How to assign applications to desktops in OS X

<div class="cnet-image-div image-SMALL float-left" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; clear: left; float: left; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19.984375px; margin: 20px 20px 20px 2px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 90px;"> </div> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a class="lightboxIt" href="http://i.i.cbsi.com/cnwk.1d/i/tim2/2013/12/27/DesktopAssignmentMenu.png" style="border: 0px; color: #2964bf; cursor: pointer; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img alt="Dock contextual menu in OS X" class="cnet-image" height="173" src="http://asset0.cbsistatic.com/cnwk.1d/i/tim2/2013/12/27/DesktopAssignmentMenu_270x173.png" style="border: 0px; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="270" /></span></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">How to assign applications to desktops in OS X</span></td></tr> </tbody></table> <div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19.984375px; margin-top: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <a href="http://asset0.cbsistatic.com/cnwk.1d/i/tim/2012/02/22/FinderIconX_90x90.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img alt="" border="0" class="cnet-image" height="90" src="http://asset0.cbsistatic.com/cnwk.1d/i/tim/2012/02/22/FinderIconX_90x90.png" style="border: 0px; cursor: move; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-top: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="90" /></span></a><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Applications in OS X are by default assigned to the current desktop, so if you open a program and then switch to a different desktop, the program's windows will stay on the current desktop. However, there are a couple of ways to change this, so specific programs open on a different desktop, or so they remain present on all desktops.</span></div> <div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19.984375px; margin-top: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The first option is to assign a program to all desktops, which is the most straightforward option. To do this, simply add the program to the OS X Dock, then right-click it. In the contextual menu that appears, choose "All Desktops" in the "Assign To" section of the Options submenu. From now on when you open this program, its windows should always be on your screen, regardless of which desktop you switch to. This option may be useful for monitoring utilities such as Activity Monitor or the Finder.</span></div> <div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19.984375px; margin-top: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />Finally, to undo these options for any program, you can right-click it and choose "All" in the "Assign to" contextual menu section. This will again have it be assigned to the active space only for its current session.The second option is to assign a program to a specific desktop, or "space." To do this, first invoke Mission Control (this can be done with the preassigned F-key configured on most <a href="http://www.cnet.com/apple-mac.html" section="luke_topic" style="border: 0px; color: #2964bf; cursor: pointer; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Mac</a>keyboards), then go to the desktop of choice. Then right-click the application in the Dock and choose "This desktop" from the same contextual menu. Now, regardless of the desktop you are on, if you open or switch to this application, you will be switched to its assigned desktop, unless a its window has been manually moved to the current desktop. This can be useful for keeping programs grouped by type or by function, such as word processing and spreadsheet programs so your office work can be kept sequestered.</span></div> <div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19.984375px; margin-top: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <i><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Via: <a href="http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-57616308-263/how-to-assign-applications-to-desktops-in-os-x/">CNET</a></span></i></div>

How to assign applications to desktops in OS X

How to assign applications to desktops in OS X Applications in OS X are by default assigned to the current desktop, so if you open a ...

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LG’s all-in-one Chromebase will bring Chrome OS, unfortunately, to the desktop

<img alt="LG Chromebase, front and side" class="attachment-full wp-post-image" height="353" src="http://www.extremetech.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/chromebase-lg-front-side-640x353.jpg" style="border-style: none; color: #333333; font-family: ProximaNovaRgRegular, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;" width="640" /><br /> <div style="color: #333333; font-family: ProximaNovaRgRegular, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 24px;"> In a weird and not entirely pleasant twist of fate, LG has announced a Chrome OS… kiosk. Well, technically it’s an all-in-one PC, but given Chrome OS’s minimal feature set, it is essentially a kiosk. Called the Chromebase, there’s no word on pricing or availability yet, but given its chunky appearance and circa-2005 rounded bezels we’re probably looking at somewhere in the region of $300 to $400.</div> <div style="color: #333333; font-family: ProximaNovaRgRegular, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 24px;"> LG’s Chromebase, which will be shown off at CES 2014, is an all-in-one (AIO) with a 21.5-inch 1920×1080 IPS display, Intel Celeron CPU, 2GB of RAM, and 16GB of solid-state storage. A fairly wimpy spec, but it sits firmly within Chrome OS’s minimum hardware requirements. The paltry supply of RAM may be an issue if you like to keep more than a few tabs open, but LG will probably offer a 4GB model for an extra $50 if you think you’ll need it. With a Celeron CPU, the Chromebase won’t exactly blitz through page loads, and you can expect a fair bit of slowdown if you try to do more than one non-basic tasks at the same time.</div> <div style="color: #333333; font-family: ProximaNovaRgRegular, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 24px;"> LG envisions the Chromebase as a secure kiosk-style computer for schools, hotels, call centers, and other settings that don’t require the feature set provided by a full Windows PC. Chrome OS is very secure, and cloud-based profiles — all of your bookmarks, add-ons, and apps are automatically synced when you log in – make it ideal for situations where dozens or hundreds of people might use the same computer. The Chromebase might also make sense as a family computer, though given the wimpy processor and lack of apps and games, your kids probably wouldn’t be too happy to receive a Chromebase for Christmas.</div> <div style="color: #333333; font-family: ProximaNovaRgRegular, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 24px;"> <a href="http://www.extremetech.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/chromebase-lg-back.jpg" style="color: #b1700a; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="LG Chromebase, back" class="alignnone size-large wp-image-173077" height="632" src="http://www.extremetech.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/chromebase-lg-back-640x632.jpg" style="border-style: none;" width="640" /></a></div> <div style="color: #333333; font-family: ProximaNovaRgRegular, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 24px;"> There are some other important questions about the Chromebase’s hardware spec, too. The LG press release doesn’t mention if the display is a touchscreen or not — a significant point, if the Chromebase is destined for kiosk use. Chrome OS has received a few touchscreen tweaks over the last year, which I assumed were for touchscreen Chromebooks — or perhaps, at long last, a Chrome OS <em>tablet</em> — but maybe they were in preparation for the Chromebase. The Chromebase will come with a mouse and keyboard, 2x USB 2.0 sockets, a single USB 3.0 socket, and an RJ45 LAN socket (probably Gigabit).</div> <div style="color: #333333; font-family: ProximaNovaRgRegular, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 24px;"> Curiously, the Chromebase has an HDMI input socket, meaning you can use it as a standalone screen — say, as a second display for your Windows PC, perhaps. It’s hard to come up with a valid usage scenario for such a setup, though. Maybe you use Chrome OS when you just want to bring up a website quickly, but boot your real PC when you want to do some gaming or Photoshop work? Given how quickly Windows 8 and OS X come out of standby, though, such a scenario seems tenuous at best. Still, having an HDMI input is better than not having an HDMI input. (See: HP Chromebook 11: Finally, a Chrome OS laptop with the right specs at the right price.)</div> <div style="color: #333333; font-family: ProximaNovaRgRegular, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 24px;"> The fact remains that <a href="http://www.extremetech.com/tag/chrome-os" style="color: #b1700a; text-decoration: none;">Chrome OS</a> occupies a weird mid-ground between fully-fledged mobile OS like Android, and a desktop OS like Windows. Chrome OS, which was initially conceived by <a href="http://www.extremetech.com/tag/google" style="color: #b1700a; text-decoration: none;">Google</a> as a mobile, browser-based, always-connected-to-the-cloud operating system, always seemed a bit ahead of its time. Browsers still don’t have native-level performance (and they churn through battery life), and mobile connectivity is still nowhere near good enough or cheap enough. As a result, Chrome OS has been forced to adapt, and the end result is essentially a secure but featureless OS that’s usually strapped onto cheap, weak hardware — because, let’s face it, no one would buy a Chromebook if it cost more than $400.</div> <div style="color: #333333; font-family: ProximaNovaRgRegular, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 24px;"> <i>Via: <a href="http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/173075-lgs-all-in-one-chromebase-will-bring-chrome-os-unfortunately-to-the-desktop">ExtremeTech</a></i></div>

LG’s all-in-one Chromebase will bring Chrome OS, unfortunately, to the desktop

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LG Chromebase all-in-one desktop to run Chrome OS

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="lg-chromebase-chrome-os-all-in-one-desktop-pc" height="551" src="http://cdn-static.zdnet.com/i/r/story/70/00/024440/lg-chromebase-chrome-os-all-in-one-desktop-pc-620x551.jpg?hash=AmuuAQyvAG&upscale=1" style="border: 0px; display: block; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: auto; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px auto 15px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: top; width: auto;" title="lg-chromebase-chrome-os-all-in-one-desktop-pc" width="620" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: medium;">LG Chromebase all-in-one desktop to run Chrome OS</i></td></tr></tbody></table></div><br /><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #252525; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">While ideal for laptops (like Chromebooks), Google's Chrome OS has occasionally found itself on desktop PCs, usually in <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/blog/computers/xi3-chromiumpc-first-desktop-pc-to-run-google-chrome-os-due-in-july/5879" style="border: 0px; color: #005399; cursor: pointer; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_self">small-form-factor systems</a> like the <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/samsung-chromebox-gets-updated-with-intel-core-i5-sandy-bridge-cpu-7000009885/" style="border: 0px; color: #005399; cursor: pointer; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_self">Samsung Chromebox</a>. But LG is going a different route with its forthcoming Chromebase machine.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #252525; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Chromebase is an all-in-one (AIO) PC that combines Chrome with a 21.5-inch display with 1,920x1,080 full HD resolution. Given the lightweight footprint that Chrome requires, it should come as no surprise that the Chromebase's other specs aren't awe-inspiring: Intel Celeron Haswell processor, 2GB of RAM, and 16GB of solid-state storage.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #252525; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://lgnewsroom.com/newsroom/contents/64056" style="border: 0px; color: #005399; cursor: pointer; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">LG hasn't announced</a> pricing on the Chromebase, though don't expect a big sticker price considering the pricing strategy for most Chrome systems (Google's <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/google-chromebook-pixel-review-7000013538/" style="border: 0px; color: #005399; cursor: pointer; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_self">Chromebook Pixel</a> aside). In addition to Windows AIOs, it will be competing against a handful of <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/android-invades-the-desktop-7000017286/" style="border: 0px; color: #005399; cursor: pointer; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_self">Android-based all-in-ones</a>from <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/ifa-2013-acer-readies-da241hl-android-desktop-7000020221/" style="border: 0px; color: #005399; cursor: pointer; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_self">Acer</a> and <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/hp-slate-21-all-in-one-pc-is-powered-by-android-tegra-4-chip-7000017204/" style="border: 0px; color: #005399; cursor: pointer; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_self">HP</a>. LG announced the Chromebase to get a jump on the deluge of tech news coming soon from next month's CES trade show, but more information will probably emerge when the company shows off the new PC in Las Vegas in January.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #252525; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Via: <a href="http://www.engadget.com/2013/12/17/lg-chromebase-aio/" style="border: 0px; color: #005399; cursor: pointer; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Engadget</a></i></span></div>

LG Chromebase all-in-one desktop to run Chrome OS

LG Chromebase all-in-one desktop to run Chrome OS While ideal for laptops (like Chromebooks), Google's Chrome OS has occasionally found ...

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Jolicloud Desktop, OS To Be Discontinued In December

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgh_TNI7ePNZf4bNUr1iW2PQySZfi6GVWDZ8MRUNNv7bmvdUJNBg0a6k2wdZbU46RHGX6guaDBk45XApKPyo5dWbi0oIZTPkxKC6B1b1VfhLdLNc_wiMPAIJPsdxys9QRVY8yb5echiNPUJ/s1600/as2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="458" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgh_TNI7ePNZf4bNUr1iW2PQySZfi6GVWDZ8MRUNNv7bmvdUJNBg0a6k2wdZbU46RHGX6guaDBk45XApKPyo5dWbi0oIZTPkxKC6B1b1VfhLdLNc_wiMPAIJPsdxys9QRVY8yb5echiNPUJ/s640/as2.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 16px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Updates to the Jolicloud OS, based on Ubuntu 10.04, and the Jolicloud desktop environment, available for Ubuntu 12.04 and up through a PPA, will be discontinued in December of this year.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 16px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The company say that they wish ‘to entirely focus on the web with <em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Jolicloud 2</em>‘.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 16px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">While no future updates will filter down, users will remain able to use both the OS and the desktop environment in their current states.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 16px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Both projects will remain open source and available at <a href="http://159.r.mailjet.com/redirect/61g6txk722rjo94vlmprlc/goo.gl/3P04R5" style="-webkit-transition: color 250ms ease; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: color 250ms ease; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">jolios.org</a>.</span></div><h3 style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Joli-Well Expected</span></h3><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 16px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The news won’t come as too much of a shock to anyone, let alone Jolicloud’s users. The French company recently announced that their web-based content-hub ‘JoliDrive’ – to be rebranded as Jolicloud 2 – <a href="http://www.jolicloud.com/blog/2013/10/24/announcing-jolicloud-2-a-place-to-call-home/" style="-webkit-transition: color 250ms ease; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: color 250ms ease; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">now has more than one million users</a>. News that makes the company’s decision to focus its time and energy on its successes a wholly appropriate one.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 16px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“JoliDrive is growing to the point where a lot of the actions that used to require an OS no longer do”,</em> Jolicloud’s communications guru Zak Kaufman told me via e-mail.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 16px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Things like file management, music and video playback, can all be done using Jolidrive, available from any web browser on almost every platform”.</span></em></div><h3 style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Choices</span></h3><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 16px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The OS won’t be “officially” discontinued until the end of December, so if you’re using the DE or OS you have a couple of months grace to look at other options.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 16px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Migrating to Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, which will receive maintenance updates until 2017, is one idea. Or, for those keen to continue using a light, web-centric experience just yet is to switch to a Chromebook. Chrome OS offers more features than that of JoliOS or the Jolicloud desktop environment, and the Jolicloud 2 hub can continue to be used.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 16px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Before then, if you want a copy of the OS for posterity, or see what the fuss is (soon: was) about check out our previous articles on the desktop environment.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 16px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Source : <a href="http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2013/11/jolicloud-desktop-to-be-discontinued-december-2013">OMG Ubuntu</a></span></i></div>

Jolicloud Desktop, OS To Be Discontinued In December

Updates to the Jolicloud OS, based on Ubuntu 10.04, and the Jolicloud desktop environment, available for Ubuntu 12.04 and up through a PPA, ...

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Microsoft updates remote desktop apps for iOS, Android and Mac OS X

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicq2Zqpv4h0ykDhEm1E_kFmWzDhBpdR2_7n3vTeG2ONgi4guriyOFMnENoywPp9aYH9Pm_shHukLwj7_FMZQHv5LBx-ccTA9RfbnW-sNdPlyR1YW6e1TALno-SVtElAYOsuw9ueUo5JBo/s1600/remotedesktopgoogleplay-180x179.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="397" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicq2Zqpv4h0ykDhEm1E_kFmWzDhBpdR2_7n3vTeG2ONgi4guriyOFMnENoywPp9aYH9Pm_shHukLwj7_FMZQHv5LBx-ccTA9RfbnW-sNdPlyR1YW6e1TALno-SVtElAYOsuw9ueUo5JBo/s400/remotedesktopgoogleplay-180x179.png" width="400" /></a></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #252525; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #252525; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Just about a month ago, Microsoft rolled out Remote Desktop apps for iOS, Android and Mac OS X. On November 21, the company made available updates to all three versions.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #252525; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br />What's in the updates? Here's Microsoft's list of features and fixes:Microsoft execs said that there've been 1.5 million downloads of the three new Remote Desktop apps combined in the past month. According to the Softies, the remote desktop app for Android is Microsoft's most popular Android app release to date. Execs said there have been more than 5,000 unique Android device types that have downloaded the app.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #252525; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">iOS</strong></div><ul style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #252525; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; margin: 0px 0px 15px 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Pinch to zoom support in mouse pointer mode</li><li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Performance improvements</li><li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">iPhone 5 screen resolution fix</li></ul><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #252525; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Android</strong></div><ul style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #252525; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; margin: 0px 0px 15px 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Pinch to zoom support in mouse pointer mode</li><li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Performance improvements</li><li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Improved support for stylus input</li></ul><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #252525; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Mac OS X</strong></div><ul style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #252525; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; margin: 0px 0px 15px 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Improved full screen support for OS X 10.7 - 10.9</li><li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Performance improvements</li></ul><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #252525; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Download links for each of the three updates are available in Microsoft's Server & Cloud blog post.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #252525; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Microsoft's multi-platform Remote Desktop apps -- which include an overhauled version of the two-year-old Mac Remote Desktop client -- provide access to virtual desktops. They allow users to connect from devices running these operating systems to Windows and Windows Servers to work with applications and files stored there. There are also versions of Remote Desktop for Windows and Windows RT. Microsoft execs have said <a href="http://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-remote-desktop-app-for-windows-phone-is-coming" style="border: 0px; color: #005399; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">there will be remote desktop support for Windows Phone</a>, but no details as to when.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #252525; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Remote Desktop has been one of the most popular Windows Store apps among Windows 8 and Windows RT users. The licensing requirements for these apps are complex. Client-access licenses and supporting back-end infrastructure are required to make Remote Desktop work on Windows and non-Windows devices.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #252525; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Via: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/microsoft-updates-remote-desktop-apps-for-ios-android-and-mac-os-x-7000023529/">ZDNet</a></div>

Microsoft updates remote desktop apps for iOS, Android and Mac OS X

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Walmart Black Friday 2013 ad leaks: Laptop, desktop, tablet

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHgI-M5tJrQrmL2xBGjfIRkGFI-oILAIBJ_ZGnTtwth1rKDDP4ObFlkOaK0lgho7D8Zq82YpMECjmrnDUkwUMH9hBAtxBN3K0evqiipERcLBhWlrS6iFFvfSV0bBouxdJcm4PCi1nGEdI/s1600/walmart-black-friday-2013-ad-leaked-desktop-laptop-ipad-tablet-specials-deals-620x320.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="165" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHgI-M5tJrQrmL2xBGjfIRkGFI-oILAIBJ_ZGnTtwth1rKDDP4ObFlkOaK0lgho7D8Zq82YpMECjmrnDUkwUMH9hBAtxBN3K0evqiipERcLBhWlrS6iFFvfSV0bBouxdJcm4PCi1nGEdI/s320/walmart-black-friday-2013-ad-leaked-desktop-laptop-ipad-tablet-specials-deals-620x320.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #252525; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Target tried to stand out with a $100 gift card offer with the purchase of the new iPad Air during Black Friday, but Walmart has chosen to focus on the first-generation iPad mini. Like Target, it is offering a store gift card when you buy a iPad mini (not the <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/apples-ipad-mini-retina-now-available-will-supplies-last-7000023093/" style="border: 0px; color: #005399; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_self">new Retina-display one</a>, however), but Walmart is providing a $100 gift card instead of the $75 one Target is giving. The bad news is that Walmart is only makng this deal available at 6 p.m. on Thanksgiving for one hour with a guarantee that buyers will receive the product. (If the store runs out of stock, Walmart says impacted customers will receive their item "before Christmas.")</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #252525; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The same holds for the "one-hour guarantee" laptop special Walmart is rolling out at 6 p.m. on Thanksgiving: an HP Pavilion TouchSmart 14-B109WM for $278. This appears to be the version the retailer is currently selling for $398, and includes an Intel Celeron B877 processor, 4GB of RAM, 500GB hard drive, and 14-inch touchscreen. You can spend even less on the HP 2000-2d09WM notebook, which has a bigger screen (15.6-inch) -- though without touchscreen capabilities -- and an AMD E-300 processor, but only will cost $178 (or $140 less than the regular price).</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #252525; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Rounding out Walmart's Black Friday laptop specials, the HP Pavilion 15-B129WM is available for $388, or $60 off the current price. It features a 15.6-inch touchscreen, AMD A6-4455M processor, 4GB of RAM, and 500GB hard drive. Only one desktop sale is listed in Walmart's ad: The HP 20-B323W all-in-one PC, which comes with an AMD E1-1500 processor, 4GB of RAM, 500GB hard drive, and wireless keyboard and mouse, but lacks touchscreen functionality. It will sell for $348, or $101 off its current $449 price.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #252525; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In addition to the usual ultra-cheap Android tablet deals the company likes to trot out at turkey time (for example, a $49 7-inch RCA slate at the 8 p.m. Thanksgiving one-hour guarantee event), Walmart has a couple of other notable tablets specials. Starting at an undisclosed time on Thanksgiving morning, you'll be able to purchase an iPad 2 with a Bluetooth speaker and accessory kit for $349 through Walmart.com. And <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/officemax-black-friday-2013-ad-leaks-laptop-desktop-tablet-pc-deals-7000023070/" style="border: 0px; color: #005399; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_self">like OfficeMax</a>, Walmart will be offering the Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 10.1-inch tablet for $299, or $60 less than Samsung is presently selling it for on its own site.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #252525; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">After witnessing year after year of mob scenes when the doors to its locations have opened for Black Friday shopping, Walmart has finally wised up and decided to give out wristbands in advance of its one-hour guarantee events and for certain hot items (like the new Microsoft Xbox One and Sony PlayStation 4 video game consoles). Is that modicum of sanity enough to get you to venture out to Walmart on Thanksgiving or Black Friday for some of these deals? Let us know in the Talkback section below.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #252525; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i>Via: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/walmart-black-friday-2013-ad-leaks-laptop-desktop-tablet-pc-deals-7000023089/">ZDNet</a></i></div>

Walmart Black Friday 2013 ad leaks: Laptop, desktop, tablet

Target tried to stand out with a $100 gift card offer with the purchase of the new iPad Air during Black Friday, but Walmart has chosen to f...

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