From dave at davesevick.com Mon Aug 1 07:02:20 2011 From: dave at davesevick.com (Dave Sevick) Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2011 09:02:20 -0400 Subject: [NPMUG] Fujitsu ScanSnap drivers for 10.7 Lion are out and working well Message-ID: <952DE0C4-63B3-4737-A8B9-8F3BD936BD1F@davesevick.com> One my favorite productivity tools the ScanSnap by Fujitsu ? fast, efficient, no consumable parts and a solid workhorse for scanning to readable PDF or hi-res photos. The drivers for Lion are out and working well for my S510M http://www.fujitsu.com/global/support/computing/peripheral/scanners/drivers/mac-mg22.html The newest Mac model is S1500M ? the drivers are ready for this model as well. Dave From dave at davesevick.com Tue Aug 2 16:57:42 2011 From: dave at davesevick.com (Dave Sevick) Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2011 18:57:42 -0400 Subject: [NPMUG] =?windows-1252?q?=22Mac=3A_The_dream_is_over=22_=85_89=25?= =?windows-1252?q?_of_Apple_users_see_malware_threats_as_a_reality?= Message-ID: Remember as you read this report that: Mac antivirus software remains FREE through Sophos. http://www.sophos.com/en-us/products/free-tools/sophos-antivirus-for-mac-home-edition.aspx From page 10 of the Mid-Year 2011 Security Threat Report ?... Operating Systems: Mac malware is now real Mac: The dream is over Just when you thought no malware could take a bite out of Apple... malware threats on the Mac are now a reality . Malware makers have discovered a new business in Macs and they?re not going to give up easily . It?s the biggest news on the Mac malware front in the past decade: Real, in-the-wild malware is infecting Mac users . Scammers use the same techniques (such as fake antivirus and SEO poisoning previously described) to infect Macs . In response to one scheme, the ?MacDefender? fake antivirus, Apple reportedly received more than 60,000 tech support calls . This caught Apple in a reactive position and it responded slowly . This scam was followed by two others? ?Mac Protector? and ?Mac Guard .? Mac Guard is particularly worrisome because it can install itself automatically without requiring an administrator password . In response, Apple has now instituted knowledge-based authentication (KBA) to prove user identity and regularly updates Xprotect, the anti-malware system built into recent releases of Mac OS X . We ran a poll on the Sophos Facebook page asking folks if they would now recommend that friends and family install antivirus software on their Macs . Of the 968 people who answered the poll, 89% said yes . 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Name: page12image42816.png Type: image/png Size: 3491 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://davesevick.com/pipermail/npmug/attachments/20110802/ef5115c8/attachment-0191.png From dave at davesevick.com Tue Aug 2 17:26:26 2011 From: dave at davesevick.com (Dave Sevick) Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2011 19:26:26 -0400 Subject: [NPMUG] =?windows-1252?q?The_Wedding_of_Katie_Sevick_to_Thomas_Ru?= =?windows-1252?q?su_=85_photos_by_Jenni_Grace?= Message-ID: Dear Mac folks, Extraordinary photographic work for my daughter's wedding on July 16, 2011 http://www.jennisphotography.com/KatieandTom/ http://www.jennisphotography.com/ Hope this helps some folks on the fence about choosing great local photographers. Dave ( P.S. this is an unsolicited word of praise for this photographer named Jenni Grace in Pittsburgh ? and a way to get a mention in for one of the best days of my life with my family. ) OK ? end of commercial ?. back to your regularly scheduled Mac news. :-) From ronladams7 at gmail.com Tue Aug 2 19:23:17 2011 From: ronladams7 at gmail.com (Ron_A) Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2011 19:23:17 -0600 Subject: [NPMUG] How Apple (unintentionally) revolutionized corporate IT - Fortune Tech Message-ID: <29968781-2072-480C-B2B3-4C2E302D159A@gmail.com> http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2011/08/02/apples-unintentional-corporate-it-revolution/ How Apple (unintentionally) revolutionized corporate IT August 2, 2011: 12:45 PM ET It's not its posh desktops and laptops that have created major changes in enterprise technology. It's mobile. By Aaron Levie, contributor FORTUNE -- In 1997, Michael Dell famously declared that if he were CEO of Apple (AAPL), he would close shop and return the money to shareholders. Steve Jobs has had plenty of reasons to gloat since then, but even just a decade ago, Apple was a footnote in the story of modern computing. Despite the company's comeback success with the iMac, the vast majority of 'knowledge workers' still relied on their staid WinTel (Windows + Intel (INTC)) platform, with the occasional marketer, designer or developer opting for Apple's sleeker products. Naturally, Windows PCs were also the familiar, mainstream choice for our personal lives. And so it seemed that Apple would be relegated to devices for the hip digital consumer and creative elite. But right when we thought we had Apple's place in the market pegged, they changed the world... with a phone. The iPhone's revolutionary combination of powerful apps, full web browsing, and all the media you could consume created an entirely new mobile experience for consumers and workers alike. Apple fed its newfound momentum with a deluge of subsequent products, ranging from updated iMacs to the Macbook Air. And with the iPad, Apple changed the world yet again only 36 months later. Fast forward to today, and Apple sits in the computer world's top position of power, controlling developers, devices, consumers, and much of the industry's overall direction. Maybe its biggest impact of all, however, was one that Apple didn't necessarily intend. For the better part of twenty years, Microsoft (MSFT) and a handful of other enterprise behemoths pretty much dominated the vertical stack of solutions that are core to the Fortune 500 and beyond. But if you ask around, not too many individuals or IT leaders are happy about this hegemony. Workers are quickly recognizing the stark contrast between the computing that occurs in their personal lives and the business status quo. In turn, they're bringing their own devices and apps to work, driving the emergence of an all-new technology landscape. This landscape isn't being targeted by Apple in any real way; the complexity, scale, security, and nuances of serving enterprises ? not to mention the inherent need to work with all the major (non-Apple) platforms enterprises use ? tend to keep Apple from building for this market. But even without making any direct enterprise play, Apple has had a profound influence on technology with its latest string of successes and by raising our standards along the way. So while Apple isn't intentionally leading an enterprise technology revolution, its products are nonetheless catalyzing one. For instance, 88% of the Fortune 100 are testing or deploying applications on the iPhone last year. The downstream effect of more iPhones and iPads in the enterprise is more sales of Apple's flagship products, with Mac worldwide sales growing by nearly over 28% year over year ? as Tim Cook, Apple's COO, puts it, "iPad clearly seems to be creating a halo effect for the Mac." Why does this matter? Well, once an enterprise adopts iPhones, iPads, and Macs en masse (as they continue to, judging by Apple's most recent quarter), or even Android devices for that matter, many of the existing applications ? be it a communication tool from IBM (IBM), or collaboration from Microsoft ? serve less productive purposes given the new way people are working. The toolset today's workers interact with on an ongoing basis is experiencing a wholesale transition ? a transition that's introducing us to the iEnterprise. Take, for instance, Procter & Gamble (PG), who came to Box.net in 2008 looking for a solution that could help employees connect to and collaborate on their content remotely, when no existing vendor would suffice. Fast-forward to 2011, and they're now deploying Box cloud content management to 18,000 individuals, in large part due to the proliferation of new platforms and devices that have emerged in just the past couple of years. The same story is true for businesses of all sizes and industries, ranging from Pandora (P) to Dole. It's why we've seen adoption in 73% of the Fortune 500. And we're clearly not the only ones benefiting from and driving this dramatic evolution of needs and demands in the enterprise. The iEnterprise isn't, as the moniker suggests, about enterprises that just implement products designed in Cupertino. It's about a fundamental change in how our enterprise technology is supported, adopted, and consumed. It's about the technology in our personal lives influencing and changing expectations in our professional lives. The iEnterprise isn't necessarily the convergence of the tools we use in these two worlds, but rather the consistency of ideals. While Steve Jobs introduces new products with words like "delightful" and "amazing," this vocabulary is nonexistent within the enterprise software set. There are a number of reasons for this. There's often a lack of passion, and even a bit of apathy, that shows in the final product. Applications and services feel bloated and uninspiring. The apps and hardware that we spend most of our waking hours with - and the most money on - tend to be the most complex, clunky, and unnerving. But like Apple, the iEnterprise is about vendors building technology that excites and surprises users. It's about solutions that work together, and about open ecosystems. It's about marketplaces that compete to win, and innovate to compete ? a major break from the status quo, where vendor lock-in enables long cycles of limited product enhancements, simply because the customer has nowhere else to go (Redmond, ahem). We're especially seeing it show up in the changing mobility of our enterprise offerings. Mobility used to be defined by quick and easy access to email or a conference call, led by Blackberry in the '90s and early '00s. The iPhone and iPad took this much further, and dozens of popular Android devices are now even making their way into large corporations. We're further seeing it with HP (HPQ) and its WebOS platform. Businesses can enable access to critical data, projects, or content through services like Salesforce and Roambi, Basecamp and Yammer, or Box, respectively. The iEnterprise is also about broadly useful, powerful platforms that connect and become enhanced through integration: cloud-delivered applications like Salesforce (CRM) to run your sales organization will connect to your business information on Box or HR information on Workday; Netsuite will plug into your social software from Yammer; GoodData will help visualize your client community results from GetSatisfaction; and Assistly plugs your customer support flow into Google Apps, which wraps all of this up in a robust marketplace for businesses. The mixing and matching of services that's common in our personal lives is now extending to the enterprise, and in turn driving vastly more open solutions that are changing the enterprise landscape. No, the Windows franchise isn't going anywhere. Inertia alone gives Microsoft another decade as the de facto enterprise operating system and software provider. With minimal innovation this could be extended even longer, but Apple has already made a profound impact by pushing us to rethink technology's role in our lives. It's changing the whole industry, and will have a lasting impact on our businesses. We have higher and more pronounced expectations for how technology can transform our personal lives ? and now our business lives, making us more productive and connected than ever before. Welcome to the iEnterprise. --Aaron Levie is the CEO and co-founder of Box.net. ? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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John On Aug 2, 2011, at 6:58 PM, npmug-request at davesevick.com wrote: > Send NPMUG mailing list submissions to > npmug at davesevick.com > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://davesevick.com/mailman/listinfo/npmug > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > npmug-request at davesevick.com > > You can reach the person managing the list at > npmug-owner at davesevick.com > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of NPMUG digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Apple now has more cash than the U.S. government - CNN.com (Ron_A) > 2. Lion and Apple Hardware Compatibility... (Ron_A) > 3. My 2 year anniversary with YouTube - an invaluable public > service by Google (Dave Sevick) > 4. Fujitsu ScanSnap drivers for 10.7 Lion are out and working > well (Dave Sevick) > 5. "Mac: The dream is over" ? 89% of Apple users see malware > threats as a reality (Dave Sevick) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2011 09:21:12 -0600 > From: Ron_A > Subject: [NPMUG] Apple now has more cash than the U.S. government - > CNN.com > To: NPMUG NPMUG > Message-ID: > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > > http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/innovation/07/29/apple.cash.government/index.html?eref=rss_latest&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fcnn_latest+%28RSS%3A+Most+Recent%29 > > Apple now has more cash than the U.S. government > > > The world's most highly valued tech company now has more cash on hand than the U.S. Treasury. > (CNN) -- Maybe the cash-strapped U.S. government should start selling iPads. > > According to the latest statement from the U.S. Treasury, the government had an operating cash balance Wednesday of $73.8 billion. That's still a lot of money, but it's less than what Steve Jobs has lying around. > > Tech juggernaut Apple had a whopping $76.2 billion in cash and marketable securities at the end of June, according to its last earnings report. Unlike the U.S. government, which is scrambling to avoid defaulting on its debt, Apple takes in more money than it spends. > > This symbolic feat -- the world's most highly valued tech company surpassing the fiscal strength of the world's most powerful nation -- is just the latest pinnacle for Apple, which has been on an unprecedented roll. > > Its Macs, iPhones and iPads remain hot sellers, its stock has surged past $400 a share and Apple just became the world's largest smartphone vendor by volume. > > There's been a lot of speculation about what Apple might buy with its piles of cash -- Facebook and Sony being two of the more high-profile examples -- but the company doesn't seem to be in any hurry to make a move. > > "We don't let the cash burn a hole in the pocket or make stupid acquisitions," CEO Jobs said last fall. "We'd like to continue to keep our powder dry because we think there are one or more strategic opportunities in the future." > > Offering Uncle Sam a short-term loan is probably not one of them. > > ? > > > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: http://davesevick.com/pipermail/npmug/attachments/20110729/e1e042c4/attachment-0001.htm > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2011 16:50:30 -0600 > From: Ron_A > Subject: [NPMUG] Lion and Apple Hardware Compatibility... > To: NPMUG NPMUG > Message-ID: <2B7A8088-CF38-48B3-8115-16F30E54C5FD at gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 > > I have a friend with a '11 iMac that, since upgrading to Lion, is experiencing Video lockups when coming out of Disk sleep mode. The condition is repeatable and consistent. He has been in communication with Apple in Austin and states that it appears to be a hardware compatibility problem with Lion?. Apple's hardware. > > If true, this would seem to be a huge miss. > > Any experience with this issue? > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2011 21:53:04 -0400 > From: Dave Sevick > Subject: [NPMUG] My 2 year anniversary with YouTube - an invaluable > public service by Google > To: npmug at davesevick.com > Message-ID: <7332EC92-4FB2-4356-A1EB-7F8662AEDE66 at davesevick.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" > > On Aug 1, 2009 I pulled my brand new iPhone 3GS out of my pocket to film an impromptu moment on the dance floor of a Greek and Italian wedding at the Sheraton Station Square in Pittsburgh: > > http://youtu.be/w3fPNLGuU1s ( 3,243 views ) > > > On July 31, 2011 ( 2 years later ) I still use YouTube extensively for research at work ?. and for fun. > > Like today for church we showcased Wendy's "Where's The Beef ?" commercial from 1984 during the church service on the "loaves and fishes miracle". I grabbed this video for our pastor to use: > > http://youtu.be/Ug75diEyiA0 ( 1,683,628 views as posted by hmnsn1627) > > And for a friend in a local rhythm and blues band, I recorded a few songs at a Neville Island club one night recently: http://youtu.be/EAu-UEplQ04?hd=1 > > ========= > So THANKS to all the good folks at YouTube ? still as useful as ever ?. and FREE > > Dave > > > > > > > > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: http://davesevick.com/pipermail/npmug/attachments/20110731/e9139cd8/attachment-0001.htm > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 4 > Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2011 09:02:20 -0400 > From: Dave Sevick > Subject: [NPMUG] Fujitsu ScanSnap drivers for 10.7 Lion are out and > working well > To: npmug at davesevick.com > Message-ID: <952DE0C4-63B3-4737-A8B9-8F3BD936BD1F at davesevick.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 > > One my favorite productivity tools the ScanSnap by Fujitsu ? fast, efficient, no consumable parts and a solid workhorse for scanning to readable PDF or hi-res photos. > > The drivers for Lion are out and working well for my S510M > > http://www.fujitsu.com/global/support/computing/peripheral/scanners/drivers/mac-mg22.html > > The newest Mac model is S1500M ? the drivers are ready for this model as well. > > Dave > > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 5 > Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2011 18:57:42 -0400 > From: Dave Sevick > Subject: [NPMUG] "Mac: The dream is over" ? 89% of Apple users see > malware threats as a reality > To: npmug at davesevick.com > Message-ID: > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" > > Remember as you read this report that: > > Mac antivirus software remains FREE through Sophos. > > http://www.sophos.com/en-us/products/free-tools/sophos-antivirus-for-mac-home-edition.aspx > > >> From page 10 of the Mid-Year 2011 Security Threat Report ?... > Operating Systems: Mac malware is now real > > Mac: The dream is over > > Just when you thought no malware could take a bite out of Apple... malware threats on the Mac are now a reality . Malware makers have discovered a new business in Macs and they?re not going to give up easily . > > It?s the biggest news on the Mac malware front in the past decade: Real, in-the-wild malware is infecting Mac users . Scammers use the same techniques (such as fake antivirus and SEO poisoning previously described) to infect Macs . > > In response to one scheme, the ?MacDefender? fake antivirus, Apple reportedly received more than 60,000 tech support calls . This caught Apple in a reactive position and it responded slowly . > > This scam was followed by two others? ?Mac Protector? and ?Mac Guard .? Mac Guard is particularly worrisome because it can install itself automatically without requiring an administrator password . > > In response, Apple has now instituted knowledge-based authentication (KBA) to prove user identity and regularly updates Xprotect, the anti-malware system built into recent releases of Mac OS X . > > We ran a poll on the Sophos Facebook page asking folks if they would now recommend that friends and family install antivirus software on their Macs . 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The Wedding of Katie Sevick to Thomas Rusu ? photos by Jenni > Grace (Dave Sevick) > 2. How Apple (unintentionally) revolutionized corporate IT - > Fortune Tech (Ron_A) > 3. Re: NPMUG Digest, Vol 68, Issue 1 (John Seidman) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2011 19:26:26 -0400 > From: Dave Sevick > Subject: [NPMUG] The Wedding of Katie Sevick to Thomas Rusu ? photos > by Jenni Grace > To: npmug at davesevick.com > Message-ID: > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 > > Dear Mac folks, > > Extraordinary photographic work for my daughter's wedding on July 16, 2011 > > http://www.jennisphotography.com/KatieandTom/ > > http://www.jennisphotography.com/ > > Hope this helps some folks on the fence about choosing great local photographers. > > Dave > > > ( P.S. this is an unsolicited word of praise for this photographer named Jenni Grace in Pittsburgh ? and a way to get a mention in for one of the best days of my life with my family. ) > > OK ? end of commercial ?. back to your regularly scheduled Mac news. > > :-) > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2011 19:23:17 -0600 > From: Ron_A > Subject: [NPMUG] How Apple (unintentionally) revolutionized corporate > IT - Fortune Tech > To: NPMUG NPMUG > Message-ID: <29968781-2072-480C-B2B3-4C2E302D159A at gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" > > > http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2011/08/02/apples-unintentional-corporate-it-revolution/ > > How Apple (unintentionally) revolutionized corporate IT > > August 2, 2011: 12:45 PM ET > It's not its posh desktops and laptops that have created major changes in enterprise technology. It's mobile. > > By Aaron Levie, contributor > > FORTUNE -- In 1997, Michael Dell famously declared that if he were CEO of Apple (AAPL), he would close shop and return the money to shareholders. Steve Jobs has had plenty of reasons to gloat since then, but even just a decade ago, Apple was a footnote in the story of modern computing. Despite the company's comeback success with the iMac, the vast majority of 'knowledge workers' still relied on their staid WinTel (Windows + Intel (INTC)) platform, with the occasional marketer, designer or developer opting for Apple's sleeker products. Naturally, Windows PCs were also the familiar, mainstream choice for our personal lives. And so it seemed that Apple would be relegated to devices for the hip digital consumer and creative elite. > > But right when we thought we had Apple's place in the market pegged, they changed the world... with a phone. The iPhone's revolutionary combination of powerful apps, full web browsing, and all the media you could consume created an entirely new mobile experience for consumers and workers alike. Apple fed its newfound momentum with a deluge of subsequent products, ranging from updated iMacs to the Macbook Air. And with the iPad, Apple changed the world yet again only 36 months later. Fast forward to today, and Apple sits in the computer world's top position of power, controlling developers, devices, consumers, and much of the industry's overall direction. > > Maybe its biggest impact of all, however, was one that Apple didn't necessarily intend. > > For the better part of twenty years, Microsoft (MSFT) and a handful of other enterprise behemoths pretty much dominated the vertical stack of solutions that are core to the Fortune 500 and beyond. But if you ask around, not too many individuals or IT leaders are happy about this hegemony. Workers are quickly recognizing the stark contrast between the computing that occurs in their personal lives and the business status quo. In turn, they're bringing their own devices and apps to work, driving the emergence of an all-new technology landscape. This landscape isn't being targeted by Apple in any real way; the complexity, scale, security, and nuances of serving enterprises ? not to mention the inherent need to work with all the major (non-Apple) platforms enterprises use ? tend to keep Apple from building for this market. But even without making any direct enterprise play, Apple has had a profound influence on technology with its latest string of successes and by raising our sta! > ndards along the way. > > So while Apple isn't intentionally leading an enterprise technology revolution, its products are nonetheless catalyzing one. For instance, 88% of the Fortune 100 are testing or deploying applications on the iPhone last year. The downstream effect of more iPhones and iPads in the enterprise is more sales of Apple's flagship products, with Mac worldwide sales growing by nearly over 28% year over year ? as Tim Cook, Apple's COO, puts it, "iPad clearly seems to be creating a halo effect for the Mac." > > Why does this matter? Well, once an enterprise adopts iPhones, iPads, and Macs en masse (as they continue to, judging by Apple's most recent quarter), or even Android devices for that matter, many of the existing applications ? be it a communication tool from IBM (IBM), or collaboration from Microsoft ? serve less productive purposes given the new way people are working. The toolset today's workers interact with on an ongoing basis is experiencing a wholesale transition ? a transition that's introducing us to the iEnterprise. > > Take, for instance, Procter & Gamble (PG), who came to Box.net in 2008 looking for a solution that could help employees connect to and collaborate on their content remotely, when no existing vendor would suffice. Fast-forward to 2011, and they're now deploying Box cloud content management to 18,000 individuals, in large part due to the proliferation of new platforms and devices that have emerged in just the past couple of years. The same story is true for businesses of all sizes and industries, ranging from Pandora (P) to Dole. It's why we've seen adoption in 73% of the Fortune 500. And we're clearly not the only ones benefiting from and driving this dramatic evolution of needs and demands in the enterprise. > > The iEnterprise isn't, as the moniker suggests, about enterprises that just implement products designed in Cupertino. It's about a fundamental change in how our enterprise technology is supported, adopted, and consumed. It's about the technology in our personal lives influencing and changing expectations in our professional lives. The iEnterprise isn't necessarily the convergence of the tools we use in these two worlds, but rather the consistency of ideals. > > While Steve Jobs introduces new products with words like "delightful" and "amazing," this vocabulary is nonexistent within the enterprise software set. There are a number of reasons for this. There's often a lack of passion, and even a bit of apathy, that shows in the final product. Applications and services feel bloated and uninspiring. The apps and hardware that we spend most of our waking hours with - and the most money on - tend to be the most complex, clunky, and unnerving. > > But like Apple, the iEnterprise is about vendors building technology that excites and surprises users. It's about solutions that work together, and about open ecosystems. It's about marketplaces that compete to win, and innovate to compete ? a major break from the status quo, where vendor lock-in enables long cycles of limited product enhancements, simply because the customer has nowhere else to go (Redmond, ahem). > > We're especially seeing it show up in the changing mobility of our enterprise offerings. Mobility used to be defined by quick and easy access to email or a conference call, led by Blackberry in the '90s and early '00s. The iPhone and iPad took this much further, and dozens of popular Android devices are now even making their way into large corporations. We're further seeing it with HP (HPQ) and its WebOS platform. Businesses can enable access to critical data, projects, or content through services like Salesforce and Roambi, Basecamp and Yammer, or Box, respectively. > > The iEnterprise is also about broadly useful, powerful platforms that connect and become enhanced through integration: cloud-delivered applications like Salesforce (CRM) to run your sales organization will connect to your business information on Box or HR information on Workday; Netsuite will plug into your social software from Yammer; GoodData will help visualize your client community results from GetSatisfaction; and Assistly plugs your customer support flow into Google Apps, which wraps all of this up in a robust marketplace for businesses. The mixing and matching of services that's common in our personal lives is now extending to the enterprise, and in turn driving vastly more open solutions that are changing the enterprise landscape. > > No, the Windows franchise isn't going anywhere. Inertia alone gives Microsoft another decade as the de facto enterprise operating system and software provider. With minimal innovation this could be extended even longer, but Apple has already made a profound impact by pushing us to rethink technology's role in our lives. It's changing the whole industry, and will have a lasting impact on our businesses. > > We have higher and more pronounced expectations for how technology can transform our personal lives ? and now our business lives, making us more productive and connected than ever before. Welcome to the iEnterprise. > > --Aaron Levie is the CEO and co-founder of Box.net. > > ? > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: http://davesevick.com/pipermail/npmug/attachments/20110802/2730937f/attachment-0001.htm > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Tue, 02 Aug 2011 22:22:39 -0400 > From: John Seidman > Subject: Re: [NPMUG] NPMUG Digest, Vol 68, Issue 1 > To: npmug at davesevick.com > Message-ID: <17BA9E0B-F3E9-4DCB-8BF7-BC8C5CA62FE2 at verizon.net> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > Dave, > > Is the anti-virus software you refer to in #5 something I should install ??? > > John > > > On Aug 2, 2011, at 6:58 PM, npmug-request at davesevick.com wrote: > >> Send NPMUG mailing list submissions to >> npmug at davesevick.com >> >> To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit >> http://davesevick.com/mailman/listinfo/npmug >> or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to >> npmug-request at davesevick.com >> >> You can reach the person managing the list at >> npmug-owner at davesevick.com >> >> When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific >> than "Re: Contents of NPMUG digest..." >> >> >> Today's Topics: >> >> 1. Apple now has more cash than the U.S. government - CNN.com (Ron_A) >> 2. Lion and Apple Hardware Compatibility... (Ron_A) >> 3. My 2 year anniversary with YouTube - an invaluable public >> service by Google (Dave Sevick) >> 4. Fujitsu ScanSnap drivers for 10.7 Lion are out and working >> well (Dave Sevick) >> 5. "Mac: The dream is over" ? 89% of Apple users see malware >> threats as a reality (Dave Sevick) >> >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> Message: 1 >> Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2011 09:21:12 -0600 >> From: Ron_A >> Subject: [NPMUG] Apple now has more cash than the U.S. government - >> CNN.com >> To: NPMUG NPMUG >> Message-ID: >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" >> >> >> http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/innovation/07/29/apple.cash.government/index.html?eref=rss_latest&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fcnn_latest+%28RSS%3A+Most+Recent%29 >> >> Apple now has more cash than the U.S. government >> >> >> The world's most highly valued tech company now has more cash on hand than the U.S. Treasury. >> (CNN) -- Maybe the cash-strapped U.S. government should start selling iPads. >> >> According to the latest statement from the U.S. Treasury, the government had an operating cash balance Wednesday of $73.8 billion. That's still a lot of money, but it's less than what Steve Jobs has lying around. >> >> Tech juggernaut Apple had a whopping $76.2 billion in cash and marketable securities at the end of June, according to its last earnings report. Unlike the U.S. government, which is scrambling to avoid defaulting on its debt, Apple takes in more money than it spends. >> >> This symbolic feat -- the world's most highly valued tech company surpassing the fiscal strength of the world's most powerful nation -- is just the latest pinnacle for Apple, which has been on an unprecedented roll. >> >> Its Macs, iPhones and iPads remain hot sellers, its stock has surged past $400 a share and Apple just became the world's largest smartphone vendor by volume. >> >> There's been a lot of speculation about what Apple might buy with its piles of cash -- Facebook and Sony being two of the more high-profile examples -- but the company doesn't seem to be in any hurry to make a move. >> >> "We don't let the cash burn a hole in the pocket or make stupid acquisitions," CEO Jobs said last fall. "We'd like to continue to keep our powder dry because we think there are one or more strategic opportunities in the future." >> >> Offering Uncle Sam a short-term loan is probably not one of them. >> >> ? >> >> >> -------------- next part -------------- >> An HTML attachment was scrubbed... >> URL: http://davesevick.com/pipermail/npmug/attachments/20110729/e1e042c4/attachment-0001.htm >> >> ------------------------------ >> >> Message: 2 >> Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2011 16:50:30 -0600 >> From: Ron_A >> Subject: [NPMUG] Lion and Apple Hardware Compatibility... >> To: NPMUG NPMUG >> Message-ID: <2B7A8088-CF38-48B3-8115-16F30E54C5FD at gmail.com> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 >> >> I have a friend with a '11 iMac that, since upgrading to Lion, is experiencing Video lockups when coming out of Disk sleep mode. The condition is repeatable and consistent. He has been in communication with Apple in Austin and states that it appears to be a hardware compatibility problem with Lion?. Apple's hardware. >> >> If true, this would seem to be a huge miss. >> >> Any experience with this issue? >> >> >> >> ------------------------------ >> >> Message: 3 >> Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2011 21:53:04 -0400 >> From: Dave Sevick >> Subject: [NPMUG] My 2 year anniversary with YouTube - an invaluable >> public service by Google >> To: npmug at davesevick.com >> Message-ID: <7332EC92-4FB2-4356-A1EB-7F8662AEDE66 at davesevick.com> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" >> >> On Aug 1, 2009 I pulled my brand new iPhone 3GS out of my pocket to film an impromptu moment on the dance floor of a Greek and Italian wedding at the Sheraton Station Square in Pittsburgh: >> >> http://youtu.be/w3fPNLGuU1s ( 3,243 views ) >> >> >> On July 31, 2011 ( 2 years later ) I still use YouTube extensively for research at work ?. and for fun. >> >> Like today for church we showcased Wendy's "Where's The Beef ?" commercial from 1984 during the church service on the "loaves and fishes miracle". I grabbed this video for our pastor to use: >> >> http://youtu.be/Ug75diEyiA0 ( 1,683,628 views as posted by hmnsn1627) >> >> And for a friend in a local rhythm and blues band, I recorded a few songs at a Neville Island club one night recently: http://youtu.be/EAu-UEplQ04?hd=1 >> >> ========= >> So THANKS to all the good folks at YouTube ? still as useful as ever ?. and FREE >> >> Dave >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> -------------- next part -------------- >> An HTML attachment was scrubbed... >> URL: http://davesevick.com/pipermail/npmug/attachments/20110731/e9139cd8/attachment-0001.htm >> >> ------------------------------ >> >> Message: 4 >> Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2011 09:02:20 -0400 >> From: Dave Sevick >> Subject: [NPMUG] Fujitsu ScanSnap drivers for 10.7 Lion are out and >> working well >> To: npmug at davesevick.com >> Message-ID: <952DE0C4-63B3-4737-A8B9-8F3BD936BD1F at davesevick.com> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 >> >> One my favorite productivity tools the ScanSnap by Fujitsu ? fast, efficient, no consumable parts and a solid workhorse for scanning to readable PDF or hi-res photos. >> >> The drivers for Lion are out and working well for my S510M >> >> http://www.fujitsu.com/global/support/computing/peripheral/scanners/drivers/mac-mg22.html >> >> The newest Mac model is S1500M ? the drivers are ready for this model as well. >> >> Dave >> >> >> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------ >> >> Message: 5 >> Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2011 18:57:42 -0400 >> From: Dave Sevick >> Subject: [NPMUG] "Mac: The dream is over" ? 89% of Apple users see >> malware threats as a reality >> To: npmug at davesevick.com >> Message-ID: >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" >> >> Remember as you read this report that: >> >> Mac antivirus software remains FREE through Sophos. >> >> http://www.sophos.com/en-us/products/free-tools/sophos-antivirus-for-mac-home-edition.aspx >> >> >>> From page 10 of the Mid-Year 2011 Security Threat Report ?... >> Operating Systems: Mac malware is now real >> >> Mac: The dream is over >> >> Just when you thought no malware could take a bite out of Apple... malware threats on the Mac are now a reality . Malware makers have discovered a new business in Macs and they?re not going to give up easily . >> >> It?s the biggest news on the Mac malware front in the past decade: Real, in-the-wild malware is infecting Mac users . Scammers use the same techniques (such as fake antivirus and SEO poisoning previously described) to infect Macs . >> >> In response to one scheme, the ?MacDefender? fake antivirus, Apple reportedly received more than 60,000 tech support calls . This caught Apple in a reactive position and it responded slowly . >> >> This scam was followed by two others? ?Mac Protector? and ?Mac Guard .? Mac Guard is particularly worrisome because it can install itself automatically without requiring an administrator password . >> >> In response, Apple has now instituted knowledge-based authentication (KBA) to prove user identity and regularly updates Xprotect, the anti-malware system built into recent releases of Mac OS X . >> >> We ran a poll on the Sophos Facebook page asking folks if they would now recommend that friends and family install antivirus software on their Macs . 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Name: Parallels.jpeg Type: image/jpg Size: 96160 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://davesevick.com/pipermail/npmug/attachments/20110803/1f36e70f/attachment-0001.jpg From dave at davesevick.com Wed Aug 3 17:23:52 2011 From: dave at davesevick.com (Dave Sevick) Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2011 19:23:52 -0400 Subject: [NPMUG] How phone hacking worked and how to make sure you're not a victim Message-ID: <9F048D4B-A7D9-4256-90A6-F599C9E13238@davesevick.com> http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2011/07/08/how-phone-hacking-worked/ How phone hacking worked and how to make sure you're not a victim Mobile phone security expert David Rogers of blog.mobilephonesecurity.org explains how "phone hacking" is done, and how you can better protect your mobile phone's voicemail. A lot of mobile customers are bewildered by the events going on in the world press at the moment with all this talk of 'phone hacking'. Many of my friends have asked me what they can do to protect their phones and what the whole thing is about. The truth is, there is no actual phone hacking involved and it is also wrong to call what went on hacking. What's really being discussed is illicit access to voicemail messages. I?m going to explain a bit about what exactly is behind this, how it works and what you can do to protect yourself from people wanting to access your voicemails. There are a number of possible methods to gain access to someone?s voicemail illicitly. In the UK at least, given the original police inquiry into the News of the World scandal, mobile network operators improved their security mechanisms to increase protection of users. The good thing is, you can test out these mechanisms yourself as you can see below ? if your operator hasn?t taken steps to close down the basic loopholes, ring them and tell them! Default PINs A lot of the problems that arose in the voicemail scandal arose from the use of well-known default PINs for voicemail access. In fact, you as a customer may never have used a PIN for accessing your voicemail. That is because on most mobile phones, the network recognises that it is your phone calling in and makes life more convenient for you. So you would never even think that someone could access your voicemail by just dialling a number and entering a well-known default PIN. These PINs can be found across the web ? they naturally needed to be publicised to customers so they knew how to get remote access if they wanted. As you?re probably thinking right now, this is a really poor security measure. Although the use of default PINs appears to have been brought to a halt in the UK, if you live in another country, it might be worth checking to see whether this practice is still being used by your mobile operator. As late as March 2011, voicemails of politicians in the Netherlands were exposed by the use of a default PIN. Remote Access to Voicemail Operators often provide an external number through which you can call to access your voicemail remotely. This was one of the mechanisms allegedly used by the News of the World ?phone hackers? to get access to people?s voicemails without their knowledge. If you?d never setup a PIN, the attackers would get in via well publicised default PINs. If they came up against someone who was using their own PIN, they would then use social engineering techniques to trick the operator into resetting the PIN to the default. Homework: If you haven?t ever used it before, find out what the remote access number is to your voicemail. What happens? You should be asked for a PIN code. If you don?t already use a PIN, use the web to see if you can find the default voicemail your provider has advertised in the past. If you enter the default, what happens? Now try entering a wrong PIN. Do you get an SMS on your mobile telling you about it? Be careful not to block yourself out of your account, another security measure will be to block access if there are three wrong attempts. Calling your own phone Another not-so-well-known method of accessing voicemail is to actually call your own mobile number. Claims about the voicemail hacking scandal say that one journalist would call up a celebrity to engage the phone while another would then go into the voicemail using this method. This seems pretty likely as a lot of celebrities' phones are looked after by personal assistants, not the celebrity themselves so it could look fairly legitimate to call up the PA. More homework: Call your own mobile phone number. While you?re listening to the bit where it asks you to leave a message, press the * (star) key. You should then be brought to your own voicemail menu! The system should ask you to enter a PIN. Follow the same process as above and see what happens. Notifications One of the security measures that have been introduced is to notify the customer more often by SMS when something goes on that they should know about. Remember that if a third-party was accessing your voicemails remotely, you as a customer wouldn?t normally get to know that anyone had been there. In some cases, the attackers deleted the voicemails. The type of notifications you could get could tell you that there has been a remote access to your voicemail, that there was an invalid PIN code attempt or that your voicemail PIN has been changed ? all useful bits of information! This is something that has been borrowed from the banking industry. It is a simple, effective early warning mechanism that something could be wrong. Because it shouldn?t happen very often, you shouldn?t be plagued by messages, equally you are the best person to know if it is dodgy activity or not. However, always be careful with any message you receive. The best thing to do if you are unsure is to ring the customer helpline of your operator who?ll be able to tell you whether the message is genuine. Newer methods of hacking voicemails Sadly, there are always people who want to find out what others are up to, illegally. The methods for doing this are continually evolving. Some of the newer methods involve faking a phone?s displayed number so it can trick access to voicemail. This technique has been used in the USA and recently in the Netherlands to get access to the voicemails of politicians. To block this attack, you need to setup a PIN to access your voicemail. By doing this you prevent automatic access to your voicemail (as if you were ringing from your own mobile). Summary You now know how it works and you?ve been able to check whether you?re properly protected and set your own PIN number up. The customer service websites of operators should also be able to give you some good advice on PIN security and their voicemail service. Remember that with all the publicity around the issue, it?s not only the operators who are reacting to the revelations; there will be bad people out there who are only now starting to exploit illicit voicemail access. Don?t let yourself be a victim. What happens next? Well, customer use of voicemail technology has evolved a lot, even in the last five years with the result that habits are changing. That is why I am asking the network operators to look at the use of remote voicemail access in general, with the proposal that they should consider shutting remote access down entirely. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://davesevick.com/pipermail/npmug/attachments/20110803/11f1c9a2/attachment-0001.htm -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Free parking is in a lot across the street; it's marked with a Goodwill sign and there's a large mural painted on the side of the adjacent building. Robert A. Donaldson radonaldson at mac.com (H) 412-922-3303 (M) 412-477-9188 From radonaldson at mac.com Fri Aug 5 16:23:16 2011 From: radonaldson at mac.com (Robert A. Donaldson) Date: Fri, 05 Aug 2011 18:23:16 -0400 Subject: [NPMUG] Goodwill CRC update, Friday, August 5, 2010 Message-ID: <9EBE8D26-1F56-4251-9C46-34667AA880D0@mac.com> Dear Mac friends: Many thanks to Charlie Hutchens, John Hamill, Rich Fitzgibbon, Sam Hughes and Dave Sevick for joining me today for our weekly workday at our Goodwill Computer Recycling Center "annex." We had two small deliveries of Macs from Goodwill to deal with today. One came in last week while we were off, and another came in this afternoon. Sadly, most were not salvageable and headed for the de-manufacturing bench. Today, just one was refurbished and eight others de-manufactured. We did spend a good deal of time massaging several Macs only to have them come up lacking. I spent a couple of hours babying a G4 Dual 867 Mirror Drive Door Tower, replacing the optical drive and speaker, only to find the logic board would randomly refuse to recognize RAM slots. After completely changing RAM four times, and getting a different answer from the System Profiler each time, we put it down... I also spent some time de-manufacuring our first liquid-cooled G5 PowerMac. Now I know why Apple really switched to Intel. I've driven cars with lesser cooling architecture.... The good news is we've taken in a dozen keyboards, with most being successfully tested by Sam Hughes. Hope this keeps up... Goodwill has opened a new ComputerWorks store at their new campus on 51st St. in Pittsburgh's Lawrenceville neighborhood. They have much more room than their previous computer retail operations. It's in the rear of the Goodwill retail store in a building with Klingensmith Health Care and a police uniform shop. If you cross the railroad tracks, you've gone too far. Goodwill will maintain the current location of the ComputerWorks store in the rear of their retail store at 2700 East Carson St. on Pittsburgh's South Side. All of our Leopard OS-capable Macs have been moved there in the past week. We'll have another workday on Friday, August 12. 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 Sun Aug 7 16:01:03 2011 From: ronladams7 at gmail.com (Ron_A) Date: Sun, 7 Aug 2011 16:01:03 -0600 Subject: [NPMUG] OS X Lion Turned Me Into A Ranting... Message-ID: I understand that the new iMac's, after a Lion install, are still freezing on video when awake from sleep. Apple has concluded it's a Lion issue but no solution has been found yet. 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Nobody knows if Apple will actually integrate projectors into their future devices. It just means they've investigated it, came up with some inventions, and patented them to protect themselves if they choose to deploy them in the future. Apple patents a *lot *of stuff, not much actually makes it to devices. Cheers, ++md On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 11:11 AM, Gene & Myra Fozard wrote: > >From "Patently Apple:" > http://www.patentlyapple.com/patently-apple/2011/08/apple-reveals-big-plans-to-integrate-projectors-into-ios-devices.html > _______________________________________________ > NPMUG mailing list > NPMUG at davesevick.com > http://davesevick.com/mailman/listinfo/npmug > > From ronladams7 at gmail.com Fri Aug 12 14:58:42 2011 From: ronladams7 at gmail.com (Ron_A) Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2011 14:58:42 -0600 Subject: [NPMUG] xkcd: Password Strength Message-ID: <308B3631-966E-4B9C-963A-143491CF086F@gmail.com> http://xkcd.com/936/ ? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://davesevick.com/pipermail/npmug/attachments/20110812/d566d10f/attachment.htm From wexfordpa at mac.com Fri Aug 12 16:02:43 2011 From: wexfordpa at mac.com (Ralph Waechter) Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2011 18:02:43 -0400 Subject: [NPMUG] xkcd: Password Strength In-Reply-To: <308B3631-966E-4B9C-963A-143491CF086F@gmail.com> References: <308B3631-966E-4B9C-963A-143491CF086F@gmail.com> Message-ID: <5FF86A1D-FA46-4B09-90AC-0E25039A695D@mac.com> Now, if we could only convince those services that employ PWs for us to access our info on their systems to PERMIT us to use PWs with more than about 8 or 10 characters in our PWs, we'd be getting somewhere! E.g., more characters, more random bits of info to guess .... Not every service permits that. Ideas on how to force that would be great On Aug 12, 2011, at 4:58 PM, Ron_A wrote: > > http://xkcd.com/936/ > ? > _______________________________________________ > 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/20110812/47e2cc5b/attachment.htm From dave at davesevick.com Sun Aug 14 16:23:44 2011 From: dave at davesevick.com (Dave Sevick) Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2011 18:23:44 -0400 Subject: [NPMUG] Aug 14 test Message-ID: <00D67613-14D9-47B3-9232-AD517F044B36@davesevick.com> From thompson.len at gmail.com Mon Aug 15 08:25:49 2011 From: thompson.len at gmail.com (Len Thompson) Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2011 10:25:49 -0400 Subject: [NPMUG] File Recovery Message-ID: <51D6C22D-CD28-492F-82BC-BCF3AFC060F0@gmail.com> A friend just called and it seems she unintentionally deleted (and emptied the trash) a video file she had created. Any recommendations for apps to recover deleted files? Thanks, Len From radonaldson at me.com Mon Aug 15 16:54:15 2011 From: radonaldson at me.com (Robert A. Donaldson) Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2011 18:54:15 -0400 Subject: [NPMUG] Goodwill CRC update, Friday, August 12, 2011 Message-ID: Dear Mac friends: Please excuse this late post, my fourth attempt. I've tried to send it twice before with a photo, but apparently the list really hates photos... Many thanks to Charlie Hutchens, John Hamill, Rich Fitzgibbon, Marty Swartz, and Terry Golightly for joining me Friday for our weekly workday at our Goodwill Computer Recycling Center "annex." A note should be made of our special visitors, Finn and Leo Trainor, who allowed dad Trainor to pay a visit. And they didn't cry the whole time. As we didn't have any deliveries of Macs, we turned to the really old Macs scattered about for ancient Mac history and de-manufacturing. During the course of our rampant de-manufacturing, we learned a lot, but most of it was Mac Trivia associated with what people leave inside their Macs and when they did their last backup before abandoning the machine. Our first discovery was a debit MasterCard in the floppy drive of a Mac Plus. Sadly, it expired in 2008, so we had to pay for lunch. As I pulled all our classic Macs on to the workbench to see if they booted, one lit up and gave me this stern warning: "From Retrospect Remote: You have not been backed up since Friday, Sep 26, 1997. Contact your backup administrator for more info." Personally, I'd NEVER let 14 years go by between backups. I hope the backup administrator is still alive.... You should note this is where a swell photo of an old Mac showing this message was originally... We have about a dozen of these gems of our past in seeming working condition. We now have to figure out where my System 6 floppies are so we can go to the next step of offering Mac collectibles... We refurbished two Macs to bring our all-time total to 3,015. We de-manufactured 15 others. Goodwill has opened a new ComputerWorks store at their new campus on 51st St. in Pittsburgh's Lawrenceville neighborhood. They have much more room than their previous computer retail operations. It's in the rear of the Goodwill retail store in a building with Klingensmith Health Care and a police uniform shop. If you cross the railroad tracks, you've gone too far. Goodwill will maintain the current location of the ComputerWorks store in the rear of their retail store at 2700 East Carson St. on Pittsburgh's South Side. We'll have another workday on Friday, August 19. We currently have little to work on, but there may be a delivery of new Macs during the week. We hope to see you there! Robert A. 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Under the program families with children that qualify for the National School Lunch Program are eligible for: Residential Internet for $9.95 a month (as a stand alone service home Internet in Pittsburgh is $40.95 per month) No price increases, activation fee or equipment rental A voucher for $149.99 for a netbook computer with Windows 7 Access for free digital literacy training Families can have the reduced rate as long as a child in the home is in the free lunch program, all the way through high school graduation. ?The Internet is a great equalizer and a life-changing technology,? said Comcast (Nasdaq: CMCSA) Executive Vice President David L. Cohen in a written statement. ?Internet Essentials helps level the playing field for low-income families by connecting students online with their teachers and their school?s educational resources and by enabling parents to receive digital literacy training so they can do things like apply for jobs online or use the Internet to learn about health care and government services available where they live.? Enrollment in the program is open through the end of the 2013-14 school year. Eligible families must have a child in the federal free lunch program, have not subscribed to Comcast Internet in the last 90 days and do not have any outstanding Comcast bills or equipment. Malia Spencer covers manufacturing and technology. Contact her at mspencer at bizjournals.com or (412) 208-3829. You can also follow her on Twitter. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The Palo Alto, California-based company is scheduled to report quarterly earnings today after markets close. Chief Executive Officer Leo Apotheker has said he wants to expand in software and services that help customers deliver computing over the Internet, through the so-called cloud. Hewlett-Packard has been aiming to lessen its dependence on lower-margin PCs, where growth has stalled as consumers flock to tablet-style computers like those made by Apple Inc. (AAPL) Hewlett-Packard shares fell 53 cents to $30.86 at 12:34 p.m. on the New York Stock Exchange, after earlier jumping as much as 8.3 percent. Before today, the shares had declined 25 percent so far this year. Autonomy, the U.K.?s second-largest software maker, offers programs used in database search. The company?s customers include Coca-Cola Co. (KO), Nestle SA (NESN) and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Mylene Mangalindan, a spokeswoman for Hewlett-Packard, didn?t immediately respond to a request for comment. To contact the reporters on this story: Jeffrey McCracken in New York at jmccracken3 at bloomberg.net; Serena Saitto in New York at ssaitto at bloomberg.net; Aaron Ricadela in San Francisco at aricadela at bloomberg.net To contact the editor responsible for this story: Tom Giles at tgiles5 at bloomberg.net -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://davesevick.com/pipermail/npmug/attachments/20110818/033caef9/attachment.htm From utebachmeier at gmail.com Thu Aug 18 14:02:22 2011 From: utebachmeier at gmail.com (Sabrina Friedman) Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2011 23:02:22 +0300 Subject: [NPMUG] Fujitsu ScanSnap drivers for 10.7 Lion are out and working wellfrom Sabrina Message-ID: One my favorite productivity tools the ScanSnap by Fujitsu ? fast, efficient, no consumable parts and a solid workhorse for scanning to readable PDF or hi-res photos. The drivers for Lion are out and working well for my S510M http://www.fujitsu.com/global/support/computing/peripheral/scanners/drivers/mac-mg22.html The newest Mac model is S1500M ? the drivers are ready for this model as well. Dave Sabrina Friedman Billige Fl?ge Marketing GmbH Emanuelstr. 3, 10317 Berlin Deutschland Telefon: +49 (33) 5310967 Email: utebachmeier at gmail.com Site: http://flug.airego.de - Billige Fl?ge vergleichen From radonaldson at me.com Sat Aug 20 16:48:08 2011 From: radonaldson at me.com (Robert A. Donaldson) Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2011 18:48:08 -0400 Subject: [NPMUG] Goodwill CRC update, Friday, August 19, 2011 Message-ID: Dear Mac friends: Many thanks to Charlie Hutchens, John Hamill, Marty Swartz, Terry Golightly, Sam Hughes and Dave Sevick for joining me Friday for our weekly workday at our Goodwill Computer Recycling Center "annex." It was a multi-generational Mac day on Friday. As we waited for the week's shipment from Goodwill of more Macs to work on, there was a good deal of tinkering with last week's "classic" Macs. It was indeed ironic that the Macs we were playing with were significantly older than Mr. Hughes. I brought in an old SCSI external hard drive with OS 7.0.1 from my my personal Mac SE setup (What? You DON'T have one?). I was dismayed to find a couple of our oldies wouldn't boot that OS without more RAM. As my memory turned cartwheels trying to remember how to deal with this stuff, I began a search for floppy discs. Then I remembered there were 400K, 800K and 1.4 mb disk drives in these things, varying by model. Dave found 1.4 floppies, and then began the task of attempting to format them (single or double sided, the computer asks). After several failures, I finally got one to format for a Mac. It was then the truck arrived with our new stuff, and the trip down hazy memory lane was put on hold for another day. We're not done with these things yet. And somewhere at home there's an SCSI Apple ROM CD drive to help out. Maybe. Disk Tools floppies anyone? We spent the late morning and afternoon working on significantly newer Macs. We refurbished nine to bring our all-time total to 3,024. We de-manufactured 5 others. Goodwill has opened a new ComputerWorks store at their new campus on 51st St. in Pittsburgh's Lawrenceville neighborhood. They have much more room than their previous computer retail operations. It's in the rear of the Goodwill retail store in a building with Klingensmith Health Care and a police uniform shop. If you cross the railroad tracks, you've gone too far. Goodwill will maintain the current location of the ComputerWorks store in the rear of their retail store at 2700 East Carson St. on Pittsburgh's South Side. We'll have another workday on Friday, August 26. We have enough left of our new shipment to keep us busy. We hope to see you there! Robert A. 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Has anyone ever seen an Apple Store not packed to the gills with customers? Dave http://macdailynews.com/2011/08/24/apple-ranks-1-in-u-s-retail-sales-per-square-foot/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+wordpress%2FxhfA+%28MacDailyNews%29 Apple ranks #1 in U.S. retail sales per square foot ?Apple officially ranks number one in retail sales per square foot, according to a new study published by retail analysis firm RetailSails that analyzed 160+ top U.S.-based retailers,? Jordan Kahn reports for 9to5Mac. ?Apple is almost two times ahead of their closest competitor (Tiffany & Co), and almost five times ahead of the closest technology related retailer (GameStop),? Kahn reports. ?What?s most impressive is the fact Apple has much less experience in retail (ten years as of May) than most of other retailers included in the study.? Kahn reports, ?Keep in mind these numbers are only for the US? Apple retail stores in the U.S. grew nearly 80% from the year prior with U.S. retail sales increasing $4.6 billion during the first quarter of 2011.? Read more in the full article here. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://davesevick.com/pipermail/npmug/attachments/20110824/120b1cd8/attachment.htm From chipsargent at me.com Wed Aug 24 09:12:32 2011 From: chipsargent at me.com (Chip Sargent) Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2011 11:12:32 -0400 Subject: [NPMUG] Apple ranks #1 in U.S. retail sales per square foot In-Reply-To: <8AE3607F-26ED-43E5-9833-18D016C7632C@davesevick.com> References: <8AE3607F-26ED-43E5-9833-18D016C7632C@davesevick.com> Message-ID: And they provide the best service! Sent from my iPhone On Aug 24, 2011, at 10:10 AM, Dave Sevick wrote: > Dear Mac folks, > > This report does not surprise me at all. > > Has anyone ever seen an Apple Store not packed to the gills with customers? > > Dave > > > > http://macdailynews.com/2011/08/24/apple-ranks-1-in-u-s-retail-sales-per-square-foot/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+wordpress%2FxhfA+%28MacDailyNews%29 > > Apple ranks #1 in U.S. retail sales per square foot > > ?Apple officially ranks number one in retail sales per square foot, according to a new study published by retail analysis firm RetailSails that analyzed 160+ top U.S.-based retailers,? Jordan Kahn reports for 9to5Mac. > ?Apple is almost two times ahead of their closest competitor (Tiffany & Co), and almost five times ahead of the closest technology related retailer (GameStop),? Kahn reports. ?What?s most impressive is the fact Apple has much less experience in retail (ten years as of May) than most of other retailers included in the study.? > > Kahn reports, ?Keep in mind these numbers are only for the US? Apple retail stores in the U.S. grew nearly 80% from the year prior with U.S. retail sales increasing $4.6 billion during the first quarter of 2011.? > > Read more in the full article here. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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/20110824/fc321402/attachment-0001.htm From dave at davesevick.com Wed Aug 24 16:52:40 2011 From: dave at davesevick.com (Dave Sevick) Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2011 18:52:40 -0400 Subject: [NPMUG] Fwd: News Alert: Steven P. Jobs Is Stepping Down as Chief Executive of Apple Message-ID: <9EA7C98C-327C-47E0-94E7-6121203CAF0F@davesevick.com> Sent from my Verizon iPhone Begin forwarded message: > From: NYTimes.com News Alert > Date: August 24, 2011 6:51:42 PM EDT > To: dave at davesevick.com > Subject: News Alert: Steven P. Jobs Is Stepping Down as Chief Executive of Apple > Reply-To: nytdirect at nytimes.com > > Breaking News Alert > The New York Times > Wednesday, August 24, 2011 -- 6:47 PM EDT > ----- > > Steven P. Jobs Is Stepping Down as Chief Executive of Apple > > Steven P. Jobs, the co-founder of Apple and the creative genius behind its rise to become the world?s most valuable technology company, is stepping down as chief executive, the company announced Thursday. > > Mr. Jobs has been battling cancer for several years and has been on medical leave since January, his third. He recovered from pancreatic cancer after surgery in 2004, and received a liver transplant in 2009. > > The company named Tim Cook, its chief operating officer, to succeed him as chief executive. > > ?I have always said that if there ever came a day when I could no longer meet my duties and expectations as Apple?s CEO, I would be the first to let you know,? Mr. Jobs said in a letter released by the company. ?Unfortunately, that day has come.? > > Read More: > http://www.nytimes.com/?emc=na > > About This E-Mail > You received this message because you are signed up to receive breaking news alerts from NYTimes.com. > > To unsubscribe, change your e-mail address or to sign up for daily headlines or other newsletters, go to: > http://www.nytimes.com/email > > NYTimes.com > 620 Eighth Ave. > New York, NY 10018 > > Copyright 2011 The New York Times Company > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Although his tenure as CEO will be remembered for ushering in fundamental changes in the way people interact with technology, he has also been known for his salesmanship, his ability to turn a phrase ? and a knack for taking complicated ideas and making them easy to understand. Below, a compendium of some of the best Steve Jobs quotes. On Technology ?It takes these very simple-minded instructions??Go fetch a number, add it to this number, put the result there, perceive if it?s greater than this other number???but executes them at a rate of, let?s say, 1,000,000 per second. At 1,000,000 per second, the results appear to be magic.? [Playboy, Feb. 1, 1985] *** ?The problem is I?m older now, I?m 40 years old, and this stuff doesn?t change the world. It really doesn?t. ?I?m sorry, it?s true. Having children really changes your view on these things. We?re born, we live for a brief instant, and we die. It?s been happening for a long time.? *** ?Technology is not changing it much ? if at all. ?These technologies can make life easier, can let us touch people we might not otherwise. You may have a child with a birth defect and be able to get in touch with other parents and support groups, get medical information, the latest experimental drugs. These things can profoundly influence life. I?m not downplaying that. ?But it?s a disservice to constantly put things in this radical new light ? that it?s going to change everything. Things don?t have to change the world to be important.? [Wired, February 1996] *** ?I think it?s brought the world a lot closer together, and will continue to do that. There are downsides to everything; there are unintended consequences to everything. The most corrosive piece of technology that I?ve ever seen is called television ? but then, again, television, at its best, is magnificent.? [Rolling Stone, Dec. 3, 2003] On Design ?We think the Mac will sell zillions, but we didn?t build the Mac for anybody else. We built it for ourselves. We were the group of people who were going to judge whether it was great or not. We weren?t going to go out and do market research. We just wanted to build the best thing we could build. When you?re a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers, you?re not going to use a piece of plywood on the back, even though it faces the wall and nobody will ever see it. You?ll know it?s there, so you?re going to use a beautiful piece of wood on the back. For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through.? [Playboy, Feb. 1, 1985] *** ?Design is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But of course, if you dig deeper, it?s really how it works. The design of the Mac wasn?t what it looked like, although that was part of it. Primarily, it was how it worked. To design something really well, you have to get it. You have to really grok what it?s all about. It takes a passionate commitment to really thoroughly understand something, chew it up, not just quickly swallow it. Most people don?t take the time to do that. ?Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn?t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That?s because they were able to connect experiences they?ve had and synthesize new things. And the reason they were able to do that was that they?ve had more experiences or they have thought more about their experiences than other people. ?Unfortunately, that?s too rare a commodity. A lot of people in our industry haven?t had very diverse experiences. So they don?t have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one?s understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have. [Wired, February 1996] *** ?For something this complicated, it?s really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don?t know what they want until you show it to them.? ?That?s been one of my mantras ? focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it?s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.?[BusinessWeek, May 25, 1998, in a profile that also included the following gem: "Steve clearly has done an incredible job," says former Apple Chief Financial Officer Joseph Graziano. "But the $64,000 question is: Will Apple ever resume growth?"] *** ?This is what customers pay us for?to sweat all these details so it?s easy and pleasant for them to use our computers. We?re supposed to be really good at this. That doesn?t mean we don?t listen to customers, but it?s hard for them to tell you what they want when they?ve never seen anything remotely like it. Take desktop video editing. I never got one request from someone who wanted to edit movies on his computer. Yet now that people see it, they say, ?Oh my God, that?s great!?? [Fortune, January 24 2000] *** ?Look at the design of a lot of consumer products ? they?re really complicated surfaces. We tried to make something much more holistic and simple. When you first start off trying to solve a problem, the first solutions you come up with are very complex, and most people stop there. But if you keep going, and live with the problem and peel more layers of the onion off, you can often times arrive at some very elegant and simple solutions. Most people just don?t put in the time or energy to get there. We believe that customers are smart, and want objects which are well thought through.? [MSNBC and Newsweek interview, Oct. 14, 2006] On His Products ?I don?t think I?ve ever worked so hard on something, but working on Macintosh was the neatest experience of my life. Almost everyone who worked on it will say that. None of us wanted to release it at the end. It was as though we knew that once it was out of our hands, it wouldn?t be ours anymore. When we finally presented it at the shareholders? meeting, everyone in the auditorium gave it a five-minute ovation. What was incredible to me was that I could see the Mac team in the first few rows. It was as though none of us could believe we?d actually finished it. Everyone started crying.? [Playboy, Feb. 1, 1985] *** Playboy: We were warned about you: Before this Interview began, someone said we were ?about to be snowed by the best.? [Smiling] ?We?re just enthusiastic about what we do.? [Playboy, Feb. 1, 1985] *** ?We made the buttons on the screen look so good you?ll want to lick them.? [On Mac OS X, Fortune, Jan. 24, 2000] *** ?It will go down in history as a turning point for the music industry. This is landmark stuff. I can?t overestimate it!? [On the iTunes Music Store, Fortune, May 12, 2003] *** ?Every once in a while a revolutionary product comes along that changes everything. ? One is very fortunate if you get to work on just one of these in your career. Apple?s been very fortunate it?s been able to introduce a few of these into the world.? [Announcement of the iPhone, Jan. 9, 2007] On Business ?You know, my main reaction to this money thing is that it?s humorous, all the attention to it, because it?s hardly the most insightful or valuable thing that?s happened to me.? [Playboy, Feb. 1, 1985] *** ?Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn?t matter to me ? Going to bed at night saying we?ve done something wonderful? that?s what matters to me.? [The Wall Street Journal, May 25, 1993] *** Q: There?s a lot of symbolism to your return. Is that going to be enough to reinvigorate the company with a sense of magic? ?You?re missing it. This is not a one-man show. What?s reinvigorating this company is two things: One, there?s a lot of really talented people in this company who listened to the world tell them they were losers for a couple of years, and some of them were on the verge of starting to believe it themselves. But they?re not losers. What they didn?t have was a good set of coaches, a good plan. A good senior management team. But they have that now.? [BusinessWeek, May 25, 1998] *** ?Innovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R&D. It?s not about money. It?s about the people you have, how you?re led, and how much you get it.? [Fortune, Nov. 9, 1998] *** ?The cure for Apple is not cost-cutting. The cure for Apple is to innovate its way out of its current predicament.? [Apple Confidential: The Real Story of Apple Computer Inc., May 1999] *** ?The problem with the Internet startup craze isn?t that too many people are starting companies; it?s that too many people aren?t sticking with it. That?s somewhat understandable, because there are many moments that are filled with despair and agony, when you have to fire people and cancel things and deal with very difficult situations. That?s when you find out who you are and what your values are. ?So when these people sell out, even though they get fabulously rich, they?re gypping themselves out of one of the potentially most rewarding experiences of their unfolding lives. Without it, they may never know their values or how to keep their newfound wealth in perspective.? [Fortune, Jan. 24, 2000] *** ?The system is that there is no system. That doesn?t mean we don?t have process. Apple is a very disciplined company, and we have great processes. But that?s not what it?s about. Process makes you more efficient. ?But innovation comes from people meeting up in the hallways or calling each other at 10:30 at night with a new idea, or because they realized something that shoots holes in how we?ve been thinking about a problem. It?s ad hoc meetings of six people called by someone who thinks he has figured out the coolest new thing ever and who wants to know what other people think of his idea. ?And it comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don?t get on the wrong track or try to do too much. We?re always thinking about new markets we could enter, but it?s only by saying no that you can concentrate on the things that are really important. [BusinessWeek, Oct. 12, 2004] On His Competitors Playboy: Are you saying that the people who made PCjr don?t have that kind of pride in the product? ?If they did, they wouldn?t have made the PCjr.? [Playboy, Feb. 1, 1985] *** ?Some people are saying that we ought to put an IBM PC on every desk in America to improve productivity. It won?t work. The special incantations you have to learn this time are the ?slash q-zs? and things like that. The manual for WordStar, the most popular word-processing program, is 400 pages thick. To write a novel, you have to read a novel??one that reads like a mystery to most people. They?re not going to learn slash q-z any more than they?re going to learn Morse code. That is what Macintosh is all about.? [Playboy, Feb. 1, 1985] *** ?The only problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste. They have absolutely no taste. And I don?t mean that in a small way, I mean that in a big way, in the sense that they don?t think of original ideas, and they don?t bring much culture into their products.? ?I am saddened, not by Microsoft?s success ? I have no problem with their success. They?ve earned their success, for the most part. I have a problem with the fact that they just make really third-rate products.? [Triumph of the Nerds, 1996] *** ?I wish him the best, I really do. I just think he and Microsoft are a bit narrow. He?d be a broader guy if he had dropped acid once or gone off to an ashram when he was younger.? [On Bill Gates, The New York Times, Jan. 12, 1997] On Predicting the Future ?I?ll always stay connected with Apple. I hope that throughout my life I?ll sort of have the thread of my life and the thread of Apple weave in and out of each other, like a tapestry. There may be a few years when I?m not there, but I?ll always come back. [Playboy, Feb. 1, 1985] *** ?The most compelling reason for most people to buy a computer for the home will be to link it to a nationwide communications network. We?re just in the beginning stages of what will be a truly remarkable breakthrough for most people??as remarkable as the telephone.? [Playboy, Feb. 1, 1985] *** ?The desktop computer industry is dead. Innovation has virtually ceased. Microsoft dominates with very little innovation. That?s over. Apple lost. The desktop market has entered the dark ages, and it?s going to be in the dark ages for the next 10 years, or certainly for the rest of this decade. ?It?s like when IBM drove a lot of innovation out of the computer industry before the microprocessor came along. Eventually, Microsoft will crumble because of complacency, and maybe some new things will grow. But until that happens, until there?s some fundamental technology shift, it?s just over.? [Wired, February 1996] *** The desktop metaphor was invented because one, you were a stand-alone device, and two, you had to manage your own storage. That?s a very big thing in a desktop world. And that may go away. You may not have to manage your own storage. You may not store much before too long. [Wired, February 1996] On Life ?It?s more fun to be a pirate than to join the navy.? [1982, quoted in Odyssey: Pepsi to Apple, 1987] *** ?When you?re young, you look at television and think, There?s a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that?s not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want. That?s a far more depressing thought. Conspiracy is optimistic! You can shoot the bastards! We can have a revolution! But the networks are really in business to give people what they want. It?s the truth.? [Wired, February 1996] *** ?I?m an optimist in the sense that I believe humans are noble and honorable, and some of them are really smart. I have a very optimistic view of individuals. As individuals, people are inherently good. I have a somewhat more pessimistic view of people in groups. And I remain extremely concerned when I see what?s happening in our country, which is in many ways the luckiest place in the world. We don?t seem to be excited about making our country a better place for our kids.? [Wired, February 1996] *** ?You can?t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something ? your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.? [Stanford commencement speech, June 2005] *** ?Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven?t found it yet, keep looking. Don?t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you?ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don?t settle.? [Stanford commencement speech, June 2005] *** ?Remembering that I?ll be dead soon is the most important tool I?ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything ? all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure ? these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.? [Stanford commencement speech, June 2005] *** ?I think if you do something and it turns out pretty good, then you should go do something else wonderful, not dwell on it for too long. Just figure out what?s next.? [NBC Nightly News, May 2006] *** And One More Thing ?No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don?t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life?s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true. ?Your time is limited, so don?t waste it living someone else?s life. Don?t be trapped by dogma ? which is living with the results of other people?s thinking. Don?t let the noise of others? opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.? [Stanford commencement speech, June 2005] Follow Jennifer Valentino-DeVries on Twitter @jenvalentino. Sent from my iPad -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://davesevick.com/pipermail/npmug/attachments/20110825/940b1118/attachment-0001.htm From markd at borkware.com Thu Aug 25 11:33:17 2011 From: markd at borkware.com (Mark Dalrymple) Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2011 13:33:17 -0400 Subject: [NPMUG] New CEO Tim Cook: "I'm Thinking Printers" Message-ID: http://www.theonion.com/articles/new-ceo-tim-cook-im-thinking-printers,21207/ Following the resignation of Apple founder Steve Jobs, incoming CEO Tim Cook called a meeting of shareholders and members of the press Thursday morning to announce that he envisioned printers as the company?s future. ?Laser, ink-jet, double-sided, color, black-and-white?the future of technology is in printers" Cheers, ++md From charles at firthconsulting.com Thu Aug 25 11:40:55 2011 From: charles at firthconsulting.com (Charles Firth) Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2011 13:40:55 -0400 Subject: [NPMUG] New CEO Tim Cook: "I'm Thinking Printers" In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <2CEE4117-7A8E-4585-B4D2-241A40CFB87A@firthconsulting.com> Speaking as someone who used to be certified in LaserWriter repair, awesome :) Sent from my iPad On Aug 25, 2011, at 13:33, Mark Dalrymple wrote: > http://www.theonion.com/articles/new-ceo-tim-cook-im-thinking-printers,21207/ > > Following the resignation of Apple founder Steve Jobs, incoming CEO > Tim Cook called a meeting of shareholders and members of the press > Thursday morning to announce that he envisioned printers as the > company?s future. ?Laser, ink-jet, double-sided, color, > black-and-white?the future of technology is in printers" > > Cheers, > ++md > > > _______________________________________________ > NPMUG mailing list > NPMUG at davesevick.com > http://davesevick.com/mailman/listinfo/npmug From gtas at mac.com Thu Aug 25 11:45:16 2011 From: gtas at mac.com (Glenn Sebastian) Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2011 13:45:16 -0400 Subject: [NPMUG] New CEO Tim Cook: "I'm Thinking Printers" Message-ID: <237512B1-F784-4E07-AB27-0DC416B64A09@mac.com> Take it from me, PRINT IS DEAD! :-) Glenn Sebastian 737 Ninth Street Oakmont, PA 15139 e) gtas at mac.com c) 412.855.1659 From caroleashbridge at yahoo.com Thu Aug 25 11:50:07 2011 From: caroleashbridge at yahoo.com (Carole Ashbridge) Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2011 13:50:07 -0400 Subject: [NPMUG] New CEO Tim Cook: "I'm Thinking Printers" In-Reply-To: <2CEE4117-7A8E-4585-B4D2-241A40CFB87A@firthconsulting.com> References: <2CEE4117-7A8E-4585-B4D2-241A40CFB87A@firthconsulting.com> Message-ID: This was from The Onion!!! Sent from my iPhone On Aug 25, 2011, at 1:40 PM, Charles Firth wrote: > Speaking as someone who used to be certified in LaserWriter repair, awesome :) > > Sent from my iPad > > On Aug 25, 2011, at 13:33, Mark Dalrymple wrote: > >> http://www.theonion.com/articles/new-ceo-tim-cook-im-thinking-printers,21207/ >> >> Following the resignation of Apple founder Steve Jobs, incoming CEO >> Tim Cook called a meeting of shareholders and members of the press >> Thursday morning to announce that he envisioned printers as the >> company?s future. ?Laser, ink-jet, double-sided, color, >> black-and-white?the future of technology is in printers" >> >> Cheers, >> ++md >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> NPMUG mailing list >> NPMUG at davesevick.com >> http://davesevick.com/mailman/listinfo/npmug > > > _______________________________________________ > NPMUG mailing list > NPMUG at davesevick.com > http://davesevick.com/mailman/listinfo/npmug From genemyrapa at gmail.com Thu Aug 25 12:03:56 2011 From: genemyrapa at gmail.com (Gene & Myra Fozard) Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2011 14:03:56 -0400 Subject: [NPMUG] New Apple Printers Message-ID: Did anyone else wonder about the following excerpt??? Cook concluded his remarks by assuring investors the release of upcoming Apple products such as the iPhone 5 would be postponed for at least four years so the company could throw all its time and resources into the creation of high-quality printers for the home and office. Gene O! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://davesevick.com/pipermail/npmug/attachments/20110825/e80bdfe7/attachment.htm From m.bizic at comcast.net Thu Aug 25 12:06:07 2011 From: m.bizic at comcast.net (Milana Bizic) Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2011 14:06:07 -0400 Subject: [NPMUG] New Apple Printers In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <4DE5641C-D031-4DAB-80EA-4C327A3AFF70@comcast.net> What the heck-o????? On Aug 25, 2011, at 2:03 PM, Gene & Myra Fozard wrote: > Did anyone else wonder about the following excerpt??? > > Cook concluded his remarks by assuring investors the release of upcoming Apple products such as the iPhone 5 would be postponed for at least four years so the company could throw all its time and resources into the creation of high-quality printers for the home and office. > > Gene O! > _______________________________________________ > NPMUG mailing list > NPMUG at davesevick.com > http://davesevick.com/mailman/listinfo/npmug -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: http://davesevick.com/pipermail/npmug/attachments/20110825/2633ac62/attachment-0001.htm From dave at davesevick.com Thu Aug 25 14:27:50 2011 From: dave at davesevick.com (Dave Sevick) Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2011 16:27:50 -0400 Subject: [NPMUG] =?windows-1252?q?Tim_Cook=92s_=28_real_=29_note_to_employ?= =?windows-1252?q?ee=27s_at_Apple____=22Apple_is_not_going_to_change=3B_ou?= =?windows-1252?q?r_best_years_lie_ahead=85=22?= Message-ID: http://macdailynews.com/2011/08/25/new-apple-ceo-tim-cooks-note-to-employees-apple-is-not-going-to-change/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+wordpress%2FxhfA+%28MacDailyNews%29 New Apple CEO Tim Cook?s note to employees: ?Apple is not going to change; our best years lie ahead? I am looking forward to the amazing opportunity of serving as CEO of the most innovative company in the world. Joining Apple was the best decision I?ve ever made and it?s been the privilege of a lifetime to work for Apple and Steve for over 13 years. I share Steve?s optimism for Apple?s bright future. Steve has been an incredible leader and mentor to me, as well as to the entire executive team and our amazing employees. We are really looking forward to Steve?s ongoing guidance and inspiration as our Chairman. I want you to be confident that Apple is not going to change. I cherish and celebrate Apple?s unique principles and values. Steve built a company and culture that is unlike any other in the world and we are going to stay true to that?it is in our DNA. We are going to continue to make the best products in the world that delight our customers and make our employees incredibly proud of what they do. I love Apple and I am looking forward to diving into my new role. All of the incredible support from the Board, the executive team and many of you has been inspiring. I am confident our best years lie ahead of us and that together we will continue to make Apple the magical place that it is. http://macdailynews.com/2011/08/25/new-apple-ceo-tim-cooks-note-to-employees-apple-is-not-going-to-change/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+wordpress%2FxhfA+%28MacDailyNews%29 From dave at davesevick.com Thu Aug 25 14:36:50 2011 From: dave at davesevick.com (Dave Sevick) Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2011 16:36:50 -0400 Subject: [NPMUG] Woz on Jobs Message-ID: <301CBF96-5E6F-4F40-90E2-B581B75E6BD8@davesevick.com> http://www.bloomberg.com/video/74391006/ Aug. 24 (Bloomberg) -- Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple Inc., Lou Kerner, managing director at Wedbush Securities Inc. and Lawrence Haverty, a portfolio manager at Gamco Investors Inc., talk about Apple Inc. Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs's decision to resign and the outlook for the company. Jobs, who is succeeded by Chief Operating Officer Tim Cook, was named chairman. Wozniak, Kerner, and Haverty speak with Cory Johnson and Emily Chang on Bloomberg Television's special coverage on "Bloomberg West." Bloomberg's Tom Giles and Sheila Dharmarajan also speak. (Source: Bloomberg) ``````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````` Dave Sevick Apple Certified Support Professional Helping people use technology in Pittsburgh Western PA, WV, OH MD ... Since 1988 724.779.0099 mobile/office dave at davesevick.com http://www.davesevick.com ``````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````` -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The scan was done after Alex was exposed to myriad images of Apple products and the results were exceptional. The reactions were similar to the reactions of those to religionist. The Bishop of Buckingham ? who reads his Bible on an iPad ? explained to me the similarities between Apple and a religion. And when a team of neuroscientists with an MRI scanner took a look inside the brain of an Apple fanatic it seemed the bishop was on to something. The results suggested that Apple was actually stimulating the same parts of the brain as religious imagery does in people of faith. ?Like Apple, mobile phones and social networks offer an opportunity for us to express our basic human need to communicate. And it?s by tapping into our basic needs, like gossip, religion or sex that these brands are taking over our world at such lightning speed,? Riley says As rightly said ? Companies can become a technology superbrand only when they identifies one?s potential interest, And how does Apple do that? It reminds me of the infamous Golden Circle by Simon Sinek that was presented in TED conference. It will explain you how Apple able to convince customers about its products and other fails to do it! Via [Digital Trends] ``````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````` Dave Sevick Apple Certified Support Professional Helping people use technology in Pittsburgh Western PA, WV, OH MD ... Since 1988 724.779.0099 mobile/office dave at davesevick.com http://www.davesevick.com ``````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````` -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://davesevick.com/pipermail/npmug/attachments/20110825/b2cf9975/attachment.htm From ronladams7 at gmail.com Thu Aug 25 15:45:34 2011 From: ronladams7 at gmail.com (Ron_A) Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2011 15:45:34 -0600 Subject: [NPMUG] What delivering results looks like... Message-ID: <34E80DBA-A0E3-441F-B1C1-227EF6CD7078@gmail.com> http://www.businessinsider.com/chart-of-the-day-apples-market-cap-during-steve-jobs-tenure-2011-8 ? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://davesevick.com/pipermail/npmug/attachments/20110825/abd7be3e/attachment.htm From dave at davesevick.com Thu Aug 25 17:32:15 2011 From: dave at davesevick.com (Dave Sevick) Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2011 19:32:15 -0400 Subject: [NPMUG] CNN tonight at 9PM - Steve Wozniak & Jack Welch, Two business leaders react to the resignation of Steve Jobs. Message-ID: <99C1C699-1F15-4257-989B-0EB6162B9356@davesevick.com> Piers Morgan Show 9PM EST Steve Wozniak & Jack Welch Two business leaders react to the resignation of Steve Jobs. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: http://davesevick.com/pipermail/npmug/attachments/20110825/7f0a639e/attachment-0001.htm From markd at borkware.com Thu Aug 25 20:41:48 2011 From: markd at borkware.com (Mark Dalrymple) Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2011 22:41:48 -0400 Subject: [NPMUG] Ten Unusual Things You Didn't Know About Steve Jobs In-Reply-To: <16E7026B-1DF1-408B-ACFD-8D9E52A6A3F7@mac.com> References: <16E33701-4B51-42FB-988E-B5D4471FE92E@mac.com> <16E7026B-1DF1-408B-ACFD-8D9E52A6A3F7@mac.com> Message-ID: And a number of factual errors. Steve Wozniak was the one involved in Breakout, the Apple /// and Lisa were very different machines, etc. So take what it says with some grains of salt. ++md From gtas at mac.com Fri Aug 26 06:10:39 2011 From: gtas at mac.com (Glenn Sebastian) Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2011 08:10:39 -0400 Subject: [NPMUG] =?windows-1252?q?Geek=2Ecom=92s_top_Steve_Jobs_moments?= Message-ID: <9FFEFCBB-D43D-4279-9D01-11E7BE6846B9@mac.com> Here's a link to Apple related articles and reviews over the years from Geek.com. The best part of these are the user comments below the articles! Here's a great one about Apple releasing the original iPod in 2001: "no offense (4:04pm EST Tue Oct 30 2001) I mean no disrespect, but I don't see apple making a killing off of the ipod, first and foremost, how many people actually use mp3 players? I know I'm a a large university(35,000 people), and I have yet to see someone using an mp3 player that wasn't a cd/mp3 player?So as phat as it looks, and I must agree it looks fat, but not too many people will buy it. - by tellingitlikeittis" http://www.geek.com/articles/apple/geek-coms-top-steve-jobs-moments-20110825/ Glenn Sebastian 737 Ninth Street Oakmont, PA 15139 c) 412.855.1659 e) gtas at mac.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://davesevick.com/pipermail/npmug/attachments/20110826/33a8548f/attachment.htm From ronladams7 at gmail.com Sat Aug 27 09:20:43 2011 From: ronladams7 at gmail.com (Ron_A) Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2011 09:20:43 -0600 Subject: [NPMUG] What Makes Steve Jobs Great - NYTimes.com Message-ID: <29E803D3-CBCC-4FA1-8968-65CCF8DDF973@gmail.com> http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/27/opinion/nocera-what-makes-steve-jobs-great.html?_r=1 What Makes Steve Jobs Great ?I think I have five more great products in me,? Steve Jobs said a very long time ago. He was 31 at the time and barreling up Route 101 in Silicon Valley, en route to a meeting in San Francisco. Having been kicked out of Apple, which he?d co-founded a decade before, Jobs was wholly engaged in the act of starting up a new company, which he had named ? of course! ? NeXT. As it happens, I was in the passenger seat, interviewing him for Esquire magazine. I was never one of the journalists who was close to Jobs. But that long-ago assignment came at a time in his life when he must have wanted to unburden himself. For nearly a week, he allowed me to sit in on meetings and engaged in long, introspective conversations over dinner. And he took me to his house, where we leafed through a photo album with pictures of the team that created the Macintosh computer, his last big accomplishment before his exile from Apple. Wednesday?s sad, but unsurprising, news that Jobs was resigning as Apple?s chief executive ? presumably because of his deteriorating health ? got me thinking about that old encounter. The businessman I met 25 years ago violated every rule of management. He was not a consensus-builder but a dictator who listened mainly to his own intuition. He was a maniacal micromanager. He had an astonishing aesthetic sense, which businesspeople almost always lack. He could be absolutely brutal in meetings: I watched him eviscerate staff members for their ?bozo ideas.? The Steve Jobs I watched that week was arrogant, sarcastic, thoughtful, learned, paranoid and ?insanely? (to use one of his favorite words) charismatic. The Steve Jobs the rest of the world has gotten to know in the nearly 15 years since he returned to Apple is no different. He never mellowed, never let up on Apple employees, never stopped relying on his singular instincts in making decisions about how Apple products should look and how they should work. Just a few months ago, Fortune published an article about life inside Apple; it opened with an anecdote in which Jobs cut his staff to ribbons for putting out a product that failed to meet his standards. But his instincts have been so unerringly good ? and his charisma so powerful ? that Apple employees were willing to follow him wherever he led. Apple will miss those instincts. Most of the articles written in the past few days about Jobs?s resignation have tended to focus on the iPhone and the iPad. But if you take the long view, they?re just the icing on the cake. Have we forgotten already that Jobs virtually invented the personal computer, with the introduction of the Apple II, when he was barely 21? That a few years later he saved Apple from near-disaster by creating the Macintosh ? the first machine with a mouse and windows, and all the other features we associate with modern computing? That the NeXT operating system was critical to the next generation of Macintosh computers after Jobs returned from a 12-year exile in 1997? And, yes, then came the iPod, the iPhone and iPad ? all of them so elegant in their look and feel that they became more than devices. They were objects of lust. There?s more, of course. Steve Jobs persuaded the recording industry to use his iTunes to give consumers an easy alternative to stealing music online. The iPhone completely upended two industries: computing and cellphones. The iPad is in the process of doing the same to the written word. And let?s not forget Pixar, which Jobs bought at the same time he was starting NeXT, and which has become the greatest maker of animated films in modern times, steeped in Jobs?s aesthetic and attention to detail. Five more great products, he said 25 years ago? When you look at the list, you realize that he sold himself short. It is almost not believable that one person could have affected such a large swath of American culture and industry. In recent days, Jobs has been routinely called a business genius, and who can disagree? I?ve been a critic at times of some of Apple?s practices, starting with its excessive secrecy, but there is no denying that Jobs is on a very short list of greatest American businessmen ever. In many of the recent articles, he?s been mentioned as a modern-day Henry Ford, who, of course, built the first automobile the middle class could afford. On that ride to San Francisco all those years ago, Jobs himself compared the still-young computer industry to Henry Ford?s automobile industry, when anything still seemed possible. ?It must have been the most incredible feeling to know that this was going to change America,? he said. ?And it did!? As he steps down as Apple?s leader, at the too-young age of 56, Steve Jobs has known that feeling more than anyone else alive. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://davesevick.com/pipermail/npmug/attachments/20110827/ab499cac/attachment.htm From ronladams7 at gmail.com Sat Aug 27 09:27:18 2011 From: ronladams7 at gmail.com (Ron_A) Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2011 09:27:18 -0600 Subject: [NPMUG] Editorials | Steve Jobs and his insanely great lessons for the individual and society | Seattle Times Newspaper Message-ID: <56BB5554-E8D7-4C6C-8DFD-06AEA0A92708@gmail.com> http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/editorials/2016015834_edit26stevejobs.html Steve Jobs and his insanely great lessons for the individual and society THE retirement of Steve Jobs is a milestone in American industry. Jobs belongs with the iconic pioneers of the automobile: the Dodge brothers, Walter Chrysler and Henry Ford. They put mobility in the hands of ordinary people. Jobs and a few other extraordinary visionaries put electronic intelligence in the hands of ordinary people. Today Apple brings to mind the iPad and the iPhone. But the first product Jobs and inventor Steve Wozniak offered was the Apple II, in 1977. It was not the world's first personal computer, but for millions of Americans it was the first one they had their hands on. The fanciest model had 48 kilobytes of memory and cost more than $2,698. It was the first computer successfully marketed to Everyman, and millions of everymen loved it. The story of Steve Jobs and Apple has some age-old lessons. The Apple II easily could have been developed by the corporate giants: IBM, Digital Equipment, Motorola or Xerox. But it was not. Motorola's people had the idea for the Apple II's processing chip, and Motorola didn't want it. Later a team from Xerox invented the mouse and Xerox didn't want it. Jobs took it for the Macintosh. Jobs saw what people would want. That was his skill. His story could not have been predicted or planned. The Mac's proportionally spaced fonts helped create desktop publishing. To hear Jobs tell it, their reason for existence was that years before, he attended Reed College in Portland. He became bored with classes and dropped out ? but he hung around campus to audit classes that fascinated him. One was calligraphy and typography. It was fascinating to him but completely useless ? until it came time to design the Mac. He called this story "connecting the dots," but he said, "You cannot connect the dots looking forward." For the individual, his lesson was: Do what you love doing. That is a thought also for society. You cannot build the future with policy only ? monetary policy, tax policy, regulatory policy, et cetera. Infrastructure may help ? but a calligraphy class may help more. The economy is not a machine. It is organic. It is people, and the ideas that move them. The greatest lesson from Jobs' career is to keep the doors open for people like him. America needs to be ordered and structured and regulated ? but not too much. It needs to have opportunities for an adopted child raised by a working-class family. It needs to have second chances for people who drop out of college. It need not cast out someone who would take LSD and travel to India and become a Buddhist. Jobs was, and did, all these things. And he helped create the 21st century. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://davesevick.com/pipermail/npmug/attachments/20110827/365e84fa/attachment-0001.htm From radonaldson at mac.com Sat Aug 27 19:21:23 2011 From: radonaldson at mac.com (Robert A. Donaldson) Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2011 21:21:23 -0400 Subject: [NPMUG] Fwd: Goodwill CRC update, Friday, August 26, 2010 References: Message-ID: Second try.... Robert A. Donaldson radonaldson at mac.com (H) 412-922-3303 (M) 412-477-9188 Begin forwarded message: > From: "Robert A. Donaldson" > Date: August 27, 2011 12:30:58 PM EDT > To: NPMUG Serve > Cc: Steve Cioc > Subject: Goodwill CRC update, Friday, August 26, 2010 > > Dear Mac friends: > > Many thanks to Charlie Hutchens, Rich Fitzgibbon, John Hamill, Terry Golightly, Sam Hughes, Noah Covert (and his parents Damon and Penny) and Dave Sevick for joining me yesterday for our weekly workday at our Goodwill Computer Recycling Center "annex." > > It was a delightful day, with a great turnout and full workbenches. It was the last session of the summer for Mr. Hughes and Mr. Covert, who will be returning to school next week. That's high school and elementary school, not college. Yet. > > It was a remarkable sight. Here we have people with widely different backgrounds and interests, ranging in age from 10 to the mid-70s, whose common interest is the rehabilitation of Apple Macintosh computers so people without a whole lot of money can buy one from Goodwill and have the same experience all of us have had for some time. > > The donation bin brought last week has yielded a high proportion of working Macs. We refurbished 12 to bring our all-time total to 3,036. We de-manufactured 5 others. We're told another three bins of donated Macs will be delivered to us in time for next week's work session. > > Goodwill has opened a new ComputerWorks store at their new campus on 51st St. in Pittsburgh's Lawrenceville neighborhood. They have much more room than their previous computer retail operations. It's in the rear of the Goodwill retail store in a building with Klingensmith Health Care and a police uniform shop. If you cross the railroad tracks, you've gone too far. Goodwill will maintain the current location of the ComputerWorks store in the rear of their retail store at 2700 East Carson St. on Pittsburgh's South Side. > > We'll have another workday on Friday, September 2. We hope to see you there! > > Robert A. Donaldson > radonaldson at mac.com > (H) 412-922-3303 > (M) 412-477-9188 > > > From susankforrest at hotmail.com Sat Aug 27 20:32:22 2011 From: susankforrest at hotmail.com (Susan Forrest) Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2011 22:32:22 -0400 Subject: [NPMUG] Fwd: Goodwill CRC update, Friday, August 26, 2010 In-Reply-To: References: , Message-ID: Dear Dave, Bob, Charlie, John, Marty, et. al., THANK YOU to all from Sam Hughes and myself for giving Sam the opportunity to volunteer this summer! He has truly enjoyed every minute! Thank you for ALL of your mentoring and camaraderie. He has always been interested in computers and this experience has helped cement his college future to study computer science and perhaps computer engineering next year. We are hoping for many Friday teacher in-service days so Sam can re-join you in the near future. Best regards to you all... and please keep us on your mailing list! Susan & Sam Susan Kershner Forrest, MA, CCC-SLP Speech & Language Pathologist > From: radonaldson at mac.com > Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2011 21:21:23 -0400 > To: npmug at davesevick.com > Subject: [NPMUG] Fwd: Goodwill CRC update, Friday, August 26, 2010 > > Second try.... > > Robert A. Donaldson > radonaldson at mac.com > (H) 412-922-3303 > (M) 412-477-9188 > > > > Begin forwarded message: > > > From: "Robert A. Donaldson" > > Date: August 27, 2011 12:30:58 PM EDT > > To: NPMUG Serve > > Cc: Steve Cioc > > Subject: Goodwill CRC update, Friday, August 26, 2010 > > > > Dear Mac friends: > > > > Many thanks to Charlie Hutchens, Rich Fitzgibbon, John Hamill, Terry Golightly, Sam Hughes, Noah Covert (and his parents Damon and Penny) and Dave Sevick for joining me yesterday for our weekly workday at our Goodwill Computer Recycling Center "annex." > > > > It was a delightful day, with a great turnout and full workbenches. It was the last session of the summer for Mr. Hughes and Mr. Covert, who will be returning to school next week. That's high school and elementary school, not college. Yet. > > > > It was a remarkable sight. Here we have people with widely different backgrounds and interests, ranging in age from 10 to the mid-70s, whose common interest is the rehabilitation of Apple Macintosh computers so people without a whole lot of money can buy one from Goodwill and have the same experience all of us have had for some time. > > > > The donation bin brought last week has yielded a high proportion of working Macs. We refurbished 12 to bring our all-time total to 3,036. We de-manufactured 5 others. We're told another three bins of donated Macs will be delivered to us in time for next week's work session. > > > > Goodwill has opened a new ComputerWorks store at their new campus on 51st St. in Pittsburgh's Lawrenceville neighborhood. They have much more room than their previous computer retail operations. It's in the rear of the Goodwill retail store in a building with Klingensmith Health Care and a police uniform shop. If you cross the railroad tracks, you've gone too far. Goodwill will maintain the current location of the ComputerWorks store in the rear of their retail store at 2700 East Carson St. on Pittsburgh's South Side. > > > > We'll have another workday on Friday, September 2. We hope to see you there! > > > > Robert A. Donaldson > > radonaldson at mac.com > > (H) 412-922-3303 > > (M) 412-477-9188 > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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/20110827/71dea8cd/attachment.htm From ronladams7 at gmail.com Sun Aug 28 17:19:14 2011 From: ronladams7 at gmail.com (Ron_A) Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2011 17:19:14 -0600 Subject: [NPMUG] =?windows-1252?q?Steve=3A_Who=92s_Going_to_Protect_Us_Fro?= =?windows-1252?q?m_Cheap_and_Mediocre_Now=3F_=7C_Monday_Note?= Message-ID: http://www.mondaynote.com/2011/08/28/steve-who%e2%80%99s-going-to-protect-us-from-cheap-and-mediocre-now/ Steve: Who?s Going to Protect Us From Cheap and Mediocre Now? Not so fast. Until the last sinew, the last synapse gives up, Steve will continue to influence the company he co-founded and later recreated. Seeing he could no longer ??meet [his] duties and expectations as Apple?s CEO??, Jobs kicks himself upstairs and becomes Chairman, director, and ?mere? Apple employee. In a distant future, I see him haunting the circular hallways of Apple?s Cupertino spaceship, the Commendatore hunting the clock punchers and damning the linear thinkers straight to Hell. Let?s review. In 1983, Apple?s Board of Directors felt that Steve required ?adult supervision??. John Sculley, the designated grownup, replaced Jobs as CEO and eventually pushed him out of the company. Fast forward a decade and a half. In 1997, Steve returns to run his company unchallenged?but not unassisted. The Apple 2.0 management team, hand-picked, well-groomed, isn?t so much a stroke of genius as it is an emblem of the enfant terrible all grown up. As the Fortune chart below shows, Apple has no lack of ??bench strength??? and who?s providing the adult supervision now? With Steve as Chairman, Tim Cook, Apple?s long-time COO, moves to the center of the chart. He joined the company 13 years ago, has always reported directly to Steve and saw his responsibilities increase over time. He now drives the team that made Apple the most valued and valuable high-tech company in the world. As for ourselves: No whining. It?s our job, as consumers, to protect ourselves, to vote with our wallets against the bean counters, the Paint by Numbers product planners. It?s our place to provide ??constructive feedback?? when Apple products fail to meet the combined aesthetic and functional standards Dear Leader drilled into the marketplace. From MobileMe to ?skeuomorphic? calendars, address books and bookshelves ? to say nothing of fresh Lion bugs. Steve?s Apple may not be perfect, but? A portentous example: The 1998 Bondi Blue iMac, the first visible re-assertion of Steve?s style ? and of Jony Ive?s portfolio in the making: Immediately iconic, users adored their iMacs. The unexpected shape and color set a new standard for high-tech products, so much so Apple competitors tried to rub the amulet for luck ? and showed us what they really stood for: Cheap, imitative mediocrity. I recall going to Palo Alto?s Fry?s store and seeing beige PC clone boxes with candy-colored plastic inserts that approximated the iMac palette. As a Forbes article put it, speaking of Dell?s similar fig-leaf attempt: ?Dell, ever concerned with keeping its inventory low, seems to be approaching colored notebooks in a much less risky way, using cheaper plastic inserts. Of course, the appearance of the Inspiron doesn?t inspire the way the first iMacs and iBooks did.? The aesthetic knockoffs weren?t just cheap, they were ugly. The inserts looked even worse than the faux-wood ??accents?? on Chrysler dashboards. No cojones, no imagination, no taste. Fast forward a bit more: Steve introduces the Apple Store. We?ll pass over the record-beating numbers and address the two messages the store imparts. First, the architecture, an expression of the Apple ethos, says: ?This is what we think of ourselves?. Second, once inside the store, the experience states: ?Here?s what we think of our relationship with you, our customer?. In comparison, I see carriers trying to spruce up their store fronts with shiny metal appliqu?s ? but go inside and you find cheap trade-show modular furniture. Taste matters. Let?s turn to this YouTube video of the opening of an Apple Store clone. Not a Chinese counterfeit but a Microsoft Store in Scottsdale, Arizona. It starts much like the ?real? thing: Happy customer, rows of high-fiving employees, a decor that looks familiar. But 40 seconds into the one minute video, we get the ?tell?, the killer detail that gives the imitation away. Here we get the men in suits and ties: Still more evidence of Steve?s influence: Just as HP decides to spin off its PC business (or perhaps not), PC clone makers demand an additional $100 subsidy per ??ultra-portable?? laptop from Intel. Why? They want to compete with Apple?s increasingly popular MacBook Air. It seems that the ?Apple tax?, the premium we?re willing to pay for quality, isn?t enough to dissuade us. PC clone makers can?t match Apple?s cost or its Bill Of Materials (BOM). The way Apple procures parts and subsystems, the way it runs contract manufacturing and stays on top of complicated but delicate distribution logistics is evidence of the company?s aggressive Supply-Chain Management (SCM). Steve ? and thus Apple ? understands that the channels need to be fed Just So, neither starved nor stuffed. I found the BOM story interesting and looked up current ultra-portable prices. Who better than Sony in that product category? I went to their site and got this: A nice MacBook Air competitor starting at $1969. The real thing starts at $1299. Quite a reversal of the old world order and, I hope, a source of satisfaction for Jobs. Spanning an amazing arc of thirty years, the company with the anti-establishment image has become the most disciplined, best-managed high-tech giant ? and arbiter of taste. When I first met Steve, in February 1981, he was sitting cross-legged on a credenza in the Apple board room, picking his toes. Since then I?ve watched with glee as he went against received wisdom, causing pundits to have fits at every turn. I picture them as a gaggle of eunuchs standing around the caliph?s bed, braying in high-pitched voice: ?Steve, you?re doing it wrong!? For a long time, I?ve seen him as having an animal inside him, the one with the desires, the instinct, the drive. In 1985, that animal threw Steve to the ground. He picked himself up at Pixar ? you?d be a captain of industry for doing no more ? and NeXT. Then, in 1997, armed with Pixar?s success and Next?s technical prowess, he came back to run Apple and make it really his. He had learned to ride the animal. Steve and Tim both speak, rightly, of Apple being at the crossroads of technology and humanities, liberal arts. In tribute to Jobs? aesthetic sense, and why it deeply matters, I?ll conclude with a quote from Herman Hesse?s Steppenwolf: ??Before all else, I learned all these playthings were not mere idle trifles invented by manufacturers and dealers for the purposes of gain. They were, on the contrary, a little or, rather, a big world, authoritative and beautiful, many sided, containing a multiplicity of things all of which had the one and only aim of serving love, refining the senses, giving life to the dead world around us, endowing it in a magical way with new instruments of love, from powder and scent to the dancing show, from ring to cigarette case, from waist buckle to handbag. This bag was no bag, this purse no purse, flowers no flowers, the fan no fan. All were the plastic material of love, of magic and delight. Each was a messenger, a smuggler, a weapon, a battle cry.?? ? JLG at mondaynote.com Next week: Recipes don?t a chef make. And, for a good laugh, Macalope?s view of this week?s worse pundits. Related columns: Steve Jobs, The Rule Breaker Oh my god! Steve Jobs breaks rules? Fortune magazine cannot see the difference between artists and bean counters. Steve Jobs is on Fortune?s cover again: Apple has become the most admired company in America. Is this another PR job of ?oral gratification?? If it is, it comes with bite marks or, in politically correct terms, [...]... Fiction: How Steve Jobs Cuckolds AT&T Steve shimmers into a bar, materializes next to Dan Hesse, Sprint?s CEO, crying in his mojito and whispers: I can fulfill your fondest dream. You?re the Devil, go away! No, I?m merely Steve Jobs and I want nothing to do with your soul or your chiseled body. Relax, it?s just about money. A little bit [...]... Seven statues for Steve Jobs For this week?s Monday Note, the plans was to calmly traverse the field of investment opportunities as redefined, upended is a better word, or narrowed, by what is shaping up as depression. I used to write recession or recession/depression but, now, even the Washington sages are now losing their calm. Today, they?re conceding: the bailout [...]... Will Steve Jobs Save General Motors? Here is how Tom Friedman ends his 11/11/08 New York Times column: ?Lastly, somebody ought to call Steve Jobs, who doesn?t need to be bribed to do innovation, and ask him if he?d like to do national service and run a car company for a year. I?d bet it wouldn?t take him much longer than [...]... Steve Ballmer not so gracious Background: this Sunday May 4th Microsoft withdrew its offer to buy Yahoo for $44.6bn. Saturday, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer had invited the two co-founder of Yahoo, Jerry Yang and David Filo for a final discussion. In a last move, Ballmer sweetened his proposal by $5bn, to $33 a share. Yang and Filo demanded $37. So, [...]... -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://davesevick.com/pipermail/npmug/attachments/20110828/2d8b8dc6/attachment-0001.htm From sevick at computereach.com Sun Aug 28 23:38:46 2011 From: sevick at computereach.com (Dave Sevick) Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2011 01:38:46 -0400 Subject: [NPMUG] ComputeReach helps several tribes in Oklahoma - a video by Ben Filio Message-ID: http://youtu.be/-9XhXBH08rs July 18-21, 2011 Ben Filio travelled along side ComputeReach volunteers Dave Sevick, Rick Fitzgibbon and Larry Homitsky to Oklahoma City, OK to join forces with the Oklahoma Indian Conference of the Untied Methodist Church. This is a short multi-layered video by Pittsburgh based photojournalist Ben Filio ... covering our ComputeReach mission to Oklahoma with 32 iMac computers. Layer 1 is Jalisa Ross singing a native hymn in church. Layer 2 is Gordon L. Yellowman Sr. narration on the plight of native Americans. Layer 3 are photos by Ben Filio. Guided by Methodist Pastor Donna Pewo (Comanche) and Oklahoma City University www.okcu.edu/ student Jalisa Ross (Oteo/Cherokee/Creek), we supplied 5 sites with iMac computers for children's daily use. 8 Macs - Billy Hooton Memorial United Methodist Church serving children in Middle School and High School students in the Indian nations of Cheyenne-Arapaho, Seminole, Creek, and Kiowa in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 2 Macs - Thomas Indian Education Building serving the Indian nations of Creek and Oteo in Thomas, Oklahoma 7 Macs - Clinton Indian Church and Community Center serving children ages 2-14 years old in the Indian nations of the Cheyenne-Arapaho and Comanche in Clinton, Oklahoma 10 Macs - Ponca City United Methodist Church serving children ages 2-18 years old in the the Ponca tribal nation of White Eagle, Oklahoma 5 Macs - Oklahoma Indian Missionary Conference Center for outreach projects in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma See more at : http://computereach.com/ -------------------------------------------- Dave Sevick ComputeReach, humanitarian computer outreach http://computereach.com 724-779-0099 sevick at computereach.com -------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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But anyway, I had the weirdest dream last night--like a bizarre black-and-white movie that went like this: Jimmy Stewart stars as Steve "Jobs" Bailey, who runs a beleaguered but beloved small-town computer company. For years, big monopolist Bill "Gates" Potter has been wielding his power and money to gain control of the town. And for years, Steve has fought for survival: "This town needs my measly, one-horse computer, if only to have something for people to use instead of Windows!" But now an angry mob is banging on Apple's front door, panicking. "The press says your company is doomed!" yells one man. "You killed the clones! We're going to Windows!" calls another. "We want out of our investment!" they shout. Steve, a master showman, calms them. "Don't do it! If Potter gets complete control of the desktop, you'll be forced to buy his bloatware and pay for his cruddy upgrades forever! We can get through this, but we've got to have faith and stick together!" The crowd decides to give him one more chance. But the day before Christmas, something terrible happens: On his way to the bank, the company's financial man, Uncle Gilly, somehow manages to lose $1.7 billion. With eyes flashing, Steve grabs the befuddled Gilly by the lapels. "Where's that money, you stupid old fool? Don't you realize what this means? It means bankruptcy and scandal! Get out of my company--and don't come back!" Desperate and afraid, Steve heads to Martini's, a local Internet cafe, and drowns his sorrows in an iced cappuccino. Surfing the Web at one of the cafe's Macs, all he finds online is second-guessing, sniping by critics, and terrible market-share numbers. As a blizzard rages, Steve drives his car crazily toward the river. "Oh, what's the use?!" he exclaims. "We've lost the war. Windows rules the world. After everything I've worked for, the Mac is going to be obliterated! Think of all the passion and effort these last 15 years--wasted! Think of the billions of dollars, hundreds of companies, millions of people . . . ." He stands on the bridge, staring at the freezing, roiling river below--and finally hurls himself over the railing. After a moment of floundering in the chilly water, however, he's pulled to safety by a bulbous-nosed oddball. "Who are you?!" Steve splutters angrily. "Name's Clarence--I mean Claris," says the guy. "I'm your guardian angel. I've been sent down to help you--it's my last chance to earn my wings." "Nobody can help me," says Steve bitterly. "If I hadn't created the Mac, everybody'd be a lot happier: Mr. Potter, the media, even our customers. Hell, we'd all be better off if the Mac had never been invented at all!" Music swirls. The wind howls. The tattoo on Steve's right buttock--Buzz Lightyear from Toy Story--vanishes. Steve pats the empty pocket where he usually carries his Newton. "What gives?" "You've got your wish," says Claris. "You never invented the Mac. It never existed. You haven't a care in the world." "Look, little fella, go off and haunt somebody else," Steve mutters. He heads over to Martini's Internet cafe for a good stiff drink. But he's shocked at the difference inside. "My God, look at the people using these computers! Both of them--they look like math professors!" "They are," says Claris. "What is this, a museum? It looks like those computers are running DOS!" "Good eye!" says Claris. "DOS version 25.01, in fact--the very latest." "I don't get it," Steve says. "DOS is a lot better and faster these days, but it hasn't occurred to anybody to market a computer with icons and menus yet. There's no such thing as Windows--after all, there never was a Mac interface for Microsoft to copy." "But this equipment is ancient!" Steve exclaims. "No sound, no CD-ROM drive, not even 3.5-inch floppies!" "Those aren't antiques!" Claris says. "They're state-of-the-art Compaqs, complete with the latest 12X, 5-inch-floppy drives. Don't forget, Steve: The Mac introduced and standardized all that good stuff you named." "But that's nuts!" Steve explodes. "You mean to tell me that the 46 percent of American households with computers are all using DOS?" "Correction: All 9 percent of American households," says Claris cheerfully. "Without a graphic interface, computers are still too complicated to be popular." "Bartender!" shouts Steve. "You don't have a copy of Wired here, do you? I've got to read up on this crazy reality!" The bartender glares. "I don't know what you're wired on, pal, but either stop talking crazy or get outta my shop." "No such thing as Wired," whispers Claris. "Never was. Before you wished the Mac away, most magazines were produced entirely on the Mac. Besides Wired would be awfully thin without the Web." "Without the--now, wait just a minute!" Horrified, Steve rushes over to one of the PCs and connects to the Internet. "You call this the Net? It looks like a text-only BBS--and there's practically nobody online! Where's Navigator? Where's Internet Explorer? Where's the Web, for Pete's sake?" "Oh, I see," Claris smiles sympathetically. "You must be referring to all those technologies that spun off from the concept of a graphic interface. Look, Steve. Until the Mac made the mouse standard, there was no such thing as point and click. And without clicking, there could be no Web . . . and no Web companies. Believe it or not, Marc Andreesen works in a Burger King in Cincinnati." Steve scoffs. "Well, look, if you apply that logic, then PageMaker wouldn't exist either. Photoshop, Illustrator, FreeHand, America Online, digital movies--all that stuff began life on the Mac." "You're getting it," Claris says. He holds up a copy of Time magazine. "Check out the cover price." Steve gasps. "Eight bucks? They've got a lot of nerve!" "Labor costs. They're still pasting type onto master pages with hot wax." "You're crazy!" screams Steve. "I'm going back to my office at Apple!" He drives like a madman back to Cupertino--but the sign that greets him there doesn't say, "Welcome to Apple." It says, "Welcome to Microsoft South." "Sorry, Steve; Apple went out of business in 1985," says Claris. "You see, you really did have a wonderful machine! See what a mistake it was to wish it away?" Steve is sobbing, barely listening. "OK, then--I'll go to my office at Pixar!" "You don't have an office at Pixar," Claris reminds him. "There was no Mac to make you rich enough to buy Pixar!" Steve has had enough. He rushes desperately back to the icy bridge over the river. "Please, God, bring it back! Bring it back! I don't care about market share! Please! I want the Mac to live again!" Music, wind, heavenly voices--and then snow begins softly falling. "Hey, Steve! You all right?" calls out Steve's friend Larry from a passing helicopter. Steve pats his pocket--the Newton is there again! It's all back! Steve runs through the town, delirious with joy. "Merry Christmas, Wired! Merry Christmas, Internet! Merry Christmas, wonderful old Microsoft!" And now his office is filled with smiling people whose lives the Mac has touched. There's old Mr. Chiat/Day the adman. There's Yanni the musician. And there's Mr. Spielberg the moviemaker. As the Apple board starts singing "Auld Lang Syne," somebody boots up a Power Mac. Steve smiles at the startup sound. "You know what they say," he tells the crowd. "Every time you hear a startup chime, an angel just got his wings." -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://davesevick.com/pipermail/npmug/attachments/20110829/fe6817ca/attachment.htm From m.bizic at comcast.net Mon Aug 29 20:24:03 2011 From: m.bizic at comcast.net (Milana Bizic) Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2011 22:24:03 -0400 Subject: [NPMUG] =?windows-1252?q?It=27s_A_Wonderful_Machine__=85_by_David?= =?windows-1252?q?_Pogue=2C_Macworld=2C__January_=2798?= In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <4FA4D96A-87F8-4EBC-839D-8957C485455D@comcast.net> What a wonderful writer this David Pogue is..... such an imagination. I loved reading this and found it hard to believe it goes back to 1998! Wow! Thanks for sharing! On Aug 29, 2011, at 9:49 PM, Dave Sevick wrote: > It's a Wonderful Machine > by David Pogue, Macworld, January '98 > > > I guess I shouldn't have gone to a party where the eggnog was spiked, and maybe I shouldn't have watched the movie It's a Wonderful Life while leafing through MacWeek. But anyway, I had the weirdest dream last night--like a bizarre black-and-white movie that went like this: Jimmy Stewart stars as Steve "Jobs" Bailey, who runs a beleaguered but beloved small-town computer company. For years, big monopolist Bill "Gates" Potter has been wielding his power and money to gain control of the town. And for years, Steve has fought for survival: "This town needs my measly, one-horse computer, if only to have something for people to use instead of Windows!" > > But now an angry mob is banging on Apple's front door, panicking. "The press says your company is doomed!" yells one man. "You killed the clones! We're going to Windows!" calls another. "We want out of our investment!" they shout. > > Steve, a master showman, calms them. "Don't do it! If Potter gets complete control of the desktop, you'll be forced to buy his bloatware and pay for his cruddy upgrades forever! We can get through this, but we've got to have faith and stick together!" The crowd decides to give him one more chance. > > But the day before Christmas, something terrible happens: On his way to the bank, the company's financial man, Uncle Gilly, somehow manages to lose $1.7 billion. With eyes flashing, Steve grabs the befuddled Gilly by the lapels. "Where's that money, you stupid old fool? Don't you realize what this means? It means bankruptcy and scandal! Get out of my company--and don't come back!" > > Desperate and afraid, Steve heads to Martini's, a local Internet cafe, and drowns his sorrows in an iced cappuccino. Surfing the Web at one of the cafe's Macs, all he finds online is second-guessing, sniping by critics, and terrible market-share numbers. > > As a blizzard rages, Steve drives his car crazily toward the river. "Oh, what's the use?!" he exclaims. "We've lost the war. Windows rules the world. After everything I've worked for, the Mac is going to be obliterated! Think of all the passion and effort these last 15 years--wasted! Think of the billions of dollars, hundreds of companies, millions of people . . . ." He stands on the bridge, staring at the freezing, roiling river below--and finally hurls himself over the railing. > > After a moment of floundering in the chilly water, however, he's pulled to safety by a bulbous-nosed oddball. "Who are you?!" Steve splutters angrily. > > "Name's Clarence--I mean Claris," says the guy. "I'm your guardian angel. I've been sent down to help you--it's my last chance to earn my wings." > > "Nobody can help me," says Steve bitterly. "If I hadn't created the Mac, everybody'd be a lot happier: Mr. Potter, the media, even our customers. Hell, we'd all be better off if the Mac had never been invented at all!" > > Music swirls. The wind howls. The tattoo on Steve's right buttock--Buzz Lightyear from Toy Story--vanishes. > > Steve pats the empty pocket where he usually carries his Newton. "What gives?" > > "You've got your wish," says Claris. "You never invented the Mac. It never existed. You haven't a care in the world." > > "Look, little fella, go off and haunt somebody else," Steve mutters. He heads over to Martini's Internet cafe for a good stiff drink. But he's shocked at the difference inside. "My God, look at the people using these computers! Both of them--they look like math professors!" > > "They are," says Claris. > > "What is this, a museum? It looks like those computers are running DOS!" > > "Good eye!" says Claris. "DOS version 25.01, in fact--the very latest." > > "I don't get it," Steve says. > > "DOS is a lot better and faster these days, but it hasn't occurred to anybody to market a computer with icons and menus yet. There's no such thing as Windows--after all, there never was a Mac interface for Microsoft to copy." > > "But this equipment is ancient!" Steve exclaims. "No sound, no CD-ROM drive, not even 3.5-inch floppies!" > > "Those aren't antiques!" Claris says. "They're state-of-the-art Compaqs, complete with the latest 12X, 5-inch-floppy drives. Don't forget, Steve: The Mac introduced and standardized all that good stuff you named." > > "But that's nuts!" Steve explodes. "You mean to tell me that the 46 percent of American households with computers are all using DOS?" > > "Correction: All 9 percent of American households," says Claris cheerfully. "Without a graphic interface, computers are still too complicated to be popular." > > "Bartender!" shouts Steve. "You don't have a copy of Wired here, do you? I've got to read up on this crazy reality!" > > The bartender glares. "I don't know what you're wired on, pal, but either stop talking crazy or get outta my shop." > > "No such thing as Wired," whispers Claris. "Never was. Before you wished the Mac away, most magazines were produced entirely on the Mac. Besides Wired would be awfully thin without the Web." > > "Without the--now, wait just a minute!" Horrified, Steve rushes over to one of the PCs and connects to the Internet. "You call this the Net? It looks like a text-only BBS--and there's practically nobody online! Where's Navigator? Where's Internet Explorer? Where's the Web, for Pete's sake?" > > "Oh, I see," Claris smiles sympathetically. "You must be referring to all those technologies that spun off from the concept of a graphic interface. Look, Steve. Until the Mac made the mouse standard, there was no such thing as point and click. And without clicking, there could be no Web . . . and no Web companies. Believe it or not, Marc Andreesen works in a Burger King in Cincinnati." > > Steve scoffs. "Well, look, if you apply that logic, then PageMaker wouldn't exist either. Photoshop, Illustrator, FreeHand, America Online, digital movies--all that stuff began life on the Mac." > > "You're getting it," Claris says. He holds up a copy of Time magazine. "Check out the cover price." > > Steve gasps. "Eight bucks? They've got a lot of nerve!" > > "Labor costs. They're still pasting type onto master pages with hot wax." > > "You're crazy!" screams Steve. "I'm going back to my office at Apple!" He drives like a madman back to Cupertino--but the sign that greets him there doesn't say, "Welcome to Apple." It says, "Welcome to Microsoft South." > > "Sorry, Steve; Apple went out of business in 1985," says Claris. "You see, you really did have a wonderful machine! See what a mistake it was to wish it away?" > > Steve is sobbing, barely listening. "OK, then--I'll go to my office at Pixar!" > > "You don't have an office at Pixar," Claris reminds him. "There was no Mac to make you rich enough to buy Pixar!" > > Steve has had enough. He rushes desperately back to the icy bridge over the river. "Please, God, bring it back! Bring it back! I don't care about market share! Please! I want the Mac to live again!" > > Music, wind, heavenly voices--and then snow begins softly falling. > > "Hey, Steve! You all right?" calls out Steve's friend Larry from a passing helicopter. Steve pats his pocket--the Newton is there again! It's all back! Steve runs through the town, delirious with joy. "Merry Christmas, Wired! Merry Christmas, Internet! Merry Christmas, wonderful old Microsoft!" > > And now his office is filled with smiling people whose lives the Mac has touched. There's old Mr. Chiat/Day the adman. There's Yanni the musician. And there's Mr. Spielberg the moviemaker. As the Apple board starts singing "Auld Lang Syne," somebody boots up a Power Mac. > > Steve smiles at the startup sound. "You know what they say," he tells the crowd. "Every time you hear a startup chime, an angel just got his wings." > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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/20110829/5f4db470/attachment-0001.htm From dave at davesevick.com Tue Aug 30 16:36:35 2011 From: dave at davesevick.com (Dave Sevick) Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2011 18:36:35 -0400 Subject: [NPMUG] Steve Jobs and the generosity within the genius ( video and story on SAP and Apple ) Message-ID: <5FB7095C-3EF3-4D9E-98BC-77B46B040184@davesevick.com> http://macdailynews.com/2011/08/30/steve-jobs-and-the-generosity-within-the-genius/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+wordpress%2FxhfA+%28MacDailyNews%29 Steve Jobs and the generosity within the genius ?Apple and SAP share an extensive and deep business relationship: Apple is among SAP?s biggest and most strategic customers, and SAP co-CEO Bill McDermott told ?Mad Money? host Jim Cramer last week that SAP is the largest tech-sector user of iPads on the planet,? SAP?s Bob Evans writes for Forbes. ?Tt was particularly poignant to hear McDermott tell Cramer about the deeply personal bond that he and Apple chairman Steve Jobs have formed not solely through the achievement of extensive business success but rather more intensely through a shared set of wrenching personal challenges,? Evans writes. ??He?s a great guy,? McDermott said of Jobs. ?And I wish him well? As a matter of fact, when my mom was sick ? she had a similar ailment to Steve?s ? I called him up for help, and I asked him for help. And the guy gave me an hour of his time. He gave me all of his docs, his experiences,? McDermott told Cramer. ?He?s a tremendous human being,? McDermott said of Jobs, ?and the world is in his debt, he?s a great visionary, and he?s a terrific person. My heart goes out to him and his family.?? Read more in the full article here. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Anything that the Free Software Foundation recognizes as a "Free" license is Free Software: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html Western PA Linux User Group wants to include the Apple fans in the excitement that is Software Freedom Day. Ultimately, we would like to have a few CD made with Free Software that makes the Mac experience better. Do you have any software to suggest? Are you willing to help burn and test Free Software for the Mac? Here is the list of apps I have so far: Adium Firefox NeoOffice Seamonkey Thunderbird Please, let's discuss suggestions for productivity, internet use, and games. I will show up this Friday morning at the South Side with some media. I welcome your ideas. Thanks, Beth Lynn Eicher -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://davesevick.com/pipermail/npmug/attachments/20110831/bf858a86/attachment.htm From cerimorgan at yahoo.com Wed Aug 31 09:01:29 2011 From: cerimorgan at yahoo.com (Ceri Morgan) Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2011 11:01:29 -0400 Subject: [NPMUG] Mac software for Software Freedom Day: Sept 17 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <40A1EBDC-FD87-4421-B3A0-AACF16372D02@yahoo.com> I would add the following to your list: Apps Quicksilver (app launcher and more) - Apache 2.0 license - http://qsapp.com/ VLC (media player) - GPL - http://www.videolan.org/vlc/ Growl (notification system) - BSD license (not clear whether this license is acceptable) - http://growl.info/ Aquamacs (native OS X version of Emacs) - GPL - http://aquamacs.org/ Games Marathon (FPS game) - GPL - http://marathon.sourceforge.net/ Angband (rogue-like game) - GPL - http://rephial.org/ Secret Maryo (Super Mario Bros. clone) - GPL - http://www.secretmaryo.org/ Freeciv (Civilization clone) - GPL - http://freeciv.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page Ceri On Aug 31, 2011, at 10:17 AM, Beth Lynn Eicher wrote: > Hello, > > The Western PA Linux User Group will be celebrating Software Freedom Day, September 17, by holding a table in a local market (actual venue to be announced). Every time we do this, we get plenty of folks who say "But I have a Mac..." > > Free Software is for people who use all operating systems. Much of the MacOSX operating system is Free Software ie Darwin kernel, CUPS, ports. If you happen to use SourceForge to try new Mac software, chances are, you are using Free Software too! It is important to note that not all Free Software is under the General Public License. Anything that the Free Software Foundation recognizes as a "Free" license is Free Software: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html > > Western PA Linux User Group wants to include the Apple fans in the excitement that is Software Freedom Day. Ultimately, we would like to have a few CD made with Free Software that makes the Mac experience better. Do you have any software to suggest? Are you willing to help burn and test Free Software for the Mac? > > Here is the list of apps I have so far: > Adium > Firefox > NeoOffice > Seamonkey > Thunderbird > > > Please, let's discuss suggestions for productivity, internet use, and games. I will show up this Friday morning at the South Side with some media. > > I welcome your ideas. > > Thanks, > > Beth Lynn Eicher > _______________________________________________ > 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/20110831/75a4af7f/attachment.htm From ronladams7 at gmail.com Wed Aug 31 14:23:42 2011 From: ronladams7 at gmail.com (Ron_A) Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2011 14:23:42 -0600 Subject: [NPMUG] My Neighbor, Steve Jobs Message-ID: http://lisenstromberg.wordpress.com/2011/08/29/my-neighbor-steve-jobs/ My Neighbor, Steve Jobs It?s all true, but here in Palo Alto, Steve Jobs isn?t just an icon, he?s also the guy who lives down the street. I first met Steve (does anyone call him Mr. Jobs anymore?) years ago at a backyard pool party. I was so flummoxed by the off chance I was breathing in his DNA, I could barely say a word. I am sure I made a winning first impression as I stumbled over my own name when we were introduced. I watched as he swam in the pool with his son. He seemed like a regular guy, a good dad having fun with his kids. The next time I met him was when our children attended school together. He sat in on back-to-school night listening to the teacher drone on about the value of education (wait, isn?t he one of those high-tech gods who didn?t even graduate from college?) while the rest of us sat around pretending having Steve Jobs in the room was totally normal. Not long after, I saw Steve as I was running in our neighborhood. He was deep in conversation with a younger version of himself ? his very own mini-me in jeans, black tee-shirt, and wire-rimmed glasses. I must have looked like an idiot as I tripped over a crack in the pavement trying to give them wide berth. It was at Halloween not long after when I realized he actually knew my name (yes, my name!). He and his wife put on a darn scary haunted house (to be specific, a haunted garden). He was sitting on the walkway, dressed like Frankenstein. As I walked by with my son, Steve smiled and said, ?Hi Lisen.? My son thought I was the coolest mom in town when he realized The Steve Jobs knew me. Thanks for the coolness points, Steve. From then on, when I saw him holding his executive meetings in our neighborhood, I didn?t hesitate to smile and say hi. Steve always returned the favor, proving he may be a genius, but he is also a good neighbor. In time, things changed. The walks were less frequent, the gait slower, the smile not so ready. Earlier this year when I saw Steve and his wife walking down our street holding hands, I knew something was different. Now, so does the rest of the world. While Newsweek and the Wall Street Journal and CNET continue to drone on about the impact of the Steve Jobs era, I won?t be pondering the MacBook Air I write on or the iPhone I talk on. I will think of the day I saw him at his son?s high school graduation. 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We set a time of 10AM-4PM to avoid most of the rush hours. So please, I need to know "when is good" to plan these events. 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/20110831/dedec75b/attachment-0001.htm -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: computereach_1x3.gif Type: image/gif Size: 10619 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://davesevick.com/pipermail/npmug/attachments/20110831/dedec75b/attachment-0001.gif