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New Member Information
Establishing Electric Service
New Service
To establish new electric service with South River EMC, an individual may simply call the South River EMC Customer Service Department at 1-800-338-5530 and provide basic information ( i.e. purchase or rental contract, SSN, picture ID) or come into either of our two offices.
Headquarters Office |
District Operations Center |
17494 US 421 South |
6491 Ramsey St. |
Dunn, NC 28334 |
Fayetteville, NC 28311 |
Service Information
All required county inspections must be completed prior to connecting your permanent electric service. An electrical inspection is required for newly constructed homes or manufactured homes.
Since electricity is billed after it is used, a security deposit is required before connecting your service to ensure payments are made in a timely manner. The amount of the security deposit is based on the type of service and the member's utility credit history, which includes phone, water, and previous electric service.
The deposit for new construction is $375. For existing homes, the deposit amount is $300 or two times the 24 month average for the location, whichever is greater based on the available information. All commercial accounts are required to pay a non-refundable deposit. Deposits are the sum of the two highest electric bills over the previous 24 months that the facility was occupied and operational.
A credit check will be performed to determine deposit requirements for new South River EMC members. You have the option of declining the credit check, thus paying the deposit or securing the account by obtaining a cosigner/guarantor. Under the Fair Credit Reporting Act any prospective member applying for service is entitled to receive a free copy of their credit report if they have been declined credit.
Deposit requirements for current or previous South River EMC members are determined by reviewing prior or active South River EMC account information.
A $25 Administrative Service Charge will be charged to your first bill.
After hours and weekend connects are available, however, fees will apply; 24-hour customer service is just a phone call away at 1-800-338-5530.
Capital Credits
Rates and Capital Credit Refunds
Rates are set as near operating expenses as possible. Because South River Electric Membership Corporation. is a non-profit utility, all profits are allocated back to its member-owners annually in the form of capital credits. As a cooperative, South River EMC allocates year-end margins to members based upon their individual kilowatt-hour purchases for the year. These funds are then used by the cooperative for operating capital for 19 years before being returned to the member. Click here to learn more.
Public Safety Policy
I. Objective:
To establish procedures and conditions that safeguard the Cooperative's members and the general public from potentially dangerous electrical conditions.
II. Policy Content:
Cooperative members and the general public should never come into contact with electrical power lines. When potentially hazardous conditions are observed, members and the general public should alert the Cooperative to the condition.
III. Provisions:
A. The Cooperative, in the construction, operation and maintenance of its electrical system, will adhere to the provisions outlined in the most current edition of the National Electrical Safety Code (NSEC), unless specifically required by other authorities to do otherwise.
B. It is the responsibility of each employee, contractor, Cooperative member and general public member to report to the Cooperative all unsafe conditions that any such person observes in the Cooperative's electrical system. Any employee, contractor, Cooperative member, or member of the general public, upon finding a power line in an unsafe condition or a condition not in compliance with the NESC clearances should immediately notify the Cooperatives dispatcher concerning the unsafe condition. Cooperative employees and contractors should stand by to guard against hazardous conditions until they are relieved or until the defect is corrected. Cooperative members and members of the general public are not expected to stand by to guard against hazardous conditions but should notify, in addition to Cooperative personnel, law enforcement and emergency personnel respecting the unsafe condition.
C. Members of the Cooperative and the general public should always assume that a downed power line or a sagging power line, is unsafe. The Cooperative and law enforcement authorities should be notified when such a condition is observed. Contact with power lines, whether downed or not, can result in injury or death and must be avoided.
D. If a Cooperative member or member of the general public inadvertently comes into contact with a power line, the incident should be reported immediately to the Cooperative. If there are injuries, emergency medical personnel should be contacted immediately. FURTHER CONTACT WITH THE POWER LINE SHOULD BE STRICTLY AVOIDED, AND THE INCIDENT SHOULD BE REPORTED IMMEDIATELY TO THE COOPERATIVE. IF THE INCIDENT OCCURRED ON A PUBLIC RIGHT-OF-WAY, LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS SHOULD ALSO BE NOTIFIED.
E. All accidental contacts involving the Cooperative's electric lines, vehicles or property shall be properly and promptly investigated, with complete accident reports prepared, including photographs and sketches to substantiate written reports.
IV. Responsibility:
A. The Executive Vice President & CEO is responsible for the administration of this policy.
B. Copies of this policy are posted in the Cooperative's reception area. Copies of this policy have been forwarded to various public agencies within the Cooperative's service area. Copies of this policy are given to each new member upon application for service.
Service Rules and Regulations
#401- Reasons for Disconnection
Discovery of meter or load management tampering or diversion of current.
Use of power for unlawful, unauthorized reasons.
By order of public authority.
Discovery of an electrical condition determined by the the cooperative to be potentially dangerous or hazardous to life or property.
For repairs, emergency operations, unavoidable shortages or interruptions in the cooperative's supply source.
Introduction of foreign electricity on the premises without prior written consent.
#403- Re-connection of Service by the Cooperative
The conditions causing the disconnection are corrected.
Payment has been made for the cost of repair or replacement of the cooperative's meter or any other properties, if tampered with or otherwise damaged or destroyed.
Where service has been disconnected for non-payment of a bill, meter tampering, unauthorized or illegal use of power, the cooperative will have the right to refuse service to the same member or to any other applicant who is a member of the member's household until the infraction is corrected, credit is reestablished by the member and all charges have been paid.
The member has agreed to comply with reasonable requirements to protect the cooperative against further infractions.
A re-connection fee and/or any other service charges or deposits, as specified in the Schedule of Charges, have been paid.
#404- Termination of Service by Member
For termination of service, the member should give a minimum of one working day's notice prior to requested disconnection unless a written contract specifies otherwise.
Collection Policies
Electric bills are due upon receipt. In the event payment has not been received at the office within 25 days from the date of the bill, the account is considered delinquent.
Notice Is Hereby Given That:
The original bill mailed is the first notice of charges due.
A separate Final Notice will no longer be mailed on delinquent bills. Instead, the next bill will reflect that the past due balance is subject for disconnection if it is not paid by a given date. The following message will be shown at the top of the bill: **ATTENTION** Service subject to disconnection
If at the end of the additional seven days allowed on the final notice, payment has not been received, or an approved signed extension agreement made, service will be terminated without further contact. Service can be re-connected after the bill and all other charges have been paid.
No more than two arrangements can be made within a 12-month period
There can be no more than two returned checks within a 24-month period.
(For consumer convenience, a night deposit is located near the front door of each office.)
Service Fees
Our current service fees can be found here, along with the current deposit policy.
Statement of Nondiscrimination
This institution is an equal opportunity provider and employer.
If you wish to file a Civil Rights program complaint of discrimination, complete the USDA Program Discrimination Complaint Form, found online at http://www.ascr.usda.gov/complaint_filing_cust.html, or at any USDA office, or call (866) 632-9992 to request the form. You may also write a letter containing all of the information requested in the form. Send your completed complaint form or letter to us by mail at U.S. Department of Agriculture, Director, Office of Adjudication, 1400 Independence Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20250-9410, by fax (202) 690-7442 or email at email@example.com.
General Member Information
Annual Meeting
Carolina Country Magazine
Pay Stations
Special Needs
Please notify the cooperative in writing if there is someone on your household who is chronically ill or on an electrically operated Life Support System. In that case, you have the right to special handling on your account and are placed on a Priority Listing for restoration service during an outage.
Meter Reading and Cycle Billing
Cooperative personnel read all meters and must have access to all cooperative- owned meters as stated in the Bylaws of South River EMC Article 1, Section 1.08.
View Our Residential Service Rate.
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Safety Tips
Check out the indoor and outdoor safety tips located on our Web site.
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9.1 Precipitation on surface water
Supporting information
The volume reported (6,783 ML) represents the total precipitation falling onto surface water storages and weirs in the Adelaide region during the 2012–13 year.
Precipitation, itemised by each surface water storage and weir, is provided in the following table.
Surface water storage |
Volume (ML) |
Barossa Reservoir1 |
271 |
Barossa Weir2 |
14 |
Clarendon Weir3 |
41 |
Gorge Weir4 |
14 |
Gumeracha Weir5 |
110 |
Happy Valley Reservoir6 |
787 |
Hope Valley Reservoir7 |
188 |
Kangaroo Creek Reservoir8 |
260 |
Little Para Reservoir9 |
305 |
Millbrook Reservoir10 |
698 |
Mount Bold Reservoir11 |
953 |
Myponga Reservoir12 |
1,596 |
Onkaparinga Summit Reservoir13 |
63 |
South Para Reservoir14 |
1,055 |
Warren Reservoir15 |
428 |
Total |
6,783 |
6-12, 14-15 Precipitation calculation used dynamic surface area.
1-5, 13 Precipitation calculation used static surface area.
Quantification approach
Data source
National Climate Centre daily climate grids (rainfall), Australian Hydrological Geospatial Fabric (AHGF) waterbody feature class, Australian Water Resources Information System (AWRIS)—Water storages.
Provided by
Monthly precipitation data were produced by the Bureau of Meteorology. These were based on daily data from approximately 6,500 rain gauge stations and interpolated to a 0.05 degree (approximately 5 km) national grid (Jones et al. 2007).
Precipitation at each waterbody was estimated from the proportionally weighted average of grid-point cells that intersected each storage or weir (water feature). The precipitation volume was then estimated using the surface area of each waterbody. Surface area varied dynamically with changing storage level for storages, where the relationship between storage level and surface area has been derived. The surface area of storages was either calculated dynamically or was a static value produced from the AHGF (refer to previous table). The surface area of all weirs was a static value produced from the AHGF.
Assumptions, limitations, caveats and approximations
- The precipitation estimates were subject to approximations associated with interpolating observation point data to a national grid detailed in Jones et al. (2007).
- The dynamic storage surface areas calculated from the levels and capacity tables represent a monthly average and therefore will not capture changes that occur on a shorter temporal scale.
- The use of the static default AHGF surface area is an approximation only. It represents the water features at capacity and therefore likely results in an overestimation of precipitation on the water features.
- Precipitation was only estimated for the surface water storages and weirs (for which data were available) within the Adelaide region and does not include river channels.
Uncertainty information
The uncertainty estimate was not quantified.


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Parity considerations in Andrews–Gordon identities
- Authors
- Journal
- European Journal of Combinatorics 0195-6698
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Publication Date
- Volume
- 31
- Issue
- 3
- Identifiers
- DOI: 10.1016/j.ejc.2009.06.002
- Disciplines
Abstract In 1974, Andrews discovered the generating function for the partitions of n considered in a theorem due to Gordon. In a more recent paper, he reconsidered this generating function and gave refinements where additional restrictions involving parities are imposed. A combinatorial construction for the partitions enumerated by the mentioned generating function is given. Some of the Andrews' refinements are proven combinatorially, and a conjecture of his is settled.


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In general, solutions to Fermi's paradox come down to:
- Life is difficult to start and to evolve to an intelligent and technologically advanced stage and we're the only one in the galaxy.
- Advanced civilizations destroy themselves on short timescales.
As the revised Drake equation solution (N<<1) shows, it seems that hopefuly, the first solution is the answer.Here is a list of the various assumptions along with notes pointing to related problems and contradictions.
They are here unobserved
They were here and they left material evidence:
UFO's, alien artifacts, ancient astronauts. Problem: evidence for aliens is non-existent.
Zoo scenario:
The aliens are here and they are keeping us in a well designed zoo (cut off from all contact) or there is an treaty preventing contact with young races. Problem: this scenario can't be tested. Only one ET could break the embargo.
They are us:
Humans are the descendents of previous alien civilizations. Problem: where are the original aliens? where are all the other alien civilizations?
They exist but…
They didn't have enough time to reach us:
The speed of light slows communications and makes space travel too long. Extraterrestrial's messages may not have reached us yet. Problem: the galaxy exist for billions of years, even if one ET civilization formed a few million years before us, the galaxy would be already filled with Bracewell-Von Neumann probes.
They are sending signals, but we do not know how to listen:
The galaxy is filled with killer robots looking for signals. ET is keeping low. Problem: no evidence of berserkers coming after us.
They have no desire to communicate:
ET has no interest in communicating with lesser intelligences. Problem: with millions of possible civilizations, some of the extraterrestrial ones would be interested in our species.
Civilizations only have a limited lifetime, they are all dead.
Dangerous particle physics
Nanobots -> the gray goo problem
They developed different mathematics:
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They do not exist because…
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Monty Hall Problem
The Monty Hall problem is a famous, seemingly paradoxical problem in conditional probability and reasoning using Bayes' theorem. Information affects your decision that at first glance seems as though it shouldn't.
In the problem, you are on a game show, being asked to choose between three doors. Behind each door, there is either a car or a goat. You choose a door. The host, Monty Hall, picks one of the other doors, which he knows has a goat behind it, and opens it, showing you the goat. (You know, by the rules of the game, that Monty will always reveal a goat.) Monty then asks whether you would like to switch your choice of door to the other remaining door. Assuming you prefer having a car more than having a goat, do you choose to switch or not to switch?
The solution is that switching will let you win twice as often as sticking with the original choice, a result that seems conterintuitive to many. The Monty Hall problem famously embarrassed a large number of mathematicians with doctorate degrees when they attempted to "correct" Marilyn von Savant's solution in a column in Parade Magazine. [1]
Possible Outcomes
One way to see the solution is to explicitly list out all the possible outcomes, and count how often you get the car if you stay versus switch. Without loss of generality, suppose your selection was door \(1\). Then the possible outcomes can be seen in this table:
In two out of three cases, you win the car by changing your selection after one of the doors is revealed. This is because there is a greater probability that you choose a door with a goat behind it in the first go, and then Monty is guaranteed to reveal that one of the other doors has a goat behind it. Hence, by changing your option, you double your probability of winning.
Another way of seeing the same set of options is by drawing it out as a decision tree, as in the following image:
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Using Bayes Theorem
There are two aspects of the Monty Hall problem that many struggle to agree with. First, why aren't the odds 50-50 after the host opens the door? Why is it that switching doors has a 2 in 3 chance of winning when sticking with the first pick only has a 1 in 3 chance? Secondly, why is it the case that if Monty opened a door truly randomly and happened to show a goat, then the odds of staying vs. switching doors are now 50-50? Bayes' theorem can answer these questions.
Bayes' theorem is a formula that describes how to update the probability that a hypothesis is correct, given evidence. In this case, it's the probability that our initially picked door is the one with the car behind it (that staying is right) given that Monty has opened a door showing a goat behind it: that Monty has shown us that one of the choices we didn't pick was the wrong choice. Let \(H\) be the hypothesis "door 1 has a car behind it," and \(E\) be the evidence that Monty has revealed the door with a goat behind it. Then the problem can be restated as calculating \(P(H \mid E)\), the conditional probability of \(H\) given \(E\).
Since every door either has a car or a goat behind it, the hypothesis "\(\text{not} H\)" is the same as "door 1 has a goat behind it."
In this case, Bayes' theorem states that \[P(H \mid E) = \frac{P(E \mid H)} {P(E)} P(H) = \frac{ P(E\mid H) \times P(H)} {P(E\mid H) \times P(H) + P(E\mid \text{not} H) \times P(\text{not} H)}. \]
The problem as stated says that Monty Hall deliberately shows you a door that doesn't have a goat behind it.
Breaking down each of the components of this equation:
- \( P(H) \) is the prior probability that door 1 has a car behind it, without knowing about the door that Monty reveals. This is \(\frac{1}{3}\).
- \( P(\text{not} H) \) is the probability we did not pick the car with the door behind it. Since the door either has the car behind it or not, \(P(\text{not} H) = 1 - P(H) = \frac{2}{3}\).
- \( P(E \mid H) \) is the probability that Monty shows a door with a goat behind it, given that there is a car behind door 1. Since Monty always shows a door with a goat, this is equal to \(1\).
- \( P(E\mid \text{not} H) \) is the probability that Monty shows the goat, given that there is a goat behind door 1. Again, since Monty always shows a door with a goat, this is equals to \(1\).
Combining all of this information gives \[ P(H \mid E) = \frac {1 \times 1/3} {1 \times 1/3 + 1\times 2/3} = \frac {1/3}{1} = \frac{1}{3}. \]
The probability that the car is behind door 1 is completely unchanged by the evidence. However, since the car can only either be behind door 1 or behind the door Monty didn't reveal, the probability it is behind the door that is not revealed is \(\frac{2}{3}\). Therefore, switching is twice as likely to get you the car as staying.
Variant: The Random Monty Hall Problem
This result depends crucially on the fact that Monty was always guaranteed to open a door with a goat behind it, regardless of what door you picked initially. That is, \(P(E \mid H) = P(E \mid \text{not}H)\). Now consider what would happen if Monty randomly opened a door we did not pick and it contained a goat. What is the probability that our first pick is correct, regardless of which specific door we picked?
In this case, \( P(E \mid H) \) the probability that Monty will show us a door with a goat behind it given that our first pick was correct and does have a car behind it, is still \(1\). If you picked the door with the car, the two other doors are guaranteed to have a goat.
But \( P(E \mid \text{not} H) \) changes. This represents the probability that Monty picks a door with a goat behind it given that your original choice of door had a goat behind it. In this case, Monty chooses randomly between one door that has a goat behind it and one door that doesn't have a goat behind it. Therefore, the probability that he picks a door with a goat is \(P(E \mid \text{not} H) = \frac{1}{2}\).
Laying this out, we get: \[ P(H \mid E) = \frac{ P(E\mid H) \times P(H)} {P(E \mid H) \times P(H) + P(E \mid \text{not} H) \times P(\text{not} H)} = \frac{1\times 1/3} {1\times 1/3 + ½\times 2/3} = \frac{1/3} {2/3} = 1/2. \] There is a 1/2, or 50% chance of our first pick being correct when Monty randomly opens a door and it happens to have a goat behind it. The naive reasoning that fooled so many mathematicians works in this case.
Example Problems
Suppose you're a contestant on a game show and the host shows you 5 curtains. The host informs you that behind 3 of the curtains lie lumps of coal, but behind the other 2 curtains lie separate halves of the same $10,000 bill. He then asks you to choose 2 curtains; if these 2 curtains are the ones with the 2 bill halves behind them then you win the $10,000, otherwise you go home with nothing.
After you choose your 2 curtains, the host opens one of the remaining 3 curtains that he knows has just a lump of coal behind it. He then gives you the following options:
(0) stick with the curtains you initially chose,
(1) swap either one of your curtains for one of the remaining curtains, or
(2) swap both of your curtains for the remaining 2 curtains.
Let \(p(k), k = 0, 1, 2\), be the respective probabilities of winning the money in scenarios \((k)\) as outlined above. Then \[p(2) - p(0) - p(1) = \dfrac{a}{b},\] where \(a\) and \(b\) are coprime positive integers. Find \(a + b\).
You find yourself on a game show and there are 10 doors. Behind nine of them are assorted random farm animals including a variety of pigs, goats and geese, but behind one is a brand new shiny gold car made of real gold!
The game proceeds as follows:
You pick a door.
The game show host then opens a door you didn't choose that he knows has only farm animals behind it.
You are then given the option to switch to a different unopened door, after which he opens another door with farm animals behind it.
This process continues until there are only two doors left, one being your current choice. (Every time the host opens a door you are given another option to switch or stick with the one you currently have selected.)
If you play optimally, your chances of winning the car are of the form \( \dfrac ab\), where \(a\) and \(b\) are coprime positive integers. Find \(a+b\).
Details and Assumptions:
You know ahead of time that this process will continue until you are down to only two doors.
Assume that you prefer the car over any of the farm animals!
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Check out my other problems.
You find yourself on a game show.
The host presents you with four doors.
Behind three doors are an assortment of gummy bears. The fourth door has a pure gold car behind it!
You pick a door, then the host reveals a door behind which he knows is only a couple of red gummy bears.
Then you are given the choice to stick with your first choice or change to one of the other two unopened doors.
If the probability that you will win the car if you switch is \( \dfrac ab\), where \(a\) and \(b\) are coprime positive integers, what is \(a+b\)?
More probability questions:
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On a game show, there is a popular game that is always carried out in the same way. A contestant is given the choice of three doors: Behind one door is a car; behind the others, goats. The contestant picks a door, say number 1, and the host, who knows what's behind the doors, always opens another door, say number 3, to reveal a goat. Then, the contestant is given the option to change his original door selection to the other unopened door, in this case door number 2.
A long term fan of the game show has noticed a hint or "tell" in the staging or presentation by the game show host in this game.This fan can consistently guess the door with the car behind 50% of the time, before any door selection is made.
This fan was selected as a contestant for the game. Using the best possible strategy what is the probability (as a percentage) that this fan will end up with the car prize?
Question: Can you devise your own variations of Monty Hall problem?
[1] Crockett, Zachary. The Time Everyone 'Corrected' the World's Smartest Woman. Priceonomics. 19 Feb 2015. Retrieved from http://priceonomics.com/the-time-everyone-corrected-the-worlds-smartest/ on 29 Feb 2016.


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They have blocked the account without any reason for 10 days and we just can't trust them anymore. With the new wallet solution we of course won't have that kind of problems anymore.
During January 2017 we will process as many old payment requests of our affiliates as possible. Many of you will receive commissions and we really appreciate your patience with us!
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We don't talk that often about our main business – which is advertising products. That's the part where we make the big turnover and profits. Currently we are running very successful campaigns in 4 different markets that are pulling a lot of resources for further campaigns. At the moment there are more than 28 million USD in active campaigns and the volume is growing very fast because we were able to hire an additional team of professional media buyers in the Asian market.
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Numbers of December 2016
December was a really great month for the GMA community. More than 36.000 new members from more then 70 countries joined our network. In total there were more than 825.000 Tokens sold to our customers who received about 160.000.000 clicks to their websites and for their campaigns.
GetMyAds grew from 200.000 USD turnover in 2015 to a 170.000.000,00 USD company by the end of 2016. With this numbers, GetMyAds is one oft he fastest growing StartUp Companies of the year worldwide. We really appreciate your work with GMA and hope to have a great future together in 2017.
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Vilas Ghuge (India) had a kidney stone removed from his left kidney on 18 February 2004 by Dr. Hemendra Shah (India) at R. G. Stone Urological Research Institute, Mumbai, India, which measured at its widest point 13 cm (5.11 in).
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Welcome to my High Frequency Measurements Web
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Boulder City, NV is a small, quiet town that once was home to the workers that built Hoover Dam. There is plenty to see within a few blocks of the seminar venue shown in the picture below. It is located about 6 miles from Hoover Dam and about 22 miles from Las Vegas. Boulder City is the opposite of Las Vegas, but the glamor of Las Vegas is not too far away if you want to go there. I often say that being in Boulder City is like living in the 1950s but with very high speed Internet. Follow the links below for more information. s For more information on Boulder City, NV click here For more information on the Boulder City Dam Hotel and Museum, the site of the seminar click here Click here, to see descriptions and registration information on my one hour webinars than can solve difficult design problems quickly. Touching on topics like signal integrity, EMC, ESD, and general analog and digital design, these webinars are a quick way to get your design working. There are public presentations most weeks as well as private presentations on demand with a new simplified, lower cost price structure. New webinars are added periodically. Next up, time to be set soon: Electrical Resonances in Physical Structures (A novel approach to solving analog and digital design problems with application to SI, EMC, and ESD issues) New material added that leads to a surprising design rule for PCBs of four or more layers! If you have ever encountered EMC, ESD, or Signal Integrity problems, there are innovative techniques in this webinar that can shorten debug times significantly.
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Technical Information and Published Papers
- 50 MHz Oscillator (~260K)
- (BOM included)
- DC to 1GHZ Oscilloscope Probe Plans (~270K)
- (With theory of operation and zoom close-ups)
- Computer Simulation of ESD and Lightning Events (~1.2MB) (recent addition!)
- (1986 EOS/ESD Symposium Paper)
- A New Type of Furniture ESD and Its Implications (~750K)
- (1993 EOS/ESD Symposium Paper)
- Balanced Probe Extends High-Frequency Measurements (~3.5MB)
- (1994 IEEE Circuits & Devices Magazine article)
- EMC Performance Comparison of Shielded and Unshielded Data Transmission Systems (~640K)
- (EMC'94 Roma Symposium paper)
- An Investigation into the Performance of the IEC 1000-4-4 Capacitive Clamp (~150K)
- (1996 EOS/ESD Symposium paper)
- A New Method for Measuring the Shielding Effectiveness of Interconnections in Shielding Technologies: Application to Cellular Phone Gaskets for the Housing (~740K)
- (1996 IEEE EMC Symposim paper)
- A Method for Troubleshooting Noise Internal to an IC (~140K)
- (1997 IEEE EMC Symposium paper)
- Current Probes, More Useful Than You Think (~170K)
- (1998 IEEE EMC Symposium paper)
- Damage to Magnetic Recording Heads due to Electromagnetic Interference (~420K)
- (1998 IEEE EMC Symposium paper)
- Signal and Noise Measurement Techniques Using Magnetic Field Probes (~600K)
- (1999 IEEE EMC Symposium paper)
- Unusual Forms of ESD and Their Effects (~1.5MB)
- (1999 EOS/ESD Symposium paper)
- Investigate System-Level ESD Problems
- Cover story for the November issue of Test and Measurement World Magazine
- ESD Immunity in System Designs, System Field Experiences and Effects of PWB Layout (~950K)
- (2000 EOS/ESD Symposium paper)
- The EMI/ESD Environment of Large Server Installations
- (2001 EOS/ESD Symposium paper) (~510K)
- A Method of Accurately Measuring Shielding Efffectiveness of Materials in Electronic Products
- (June 2002 white paper written for Shielding for Electronics, Sunnyvale, CA) (~373K)
- Sources of Impulsive EMI in Large Server Farms
- (2002 EOS/ESD Symposium paper) (~770K)
- Electromagnetic Interference (EMI) Inside a Hard Disk Drive Due to External ESD
- (2002 EOS/ESD Symposium paper) (~630K)
- Interpreting Radiated Emission Specifications (~44K)
- (2003 short white paper)
- Determining the Effects of Package Parasitics on SI and EMC Performance (~750K)
- (2007 IMAPS Symposium paper)
- Noise Injection for Design Analysis and Debugging (~1.4MB)
- (2009 DesignCon paper)
- Shielded vs. Unshielded Magnetic Loops for EMI/ESD Design and Troubleshooting
- by Doug Smith and Arturo Mediano as published in InCompliance Magazine, August 2014
- An Unusual Source of Multiple ESD Events in Electronic Equipment
- (2015 Institute of Physics Electrostatics Symposium paper)
- Techniques for Investigating the Effects of ESD on Electronic Equipment
- (2015 Institute of Physics Electrostatics Symposium paper)
Technical Tidbits (archived, current article is at bottom of this page)
- June 1999: The Dual Current Probe Problem
- July 1999: The Shorted Scope Probe Problem
- August 1999: The Paperclip Magnetic Probe
- September 1999: Measuring Voltages Using Current Probes
- October 1999: The Tapered Wall Cavity
- November 1999: Transient Suppression Plane
- December 1999: Can Ferrite Cores Increase Emissions?
- January 2000: Displaying Measurement Error
- February 2000, Measuring Capacitor Self-inductance and ESR
- March 2000, Improved Construction Technique for a 50 Ohm Termination
- April 2000, Paper Clips and the Speed of Light
- May 2000, Measuring Inductor Performance
- June 2000, 180 Degree Combiners
- June 2000 supplement, Ground Lead, Friend or Foe?
- July 2000, A Resistive Current Probe
- August 2000, Measuring Shielding Effectiveness of Materials
- September 2000, Copper Foil Tape, Anyone?
- October 2000, A Specialized Component
- November 2000, Measuring the Effects of High Frequency Noise Currents in Equipment
- December 2000, An Easy to Build Shielded Magnetic Loop Probe
- January 2001, It's Just a Wire, Isn't It?
- February 2001, Switching Power Supplies - Effects on Circuits, Magnetic Fields
- March 2001, Switching Power Supplies - Common Mode Conducted Noise on Outputs
- April 2001, Measurement Error Caused by Probe Input Impedance
- May 2001, Hidden Threats to Electronic Equipment
- June 2001, A Static Field Powered EMI Source
- July 2001, A Simple Shielding Effectiveness Measurement
- August 2001, Differential Measurement of Cable EMI Currents
- September 2001, Improving FET Probe Immunity to Unwanted Noise Pickup
- October 2001, The Elusive Glitch
- November 2001, The Elusive Glitch - Part 2
- December 2001, The Elusive Glitch - Part 3, Measurement of Impulsive Fields
- January 2002, Cable Effects Part 1: Cable Discharge Events
- February 2002, Cable Effects Part 2: Inductive Pickup by Cables in a System
- March 2002, Cable Effects Part 3: Capacitive Pickup by Cables in a System
- April 2002, Printed Wiring Board Coupling to a Nearby Metal Plane
- May 2002, Printed Wiring Board Coupling to a Nearby Metal Plane, Part 2: ESD Immunity
- June 2002, Using Mutual Inductance to Measure Voltage Drop in Circuits
- July 2002, Inexpensive, but Useful Test Equipment
- August 2002, Probe Input Impedance Revisited - Active Probes
- September 2002, Kirchoff and Faraday Voltage Measurements - Don't Confuse Them
- October 2002, Printed Wiring Board Coupling to a Nearby Metal Plane, Part 3: System Measurements
- November 2002, Measuring Noise Voltage Across Seams in Enclosures
- December 2002, Crossing Ground Plane Breaks, A Source of Crosstalk
- January 2003, Crossing Ground Plane Breaks - Part 2, Tracing Current Paths
- February 2003, Crossing Ground Plane Breaks - Part 3, Immunity to Radiated EMI
- March 2003, Minimizing Errors in Oscilloscope Measurements
- April 2003, Measurement and Interpretation of High Frequency Chip Noise
- May 2003, Signal Paths Passing Through Ground and Power Planes, Effects on Immunity
- June 2003, A Simple Horn Antenna for Emissions Troubleshooting
- July 2003, Measuring E-Field Coupled IC Chip Noise
- August 2003, Sin(x)/x, The Forgotten Setting - Part One
- September 2003, Sin(x)/x, The Forgotten Setting - Part Two, An EMI Example
- October 2003, Heisenberg and Signal Measurements (A variation on the Uncertainty Principle)
- November 2003, Heisenberg and Signal Measurements - Part 2, The Frequency Domain
- December 2003, Troubleshooting Noise from Pulse Width Modulation Controlled 3 Phase Motors and Controls
- January 2004, Determining the Effects of Probing on Signals - Tuned Probe Simulators
- February 2004, Measuring Printed Circuit Board Characteristic Impedance Without a TDR (when you need a close answer fast!) by Charles Grasso
- March 2004, Coupling Effects Between Equipment Enclosures (interactions with grounding conductors)
- April 2004, Paper Clips, They're Not Just For Emissions Anymore!
- May 2004, A Simple Spark Gap EMI Source
- June 2004, Misapplication of Test Standards
- July 2004, Induced Voltages via Electric and Magnetic Fields - ESD Immunity
- August 2004, Wi-Fi (Wireless LAN) Antenna Response to EMI from Small Metal ESD
- September 2004, Mobile Phone Response to EMI from Small Metal ESD
- October 2004, Active Probe Design Philosophy
- November 2004, Crosstalk Between Oscilloscope Channels and Other Errors
- December 2004, Locating ESD and Other Impulsive Events
- January 2005, Crossing Ground Plane Breaks - Part 4, Risetime Effects on Signals
- February 2005, Crossing Ground Plane Breaks - Part 5, Common Mode Currents and Emissions
- March 2005, Shielded Cables: Measurement of Shield Characteristics
- April 2005, Inductive and Capacitive Coupling - Induced Current Characteristics
- May 2005, Verifying Current Measurements - Revisited
- June 2005, Analysis of the IEC 61000-4-4 Capacitive Clamp Using Current Measurements
- July 2005, Radiated Interference to High Frequency Signal Measurements from the Signal Source
- August 2005, Off-spec Use of Protection Components
- September 2005, Multiple Turn and Single-turn Ferrite Chokes Compared
- October 2005, Controlling Variables in High Frequency Tests and Measurements - an ESD Example
- November 2005, Coupling Signals and Noise into Circuits Using Magnetic Loops - A Troubleshooting Technique
- December 2005, Applying Copper Foil Tape to a Metal Surface
- January 2006, A Small Change Can Have a Large Effect
- February 2006, Construction of a Coaxial Antenna for Troubleshooting
- March 2006, Predicting Cable Emissions from Common Mode Current
- April 2006, Routing Signals Between PWB Layers - Part One, An ESD Example
- May 2006, Routing signals Between PWB Layers - Part Two, An Emissions Example
- June 2006, Measuring Structural Resonances
- July 2006, A Small Change Can Have a Large Effect - Part Two
- August 2006, A Measurement Technique for Locating EMI "Hot" Areas on Boards or Systems
- September 2006, A Method for Improving the Repeatability of Air Discharges ad 8 kV and Higher
(Filtering Contact Discharges - Part 1, Low Pass filtering)- October 2006, Filtering Contact Discharges - Part 2, High Pass Filtering
- November 2006, Measuring Signals in the Presence of Severe EMI - Part 1, How Not to Do It
(differential measurement by channel subtraction)- December 2006, Measuring Signals in the Presence of Severe EMI - Part 2, A Differential Solution
- January 2007, Measuring Signals in the Presence of Severe EMI - Part 3, Single Ended and Differential Probes
- February 2007, Coupled Bonding Conductors (from Lightning Protection to Noise Reduction)
- March 2007, Isolating Board and Chassis Grounds - A Potential Problem (An ESD Example)
- April 2007, Rubber Band Theory of Circuit Design (explaining the effects of signal return paths with rubber bands)
- May 2007, Placement of Parallel Capacitors on a Printed Wiring Board (for troubleshooting or a quick fix)
- June 2007, Common Circuit Design Flaws That Cause Operational Problems (problems fixed long ago are still showing up in designs)
- July 2007, Mobile Phone Induced Circuit Failure
- August 2007, Mobile Phone Induced EMI
- September 2007, Electronic Fluorescent Light Induced EMI
- October 2007, Using Noise Injection for Troubleshooting Circuits
- November 2007, Measuring Structural Resonances in the Time Domain - Part 1
- December 2007, Using Current Probes to Inject Pulses for Troubleshooting
(Current Probes, More Useful Than You Think - Part 2)- January 2008, Using Current Probes to Measure Cable Resonance
(Current Probes, More Useful Than You Think - Part 3)- February 2008, Using Resonant Frequency Measurements to Extract Circuit Parameters
(Calculating the Capacitance of a BNC Barrel Adapter)- March 2008, Measuring and Interpreting the Relative Phase of Common Mode Currents
(an EMC emissions troubleshooting technique)- April 2008, Measuring Structural Resonances - Part 2, Printed Wiring Board Traces
(A Simple Technique for Determining the Resonant Frequencies of a PWB Trace)- May 2008, The Square Shielded Loop - Part 1
(Construction details)- June 2008, The Square Shielded Loop - Part 2, Parasitic Coupling
(Electric Field Shielding of Magnetic Loops is Not Always Effective!)- July 2008, The Square Shielded Loop - Part 3, Parasitic Coupling Between Unshielded Wire Loops
- August 2008, The Square Shielded Loop - Part 4, Coupling to a PCB
(From Shielded and Unshielded Magnetic Loops)- September 2008, The Square Shielded Loop - Part 5, Measurements in the Time Domain
(From Shielded and Unshielded Magnetic Loops)- October 2008, Minimizing ESD Events Involving Electronic Equipment
(Using Static Dissipative Materials in Equipment Design- November 2008, Switching Power Supply Noise - Magnetic Fields Revisited
- December 2008, Inexpensive Protective Caps for SMA and BNC Connectors
(also known as vacuum port caps for automobile engines)- January 2009, Injection of ESD Current into Cables Using Capacitance
(A Useful ESD Troubleshooting Tool)- February 2009, PCB Protection can be Compromised by Ground Structure
(Shunting noise currents to a separate ground can cause problems)- March 2009, Using Current Probes to Inject Pulses for Troubleshooting - Part 2
(Current Probes, More Useful Than You Think - Part 3)- April 2009, Construction of a Series 50 Ohm Termination
- May 2009, Using a Series 50 Ohm Termination With a High Voltage Transient Generator
(A Useful Accessory for the TG-EFT Generator)- June 2009. Effect of High Voltage Pulses on Resistors - ESD and EFT
- July 2009, Can a Near Field Measurement Predict Far Field Emissions?
(For one important case, the answer is yes!)- August 2009, The Square Shielded Loop - Part 6, Measurements in the Time Domain Using a Comb Generator
(An unusual use for a comb generator)- September 2009, Using a Two AA Cell USB Charger to Power a Comb Generator
(A Handy Power Source for Any USB Powered Device)- October 2009, Using a Comb Generator to Demonstrate Impairment of the Shielding Effectiveness of a Coaxial Cable
(A Useful Demonstration Technique When a Tracking Generator is not Available)- November 2009, Using a Comb Generator With a Pair of Current Probes to Measure Cable Resonance
(A Useful Technique When a Tracking Generator is not Available)- December 2009, Analysis of the IEEE Std 802.3™-2002 Cable Clamp
(It May Not Be a Good Idea To Use It For 10 Gigabit Ethernet Testing!)- January 2010, Using Current Probes to Inject Pulses for Troubleshooting (Board Resonances) - Part 3
(Current Probes, More Useful Than You Think - Part 4)- February 2010, Damping Board Resonances Using Discrete Resistors
- March 2010, Damping Board Resonances Using Discrete Resistors - Part 2
(Frequency Domain Measurements)- April 2010, Identifying Switching Power Supply Noise in Systems
(Frequency Domain Measurements)- May 2010, A Travel Tip for Engineers and Technicians
- June 2010, Routing Signals Between PCB Layers - Part Three, Interplane Voltage
(Frequency Domain Measurement)- July 2010, Routing Signals Between PCB Layers - Part Four, Interplane Voltage
(Time Domain Measurement)- August 2010, Construction of a Coaxial Antenna for Troubleshooting - Part 2, Practical Implementation
- September 2010, In ESD Testing, Necessity is the Mother of Invention
(Powering an ESD Simulator From AA Batteries)- October 2010, Measurement and Evaluation of SATA Cables
- Novermber 2010, Comparison of Current Waveforms from 150 Ohm and 330 Ohm Networks in an IEC 61000-4-2 Simulator
- December 2010, Comparing "IEC 61000-4-2 Compliant" ESD Simulators
- January 2011, Using Averaging to Cleanup Scope Waveforms
- February 2011, Using High Frequency Current Measurements to Find Secondary ESD in Equipment
- March 2011, Using High Frequency Measurement of ESD Current to Find Problems with an ESD Simulator
- April 2011, Variability of Air Discharge ESD Current Waveforms
(Using high frequency measurements to explain one of many reasons why ESD testing seems to be unrepeatable)- May 2011, Constructing a Shield for an IC Package to Troubleshoot Circuit Problems
(Especially for ESD and EMC Problems)- June 2011, Useful Toolkit for Troubleshooting and Characterizing Circuits
- July 2011, Measuring ESD Stress on a PCB
(When Conventional Measurements Don't Work)- August 2011, Power Over Ethernet Injectors Can Affect Ethernet Radiated Emissions
(High Frequency Measurement of 1000Base-T Ethernet Common Mode Currents)- September 2011, PCB-Chassis Ground Connections - Avoiding Pitfalls Due to Unintended System Resonances
- October 2011, Electromagnetic Interference (EMI) Effects on Measurement Equipment
(ESD Effects on Oscilloscopes)- November 2011, Construction of a Tool for Removing Static Charges During ESD Testing
(A New Use for a Ballpoint Pen)- December 2011, Measuring the Resonant Frequencies of Heat Sink Tines
(Your heat sink can be the source of high frequency EMC emissions!)- January 2012, Measuring Common Mode Currents to Troubleshoot EMC Problems
- February 2012, The Melted BNC Adapter
- March 2012, Air Discharge ESD Current Waveforms Revisited
(High frequency ESD current measurements on system cables)- April 2012, Single Point Grounding - Not Achievable at High Frequencies
(greater than a few MHz)- May-June 2012, Destroying Electronic Components from Across the Room With ESD
(Today's sensitive components are really sensitive!)- July 2012, Measuring Breakdown Voltage With an ESD Simulator
(Special simulator characteristics are needed)- August 2012, Novel Equivalent Circuit for Zin of an Arbitrarily Terminated Transmission Line
(Written by Timothy J. Maloney)- September 2012, Measuring Breakdown Voltage and Charging Objects With an ESD Simulator - Part 2
(A method that works with most ESD simulators)- October/November 2012, A Collection of Published Papers and Technical Tidbits on ESD Design and Troubleshooting
- December 2012, A Collection of Published Papers and Technical Tidbits on EMC Design and Troubleshooting
- February 2013, LVDS, Be Careful of EMI Induced Signal Corruption
- April 2013, Human Metal vs. Human Body ESD
(Metal in a Human Hand significantly increases ESD intensity)- June 2013, A Collection of Measurements of ESD Types
(With a short paper by Geoff Weil)- July 2013, Human Metal ESD Characteristics, Size of Metal Object
(Intensity of ESD from a metal object in a human hand is not significantly affected by size of the metal object)- September 2013, Parasitic Resonance in an ~10 MHz RFID Antenna - Measurement and Characterization
- November 2013, Analog Designer's Notebook Part 1 - Improving Op Amp RF Immunity
- January 2014, Analog Designer's Notebook Part 2 - The Importance of Good Power Bypassing
- March-April 2014, Troubleshooting Radiated and Conducted Immunity Problems in the Development Lab
- June 2014, Radiated Emissions Can be Strongly Affected by Setup, A Problem for Testing Standards
(An Example Using a Class D Stereo Audio Amplifier)- August 2014, Radiated Emissions can be Strongly Affected by Driving Signals, A Problem for Emissions Testing
(An Example using a Class D Stereo Audio Amplifier)- September 2014, Human Metal Model ESD Compared to Direct Skin Discharge (Human Body Model) ESD
(Revisited in Video Format)- October 2014, Direct RF Injection for Circuit Debugging
(A Video Presentation)- December 2014, EMC and Other Test Lab Errors
- June 2015, ESD and EFT Internally Regenerated by Power Supplies
- October 2015, Techniques for Investigating the Effects of ESD on Electronic Equipment
Talks and Presentations
The links listed here are Adobe Acrobat (pdf) files containing the visuals of recent talks and presentations I have given to various groups. You will need Acrobat Reader V4.0 or better to read the files as well as a password. If you have attended one of these presentations, then you already have the password, if not and you would like to view the file, click here to request the password. Keep in mind that the visuals only cover about 50% or less of my presentations. Live demonstrations and discussion of past experiences make up most of these talks.
- Unusual Forms of ESD and Effects on Electronic Equipment (~2.3MB)
- Printed Wiring Board Immunity to ESD(~2.2MB)
- Overview of High Frequency Measurement Techniques(~600K)
- Current Measurements (~200K)
- Electrical Fast Transient Testing - Principles, Test Tips, and Unusual Uses for EFT Generators (~1.1MB)
- Visuals for 1 GHz probe building sessions held at various IEEE EMC Society Chapters (~320K)
Links to Interesting Sites and Events
- Hardware links
- Rocky Mountain EMC Society Probe Talk (~1.1 MB)
- Service Links
- Henry Ott Consultants
- RMV Technology Group (ESD control and materials experts)
- IEEE EMC Society
- EMC Design Advisory Service
- ESD Control Links
Information About My Seminars
Information About Myself
- Pictures of Veldhoven, Netherlands, site of the IEC SC77B meetings, October 1999(~1 MB)
- Pictures of Zug, Switzerland, site of the IEC TC77B meetings, April 2000 (~550K)
- Pictures of Los Gatos, CA, site of High Frequency Measurement/Design Seminar in California (~850K)
- Pictures of the 2000 EOS/ESD Symposium in Anaheim, California, USA (~600K)
- Pictures of Cambridge, MA, USA, site of the IEC TC77B meetings, October 2000 (~400K)
- Pictures of London and Oxford, June 2001 (~462K)
- Pictures of Montreal and the 2001 IEEE EMC Symposium (~525K)
- Pictures of Charlotte, NC and the 2002 EOS/ESD Symposium (~750K)
- Pictures of Chandler, AZ, USA and the IEC TC77b meeting, November 2002 (~600K)
- Pictures of Boulder City, NV, USA, the main site of my public seminars


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After releasing then pulling a update for the desktop Safari browser on OS X last week, Apple on Thursday posted Safari 8.0.2 for Yosemite.
In addition to allowing Yosemite users to import username and passwords from Mozilla's Firefox browser, Safari 8.0.2 fixes a few annoying issues, among them history not syncing across devices if iCloud Drive is disabled and another one prevent a saved password from being autofilled after two devices are added to iCloud Keychain.
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Apple on Thursday released an update to its desktop Safari browser for Macs running OS X Mavericks which contains improvements to compatibility and security while introducing a pair of new options for strengthening your privacy when searching.
The first such feature turns on SSL encryption for all Yahoo searches conducted from Safari's search field. As a result, no one can eavesdrop on what you're searching for online.
The other adds DuckGoGo, a search engine that does not track you (Google won't like this) as a built-in option in the search field. Note that Safari in iOS 8 and OS X 10.10 Yosemite already includes DuckGoGo as an option.
Safari 7.1 has arrived on the heels of yesterday's OS X Mavericks 10.9.5 update which contains Safari 7.0.6 and improves the stability, compatibility and security of your Mac. Read More
Apple releases OS X 10.9.5 with Safari 7.0.6 and various improvements
Rounding out its day of software releases, Apple this evening has pushed out OS X Mavericks 10.9.5 for Mac users. Developers have been testing the beta over the last few months, and it includes a new version of Safari and various improvements.
Among those improvements is better reliability of VPN connections that use USB smart cards for authentication, which should please enterprise users, and easier access of files located on an SMB server. It's definitely more of a maintenance release. Read More
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Many Mac users are unaware that copying a file or folder in the Finder, or moving it to another location, does not preserve the permissions and ownership data attached to it.
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OS X includes a nifty Dictation feature which allows you to control your Mac and apps with your voice. You can use "speakable items", basically a set of spoken commands, to open apps, choose menu items, email contacts and convert whole spoken sentences to text, wherever you can type text.
This is much like iOS's Dictation feature as both iOS and OS X use the same Nuance-powered technology that turns speech to text. iOS devices have limited computing power so the Dictation feature on the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad requires network connectivity in iOS 7 (iOS 8 supports streaming voice recognition and 22 new languages).
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Late yesterday, Apple released Safari 7.0.6 for OS X Mavericks and Safari 6.1.6 for OS X Mountain Lion.
The releases contain improvements to security related to Apple's desktop browser and are both recommended for all OS X Mavericks and OS X Mountain Lion users.
These updates follow the release of a new version of OS X Mavericks 10.9.5 (build 13F14) that Apple released to developers yesterday… Read More
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Ever since the dawn of the Computer Age, screenshots have been essential. Images showing software in action are used all over the web, on social media and in specialized magazines.
Blog about software, you'll need screenshots. Putting together a useful how-to like this one, are we? Good, you'll need even more screenshots.
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Assuming you're in the vast majority of the population whose needs don't go beyond grabbing screens, or are among the group that has no use for advanced annotation and image management capabilities, Apple has you covered.
I myself have never used a third-party app to grab screenshots. How's so? Because OS X sports a compelling set of built-in shortcuts for taking different types of screen images in an instant, without having to even launch any kind of app.
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How to quickly switch between Mavericks and Yosemite beta
Following Apple's release of a public beta of OS X Yosemite, iDB reader Antony Verros sent us some code he wrote in AppleScript, which allows users to quickly restart a computer and automatically boot up in the installed OS of choice. For anyone who installed the OS X Yosemite beta on a separate partition, this is an easy solution for booting up into Yosemite or Mavericks without having to hold down the Option key on boot to select the desired partition. The script can even be tweaked to work with BootCamp.
While it's mostly a matter of time-saving convenience, this method can prove to be quite advantageous over time, particularly for users who find themselves frequently switching between OSs, whether it be a Yosemite beta, Mavericks, or Windows 7. Having an easily accessible application for booting into another OS while making a sandwich or refilling a cup of coffee, versus having to wait around to hold down Option, can be highly useful… Read More
Apple seeds OS X 10.9.4 build 13E19 to developers
Apple has seeded the third beta of OS X 10.9.4 to registered Mac developers this afternoon. The update comes almost a month after Apple released OS X 10.9.3 to the public, which included improved 4K display support and more.
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