From ronladams7 at gmail.com Wed Sep 1 09:55:43 2010 From: ronladams7 at gmail.com (Ron_A) Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2010 09:55:43 -0600 Subject: [NPMUG] Big Nerd Ranch Message-ID: Does anyone have any experience with Big Nerd Ranch? http://www.bignerdranch.com/ ? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://davesevick.com/pipermail/npmug/attachments/20100901/3ba17646/attachment.htm From markd at borkware.com Wed Sep 1 12:12:11 2010 From: markd at borkware.com (Mark Dalrymple) Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2010 14:12:11 -0400 Subject: [NPMUG] Big Nerd Ranch In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: A ton. I've taken classes, and I teach a class for them (Advanced Mac Bootcamp). It's a first-rate operation, and the classes and instructors are awesome, both in the Atlanta and Frankfurt facilities. Granted, I'm a bit biased :-) But the Ranch is awesome. ++md On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 11:55 AM, Ron_A wrote: > Does anyone have any experience with Big Nerd Ranch? > > http://www.bignerdranch.com/ > > > ? > > _______________________________________________ > NPMUG mailing list > NPMUG at davesevick.com > http://davesevick.com/mailman/listinfo/npmug > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://davesevick.com/pipermail/npmug/attachments/20100901/36654498/attachment.htm From cmtpt at zbzoom.net Thu Sep 2 00:11:56 2010 From: cmtpt at zbzoom.net (Mary Jo Smiley CMTPT) Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2010 02:11:56 -0400 Subject: [NPMUG] well how about that!!! Message-ID: The router seems to have fixed it!!! After a month and some of having intermittent service, the router that Charles suggested WORKED! I had been unable to back up anything to my iDisk and I had to keep clicking on a button on the "locations" "Network" which said "renew DHCP lease" to restart the connection. Armstrong had not a clue what was going on.. they came and replaced the cable modem and it did nothing. Later I was given a gift of a router and hooked it up.... and I have not lost service since I set it up. Thank you Bob, Dave, Charles and all the others that gave suggestions for this odd problem.... In Service Mary Jo The Universe has always been generous with me, offering me the best of all possibilities. Abundance is within my reach and it is grinning at us all! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Message-ID: <9E5FF9A4-366D-4914-933C-5857F2528B65@davesevick.com> Tues Sept 7 , 7-9PM MacOutfitters of Cranberry Twp 20395 Route 19 Cranberry Township, PA 16066 P: 724-776-8075 F: 724-776-8035 http://www.macoutfitters.com/locations_cranberry.html Topics: Review of the Steve Jobs Keynote on Sept 1, 2010 http://events.apple.com.edgesuite.net/1009qpeijrfn/event/index.html The new iPod Nano with Touch http://www.apple.com/ipodnano/ The new Apple TV for $99 http://www.apple.com/appletv/ iTunes 10 and Ping social network for music http://www.apple.com/itunes/ Successful computer outreach event .... packing used Macs to ship to Nicaragua http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRuaSf74a_s Nightcap to follow meeting ! Please join us .... Dave -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://davesevick.com/pipermail/npmug/attachments/20100903/d59d0410/attachment-0001.htm -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Until they actually try to use Flash, that is: http://newteevee.com/2010/08/31/video-flash-on-android-is-startlingly-bad/ Final paragraph: "While in theory Flash video might be a competitive advantage for Android users, in practice it?s difficult to imagine anyone actually trying to watch non-optimized web video on an Android handset, all of which makes one believe that maybe Steve Jobs was right to eschew Flash in lieu of HTML5 on the iPhone and iPad." -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://davesevick.com/pipermail/npmug/attachments/20100903/1061a650/attachment.htm From radonaldson at mac.com Fri Sep 3 17:29:31 2010 From: radonaldson at mac.com (Robert A. Donaldson) Date: Fri, 03 Sep 2010 19:29:31 -0400 Subject: [NPMUG] Goodwill CRC update, Friday, September 3, 2010 Message-ID: Dear Mac friends: Many thanks to Charlie Hutchens, Rich Fitzgibbon, John Hamill, Tucker Trainor, and first-time volunteer Noah Covert for joining me at the Goodwill Computer Recycling Center today. We had to break from tradition as we didn't have an eMac available for rookie Noah Covert to de-manufacture. Good thing, too. The eMac, at 50 pounds, weighs about as much as Noah, who is ten years old. He was let out of school this afternoon to join us. We are all shamed as he already has a good idea how to de-manufacture old Macs. And he was able to correct Tucker Trainor a couple of times. He blitzed through a Blue-and-White G3 Tower and a Dual-processor G4 Tower as quickly as any of us. And he brought his own tools. There's certain things in life that can be considered universal truths. You know, like "never engage in a land war in Asia, etc." You can add: Never get into a game of Jeopardy with Noah Covert when one of the categories is "Old Macintoshes." Forget MacTracker. Call Noah. We refurbished nine Macs and de-manufactured another 10 today. Our all-time total of refurbished Macs is now an even 2,669. We're still behind as we haven't caught up with last weeks donations. The good news is we did get to the bottom of the bins and delightfully discovered 19 USB keyboards and 25 mice. A gentle reminder the ComputerWorks store is now open in its temporary quarters in Goodwill's retail store at 2700 East Carson St., just a block from the former location on Pittsburgh's South Side. It's a bit smaller that the previous store, but they still carry everything they used to display, you just may have to ask for it if you don't see it. There are many G4 Towers and eMacs in storage. When you enter the store, turn right and head for the back of the store. Sadly, I must report nobody sent me a photo of Rich Fitzgibbon at the opening of the new Ross Park Mall Apple Store last Saturday. It's incomprehensible that nobody would know who he was ... We will have another workday next Friday, September 10. We hope to see you there! Robert A. Donaldson radonaldson at mac.com (H) 412-922-3303 (M) 412-477-9188 From dave at davesevick.com Mon Sep 6 21:22:14 2010 From: dave at davesevick.com (Dave Sevick) Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2010 23:22:14 -0400 Subject: [NPMUG] Sept 2010 OAK Newsletter - Easter Seals | Steve Cioc | Tucker Trainor | Nicaragua Packing | Andrew Russell Photography Message-ID: <169B62F8-0B17-4712-A57F-BAF985512AC1@davesevick.com> In the Sept 2010 Outreach Acts of Kindness newsletter http://computereach.com/newsletter.html Easter Seals has cleaned and tested several hundred Apple keyboards with their workers. An ongoing story of utilizing the resources of Goodwill and Easter Seals, using ComputeReach as the catalyst. Steve Cioc (pronounced "seahawk"), staff computer tech at Goodwill of Southwestern PA gets the Kind Soul Award. Tucker Trainor joins ComputeReach as Creative Director. The newly redesigned website is all his doing, and no longer uses any Flash coding ! Looks good on iPads, iPods, iPhones, Macs, PCs, Linux. Nicaraguan schools are getting 320 computers soon. Aug 21 was a productive packing day. Many photos and a YouTube video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRuaSf74a_s Andrew Russell Photography did a fabulous shoot of the entire day. See a sample in the newsletter and in the YouTube video. http://andrewrussellphotography.com/ If you'd like to: volunteer to help us get the Goodwill computers out to our local community and around the world. http://computereach.com/db/individual_registration.php donate to help us grow the computer outreach movement. http://computereach.com/contact.html subscribe to our monthly OAK newsletter and get email updates. http://computereach.com/contact.html OK .... outreach to the NPMUG listserve all done ! Dave -------------------------------------------- Dave Sevick ComputeReach, humanitarian computer outreach http://computereach.com 724-779-0099 sevick at computereach.com -------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://davesevick.com/pipermail/npmug/attachments/20100906/29efe41d/attachment-0001.htm -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Thanks. Glenn -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://davesevick.com/pipermail/npmug/attachments/20100908/35f1b61a/attachment.htm From j.hapach at gmail.com Wed Sep 8 08:46:31 2010 From: j.hapach at gmail.com (John Hapach) Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2010 10:46:31 -0400 Subject: [NPMUG] Question on Hard Drive replacement In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: If you don't mind, I would love to hear the options the group suggest as well. Thx much John On Sep 8, 2010, at 10:24 AM, Glenn Wood wrote: > I've got a first generation MacBook Pro, 2.33 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, with upgraded 3 GB 677 MHz DDR2 SDram. It has a 120G hard drive which is almost full. > > I'm thinking of upgrading the hard drive, but not sure which manufacturer is good as I read the comments on different products. I think a 250G or 320G would be more than sufficient for what I do which is a lot of photography and editing. > > Does anyone have any suggestions? The other thing is I would prefer NOT to try to replace it myself as I'm not the most mechanically gifted and don't want to screw things up. > > I'd appreciate any thoughts or recommendations from anyone. Thanks. > Glenn > _______________________________________________ > NPMUG mailing list > NPMUG at davesevick.com > http://davesevick.com/mailman/listinfo/npmug John Hapach 412.398.5491 From patrick at cranstoninc.com Wed Sep 8 12:26:25 2010 From: patrick at cranstoninc.com (Patrick Cranston) Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2010 14:26:25 -0400 Subject: [NPMUG] Question on Hard Drive replacement In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: We've replaced hundreds of hard drives around Pittsburgh area and we have found all the brand name manufacturer drives to perform about the same. We use Western Digital, Hitachi, Toshiba and Seagate drives. We offer 3yr warranties on all our drive replacements and have not found any manufacturer to perform better in reliability than another. I believe HDD drive technology has reached a point where all the manufacturers are pretty much equal. Google did some research on hard drives ( several hundred thousand of their own hard drives ) a few years ago and found that all drives fail at a rate of around 10%-15% per year. The rate of failure is higher in the first year and then bottoms out in years 2-4 and picks up slightly in years 5+. Another interesting fact is that they found that drives that were spun down during periods of inactivity failed more frequently then drives that were left running. This indicates that the starting and stopping of a drive is harder on it then the actual running of a drive. I think this is one reason why laptop drives fail much more frequently than desktop drives. If you don't want to replace the drive yourself, you can certainly check out our repair service - We come to you and all drive replacements are covered by a 3yr warranty on the drive and labor. - www.cranstonit.com/page11/drives/ Patrick Cranston Cranston IT, Inc. 888-813-5558 www.CranstonIT.com patrick at cranstonit.com Twitter: @cranstonIT Unlimited Support for your Macs, Network and Data Backup for one low price. http://www.cranstonit.com/home On Sep 8, 2010, at 10:24 AM, Glenn Wood wrote: > I've got a first generation MacBook Pro, 2.33 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, with upgraded 3 GB 677 MHz DDR2 SDram. It has a 120G hard drive which is almost full. > > I'm thinking of upgrading the hard drive, but not sure which manufacturer is good as I read the comments on different products. I think a 250G or 320G would be more than sufficient for what I do which is a lot of photography and editing. > > Does anyone have any suggestions? The other thing is I would prefer NOT to try to replace it myself as I'm not the most mechanically gifted and don't want to screw things up. > > I'd appreciate any thoughts or recommendations from anyone. Thanks. > Glenn > _______________________________________________ > NPMUG mailing list > NPMUG at davesevick.com > http://davesevick.com/mailman/listinfo/npmug -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://davesevick.com/pipermail/npmug/attachments/20100908/f1124c48/attachment.htm From markd at borkware.com Wed Sep 8 12:33:43 2010 From: markd at borkware.com (Mark Dalrymple) Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2010 14:33:43 -0400 Subject: [NPMUG] Question on Hard Drive replacement In-Reply-To: References:

Message-ID: >This indicates that the starting and stopping of a drive is > harder on it then the actual running of a drive. ? I think this is one > reason why laptop drives fail much more frequently than desktop drives. Also general shock and vibration. I went through a lot of laptop drives over the last couple of years because the laptop is my primary work environment. I went SSD earlier this year, and am loving it. Expensive, but fast, quiet, and (so far) more reliable than spinning platters. Cheers, ++md From patrick at cranstoninc.com Fri Sep 10 10:12:45 2010 From: patrick at cranstoninc.com (Patrick Cranston) Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 12:12:45 -0400 Subject: [NPMUG] FileMaker Go Demo at Apple Store SouthHillsVillage Message-ID: Hi. I will be presenting a demonstration of FileMaker Go for iPad and iPhone at the Apple Store - South Hills Village at 7pm on September 22nd. Anyone interested in learning more about FileMaker Go and accessing your FileMaker databases from an iOS device is welcome to attend. www.apple.com/retail/southhillsvillage Patrick Cranston Cranston IT, Inc. 888-813-5558 www.CranstonIT.com patrick at cranstonit.com Twitter: @cranstonIT Unlimited Support for your Macs, Network and Data Backup for one low price. http://www.cranstonit.com/home -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://davesevick.com/pipermail/npmug/attachments/20100910/bcdb9843/attachment.htm From radonaldson at mac.com Fri Sep 10 17:06:07 2010 From: radonaldson at mac.com (Robert A. Donaldson) Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 19:06:07 -0400 Subject: [NPMUG] Goodwill CRC update, Friday, September 10, 2010 Message-ID: <5D023E3C-4A83-45D6-A419-5981C7AC483E@mac.com> Dear Mac friends: Many thanks to Charlie Hutchens, Rich Fitzgibbon, John Hamill, and Tucker Trainor for joining me at the Goodwill Computer Recycling Center today. Today we had time to devote to creating a FrankenMac, with the effort being done by Charlie Hutchens and Tucker Trainor. We received a 17-inch G5 iMac which Charlie devoted considerable time diagnosing. The verdict: Flaky. It exhibited extremely irregular behavior, first booting and accepting a new image, the not booting. All the capacitors on the logic board showed not signs of the dreaded bulging. Charlie exchanged the power supply with our spare and still the behavior continued. Tucker took over and found the magic diagnostic procedure via Google. The capacitors were good, the power supply bad, and, sadly, the logic board, too. But not to worry. We've been squirreling G5 iMacs away for such an occasion. To make a long story short, a logic board came from one Mac, the power supply from another, and the broken back replaced with one from a third. He buttoned up and re-imaged successfully just at closing time. Next week, we will fire up our test DVD movie (The Pianist, starring Academy Award winner Adrien Brody. Sorry, it's the only one we have.) and let it run for a couple of hours, or until we get sick of Nazi atrocities. Next week, Tucker "Starzel" Trainor will attempt to transplant the logic board, processors, etc. from Bruce Wells' G5 Tower with a demolished case into a completely bare case from the same model number. We'd sell tickets, but our balcony is filled with broken G4 iMacs... Today we refurbished 15 Macs, bringing our all-time total to 2,684. We de-manufactured four Macs and sent two Apple displays on to their greater reward at Great Lakes Recycling (where they safely remove all the yucky stuff from CRT monitors). In a dismal sequel to "The Mysteries of Pittsburgh," a box of a couple dozen VERY dirty USB keyboards and mice was discovered in "The Mysteries of the Basement" by Kind Soul Steve Cioc. They apparently were underneath a horde of Pentium II computers that were being saved for that proverbial rainy day. I'll bet that USB mouse in your bottom drawer is nice and clean. Hint, hint... A gentle reminder the ComputerWorks store is now open in its temporary quarters in Goodwill's retail store at 2700 East Carson St., just a block from the former location on Pittsburgh's South Side. It's a bit smaller that the previous store, but they still carry everything they used to display, you just may have to ask for it if you don't see it. There are many G4 Towers and eMacs in storage. When you enter the store, turn right and head for the back of the store. Still no photo of Rich Fitzgibbon at the Ross Park Mall Apple Store opening. We'd really like one to hang on the wall, as he'll be off vacationing for the next two weeks. We will have another workday next Friday, September 17, but they'll be a small change. We won't be there until 10:30 a.m. as some of us have pressing personal appointments to attend to. The upside is we only have to work an hour or so before lunchtime... :-) We hope to see you there! Robert A. Donaldson radonaldson at mac.com (H) 412-922-3303 (M) 412-477-9188 From radonaldson at mac.com Sat Sep 11 13:51:26 2010 From: radonaldson at mac.com (Robert A. Donaldson) Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2010 15:51:26 -0400 Subject: [NPMUG] We have a winner! Message-ID: <6E371B76-FDEA-4DC5-A55F-1D2A98DD6432@mac.com> ... in the "Send me a photo of Rich Fitzgibbon at the Ross Park Mall Apple Store opening." The winner: Rich Fitzgibbon. In retrospect (the word, not the backup software), perhaps he was the only one other than me who cared. He wins: Not one, but TWO weeks vacation from the CRC in lovely Cape Cod. But I'm not paying... Robert A. Donaldson radonaldson at mac.com (H) 412-922-3303 (M) 412-477-9188 From ttwood52 at gmail.com Sun Sep 12 07:44:06 2010 From: ttwood52 at gmail.com (Glenn Wood) Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2010 09:44:06 -0400 Subject: [NPMUG] Question on Hard Drive replacement In-Reply-To: References:

Message-ID: Hi Alex and everyone else that offered suggestions as to my question about a hard drive replacement. Took Alex's suggestion - Costco has a 500G Segate GoFlex for only $69. Transferred my IPhoto library and ITunes selections to it. Over 29G's - wow. This allows me the option as Alex said to have the drive with me to save photos to it on the road. Now another question. I use a separate portable hard drive for my bi-weekly Time Machine back-ups. My understanding is all my photos and tunes are on that for restoration if necessary. With the second portable hard drive with my photos on it, can I safely delete my photos & music from the laptop hard drive and regain that space? Thanks for all the helpful suggestions. Glenn On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 11:01 AM, Alexander MacArthur wrote: > Glenn - have you thought of using a Firewire ( or even USB ) external drive > for all your photography files ? > They are fast and you can clear out your internal drive , reserving it for > your applications and temporary use on the road . When you get back to your > home or office , you can easily transfer the photo files and delete them > from your internal drive . > I have been very happy with LaCie external drives ( though they are not the > cheapest around , they are likely cheaper per GB than getting an internal > drive installed ). > > Alex > > > p.s. I have been converting about 20 years of VHS tapes to Digital files , > and am using a 2 Terabyte LaCie 'Quad' external drive via the Firewire 800 > port on my laptop . The Quad will connect via USB , Firewire 400 , Firewire > 800 , etc . > That way , as Apple upgrades their ports on new versions of their notebooks > , the longevity of the usefulness of the external drive is extended . > Remember SCSI drives ? I still have files on external SCSI drives which are > now useless on newer Mac's . > > > > On Sep 8, 2010, at 10:24 AM, Glenn Wood wrote: > > I've got a first generation MacBook Pro, 2.33 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, with >> upgraded 3 GB 677 MHz DDR2 SDram. It has a 120G hard drive which is almost >> full. >> >> I'm thinking of upgrading the hard drive, but not sure which manufacturer >> is good as I read the comments on different products. I think a 250G or >> 320G would be more than sufficient for what I do which is a lot of >> photography and editing. >> >> Does anyone have any suggestions? The other thing is I would prefer NOT >> to try to replace it myself as I'm not the most mechanically gifted and >> don't want to screw things up. >> >> I'd appreciate any thoughts or recommendations from anyone. Thanks. >> Glenn >> _______________________________________________ >> NPMUG mailing list >> NPMUG at davesevick.com >> http://davesevick.com/mailman/listinfo/npmug >> > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Donaldson) Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2010 08:23:13 -0400 Subject: [NPMUG] Apple denies that Steve Jobs is a ninja In-Reply-To: <97B0D3BF-0540-41A2-AE16-0326CCC92367@firthconsulting.com> References: <97B0D3BF-0540-41A2-AE16-0326CCC92367@firthconsulting.com> Message-ID: But isn't he really? As part of the great journalism conspiracy, I cannot confirm or deny it... :-) http://www.crazyapplerumors.com/ Robert A. Donaldson radonaldson at mac.com (H) 412-922-3303 (M) 412-477-9188 On Sep 15, 2010, at 8:17 AM, Charles Firth wrote: > > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/09/15/sensei_steve/ > _______________________________________________ > NPMUG mailing list > NPMUG at davesevick.com > http://davesevick.com/mailman/listinfo/npmug From PeterC at windstream.net Thu Sep 16 12:41:04 2010 From: PeterC at windstream.net (Peter Carras) Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2010 14:41:04 -0400 Subject: [NPMUG] G4 Mac available Message-ID: <4C9264C0.3080902@windstream.net> Hi all, A friend of COWMUG called me to say he has a desktop Mac to give away. It's a G4 tower, and comes with software including Illustrator, Pagemaker, and PhotoShop. Also a 17-inch Multiscan monitor. If you are interested, please contact Wayne Turner in Monroeville at (412) 372-1014. - Peter Carras -- Peter L. Carras -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The problem is that I am likely to need someone to enter my events for the corrupted calender and then make sure it syncs using the non-beta way. > I am willing to pay someone to do this - price negotiable. I imagine it will take 5-10 hours. > > If you are willing to do this or know of someone who is willing please let me know! > Please email me if you are interested or know of someone (a student for example, who might be interested) Thanks so very much Bob Arnold bma1 at mac.com http://www.compassionatecareforall.org/ P Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. 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On this shortened workday, we refurbished 6 Macs, bringing our all-time total to 2,690. We de-manufactured one Macs and sent four Apple displays on to their greater reward at Great Lakes Recycling (where they safely remove all the yucky stuff from CRT monitors). The week's take was two USB keyboards and mice. A gentle reminder the ComputerWorks store is now open in its temporary quarters in Goodwill's retail store at 2700 East Carson St., just a block from the former location on Pittsburgh's South Side. It's a bit smaller that the previous store, but they still carry everything they used to display, you just may have to ask for it if you don't see it. There are many G4 Towers and eMacs in storage. When you enter the store, turn right and head for the back of the store. We will have another workday next Friday, September 24 at the regular time. We hope to see you there! Robert A. Donaldson radonaldson at mac.com (H) 412-922-3303 (M) 412-477-9188 From ronladams7 at gmail.com Mon Sep 20 22:59:09 2010 From: ronladams7 at gmail.com (Ron_A) Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 22:59:09 -0600 Subject: [NPMUG] Secrets of Apple's customer success Message-ID: <6CCCEA86-0732-47A6-9796-8FB1A0ACA3EE@gmail.com> http://news.cnet.com/8301-31021_3-20017064-260.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20 Secrets of Apple's customer success Hardware manufacturers liberally take cues from Apple products, so why not its approach to customers? For the seventh straight year, Apple has topped its competitors in the PC industry in the University of Michigan's American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI), achieving a score of 86 out of 100. Its Apple's highest ranking since the annual survey began in 1995. But the real story is how much further ahead of its peers Apple is in this area: most of the rest of the field (Acer, Dell, HP, and others) is tied with a score of 77, while HP's Compaq brand is ranked 74. All of the PC makers improved their scores this year, but it didn't help them collectively avoid sinking further behind Apple. The Mac maker's nine-point lead is now the largest lead any company has over its competition in any of the 45 categories that the ACSI study surveys--including home appliances, gas stations, autos, e-commerce, airlines, and more. Apple's lead, while not insurmountable, can be attributed to a few things, including a lineup of products that is broad yet connected, a meticulously controlled retail experience, and a very particular brand of leadership at the top. It's not just notoriously good customer service, said David VanAmburg, managing editor of the ACSI, though that helps. "I think it's a commitment to innovating and integrating products. Apple is still somewhat uniquely positioned with Macs, the iPad, iPhone, and the iPod," he said. "There's a plethora of IT products that have been integrated together easily, and Apple has been able to capture 'IT' writ large, rather than just personal computers." That is to say Apple, in comparison to its competitors making PCs, has an ecosystem of hardware connected by its own software, iOS, iTunes, and Mac OS X. Apple has total control over its products and has been able to branch out to other types of devices beyond desktops and laptops. PC makers are somewhat beholden to the product cycles of Microsoft and are seen as just that, PC makers--not consumer device makers. So why aren't they copying Apple? HP actually is beginning to take steps in this direction. By buying Palm, it's looking to integrate mobile devices like phones and tablets into its larger ecosystem of laptops and printers. But other large PC makers like Dell and Acer are not there yet. The Apple Store on Fifth Avenue in New York City is one of the company's flagship stores in terms of both customer traffic and architecture and design. (Credit: Marguerite Reardon/CNET) "It's taken a long time for other manufacturers to see the benefits that Apple is getting from this," VanAmburg said. "We may be seeing it a bit with HP going out and grabbing Palm, getting into the handheld business and integrating (WebOS) within its systems." "There is some movement in the industry now beyond Apple to grow past this thinking of the PC per se, but I think the industry has been slower to do it," he added. "But there's a reluctance to go down that route." Face time with people and products Apple Stores are the best example of what makes it different from its peers and are illustrative of the company's approach. The retail stores are one of the most important ways people interact with Apple. Not just for those who are already customers but potential customers--sometimes more than 50 million customers tromp through Apple's doors every three months, and half of them who make purchases are first-timers, according to Apple. There are 230 Apple stores worldwide right now, mostly in the U.S., but growing in major world capitals, like London, Paris, and Shanghai. Everything about the store is intended to represent what it is like to own and use an Apple product: Apple controls the whole experience, from the limited range of products on the shelves, to the training of the young, intentionally geeky/hip employees, to the manner in which some stores are designed with architectural flourishes normally reserved for museums, to the tech support received at the Genius Bar, to the educational classes offered in stores for using Apple products. PC companies have dabbled in retail with varying results. Microsoft's current experiment in retail--which borrows from Apple's retail look and feel--is still small: four stores right now, with a few more planned. Dell's foray was brief, and Gateway did well for a number of years until calling it quits before eventually being sold to Acer. Retail stores are expensive to maintain, but it can define a company's brand and dictate how customers interact with a company. Apple takes that task on itself, in addition to selling its products online and through some third-party retailers. PC makers either rely on the direct approach on the Web or trust a salesperson to properly present their product at Best Buy, Fry's, MicroCenter and others, or just leave it up to the consumer wandering the aisles at Wal-Mart or Costco. Putting the customer first A lot of that "reluctance" to embrace Apple's well-regarded approach to customers that VanAmburg spoke of may come down to the roots of these companies. Some are much more technically oriented than customer oriented, which has a sizable effect on how they prioritize, said Ira Kalb, clinical marketing professor at the USC Marshall School of Business. "The reason that a lot of these companies don't copy Apple's customer service is they don't realize how important it is, that's the big one," Kalb said. "They look at it as a cost rather than a return on investment item." Though it sounds obvious that the customer being taken care of should be a primary concern for any company dealing in consumer goods, it's not always followed, he said. "A lot of these computer companies in particular were started and run by technical people, who are notorious for caring about technology over customers." Things like customer service, marketing, and making technology easier to understand for nontechnical people can make or break a customer's perception of a company. Apple's customer service, which is perennially ranked highly, is illustrative of the differences. Apple was able to save face with customers by giving away free cases to iPhone 4 owners after complaints arose regarding its antenna. (Credit: Josh Lowensohn/CNET) The other major difference between Apple and the rest of the field is that no other company is as subject to a singular vision. At Apple, the only person whose opinion really matters in the end is Steve Jobs, and that goes for product decisions as well as how the company is run. That doesn't work for everyone. At most large companies, there are competing agendas and fiefdoms that compete for resources and weigh in with differing visions on products. Jobs' leadership style cuts that out. It's not that Apple does everything right of course. The most recent example is "antennagate," which developed out of customers' distaste for the way Apple handled problems related to the antenna design of the iPhone 4. Apple's initially condescending response to the issue was eventually addressed by the offer of a free case for iPhone 4 customers, though not without obvious annoyance on Apple's part. Still, the lesson was a useful one for a company that already handles its customer interactions mostly well, said Kalb. And it could be why the company continues to improve in its customer satisfaction index despite such hiccups. "I think (Jobs) was shocked by the antennagate reaction," he said. "But I think that woke them up further." ? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Joining the above 24 de-manufactured Macs, an Apple displays was sent along the recycling chain. The week's donations included seven Macs, all but one de-manufactured. There were NO USB keyboards and mice. A gentle reminder the ComputerWorks store is now open in its temporary quarters in Goodwill's retail store at 2700 East Carson St., just a block from the former location on Pittsburgh's South Side. It's a bit smaller that the previous store, but they still carry everything they used to display, you just may have to ask for it if you don't see it. There are many G4 Towers and eMacs in storage. When you enter the store, turn right and head for the back of the store. We will have another workday next Friday, October 1. Maybe Rich Fitzgibbon will bring salt water taffy from his vacation!. We hope to see you there! Robert A. Donaldson radonaldson at mac.com (H) 412-922-3303 (M) 412-477-9188 From dotto1208 at aol.com Sat Sep 25 07:02:27 2010 From: dotto1208 at aol.com (dotto1208 at aol.com) Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2010 09:02:27 -0400 Subject: [NPMUG] Skype question Message-ID: <8CD2AC909ED9CDB-1B04-141E0@webmail-m021.sysops.aol.com> I have been successfully Skyping with a PC buddy for several months. All of a sudden, when I know she is online, she is showing up as offline on my end. If I initiate a call to her, I get the message that she is offline. If she skypes me, I get the call and video and she immediately shows as online. She claims others have skyped her successfully. Others on my list show up as online. Does anyone have any ideas? It seems to me the problem is at her end but since other PC people are able to see her, I am wondering. Diane Otto -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://davesevick.com/pipermail/npmug/attachments/20100925/3f3bdaf8/attachment.htm From dave at davesevick.com Sat Sep 25 13:14:18 2010 From: dave at davesevick.com (Dave Sevick) Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2010 15:14:18 -0400 Subject: [NPMUG] Steve Jobs - demonstrating corporate responsibility Message-ID: (Many thanks to my friend Sandy for passing this on to the Mac user community) http://www.breakpoint.org/bpcommentaries/entry/13/14594 Freedom from Porn One CEO Takes a Stand June 7, 2010 This commentary was delivered by Prison Fellowship president Mark Earley. In the never-ending battle of the technological titans, score one for Steve Jobs. No, the CEO of Apple hasn't come out with yet another groundbreaking iProduct, at least not since the iPad. But he's done something even more extraordinary?he's brought good values into the mix. Jobs has made it clear that he wants to keep pornography off Apple products as much as possible. Obviously Apple can't control everything its users do, but it can make porn scarcer on its products, and it has done just that. A British newspaper, The Guardian, reports, "So insistent is Apple [on this policy], many magazine publishers developing 'apps' for the new iPad . . . have had to self-censor." As you might expect, this has triggered a frenzy among some critics. Ryan Tate, a writer for the Gawker website, sniped at Jobs about suppressing his customers' "freedom," prompting Jobs to respond, "Yep, freedom from programs that steal your private data. Freedom from programs that trash your battery. Freedom from porn. Yep, freedom." When Tate replied that he didn't want "freedom from porn," Jobs answered, "You might care more about porn when you have kids." In a correspondence with a consumer, Jobs went even further, speaking of his company's "moral responsibility to keep porn off the iPhone." How refreshing it is to see someone who actually gets it?that yes, there are those of us who prefer to be free from the storm of smut that assaults us from every television, computer, and phone screen. The supply of pornographic material is so overwhelming that access to it is certainly not an issue of "freedom" anymore, if it ever was. Jobs has pointed out that people who want to see porn on their phones, and who want easier access to it on their computers, can easily get all they want if they buy other companies' products. But as he said in a press conference, "That's a place we don't want to go?so we're not going to go there." What Jobs seems to understand, and what his critics seem to be ignoring, is that there's so much more to pornography than just issues of economics or free speech. It shouldn't even need to be explained, but apparently for some people it does: Pornography is an ugly, poisonous, degrading business for everyone involved, whether they're making it, using it, or selling it. As my colleague Kim Moreland recently mentioned on our blog, The Point, new studies are demonstrating yet again just how dangerous and addictiveit can be. It tears at the fabric of marriages and families and of society itself. Its use is connected from everything to higher divorce rates to human trafficking to the spread of sexually transmitted diseases. Aside from the occasional reference to protecting kids (which is enough), Steve Jobs didn't go thoroughly into the reasons for his policy. But for whatever reason, he truly is demonstrating corporate responsibility, the kind that we desperately need more businesses to show in this sex-obsessed society. May he continue to stand by his principles, and may his tribe increase. From ronladams7 at gmail.com Sat Sep 25 20:50:39 2010 From: ronladams7 at gmail.com (Ron_A) Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2010 20:50:39 -0600 Subject: [NPMUG] Long lines mark the China launch of the iPhone 4 Message-ID: <269081DF-DADB-4E42-AD12-99E301E2E878@gmail.com> http://www.intomobile.com/2010/09/25/apple-iphone-4-launch-china-september-25/ ? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://davesevick.com/pipermail/npmug/attachments/20100925/236a28b1/attachment.htm From diego96 at mac.com Sun Sep 26 00:29:20 2010 From: diego96 at mac.com (Doug Green) Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2010 23:29:20 -0700 Subject: [NPMUG] Steve Jobs - demonstrating corporate responsibility In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <4C9EE840.3020206@mac.com> Hi Dave- I totally agree with the views expressed below regarding pornography and it's impact on our society. I feel equally strong about the mainstream depiction of Violence. It is even more prevalent, and is desensitizing us to the pain of other human beings. Apathy prevails, and we wonder why. Some people object to Mr Jobs because they would like a media that is not censored/controlled, not because they truly want pornography on their device. Censorship is a slippery slope, and requires that someone defines, for example, what is/is not vulgar. Please understand that not everyone is comfortable with having /other people/ make this decision for them. Therefore, yes, it IS an issue of Freedom. Always has been, always will be. In my household, /I will decide/ where art ends and pornography begins. Likewise, Apple is the house that Mr. Jobs built, and I fully support his decision to edit content of the app store however he chooses. Whether this is "responsible corporate behavior" or simply "censorship" is a subject of legitimate debate. Now, according to the patronizing quip (below), my views don't count because I don't have children. I am, however, an upstanding member of my community, a physician and researcher, a taxpayer, a citizen, and I vote. Some of what is written below is quite inflammatory to people who may not see eye-to-eye with Mark Earley's opinions. Frankly, nobody cares what you say if you deny others their own voice. Not everyone that disagrees with you is misguided, your beliefs are not necessarily shared across this community, and discounting the views of others is not a good practice. Freedom in a democracy requires Dialogue. Although I object to both pornography and violence in mainstream media, in the words of Voltaire "... I detest what you write, but I would give my life to make it possible for you to continue to write." Aside, wouldn't all of this be easier if there was simply a ".prn" web designation where all of that content could be centralized?? It would be much easier for those seeking it, and those seeking to live without it. Think about it: no more URL typos resulting in porn pop-ups! :) All the best, Doug On 9/25/10 12:14 PM, Dave Sevick wrote: > (Many thanks to my friend Sandy for passing this on to the Mac user community) > > http://www.breakpoint.org/bpcommentaries/entry/13/14594 > > Freedom from Porn > One CEO Takes a Stand > > June 7, 2010 > > This commentary was delivered by Prison Fellowship president Mark Earley. > > In the never-ending battle of the technological titans, score one for Steve Jobs. No, the CEO of Apple hasn't come out with yet another groundbreaking iProduct, at least not since the iPad. > > But he's done something even more extraordinary?he's brought good values into the mix. > > Jobs has made it clear that he wants to keep pornography off Apple products as much as possible. Obviously Apple can't control everything its users do, but it can make porn scarcer on its products, and it has done just that. > > A British newspaper, The Guardian, reports, "So insistent is Apple [on this policy], many magazine publishers developing 'apps' for the new iPad . . . have had to self-censor." > > As you might expect, this has triggered a frenzy among some critics. Ryan Tate, a writer for the Gawker website, sniped at Jobs about suppressing his customers' "freedom," prompting Jobs to respond, "Yep, freedom from programs that steal your private data. Freedom from programs that trash your battery. Freedom from porn. Yep, freedom." > > When Tate replied that he didn't want "freedom from porn," Jobs answered, "You might care more about porn when you have kids." In a correspondence with a consumer, Jobs went even further, speaking of his company's "moral responsibility to keep porn off the iPhone." > > How refreshing it is to see someone who actually gets it?that yes, there are those of us who prefer to be free from the storm of smut that assaults us from every television, computer, and phone screen. The supply of pornographic material is so overwhelming that access to it is certainly not an issue of "freedom" anymore, if it ever was. > > Jobs has pointed out that people who want to see porn on their phones, and who want easier access to it on their computers, can easily get all they want if they buy other companies' products. But as he said in a press conference, "That's a place we don't want to go?so we're not going to go there." > > What Jobs seems to understand, and what his critics seem to be ignoring, is that there's so much more to pornography than just issues of economics or free speech. It shouldn't even need to be explained, but apparently for some people it does: Pornography is an ugly, poisonous, degrading business for everyone involved, whether they're making it, using it, or selling it. > > As my colleague Kim Moreland recently mentioned on our blog, The Point, new studies are demonstrating yet again just how dangerous and addictiveit can be. It tears at the fabric of marriages and families and of society itself. Its use is connected from everything to higher divorce rates to human trafficking to the spread of sexually transmitted diseases. > > Aside from the occasional reference to protecting kids (which is enough), Steve Jobs didn't go thoroughly into the reasons for his policy. But for whatever reason, he truly is demonstrating corporate responsibility, the kind that we desperately need more businesses to show in this sex-obsessed society. > > May he continue to stand by his principles, and may his tribe increase. > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > NPMUG mailing list > NPMUG at davesevick.com > http://davesevick.com/mailman/listinfo/npmug -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://davesevick.com/pipermail/npmug/attachments/20100925/f7d979d3/attachment-0001.htm From dave at davesevick.com Sun Sep 26 15:54:59 2010 From: dave at davesevick.com (Dave Sevick) Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2010 17:54:59 -0400 Subject: [NPMUG] Roberto Clemente ... health, education and computers Message-ID: <161F48D2-F819-4653-B487-0D953C95B339@davesevick.com> Dear Apple User Group members, Please come to the Roberto Clemente Museum this Friday Oct 1 at 7PM for as special fund raiser. http://www.clementemuseum.com/ Our computers are in the process of being shipped to several locations in Nicaragua ... where Robert Morris University School of Nursing and innerCHANGE will be conducting health fairs. Come and enjoy authentic Nicaraguan food from Pittsburgh's own Rivas Restaurant and meet the teams at this great museum and Pittsburgh treasure for Roberto Clemente history. ------- Hello All, I would like to personally invite you to join us at our upcoming fundraiser on October 1st in Pittsburgh at the Roberto Clemente Museum. http://www.clementemuseum.com/ As the invitation says, we are raising funds to support our innerCHANGE program in preparing high school students to become global citizens through a travel/study/work experience. Our innerCHANGE team in the US and in Nicaragua is partnering with Youth Leadership for Global Health in Atlanta and with Catalyst for Change in Wilmington to select and prepare 5 young people to make this 10 day trip to coffee farms in the north of Nicaragua and to schools in Managua. On the Selva Negra coffee farm and the El Quetzal coffee farm, innerCHANGE, in partnership with the Robert Morris University School of Nursing will be providing a Health Promotion Fair for the children and the workers on both farms. Your contributions to this program will help to fund the US students as well as provide for the children and families on the farms health education materials and learning experiences. And just as in the health fairs that we conducted last fall on farms and hospitals, the most exciting outcome will be the opportunity for meaningful interaction between US students and the children and families of Nicaragua. If you are able to attend our fundraiser you will meet our innerCHANGE team from Nicaragua and from the US, and our partners from Robert Morris University School of Nursing, from Youth Leadership for Global Health and from Catalyst for Change. You will meet our partners in Nicaragua on the farms and in the schools through video presentations. We will be sharing in authentic Nicaraguan food from Pittsburgh's own Rivas Restaurant, and we will enjoy Nicaraguan music with a local Latin Music DJ. Our exciting venue for this event is the Roberto Clemente Museum which honors the long and important relationship between Pittsburgh and Nicaragua through the inspirational humanitarian work of Roberto Clemente and the Pittsburgh Pirates. If you are unable to attend the event, please feel free to make any level contribution through our partnership with Youth Leadership for Global Health (YLGH), a 501c3 non-profit organization, and the PayPal system on their website - www.ylgh.org. We are so excited to present this event and to introduce you all to Nicaragua, an amazing country with remarkable people. You can register for the event by clicking on janetjfoerster at gmail.com; send me the name(s) of those who will be attending. You can opt to pay at the door or send a check made payable to Youth Leadership for Global Health at 2000 Filbert Lane - Suite A, Atlanta, Georgia 30349-5255. With Kind Regards, Janet Foerster innerCHANGE associates international 1675 Rockhurst Blvd Colorado Springs, Colorado 80918 Phone: 719-344-9763 --------- From the Museum website http://www.clementemuseum.com/ -------- The Clemente Museum is dedicated to preserving the legacy of ?The Great One,? as his fans affectionately called him. The Pittsburgh Pirates drafted Clemente in 1954 and he rose to become the greatest baseball player of his time. During this period, the struggle for social justice had reached every part of our country, and every ballpark. He and many other athletes had to bear the burdens of racial and cultural prejudices, no matter what their abilities were on the field. Additionally, Clemente dealt with language barriers, which lead to the media making a mockery of his intelligence. He faced those burdens with dignity, pride and an enduring empathy for those less fortunate. As for his critics, he simply silenced them with his amazing bat and miraculous arm. Through the exhibit of photographs and artifacts, and outreach to our community, The Clemente Museum works to fulfill our mission of honoring Roberto Clemente?s memory and promote the good deeds he accomplished in his all too short life. He dedicated his 3000th hit to the Pittsburgh fans and the people of Puerto Rico. We are honored to be a part of Pittsburgh?s dedication to him. Some will come to remember. Some will come to learn. All will leave inspired. We welcome you. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://davesevick.com/pipermail/npmug/attachments/20100926/9549411f/attachment-0002.htm -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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