume of Mac hard drive. It can recover any volume of hard drive that was accidently deleted or removed.

You can buy this software from www.stellarinfo.com. Price of this software is $99. So we can see that Stellar Phoenix Mac Data Recovery is equipped with so many features. Buying this software for your Mac will surely going to be a good value for money.

What makes you buy an iPad 3?

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iPad 3 is the third generation of tablets i.e. iPad released by Apple Inc. in March,2012. iPad 3 is announced as the new iPad by Apple. iPad has one of the best features that a handheld device can ever have. The main feature that iPad3 has is the retina display. Other features that are included in iPad 3 is new Apple A5X Processor, 5 megapixel camera, 1080p video isight camera, and many others. It has iOS 5.1.1 operating system.

Retina Display:

Display of new iPad is four times better than the iPad 2. Retina display of new iPad provides an ultimate experience while using it. With richer colors than the previous versions it provides an impressive effect on users. Watching movies, photos, videos has becomes so much astonishing in iPad 3 because of retina display. This is the best display that a tablet can ever have. Display pixels in the new iPad is four times than the iPad 2 and its million times than any HDTV. So it will be a striking experience to use iPad 3.

Processor and OS:

iPad 3 has a lot powerful processor than iPad 2. The new iPad has A5X processor with dual-core CPU and quad-core graphics processor. A5X processor is the base for providing the retina display. Without A5X processor retina display could not be possible. Quad-core graphics processor makes display of the iPad 3 very responsive.

In iPad 3 we have iOS 5.1.1 processor. This is the world's most advanced mobile operating system embedded with lots of striking features.

Camera :

The new iPad has advance 5.0 megapixel iSight camera that enables you to take high qualiy photos with richer colors and 1080p HD video. The advanced camera is very much effective that whether you take pics in light or dark, the photos will always be of high quality and excellent looks. Camera has feature of focussing on upto 10 faces.

To make camera works outstanding, Apple has used five-element lens with an f/2.4 aperture. It has a 0.3 MP front camera too.

iCloud:

iCloud is the online storage facility provided by Apple Inc. So now you can store your data online and can access this data by using your iPod, iPad, Mac book anywhere and anytime. So Just save data once in iCloud and then access that data using your other Apple devices.

Dictation:

With this feature of new iPad you can write messages, send emails, browse on the internet by your voice only. Just turn on the dictation feature and then say whatever you want to write so this feature will convert all your spoken words into written.

Different version and their prices:

	16 GB	32 GB	64 GB
Wifi	$499	$599	$699
Wifi+cellular	$629	$729	$829

Ipad 3 has much more advance features than its previous versions. Retina display and other features of ipad 3 makes it a lively experience. You can buy ipad from Apple stores or buy it online from Apple's official website.

How to optimize Mac performance with speed up Mac tool?

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Are you facing problem of slow Mac? Then you might need a saviour tool to help you in this situation. Performance of your Mac can get slow because of unused, old, cache, temporary files. Unwanted applications, unused widgets, plugins can also affect the Mac processing speed. So to boost the Mac's processing speed you need to remove all these junk files from the system. You can use an all-in-one utility for removing all the unused data from your Mac.

Stellar Speedup Mac is a tool to remove all the unwanted data from your Mac. This speedup Mac utility deletes all junk files, duplicate files, cache files, universal binaries and uninstall all unwanted applications, widgets, plugins etc. to increase the Mac performance.

Clean my Mac:

Stellar speedup also has a very unique feature i.e. Clean my Mac. With Clean my Mac you can select specific volumes and folders and can remove junk files from selected volumes and folders only.

Automatic Uninstaller:

Stellar Speedup Mac has an “Automatic Uninstaller” feature. With automatic uninstaller you can delete unwanted files by just dragging files into the application uninstaller area.

Schedular:

This software has a schedular within it that runs the software automatically and deletes all the junk files and folders. Schedular also has the responsibility of updating the software version whenever available.

Remove duplicate files:

If we have duplicate files in our Mac then it occupies double space and increases processing time. So removing duplicate files can enhance Mac performance. Duplicate files can also be deleted using this software.

Remove temporary cache files: 
Whenever a user visit a web page then content of the web page are downloaded into cache and so when the next time user will acess that web page then only new content needs to get downloaded ,the old content is already available in the cache. Cache files occupies lots of space of hard disk. So these cache files needs to be deleted to enhance system performance.

You can also get rid of the cache files which gets automatically downloaded in the system during surfing on internet.

Remove unwanted widgets and plugins:

Widgets are basically small applications that are embedded in a web page . This tool helps you to remove all the unnecessary widgets and uninstall all the unused plugins from OS X.

So Stellar Speedup Mac is equipped with all the above declared features and this makes makes it a powerful tool to get rid of all the unused,unwanted,junk files from your Mac.

Few points that Mac user must know:

• Always try to keep your desktop clean. Don't create too many shortcuts on desktop.
• Empty Mac Trash regularly.
• In case you don't use the dashboard then to increase system performance it is advisable to deactivate it.
• Deactivate any program that is giving dynamic look to your desktop. It looks nice but also it uses lots of processor time.

Recovery of photos, videos & audio files using just one utility

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Last week I had gone to kashmir with my friends for a 4-day trip. Kashmir is a beautiful place to visit and it has a natural scenic beauty. We all enjoyed tracking and snow driving there. It was a life-time experience for me. I clicked around 100 photographs from my Nikon Coolpix S9200.

I took snapshots of every single moment so that I can keep those special memories close to me.We all reached home tired but I was excited to upload all photographs to my Google+ and Facebook accounts. But when I tried to connect my camera with my Mac, I was surprised as it didn't showed up. A pop-up comes up saying my media is corrupted. I inserted my camera's memory card in the memory card reader and connected it with the Mac. Later, I came to know that my card is not recognized by the OS X.

I read some factors which leads to possible reasons for memory card errors:

• Memory card got corrupted,
• Memory card got damaged,
• Memory card is not compatible with the card reader,
• Dust on memory card,

I felt so much depressed after I was unable to access my memory card. But then I tried searching for software which can recover photos from my camera and I found many software available in market. I downloaded Stellar Photo Recovery for Mac to recover my photos. Then I searched whether this software supports my camera or not. And yes it supports around 14 cameras including mine.
 

First I downloaded the demo version of the recovery software from the site and installed it on Mac. I was pleased to find out that the corrupted memory card of the Nikon Coolpix S9200 was read by the photo recovery software. This was a huge relief for me.
And then I was like wow! This software showed all my photos that I have clicked. I was very much amazed after seeing all my photos. But this is only the demo version so this version didn't allow me to recover the photos. Demo version only shows the files that can be recovered from the corrupted or formatted media. To recover my photos I need to buy the full version of Stellar Phoenix Mac Photo Recovery software. I bought full version of photo recovery software for $39. I also got a user guide with this software. User guide shows all the steps to recover my photos. After installing the full version of software I again started the search and run the recovery of photos. So it was like a magic to me. I have succesfully recovered all the photos from my camera.

This software is not only for the recovery of photos but it can also recover Audio files as well as video files. It supports around 12 formats of audio files and around 14 formats of video files. So spending $39 on this software is a good value for money.

Is your Mac slow? Hard drive fragmentation might be the reason behind it

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While saving files in the hard drive of Mac, Data is mostly stored at contigous memory locations i.e. Single file is stored at multiple locations. When we try to save files in the Mac HDD then file is broken into parts and these parts of file are saved at different locations.This process is known as Fragmentation. Free and empty spaces are created between the used space in the hard drive and this decrease the Mac performance. Deletion of files can also creates free spaces in between the used space. So to make this free space useful and to make Mac work faster we should do Defragmentation.

Defragmentation is the process of collecting all the used space and free space of hard drive together. The process of defragmentation decreases the fragmentation of drive & improves the hard drive performance.

Effects of Fragmentation:

Due to fragmentation of the drive, the processing speed of your system becomes slow. Like if you are searching for a file in fragmented hard drive then hard drive read eye have to move to multiple positions to search for different parts of file. So this will take longer processing than usual.

Similarly if you are writing a file to hard drive then it will take much longer time due to storing of file at multiple locations. So disk fragmentation will degrade the system performance and is unhealthy for the drive in the long run.

How to defrage hard drive?

For effective defragmentation of hard drive you need to get a good defrag tool. I personally recommend a very good defrag tool i.e. Stellar Drive Defrag. This software works very effectively and efficiently. You can buy this software from stellarinfo.com. Stellar Drive Defrag has a very rich GUI which makes it easy to use. It also supports various hard drive models.

Features of this software are:

• Free space optimization
• Full defragmentation
• File defragmentation
• Defragmentation of metadata files

After defragmentation is over all the files will be stored in the contigous memory locations. Defragmentation will boost your Mac performance and it will increase the processing speed of Mac.

But you need to know these things before defragmenting Hard drive:

• If you do defragmentation of your hard drive very frequently then it can shorten the life of your hard drive.
• Their is a possibility that files can damaged during defragmentation although it happens very rarely. Prepare a backup plan before going for hard drive defragmentation.

Where else you can find 12 essential utilities for Mac?

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Everyone wants to have good Mac utilities installed in their system to make it work efficient & to make it free from disasters like hard drive failure and corruption. For these reasons you may need tools like speedup software, Defragmentar, Drive cloning utility, partition manager, etc. I am using a software that that has all these utilities and many others within itself. So basically this software is like a bundle of many system utilities that helps to improve my OS X performance and keep system free from the unwanted events like disk failure, corruption etc. This product i.e. Stellar's drive toolbox is a multi-tasking Mac software that can perform several essential functions. Other than speeding up Mac, cloning a Mac, drive defrag, wipe, surface scan, etc. it has many other functionalities:

Different Features of this software are:

• Speedup Mac:

This features enables you to make your Mac operate faster by removing cache, language files, duplicate files, widgets, unused applications, etc. So by this feature Mac can be make work faster.

• Cloning your drive:

With the help of this utility, a clone i.e. an exact replica of your hard drive can be made and you can use this clone image in case of data loss due to any media crash. Cloning your hard drive will help you to recover your data using the cloned image in situation of hard drive failure or crash.

• Wiping data:

With this feature you can delete or format data, which is beyond the scope of data recovery. After wiping, no one can recover & access the data which makes you feel safe about data security.

• Partititon Manager:

Partition manager will allow you to add, resize a partition on your drive, delete partition, create partition, hide partition. Complete Do-It-Yourself utility.

• Defragmantation of Drive:

By doing drive defragmentation you can collect data stored at different locations and store this data in contigous locations. This will improve your system performance by removing the fragmented data.

So apart from the above mentioned features of this software you can also find many other features in this software like:

• Drive initialize:

This feature will help you to initialize your raw Mac hard drive. With this you can choose the required patitioning scheme like GUID, Apple Partition Map, MBR for your Mac hard drive.

• Volume Repair:

Volume repair feature will help you to repair corrupted or damaged volume. So you can also repair your hard drive using this software.

• Surface scan:

Surface scan is a very important utility of this software. Surface scan will scan your hard drive block by block and will give you the information about the exact situation of your hard drive.

• Raw data editor:

Raw data editor will allow you to repair minor corruption by making changes in the file structure of the hard drive.

• Shield:

Shield utility of this software automatically keeps backup image of your Mac hard drive and that can help in recovering deleted files.

• Drive stats:

Drive stats gives you information about your Mac like Drive name, Type of file system, Drive size, No.of volume, etc.

• Drive performance:

This tool will allow you to examine your system performance like processing speed, etc.

With all these features you will also get one extra bonus utility Data Encryptor. With this utility you can save your data from unauthorized access by encypting data and hiding useful information. So in my opinion, inspite of buying a specific software you must go for this combined software tool which is available at reasonably $99. So my review is, Stellar's Drive Toolbox is equipped with so many features & all these utilities keeps Mac safe and efficient to work.