From radonaldson at mac.com Fri Apr 1 17:06:24 2011 From: radonaldson at mac.com (Robert A. Donaldson) Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2011 19:06:24 -0400 Subject: [NPMUG] MobileMe outage update Message-ID: Dear Mac friends: Here's an update on my MobileMe mail outage I posted last Saturday, March 26. ? Service out out most of that day with the exception of four brief, 10-minute periods. ? Service resumed normally on Sunday, March 27. Since the outage, every piece of email I sent between Feb. 20 at 6:25 p.m. and March 26, at 1:08 p.m. (one of the brief service resumptions) on every account I have, save one email on March 21, was lost. I've done a rebuild on my Sent mailbox without result. Robert A. Donaldson radonaldson at mac.com (H) 412-922-3303 (M) 412-477-9188 From radonaldson at mac.com Fri Apr 1 17:43:41 2011 From: radonaldson at mac.com (Robert A. Donaldson) Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2011 19:43:41 -0400 Subject: [NPMUG] Goodwill CRC update, Friday, April 1, 2011 Message-ID: <1883B78B-AC6B-4E08-9753-98C5235FF3B6@mac.com> Dear Mac friends: Many thanks to Charlie Hutchens, John Hamill, Noah Covert and his dad, Damon, new volunteer Terry Golightly and Dave Sevick for joining me at the Goodwill Computer Recycling Center "annex" today. Things were a bit slow with our later-than-normal start. We puttered with a couple Macs needing more than the usual amount of attention until the Goodwill truck pulled up with four bins of donated Macs. We began chipping away at our new stock and managed to refurbish four Macs. Our all-time total is now 2,906. We de-manufactured three Macs. Consultant Tony Auretto made a visit bearing very timely gifts: Five new MacAlly USB keyboard and mice, not to mention three Mac towers from his business. We also received 13 USB keyboards and five mice in the Goodwill delivery. It was by far the best keyboard day in a long time. We forgot it was April Fools until too late in the day to do anything creative. Maybe next year... As usual, our parking is in the Goodwill lot across the street from our 2400 East Carson St. location. If you think you may want to join us some Friday, please send me your car make, color and license number so we can let Goodwill know you will be in the lot. We'll have another workday next Friday, April 8. 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 Fri Apr 1 17:58:50 2011 From: radonaldson at mac.com (Robert A. Donaldson) Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2011 19:58:50 -0400 Subject: [NPMUG] Mobile Me email outage update 2 Message-ID: <02D390F7-AB79-406C-BB20-46AA7D88D74F@mac.com> Dear Mac friends: Well, as I get into this, it's becoming worse. Every dotMac/MobileMe email I've sent from Jan 1, 2009 to my outage on March 25 is gone. HUNDREDS of emails.... I'm current on an online chat with Apple support... Robert A. Donaldson radonaldson at mac.com (H) 412-922-3303 (M) 412-477-9188 From radonaldson at mac.com Fri Apr 1 18:45:50 2011 From: radonaldson at mac.com (Robert A. Donaldson) Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2011 20:45:50 -0400 Subject: [NPMUG] MobileMe outage Update 3 Message-ID: <6E93862F-10B9-4139-8FD8-D21C053753C1@mac.com> Dear Mac friends: All is well. I just concluded an online chat with a very helpful rep named Linwood, who accurately saw my issue and successfully guided me to recover over, uh, 8,000 messages in my dotMac/MobileMe Sent mailbox. The ultimate solution was to delete my Mobile Me mail account in Mail > Preferences > Accounts, quit the app and restart the app to re-create my Mobile Me account. Everything on Apple's servers reloaded into place. Of course, no word on what actually was the root cause of my original outage and how the Sent mailbox in my Mail App lost track of the messages on the Apple servers prior to my outage last Saturday. Perhaps it due to behind the scenes work for whatever is next for Mobile Me per online rumors. Of maybe something just screwed up somewhere in the ether last Saturday. Now back to re-create my email signatures, which were lost in deleting and recreating my Mobile Me account.... Robert A. Donaldson radonaldson at mac.com (H) 412-922-3303 (M) 412-477-9188 From dave at davesevick.com Sun Apr 3 21:46:15 2011 From: dave at davesevick.com (Dave Sevick) Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2011 23:46:15 -0400 Subject: [NPMUG] We Believe Message-ID: <025EBF5F-586D-4EDD-9A20-2D5BA2F7AACA@davesevick.com> http://youtu.be/tyEpaPEbjzI?hd=1 Apple's new iPad 2 ad. ?We Believe? From fstifel at verizon.net Sat Apr 9 08:46:32 2011 From: fstifel at verizon.net (Flaccus M. B. Stifel) Date: Sat, 09 Apr 2011 10:46:32 -0400 Subject: [NPMUG] OS 10.5.--- Leopard needed Message-ID: I need a universal Leopard 10.5.-- install disc. (not one specifically for MacBook) Want to install Leopard on an upgraded G4 power mac. If anyone has upgraded to Snow Leopard, 10.6 and would like to sell their 10.5 disc, please get in touch with me. Thanks! Flacc -- Flaccus M. B. Stifel 2979 Clearview Road Allison Park, PA 15101-3157 (412)486-8067 From marty.swartz at gmail.com Sat Apr 9 15:34:35 2011 From: marty.swartz at gmail.com (Marty Swartz) Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2011 17:34:35 -0400 Subject: [NPMUG] the WOZ! Message-ID: Well, boys and girls, here is some interesting Apple news. We all wish Steve Jobs a return to health, to be sure. But to paraphrase Yoda, the Jedi master... "There is another ... Steve ". -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://davesevick.com/pipermail/npmug/attachments/20110409/178f463b/attachment.htm From charles.snyder at gmail.com Sun Apr 10 19:47:02 2011 From: charles.snyder at gmail.com (Charles A. Snyder) Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2011 21:47:02 -0400 Subject: [NPMUG] Time machine online backup Message-ID: I use time machine for backups but I'd like to start storing these online as well. Besides copying the folder to my dropbox account, are there any other options? Thanks Charlie From dave at davesevick.com Mon Apr 11 07:29:59 2011 From: dave at davesevick.com (Dave Sevick) Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2011 09:29:59 -0400 Subject: [NPMUG] iSteve: The Book of Jobs by Walter Isaacson Message-ID: http://money.cnn.com/ The man who won Steve Jobs' trust Posted by Philip Elmer-DeWitt April 10, 2011 8:48 PM Who is Walter Isaacson, and why did Jobs choose him to tell the story of his life? Isaacson at the iPad unveiling. Photo: Michael Copeland [NOTE: Simon & Schuster announced Sunday that the first authorized biography of Steve Jobs -- iSteve: The Book of Jobs by Walter Isaacson -- will be published in early 2012. A version of this article was posted in February 2010 before the S&S publicity machine was ready to kick into gear.] Apple's January 2010 iPad event was packed cheek to jowl with the famous and well-connected, from John Doerr to Al Gore. But I was still surprised see my old Time magazine editor in the middle of the action. What in the world was Walter Isaacson doing at an Apple (AAPL) event in San Francisco? The answer came two and a half weeks later in the New York Times, which reported that Steve Jobs -- having fought off a long list of would-be biographers over the years -- had chosen Isaacson to write, with Jobs' help, the story of his life. The news came as no surprise to anyone who has worked with Isaacson. If there is one thread that runs through his long career in journalism and public service, it's his talent for spotting the most influential people in any room and finding a way to get close to them. Born into a middle-class New Orleans family in 1952, Isaacson seemed to live a charmed life. He was educated at the prestigious Isidore Newman School, whose graduates include Michael (Liar's Poker) Lewis and quarterback Peyton Manning. He went to Harvard and won a Rhodes Scholarship, which sent him to Oxford University. He joined Time's Washington bureau in 1978, where he covered the Reagan White House. At Time, where his byline appears on 218 stories, he quickly climbed the ranks, becoming editor of the Nation section, then editor of the whole back of the book (science, technology, arts, law, books, etc.) -- somehow finding time on weekends to write the definitive biography of Henry Kissinger. He became Time's managing editor -- the magazine's top job -- in 1996. In an era of belt-tightening he managed to grow the staff and launch several high-profile projects, including the Time 100, Person of the Century, and Time's 75th Anniversary celebration at Radio City Music Hall, to which every living person who had ever been on the cover was invited. Time staffers wondered what a man as ambitious as Walter would do after leaving the magazine. Rumor had it he was angling for a post in a Democratic administration -- perhaps Secretary of State. Instead, he moved into new media and public policy. He had been instrumental in putting Time on AOL (AOL) in the early 1990s, and in 1994 -- before taking the reins at Time -- he launched Pathfinder, a grand but ultimately doomed Time Warner (TWX) Web portal whose rise and fall was chronicled in Michael Wolff's Burn Rate. [UPDATE: See Wolff's take on what kind of Jobs biography Isaacson might write here.] After Time and Pathfinder, Isaacson spent two unhappy years as chairman of CNN before taking over the Aspen Institute, where he remains president and CEO -- a post that gives him the credentials to make guest appearances on TV (most frequently on the Charlie Rose Show) and plenty of time for other projects. In the past decade, he has accepted a long list of honorary positions. He is on the boards of Tulane University, United Airlines and the Bipartisan Policy Center. He is chairman of the board of Teach for America and vice chairman of the Louisiana Recovery Authority. He serves as co-chair of the U.S.-Vietnamese Dialogue on Agent Orange, and in 2007 President George W. Bush named him chairman of the U.S.-Palestinian Public-Private Partnership. The Jobs book will be his fourth major biography. In addition to Kissinger: A Biography (1992) he has written Benjamin Franklin: An American Life (2003) and Einstein: His Life and Universe (2007). His most recent book is American Sketches: Great Leaders, Creative Thinkers, and Heroes of a Hurricane (2009). According to Simon & Schuster, Apple's CEO has given Isaacson unprecedented access -- including access to his family, colleagues at Apple and a tour of his childhood home. But until Sunday's announcement, it wasn't clear to outsiders that the book was a sure thing. Because what Jobs gives, he can also take away. In the early 1980s Jobs invited Michael Moritz, then Time's Silicon Valley reporter, to chronicle the creation of the Macintosh for the book that became The Little Kingdom (1984). But when Moritz reported, in Time's 1983 Machine of the Year cover package, the story (here) of how Jobs' initially refused to acknowledge paternity of his first daughter, Lisa, access was abruptly cut off. Moritz had to finish the book without Apple's cooperation. Moritz went on to become a partner at Sequoia Capital and to play a key role in funding, among other high-tech start-ups, Google (GOOG), YouTube, Yahoo (YHOO) and Cisco (CSCO). This will not be Isaacson's first crack at high-tech hagiography. In 1996 he persuaded Microsoft's (MSFT) Bill Gates to give him access for what Isaacson pitched as a shot at making Gates Time's Person of the Year. Gates lost out to AIDS researcher David Ho, but Isaacson's piece ran on the cover the next week. You can read it here. How did Walter manage to win the trust of Steve Jobs, a man whose penchant for secrecy -- and his contempt for journalists -- are legendary? Says Simon & Schuster editor-in-chief Priscilla Painton, Isaacson's editor and a Time alumna: "It was Walter's idea. And you know Walter -- he just worked at it." Also on Fortune.com: The day Fred Wilson dumped AAPL Apple's crunch: Was there a leak? 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Donaldson) Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2011 20:16:41 -0400 Subject: [NPMUG] Goodwill CRC update, Friday, April 8, 2011 Message-ID: Dear Mac friends: Many thanks to Charlie Hutchens, John Hamill, Tucker Trainor, Marty Swartz, Noah Covert and his dad, Damon, and Dave Sevick for joining me at the Goodwill Computer Recycling Center "annex" last Friday. Please excuse the tardiness of this report. I've had some kernel panic issues, and wiped my hard drive and re-installed the OS is hopes of clearing it up. Restoring from Time Machine screwed up my FileMaker registration, and it took until today (Monday) to get it cleared up. Friday was a glorious day refurbishing higher-end G4 QuickSilver and Mirror Drive Door PowerMac Towers, all but two capable of running OS X.5 Leopard. We loaded up the Leopard-capable Macs with 1.0 gb RAM each. There was also a G5 iMac from the Marty Swartz workshop. If you're one of those folks who just can't live without Rosetta to emulate all that PowerPC software you own, please keep these G4 Towers in mind after OS X.7 Lion, rumored to be without Rosetta, is released later this summer. They're a good backup to keep the PPC software alive and running. There were nine Macs in all to put our all-time total is now 2,914. We saved any Macs for de-manufacture for a future slow day. We didn't get any new shipments from the Goodwill mother ship this week, so there were no USB keyboards or mice. As usual, our parking is in the Goodwill lot across the street from our 2400 East Carson St. location. If you think you may want to join us some Friday, please send me your car make, color and license number so we can let Goodwill know you will be in the lot. We'll have another workday thisFriday, April 15. 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 Tue Apr 12 09:48:19 2011 From: dave at davesevick.com (Dave Sevick) Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 11:48:19 -0400 Subject: [NPMUG] Apple To Launch Video-Focused Cloud Service ( RUMOR ) Message-ID: http://blogs.forbes.com/ericsavitz/2011/04/12/apple-to-launch-video-focused-cloud-service-jefferies-contends/ Apple To Launch Video-Focused Cloud Service, Jefferies Contends Apple (AAPL) ?is about to launch a new video-focused cloud-based service,? Jefferies analyst Peter Misek asserts in a research note this morning. He thinks that Apple will offer a subscription-based service, and also could benefit from a ?halo effect that increases units and ASPs for existing products.? Misek thinks Apple is going to offer a ?new far reaching cloud-based service that is more than just a music or content locker and focused on video.? He adds that Apple?s push into the living room ?is likely to include a new device,? although he adds that he isn?t sure what it will be. ?We would guess a TV or a new set-top box,? he adds. Misek thinks a move to launch interactive TVs and a cloud-based service, along with a related boost to existing devices, could be a huge boost to revenue: he thinks the company could then produce FY 2012 revenue in the $150-171 billion range, above his current estimate of $134 billion, and the consensus estimate at $118 billion. Revenue in that range would be up 50%-70% from consensus FY 2011 revenue forecasts of around $100 billion. The Jefferies analyst adds that he thinks the company?s new data center in North Carolina ?has gone live or will do so shortly.? and he adds that there are ?unconfirmed indications? that Apple could build another large data center next to the first one. He points out that Apple purchased adjacent land ?at a high price,? and that aerial footage shows that Apple has cleared adjacent land. He adds that at the announcement ceremony for the facility ?a mock-up showed two side-by-side data centers.? Misek adds that he believes ?plans for data center builds in other parts of the U.S. and Europe are accelerating meaningfully.? Misek is convinced that all of the activity centers on offering some kind of video service. ?While much has been speculated on what these data centers could be for it seems that much of this is likely being built for video,? he writes. ?How do we come to that hypothesis? It is a guess based on the size of the storage that has been purchased, the fact that video consumes far more data than audio, and the introduction of a simple audio locker or cloud-based version of iTunes is unlikely to require this much storage and capability out of the gate. Second we find some of the chatter in the content world to be centered around the iPad and future services. We find it notable that the content companies, citing a lack of domain license, asked Cablevision (CVC) to remove channels from its iPad app. We believe these same companies are negotiating some sort of deal with Apple. We would find it easy to believe that Jobs? final hurrah before turning the reins over would be to revolutionize video much in the same way Apple has transformed the mobile, computing, and music world. It is also notable that his authorized biography is due in 2012.? AAPL this morning is up 20 cents at $331. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: http://davesevick.com/pipermail/npmug/attachments/20110412/23c0337e/attachment.htm From jklingelhoefer at gmail.com Wed Apr 13 06:11:58 2011 From: jklingelhoefer at gmail.com (Jeff Klingelhoefer) Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 08:11:58 -0400 Subject: [NPMUG] General rumors on iPhone5 Message-ID: Well, my 3GS is getting a bit beat. Is there going to be an iPhone 5 in June / July? My 2 year is up and i want to be sure I keep current. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://davesevick.com/pipermail/npmug/attachments/20110413/7034db0e/attachment.htm From marty.swartz at gmail.com Wed Apr 13 06:46:55 2011 From: marty.swartz at gmail.com (Marty Swartz) Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 08:46:55 -0400 Subject: [NPMUG] General rumors on iPhone5 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: The Magic iPhone 8-ball (and Google search "iPhone 5 release date") say "answer unclear - ask again later". NO rumor mills are predicting June/July. -Marty Swartz On Wednesday, April 13, 2011, Jeff Klingelhoefer wrote: > Well, my 3GS is getting a bit beat.? Is there going to be an iPhone 5 in June / July?? My 2 year is up and i want to be sure I keep current. > > -- "What you can do, or dream you can do, begin it; boldness has genius, power and magic in it." Johann von Goethe From charles at firthconsulting.com Wed Apr 13 07:12:30 2011 From: charles at firthconsulting.com (Charles Firth) Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 09:12:30 -0400 Subject: [NPMUG] General rumors on iPhone5 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <0DAF7C73-F802-4C9D-95D0-A5AD68B4A738@firthconsulting.com> It's been every June since the first iPhone came out - but this year, the rumors are hinting at nothing until 2012. Most likely, the delay (if there even is one) is caused by the need for LTE to be better supported and deployed. I know Apple's been unhappy with how long it's taking AT&T and Verizon to get LTE coverage going, so it's possible that's caused the iPhone 5 to be delayed. It's just speculation on my part though. We'll hopefully hear something official around WWDC (June 6) On Apr 13, 2011, at 8:46 AM, Marty Swartz wrote: > The Magic iPhone 8-ball (and Google search "iPhone 5 release date") > say "answer unclear - ask again later". NO rumor mills are predicting > June/July. > > -Marty Swartz > > On Wednesday, April 13, 2011, Jeff Klingelhoefer > wrote: >> Well, my 3GS is getting a bit beat. Is there going to be an iPhone 5 in June / July? My 2 year is up and i want to be sure I keep current. >> >> > > -- > "What you can do, or dream you can do, begin it; boldness has genius, power > and magic in it." Johann von Goethe > > > _______________________________________________ > NPMUG mailing list > NPMUG at davesevick.com > http://davesevick.com/mailman/listinfo/npmug From radonaldson at mac.com Fri Apr 15 19:03:42 2011 From: radonaldson at mac.com (Robert A. Donaldson) Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2011 21:03:42 -0400 Subject: [NPMUG] Goodwill CRC update, Friday, April 15, 2011 Message-ID: <787D6888-A7E2-4604-85C0-4C757E9CFA6B@mac.com> Dear Mac friends: Many thanks to Charlie Hutchens, Rich Fitzgibbon, John Hamill, Tucker Trainor, Terry Golightly and Dave Sevick for joining me at the Goodwill Computer Recycling Center "annex" today. Today was a very productive day on the work benches as we pulled one good Mac after another from the delivery bins from Goodwill. Included in the mix was another G5 Dual 1.8 ghz Power Mac Tower. Tucker accurately diagnosed a bad RAM chip to put it quickly in working order, then loaded it up with 4 gb RAM. This is the second G5 Tower we've seen in two weeks that's been able to be turned around and imaged quickly. We have four more in the wings, but there are "parts" issues with them. We refurbished 19 Macs in all to put our all-time total is now 2,929. We de-manufactured four Macs. Today's shipment from the Goodwill mother ship had just two USB keyboards and mice. As usual, our parking is in the Goodwill lot across the street from our 2400 East Carson St. location. If you think you may want to join us some Friday, please send me your car make, color and license number so we can let Goodwill know you will be in the lot. We'll have another workday next Friday, April 22. 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 Sun Apr 17 15:52:30 2011 From: ronladams7 at gmail.com (Ron_A) Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2011 15:52:30 -0600 Subject: [NPMUG] Apple and the TV industry Message-ID: <342F816A-5410-4F81-AB81-57968A35212A@gmail.com> http://cdixon.org/2011/04/17/apple-and-the-tv-industry/ The TV industry is a major segment of the consumer electronics industry and Apple is the leading consumer electronics company in the world. Thus far Apple has entered the TV market with a stand-alone device, Apple TV. There has been speculation about whether Apple might enter the TV market by creating an actual TV. The most convincing objections to that idea cite the unfavorable industry structure: the power of the cable operators, the low margins on TVs, the infrequency of people buying new TVs, etc. I thought it would be interesting to go back and look at the reasoning analysts used to predict the failure of the iPhone before its launch in 2007. Some predicted it would fail because the other handset makers would successfully compete with Apple: The iPod also conquered the problem of small screens and cheesy navigation. With its newfound popularity, the company was also able to get music publishers to agree to its terms. Unfortunately for Apple, problems like that don?t exist in the handset business. Cell phones aren?t clunky, inadequate devices. Instead, they are pretty good. Really good. Why do you think they call it a Crackberry? Because the lumpy design and confusing interface of the device is causing people to break into cars? No, it?s because people are addicted to it. Samsung has scoured the world?s design schools and hired artists on three continents to keep its phones looking good. Motorola has revived its fortunes with design. KDDI, a Japanese carrier, has a design showcase in the teen shopping area of Tokyo just to be close to trends. And Sharp doesn?t skimp when it comes to putting LCD TVs on its phones. Apple, in other words, won?t be competing against rather doltish, unstylish companies like the old Compaq. The handset companies move pretty quick and put out new models every few weeks. [emphasis added] Other analysts predicted Apple?s phone was doomed because of the mobile phone industry structure ? mobile operators commanded so much power via subsidies, retail distribution etc: Apple will launch a mobile phone in January, and it will become available during 2007. It will be a lovely bit of kit, a pleasure to behold, and its limited functionality will be easy to access and use. The Apple phone will be exclusive to one of the major networks in each territory and some customers will switch networks just to get it, but not as many as had been hoped. As customers start to realise that the competition offers better functionality at a lower price, by negotiating a better subsidy, sales will stagnate. After a year a new version will be launched, but it will lack the innovation of the first and quickly vanish. The only question remaining is if, when the iPod phone fails, it will take the iPod with it. [emphasis added] I am not citing these analysts to mock them. Hindsight is 20/20 and it was quite reasonable at the time to assume that a new phone from Apple would confront the same issues that new phones from other companies confronted. What Apple ended up doing, however, was creating a phone that was so incredibly desirable to consumers that it completely restructured the industry, causing a massive shift of power away from the carriers. Regarding the TV industry, here is what Steve Jobs said last year at AllThingsD: Q: Is it time to throw out the interface for TV? Does television need a new human interface. A: The problem with innovation in the TV industry is the go-to-market strategy. The TV industry has a subsidized model that gives everyone a set top box for free. So no one wants to buy a box. Ask TiVo, ask Roku, ask us? ask Google in a few months. The television industry fundamentally has a subsidized business model that gives everyone a set-top box, and that pretty much undermines innovation in the sector. The only way this is going to change is if you start from scratch, tear up the box, redesign and get it to the consumer in a way that they want to buy it. But right now, there?s no way to do that?.The TV is going to lose until there?s a viable go-to-market strategy. That?s the fundamental problem with the industry. It?s not a problem with the technology, it?s a problem with the go-to-market strategy?.I?m sure smarter people than us will figure this out, but that?s why we say Apple TV is a hobby. So Jobs doesn?t believe an ?additional box? is a viable strategy for seriously entering the TV industry. This leaves three places to enter: 1) integrating into set top boxes, 2) integrating into other TVs, or 3) Apple creating its own TV. Regarding #1, the last thing the cable operators want is for internet-delivered programming that bypasses their cable channels to become widespread ? they see that as the fast track to become a dumb pipe. Re #2: This just seems very unlike Apple ? the most vertically integrated company in tech, and famous for wanting to control every aspect of the product and user experience. Re #3, let?s imagine Apple develops a TV that is as groundbreaking as the iPhone was. The biggest problem ?smart TVs? have today is that they need clunky IR transmitters to control set top boxes because the cable operators won?t willingly interoperate. So a new Apple TV would have to drum up such incredible consumer demand that the operators would feel compelled to support it. This does indeed seem harder in the TV than in the mobile industry. At least in the US you had 4 nationwide mobile operators at the time of the iPhone launch. In TV, consumers normally have at most two real choices for traditional cable programming ? cable and satellite ? and two real choices for two-way internet ? cable and DSL/FIOS. Perhaps Apple won?t enter the market due to its structure. But that didn?t stop them in mobile phones where the structure was similarly difficult. The mistake analysts made about the iPhone was to assume the current industry structure would be sustained after Apple?s entry. I?d be wary of making the same assumption about the TV industry. ? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://davesevick.com/pipermail/npmug/attachments/20110417/985119ca/attachment-0001.htm From kim at equiparts.net Sun Apr 17 19:56:29 2011 From: kim at equiparts.net (Kim Coles - Equiparts) Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2011 21:56:29 -0400 Subject: [NPMUG] Apple launches Apple Support Communities - CNET News References: <233238677.1627481303091285332.JavaMail.app@phx1-rb-legacy-app1.cnet.com> Message-ID: Apple launches Apple Support Communities - CNET News URL: http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-20054671-263.html After a brief announcement followed by months of no news about Apple's new social-based support site, Apple Support Communities finally makes its debut. April 17, 2011 9:05 AM PDT Apple launches Apple Support Communities by Topher Kessler Apple's support discussion forum has been a popular location for Mac users to interact with and get help from other Mac users. Last year, Apple announced that the forums would be evolving into a new social-based site called Apple Support Communities, but for the past seven months there has been no further information about the changes, until yesterday when new the Communities site went live. The new support site is now very user-centric and has a different layout and feel to it, so if you have frequently used the Apple discussions you might initially be confused by the changes. However, the site's organization is still similar. Previously, the discussions were composed of a main forum contents page that contained sections for each Apple product (a fairly standard forum layout), and in these sections users could post questions. Despite the changes in the new site, this organization still exists in that each Apple product is now represented by a "community," within which users start discussions. The Communities support a number of user-centric features, including home pages, personal RSS feeds, subscriptions and notifications, and status information about discussions and user presence on the site. Postings also support a number of new organization and styling options, such as threaded discussions and the use of popularity-based tagging. These features should help people find answers to their questions and hopefully prevent redundancy in the site, but as with all new efforts, only time will tell to see how useful it is. We recommend you check the new site out and explore its new features, but if you find yourself initially getting lost in the site, just look for your support area in "communities" areas (ie, Leopard, Snow Leopard, MacBook Pro, iPad, or iPhone), and the site's organization should fall in place from there. If you need help getting started, Apple has a "How it Works" page that outlines the major features and how to use them. CNET: The source for computers and technology http://www.cnet.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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"This is Alex, the best computer voice I've been able to find, which comes as standard equipment on every Macintosh. For most of my life, I never gave a second thought to my ability to speak. It was like breathing. In those days, I was living in a fool's paradise. After surgeries for cancer took away my ability to speak, eat or drink, I was forced to enter this virtual world in which a computer does some of my living for me." Ebert, wearing a facial prosthesis and typing on his MacBook, was joined by his wife, Chaz, and friends John Hunter and Dean Ornish in making the presentation. Continued... -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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But it's one that film critic Roger Ebert demonstrated that he could overcome, in a talk at the TED 2011 Conference in Long Beach, California, in February. "These are my words, but this is not my voice," Ebert told the audience of nearly 2,000. "This is Alex, the best computer voice I've been able to find, which comes as standard equipment on every Macintosh. For most of my life, I never gave a second thought to my ability to speak. It was like breathing. In those days, I was living in a fool's paradise. After surgeries for cancer took away my ability to speak, eat or drink, I was forced to enter this virtual world in which a computer does some of my living for me." Ebert, wearing a facial prosthesis and typing on his MacBook, was joined by his wife, Chaz, and friends John Hunter and Dean Ornish in making the presentation. Continued... -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Don't risk it - and chuck the email straight in the trashcan? or Take a careful look at the email, to try to weigh up the chances of it being a malicious attack? or Open the attachment straight away - after all, the chances of peeking at a salacious photograph outweigh the consequences of a malware infection? Here are the details of just such an email which has been spammed around the world: Subject: I'm going to send you the Photos in Attached file: DSC0173519.zip Message body: Hello Man, I don't know how to say it, but I've tryed before a long time to send you some photos, but I've thought that you aren't interested to see me. But now I'm going to send you the Photos in the Attachment. Download the pictures and extract they, I'm sure that you will like they. The password is: 123456 Have a great day. The messages have one attachment, called DSC0173519.zip. The ZIP file is encrypted (presumably in an attempt to defeat anti-virus products running at the email gateway - sorry Mr Cybercriminal, that didn't stop Sophos) with the password mentioned in the body of the email. Within the ZIP is an executable file, DSC0173519.exe, which Sophos proactively detects as Mal/Behav-043. If you're not protected by Sophos, and make the mistake of running the program it will drop another file onto your hard drive, which Sophos detects as Troj/Agent-REX spyware Trojan horse. In other words, your Windows computer is now infected with malware and a remote hacker could be stealing information from your PC, all because you were tricked into thinking a complete stranger had sent you their digital photograph. It may be the 21st century, but with social engineering tricks so easily fooling users into making poor decisions maybe we're kidding ourselves in believing we live in an enlightened world. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://davesevick.com/pipermail/npmug/attachments/20110419/66358d6b/attachment.htm From ronladams7 at gmail.com Wed Apr 20 10:17:11 2011 From: ronladams7 at gmail.com (Ron_A) Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2011 10:17:11 -0600 Subject: [NPMUG] iPhone Tracker.... Message-ID: <7815E715-6135-4A28-8B70-677992F95089@gmail.com> http://petewarden.github.com/iPhoneTracker/ ? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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As an expert in this field, I have three points of argument to raise. 1) Apple is not collecting this data. And to suggest otherwise is completely misrepresenting Apple. I quote: Apple is gathering this data, but it?s clearly intentional, as the database is being restored across backups, and even device migrations. Apple is not harvesting this data from your device. This is data on the device that you as the customer purchased and unless they can show concrete evidence supporting this claim ? network traffic analysis of connections to Apple servers ? I rebut this claim in full. Through my research in this field and all traffic analysis I have performed, not once have I seen this data traverse a network. As rich of data as this might be, it?s actually illegal under California state law: (a) No person or entity in this state shall use an electronic tracking device to determine the location or movement of a person. I don?t think that?s a legal battle Apple wants to face considering the sale of over 100 million iDevices worldwide. That raises the question ? how is this data used? It?s used all the time by software running on the phone. Built-In applications such as Maps and Camera use this geolocational data to operate. Apple provides an API for access to location awareness called Core Location. Here is Apple?s description of this softare library: The Core Location framework lets you determine the current location or heading associated with a device. The framework uses the available hardware to determine the user?s position and heading. You use the classes and protocols in this framework to configure and schedule the delivery of location and heading events. You can also use it to define geographic regions and monitor when the user crosses the boundaries of those regions. Seems pretty clear. So now the question becomes why did this ?hidden? file secretly appear in iOS 4? 2) This hidden file is neither new nor secret. It?s just moved. Location services have been available to the Apple device for some time. Understand what this file is ? a log generated by the various radios and sensors located within the device. This file is utilized by several operations on the device that actually is what makes this device pretty ?smart?. This file existed in a different form prior to iOS 4, but not in form it is today. Currently, consolidated.db lies within the ?User Data Partition? on the device. This is a logical filesystem that maintains non-system level privileges and where most of the data is stored. When you perform an iOS Backup through iTunes, it is backing up this partition. Prior to iOS 4, a file called h-cells.plist actually existed in the /root/Library/caches/locationd folder, but with hidden access from other software and applications. h-cells.plist contained much of the same information regarding baseband radio locations as consolidated.db does now, but in Apple Property List format rather than sqlite3. Through my work with various law enforcement agencies, we?ve used h-cells.plist on devices older than iOS 4 to harvest geolocational evidence from iOS devices. So lets recap. h-cells.plist = Pre iOS 4 / Radio Logs including Geolocational Data / Hidden from Forensic Extraction (usually) consolidated.db = iOS 4+ / Radio logs including geolocational Data / Easily acquired through simple forensic techniques The change comes with a feature introduced in iOS 4 ? Mutlitasking and Background Location Services. Apps now have to use Apple?s API to operate in the background ? remember, this is not pure unix we?re dealing with ? it is only a logical multitasking through Apple?s API. Because of these new APIs and the sandbox design of 3rd party applications, Apple had to move access to this data. Either way, it is not secret, malicious, or hidden. Users still have to approve location access to any application and have the ability to instantly turn off location services to applications inside the Settings menu on their device. That does not stop the generation of these logs, however, it simply prevents applications from utilizing the APIs to access the data. 3) This ?discovery? was published months ago. I understand that Mr. Allan and Mr. Warden are valued researchers for O?Reilly, but they have completely missed the boat on this one. In the spirit of academia, due diligence is a must to determine who else has done such research. Mr. Allan, Mr. Warden, and O?Reilly have overlooked and failed to cite an entire area of research that has already been done on this subject and claimed full authorship of it. Let?s break down my history: Back in 2010 when the iPad first came out, I did a research project at the Rochester Institute of Technology on Apple forensics. Professor Bill Stackpole of the Networking, Security, & Systems Administration Department was teaching a computer forensics course and pitched the idea of doing forensic analysis on my recently acquired iPad. We purchased a few utilities and began studying the various components of apple mobile devices. We discovered three things: Third Party Application data can contain usernames, passwords, and interpersonal communication data, usually in plain text. Apple configurations and logs contain lots of network and communication related data. Geolocational Artifacts were one of the single most important forensic vectors found on these devices. After presenting that project to Professor Stackpole?s forensic class, I began work last summer with Sean Morrissey, managing director of Katana Forensics on it?s iOS Forensic Software utility, Lantern. While developing with Sean, I continued to work with Professor Stackpole an academic paper outlining our findings in the Apple Forensic field. This paper was accepted for publication into the Hawaii International Conference for System Sciences 44 and is now an IEEE Publication. I presented on it in January in Hawaii and during my presentation discussed consolidated.db and it?s contents with my audience ? my paper was written prior to iOS 4 coming out, but my presentation was updated to include iOS 4 artifacts. Throughout the summer, I worked extensively with Sean on both developing Lantern and writing custom software to interpret forensic data for customers of ours who needed better ways of searching for and interpreting data. When the iPhone 4 came out, I was one of the first people in San Francisco to grab one (yes I waited to be in the front of that awful line). ( Look for the RIT shirt ) Within 24 hours of the iPhone 4?s release, we had updated Lantern to support forensic analysis of iOS 4.0 devices. Within 36 hours, we had began writing code to investigate consolidated.db. Once a jailbreak came out for iOS 4, I wrote a small proof of concept application to harvest the contents of consolidated.db and feed it to a server for remote location tracking. Ever since then, location artifacts have been a main area of interest for me. I?m now the Lead Engineer for Katana Forensics leading all technical research and development of both Lantern and private utilities. I travelled to Salt Lake City, UT in November for the Paraben Forensics Innovation Conference (PFIC) and presented with Sean on iOS Forensics including the content of consolidated.db. At that same conference, Sean and I announced the development of Lantern 2.0 which would fully support the interrogation of consolidated.db and other geolocational artifacts scattered throughout the device. Sean and I even wrote a book detailing iOS forensics involving iOS 4 devices that came out on December 5th, 2010. Sean Morrissey, Primary Author, Alex Levinson, Contributor In the course of writing Chapter 10 ? Network Forensics ? I fully explain and detail the examination of consolidated.db and other network artifacts within the device! Page 335 - Continued on page 336. In February of 2011, Sean and I previewed Lantern 2.0 at the DoD Cyber Crimes Conference in Washington, DC including our geolocational features. Lantern 2.0 has been on the market for months now and performs the same functionality Mr. Warden?s utility does and much more. We correlate geolocational data embedded in images and third party application. We give you a geolocational timeline of events in list view showing much more than baseband logs within consolidated.db. While forensics isn?t in the forefront of technology headlines these days, that doesn?t mean critical research isn?t being done surrounding areas such as mobile devices. I have no problem with what Mr. Warden and Mr. Allan have created or presented on, but I do take issue with them making erroneous claims and not citing previously published work. I?m all for creative development and research, as long as it?s honest. ? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://davesevick.com/pipermail/npmug/attachments/20110421/53796270/attachment-0001.htm From radonaldson at mac.com Fri Apr 22 15:50:53 2011 From: radonaldson at mac.com (Robert A. Donaldson) Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2011 17:50:53 -0400 Subject: [NPMUG] Goodwill CRC update, Friday, April 22, 1010 Message-ID: Dear Mac friends: Many thanks to Charlie Hutchens, Rich Fitzgibbon, John Hamill, and Dave Sevick for joining me at the Goodwill Computer Recycling Center "annex" today. Today began on a bittersweet note. Rich Fitzgibbon brought in a very personal donation: His first iMac, a 500 mhz slot-load CD. After he was done with it some time ago, it passed to one of his children. Then it went to his brother-in-law who enjoyed it for some years. This week, Fitz passed to him another family hand-down, a G4 iMac ("Fitz, this thing ROCKS!"). So today, Fitz got to re-image the hard drive with our package, and it joined our inventory as CRC number 9317. Where it will go, we don't know. But it will serve someone well. The circle of Macs, indeed.... The work benches today probably saw the widest variety of Macs for refurbishing we've had in some time. They ranged from tray-load CD iMacs to a Power Mac G4 Mirror Drive Door dual 1.25 ghz. We refurbished 29 Macs, and de-manufactured another 10. Our all-time total is now 2,958. Included in today's effort were 20 G4 PowerMac Towers the previous owner imaged with OS X.5 Leopard after wiping the hard drive. We've left these installations intact for the next owners. They include 19 933 mhz boxes and one dual 1.25 ghz box, all with at least 1.0 gb of RAM. They should be in Goodwill's ComputerWorks store by the end of next week. There were no incoming shipments today, so there were no keyboards and mice. As usual, our parking is in the Goodwill lot across the street from our 2400 East Carson St. location. If you think you may want to join us some Friday, please send me your car make, color and license number so we can let Goodwill know you will be in the lot. We'll have another workday next Friday, April 29. 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 Sat Apr 23 07:27:22 2011 From: dave at davesevick.com (Dave Sevick) Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2011 09:27:22 -0400 Subject: [NPMUG] "The iPhone and iPad are decimating companies left and right" ..... Message-ID: HTTP://WWW.INFOWORLD.COM/D/MOBILE-TECHNOLOGY/ANATOMY-FAILURE-MOBILE-FLOPS-RIM-MICROSOFT-AND-NOKIA-566?PAGE=0,0 APRIL 22, 2011 Anatomy of failure: Mobile flops from RIM, Microsoft, and Nokia The iPhone and iPad are decimating companies left and right, at a pace even faster than the PC revolution's by Galen Gruman of InfoWorld .... is a very detailed and excellent description of how Apple's competitors are struggling to survive. Highly recommended ! Dave -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Thanks! -Dave Marra/Apple From marty.swartz at gmail.com Tue Apr 26 19:59:42 2011 From: marty.swartz at gmail.com (Marty Swartz) Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2011 21:59:42 -0400 Subject: [NPMUG] Spring freshening your SE/30! Message-ID: Hello, all. Tired of looking at that dingy brown Mac Plus? Wanna restore your Color Classic to its original and inspiring color? (What were they calling that? Platinum Gray?) Here is the alchemical fix, I've not tried it yet but it looks ... interesting. Igor, fetch the tongs and goggles! http://retr0bright.wikispaces.com/ - Marty Swartz -- "What you can do, or dream you can do, begin it; boldness has genius, power and magic in it." Johann von Goethe From dave at davesevick.com Tue Apr 26 22:39:06 2011 From: dave at davesevick.com (Dave Sevick) Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 00:39:06 -0400 Subject: [NPMUG] Photos of recycled computers in use at the Martin Luther King School, El Crucero, Nicaragua Message-ID: <8E3B3E47-A640-42F7-8410-13CC9D90A0A7@davesevick.com> http://gallery.me.com/davesevick#100476 This is a small sample of 9 photos that came in tonight from our Nicaraguan partners: The Almori Foundation - http://almorifoundation.org/ ( Lily Maria Benda?a McEwan ) innerCHANGE WORKS - http://www.innerchangeworks.org/ ( Janet Foerster ) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://davesevick.com/pipermail/npmug/attachments/20110427/f1392e87/attachment.htm From dave at davesevick.com Wed Apr 27 08:47:03 2011 From: dave at davesevick.com (Dave Sevick) Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 10:47:03 -0400 Subject: [NPMUG] White iPhone 4 arrives ! Message-ID: <14F09F1B-4DD1-4270-9B6B-9F4421EB26A1@davesevick.com> http://macdailynews.com/2011/04/27/its-official-apples-white-iphone-4-arrives-tomorrow-10-months-late/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+wordpress%2FxhfA+%28MacDailyNews%29 It?s official: Apple?s white iPhone 4 arrives tomorrow; over 10 months late Apple today announced that the white iPhone 4 will be available beginning tomorrow. White iPhone 4 models will be available from Apple?s online store, at Apple?s retail stores, AT&T and Verizon Wireless stores and select Apple Authorized Resellers. ?The white iPhone 4 has finally arrived and it?s beautiful,? said Philip Schiller, Apple?s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing, in the press release. ?We appreciate everyone who has waited patiently while we?ve worked to get every detail right.? MacDailyNews Take: Miracle. Being 10 months and 4 days late, it ought to change water into wine. Pricing & Availability White models of iPhone 4 will be available in Austria, Australia, Belgium, Canada, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Macau, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Switzerland, Sweden, Taiwan, Thailand, UK and the US, beginning Thursday, April 28 and in many more countries around the world soon. White iPhone 4 will be available for a suggested retail price of $199 (US) for the 16GB model and $299 (US) for the 32GB model with a new two year agreement through the Apple Store, at Apple?s retail stores, AT&T and Verizon Wireless stores and select Apple Authorized Resellers. Source: Apple Inc. Related articles: Analysts say oft-delayed white iPhone 4 may be sales catalyst for Apple ? April 25, 2011 Apple?s oft-delayed white iPhone 4 appears in Verizon stock systems ? April 16, 2011 Apple reiterates spring timeframe for white iPhone 4 release ? April 14, 2011 Report: Apple to trot out white iPhone 4 after 10-month delay ? April 13, 2011 Mythical White iPhone 4 deleted from Apple?s retail database ? April 6, 2011 Apple?s ridiculously-delayed white iPhone 4 to ship in April ? March 9, 2011 How hard is it to make a white iPhone 4? ? October 27, 2010 Apple delays white iPhone until spring 2011 ? October 26, 2010 White iPhone 4 appears in Apple Store app, reserve yours now ? October 26, 2010 White iPhone spotted in New York, owner explains why it?s not yet available ? October 15, 2010 Apple may finally be past white iPhone 4 obstacles ? July 28, 2010 Apple: White iPhone 4 will not be available until ?later this year? ? July 23, 2010 Apple: White iPhone 4 will not be available until second half of July ? June 23, 2010 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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In fact, TenFourFox is offered in hand-tuned builds for each PPC processor: the G3, the G4/7400 and /7450 and, of course, the G5. With the upgrade from Firefox 3.6, you get all the JavaScript speed improvements that Mozilla rolled into Firefox 4, making it by far the fastest browser available for the PPC-Mac. You'll also get WebM video support, access to most of the Firefox 4 add-ons and, of course, HTML5 and CSS3 support. If you're using a perfectly decent and still loved PPC Mac, now is the time to furnish it with a modern browser and extend its life on the Web for years to come. [via MacStories] TenFourFox brings Firefox 4 to PPC Macs originally appeared on TUAW on Wed, 27 Apr 2011 09:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Source | Permalink | Email this | Comments http://www.tuaw.com/2011/04/27/tenfourfox-brings-firefox-4-to-ppc-macs/ Sent with MobileRSS HD FREE "We do not quit playing because we grow old; we grow old because we quit playing." - Oliver Wendell Holmes -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://davesevick.com/pipermail/npmug/attachments/20110427/33aefbee/attachment-0001.htm From radonaldson at mac.com Wed Apr 27 16:58:15 2011 From: radonaldson at mac.com (Robert A. Donaldson) Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 18:58:15 -0400 Subject: [NPMUG] Is it just me? Message-ID: <8BE90BFB-5F57-4AE2-A813-17EAC48462E2@mac.com> Dear Mac friends: I come to this confessional of collective wisdom this evening to bare my soul and express some degree of frustration. Please pause your play of Angry Birds to allow this venting. I'm really starting to get mad with MobileMe. Perhaps you followed the tale of my day-long unexplained mail outage one Saturday not so long ago, and the resulting missing mail that took some hoop-jumping to get back. Now I've been forced to "upgrade" to the new calendar format which synchs automatically in the cloud, but only if you use Snow Leopard. My master calendar data now lives on an Apple server, and no longer on my Mac. This was not an option; you have to convert by May 5 or else. When I access MobileMe "in the cloud" from my work Mac, it seems to take an inordinate time for the mail to load, and the calendar even longer, that is if it doesn't report "Could not load data. Server error. Try again later." The calendar in my first-generation iPod Touch is blank. Nothing, nada, zip. Until recently, MobileMe (I've finally begun to call it that, steadfastly calling it dotMac since I subscribed in 2003) has done just what I needed: ? An easily-accessable, reliable email service with only four pieces of Spam since 2003. Really, just four. ? An easy way to synch the five Macs I frequently use. It kept the Address Book, iCal, Safari bookmarks and several other things the SAME on all five Macs, one Tiger, two Leopard and two Snow Leopard. Now the iCal synch is kaput. MobileMe's iCal synch is now NOT for those of us who are sometimes referred to as "trailing edge" folks. It's now "move along, there's no reason to synch that stuff anymore." My chat with Apple Support about synching issues with my older Macs concluded with, "Well, sorry about that." I can only wonder what wonderful improvements will be coming in the next few months that will remind me I still use "quaint" Macs. The death of Rosetta comes to mind... So the question I put to your collective experience, as I have blissfully ignored all calendar options for years, is: Is there a calendar option out there that will run on PPC and Intel on Tiger, Leopard and Snow Leopard, that will synch painlessly with other Macs in my home? Thank you for your attention, and you may now resume your play of Angry Birds. Robert A. Donaldson radonaldson at mac.com (H) 412-922-3303 (M) 412-477-9188 From dotto1208 at aol.com Thu Apr 28 07:54:08 2011 From: dotto1208 at aol.com (dotto1208 at aol.com) Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2011 09:54:08 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [NPMUG] New Firefox Message-ID: <8CDD3C2E095308F-78C-227EA@Webmail-d121.sysops.aol.com> I'm confused. I saw info re Firefox 4 for Mac OS X. I went to the Mozilla page and downloaded it. When I went to drag the icon into my app file, the dialog box said I was attempting to replace the newer version already installed with the older version I had just downloaded. When I check "About Firefox" it gives the version as 3.6.16, but then later down in the box is says Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 20.5; en-US; rv:1.9.2.16) Gecko/20110319 Firefox 3.6.16. If I have version 3.6.16, why is it telling me when I try to install 4.0 that I am installing an older version? I'm confused. Help!! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://davesevick.com/pipermail/npmug/attachments/20110428/9dcf11bb/attachment.htm From dave at davesevick.com Thu Apr 28 08:04:03 2011 From: dave at davesevick.com (Dave Sevick) Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2011 10:04:03 -0400 Subject: [NPMUG] Free anti-virus for Mac named Best Anti-Malware solution at SC Awards (Europe) Message-ID: <30083A67-DDD8-4167-87EE-04B2DD5687AB@davesevick.com> Free anti-virus for Mac named Best Anti-Malware solution at SC Awards Who would have thought it? A free anti-virus program for Apple Macs being named best anti-malware solution ahead of those security products for boring old Windows. Well, that's exactly what happened at the SC Magazine Awards Europe 2011, held last week at the London Hilton on Park Lane. Over 530 of the industry's top companies saw Sophos Anti-Virus for Mac Home Edition successfully beat rivals including products from McAfee, Kaspersky and Symantec to win the coveted title of Best Anti-Malware Solution, at the glittering awards dinner. Naked Security's own Carole Theriault was on hand to receive the award, flanked by Qualys CEO Philippe Courtot and dead-pan comedian Stewart Francis. Carole was uncharacteristically lost for words when I asked her how she felt, but I think what has surprised all of us is just how open Mac users are becoming to the idea of security their computers with anti-malware software. Although the number of malware threats targeting Mac OS X is much much less than Windows, that doesn't mean that they are non-existent. And Sophos's free anti-virus for Mac home users has opened many eyes to the fact that security doesn't have to be an unpleasant experience. Sophos Anti-Virus for Mac Home Edition's success at the awards wasn't the end of the night as far as Sophos was concerned. The company was also named Information Security Vendor of the Year. A tremendous result in such a competitive marketplace. Our thanks go to SC Magazine's judging panel for recognising the hard work done by everyone at Sophos in the last year, and for our users and readers for supporting us! And if you're still dithering about whether you should run an anti-virus on your Mac at home, then do read the reviews... and then download our free Mac anti-virus. :-) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Source: International "Nicaraguan Connection Conference" for the United Methodist Church, Bethel Park, PA ... intro video tonight -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://davesevick.com/pipermail/npmug/attachments/20110428/5661c03c/attachment.htm