Next General Meeting: By Richard Corzo DACS is lucky to have Apple’s Dave Marra back again, this time to update us on Apple’s latest desktop operating system, OS X Mountain Lion. Dave was last with us to introduce Snow Leopard (10.6), and since then OS X has shown the influence of Apple’s iPhone operating system, first in the Lion (10.7) release, and now in Mountain Lion (10.8). Since his last vist Apple has also replaced its MobileMe cloud service with iCloud. So now the world's most advanced desktop operating system gets even better. Packed with over 200 innovative new features, OS X Mountain Lion includes iCloud integration, As a Senior Systems Engineer for Apple, Dave Marra has conducted thousands of technology presentations, keynote addresses and workshops for schools, Mac and PC user groups, businesses and other professional organizations across the United States and Canada. Certified as both an Apple Certified Technical Coordinator and an Apple Certified Systems Administrator, his specialty areas include digital multimedia, internet technologies, accessibility and Mac/PC integration. For more information about Dave, please visit his web site at www.marrathon.com.
--- DACS meetings are usually held at the Danbury Hospital auditorium. (Click here for directions and parking information.) Activities begin at 6:30 p.m. with registration and casual networking. The meeting starts at 7:00 p.m. with a question and answer period (Ask DACS), followed by announcements and a short break. The featured evening presentation begins at 8:00. The meeting is scheduled to adjourn at 9:30 p.m. DACS General Meetings are free and open to the public. Members and prior attendees are encouraged to extend invitations to anyone interested in this topic. Danbury Area Computer Society (DACS) is a registered nonprofit and has been serving the region since 1990.
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for keeping everything up to date across all your devices and for easy setup of your Mail, Contacts, Calendar, Messages, Reminders, and Notes. It includes the all new Messages app, which brings iMessage from the iPhone to the Mac. Also borrowing from the iPhone, the new Notification Center streamlines the presentation of notifications and provides easy access to alerts. Mountain Lion adds system-wide Sharing, to easily share links, photos, videos and other files quickly by way of services like Twitter and Facebook. Dictation, which borrows the speech recognition—but not the artificial intelligence—of Siri on the iPhone, dictates text anywhere you can type. AirPlay Mirroring, another feature first found on the iPhone, is an easy way to wirelessly send what's on your recent Mac to an HDTV using Apple TV.
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