Apple-iPhone 4S

With 8 megapixels and all-new optics, this just might be the best camera ever on a mobile phone. It just might be the only camera you’ll ever need. And if you think that’s amazing, wait until you see your photos.

Mega megapixels.

The iPhone 4S camera gives you 8 megapixels — that’s 60 percent more pixels than the camera on iPhone 4. They’re engineered with a higher, full-well capacity to collect even more light. With more megapixels and more light, you’ll see a dramatic difference in the resolution and details of your images. So your photos look stunning everywhere you show them off — on your iPhone, your computer, or your HDTV. And they’re rendered pixel for pixel in prints as large as 8x10.

All-new optics make all
the difference.

Great photography isn’t just about megapixels — it’s about light, too. The all-new, advanced optics in this camera work together to make sure whatever light you have gives you the best image possible. The custom lens uses five precision elements to shape incoming light, which makes the entire image sharper. The larger f/2.4 aperture lets in more light, so photos look brighter and better. And the advanced hybrid infrared filter keeps out harmful IR light, so you’ll see more accurate and uniform colors.

Turn down the lights.
Or turn them way up.

Pull out your iPhone in moonlight, candlelight, or under little white lights. Or shoot in bright light. Like at the beach. iPhone captures low-light and lots-of-light moods beautifully. So darks aren’t too dark and lights aren’t too light. Even action shots are less blurry. The next-generation backside illumination sensor is engineered with increased sensitivity and a shorter exposure time to achieve the same scene brightness — colors are less saturated and you’ll see more details. And the LED flash automatically kicks in when it’s needed (but you can always turn it off).

A5 chip and iOS 5.
The power behind your photos.

The A5 chip is designed with an image signal processor that’s just as good as the ones found in DSLR cameras. It’s how you can tap to focus and control exposure. And it’s the power behind zero shutter lag. The image signal processor makes the iPhone 4S camera faster, so you’ll catch all the action as it happens. The camera also uses advanced algorithms in iOS 5 for even more color accuracy, better white balance, and greater dynamic range. When you see your photos, you’ll see exactly what that means.

This camera loves a face.

With new face detection, this camera is smart enough to know whether you’re taking a portrait or a group shot. It focuses on the most prominent face in the frame and balances exposure across up to 10 faces. So you’ll definitely catch smiles. And maybe even a smirk or two.

Capture the moment in
a split second.

Think about all those fun, fleeting moments you wish you’d caught on film. Now you can open the Camera app right from the Lock screen. So when things happen fast, you’ll capture them fast. Compose a quick shot with grid lines and pinch-to-zoom gestures. Focus with a tap. Then press the volume-up button to take a photo. And suddenly, everything is a photo op.

Edit photos right on iPhone.

It’s not just an amazing camera. It’s an on-the-fly editing studio. Crop, rotate, enhance, and remove red-eye right on iPhone — without the help of photo editing software on a computer. Then organize your shots into albums, so you know where your favorites are when you want to show them off.

HDR. The best everything.
All in one shot.

Tap HDR and take a photo. iPhone 4S captures three photos from that one shot, each with a different exposure level. Then it layers the shots together to create a single photo that combines the best parts of each shot. The wide range of light is more accurate in an HDR photo. And iPhone saves both the original and the HDR photo in your Camera Roll. You can clearly see the difference.

Photo Stream.
And other ways to share.

With Photo Stream in iCloud, new photos you take are automatically sent to all your devices, so you can show them off on your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Mac, or PC.¹ Post them to the web the second you take them, and they’ll be the envy of your Flickr, Facebook, and Twitter world. Share them on your HDTV with AirPlay.² Or send your photos through iMessage or MMS. Or go old-school and send them in an email.

School-closings meeting

The Columbus district laid out the impact of each school-closing option that would affect students in the Brookhaven High School neighborhood today, but officials didn’t pitch any new options.
A school-closings committee is considering three alternatives in the Brookhaven area:

• closing Brookhaven and sending future students to Mifflin High;
• closing Brookhaven and Medina Middle and sending elementary students into other middle and high schools;
• or closing Medina, making Brookhaven a grades 7-12 school and converting nearby elementaries to K-6 buildings.

“All three of these have issues,” said Carole Olshavsky, who oversees district facilities.
Some buildings are too full to accept many more students from the Brookhaven area on the North Side. All three would affect hundreds of students.
An option on the South Side that would close Southmoor Middle, Moler and Heyl elementaries and convert South High to a 7-12 school still seems viable to district officials. Students at Moler and Heyl would be merged and housed in the Southmoor building.
That plan was the only South Side option presented after district officials advised against closing Fairwood or Siebert elementaries, which initially were targeted for closure.
District officials have not said how many schools they want to close or how much money they hope to save, but falling enrollment has spurred the effort to consolidate buildings.
The committee meets again on Monday. Community meetings are to begin in a couple of weeks.

In just a few weeks, a rainy fall could give way to a time of anxiousness for school administrators and parents alike.
It's the beginning of the winter season-and unscheduled school closings.
Belpre City Schools this year is trying out a new telephone service, which will automatically notify parents if classes in that district are cancelled.
"I would caution all families to watch the weather, in the event we make a decision to cancel or delay school," says Tony Dunn, Superintendent, Belpre City Schools. "Those chances are always out there in the wintertime. But 6:00 in the morning is generally the time when parents can expect a phone call to come, if not the night before."
Wood County Schools also tries to decide by six in the morning whether it will be in session. The latest time, says Transportation Director Richard Lance, is 6:30, which is the time buses begin to leave for their routes.
But Dunn says that back roads can be a problem in Belpre as well. An even bigger problem, he says, can be the need to send students home in the middle of the day. That's an occasion, he says, transportation employees rose to one day last winter.
"They explained to me that, last winter, we had a situation where it got snowy in the middle of the day," Dunn says, "and we actually used our Suburban to deliver some students home in our more rural areas. So, I think we're very well equipped to deliver our kids safely."
WTAP, as always, will run school cancellations at the bottom of the TV screen each morning we have them: during "Daybreak" and the "Today" show, and during other times of the day when necessary. That information will also be available on this web channel.
And throughout the winter, we ask that you NOT call us asking us whether your area school is closed.

Kim Kardashian Divorce Kris Was 'Chasing Fame'

Kim Kardashian's friends are scoffing at Kris Humphries, claiming he's full of BS when he says he wanted to have a simple life with her in Minnesota, because once the marriage fell apart, he immediately began "chasing fame."

They're saying in the last week or so, when they started talking about the possibility of divorce, Kris went into full Hollywood gear, talking about "branding" the Kris Humphries name with cologne, nightclub appearances and what not.

And we're told Kris was pushing to keep their connection going, even if they ended their marriage ... and that threw up red flags.

We're told Kim was especially put off that Kris hired a Hollywood publicist over the weekend to work on his image.

As we previously reported, one of the main reasons for the divorce was that Kris wanted Kim to move to Minnesota, but once it became clear she wasn't leaving Hollywood and the marriage was over, Kris was all about the very things he despised.

Funny, they have more in common than we thought.

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E! has shared a relatively candid look at the Kardashian life since "Keeping Up with the Kardashians" premiered -- we have seen everything from Kim Kardashian's not-so-fairy-tale $10 million wedding to that time Kourtney severely burned Khloe's lady-parts with hot wax.

But will we see the fall-out from today's divorce-a-palooza? Kim confirmed that she's divorcing Kris Humphries, (who says he is devastated by the news and still totally committed to his wife)... and tonight, she'll be hopping on a plane to Australia. Without the E! cameras.

THR reports that "Kourtney and Kim Take New York," which just wrapped filming, includes a scene where Kim and Kris decide to "take a break." That break couldn't have been very long -- they spent her birthday together just over a week before the divorce papers were filed, and he was by her side at a taping of "Dancing With the Stars" on Oct. 24.

E! won't be filming Kim's time in Australia, and we have our doubts that they'll be shooting her while she's working in Atlanta on Tyler Perry's film, "The Marriage Counselor." They seem convinced that they'll still get plenty of footage, though.

"All of us at E! are surprised and saddened by this news," says an official statement. "And we send our support to Kim and Kris at this difficult time. The Kardashians have always been uniquely open with all aspects of their lives from joyous events to intimate moments to heartbreaking transitions. E! will continue to share the fascinating real lives and larger-than-life existence of this close-knit family."

Meanwhile, E! is holding "emergency meetings" to discuss, among other things, whether they'll air the planned repeats of the wedding special this week.

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Carina Adly MacKenzie

Windows 8 Developer Preview downloads

The Windows 8 Developer Preview is a pre-beta version of Windows 8 for developers. These downloads include prerelease software that may change without notice. The software is provided as is, and you bear the risk of using it. It may not be stable, operate correctly or work the way the final version of the software will. It should not be used in a production environment. The features and functionality in the prerelease software may not appear in the final version. Some product features and functionality may require advanced or additional hardware, or installation of other software.
Note: You can't uninstall the Windows 8 Developer Preview. To go back to your previous operating system, you must reinstall it from restore or installation media.

Windows 8 Developer Preview with developer tools English, 64-bit (x64)

DOWNLOAD (4.8 GB)
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All of the following come on a disk image file (.iso). See below for installation instructions.

• 64-bit Windows 8 Developer Preview
• Windows SDK for Metro style apps
• Microsoft Visual Studio 11 Express for Windows 8 Developer Preview
• Microsoft Expression Blend 5 Developer Preview
• 28 Metro style apps including the BUILD Conference app

Windows 8 Developer Preview English, 64-bit (x64)

DOWNLOAD (3.6 GB)
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Includes a disk image file (.iso) to install the Windows 8 Developer Preview and Metro style apps on a 64-bit PC.
Note: This download does not include developer tools. You must download the Windows 8 Developer Preview with developer tools 64-bit (x64) to build Metro style apps.

Windows 8 Developer Preview English, 32-bit (x86)

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Includes a disk image file (.iso) to install the Windows 8 Developer Preview and Metro style apps on a 32-bit PC.
Note: This download does not include developer tools. You must download the Windows 8 Developer Preview with developer tools 64-bit (x64) to build Metro style apps.

Live SDK

The Live SDK provides a set of controls and APIs that enable applications to integrate Single Sign On (SSO) with Windows Live ID and access information from SkyDrive, Hotmail and Windows Live Messenger. To learn more, sign up for our technical preview.

System Requirements

The Windows 8 Developer Preview works great on the same hardware that powers Windows Vista and Windows 7:

• 1 gigahertz (GHz) or faster 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor
• 1 gigabyte (GB) RAM (32-bit) or 2 GB RAM (64-bit)
• 16 GB available hard disk space (32-bit) or 20 GB (64-bit)
• DirectX 9 graphics device with WDDM 1.0 or higher driver
• Taking advantage of touch input requires a screen that supports multi-touch
• To run Metro style Apps, you need a screen resolution of 1024 X 768 or greater

Notes about installing the Windows 8 Developer Preview

A clean install is supported on all builds, but you can upgrade if you are installing a download without the developer tools. You will receive the full set of migration options when setup is launched in Windows. To dual-boot, you must first boot from media and choose an alternative partition.

Install on:	Windows 8 Developer Preview with developer tools	Windows 8 Developer Preview without developer tools (32-bit or 64-bit)
Windows 7 and Windows Vista	Clean install only	You can keep accounts, files, and settings
Windows XP	Clean install only	You can only keep accounts and files

How to install the Windows 8 Developer Preview from an ISO image

The Windows 8 Developer Preview is delivered as an .iso image that must be converted into installation media stored on a DVD or a USB flash drive. On Windows 7, the easiest way to convert this file is to use Windows Disc Image Burner. On Windows XP and Windows Vista, a third-party program is required to convert an .iso file into installable media—and DVD burning software often includes this capability.
Note: The .iso file that contains the developer tools requires a large capacity DVD called a DVD-9, as well as a DVD burner that can handle dual-layer (DL) DVDs. Most modern burners should be able to handle this format.
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