From dave at davesevick.com Tue Oct 4 21:47:45 2011 From: dave at davesevick.com (Dave Sevick) Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2011 23:47:45 -0400 Subject: [NPMUG] Apple posts 97 minute video of the iPhone 4S launch that includes iCloud, iOS 5, Siri, 8 megapixel camera and more Message-ID: Video Link http://events.apple.com.edgesuite.net/11piuhbvdlbkvoih10/event/index.html Tim Cook and the team at Apple presented: Apple Announces iPhone 4S, iOS 5, and iCloud iCloud Available October 12 New Features and Pricing for iPod touch and iPod nano -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: http://davesevick.com/pipermail/npmug/attachments/20111005/80489c3b/attachment.htm From patrick at cranstoninc.com Wed Oct 5 18:00:52 2011 From: patrick at cranstoninc.com (Patrick Cranston) Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2011 20:00:52 -0400 Subject: [NPMUG] RIP Steve Jobs Message-ID: <85AAF380-2985-41A4-98D8-EB107B507B2D@cranstoninc.com> A great American Sent from my iPhone From pcarras+ at pitt.edu Wed Oct 5 18:07:50 2011 From: pcarras+ at pitt.edu (Peter L. Carras) Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2011 20:07:50 -0400 Subject: [NPMUG] Steve Jobs, Apple Co-Founder, Former Chief Executive, Dead at 56 Message-ID: <4E8CF156.90208@pitt.edu> Steve Jobs, Apple Co-Founder, Former Chief Executive, Dead at 56 By Vivek Shankar - Oct 5, 2011 7:42 PM ET Steve Jobs , a co-founder and former chief executive officer of Apple Inc. (AAPL) , died today, the company said in a statement. He was 56. Jobs stepped down as CEO in August after combating a rare form of cancer. "Steve's brilliance, passion and energy were the source of countless innovations that enrich and improve all of our lives," Apple's board said in the statment. "The world is immeasurably better because of Steve." http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-10-05/steve-jobs-apple-co-founder-former-chief-executive-dead-at-56.html -- Peter L. Carras -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://davesevick.com/pipermail/npmug/attachments/20111005/1b8cf2ac/attachment.htm From dave at davesevick.com Wed Oct 5 19:20:56 2011 From: dave at davesevick.com (Dave Sevick) Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2011 21:20:56 -0400 Subject: [NPMUG] =?windows-1252?q?Heavy_heart_tonight__=85_and_some_good_r?= =?windows-1252?q?eading_to_honor_the_life_of_Steve_Jobs?= Message-ID: We were working with 20 kids tonight who were touching their first Apple Computers. They are 10 year old refurbished 600 MHz DV iMacs from Goodwill ... when I got the news about Steve Jobs passing. I kind of went off into a sad daydream for a minute and when I came back to the reality that surrounded me, I realized that there was probably nowhere better to be at that moment than surrounded by children just loving what Steve Jobs help create back in 2002 with these colorful DV iMacs .... Ruby, Teal, Blueberry, Snow .... The Story of Steve Jobs and Apple from the pages of Fortune http://www.amazon.com/All-About-Steve-Fortune-ebook/dp/B005CRQ29E/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1317863802&sr=1-1 Steve Jobs - by Walter Isaacson http://itunes.apple.com/us/book/steve-jobs/id431617578 Steve Jobs on himself at the 2005 Stanford University Gradation Commencement ( a must see, 3 stories on his life ) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1R-jKKp3NA -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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After all, there are other brilliant marketers, designers and business executives. They?re all over Silicon Valley ? all over the world. Many of them, maybe most of them, have studied Steve Jobs, tried to absorb his methods and his philosophy. Surely if they pore over the Steve Jobs playbook long enough, they can re-create some of his success. But nobody ever does, even when they copy Mr. Jobs?s moves down to the last eyebrow twitch. Why not? Here?s a guy who never finished college, never went to business school, never worked for anyone else a day in his adult life. So how did he become the visionary who changed every business he touched? Actually, he?s given us clues all along. Remember the ?Think Different? ad campaign he introduced upon his return to Apple in 1997? ?Here?s to the crazy ones. The rebels. The troublemakers. The ones who see things differently. While some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius.? In other words, the story of Steve Jobs boils down to this: Don?t go with the flow. Steve Jobs refused to go with the flow. If he saw something that could be made better, smarter or more beautiful, nothing else mattered. Not internal politics, not economic convention, not social graces. Apple has attained its current astonishing levels of influence and success because it?s nimble. It?s incredibly focused. It?s had stunningly few flops. And that?s because Mr. Jobs didn?t buy into focus groups, groupthink or decision by committee. At its core, Apple existed to execute the visions in his brain. He oversaw every button, every corner, every chime. He lost sleep over the fonts in the menus, the cardboard of the packaging, the color of the power cord. That?s just not how things are done. Often, his laser focus flew in the face of screamingly obvious common sense. He wanted to open a chain of retail stores ? after the failure of Gateway?s chain had clearly demonstrated that the concept was doomed. He wanted to sell a smartphone that had no keyboard, when physical keys were precisely what had made the BlackBerry the most popular smartphone at the time. Over and over again, he took away our comfy blankets. He took away our floppy drives, our dial-up modems, our camcorder jacks, our non-glossy screens, our Flash, our DVD drives, our removable laptop batteries. How could he do that? You?re supposed to add features, not take them away, Steve! That?s just not done! (Often, I was one of the bellyachers. And often, I?d hear from Mr. Jobs. He?d call me at home, or when I was out to dinner, or when I was vacationing with my family. And he?d berate me for not seeing his bigger picture. On the other hand, sometimes he?d call to praise me for appreciating what he was going for. A C.E.O. calling a reviewer at home? That?s just not done.) Eventually, of course, most people realized that he was just doing that Steve Jobs thing again: being ahead of his time. Eventually, in fact, society adopted a cycle of reaction to Apple that became so predictable, it could have been a ?Saturday Night Live? skit. Phase 1: Steve Jobs takes the stage to introduce a new product. Phase 2: The tech bloggers savage it. (?The iPad has no mouse, no keyboard, no GPS, no USB, no card slot, no camera, no Flash!? It?s dead on arrival!?) Phase 3: The product comes out, the public goes nuts for it, the naysayers seem to disappear into the earth. Phase 4: The rest of the industry leaps into high gear trying to do just what Apple did. And so yes, there are other geniuses. There are other brilliant marketers, designers and business executives. Maybe, once or twice in a million, those skills even coincide in the same person. But will that person also have the vision? The name ?Steve Jobs? may appear on 300 patents, but his gift wasn?t invention. It was seeing the promise in some early, clunky technology ? and polishing it, refining it and simplifying it until it becomes a standard component. Like the mouse, menus, windows, the CD-ROM or Wi-Fi. Even at Apple, is there anyone with the imagination to pluck brilliant, previously unthinkable visions out of the air ? and the conviction to see them through with monomaniacal attention to detail? Suppose there were. Suppose, by some miracle, that some kid in a garage somewhere at this moment possesses the marketing, invention, business and design skills of a Steve Jobs. What are the odds that that same person will be comfortable enough ? or maybe uncomfortable enough ? to swim upstream, against the currents of social, economic and technological norms, all in pursuit of an unshakable vision? Zero. The odds are zero. Mr. Jobs is gone. Everyone who knew him feels that sorrow. But the ripples of that loss will widen in the days, weeks and years to come: to the people in the industries he changed. To his hundreds of millions of customers. And to the billions of people touched more indirectly by the greater changes that Steve Jobs brought about, even if they?re unaware of it. In 2005, Steve Jobs gave the commencement address to the graduating students at Stanford. He told them the secret that defined him in every action, every decision, every creation of his tragically unfinished life: ?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.? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Message-ID: <06F4DF0A-08C1-4BCC-8E70-DB3C5C117A52@gmail.com> http://www.macrumors.com/2011/10/06/steve-jobs-thirtieth-birthday-present/ ? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://davesevick.com/pipermail/npmug/attachments/20111007/59911152/attachment.htm From robertadonaldson at gmail.com Fri Oct 7 18:27:10 2011 From: robertadonaldson at gmail.com (robertadonaldson) Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2011 20:27:10 -0400 Subject: [NPMUG] Goodwill CRC update, Friday, October 7, 2011 Message-ID: Dear Mac friends: Many thanks to Charlie Hutchens, Rich Fitzgibbon, John Hamill, Terry Golightly, and Dave Sevick for joining me today for our weekly workday at our Goodwill Computer Recycling Center "annex." Today was pretty quiet. There was a sense of melancholy that we just couldn't shake. The laughs we shared last week were largely absent as we exchanged sites of our travels around the Internet seeking news of Steve Jobs passing. The world has talked endlessly about Jobs' role in technology and leading Apple to such great success. But for us who have been pushing an Apple mouse around on our desks for many years it's different. We remember the humiliation and vilification heaped upon us for years about our penchant for this glorious "toy" that excited our lives and allowed us to do so much we never thought possible. The man who made this happen is now a memory. Over in the corner of one of our workbenches sits a 10-year-old iMac. It came from my daughter's middle school (Keystone Oaks), where she undoubtedly used it at some point. It is one of about 500 Macs donated from the district to Goodwill. It's special to us as in December 2007, it became our 1,000th refurbished Macintosh. We humorously stuck on a name tag with "Steve 1,000." -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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When you turn on your televisions you will not hear about this creation of Steve Jobs: A community of one-time strangers who now count each other as kindred spirits. We wave at the driver of the car next to us sporting that Apple decal. We smile at the person passing in the street listening to that iPod. We instantly understand we like this person because we share a common bond. That old derision we suffered gladly has largely past now. But I remember when I used to feel, "I am Spartacus." And you do too. We refurbished 15 Macs today bringing our all time total to 3,110. We de-manufactured nine others, and two were re-imaged from store returns. Many thanks to Rob Lines for bringing us much-needed SATA hard drives. Marty Swartz will be popping them into G5 iMacs in the coming weeks. 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 is maintaining 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, October 14. Please note we will gather later than usual, at 10:30 a.m. so I can do an an early dentist appointment. We hope to see you there! Robert A. Donaldson radonaldson at mac.com (H) 412-922-3303 (M) 412-477-9188 From dave at davesevick.com Fri Oct 7 19:32:52 2011 From: dave at davesevick.com (Dave Sevick) Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2011 21:32:52 -0400 Subject: [NPMUG] =?windows-1252?q?Siri_=85?= Message-ID: <199A4EC0-15A3-492A-85CF-90BBF2D4DC94@davesevick.com> I am an avid daily user of Siri on my iPhone 4 now and have been since it came out, and I love it ... ... now in the iPhone 4S it is integrating Siri into the entire iPhone experience .... this will change the way we use phones. It already has for me. You must see these videos to full appreciate what a quantum leap this is with human interactive technology .... http://youtu.be/rNsrl86inpo?hd=1 http://www.apple.com/iphone/ It understands what you say. Talk to Siri as you would to a person. Say something like ?Tell my wife I?m running late.? ?Remind me to call the vet.? ?Any good burger joints around here?? And Siri answers you. It does what you say and finds the information you need. And then it hits you. You?re actually having a conversation with your iPhone. It knows what you mean. Siri not only understands what you say, it?s smart enough to know what you mean. So when you ask ?Any good burger joints around here?? Siri will reply ?I found a number of burger restaurants near you.? Then you can say ?Hmm. How about tacos?? Siri remembers that you just asked about restaurants, so it will look for Mexican restaurants in the neighborhood. And Siri is proactive, so it will question you until it finds what you?re looking for. It helps you do the things you do every day. Ask Siri to text your dad, remind you to call the dentist, or find directions, and it figures out which apps to use and who you?re talking about. It finds answers for you from the web through sources like Yelp and WolframAlpha. Using Location Services, it looks up where you live, where you work, and where you are. Then it gives you information and the best options based on your current location. From the details in your contacts, it knows your friends, family, boss, and coworkers. So you can tell Siri things like ?Text Ryan I?m on my way? or ?Remind me to make a dentist appointment when I get to work? or ?Call a taxi? and it knows exactly what you mean and what to do. It has so much to tell you. When there?s something you need to do, just ask Siri to help you do it. It uses almost all the built-in apps on iPhone 4S to find the information you need. Siri writes and sends email messages and texts ? and reads them to you, too. It searches the web for anything and everything you need to know. It plays the songs you want to hear. It helps you find your way and shows you around. It places calls. It schedules meetings. It helps you remember. And it wakes you up. Siri tells you almost everything. And it even speaks for itself. 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And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do." The one-minute commercial featured black-and-white footage of 17 iconic 20th century personalities. In order of appearance they were: Albert Einstein, Bob Dylan, Martin Luther King, Jr., Richard Branson, John Lennon (with Yoko Ono), Buckminster Fuller,Thomas Edison, Muhammad Ali, Ted Turner, Maria Callas, Mahatma Gandhi, Amelia Earhart, Alfred Hitchcock, Martha Graham, Jim Henson (with Kermit the Frog), Frank Lloyd Wright and Pablo Picasso. The commercial ends with an image of a young girl (identified as Shaan Sahota) opening her closed eyes, as if making a wish. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Think_Different ====== FYI ..... Narrated by Richard Dreyfuss: http://youtu.be/cFEarBzelBs?hd=1 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The path to the sole iTunes Music is /Users/"my client"/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music Search of Apple support not providing any suggestions other than starting all over and re-dragging music to iTunes. Before we go this route, has anybody else seen this and solved it? We tried ! Thanks, Dave From ronladams7 at gmail.com Mon Oct 10 07:34:04 2011 From: ronladams7 at gmail.com (Ron_A) Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2011 07:34:04 -0600 Subject: [NPMUG] =?windows-1252?q?Free_Apple_History_Book_=93The_Macintosh?= =?windows-1252?q?_Way=94_by_Guy_Kawasaki?= Message-ID: http://osxdaily.com/2011/10/08/free-macintosh-way-book-guy-kawasaki/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+osxdaily+(OS+X+Daily) ? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Bob From charles at firthconsulting.com Wed Oct 12 11:44:45 2011 From: charles at firthconsulting.com (Charles Firth) Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 13:44:45 -0400 Subject: [NPMUG] iOS 5 is now available Message-ID: <48272916-18B1-464E-8A4A-74EFEE078686@firthconsulting.com> Make sure you have iTunes 10.5 installed, and you can now update your iPhone/iPod/iPad to iOS 5. :) From charles at firthconsulting.com Wed Oct 12 14:20:14 2011 From: charles at firthconsulting.com (Charles Firth) Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 16:20:14 -0400 Subject: [NPMUG] 10.7.2 and iCloud are also out Message-ID: <8AA1ADF5-CEAC-4F93-8C36-E24F0901A866@firthconsulting.com> 10.7.2 is out, and comes with iCloud. Downloading the update could take a while, since Apple is being hammered with iOS5 downloads. So make sure you're running 10.7.2 and iTunes 10.5 before trying to install iOS5 - and make sure you have a full backup before running Software update ;) As a MobileMe user, I'm curious to see what happens to my .mac and .me email accounts. From ronladams7 at gmail.com Thu Oct 13 00:13:34 2011 From: ronladams7 at gmail.com (Ron_A) Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 00:13:34 -0600 Subject: [NPMUG] Grace and Ease... Message-ID: <01092886-2E3B-4246-99D5-B4F7961B9B93@gmail.com> http://blog.pluckytree.org/2011/10/last-time-i-saw-steve-jobs.html ? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Goodwill is maintaining 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, October 21. We return at our usual time of 8:30 a.m., depending on traffic. We hope to see you there! Robert A. Donaldson radonaldson at mac.com (H) 412-922-3303 (M) 412-477-9188 From dave at davesevick.com Sat Oct 15 21:00:40 2011 From: dave at davesevick.com (Dave Sevick) Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2011 23:00:40 -0400 Subject: [NPMUG] =?windows-1252?q?Steve_Jobs_explains_Apple=27s_core_value?= =?windows-1252?q?s_through_comparisons_to_NIKE_and_others__=85_and_unveil?= =?windows-1252?q?s_a_historic_TV_commercial?= Message-ID: The year was 1997 and Steve Jobs had recently come back to Apple. He explains the still valid and strong core values of Apple even through difficult times ... while wearing casual shorts ? ... and unveils "Here's To The Crazy Ones" ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCz_SiPD_X0&NR=1 From dave at davesevick.com Tue Oct 18 16:09:11 2011 From: dave at davesevick.com (Dave Sevick) Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2011 18:09:11 -0400 Subject: [NPMUG] iPhoto not working since Lion update References: <3D393EAA-9FD2-46AB-927A-DBE81F472D3E@zoominternet.net> Message-ID: <0EC1A776-1FFB-43B1-A320-F0D2245F8330@davesevick.com> Begin forwarded message: From: "Dr. John K. Smith" Ever since I installed Lion and updated to iOS5, my iPhoto is crashing every time I try to import pictures. I've reinstalled the Lion software from the APP store and reinstalled iPhoto 11 (newest update), but it still keeps crashing. I see on the Apple site I'm not the only one experiencing iPhoto difficulties since the Lion update. 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Event # 1 Apple Education Event in Pittsburgh Thursday, November 3, 2011 9:00AM to 12:30PM This is an Apple Education event for K-12 and Higher Ed curriculum and IT directors in the greater Pittsburgh area. Andy Warhol Museum 117 Sandusky Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15212 Registration required. To register: https://edseminars.apple.com/event/ErRMq-lSi5R ====================================== Event #2 Introducing OS X Lion! Saturday, November 5, 2011 MacOutfitters - Cranberry Township 20395 Route 19, Cranberry Township, PA 16066 Registration required. Morning session - 10AM - 12PM. Free event. Limited to 30 seats. To register: http://110511ammacoutfitterscr.eventbrite.com/ Afternoon session - 1:30PM - 3:30PM. Free event. Limited to 30 seats. To register: http://110511pmmacoutfitterscr.eventbrite.com/ Introducing OS X Lion! Presented by Dave Marra, Apple Senior Systems Engineer The world's most advanced desktop operating system advances even further. Packed with over 250 new features, OS X Lion includes new Multi-Touch gestures; system-wide support for full screen apps; Mission Control, an innovative view of everything running on your Mac; the Mac App Store, the best place to find and explore great software; Launchpad, a new home for all your apps; a completely redesigned Mail app and much more! Discover OS X Lion today! We'll also learn more about iOS 5, bringing 200+ new features to iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch; and iCloud, to store your music, photos, documents, and more and wirelessly push them to all your devices. -------------------------------------------------- About Dave Marra As a Senior Systems Engineer for Apple, Dave Marra has conducted thousands of technology presentations, keynote addresses and workshops for schools, Mac and PC user groups, businesses and other professional organizations across the United States and Canada. Certified as both an Apple Certified Technical Coordinator and an Apple Certified Systems Administrator, his specialty areas include digital multimedia, internet technologies, accessibility and Mac/PC integration. For more information about Dave, please visit his web site at www.marrathon.com. -------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://davesevick.com/pipermail/npmug/attachments/20111019/ae0767e7/attachment.htm From dave at davesevick.com Wed Oct 19 16:08:51 2011 From: dave at davesevick.com (Dave Sevick) Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2011 18:08:51 -0400 Subject: [NPMUG] SOLD OUT - Apple events ( both AM and PM ) at MacOutfitters of Cranberry on Saturday Nov 5, 2011 Message-ID: <07BCAA4B-445A-449C-A49D-CA555712508B@davesevick.com> Thanks everyone for responding so quickly today. As with previous events ... should you become not able to attend .... please release you tickets to others at the "eventbrite" site ... See you there ! Morning session - 10AM - 12PM. Free event. Limited to 30 seats. SOLD OUT To register: http://110511ammacoutfitterscr.eventbrite.com/ Afternoon session - 1:30PM - 3:30PM. Free event. Limited to 30 seats. SOLD OUT To register: http://110511pmmacoutfitterscr.eventbrite.com/ ``````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````` Dave Sevick Apple Certified Support Professional NPMUG founder and Apple User Group Ambassador 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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This is despite there now being industrial-strength free Mac anti-virus software available. Our friends at F-Secure blogged today that they had noticed a new variant of the Flashback backdoor Trojan - which poses as an update to Adobe Flash - disables XProtect. XProtect isn't really comparable to a real anti-virus product on your Mac, but it does provide a limited amount of protection. The fact that Mac malware is now being written to prevent XProtect from updating itself with new security definitions underlines that cybercriminals are keen to infect Apple computers because of the potential financial rewards. The good news is that Sophos's Mac anti-virus products (including our free anti-virus for Mac home users) has been detecting the malware as a member of the OSX/FlshPlyr malware family since October 12th. The SHA1 checksum for this Mac malware sample is 627813f62ed32dfe083df8e6b04ad5b28300912d. 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Steve Kroft will be handling the interview, providing the first detailed insight into the biography, which hits stores Monday. Isaacson earlier today contacted Apple Co-Founder Steve Wozniak via social networks to reassure him that his comments on Jobs did indeed make it into the book, which was revised and expanded following Jobs' death earlier this month. Isaacson, who has previously done biographies on Einstein, Benjamin Franklin and Henry Kissinger, spoke to Wozniak several times over the phone and had brief in-person chats, according to an except of Isaacson's e-mail that Woz posted as a status update. Isaacson sent the note to Woz when informed that various tweets (the authorship of which is not made clear) gave the impression that Wozniak wasn't sure if his comments were included in the book. Unusually, no early or review copies of the book have been given out by the publisher, perhaps to avoid early commenters picking out more salacious or controversial excerpts out of context before the book has time to appear on shelves. It was reported during the writing process that Jobs encouraged colleagues to be candid in their remembrances of him. The book is available for pre-order from both online and retail booksellers and carries a list price of $35. by MacNN Staff Additional note: You can pre-order the Isaacson book at Amazon for $17.88 http://www.amazon.com/Steve-Jobs-Walter-Isaacson/dp/1451648537/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1319112049&sr=1-1 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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In this case, however, researchers have described how they have put software on smartphones to spy on activity *outside* the phone itself - specifically to track what a user might be doing on a regular desktop keyboard nearby. It sounds like the stuff of James Bond, but the researchers paint a scenario where a criminal could plant a smartphone on the desk close to their target's keyboard and use specialist software to analyse vibrations and snoop on what was being typed. It's a quite beautiful twist on how bad guys could use microphones to "hear" keystrokes and spy on your passwords. Patrick Traynor, an assistant professor in Georgia Tech's School of Computer Science, admits that the technique is difficult to accomplish reliably but claims that the accelerometers built into modern smartphones can sense keyboard vibrations and decipher complete sentences with up to 80% accuracy. "We first tried our experiments with an iPhone 3GS, and the results were difficult to read," said Traynor. "But then we tried an iPhone 4, which has an added gyroscope to clean up the accelerometer noise, and the results were much better. We believe that most smartphones made in the past two years are sophisticated enough to launch this attack." Indeed, a photograph of the researcher shows him posing with what appears to be an Android smartphone. What's quite interesting to those of a geeky mindset is the technique adopted by the university researchers to build up their cache of stolen data. It turns out that is largely based on probability. Presently the spyware cannot determine the pressing of individual keys through the iPhone's accelerometer, but "pairs of keystrokes" instead. The software determines whether the keys are on the right or left hand side of a standard QWERTY keyboard, and then whether the pair of keys are close together or far apart. With the characteristics of each pair of keystrokes collected, it compares the results against a dictionary - where each word has been assigned similar measurements. For example, take the word "canoe," which when typed breaks down into four keystroke pairs: "C-A, A-N, N-O and O-E." Those pairs then translate into the detection system?s code as follows: Left-Left-Near, Left-Right-Far, Right-Right-Far and Right-Left-Far, or LLN-LRF-RRF-RLF. This code is then compared to the preloaded dictionary and yields "canoe" as the statistically probable typed word. For understandable reasons, the technique is said to only work reliably on words which have three or more letters. Henry Carter, one of the study's co-authors, explained the attack scenario that they envisaged could be used: "The way we see this attack working is that you, the phone?s owner, would request or be asked to download an innocuous-looking application, which doesn?t ask you for the use of any suspicious phone sensors." "Then the keyboard-detection malware is turned on, and the next time you place your phone next to the keyboard and start typing, it starts listening." It's an interesting piece of research, but I have to wonder how effective it would be in the real world. For instance, hackers often want to steal passwords from individuals. If the computer users is following sensible security practice and is *not* using a dictionary word for their password then it's hard to imagine that the technique in its current form would be able to determine what the password is. And an 80% accuracy rate falls some way short of what most criminals would want. I'm also curious as to how well the system would work when trying to steal numerical information - such as account numbers, credit card data or social security numbers. The dictionary wouldn't be any help against them, and the placement of numerical keys (either along the top row of the keyboard or tightly fit on a numeric keypad) would make discrimination very difficult I suspect. The study's authors also determined that because the smartphone had to be within a range of just three inches from the keyboard, phone users who left their phones in their pockets or purses, or simply moved them further from the keyboard would be well defended. The researchers admitted that the likelihood of an attack of this nature "right now is pretty low", and I'm not planning to lose any sleep over the threat. Nevertheless, if you manage to get the chance do take some time to read the paper: "(sp)iPhone: Decoding Vibrations From Nearby Keyboards Using Mobile Phone Accelerometers". -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Reports are that Apple offered to buy this company ... and they refused to sell ! http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/20/dropbox-will-simplify-your-life/ Dropbox Will Simplify Your Life Every time I?m tempted to write about some tech product that?s been around awhile, I?m torn. On one hand, I?ll be blasted by the technogeeks for being late to the party. On the other hand, it doesn?t seem right to keep something great hidden under a barrel from the rest of the world. The Times?s technology columnist, David Pogue, keeps you on top of the industry in his free, weekly e-mail newsletter. Sign up | See Sample So here goes: I love Dropbox. I just finished writing a 900-page book. Not just writing ?- ?packaging,? which means I?m also responsible for doing, or hiring people to do, the editing, the technical review, the page layout, the index and so on. Over the last 12 years, I?ve produced about 35 books this way. Logistically, it?s a screaming nightmare. Each chapter has to worm its way through a series of stages. For example, on this book, each chapter I wrote went first to Julie, the copy editor; then Kirill, the technical editor; back to me, to incorporate their edits; then to Phil, the designer; back to Julie, who distributed them to a team of proofreaders; back to me for a final check; then back to Phil for conversion to high-resolution PDF files for turning in to the printing plant. If you can believe it, for 12 years, we?ve passed these files around by e-mail ? except for the files that were too big for e-mail. Those, we had to turn into .zip files, post them to an FTP server, notify the recipient by e-mail; the recipient had to download them, unzip them, and throw away the .zip file. It was a technical, multi-step hassle. Inevitably, we?d wind up with occasional visits to Version Hell, where we?d lose track of who had the ?hot potato.? We?d wind up with two people editing the same chapter in different ways. On this book, everything was different. We used Dropbox. It?s a free service that puts a magic folder on your computer desktop. Anything you put into it magically appears in an identical folder on all your other computers. That simple concept offers a wealth of possibilities. You can work on a project at the office, then go home and pick right up from where you left off. Those same files are in the same Dropbox folder ? without ever having to send them, carry them or transfer them. You can also consider Dropbox a simple, automatic backup system. After all, anything that sits on multiple computers simultaneously is, by definition, backed up. (You get 2 gigabytes of storage at no charge. Each time you refer a friend to Dropbox, you get upgraded by .25 gigabytes, up to 8 gigabytes. Or you can pay a monthly fee for much greater storage.) There are even iPhone and Android apps, so that you can open common kinds of files (like photos, videos, Office and PDF documents) right on the phone, and forward them to other people. Yes, even though the files themselves are at home on your computer. Over the years, I?ve heard so many rave reviews of Dropbox that I decided to see if it could relieve my bookflow headache. Turns out you can grant other people access to certain folders in your Dropbox folder. So I set up a folder called ?First Drafts.? When I finished a chapter on my Mac laptop, I dropped the Word file in there. On Julie?s Windows machine in Montana, a tiny notification window appeared that said, ?A new file has arrived in ?First Drafts???and there it was, ready for her to open and edit. No file transfer, no e-mail, no FTP, no stuffing or zipping, no effort whatsoever on her part or mine. It was a miracle. After editing, she?d add her initials to the file?s name; its name changed in my First Drafts folder, too, so I knew she was finished with it. Again, nobody had to send or transfer anything; it?s exactly as though the file was in two places at once. The illustrations for these books are too big for e-mail and a royal pain to zip up and send by FTP. But we didn?t care. I dragged each chapter full of pictures into the ?Graphics? folder, and they appeared by magic on Phil?s desktop in Stamford, Conn., and Kirill?s desktop in Moscow. Even though my Dropbox folder appeared to be physically in multiple places simultaneously, my gut told me that behind the scenes, Dropbox must work by rapidly uploading and downloading files and carefully synchronizing the changes. Once, when I was about to leave my home Wi-Fi network, I wished I knew if it had finished syncing my recently added files; I didn?t want to run for the plane without ensuring that my collaborators had the files. So I clicked the little Dropbox icon on my menu bar. And there it was, right where I hoped to see it: ?All files synced.? Bingo! There are other, rival services. SugarSync, for example, is like Dropbox Plus ? it offers many more features, at the cost of complexity. (Typical example: In SugarSync, you can set up multiple synchronized folders. In Dropbox, only one master folder is synced, although you can create as many folders inside it as you like.) But me, I?m another Dropbox convert. Julie, Kirill and Phil were all equally astonished at how easily and effortlessly the system worked. Nobody lost a file, nobody fell into Version Hell, and everybody was spared the psychological wincing of realizing, ?Ugh ? now I have to figure out how to get this to the next person.? I realize that not everybody works on such elaborate file-shuttling projects. But try Dropbox for its ability to keep your important files everywhere at once. Or try it as an automatic, silent, encrypted backup of your essentials. Or try it so that you can get at your computer?s files from your phone. The main thing, though, is to try it. There are so few free, delightful, polished gems like this. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://davesevick.com/pipermail/npmug/attachments/20111020/9c244989/attachment.htm From rabob at pitt.edu Thu Oct 20 20:03:22 2011 From: rabob at pitt.edu (ROBERT ARNOLD) Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2011 22:03:22 -0400 Subject: [NPMUG] Dropbox Will Simplify Your Life - by David Pogue of the NYTimes.com In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <03F02DC6-721E-4E3D-A793-391D1A945B11@pitt.edu> They are great. I use Sugar Sync and find them amazing and their customer service is geat On Oct 20, 2011, at 9:59 PM, Dave Sevick wrote: > I am posting this article of which I'm in 100% agreement .... Dropbox is a killer app and used daily by me and several of my colleagues. Reports are that Apple offered to buy this company ... and they refused to sell ! > > http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/20/dropbox-will-simplify-your-life/ > > Dropbox Will Simplify Your Life > > Every time I?m tempted to write about some tech product that?s been around awhile, I?m torn. On one hand, I?ll be blasted by the technogeeks for being late to the party. On the other hand, it doesn?t seem right to keep something great hidden under a barrel from the rest of the world. > > > The Times?s technology columnist, David Pogue, keeps you on top of the industry in his free, weekly e-mail newsletter. > Sign up | See Sample > So here goes: I love Dropbox. > > I just finished writing a 900-page book. Not just writing ?- ?packaging,? which means I?m also responsible for doing, or hiring people to do, the editing, the technical review, the page layout, the index and so on. Over the last 12 years, I?ve produced about 35 books this way. > > Logistically, it?s a screaming nightmare. Each chapter has to worm its way through a series of stages. For example, on this book, each chapter I wrote went first to Julie, the copy editor; then Kirill, the technical editor; back to me, to incorporate their edits; then to Phil, the designer; back to Julie, who distributed them to a team of proofreaders; back to me for a final check; then back to Phil for conversion to high-resolution PDF files for turning in to the printing plant. > > If you can believe it, for 12 years, we?ve passed these files around by e-mail ? except for the files that were too big for e-mail. Those, we had to turn into .zip files, post them to an FTP server, notify the recipient by e-mail; the recipient had to download them, unzip them, and throw away the .zip file. It was a technical, multi-step hassle. > > Inevitably, we?d wind up with occasional visits to Version Hell, where we?d lose track of who had the ?hot potato.? We?d wind up with two people editing the same chapter in different ways. > > On this book, everything was different. We used Dropbox. > > It?s a free service that puts a magic folder on your computer desktop. Anything you put into it magically appears in an identical folder on all your other computers. > > That simple concept offers a wealth of possibilities. You can work on a project at the office, then go home and pick right up from where you left off. Those same files are in the same Dropbox folder ? without ever having to send them, carry them or transfer them. > > You can also consider Dropbox a simple, automatic backup system. After all, anything that sits on multiple computers simultaneously is, by definition, backed up. (You get 2 gigabytes of storage at no charge. Each time you refer a friend to Dropbox, you get upgraded by .25 gigabytes, up to 8 gigabytes. Or you can pay a monthly fee for much greater storage.) > > There are even iPhone and Android apps, so that you can open common kinds of files (like photos, videos, Office and PDF documents) right on the phone, and forward them to other people. Yes, even though the files themselves are at home on your computer. > > Over the years, I?ve heard so many rave reviews of Dropbox that I decided to see if it could relieve my bookflow headache. Turns out you can grant other people access to certain folders in your Dropbox folder. > > So I set up a folder called ?First Drafts.? When I finished a chapter on my Mac laptop, I dropped the Word file in there. On Julie?s Windows machine in Montana, a tiny notification window appeared that said, ?A new file has arrived in ?First Drafts???and there it was, ready for her to open and edit. No file transfer, no e-mail, no FTP, no stuffing or zipping, no effort whatsoever on her part or mine. It was a miracle. > > After editing, she?d add her initials to the file?s name; its name changed in my First Drafts folder, too, so I knew she was finished with it. Again, nobody had to send or transfer anything; it?s exactly as though the file was in two places at once. > > The illustrations for these books are too big for e-mail and a royal pain to zip up and send by FTP. But we didn?t care. I dragged each chapter full of pictures into the ?Graphics? folder, and they appeared by magic on Phil?s desktop in Stamford, Conn., and Kirill?s desktop in Moscow. > > Even though my Dropbox folder appeared to be physically in multiple places simultaneously, my gut told me that behind the scenes, Dropbox must work by rapidly uploading and downloading files and carefully synchronizing the changes. Once, when I was about to leave my home Wi-Fi network, I wished I knew if it had finished syncing my recently added files; I didn?t want to run for the plane without ensuring that my collaborators had the files. So I clicked the little Dropbox icon on my menu bar. And there it was, right where I hoped to see it: ?All files synced.? Bingo! > > There are other, rival services. SugarSync, for example, is like Dropbox Plus ? it offers many more features, at the cost of complexity. (Typical example: In SugarSync, you can set up multiple synchronized folders. In Dropbox, only one master folder is synced, although you can create as many folders inside it as you like.) > > But me, I?m another Dropbox convert. Julie, Kirill and Phil were all equally astonished at how easily and effortlessly the system worked. Nobody lost a file, nobody fell into Version Hell, and everybody was spared the psychological wincing of realizing, ?Ugh ? now I have to figure out how to get this to the next person.? > > I realize that not everybody works on such elaborate file-shuttling projects. But try Dropbox for its ability to keep your important files everywhere at once. Or try it as an automatic, silent, encrypted backup of your essentials. Or try it so that you can get at your computer?s files from your phone. > > The main thing, though, is to try it. 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From dave at davesevick.com Fri Oct 21 06:11:46 2011 From: dave at davesevick.com (Dave Sevick) Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2011 08:11:46 -0400 Subject: [NPMUG] Walter Isaacson's biography "Steve Jobs" on sale at Apple iBooks for $16.99 ( list price $35 ) Message-ID: <5BD512E8-620D-4664-B590-580EB717B352@davesevick.com> http://itunes.apple.com/us/book/steve-jobs/id431617578?mt=11&ign-mpt=uo%3D4 Available on iPhone, iPad or iPod touch. Category: Biographies & Memoirs Expected Release: Oct 24, 2011 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Seller: Simon and Schuster Digital Sales Inc. Print Length: 656 Pages Language: English View In iTunes Description FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE BESTSELLING BIOGRAPHIES OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN AND ALBERT EINSTEIN, THIS IS THE EXCLUSIVE BIOGRAPHY OF STEVE JOBS. Based on more than forty interviews with Jobs conducted over two years?as well as interviews with more than a hundred family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues?Walter Isaacson has written a riveting story of the roller-coaster life and searingly intense personality of a creative entrepreneur whose passion for perfection and ferocious drive revolutionized six industries: personal computers, animated movies, music, phones, tablet computing, and digital publishing. At a time when America is seeking ways to sustain its innovative edge, and when societies around the world are trying to build digital-age economies, Jobs stands as the ultimate icon of inventiveness and applied imagination. He knew that the best way to create value in the twenty-first century was to connect creativity with technology. He built a company where leaps of the imagination were combined with remarkable feats of engineering. Although Jobs cooperated with this book, he asked for no control over what was written nor even the right to read it before it was published. He put nothing off-limits. He encouraged the people he knew to speak honestly. And Jobs speaks candidly, sometimes brutally so, about the people he worked with and competed against. His friends, foes, and colleagues provide an unvarnished view of the passions, perfectionism, obsessions, artistry, devilry, and compulsion for control that shaped his approach to business and the innovative products that resulted. Driven by demons, Jobs could drive those around him to fury and despair. But his personality and products were interrelated, just as Apple?s hardware and software tended to be, as if part of an integrated system. His tale is instructive and cautionary, filled with lessons about innovation, character, leadership, and values. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Message-ID: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/20/steve-jobs-biography-obama_n_1022786.html?1319148475 Steve Jobs Biography Reveals He Told Obama, 'You're Headed For A One-Term Presidency' In one of the most hotly-anticipated biographies of the year, "Steve Jobs," author Walter Isaacson reveals that the Apple CEO offered to design political ads for President Obama's 2012 campaign despite being highly critical of the administration's policies and that Jobs refused potentially life-saving surgery on his pancreatic cancer because he felt it was too invasive. Nine months later, he got the operation but it was too late. Those are just some of the tidbits about Jobs' life revealed in the upcoming biography, a copy of which was obtained by The Huffington Post. The publication date of the official biography of the notoriously-secretive Apple co-founder was pushed up after his death in October. "I wanted my kids to know me," Isaacson quoted Jobs as saying in their final interview. "I wasn't always there for them and I wanted them to know why and to understand what I did." Among other details unearthed in the book on the notoriously-secretive Apple co-founder: Jobs' Meeting With Obama Jobs, who was known for his prickly, stubborn personality, almost missed meeting President Obama in the fall of 2010 because he insisted that the president personally ask him for a meeting. Though his wife told him that Obama "was really psyched to meet with you," Jobs insisted on the personal invitation, and the standoff lasted for five days. When he finally relented and they met at the Westin San Francisco Airport, Jobs was characteristically blunt. He seemed to have transformed from a liberal into a conservative. "You're headed for a one-term presidency," he told Obama at the start of their meeting, insisting that the administration needed to be more business-friendly. As an example, Jobs described the ease with which companies can build factories in China compared to the United States, where "regulations and unnecessary costs" make it difficult for them. Jobs also criticized America's education system, saying it was "crippled by union work rules," noted Isaacson. "Until the teachers' unions were broken, there was almost no hope for education reform." Jobs proposed allowing principals to hire and fire teachers based on merit, that schools stay open until 6 p.m. and that they be open 11 months a year. Aiding Obama's Reelection Campaign Jobs suggested that Obama meet six or seven other CEOs who could express the needs of innovative businesses -- but when White House aides added more names to the list, Jobs insisted that it was growing too big and that "he had no intention of coming." In preparation for the dinner, Jobs exhibited his notorious attention to detail, telling venture capitalist John Doerr that the menu of shrimp, cod and lentil salad was "far too fancy" and objecting to a chocolate truffle dessert. But he was overruled by the White House, which cited the president's fondness for cream pie. Though Jobs was not that impressed by Obama, later telling Isaacson that his focus on the reasons that things can't get done "infuriates" him, they kept in touch and talked by phone a few more times. Jobs even offered to help create Obama's political ads for the 2012 campaign. "He had made the same offer in 2008, but he'd become annoyed when Obama's strategist David Axelrod wasn't totally deferential," writes Isaacson. Jobs later told the author that he wanted to do for Obama what the legendary "morning in America" ads did for Ronald Reagan. Bill Gates And Steve Jobs Bill Gates was fascinated by Steve Jobs but found him "fundamentally odd" and "weirdly flawed as a human being," and his tendency to be "either in the mode of saying you were shit or trying to seduce you." Jobs once declared about Gates, "He'd be a broader guy if he had dropped acid once or gone off to an ashram when he was younger." After 30 years, Gates would develop a grudging respect for Jobs. "He really never knew much about technology, but he had an amazing instinct for what works," he said. But Jobs never reciprocated by fully appreciating Gates' real strengths. "Bill is basically unimaginative and has never invented anything, which is why I think he's more comfortable now in philanthropy than technology. He just shamelessly ripped off other people's ideas." Meeting His Biological Father Jobs, who was adopted, was a customer at a Mediterranean restaurant north of San Jose without realizing that it was owned by his biological father -- from whom he was estranged. He eventually met his real Dad -- "It was amazing," he later said of the revelation. "I had been to that restaurant a few times, and I remember meeting the owner. He was Syrian. Balding. We shook hands." Nevertheless Jobs still had no desire to see him. "I was a wealthy man by then, and I didn't trust him not to try to blackmail me or go to the press about it." Anticipating An Early Death Jobs once told John Sculley, who would later become Apple's CEO and fire Jobs, that if he weren't working with computers, he could see himself as a poet in Paris. "Jobs confided in Sculley that he believed he would die young, and therefore he needed to accomplish things quickly so that he would make his mark on Silicon Valley history. "We all have a short period of time on this earth," he told the Sculleys. "We probably only have the opportunity to do a few things really great and do them well. None of us has any idea how long we're gong to be here nor do I, but my feeling is I've got to accomplish a lot of these things while I'm young." * * * * * For his first interview about the book, Isaacson talked to "60 Minutes" for the Sunday, Oct. 23 episode, telling host Steve Kroft that he was shocked about Jobs's decision to initially skip surgery for his pancreatic cancer -- that such a genius could make such a wrong decision about his own health. "I've asked [Jobs why he didn't get an operation then] and he said, 'I didn't want my body to be opened ... I didn't want to be violated in that way,' said Isaacson. "I think that he kind of felt that if you ignore something, if you don't want something to exist, you can have magical thinking. ... We talked about this a lot," he told Kroft. "He wanted to talk about it, how he regretted it. ... I think he felt he should have been operated on sooner." FOLLOW HUFFPOST BOOKS -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://davesevick.com/pipermail/npmug/attachments/20111021/95fdc421/attachment.htm From wexfordpa at mac.com Fri Oct 21 15:22:56 2011 From: wexfordpa at mac.com (Ralph Waechter) Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2011 17:22:56 -0400 Subject: [NPMUG] Jobs Save Music Message-ID: <2EE29A93-8719-43D7-BE14-E662EC66AD59@mac.com> Hope I do not violate my subscription to the WSJ, but today there was a very insightful piece by Ed Nash, a music industry player, on Steve Jobs' impact on the business of music -- meaning the viability of music as a recorded and broadcast form of entertainment, enjoyment, communication, poetry (OK, these are my thoughts, but hopefully you get the idea). I have never quite placed Jobs in this place and had forgotten the Napster furor, the peer-to-peer ripping and ripping off and how that really threatened the ability of musicians to make a go of it. The world changed radically when Jobs pulled off the iPod and iTunes and the iTunes Store: How Steve Jobs Saved the Music Industry Before iTunes, the stealing of MP3 files was rampant and seemingly unstoppable. By ED NASH As I write this, I am aware that I will undoubtedly take a lot of criticism from fellow music-industry professionals. But it's important to tell the truth and examine the facts dispassionately. And the truth is that Steve Jobs saved the music industry. In the late 1990s, computer and Internet technology had reached a point that made the transfer of reasonably sized, high-quality MP3 files extremely easy and inexpensive for millions of people. Once that point was reached, the music industry was set on a collision course with modern technology. Related Video Ed Nash on how the invention of iTunes revolutionized and saved the music industry. In 1999, on the heels of the initial success of peer-to-peer file sharing sites like Napster, lawsuits were filed. But lawsuits would not solve the overwhelming issue: Music had become broadly available online, and access was easy?not to mention free. Sure, it was technically illegal, but the new technology was breaking unprecedented legal ground, and a population that was largely uneducated on intellectual-property law ultimately took advantage of this access. You could say that the downloaders were ignorant opportunists. The legal brawls would multiply?record labels, publishers, the Recording Industry Association of America, everyone got in on the fight, suing the file-sharing services, suing the college kids in dorm rooms who were utilizing them, even suing the Internet service providers. At various points, injunctions were granted, settlements were offered and accepted, but the sharing continued. The stealing of music was rampant and seemingly unstoppable. As technological advances continued, the innovations that made this "sharing" possible grew in sophistication. The genie would not go back into the bottle. The lawsuits were costly and cumbersome, and they weren't solving the problem. The music industry wasn't coming up with a viable solution either. That shouldn't be surprising. After all, the music industry was not equipped for?or even conscious of?the idea of selling directly to the public. The industry was built on the model of creators under contract to labels who push distribution to retailers who ultimately sold product to consumers. The downloading was bypassing the retailers (and in some cases the labels) and going straight into the hands of the consumers, cutting out the traditional distribution chain that existed with physical product like CDs and cassettes. Bloomberg The problem was clear, but a solution would require nothing short of a paradigm shift in the industry. There would need to be changes in licensing from the major labels, technological implementation, a strong marketing plan and?perhaps most importantly?all delivered at a price that would entice illegal downloaders to pay for music that was already free for the taking. Steve Jobs presented the answer. Jobs and Apple introduced the iPod and iTunes software in 2001 to marginal success. But the real shift came in 2003 with the launch of the iTunes Store. Jobs not only had a vision, he had a plan?a plan that the music industry was initially reluctant to take part in. Jobs was intent on a singles-based sales structure with optional pricing for full albums. He determined that 99 cents per single song would be the standard price point?a suggestion that rankled many industry traditionalists. Nonetheless, Jobs eventually negotiated licensing agreements with all of the major labels. Of course in hindsight we see that there were few other options, but to his credit Jobs could already see what was ahead. In a 2003 interview with Rolling Stone magazine, Jobs spoke openly about the problems that faced the major labels: "When the Internet came along, and Napster came along, they didn't know what to make of it. A lot of these folks didn't use computers?weren't on e-mail; didn't really know what Napster was for a few years. They were pretty doggone slow to react. Matter of fact, they still haven't really reacted, in many ways." Jobs recognized the path that technology was taking and the effect it would continue to have on the music industry and, more importantly, on music itself. He also understood intellectual property, and this may have been the most important piece of the strategy that saved the music industry. In that same Rolling Stone interview, Jobs said, "If copyright dies, if patents die, if the protection of intellectual property is eroded, then people will stop investing. That hurts everyone. People need to have the incentive that if they invest and succeed, they can make a fair profit. Otherwise, they'll stop investing. But on another level entirely, it's just wrong to steal. Or, let's put it another way: it is corrosive to one's character to steal. We want to provide a legal alternative." With iTunes, Jobs not only provided a legal alternative but a more convenient alternative. He understood that people would pay 99 cents a song if it were easier than stealing, and of equal importance he understood that the vehicle?the iTunes application itself?would need to be free. And so iTunes didn't just carry Jobs's vision to fulfillment, it created a commercial superhighway that connected the artist to the consumer and rescued the industry. A true innovator gives the market what it wants before the market knows what it wants. Steve Jobs was a true innovator. The music industry is still refining its models for business and is taking a hell of a long time to let the old models go. But music is being consumed more than ever, songs are delivered faster, and there is more variety at our fingertips than ever before. It is a special time?uncertain, exciting, scary and quite exhilarating in its potential. I am so thankful that Steve Jobs was a music fan, because he believed that its value was intrinsic when delivered effectively. He showed the music industry how to capture the value that was quickly being eroded by old-world ideals. He developed the technology and then built the marketplace that would allow music creators to communicate value and reap the benefit of their work. It's not the world I imagined when I first entered this business, but in many ways it's better. Thank you, Steve Jobs, for saving our industry. We owe you one. Mr. Nash is president of Altius Management in Nashville, Tenn. Copyright 2011 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved This copy is for your personal, non-commercial use only. Distribution and use of this material are governed by our Subscriber Agreement and by copyright law. For non-personal use or to order multiple copies, please contact Dow Jones Reprints at 1-800-843-0008 or visit www.djreprints.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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I know MTR worked with 10.6.6 and maybe 10.6.7 On Oct 21, 2011, at 8:44 PM, Patrick Cranston wrote: > > Delete the app's plist file in ~/Library/Preferences > > Patrick > CranstonIT.com > > Sent from my iPhone > > > On Oct 21, 2011, at 10:43 PM, "Ron_A" wrote: > >> MTR crashing at startUp. Any thoughts or solutions? >> >> _______________________________________________ >> NPMUG mailing list >> NPMUG at davesevick.com >> http://davesevick.com/mailman/listinfo/npmug > ? From dave at davesevick.com Sat Oct 22 06:40:07 2011 From: dave at davesevick.com (Dave Sevick) Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2011 08:40:07 -0400 Subject: [NPMUG] Members of local Mac users group mourn the death of Apple co-founder Message-ID: http://www.yourpenntrafford.com/penntraffordstar/article/members-local-mac-users-group-mourn-death-apple-co-founder Members of local Mac users group mourn the death of Apple co-founder by Erin Faulk Staff Writer October 13, 2011 After his Oct. 5 death, it's becoming too much of a stereotype to call Steve Jobs a visionary, Janet Balas said. It's almost not right because Jobs never did anything stereotypical. But "visionary" is the truest word Balas can think of to describe the person who changed the way she and others use technology. "Everyone is using that word," she said. "But he understood how to realize an idea in a device and how it could work for people." Balas is a member of COWMUG ? the Macintosh Users Group of Westmoreland County ? and is a librarian at Monroeville Public Library, where the group meets monthly. The news that Jobs stepped down as Apple's CEO in August was more shocking to the group than the news of his death, she said, because members interpreted the news as an indication that Jobs was seriously ill. Now when the group meets, the discussion will focus on Jobs' influence in the field, on technology, communication and society, as well as Apple's new products. "I've been a Mac user since 1987," she said. "Even then, having that access to communications at the time seemed amazing. It always seemed like it opened the door for a lot of really great things." The visionary at work In 1987, while Balas was using her new Apple 2C to write articles for the magazine "Computers and Libraries," Gene Pilardi of Monroeville was discovering new possibilities for graphic design work, an industry that Apple helped revolutionize. Pilardi, who was an ad production manager for Foodland and a COWMUG founder, said bringing Apple computers into the company quickened production and saved money. "The business went from everyone else doing our work to us doing the typesetting and layout ourselves," he said. "The whole business changed through the late ?80s and ?90s into a completely different industry." The ability to draw multiple ads, retouch photos and finalize copy ? in half the time ? was amazing to Pilardi, who said the graphic design industry took off in a way he couldn't have imagined. It changed other industries, too. Dave Sevick, originally of Harrison City, has a degree in nursing but became a certified Apple consultant in 1988. While working at Children's Hospital in the 1980s, he said, he often used his Mac Plus to keep track of paperwork. Soon, he said, other staff members recognized the computer's usefulness and began doing the same. "We were changing processes in the hospital with my personal computer," he said. "We were taking things that used to cost thousands of dollars and doing it for free." When he became an Apple consultant, he said he was able to focus his career exclusively on something that had once been his hobby. One of the best things Jobs did, Sevick said, was take the fear out of computer use. "He was the most instrumental person in removing fear from computers," Sevick said. "Before he came along, you had to have a (computer-related) degree or be in a business to use one. He brought them to everybody." Clients realized gradually that computing could be affordable and available to everyone, Sevick said. His consulting business grew slowly until Jobs returned to Apple in the mid-?90s and the company began releasing new, user-friendly products. Then there was a boom in business, he said, but it was mostly to set up new Apples, not to make repairs. "I frequently say that I'm like the Maytag repair man," Sevick said. "There aren't a lot of broken Apples out there. I'm mainly out there training and setting it up." Sevick said consulting for Apple is a positive experience because the computers seem to last forever. Balas can verify his statement. Her 24-year-old Apple 2C still works. The Cult of Mac Almost as soon as there were Macintosh users, there were Macintosh user groups, Sevick said. He founded one ? the North Pittsburgh Macintosh Users Group ? and has been part of two others, including COWMUG. The groups are for those who could never be convinced to give up their Apple computers, he said. The devotion to Apple products is evident among his clients, too. "There really is a cult of people out there who are really happy with their Apples," Sevick said. "It's kind of a weird thing. It's almost religious in nature, the way people are devoted to it." When Pilardi began attending COWMUG meetings in 1991, the group was led by Penn-Trafford High School students who had an interest in the technology. Pilardi said he began leading the group when they graduated. As Apple continued to release new products, Pilardi said, the devices quickly went from being fascinating toys to being unimaginably useful. "Back then, it was just kind of a toy and it was really neat to have one," Pilardi said. "Everyone enjoyed messing around with them. Then all of a sudden, they started to get more powerful and bigger." Now, he said, the design work he did on a desktop can be done on an iPad. Communication happens with a click. Friends can share photos in seconds, from different cities. Balas said she sees iPods everywhere she looks. Her own iPhone is always within reach. "As a librarian, I'm always trying to do research," she said. "It's the greatest thing ? carrying a phone in my pocket and being able to access something immediately. It's wonderful." Sevick runs a nonprofit company called ComputeReach that recycles Apple computers for organizations that wouldn't be able to afford new computers. He said he enjoys bringing computers to people, some of whom might never have owned a computer before. "People made fun of me as an Apple consultant in the '90s," he said. "They thought it was a toy and just for games. But the iMac changed everything. Apple users are a pretty happy crowd. You'd basically have to pry an Apple out of our hands." Looking ahead Sevick was delivering refurbished Apple computers to an after-school program in Natrona Heights when he heard that Jobs had died. Like when John Lennon died, Sevick said, Apple enthusiasts always will remember where they were when they heard the news about Jobs. The news was hard to swallow, but he said there's a lot of hope for the future of Apple computers. "I kind of went into a sad daydream for a minute. Then, when I snapped back to reality, I realized where I was," Sevick said. "His creations were sitting right in front of me, making these kids happy. I happened to be in a place that really was made possible by Steve Jobs." Although Apple might have lost its visionary, Sevick said he doesn't think it will prevent the company from continuing to release high-quality products on a regular basis. The company simply has been too influential to too many people, he said. "I went from having a medical career to a computer career. I changed my whole career around Apple," Sevick said. "Apple will be fine." -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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"I pay maniacal attention to where an idea comes from, and I even keep notebooks filled with my ideas," he said. "So it hurts when he takes credit for one of my designs." Still, Ive said the company owed everything to his former CEO. Despite his frustrations, the two were very close. Ive had an abundantly privileged relationship with the company's former CEO Steve Jobs, Jobs new biography released today revealed. "The ideas that come from me and my team would have been completely irrelevant, nowhere, if Steve hadn't been here to push us, work with us, and drive through all the resistance to turn our ideas into products." The biography's author Walter Isaacson called Ive and Jobs "soul mates" in the search for "true" simplicity rather than surface simplicity. The two would regularly assess the value of each individual part in a product like a Mac. "Jony had a special status," Jobs wife Laurene Powell Jobs said. "Most people in Steve's life are replaceable. But not Jony." Those privileges weren't limited to lunches and regular visits at the end of the day. Ive holds a private design studio on the ground floor of Apple's campus shielded by tinted windows and a heavy locked door. Not even high-level Apple employees are allowed into Ive's office. Ive was untouchable. Almost every day, Jobs would have lunch with Ive and wander around his private design studio. Usually it was just the two of them together in Ive's design studio, Isaacson wrote. Much of the design conversation was a back-and-forth, compared to Jobs usual prickly demeanor with his underlings, he wrote. "We kept going back to the beginning again and again," Ive said. "Do we need this part? Can we get it to perform the function of the other four parts?" Jobs would ask of Ive. See Also: 18 Fact About Steve Jobs' Life -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Replace the hard drive, replace optical drive, no boot, replace the hard drive again. And so on. Several times over. So after we got these fits, we got to see Rich "Fitz" Fitzgibbons' photos from his recent holiday in New Orleans with wife Gerrie. All, of course, while we waited to see if these iMacs would ever boot.... We're sure the Greek gods would approve. Alas, Fitz did not wear this to the office on Friday.... -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Fitz & Gerrie.jpg Type: image/jpg Size: 93165 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://davesevick.com/pipermail/npmug/attachments/20111024/12ef1864/attachment-0001.jpg -------------- next part -------------- We refurbished just one Mac bringing our all time total to 3,119. We de-manufactured four others, and we're pretty happy to see those miserable Rev. A's go.... 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 is maintaining 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, October 28. We hope to see you there! Robert A. Donaldson radonaldson at mac.com (H) 412-922-3303 (M) 412-477-9188 From dave at davesevick.com Tue Oct 25 17:34:20 2011 From: dave at davesevick.com (Dave Sevick) Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2011 19:34:20 -0400 Subject: [NPMUG] Tsunami backdoor for Mac OS X discovered Message-ID: <8E8359CE-C0BB-4118-B01B-5AF5C5890B79@davesevick.com> http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2011/10/25/tsunami-backdoor-trojan-for-mac-os-x-discovered/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+nakedsecurity+%28Naked+Security+-+Sophos%29 Tsunami backdoor for Mac OS X discovered OSX/Tsunami-A, a new backdoor Trojan horse for Mac OS X, has been discovered. What makes Tsunami particularly interesting is that it appears to be a port of Troj/Kaiten, a Linux backdoor Trojan horse that once it has embedded itself on a computer system listens to an IRC channel for further instructions. Typically code like this is used to rally compromised computers into a DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) attack, flooding a website with traffic. If you were wondering where the name "Tsunami" comes from, that should probably help explain things. It's not just a DDoS tool though. As you can see by the portion of OSX/Tsunami's source code that I have reproduced below, the bash script can be given a variety of different instructions and can be used to remotely access an affected computer. Sophos's Mac anti-virus products (including our free anti-virus for Mac home users) are being updated to detect OSX/Tsunami-A. The big question, of course, is how would this code find itself on your Mac in the first place? It could be that a malicious hacker plants it there, to access your computer remotely and launch DDoS attacks, or it may even be that you have volunteered your Mac to participate in an organised attack on a website. But remember this - not only is participating in a DDoS attack illegal, it also means that you have effectively put control of your Mac into someone else's hands. If that doesn't instantly raise the hairs on the back of your neck, it certainly should. Mac users are reminded that even though there is far less malware in existence for Mac OS X than for Windows, that doesn't mean the problem is non-existent. You only need to read our short history of Mac malware to realise that. We fully expect to see cybercriminals continuing to target poorly protected Mac computers in the future. If the bad guys think they can make money out of infecting and compromising Macs, they will keep trying. My advice to Mac users is simple: don't be a soft target, protect yourself. For further information read this blog entry from our friends at ESET. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The program will be called ?Steve Jobs ? One Last Thing? and will air on your local PBS affiliate on November 2nd at 10:00pm. Here are some more details of what to expect. ONE LAST THING takes an unflinching look at Jobs?s difficult, controlling disposition, and offers unique insights into what made him tick. While there has been near-universal agreement that Steve Jobs was a great innovator in business and technology, ONE LAST THING looks into why he was so great. What were the influences that shaped his character? What drove him from such humble beginnings to the heights of success? Featuring interviews with, among others, Ronald Wayne, co-founder of Apple with Jobs and Steve Wozniak; Ross Perot, who invested in NeXT Computer when Jobs was running out of money; Walt Mossberg, principal technology columnist for The Wall Street Journal, who interviewed Jobs every year from 2003-2010; will.i.am, frontman and producer for The Black Eyed Peas, whose ?I Gotta Feeling? currently ranks as the most downloaded iTunes song ever; Dean Hovey, designer of the original mouse for Apple; Robert Cringely, writer and host of the PBS series TRIUMPH OF THE NERDS: THE RISE OF ACCIDENTAL EMPIRES; Robert Palladino, calligraphy professor at Reed College, whose classes Jobs credited with inspiring his typography design for the Mac; and Bill Fernandez, who introduced Jobs and Wozniak in Sunnyvale, where the three hung out in his father?s garage and tinkered with electronics. In a never-before-broadcast interview from 1994, Jobs expounds on his philosophy of life: ?You tend to get told that the world is the way it is, but life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact; and that is that everything around you that you call life was made up by people no smarter than you ? Once you learn that, you?ll never be the same again.? In his many successful Apple product launches, Jobs developed his own catchphrase to tease his audiences. Appearing to reach the end of a presentation, he would then announce to the expectant crowd: ?Oh ? one more thing,? before unveiling his latest design achievement. This documentary exploration of the life of one of America?s most successful innovators and entrepreneurs pays homage to his famous presentational skills and his unique talents. Check your local listings to know where to tune in. ? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The Facebook blog entry includes an infographic explaining the success of the network's efforts to beat back spam, account hijacking, and other ills. In it, Facebook says that "only 0.06 percent of 1 billion logins per day are compromised." That might sound like an impressive record, but doing the math, that means 600,000 accounts are hacked or otherwise compromised every day. Facebook's 0.06 percent figure seems intentionally precise, so it's probably fair to surmise that potentially 18 million accounts per month are impacted. "If an unauthorized party has logged into your Facebook account, then you're far from alone," wrote Sophos' Graham Cluley in a post about Facebook on Friday. Facebook did not immediately respond to a request for comment. "Facebook ID theft" is a serious problem which lays the foundation for all manner of other cyber misbehavior. Recently, msnbc.com reported on a woman who sent $2,000 to a criminal, believing she was communicating with her sister through Facebook chat. Other common scams include criminals hijacking friends' accounts and trying to talk users into coughing up money. Much cyberbullying also begins with compromised FB accounts. A woman recently contacted me complaining that her son's account had been hacked and classmates had posted pornographic pictures. "They changed his email address and his password; so my son could not get into his Facebook," the woman, who asked that she not be identified to protect her son's privacy, said. "Then they posted, more than once, pornographic pictures of men with a cut-out of my son's face on it and posted it as his profile picture. My son is only 15 and those pictures were so terrible that he was embarrassed, humiliated, and devastated over them." It's not hard to find similar stories about the dire consequences of Facebook login compromises. One key to solving the problem is making it easier for the rightful holder of hacked accounts to restore their access, and Trusted Friends should help considerably. Still, in a world where consumers are continually adding to the number of identities and imposters they need to worry about, 600,000 daily Facebook identity issues is not a welcome data point Don't miss the next Red Tape: *Become a Facebook Fan *Follow Bob on Twitter. *Get an e-mail newsletter with Red Tape stories ? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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And we took care of that part, too. But no crushing. That would have been foolish. As foolish as forgetting to whip out the iPhone to shoot photos of the aforementioned stink bugs. We took in three bins of donation from Goodwill in the morning, and we'll have enough to keep us busy for a while. Among them are a half-dozen of the dustiest Quicksilver G4 Towers seen in some time. We may run out of canned air on these boxes... We refurbished seven Macs bringing our all time total to 3,126. Among them was a sweet 20-inch G5 iMac Marty fixed up after replacing several blown capacitors. We de-manufactured nine 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 is maintaining 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, November 4. Please note we'll be meeting later than usual at 10:30 a.m. so I can visit the dentist again. 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 Oct 30 16:27:15 2011 From: ronladams7 at gmail.com (Ron_A) Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2011 16:27:15 -0600 Subject: [NPMUG] =?windows-1252?q?A_Sister=92s_Eulogy_for_Steve_Jobs_-_NYT?= =?windows-1252?q?imes=2Ecom?= Message-ID: <3935B5D0-2FDA-4D6E-92E1-626F47A693DF@gmail.com> http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/30/opinion/mona-simpsons-eulogy-for-steve-jobs.html?_r=2&pagewanted=all&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+businessinsider+%28Business+Insider%29 A Sister?s Eulogy for Steve Jobs I grew up as an only child, with a single mother. Because we were poor and because I knew my father had emigrated from Syria, I imagined he looked like Omar Sharif. I hoped he would be rich and kind and would come into our lives (and our not yet furnished apartment) and help us. Later, after I?d met my father, I tried to believe he?d changed his number and left no forwarding address because he was an idealistic revolutionary, plotting a new world for the Arab people. Even as a feminist, my whole life I?d been waiting for a man to love, who could love me. For decades, I?d thought that man would be my father. When I was 25, I met that man and he was my brother. By then, I lived in New York, where I was trying to write my first novel. I had a job at a small magazine in an office the size of a closet, with three other aspiring writers. When one day a lawyer called me ? me, the middle-class girl from California who hassled the boss to buy us health insurance ? and said his client was rich and famous and was my long-lost brother, the young editors went wild. This was 1985 and we worked at a cutting-edge literary magazine, but I?d fallen into the plot of a Dickens novel and really, we all loved those best. The lawyer refused to tell me my brother?s name and my colleagues started a betting pool. The leading candidate: John Travolta. I secretly hoped for a literary descendant of Henry James ? someone more talented than I, someone brilliant without even trying. When I met Steve, he was a guy my age in jeans, Arab- or Jewish-looking and handsomer than Omar Sharif. We took a long walk ? something, it happened, that we both liked to do. I don?t remember much of what we said that first day, only that he felt like someone I?d pick to be a friend. He explained that he worked in computers. I didn?t know much about computers. I still worked on a manual Olivetti typewriter. I told Steve I?d recently considered my first purchase of a computer: something called the Cromemco. Steve told me it was a good thing I?d waited. He said he was making something that was going to be insanely beautiful. I want to tell you a few things I learned from Steve, during three distinct periods, over the 27 years I knew him. They?re not periods of years, but of states of being. His full life. His illness. His dying. Steve worked at what he loved. He worked really hard. Every day. That?s incredibly simple, but true. He was the opposite of absent-minded. He was never embarrassed about working hard, even if the results were failures. If someone as smart as Steve wasn?t ashamed to admit trying, maybe I didn?t have to be. When he got kicked out of Apple, things were painful. He told me about a dinner at which 500 Silicon Valley leaders met the then-sitting president. Steve hadn?t been invited. He was hurt but he still went to work at Next. Every single day. Novelty was not Steve?s highest value. Beauty was. For an innovator, Steve was remarkably loyal. If he loved a shirt, he?d order 10 or 100 of them. In the Palo Alto house, there are probably enough black cotton turtlenecks for everyone in this church. He didn?t favor trends or gimmicks. He liked people his own age. His philosophy of aesthetics reminds me of a quote that went something like this: ?Fashion is what seems beautiful now but looks ugly later; art can be ugly at first but it becomes beautiful later.? Steve always aspired to make beautiful later. He was willing to be misunderstood. Uninvited to the ball, he drove the third or fourth iteration of his same black sports car to Next, where he and his team were quietly inventing the platform on which Tim Berners-Lee would write the program for the World Wide Web. Steve was like a girl in the amount of time he spent talking about love. Love was his supreme virtue, his god of gods. He tracked and worried about the romantic lives of the people working with him. Whenever he saw a man he thought a woman might find dashing, he called out, ?Hey are you single? Do you wanna come to dinner with my sister?? I remember when he phoned the day he met Laurene. ?There?s this beautiful woman and she?s really smart and she has this dog and I?m going to marry her.? When Reed was born, he began gushing and never stopped. He was a physical dad, with each of his children. He fretted over Lisa?s boyfriends and Erin?s travel and skirt lengths and Eve?s safety around the horses she adored. None of us who attended Reed?s graduation party will ever forget the scene of Reed and Steve slow dancing. His abiding love for Laurene sustained him. He believed that love happened all the time, everywhere. In that most important way, Steve was never ironic, never cynical, never pessimistic. I try to learn from that, still. Steve had been successful at a young age, and he felt that had isolated him. Most of the choices he made from the time I knew him were designed to dissolve the walls around him. A middle-class boy from Los Altos, he fell in love with a middle-class girl from New Jersey. It was important to both of them to raise Lisa, Reed, Erin and Eve as grounded, normal children. Their house didn?t intimidate with art or polish; in fact, for many of the first years I knew Steve and Lo together, dinner was served on the grass, and sometimes consisted of just one vegetable. Lots of that one vegetable. But one. Broccoli. In season. Simply prepared. With the just the right, recently snipped, herb. Even as a young millionaire, Steve always picked me up at the airport. He?d be standing there in his jeans. When a family member called him at work, his secretary Linetta answered, ?Your dad?s in a meeting. Would you like me to interrupt him?? When Reed insisted on dressing up as a witch every Halloween, Steve, Laurene, Erin and Eve all went wiccan. They once embarked on a kitchen remodel; it took years. They cooked on a hotplate in the garage. The Pixar building, under construction during the same period, finished in half the time. And that was it for the Palo Alto house. The bathrooms stayed old. But ? and this was a crucial distinction ? it had been a great house to start with; Steve saw to that. This is not to say that he didn?t enjoy his success: he enjoyed his success a lot, just minus a few zeros. He told me how much he loved going to the Palo Alto bike store and gleefully realizing he could afford to buy the best bike there. And he did. Steve was humble. Steve liked to keep learning. Once, he told me if he?d grown up differently, he might have become a mathematician. He spoke reverently about colleges and loved walking around the Stanford campus. In the last year of his life, he studied a book of paintings by Mark Rothko, an artist he hadn?t known about before, thinking of what could inspire people on the walls of a future Apple campus. Steve cultivated whimsy. What other C.E.O. knows the history of English and Chinese tea roses and has a favorite David Austin rose? He had surprises tucked in all his pockets. I?ll venture that Laurene will discover treats ? songs he loved, a poem he cut out and put in a drawer ? even after 20 years of an exceptionally close marriage. I spoke to him every other day or so, but when I opened The New York Times and saw a feature on the company?s patents, I was still surprised and delighted to see a sketch for a perfect staircase. With his four children, with his wife, with all of us, Steve had a lot of fun. He treasured happiness. Then, Steve became ill and we watched his life compress into a smaller circle. Once, he?d loved walking through Paris. He?d discovered a small handmade soba shop in Kyoto. He downhill skied gracefully. He cross-country skied clumsily. No more. Eventually, even ordinary pleasures, like a good peach, no longer appealed to him. Yet, what amazed me, and what I learned from his illness, was how much was still left after so much had been taken away. I remember my brother learning to walk again, with a chair. After his liver transplant, once a day he would get up on legs that seemed too thin to bear him, arms pitched to the chair back. He?d push that chair down the Memphis hospital corridor towards the nursing station and then he?d sit down on the chair, rest, turn around and walk back again. He counted his steps and, each day, pressed a little farther. Laurene got down on her knees and looked into his eyes. ?You can do this, Steve,? she said. His eyes widened. His lips pressed into each other. He tried. He always, always tried, and always with love at the core of that effort. He was an intensely emotional man. I realized during that terrifying time that Steve was not enduring the pain for himself. He set destinations: his son Reed?s graduation from high school, his daughter Erin?s trip to Kyoto, the launching of a boat he was building on which he planned to take his family around the world and where he hoped he and Laurene would someday retire. Even ill, his taste, his discrimination and his judgment held. He went through 67 nurses before finding kindred spirits and then he completely trusted the three who stayed with him to the end. Tracy. Arturo. Elham. One time when Steve had contracted a tenacious pneumonia his doctor forbid everything ? even ice. We were in a standard I.C.U. unit. Steve, who generally disliked cutting in line or dropping his own name, confessed that this once, he?d like to be treated a little specially. I told him: Steve, this is special treatment. He leaned over to me, and said: ?I want it to be a little more special.? Intubated, when he couldn?t talk, he asked for a notepad. He sketched devices to hold an iPad in a hospital bed. He designed new fluid monitors and x-ray equipment. He redrew that not-quite-special-enough hospital unit. And every time his wife walked into the room, I watched his smile remake itself on his face. For the really big, big things, you have to trust me, he wrote on his sketchpad. He looked up. You have to. By that, he meant that we should disobey the doctors and give him a piece of ice. None of us knows for certain how long we?ll be here. On Steve?s better days, even in the last year, he embarked upon projects and elicited promises from his friends at Apple to finish them. Some boat builders in the Netherlands have a gorgeous stainless steel hull ready to be covered with the finishing wood. His three daughters remain unmarried, his two youngest still girls, and he?d wanted to walk them down the aisle as he?d walked me the day of my wedding. We all ? in the end ? die in medias res. In the middle of a story. Of many stories. I suppose it?s not quite accurate to call the death of someone who lived with cancer for years unexpected, but Steve?s death was unexpected for us. What I learned from my brother?s death was that character is essential: What he was, was how he died. Tuesday morning, he called me to ask me to hurry up to Palo Alto. His tone was affectionate, dear, loving, but like someone whose luggage was already strapped onto the vehicle, who was already on the beginning of his journey, even as he was sorry, truly deeply sorry, to be leaving us. He started his farewell and I stopped him. I said, ?Wait. I?m coming. I?m in a taxi to the airport. I?ll be there.? ?I?m telling you now because I?m afraid you won?t make it on time, honey.? When I arrived, he and his Laurene were joking together like partners who?d lived and worked together every day of their lives. He looked into his children?s eyes as if he couldn?t unlock his gaze. Until about 2 in the afternoon, his wife could rouse him, to talk to his friends from Apple. Then, after awhile, it was clear that he would no longer wake to us. His breathing changed. It became severe, deliberate, purposeful. I could feel him counting his steps again, pushing farther than before. This is what I learned: he was working at this, too. Death didn?t happen to Steve, he achieved it. He told me, when he was saying goodbye and telling me he was sorry, so sorry we wouldn?t be able to be old together as we?d always planned, that he was going to a better place. Dr. Fischer gave him a 50/50 chance of making it through the night. He made it through the night, Laurene next to him on the bed sometimes jerked up when there was a longer pause between his breaths. She and I looked at each other, then he would heave a deep breath and begin again. This had to be done. Even now, he had a stern, still handsome profile, the profile of an absolutist, a romantic. His breath indicated an arduous journey, some steep path, altitude. He seemed to be climbing. But with that will, that work ethic, that strength, there was also sweet Steve?s capacity for wonderment, the artist?s belief in the ideal, the still more beautiful later. Steve?s final words, hours earlier, were monosyllables, repeated three times. Before embarking, he?d looked at his sister Patty, then for a long time at his children, then at his life?s partner, Laurene, and then over their shoulders past them. Steve?s final words were: OH WOW. OH WOW. OH WOW. Mona Simpson is a novelist and a professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles. She delivered this eulogy for her brother, Steve Jobs, on Oct. 16 at his memorial service at the Memorial Church of Stanford University. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://davesevick.com/pipermail/npmug/attachments/20111030/1ae15151/attachment-0001.htm From dadditude at gmail.com Mon Oct 31 16:56:07 2011 From: dadditude at gmail.com (Dadditude) Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2011 18:56:07 -0400 Subject: [NPMUG] Apple fires Phil Schiller, replaces him with Siri Message-ID: Apple fires Phil Schiller, replaces him with Siri Scoopertino Unlike Schiller, Siri easily fits in Cook's pocket Cupertino, CA ? Bad news and good news for Apple?s Phil Schiller: you?re fired, but your iPhone 4S can stay. CEO Tim Cook has named Siri, iPhone?s new intelligent assistant, to the position of Senior VP of Worldwide Product Marketing, effective immediately. Praise for Siri?s intelligence has been pouring in since her debut as part of iPhone 4S, but apparently she wasn?t happy being an assistant. Siri is an upgrade from Schiller in several ways. She never sleeps, nor does she require health insurance. (Cook did pony up for two years of AppleCare.) Unlike Schiller, who took up valuable office space, Siri lives in a drawer. Though our source reports that she?s already asked for a larger drawer. Siri: caught in action at a recent executive meeting Most important, Siri is proving herself a whiz in marketing matters. During her first day on the job, she?s killed one ad campaign, written one of her own, reworked the 2012 media budget and allocated $48 million to fund the creation of a male counterpart of slightly lesser intelligence. Reached for comment, Siri would only say, ?I am a humble intelligent assistant ? with a boatload of stock options.? Other Apple executives, while publicly applauding the decision to promote Siri, seem worried about their own job security. Some have been heard sucking up excessively to their iPhones in public. After elevating Siri, even Tim Cook seems to be looking over his shoulder. At the start of the most recent executive meeting, Cook asked Siri if her seat was okay. Siri?s reply: ?I?d be even more comfortable in your chair, Tim.? ?? ?We do not quit playing because we grow old; we grow old because we quit playing.??Oliver Wendell Holmes -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://davesevick.com/pipermail/npmug/attachments/20111031/a690e945/attachment.htm