Author: dsellers

Apple patents range from streaming content to vector processing

Posted by | Feb 25, 2010 | , |

Several Apple patents have appeared at the US Patent & Trademark Office. Here’s a summary of each.

Patent number 201004862 involves personalized streaming digital content. It’s for a method for generating personalized streaming content, the method including the steps of analyzing a digital library of a user associated with a user account, generating recommended digital media based on analysis of the digital library, generating personalized streaming content that includes digital media from the digital library and recommended digital media. The inventor is Rhan Graeme Dixon.

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Intuit releases Quicken Essentials for Mac

Intuit releases Quicken Essentials for Mac

Posted by | Feb 25, 2010 | , |

Quicken Essentials for Mac is now available from Intuit. Its release marks Intuit’s first Mac-native application for Quicken — that is, a product developed specifically to run on a Mac operating system, instead of adapting a product originally designed for a PC, says Aaron Patzer, vice president and general manager of Intuit’s Personal Finance Group. “

He says that QEM offers a Mac look-and-feel, easy navigation, and all the keyboard shortcuts users expect on Mac. Setup purportedly only takes 10 minutes. Users simply search for their bank, and synch using their online credentials.

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ProteMac designed to prevent unauthorized usage of a Mac

ProteMac designed to prevent unauthorized usage of a Mac

Posted by | Feb 25, 2010 | , |

ProteMac has announced ProteMac LoginTrap 1.0 (http://protemac.com/LoginTrap/), a tool designed to prevent unauthorized usage of a Mac. It monitors all log-in events and detects whether a log-in attempt was successful or failed.

After a log-in attempt is made the program captures an image from the iSight camera, so that you are able to see who is trying to break into your Mac. An alarm e-mail with iSight camera snapshot attached is sent immediately after a log-in attempt.

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