Annotate Images in Preview

Apple’s Preview.app has a great built-in Annotate feature. Use it to quickly add Arrows, Boxes, Circles and Text boxes to screenshots, PDF’s and other types of image files. Just open your screenshot or picture in preview, the Annotate will be displayed in the menu bar, it looks like a pencil.

When you click on Annotate icon a menu bar will display at the bottom.

 Use this Annotation toolbar to highlight text, add circles or squares around important text, add hyperlinks, add text, or add colorful arrows. Once you’re done making any changes to the file, make sure to save it.

Apple's Come See what 2011 will be the Year of - March 2nd Event

The March 2nd invite says “Come see what 2011 will be the year of.” we know it will be about the iPad 2, and maybe one more thing.

The latest picture fromYueba Buena conference center tends to make us speculate that there maybe more. What do all of those colored dots foreshadow, given that this is an iPad 2 event? 

That means this is going to be about a lot more than the iPad 2. This is about what 2011 will hold for iOS. The next update 4.3, a peak at Lion, or my guess a new mobileme. The dots represent balloons or points in the cloud, and on March 2nd, maybe Apple is finally going to turn on that facility in the Carolinas, an unveil a cloud that none of us have ever seen, starting with a free service of MobileMe.

FaceTime hits Mac App Store; supports 720p video calls

FaceTime for Mac makes it easy to talk, smile and laugh with friends and family on their iPhone 4, iPod touch or Mac. Getting started is quick and easy — simply enter your Apple ID and you're ready to go. Whether you're talking to someone on an iPhone or on another Mac, video calls with FaceTime look great. There's no better way to stay in touch with all your favorite faces.

Simple to Get Started
• Setup is quick and easy – just enter your Apple ID.
• With just one click, you can make a video call to an iPhone 4, an iPod touch, or another Mac.

Easy-to-Organize Contacts
• Make calls using your existing Address Book contacts – you don’t have to enter your contacts from scratch.
• Add the people you call most often to your Favorites list.
• Quickly review your past calls with Recents.

High-Definition Video
• Receive HD video calls at up to 720p on supported, Intel-based Macs.*
• A Mac with a standard-definition camera delivers up to VGA-quality video for Mac-to-Mac calls.

Elegant Interface
• Window and playback controls fade away so the focus stays on your conversation.
• View transitions smoothly when an iPhone 4 or iPod touch user switches from front to rear cameras or from portrait to landscape views.
• FaceTime's widescreen aspect ratio makes it easy for families and groups to participate in a call.
• Enjoy your video call full screen, using every inch of your beautiful Mac display.

Ring Anywhere, Any Time
• Incoming calls ring on your Mac, even if FaceTime isn’t running.
• If you have more than one Mac, incoming calls ring on every one so you can answer on the Mac that’s most convenient.

*Video calls require a built-in FaceTime camera, an iSight camera (built-in or external), a USB video class (UVC) camera, or a FireWire DV camcorder; and a 128-Kbps upstream and downstream Internet connection. Making HD video calls requires a built-in FaceTime HD camera and a 1-Mbps upstream and downstream Internet connection. Receiving HD video calls requires a supported Intel-based Mac 

Light Peak Technology and Apple

Years ago, Apple championed FireWire as its interface technology of choice, to some success. Now, the company appears poised to launch a new interface to the masses, called Light Peak. The Light Peak cable contains a pair of optical fibers that are used for upstream and downstream traffic. Light Peak will offers a 10 Gbit/s in each direction at the same time


Light Peak is being developed as a single universal replacement for current buses such as SCSI, SATA, USB, FireWire, and PCI Express in an attempt to reduce the proliferation of ports on contemporary computers. Bus systems such as USB were developed for the same purpose, and successfully replaced a number of older technologies. However, increasing bandwidth demands have led to higher performance standards like eSATA and DisplayPort that cannot connect to USB and similar peripherals. Light Peak provides a high enough bandwidth to drive these over a single type of interface, and often on a single daisy chained cable.

Google Fast Flip for Desktop, iPhone and iPad

Google Fast Flip, a visual way of scanning for your news. See covers of popular newspapers, magazines and blogs quickly. Then use your right and left arrow keys to navigate. Works on any browser, desktop or mobile.


Fast Flip is a new reading experience that combines the best elements of print and online articles. Like a print magazine, Fast Flip lets you browse sequentially through bundles of recent news, headlines and popular topics, as well as feeds from individual top publishers. As the name suggests, flipping through content is very fast, so you can quickly look through a lot of pages until you find something interesting. At the same time, we provide aggregation and search over many top newspapers and magazines, and the ability to share content with your friends and community. 

Evernote 2.0.4 - New Update

Memory storage software Evernote has been updated to version 2.0.4. The new version improves PDF handling, preventing issues with waiting for large PDFs to load, and making it easier to drag PDFs out of the software. The update also includes what the developers call "lots of bug fixes." 

CamScanner Free

CamScanner Free is a must-have application for your iPhone. With CamScanner Free, your iPhone is actually a portable scanner, with which all your paper documents, receipts, notes, whiteboard discussions can be archived anywhere and anytime. Our Smart Image cropping and Image enhancement algorithm ensures the scanned images perfectly clear and recognizable. 

You can simply manage your archive by tagging, searching and viewing in multi-mode.
Thanks to cloud-computing storage, you can also easily upload and back-up documents or get direct access to your archive via iTunes or wireless network.
With multiple image processing capability, just feel at ease to make any edits to images without disappointment at the final effect and quality.

CamScanner Free is capable of Anti-shake snapshots: Intelligent scene recognition and auto-snapshots when shooting conditions are smart-fit. File Scanning: Scan and manage archives. Multi-page file(s) support: multi-page files are supported.

Image processing: Use enhanced image processing algorithms to help perform auto-cropping, color and brightness adjustment to ultimately make images clear and recognizable.
Saving image(s) to photo album: save processed images to photo album.

Creating PDF: Preview and create PDF files.  Multi-size PDF support: over 10 different sizes of PDF files are available (Letter, A4, B5 and etc.) Email: Send files (PDF) via email.

Uploading: Upload files to online storage such as Google Docs, Evernote, Dropbox, MobileMe iDisk, Box.net and etc.