Evernote for Android get some great updates

Press Release March 27th: Today, we have an exciting update to Evernote for Android (3.6). We’ve added a great speech-to-text capability that makes dictating notes in Evernote really easy, plus we have a bunch of new features for the Evernote Widget app.  Get Evernote for Android and get the Evernote Widget App for Android

Speech-to-text feature:

While all of the Evernote apps have the ability to capture audio, the Android version will now provide speech recognition. Tap the new speech bubble icon in the tool bar above the keyboard to launch the feature. As you talk, the app instantly places your spoken words into the body of the note as text.

When you are done recording both the original audio as well as the converted text will be attached to you note. This allows you to easily search you audio notes. If you don’t want the speech-to-text conversion then tap and hold the speech bubble and it will switch to just a microphone. Tap the microphone to begin recording you message.

The speech-to-text conversion uses Google Android’s text transcription service you must be on line for it to work. This capability is also available on version 4 (Ice Cream Sandwich) and some versions of 2.2. If you see the speech-to-text option appear when you update then you will know that your phone or tablet supports this function.

New Widget Features:

Press Release: In this update we’ve added a bunch of great new capabilities to our widget app, available as a separate download from the Google Play Store.

Here is what TechSmith had to say about this update:

Customize your widget
We’ve added a new gear icon to the widget that lets you customize a number of features:

• Widget Color: Choose between original green or a new dark theme
• Custom buttons Choose which Evernote functions appear in the widget
• Large widget notes Choose what notes appears in the large widget—last viewed; last updates; specific notebooks, tags, or Saved Searches

New tiny widget
When you long press on the phone’s home screen and go to the Widget menu, you’ll now see a tiny 1×1 single function Evernote widget, which takes up the same screen real estate as an app icon. This widget is great for placing a single Evernote function anywhere you like.

Quick snapshot
The newest widget function is the Quick Snapshot. This feature truly lives up to its name. Tap on the Quick Snapshot icon, camera with lightning bolt, to launch the camera. Snap your photo and tap save. That’s it. A new snapshot note will be added to your Evernote account with an auto-generated title.

Splashtop makes the Windows 8 Metro test bed available to Apple’s iPad

Splashtop makes several useful applications to manage iPads and provide remote access and control to your PC’s from your iPad and iPhone.  Their new product offering provides a Windows 8 Metro test bed that you can install on your iPad.

The functionality is made possible by Splashtop, which is known for its remote desktop apps that are currently available for Android and iOS. It seems that a good amount of effort went into this application, known as the Win8 Metro Testbed, which offers the same swipe capabilities that will be available on a native system. This includes the ability to swipe from the left to switch apps, swipe from the right to reveal the Charms menu, and pull down from the top to close an application. Splashtop's Win8 Metro Testbed is currently available for a promotional $24.99 in the iTunes App Store, where after the promotional period will sell for $49.99.

Windows 8 Metro touch gestures are supported, so you can take advantage of all the underlying touch capabilities of Windows 8 as you build your app:

• Swipe from the right to view the Charms menu
• Swipe from the left to switch apps
• Pull down from the top to close an app
• Swipe slowly from the left to run two apps side-by-side ("snapping")
• Pinch to navigate files, folders, apps and data with Semantic Zoom
• And more

Win8 Metro Testbed is a must-have app for anyone who’s trying to build a great Metro style app without incurring the high cost of a Windows tablet!

What you are doing is installing the free Spashtop Streamer on your Windows 8 PC. Then you will need to install the Win8 Metro Testbed application found on iTunes onto your iPad. You will need both devices on the same wireless network. Voila! You will now be able to test out you program and any program using gestures and touch on your iPad.

See Video demonstration below:

Apple releases fix for Flashback malware

Apple has released a fix to remove the Flashback malware that is reportedly affecting 1 percent of all Macs. The fix is in the form of a Java web plug-in to disable the automatic execution of Java applets. Users may re-en-able automatic execution of Java applets using the Java Preferences application.

This Java security update removes the most common variants of the Flashback malware.

This update also configures the Java web plug-in to disable the automatic execution of Java applets. Users may re-enable automatic execution of Java applets using the Java Preferences application. If the Java web plug-in detects that no applets have been run for an extended period of time it will again disable Java applets.

This update is recommended for all Mac users with Java installed.

For details about this update see: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5242

Sharing iTunes & iCloud Accounts in a Family

One of the biggest pains when it comes to synching your ios products is having multiple accounts or sharing a single iTunes account. iLounge has a Q&A that is helpful in understanding how to use and what to think about when setting up your accounts.

The discussion includes both iCloud and iTunes considerations. Hope this helps.

Flashback trojan is believed to have infected more than 600,000 Macs worldwide…

Welcome to the party Mac owners. This trojan horse program “Flashback” surfaced last last year is reported by several sources to have created a botnet on more than 600,000 Macs around the world, with more than half of them in the US alone.

Apple released a Java Security update on Tuesday to resolve the vulnerabilities that the malware is exploiting, but not before a number of Mac users had been hit with the malicious software. Oracle first issued a fix for the vulnerability in February as reported by AppleInsider.

CNNTech has a Mashable article here that shows you how to find out if your Mac has the Flashback Trojan. After determining whether you are infected or not be sure you install the latest Apple security update to fix the vulnerability.

CNET changing their video programming!

There are big changes happening over at CNET Video with the promise of new formats and shows and methods of accessing their video podcasts. If you are like me and you obtain most of your news through the internet, you probably have accessed podcasts from many sources. While many podcasts are available LIVE, I very seldom access them that way. I mostly subscribe to those podcasts that interest me and watch/listen to them at some future point in time. Whether I am sitting at my desk at home or at work, or using my phone or tablet to access and view or listen to them, I am typically doing so while I am doing some other process. In fact, at this moment I am at home on my computer, jumping through RSS feeds, listening to Windows Weekly and writing this blog entry all at the same time. I am constantly finding myself multitasking in this manner to make the most of each moment. I am looking forward to see what CNET is going to come out with in the next few months.

See editorial on this here…

Gartner reports that the "’Personal Cloud’ is going to supplant PCs by 2014

So what are they predicting? They are suggesting that the primary digital device for most users will not be the PC by 2014. I am not sure that will be true, we may see that in addition to PCs many people will also have a tablet, smartphone or some other kind of consumer device.

For those of us that are doing creative work, I’m not sure a touch device is the best answer. However, they are pointing at some of the cloud services like OnLive and CloudOn as predecessors to even more robust services that a less powerful system can access and still get the performance they need out of a tablet device.

Gartner has indentified five “megatrends” that are contributing to the shift toward the personal cloud:

• Consumerization. As users have become more technologically adept -- and more plugged into the Internet and social media -- they are demanding devices and connectivity on their own terms.
• Virtualization. Thanks to virtualization, users are no longer tied to specific devices or OSes, even in the workplace.
• "App-ification." User experience apps can be used to tweak existing applications so that they work on a greater range of devices and platforms.
• Self-Service Cloud. Personal, self-service clouds allow users to create virtual workspaces, tailored to their preferences and available on multiple devices, anytime and anywhere.
• Mobility Shift. Improved mobile devices -- including those equipped with touchscreens and other interactive UIs -- are increasingly able to perform traditionally PC-based tasks. Given this functionality, an array of mobile devices can be interchangeably used as primary devices while a user is on the go.

We are starting to talk to some of our clients that wanting to have the same desktop available to their employees on whatever machine they connect with, whether it is a desktop, tablet or some kind of thin-client machine. They site that having an expected sameness with any device will help them be more productive and give them a better use experience.

As we keep seeing the cost of hardware go down and their capabilities begin to soar up the scale we can see more of a push towards this direction. We will need to start seeing software costs that promote this style of interface for the client come more in line in cost to make this happen more quickly.

Need a Hotspot? Buy the iPad from Verizon.

Anand Lal Shimpi over at AnandTech reports that he has tested the new iPad as a hotspot device, and it far exceeds current Verizon Hotspot products supporting LTE from Novatel and Samsung. These devices provide about a 4+ hour window of support currently while the new iPad when setup to minimize battery usage was able to go 5 times longer to about 25.3 hours. Hands down no comparison. The people over at The Verge confirmed this with their own tests.

This seems to be one of the benefits that Verizon has over AT&T right now. AT&T is reportedly working on adding this feature to their service but I haven’t seen a timeline as to when it will be available. Of course LTE coverage is spotty at best for anyone so this may not be of concern or a benefit for you. But it is out there and is pretty interesting how well it is working.

Fake PC Power Speed–Malware

Another new malware program that installs on to your computer while you are surfing the internet. Fake PC Power Speed also downloads unwanted malicious files from internet to your pc and occupies a lot of your system’s resources. Fake PC Power Speed also has the ability to corrupt the system files and change your computer’s settings. Fake PC Power Speed hides itself in the computer and does not get detected by any of the current antivirus programs.

One method of removing this nasty beast is to try to do so with the following two programs. However, we have not had a lot of success removing it 100% from infected systems. If this doesn’t work try the second option listed below as well.

You need to run the two removal tools listed below to completely remove Fake PC Power Speed infection

1. Click Here To Download Regfix and Run it to fix the registry.
2. Click Here To Download SPYWARE Doctor and Run it to remove the Fake PC Power Speed virus

(During installation process of SPYWARE Doctor, you might get a warning from SPYWARE Doctor that you need to uninstall some programs before installing SPYWARE Doctor. Please Ignore that warning and select “Next” button available on that warning window to continue installation).

The Manual Fix

The following fix is taken from CleanPcGuide.Com website: Click Here to Download the PDF document…

Which Option should you choose for storing your music in the “CLOUD”

With Google relabeling its cloud storage system for movies, books and music, called Google Play, there is another option to choose for placing your music into a location that you devices can get to with multiple devices. If you have an IOS device or and Android device then you have a multitude of options at various costs.

For general storage there are a lot of choices with my favorite being Dropbox (2GB free), but you also have Google (10GB free), Microsoft (25GB free).

Microsoft SkyDrive provides 25GB’s of free space and is integrated well with Microsoft Office Applications and has some interesting things that it can do in regards to information sharing with OneNote.

iCloud (5GB free) and Amazon (not free). When it comes to your media files (mainly music oriented). It also integrates with a few document applications but this is solely an Apple based product for Apple products only.

Google allows up to 20,000 song titles. This service is primarily associated with Android Devices and desktops for access. It will now integrate with a central interface for accessing movies, eBooks, and music. It will be interesting to look at once it fully comes available. This is separate from Google Doc Storage which I talked about above.

Amazon Cloud Player for your music is limited to 5GB for free and all of you purchased MP3’s are stored for free.

Dropbox can also play back you media but unless buy into the large file storage levels and there isn’t a media player associated with it directly. But I like using it for everything that I throw at it for work, home and play. It is integrated with the largest number of application on your IOS and Android devices and that is one of the things that I am continually reaching for, high availability between applications and devices.

Another service that is out there that has a fairly close comparison with Dropbox is SugarSync. It provides a free 5GB account and reasonable larger accounts. It is more of a file share program that allows you to synchronizes between PC’s. Dropbox is pretty much limited to its file structure that syncs while SugarSync has more of a backup flair associated with it.

So if you ask me what I have, well, I have them all. Which do I use the most? Dropbox at this time. However, in reviewing these services I started thinking that SugarSync looks interesting and one that I didn’t even mention Box.com is something that I want to explore as well.

Let me know how you are using these types of services and let me know which one is your favorite and why.

Lenovo is pushing hard to be the first out of the gate with a Window 8 Tablet…

Speculation surrounds the Lenovo IdeaPad Yoga that Lenovo showed at CES 2012 a couple of months ago as to whether this will one of their tablets they will put Windows 8 on in the Fall. It was an impressive configuration with a 13.3 inch display, resolution of 1600 x 900 an with 10 touch points. The designed showed the screen turning around an axis 360 degrees allowing it to be turned from a notebook with a full-size keyboard to a touchscreen tablet.

Rumors have it that Lenovo is hoping to ship in October. It was the Verge that is speculating the Yoga as the product they will be dropping the operating system on. Basic specs make this a viable choice. My only concern would have been the screen size but minimum spec right now is 1024x768 which is more than met by the Yoga that was shown at CES 2012.

Need Help with LR4? Try a tutorial…

I really liked George Jardine’s Lightroom 4 Video Workshop. I enjoy George’s approach to training you on more than just how to use LR4 but from the beginning, talks to you about what you should need to know about LR4’s file structure and what you should consider when storing your pictures and where you are going to structure you catalog/library. He goes into great depths describing this and I have restructured my picture file storage to mimic his suggestions. It has worked well for me when I have gone on vacation and taken my library with me to make it easier to update process new pictures.

This new series is available to view in both flash and HTML5 formats. The second was helpful to me because I like to watch these videos using my iPad and so far it is working very well. The complete series costs $24.95 for 16 videos and over 6 hours of online video education. He has a easy to listen voice and when you watch each section you will definitely come away with a deeper understanding of the new Lightroom 4 program.

Here are the video titles:

1   The Library Structure Overview   –  14:45
2   The Lightroom Catalog Overview   –  7:43
3   The Lightroom User Interface   –  21:32
4   The Pro Workflow Overview   –  37:02
5   The Lightroom Import Dialog   –  17:31
6   The Library Module – Part 1   –  27:51
7   The Library Module – Part 2   –  42:21
8   The Keywording Panels   –  19:31
9   The Metadata Panel   –  27:52
10  File Renaming   –  22:06
11   Editing Methods in Lightroom 4   –  34:19
12   The Lightroom Filter Bar   –  14:36
13   Collections & Virtual Copies   –   24:38  (Check out the free sample movie, here.)
14   The Export Dialog & Publish Services   –  35:46
15   The Lightroom to Photoshop Workflow   –  17:09 (NOTE! This tutorial movie will be updated shortly!)
16   Photo Library Backup Strategies   –  22:00

Take a look at his blog post for more information if you are interested in this product. I really like his presentation style and recommend adding this tutorial series to your collection if you are really series about learning LR4’s photo library, workflow and asset management functions. He has more detail on the develop modules based on LR3, hopefully he will update these soon as well.

How and when to charge your tablet battery

Jack Wallen wrote a great article on the basic functions and care of your batteries on your mobile devices. Check out the article at TechRepublic.

I also have a printed copy that you can access here.

Is it time to move from Jing to Snagit?

I have been using Jing (Pro) ever since TechSmith introduce this product and I have been enamored with it forever! However, today I got notification that Jing Pro has only one more year to live and will no longer be a part of the TechSmith product line. It was suggested that I take a look at Snagit as a suitable replacement and much to my chagrin I am finding that I probably should have done so a long time ago. Jing was obviously a testing product for the features that have been added to Snagit to encompass all of the things that Jing did but on steroids. I have inserted TechSmith’s overview of Snagit 11 below for you to take a quick look. I know that I am going to make full use of this product just like I did with Jing and I recommend it to anyone who is doing sales, marketing, support, etc… Better yet I would also look at the very good companion product, Camtasia Studio if you are planning on doing any video editing work. It is simple and straight forward and allows you to put a quick flair onto any video project.

Introduction to Snagit 11

HDD Volumes to Restore 80% in Q1 2012

Just a quick note reporting from techPowerUp! stating that we can expect drive availability to slowly coming back to marketplace needs. Still not at 100% we hopefully will be seeing a decrease in cost to provide us with more reasonably price storage. SSD prices are still coming down in price but are still more expensive than their spinning platter counterparts.

techPowerUp!

Friday 1:44 AM by btarunr@techpowerup.com (btarunr)

In what could alleviate high prices of hard disk drives (HDDs) after the devastating flood in Thailand that affected HDD foundries, industry sources predict that the reconstruction efforts of these foundries, led by Western Digital, will pay off to a large extant. In Q1 2012 alone, global volumes of HDDs are expected to restore to 80% of what they were before the floods. The global production of HDDs will increase to 140-145 million units.

HDD vendors across the board have exhausted their inventories in Dec-Jan when they supply PC/notebook ODMs their inventories of HDDs, but they haven't hiked quotes due to the off-season that followed. However, the flood situation isn't the only factor that will affect HDD prices. With increase in prices of raw materials, components, and labour-costs, HDD prices are expected to go up 30-40%.

Office 15 peeked out behind the curtains…

Microsoft has started seeding its Office 15 technical preview to a select few earlier this year to get it ready for the public. Expect to see more of Metro Style interface, this should satisfy those Office detractors that have said that the ribbon bar is too cluttered. The cleaner interface and touch mode will make it easier to use on tablet devices as it is on the desktop.

Word15 has received several improvements. Microsoft is focusing on the “experience” of reading  and writing. The new Read Mode removes control and menu items to limit the amount of distractions on the screen. The text will be reformatted on the screen as you enter into the Read Mode. There is a new Resume Reading function that allows you to bookmark the current position so that when you resume reading the document you will be placed back into the last position you were reading from.

Two new features allow you view information in a more dynamic way. Object Zoom allows you to double click on an image that will then zoom into full screen mode. This is great for pictures of table data, screen grabs or your favorite pictures that have been placed in the document. Expand and Collapse is a tool that allows you to expand and collapse paragraphs of text underneath a heading. This allows you to start with a shorter document that can be expanded to handle more text detail.

Document collaboration has ben improved as well. It is easier to Track Changes, create and read Reply Comments made to specific areas of text. There is now a localized password function that allows you to make changes and lock them down with password protection. Present Online allows users to share documents with others through a browser window.

There is better PDF document handling built into this version as well. Word 15 will allow you to open a PDF document and have the document reflow on the screen to fit automatically just as if it were a native Word document. Inserting and view videos has become easier as well with new functions allow easy insertion of video and pictures from Faceboo, Flickr and other services.

Not surprisingly with the new Metro Style Interface, Word 15 allows users to more easily navigate through documents through the Touch Mode interface. This shows Microsoft’s focus with Windows 8 and tablet technology. It is going to be interesting to see all of these new touch centric features working together on Windows 8 based tablets later this year.

Excel 15 updates include better/simpler methods for visualizing large data sets that you are working with. A  new Quick Analysis Lens feature lets Excel 15 users quickly access ways to visually represent data, and Recommended Charts and PivotTables helps surface the best way to visualize certain information based on data patterns. Flash Fill, a new feature to Excel 15, will also simplify the reformatting and rearrangement of data in an Excel spreadsheet. Excel 15′s Touch Mode feature is designed to let users browse through charts, graphs, and tables on tablet devices with their fingers and hands.

There are also some new chart formatting control features that use an interactive interface to fine tune charts quickly. Chart animations will help you to present your data in a dynamic display that will show changes as your data points are added or existing numbers are adjusted.

A new Excel Start Experience will provide access to a collection of professionally designed templates, including ones for budgets, calendars, forms and reports.

PowerPoint 15 updates include a big visual change. Microsoft is changing the default aspect ratio to a 16:9 display format with the thought of creating a professional-looking design with cinematic appeal. This complement most wide screen displays that are being used on your PC’s, Notebooks and Projectors today.

The new Start Experience is also present in PowerPoint 15, providing quick access to favorite files, professionally designed templates, and most recently-viewed presentations. A new chart engine access feature lets PowerPoint 15 users lift charts from Excel 15 worksheets and put them into slides without disrupting the existing formatting of a presentation.

Touch has been a big focus in this new version as well and the new features are designed to allow presenters to move through slides using a touch screen or tablet PC. PowerPoint 15 also features the same Resume Reading feature that has been added to Word 15 with automatic bookmarking the last position in your PowerPoint slide deck.

Outlook 15 hasn’t been left out either. A new peeks feature will let users see their schedule, view details about people they are emailing, and review tasks all within the same display. A new Weather Bar feature will also let users check the weather before accepting meeting invites or planning new meetings.

Inline replies has also been added to Outlook 15, letting users reply to an email in one-click. Microsoft has also made some improvements to its multiple email account support in Outlook 15, allowing users to view, create, and respond to all email accounts in one place, including Hotmail and other third-party web mail providers.

Animations in Outlook 15 have been improved to quickly move between email, calendar and tasks. The Metro Style interface takes up less space to provide more real estate for the presented information. Power users will be happier with the Context sensitive commands to provide simple, visible, on-click commands to help power users stay on top of their email flow.

OneNote 15 has also received the Metro Style Interface update. Auto-updating file views will let OneNote 15 users see content previews from embedded Excel and Visio files and any content updates that have been made in the original files.

Table support has been improved, allowing you to sort, add headers, and convert a OneNote table into an attached spreadsheet. This will bring improved calculation capabilities within your OneNote document.

The Touch Mode feature of OneNote 15 lets tablet users take advantage of their fingers and hands to move through pages and notes without a keyboard.

OneNote 15 also includes the new Resume Reading feature found in Word and PowerPoint 15, automatically saving the last position in a notebook so OneNote users can pick up right where they left off, even on a different PC or tablet.

Conclusion: I am looking forward to spending time with this product later this year when it comes out for general preview. The features that I have mentioned above are only some of the planned updates to the Office Products and I am sure there will be more touch and collaboration functionality as Windows 8 is finally released as well. Expect the release some time this summer and probably a RTM before the end of the year.

Windows 8–Are you interested?

There has been a lot of hype in the marketplace about the recent release of Windows 8 Consumer Preview and most people that you listen two have a very strong opinion about it. There are very few that are sitting on the fence with a wait and see attitude, they either love it or they hate it. There seems to be no middle ground.

With the advent of the Windows 8 Consumer Preview you are able to choose and in-place upgrade to install the product if you wish.I strongly urge you not to do this on a production system that is critical to your business of course. Paul Thurrot has a great guide that describes this process.

The big controversy is of course the new Metro Interface that is the primary startup screen that you will see when you boot a Windows 8 System. You do have both the desktop interface that we know as well as the Metro we don’t know at all. Why both interfaces? Microsoft doesn’t want to eliminate the legacy interface and force everyone into its simpler Metro App interface because we still need to accommodate business users and their applications. However, they see the writing on the wall and need to accommodate a touch interface that will perform better in a tablet environment. Having both interfaces provides the greatest degree of support for the widest range of applications. Just pick the application that runs best in the environment that you wish to use.

With this mixed environment the interface that you will primarily use will probably depend on what you do and what equipment that you are using. If you are primarily a tablet user you will probably live within Metro but if you are a power desktop user especially you will probably never see the Metro interface except when you boot up.

If you plan on using the touch interface you will need at least a screen that supports a minimum of five (5) touch points to take advantage of the the touch interface. You don’t need to think too much into this. Metro is a design that is going to be best used by consumer on a consumer device (in other words a tablet). The desktop as we know it now is mainly for PC’s that are going to be used for business. That’s it. That doesn’t mean that there won’t be some crossover but I do believe this is how the division will primarily work.

This duo interface for the most part isn’t going to be something that most people using it will even worry about. They will learn to use those pieces that make sense to them and not think anything more of it. It will be interesting to see how the Apps develop on the Metro side and see how we will be able to flow information between the two interfaces. I don’t think that it will be a bid deal but let’s begin working with it before we come to any final judgments.

I think that Microsoft really has a strong product here that can be something that will enhance the business side especially for tablet use and I am excited to work with it to find out how true that is.

Rediscover your mouse and keyboard video

A touch of brilliance

Make Windows yours

PHOTOGRAPHER’S i Magazine

I just finished reading my first made for iPad magazine and was totally entranced by the interaction with media formats that made full use of all audio, video still images and slide shows. The magazine I chose is called Photographers i and besides showing off beautiful images it provided articles that drew you into the featured photographers world, talked about their techniques and projects and keyed on specific technical details that help you to improve your own photography as well.

This is a great example of the benefit of electronic texts over paper with the ability to use the best style of presentation (words, static pictures, slide shows, audio or video) to present the information in the article. If you can find a magazine on a subject that you enjoy, it is worth taking a look to see if they have taken advantage of the new media style. The limits of printed material can finally be surpassed in this new form and provide you with many hours of entertainment and an expanded learning experience.

It is available as a subscription on both iPad and Android devices. I absolutely recommend this magazine.

Lenovo ThinkCentre M90z & M70z All-In-One Desktop PC Recall

I still feel Lenovo makes really quality product and we applaud them for being so upfront and proactive to protect their customers. Take a look at the link at the bottom of the page to determine if your system is affected.

In cooperation with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), Lenovo is voluntarily recalling 160,000 ThinkCentre M70z and ThinkCentre M90z all-in-one (AIO) desktop PCs worldwide sold between May 2010 and January 2012. Lenovo has determined that due to a failure of the power supply in the affected all-in-one PCs, the system can overheat posing a fire hazard. Lenovo has received two customer reports worldwide of fire that resulted in damage to the PC.

Lenovo recommends that you should immediately stop using the affected desktop PC, and unplug the power cord. Only certain of the ThinkCentre M90z and M70z PCs sold in this timeframe are affected, and all of the affected systems can be identified by machine type and serial number.

Effective immediately, Lenovo is offering free power-supply replacements for all affected ThinkCentre M90z and ThinkCentre M70z all-in-one desktop PCs. You can use this page to determine whether your ThinkCentre M70z or ThinkCentre M90z all-in-one desktop PC is affected by the recall. Lenovo greatly appreciates your business and apologizes for the inconvenience caused by these issues.

For additional information on this recall, including frequently asked questions (FAQs), click below.

Go to Lenovo’s web site to determine if your system is affected.

http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/detail.page?DocID=HT071924

Posting at Photoshopsupport.com–Lightroom 4 Video Tutorials

Here are 5 free videos from the course Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4: New Features Workshop, taught by world renowned photographer and author Mikkel Aaland. Use coupon code LR20 for an instant 20% discount if you decide to purchase the full series. (You can download a free 30-day Photoshop Lightroom 4 trial version.)
Overview of New Features — New Models
Lightroom 4 has added two new modules, Book and Map, and in this video you'll get an overview of their features.
Using the Map Module — Working with Non-Geotagged Photos
Most cameras don't automatically add GPS data to an image, but that doesn't mean you can't take advantage of Lightroom's Map module. In this video you'll see how to manually add GPS data directly from a Google map.
New Develop Module Features — RGB Curves
Curves in Lightroom just got even more powerful by enabling you to control individual red, green, and blue channels. In this video you'll get an example of how these channels work.
Soft Proofing — Soft Proofing with a Custom Profile
In Lightroom 4 you have the option to soft proof an image using a custom profile, and this video will show you how.
Video Editing — Setting a Poster Frame
Want to select another static image to represent your video in the Library module? This video will show you how to select a new poster frame that does just that.
About The Course
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4 includes some extremely powerful new features. In this workshop photographer and author Mikkel Aaland shows you what's new and how to put these new features to work.
You’ll learn about the new process version and how it improves the way images are processed in Lightroom, as well as changes to the Develop module’s Basic pane, which now offers much more intuitive controls.
You’ll also be introduced to the new modules in Lightroom 4, the Map and Book modules, which make it easy to sort your photos by location and create great photo books, respectively. Other new features covered here include soft proofing, upgraded video editing capabilities, and many more.