AirPlay Mirroring

One of the most useful features of Mountain Lion is AirPlay Mirroring. For those unfamiliar with AirPlay Mirroring (previously only available on certain iPhones and iPads), this feature allows you to wirelessly stream both your computer's screen and audio to any television that has a second-generation or newer AppleTV connected to it. This is a game-changer for conference and meeting rooms.
Assuming you have the requisite hardware (configured properly), using AirPlay Mirroring is a breeze. Simply click the AirPlay mirroring icon in your menu bar and select your AppleTV. Video and audio will then be mirrored to the television. In our testing and use of this feature, there is only a small 'lag' in the streaming of video and audio; it's great for presentations, but not ideal for watching movies (although other AppleTV features allow for movie-watching already.)
AirPlay Mirroring is only available on certain Macs running Mountain Lion. Older Macs do not support this feature, even if they have Mountain Lion installed. The list of supported Macs is:
”• iMac (Mid-2011 or newer)
”• Mac mini (Mid-2011 or newer)
”• MacBook Air (Mid-2011 or newer)
”• MacBook Pro (Early 2011 or newer)

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Hacked Yahoo email?

On July 12, the hacker group D33ds Company claimed responsibility for attacking a Yahoo service and exposing 453,492 plain text login credentials. Yahoo today confirmed 400,000 of its accounts were hacked, though it emphasized less than 5 percent of the credentials are valid. You can check whether your account was compromised here: Sucuri.

A big THANK YOU to our customers!

Capitol Macintosh is honored to be among the elite 20 Authorized Apple service locations to achieve the highest customer satisfaction score in North America - thanks to you, our customers.

Apple has begun honoring service locations who have achieved animpressive average CSAT (Customer Satisfaction) score of98.4%. Only 20 (of over 2500) locations in North America achieved this lofty goal. We are extremely proud to be in such elite company and to be so thought of by our customers. Thank you!

As a reference, the US overall average stands at 91%. How did we achievesuchhigh marks? We focus on the drivers to customer satisfaction: as an Apple Authorized Service Provider we scored96%in Professionalism,95% in Repair Turnaround Timeand96%in Repair Quality. Capitol Macintosh has also mastered setting accurate expectations:91%of our customers reported repair turnaround times as having metor beat the estimate that was provided.

Capitol Mac is also an Apple Premium Service Provider, a program started by Apple in the summer of 2011. Only 248 of the 2,500 North American service providers have achieved this distinction.

Oh, and 1 more thing: for 12 fiscal quarters, Capitol Macintosh had been honored with Apple's Commitment to Excellence award! This program has been replaced with the Premium Service Provider program which means we've now been honored for 16 consecutive quarters - 4 years! Every year since the program started.

Capitol Macintosh: Authorized Apple Reseller, Authorized Apple Service Provider, Apple Specialist and Apple Premium Service Provider: we are in the top 2% of Service Providers in all of North America.

New OS X malware variant attacks unpatched Macs

By Adrian Kingsley-Hughes | February 27, 2012, 4:13am PST
Summary: A new malware variant sets out to punish those who haven't been keeping up to date with updates.
Patching OS X is so simple, but yet there are people who still put it off. A new malware variant sets out to punish those who haven't been keeping up to date with updates.
The new variant is a Trojan horse called ”Flashback.G' and is makes use of two exploits found on older versions of the Java runtime. Users with macs runningOS X 10.6 ”Snow Leopard' are particularly at risk since this version came with Java preinstalled while 10.7 ”Lion' did not.
According to security firm Intego, this malware uses three tricks to try to get itself installed onto a system:
This new variant of the Flashback Trojan horse uses three methods to infect Macs. The malware first tries to install itself using one of two Java vulnerabilities. If this is successful, users will be infected with no intervention. If these vulnerabilities are not available ”“ if the Macs have Java up to date ”“ then it attempts a third method of installation, trying to fool users through a social engineering trick. The applet displays a self-signed certificate, claiming to be issued by Apple. Most users won't understand what this means, and click on Continue to allow the installation to continue.

This Trojan looks for specific websites (such as Google, Yahoo!, CNN, bank websites, PayPal, and so on) and tries to grab the user names and passwords used to log onto the sites.
If you are running OS X 10.6 then it is vitally important that you check to see that you have the latest Java update installed by runningSoftware Update from the Apple menu.
DO IT NOW!!!

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