Vidyo Customers Extol VidyoConferencing Solution
Hackensack, NJ (April 21, 2009)– Vidyo®, Inc., the first company to deliver personal telepresence, today announced a milestone for Enterprise–quality desktop videoconferencing—the industry´s first HD desktop videoconferencing solution for Apple Mac OS. Vidyo first introduced its breakthrough technology and product for the PC platform in 2008.
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Vidyo´s solution for both Mac and PC is built upon an entirely new architecture for videoconferencing. VidyoConferencing™ is the first conferencing solution that enables endpoints to seamlessly interoperate from HD room systems to laptops within the same conference via converged IP networks. The company´s products and technology enable the widespread use of HD videoconferencing by everyone, whether from the office, home or while traveling.
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“We have been using VidyoConferencing very effectively on the PC platform since June of last year,” said P.R. Blackwell, Director, Columbia Regional Geospatial Service Center, Stephen F. Austin State University. “People depend on our ability to deliver geospatial support for local and regional communities during times of emergency. Our response has to be organized and timely. VidyoConferencing allows us to communicate efficiently with our geographically dispersed partners and with our response teams in the field. We are especially enthusiastic about the availability of Vidyo for Mac users since many of our colleagues use Macintosh computers. The native OS X Vidyo desktop client allows us to coordinate and communicate freely across platforms without engaging in the age old and counter–productive PC vs. Mac debate.”
“Surgeworks is a software development consultancy that specializes in agile web and mobile applications,” said Carl Youngblood, Rails Practice Manager, Surgeworks, Inc. “Part of our success strategy is to seek out the best talent we can find throughout the world rather than being confined to a specific geographical area. Along with this strategy comes the challenge of fostering productive collaboration between all these developers, most of who work from home. Vidyo–s revolutionary technology has finally made it possible for us to feel like we are in the same room together while we collaborate. We have been amazed at how much it has enhanced the communication and improved the morale of our teams.”
“We have installed the Vidyo client on several of our Macs and the installation and operation has been flawless,” said Brian Comin, Chief Technology Officer, Hartley & Marks Publishers. “The client takes advantage of the high resolution built–in cameras on the Macs and the picture quality is impeccable! The Vidyo Mac client is a big plus for us, as our Seattle office runs a pure Mac environment and having this capability will allow us to further improve communications with them as well as allow the manager of the Seattle office to reduce his visits to our office here in Vancouver to meet with our marketing team.”
“The release of our VidyoDesktop™ for Mac OS further delivers on VidyoConferencing™s promise of high quality anytime, anywhere and on any platform,” said Ofer Shapiro, Vidyo CEO. “Until now there were no viable HD videoconferencing solutions for the Mac desktop and laptop users. We are pleased to be the first to bring this significant innovation to market.”
The Importance of Vidyo´s Groundbreaking Solution
As stated by Frost and Sullivan, a global market research and consulting firm:
“Vidyo´s products and technology positively impact the overall videoconferencing market, but more specifically the desktop videoconferencing software market – a segment with significant potential that has never taken off. Today there is an increasingly strong demand from large businesses to leverage their existing investment in videoconferencing and deploy HD videoconferencing for all of their employees to use, both in conference rooms and at desktops. While there are other videoconferencing products in the market that allow this, the current breed of MCU–based videoconferencing solutions become economically inefficient when desktop video is extended to a large number of users. On the other hand, although there is a slew of new Internet–based videoconferencing offerings on the market, these are typically unable to deliver HD resolution and frequently to not interoperate with the existing room systems.
“Vidyo´s new approach to video coding eliminates 80 percent of the delay, freezing and audio loss that plagues traditional videoconferencing, without requiring expensive network upgrades and complex bandwidth management solutions all while providing an HD experience for desktop users. Vidyo is also able to target the increasing demand for extending videoconferencing to remote workers and telecommuters. Remote worker situations frequently involve unstable public Internet connections. Vidyo´s technology now allows participants to join conferences from anywhere, on any system and connection.”
Vidyo was recently awarded Frost and Sullivan´s 2009 Product of the Year Honor for Conferencing and Collaboration. More details can be found at: /documents/pr/Vidyo_IRG–64_Award.pdf.
About Vidyo, Inc
Vidyo, Inc., headquartered in Hackensack, NJ, is making personal telepresence a reality. Comprised of some of the industry´s best engineers and researchers, Vidyo has developed the first new videoconferencing architecture in decades. Vidyo enables people to communicate effectively by using HD quality video from wherever they happen to be. VidyoConferencing is easy and affordable to use by anyone whenever they want, and deploys simply over any IP network. Leveraging Vidyo´s unique intellectual property built upon the new H.264 Scalable Video Coding (SVC) standard, Vidyo delivers the industry´s best resilience and lowest latency videoconferencing over converged IP networks. Vidyo´s technology for OEMs and end–to–end product solutions for organizations are able to support point–to–point and multi–point connections that include a variety of different platforms ranging from Mac & Windows desktops to dedicated room solutions. Learn more at vidyo.com.
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Publisher’s note: This article, originally written by Ed Eubanks Jr and published on 2007.03.12, has been the most popular article in the history of Low End Mac with well over 2 million hits. It was written toward the end of the Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger era and has been updated since its first publication. Most of these tips apply to Intel-based Macs running Tiger, but we specifically address G3, G4, and G5 PowerPC Macs, since Intel Mac users really should be using something newer than Tiger by now (we love OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, the last version before OS X became heavily influenced by iOS). We hope to add similar articles covering later versions of OS X.
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Every now and then, my Macs begin to feel a little sluggish. There are many potential reasons why: I tend to run 8 to 10 applications all the time – and sometimes push 15 or more. This alone will bog down any Mac.
At other times, I realize that it’s been weeks since I restarted the computer, and a simple restart will solve a lot of these woes.
When those don’t speed things up, I’ve found a number of things I can do to encourage my Macs back to their youthful snappiness. Here are a few tips I’ve found for restoring my Macs to full speed without spending a penny.
Publisher’s note: None of these tips will improve your Mac’s performance as much as more system memory (RAM), a faster hard drive, or a CPU upgrade, which isn’t always possible. They mostly have to do with reducing memory use by limiting the number of active processes and freeing up drive space, since a too full drive (especially past the 90% mark) can slow down your Mac. These are tips for getting the most out of the Mac you currently have without investing in hardware upgrades. dk
1. Clean Out Startup Items
Some applications automatically (or when asked) set themselves as a Login Item, which causes them to open at every restart or login. You can find out what is in your startup items list by navigating to Apple Menu > System Preferences > Accounts > Login Items. You may be surprised at how many there are.
To remove them, simply select the item by clicking on its name and then hit the “minus” button at the bottom of the list. However, be sure that you know what you’re removing; otherwise you may kill some critical function for the next time you restart.
2. Turn Off Universal Access, Bluetooth, Speech Recognition, and Internet Sharing if You Don’t Use Them
While System Preferences is open, take a look at a few other things. Apple has generously included a number of very useful features as preferences. Some, however, may not be useful to you, such as Universal Access (which offers help for visually and hearing impaired users) or Bluetooth (which allows certain devices to be used wirelessly). If you don’t use these features, verify that they are turned off. This will save you some valuable RAM and processor resources. If you’re using a PowerBook or iBook, this may also improve battery life.
3. Clean Out ‘Other’ System Preferences
Don’t close System Preferences yet! Take a peek in the bottom section of your System Preferences window, labeled Other. How many items are down there? Do you know what they do? Do you use what they do?
If there is a Preference Pane that you don’t use or that you use only occasionally, disable it (either turn it “off” within the Preference Pane itself or remove it from the folder “~/Library/PreferencePanes”).
4. Check Out What ‘Build’ Your Software Is
If you’re running an Intel Mac, some of your software may be running under the Rosetta PowerPC translator, which allows software programs built for a PowerPC processor to run on an Intel Mac. Rosetta is surprisingly efficient, but don’t use it if you don’t have to! There may be a patch for your favorite application that will upgrade it to a “universal build”. By making sure you’re running the latest version, you can be confident you’re not using Rosetta in vain (a utility like the App Update widget will help with this).
5. Clean Out Unnecessary Code
Your Mac is either running a PowerPC or Intel processor. You don’t have to understand what this means, but you should know that, with both being options, most recent software comes programmed for both. But you don’t need optimization for both – you only need optimization for your computer. Fortunately, there are utilities like XSlimmer (and Monolingual – more on this in a minute) that will strip out unnecessary code in your software. This not only helps the applications run faster; it also saves hard drive space (sometimes a lot of it). Xslimmer maintains a downloadable list of software that should not be modified, and it’s only available for Intel Macs.
Monolingual lets you remove unwanted chip architectures.
Publisher’s note: If you’re using a PowerPC Mac and anticipate migrating to Intel, you might want to defer “slimming” your programs until after you’ve made the switch. Otherwise all the programs you’ve slimmed for PowerPC will be running under Rosetta on your Intel Mac – unless you take the time to do a fresh installation.
We’ve heard horror stories of early versions of XSlimmer eviscerating Rosetta, so if you use it on an Intel Mac, be sure you don’t strip the System frameworks.
6. Get Rid of Languages and Translations You Won’t Use
Apple is very considerate in providing localizations for many, many languages. But chances are you aren’t using the Catalan, Farsi, or Klingon language localizations on your Mac. And even if you are, you can strip out the other ones you aren’t using and gain more efficiency and drive space using a utility like Monolingual (version 1.3.9 is the last version to support OS X 10.4 Tiger).
By the way, the latest version of Monolingual will also strip out unnecessary chip architectures from your system – but not your applications – so it also performs a function similar to XSlimmer, yet different.
7. Cool Off
The new MacBooks got a bad rap at first for running very hot; the truth is, every Mac will run more efficiently with a cooler processor. Even though Apple has largely fixed cooling issue in MacBooks, I use a utility called Fan Control on mine, which allows me to change the threshold for when my MacBook’s fan turns on and off. This allows me to keep my ‘Book running cooler, which maximizes performance (though it does shorten battery life a little bit).
Publisher’s note: We use smcFanControl on the Mac mini running OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard at Low End Mac headquarters. Modern desktops can also run hot and thus will benefit from fan control software as well. dk
8. Evaluate Your Widgets
If you’re using Mac OS X 10.4.x Tiger, you have probably played around with the Dashboard. There are hundreds of useful widgets available, most for free – but there are many that you won’t use, even if they are very helpful to others. This includes some that came with Tiger.
It takes RAM and processor power to keep these widgets running, even when the Dashboard is hidden, so a judicious evaluation of what widgets you do use can boost computing efficiency nicely. Do you really need that Ski Conditions widget or neeed to have the Clock widget running? If not, disable them to conserve RAM and processor use. This article explains how to use the Widget Manager to remove widgets you don’t want or need.
If you don’t want to use Dashboard at all, you can disable it with free apps such as ‘Disable & Enable Dashboard’ Utility, TinkerTool, and Bye Bye Dashboard.
9. Keep an Eye on Activity Monitor
There may be other things hogging your processor’s attention or sucking up RAM. How will you know about them? By using Apple’s Activity Monitor, which comes with OS X. Activity Monitor will tell you about CPU usage, RAM requirements, virtual memory usage, and whether a given application is a PowerPC or Intel (Universal) build. Check it occasionally to see if there are any red flags – or keep it running for a few days (with one of the useful Dock icons or floating windows enabled) to keep an eye on when things are spiking. Baby girl beauty makeover mac os.
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10. Clean Off Your Hard Drive
It doesn’t matter how large your hard drive is – eventually it will begin to fill up. Whether it is a huge iPhoto library, some videos you’re editing, or simply accumulation of lots of “stuff”, a full hard drive can cause problems. (One colleague couldn’t figure out why her drive was so full – until she realized that she hadn’t emptied her Trash in almost four years!)
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You may not realize that Mac OS X (and the Classic Mac OS, too) uses the free space on your hard drive as “virtual memory”, and it depends heavily on that virtual memory to run efficiently. If your Mac is starting to feel sluggish, it may be because your drive is too full. There are lots of ways to clean it off, but sometimes a little more free space is all you need to be a peak performance again.
11. Run OnyX
Whenever things get slow on my Mac, one of the “go to” solutions is to run a utility like OnyX. (There are several, many of them free; I’ve found Cocktail and TinkerTool to be other good and popular options. If you choose OnyX, be sure to download version 1.8.6 for Tiger. There are separate versions for each edition of OS X from 10.2 through 10.8.)
These utilities offer a variety of “jobs” and “repairs” to the system, and while some are skeptical about how much this is necessary, my experience has been that they do bring a good level of optimization back to my Macs. I tend to run the whole battery of tools – both the maintenance and the cleaning options in OnyX – at the same time, but you may prefer to set them to run as scheduled routines in a certain order. Juicyzestybittersweet mac os.
By the way, check out fellow Low End Mac writer Charles W Moore’s words about the value of these routines in his recent article on Applelinks, Yes, Running System Maintenance Routines Really Can Help. Hate and cheating mac os.
It’s not quite like getting a brand-new Mac – after all, the “next new thing” will always be faster than the current offerings, and no one can keep up all the time. But giving some attention to these optimization tasks won’t take long – probably 2-3 hours for all of these, if you did them at the same time – and it will pay big dividends in speed.
You might even put aside those thoughts of upgrading – at least for a few days!
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