We’re about kicking down the door of thought everywhere and saying, “You are bigger and more capable than you realize. We have a mission beyond circulation, we want to bridge divides. We’re known as being fair even as the world becomes as polarized as at any time since the newspaper’s founding in 1908. We’re run by a church, but we’re not only for church members and we’re not about converting people. The Monitor is a peculiar little publication that’s hard for the world to figure out. And I’m going to argue that we change lives precisely because we force open that too-small box that most human beings think they live in. We’re the bran muffin of journalism.īut you know what? We change lives. We’re seen as being global, fair, insightful, and perhaps a bit too earnest. If you were to come up with a punchline to a joke about the Monitor, that would probably be it. Sometimes, we call things ‘boring’ simply because they lie outside the box we are currently in.” My work in Kenya, for example, was heavily influenced by a Christian Science Monitor article I had forced myself to read 10 years earlier. “Many things that end up” being meaningful, writes social scientist Joseph Grenny, “have come from conference workshops, articles, or online videos that began as a chore and ended with an insight. And other improvements to the way memory and system resources are used should make Mavericks less power-hungry, too.Ībout a year ago, I happened upon this statement about the Monitor in the Harvard Business Review – under the charming heading of “do things that don’t interest you”: “App Nap,” a nifty feature built in to the Safari Web browser, makes sure the app isn’t drawing much power when you’re not actively using it. “Timer coalescing” reduces the CPU activity by synchronizing app timers behind the scenes, so the computer isn’t constantly being pulled out of a low-power idle state. And you’ll be able to receive push notifications, like news alerts, from an iPad or iPhone.Īpple has also made a number of tweaks that improve Mavericks’ power consumption, thereby giving laptop users a little extra battery life. You’ll also see these notifications when your computer wakes up, much like you would on a phone’s lockscreen. Mavericks also brings some extra iOS functionality to the desktop with automatic background updating for apps, as well as the introduction of Notifications, a feature that allows you to reply to e-mails and Facetime calls from within the notification box at the top of the screen. ‘Goodnight Moon’: 75 years in the great green room Apple also introduced system-wide file tagging - you can add multiple tags to any file, and they’ll show up in the Finder sidebar and in the iCloud storage service - which should help with filing and finding your stuff.
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One new feature is the introduction of Finder tabs, which let you bring several windows of files together into one, tabbing between them as you would in a browser. (It didn’t mention how much Mavericks will cost, though.) Apple also showed off power-saving features, better support for multiple monitors, and a whole host of interface improvements.
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On the software side of things, a non-feline moniker wasn’t the only change in OS X 10.9 Mavericks. And both can be upgraded with more storage, more RAM, or a better CPU. The 11-inch model starts at $999 for a 128GB hard drive, while the 13-inch model starts at $1,099 (down $100 from last year) for the same capacity. The new Macbook Airs will ship with OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion), but they’ll be upgradeable to 10.9 when it comes out in the fall. Apple announced that the flash storage in the new models is up to 45 percent faster, and that the machines will be compatible with snappy 802.11ac Wi-Fi networks. The new Macbook Airs, like their predecessors, will come in 11- and 13-inch sizes and feature non-Retina displays (1366x768 resolution for the smaller model 1440x900 for the larger).
The result? Better battery life - Apple claims an improvement of 4 to 5 hours over previous Airs, and says users can enjoy “all-day” power - and 40 percent faster graphics. The biggest change to the new Macbook Air line is the inclusion of Intel “ Haswell” CPUs, which have increased power efficiency and built-in graphics processing.
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But in spite of its mobile focus, the company certainly hasn’t been neglecting the computer market: Apple also unveiled new Macbook Air laptops and OS X 10.9 Mavericks, an update to its desktop operating system. Apple spent the lion’s share of its keynote address at this week’s Worldwide Developers Conference highlighting the flattened design and new features of iOS 7.
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