From dave at davesevick.com Fri Sep 2 14:06:17 2011 From: dave at davesevick.com (Dave Sevick) Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2011 16:06:17 -0400 Subject: [NPMUG] Steve Jobs, World's Greatest Philanthropist - Dan Pallotta - Harvard Business Review Message-ID: <97C0AA8B-DC3D-437D-AAD0-A402AD0B4E4B@davesevick.com> Steve Jobs, World's Greatest Philanthropist Dan Pallotta - Harvard Business Review http://blogs.hbr.org/pallotta/2011/09/steve-jobs-worlds-greatest-phi.html A student at one of my talks on the nonprofit sector asked if I could name a for-profit company that was making a difference on the scale that nonprofits do. I said I'd be hard-pressed to name one that wasn't. Our youth are growing up with the strange notion that the only way to make a big difference in this world, or to be of service, is to work for a nonprofit organization, or become the next Bill Gates and establish a private foundation, or to start some kind of "social enterprise," often without any understanding of what that means. The word philanthropy comes from the Greek philanthropos which comes from philein for "to love" and anthropos for "human being." Philanthropy means love of humanity. Which brings me to Steve Jobs. Shortly after he returned to Apple in 1997 Jobs allegedly ended all of the company's corporate philanthropy programs to cut expenses until the nearly bankrupt enterprise regained its footing. Some have claimed the programs were never reinstated. A 2006 Wired article on Jobs, "Great Wealth Does Not Make a Great Man," reported that even though his wealth was estimated at $3.3 billion, Jobs's name did not appear on Giving USA's list of gifts of $5 million or more for the previous four years, nor on another that list showing gifts of $1 million or more. (The article acknowledged that he could have been giving anonymously.) The article took a cheap shot: "Jobs can't even get behind causes that would seem to carry deep personal meaning...he is a cancer survivor. But unlike [Lance] Armstrong, Jobs has so far done little publicly to raise money or awareness for the disease." It went on, "...he's nothing more than a greedy capitalist who's amassed an obscene fortune. It's shameful...[Bill] Gates is much more deserving of Jobs' rock star exaltation. In the same way, I admire Bono over Mick Jagger, and John Lennon over Elvis, because they spoke up about things bigger than their own celebrity." Yes, but in part their own celebrity was connected to the things they spoke up about. In a 1985 Playboy interview, Jobs acknowledged that it takes enormous time to give money away, and stated that, "in order to learn how to do something well, you have to fail sometimes...the problem with most philanthropy-there's no measurement system.. you can really never measure whether you failed or succeeded...So...it's really hard to get better." He added that, "When I have some time, I'm going to start a public foundation." In 1986, he did, but closed it after 15 months. According to the man he hired to run it, "He clearly didn't have the time." Jobs's friends told one reporter, "he figures he can do more good by expanding Apple." And thank God for that. What a loss to humanity it would have been if Jobs had dedicated the last 25 years of his life to figuring out how to give his billions away, instead of doing what he does best. We'd still be waiting for a cell phone on which we could actually read e-mail and surf the web. "We" includes students, doctors, nurses, aid workers, charity leaders, social workers, and so on. It helps the blind read text and identify currency. It helps physicians improve their performance and surgeons improve their practice. It even helps charities raise money. We'd be a decade or more away from the iPad, which has ushered in an era of reading electronically that promises to save a Sherwood Forest worth of trees and all of the energy associated with trucking them around. That's just the beginning. Doctors are using the iPad to improve healthcare. It's being used to lessen the symptoms of autism, to improve kids' creativity, and to revolutionize medical training. And you can't say someone else would have developed these things. No one until Jobs did, and the competitive devices that have come since have taken the entirety of their inspiration from his creation. Without Steve Jobs we'd be years away from a user-friendly mechanism for getting digital music without stealing it, which means we'd still be producing hundreds of millions of CDs with plastic cases. We would be without Pixar. There's a sentence with an import inversely correlated to its length. We would be without the 34,000 full-time jobs Apple has created, just within Apple, not to mention all of the manufacturing jobs it has created for those who would otherwise live in poverty. We would be without the wealth it has created for millions of Americans who have invested in the company. We would be without video conferencing for the masses that actually works. Computers that don't keep crashing. Who can estimate the value of the wasted time that didn't get wasted? We would be without a whole new way of thinking. About computers. Leadership. Business. Our very potential. Last year Change.org wrote of Steve Jobs, "It's high time the minimalist CEO became a magnanimous philanthropist." I've got news for you. He has been. What's important is how we use our time on this earth, not how conspicuously we give our money away. What's important is the energy and courage we are willing to expend reversing entropy, battling cynicism, suffering and challenging mediocre minds, staring down those who would trample our dreams, taking a stand for magic, and advancing the potential of the human race. On these scores, the world has no greater philanthropist than Steve Jobs. If ever a man contributed to humanity, here he is. And he has done it while battling cancer. In a statement today Bono defended Jobs, noting that Apple has been Product (RED's) "largest contributor to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria -- giving tens of millions." More important, Bono stated that, "Just because he's been extremely busy, that doesn't mean that he [has] not been thinking about these things." Steve Jobs has traded his time for human progress. Not for personal pleasures. This is not a man who spent his time building homes or custom yachts or who otherwise obsessed with how to spend his billions on himself. And no one would say of him that he ever seemed to have a lot of spare time on his hands. Werner Erhard used to say that he wanted his gravestone to say, "Burned out." By all appearances, Jobs has burned out just about every ounce of fuel he was given trying to bring new possibilities into this world. God willing, he has more fuel in reserve. If so, he should expend a little of it on himself. To do more than he has done for humanity already, no human could ever be asked. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://davesevick.com/pipermail/npmug/attachments/20110902/2b1fed8e/attachment.htm From dave at davesevick.com Sat Sep 3 04:54:35 2011 From: dave at davesevick.com (Dave Sevick) Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2011 06:54:35 -0400 Subject: [NPMUG] =?windows-1252?q?Apple=92s_remote_iOS_Diagnostics_service?= =?windows-1252?q?_revealed=2C_launching_in_the_coming_months?= Message-ID: <5859D24D-AC0B-43D7-BE37-E71570E33D60@davesevick.com> http://9to5mac.com/2011/09/02/apples-remote-ios-diagnostics-service-revealed-launching-in-the-coming-months/ "The concept is quite simple. Here?s how Apple describes the tool internally: iOS Diagnostics sends an email to the iOS device or provides a manual URL that prompts the user to allow a diagnostic report to be transmitted to Apple. iOS Diagnostics will display that report within GSX in near real-time. It?s that simple. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://davesevick.com/pipermail/npmug/attachments/20110903/7987f690/attachment.htm From dave at davesevick.com Sat Sep 3 05:03:39 2011 From: dave at davesevick.com (Dave Sevick) Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2011 07:03:39 -0400 Subject: [NPMUG] =?windows-1252?q?Eddie_Cue_=85_the_man_behind_iTunes_=85_?= =?windows-1252?q?promoted_to_Senior_VP_at_Apple?= Message-ID: <5A305D9B-84D2-40EF-A93A-19430B87BA58@davesevick.com> http://www.apple.com/pr/bios/eddy-cue.html Eddy Cue is Apple's senior vice president of Internet Software and Services, reporting to CEO Tim Cook. Eddy oversees Apple's industry-leading content stores including the iTunes Store, the revolutionary App Store and the iBookstore, as well as iAd and Apple's innovative iCloud services. He is a 22-year Apple veteran and leads a large organization of amazing people. 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Golightly) Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2011 08:59:38 -0400 Subject: [NPMUG] Mac software for Software Freedom Day: Sept 17 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <4E66193A.2060909@wplug.org> On 08/31/2011 10:17 AM, Beth Lynn Eicher wrote: > Hello, > > The Western PA Linux User Group will be celebrating Software Freedom > Day, September 17, by holding a table in a local market (actual venue to > be announced). Every time we do this, we get plenty of folks who say > "But I have a Mac..." > > Free Software is for people who use all operating systems. Much of the > MacOSX operating system is Free Software ie Darwin kernel, CUPS, ports. > If you happen to use SourceForge to try new Mac software, chances are, > you are using Free Software too! It is important to note that not all > Free Software is under the General Public License. Anything that the > Free Software Foundation recognizes as a "Free" license is Free > Software: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html > > Western PA Linux User Group wants to include the Apple fans in the > excitement that is Software Freedom Day. Ultimately, we would like to > have a few CD made with Free Software that makes the Mac experience > better. Do you have any software to suggest? Are you willing to help > burn and test Free Software for the Mac? Greetings, Well how about this, I've got links to the the official SFD FOSS disc! The following text is a cut 'n paste from the official SFD discussion mailing list. I'm downloading it as well, but I don't have a Mac to do the burning on. So if anybody out there would like to help us celebrate Software Freedom Day buy burning some images and help us distribute them, that would be great! Just reply to this message and let me know how many you can do. Unfortunately, we here at have limited media. I have over 50 CD-Rs, but just a few DVD-Rs. The message pasted follows: Yes MAC OS FOSS disc is available to SFD team by filling out this form: http://www.appleusers.org/dotm/spotlight-on-foss-dvd/ and the torrent direct access is: http://tracker.appleusers.org/Spotlight%20on%20FOSS.torrent The reason for having a form, I quote "The main reason we have the form so we know which groups are distributing it and thus we can list them on our website... also we find out just how many groups where actually interested in the DVD and thus letting us know if the effort in producing the DVD was worth the effort (which based on feedback so far, it was and so we'll look at doing it again next year )" _______________________________________________ SFD-discuss mailing list SFD-discuss at sf-day.org http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/sfd-discuss Sincerely, Terry Golightly -- Vice Chairman The Western Pennsylvania Linux User's Group vicechair at wplug.org http://wplug.org From robertadonaldson at gmail.com Tue Sep 6 18:07:23 2011 From: robertadonaldson at gmail.com (robertadonaldson) Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2011 20:07:23 -0400 Subject: [NPMUG] Goodwill CRC update, Friday, Sept. 2, 2011 Message-ID: Dear Mac friends: A brief preface: I'm posting this from my Google Mail account. It seems Apple is changing the server on my regular posts from dot Mac to dot Me. The list software knows me at dot Mac, but not dot Me, and my post hangs in limbo. This has happened the past three weeks, so I'm firing Apple for my posts to this list. Many thanks to Charlie Hutchens, Rich Fitzgibbon, John Hamill, Terry Golightly, and Dave Sevick for joining me last Friday for our weekly workday at our Goodwill Computer Recycling Center "annex." I'm sorry for the late post, but it was a busy holiday weekend (at work) for me. I was also a bit hungover from the COWMUG 20th anniversary party. Seeing Janet Balas' working QuickTake 100 really got to me. 0.2 megapixels! Those were the days.... We received six bins of Macs from Goodwill at mid-morning, and we'll be busy with those for at least another two weeks. Sadly, all but two of about a dozen eMacs are missing their optical drive door (with serial number). Good thing we hold on to the doors of the eMacs we de-manufacture... I was my turn to pull nothing but non-working duds from the bins. Usually Fitz gets the dud patrol. I didn't refurbish one Mac... We finished the day with six Mac refurbished, including our first Mini (Yea, Marty!), to bring our all-time total to 3,042. We de-manufactured 11 others. Goodwill has opened a new ComputerWorks store at their new campus on 51st St. in Pittsburgh's Lawrenceville neighborhood. They have much more room than their previous computer retail operations. It's in the rear of the Goodwill retail store in a building with Klingensmith Health Care and a police uniform shop. If you cross the railroad tracks, you've gone too far. Goodwill will maintain the current location of the ComputerWorks store in the rear of their retail store at 2700 East Carson St. on Pittsburgh's South Side. We'll have another workday on Friday, September 9. We hope to see you there! Robert A. Donaldson radonaldson at mac.com robertadonaldson at gmail.com (H) 412-922-3303 (M) 412-477-9188 From charles at firthconsulting.com Thu Sep 8 04:39:38 2011 From: charles at firthconsulting.com (Charles Firth) Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2011 06:39:38 -0400 Subject: [NPMUG] OSX 10.7 Wi-Fi diag tool Message-ID: <9F428AF0-9047-4A54-BD25-38D9504D14E0@firthconsulting.com> There's a hidden app in Lion that's really handy if you need to debug your wifi connection - from checking the Signal to Noise ratio to capturing frames. It's found in: /System/Library/CoreServices/Wifi Diagnostics.app -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://davesevick.com/pipermail/npmug/attachments/20110908/a2567180/attachment-0001.htm -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Today was a lesson in first appearances are deceiving. Among the ten Mac donations we received today was a 15-inch G4 iMac and it truly appeared as if we should put it on the de-manufacturing bench right away. It had a thick coating of dirt, and a couple of dried leaves came off the base when I picked it up. We actually thought it may have been submerged, it looked so bad. See what I mean? -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: 090911 dirty G4 iMac.jpg Type: image/jpg Size: 67303 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://davesevick.com/pipermail/npmug/attachments/20110909/e9b19c25/attachment-0001.jpg -------------- next part -------------- Dave plugged it in, and it fired right up. No pressure marks on the screen, either. We were so incredulous, we stopped to shoot photos. A through cleaning will take place next week, and we'll check it our more closely. Our current stock of donations continues to move through the workbenches, albeit slowly. Every Mac seems to have just enough minor issues to consume more time than the average to fix. Replace a hard drive here, an optical drive there, and so on.... Today we refurbished ten Macs to bring our all-time total to 3,052. We de-manufactured four others. Goodwill has opened a new ComputerWorks store at their new campus on 51st St. in Pittsburgh's Lawrenceville neighborhood. They have much more room than their previous computer retail operations. It's in the rear of the Goodwill retail store in a building with Klingensmith Health Care and a police uniform shop. If you cross the railroad tracks, you've gone too far. Goodwill will maintain the current location of the ComputerWorks store in the rear of their retail store at 2700 East Carson St. on Pittsburgh's South Side. We'll have another workday on Friday, September 16. 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 Sep 13 17:49:55 2011 From: dave at davesevick.com (Dave Sevick) Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2011 19:49:55 -0400 Subject: [NPMUG] C A N C E L L E D - ComputeReach Project for Friday - Saturday Sept 17-18 Message-ID: <4D472718-5734-4807-BC83-6DB90F5990DB@davesevick.com> Dear NPMUG folks, In case you had a hankering for helping recycle/pack computers this Saturday at Construction Junction. We have cancelled that event. There will still be recycling at Goodwill on the South Side at 2400 Carson Street with Bob Donaldson and all .... ----------- Thanks to many of our supporters for using the "When Is Good" tool to show your desire to help us on Friday and/or Saturday. Unfortunately we are not able to use the warehouse space for our recycling project this weekend. Just wanted to let people know a soon as possible as they go about planning their weekends on Friday - Saturday Sept 17-18, 2011. Thankfully we had 12 people slated to volunteer on this project and I thank you all for donating your time ... but we'll have to go about completing this special recycling/packing project at another time in the near future. We will post another request for volunteers soon. Thanks again, Dave Sevick ComputeReach -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://davesevick.com/pipermail/npmug/attachments/20110913/7210bb58/attachment.htm From ronladams7 at gmail.com Wed Sep 14 14:39:02 2011 From: ronladams7 at gmail.com (Ron_A) Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2011 14:39:02 -0600 Subject: [NPMUG] Recording video Message-ID: <8B09210B-EBE0-43B6-9098-FDD34F758E4F@gmail.com> keep smiling?.. http://www.kboi2.com/news/local/129822368.html -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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They are strongly encouraging people to move to HTML5 for video playback, and reference the fact that even Google is converting YouTube to HTML5 so it'll "run on phones" - and reference how disabling Flash is a huge boon to battery life. In addition to this loss of Flash being a minor issue thanks to HTML5, and it noticably improving battery life, the removal of Flash from the mobile browser will also improve security, make things quicker, and prevent crashes and problems that Flash (and other plugins) can cause. Microsoft honestly thinks that, in this case, it's better to lose access to Flash then permit it on their mobile browser. https://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2011/09/14/metro-style-browsing-and-plug-in-free-html5.aspx Does any of this sound familiar to anyone? I vaguely remember hearing this sort of talk around 2007.. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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At least the incoming stock continues to increase. Two bins from Goodwill today in addition to nine G4 Towers from the, ahem, Post-Gazette. One newbie is a dual 1.8 G5 Tower which shows promise if we can score a SATA hard drive to get it going. We now have enough stock to keep us busy for three weeks. Today we refurbished nine Macs to bring our all-time total to 3,061. We de-manufactured three others. Goodwill has opened a new ComputerWorks store at their new campus on 51st St. in Pittsburgh's Lawrenceville neighborhood. They have much more room than their previous computer retail operations. It's in the rear of the Goodwill retail store in a building with Klingensmith Health Care and a police uniform shop. If you cross the railroad tracks, you've gone too far. Goodwill will maintain the current location of the ComputerWorks store in the rear of their retail store at 2700 East Carson St. on Pittsburgh's South Side. We'll have another workday on Friday, September 23. 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 Sep 16 18:54:34 2011 From: dave at davesevick.com (Dave Sevick) Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2011 20:54:34 -0400 Subject: [NPMUG] Apple closes above $400, stays ahead of Exxon Mobil in market value - latimes.com Message-ID: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2011/09/apple-closes-above-400-pulling-away-from-exxon-mobil-as-most-valuable-firm.html Apple closes above $400, stays ahead of Exxon Mobil in market value So far, Apple Inc. seems to be doing just fine without Steve Jobs, the man who co-founded the company and later rescued it from bankruptcy to turn it into the world's most valuable technology concern. Jobs stepped down as chief executive last month, but Apple stock has been on the rise since then, and on Friday closed above the $400 mark, just $4 shy of its all-time high. The company has also maintained its lead above oil giant Exxon Mobile as the world's most valuable company of any kind. Apple first passed Exxon early last month, at the height of the summer's market turbulence, but Exxon quickly jumped back in front, and they remained neck-and-neck over several weeks. But now Apple seems to be pulling away. It's market capitalization of $371 billion is now nearly $10 billion ahead of Exxon's $362 billion, and the oil company's stock has seen few gains in the last month. The gains indicated investor satisfaction with Apple, which has continued to sell large numbers of its iPhone 4 devices, even though it's been more than a year since the handset was released. Generally, handset sales slow dramatically after a year, in part because consumers electing to wait for newer technology. 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URL: http://davesevick.com/pipermail/npmug/attachments/20110920/e4aafb6e/attachment.htm From dave at davesevick.com Tue Sep 20 20:49:25 2011 From: dave at davesevick.com (Dave Sevick) Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2011 22:49:25 -0400 Subject: [NPMUG] Apple 14x Dell Message-ID: <7022EDB3-4F31-4685-90DD-039E420F3577@davesevick.com> http://macdailynews.com/2011/09/20/apple-now-worth-fourteen-times-dell%e2%80%99s-market-value/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+wordpress%2FxhfA+%28MacDailyNews%29 Apple now worth fourteen times Dell?s market value On October 6, 1997, in response to the question of what he?d do if he was in charge of Apple, Dell founder and CEO Michael Dell stood before a crowd of several thousand IT executives and answered flippantly, ?What would I do? I?d shut it down and give the money back to the shareholders.? A little more than a month later, on November 10, 1997, new Apple Interim CEO (iCEO) Steve Jobs responded, speaking in front of an image of Michael Dell?s bulls-eye covered face, ?We?re coming after you, you?re in our sights.? On January 13, 2006, after a little more than eight years of hard work, Apple Inc. passed Dell, Inc. in market value, $72.13 billion vs. $71.97 billion at market close, respectively. ? 2X: On July 27, 2007, Apple?s value doubled that of Dell?s, $127.81 billion vs. $63.65 billion, respectively. ? 3X: On December 6, 2007, Apple?s market value passed 3 times that of Dell?s, $165.66 billion vs. $54.42 billion, respectively. ? 4X: On May 01, 2008, Apple?s market value quadrupled that of Dell?s, $158.66 billion vs. $38.97 billion, respectively. ? 5X: On February 12, 2009, Apple rose $2.60 to hit a market value of $88.37 billion or 5 times that of Dell?s $17.52 billion. ? 6X: On October 20, 2009, Apple rose $11.21 to $201.07 to hit a market value of $180.12 billion or more than 6 times that of Dell?s $29.97 billion. ? 7X: On January 26, 2010, Apple gained $7.57 to $210.64 to hit a market value of $189.72 billion or more than 7 times that of Dell?s current $27.03 billion. ? 8X: On May 21, 2010, Apple gained $1.95 to $239.74 to hit a market value of $218.12 billion or more than 8 times that of Dell?s current $25.84 billion. ? 9X: On June 1, 2010, Apple gained $6.89 to $263.77 to hit a market value of $240.01 billion or more than 9 times that of Dell?s current $26.29 billion. ? 10X: On September 9, 2010, Apple gained $1.60 to $265.37 to hit a market value of $242.43 billion or more than 10 times that of Dell?s current $24.21 billion. ? 11X: On September 23, 2010, Apple rose $3.79, or 1.32%, to $291.54 to hit a market value of $266.34 billion or more than 11 times that of Dell?s current $23.81 billion. ? 12X: On January 27, 2011, Apple rose $0.26, or 0.08%, to $344.11 to hit a market value of $317.02 billion or more than 12 times that of Dell?s current $26.02 billion. ? 13X: On August 26, 2011, Apple rose $9.86, or 2.64%, to $383.58 to hit a market value of $355.61 billion or more than 13 times that of Dell?s current $27.29 billion. ? 14X: Today, Apple rose $1.82, or 0.44%, to 413.45 to hit a market value of $383.31 billion or more than 14 times that of Dell?s current $27.15 billion. Apple is also a debt-free company and currently has significantly more cash and short-term investments on-hand ($76 billion) than Dell Inc. is worth (as of today, likely three times as much ($81.45 billion), in fact). In fact, Apple is now the world?s most valuable publicly-traded company (something Dell has never achieved and never will). Hello, Mikey? Miiiiikeeeeey? Got any snappy retorts today? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://davesevick.com/pipermail/npmug/attachments/20110920/b265c2a3/attachment.htm From kim at equiparts.net Wed Sep 21 04:12:14 2011 From: kim at equiparts.net (kim at equiparts.net) Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2011 03:12:14 -0700 Subject: [NPMUG] Apple finds a use for some of those first-generation iPads Message-ID: <20110921031214.e9d20cb91725f78d3b7c16d68a8d04c0.a10155ba0f.wbe@email16.secureserver.net> An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: http://davesevick.com/pipermail/npmug/attachments/20110922/917a24b5/attachment-0001.htm From robertadonaldson at gmail.com Tue Sep 27 19:22:56 2011 From: robertadonaldson at gmail.com (robertadonaldson) Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2011 21:22:56 -0400 Subject: [NPMUG] Goodwill CRC update, Friday, September 23, 2011 Message-ID: <2002C172-39C7-456C-80BC-B001EDD87CFA@gmail.com> Dear Mac friends: Many thanks to Charlie Hutchens, John Hamill, Marty Swartz, and Dave Sevick for joining me last Friday for our weekly workday at our Goodwill Computer Recycling Center "annex." I'm sorry for the late post. My personal life has been busy since our workday. It was a very productive week. Even though the time per Mac has increased, the success rate is very high. We refurbished an even dozen Macs to bring our all time total to 3,073. We de-manufactured just three others. We have at least 30 Macs awaiting our attention, so we'll be happy, busy folks for the time being. Goodwill has opened a new ComputerWorks store at their new campus on 51st St. in Pittsburgh's Lawrenceville neighborhood. They have much more room than their previous computer retail operations. It's in the rear of the Goodwill retail store in a building with Klingensmith Health Care and a police uniform shop. If you cross the railroad tracks, you've gone too far. Goodwill will maintain the current location of the ComputerWorks store in the rear of their retail store at 2700 East Carson St. on Pittsburgh's South Side. We sent several top-of-the-line 1.42 ghz G4 eMacs with lots of RAM and big hard drives to the 2700 East Carson St. ComputerWorks retail outlet, along with a G5 Tower. We'll have another workday on Friday, September 230We hope to see you there! Robert A. Donaldson radonaldson at mac.com (H) 412-922-3303 (M) 412-477-9188 From robertadonaldson at gmail.com Fri Sep 30 18:40:02 2011 From: robertadonaldson at gmail.com (robertadonaldson) Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2011 20:40:02 -0400 Subject: [NPMUG] Goodwill CRC update, Friday, September 30, 2011 Message-ID: Dear Mac friends: Many thanks to Charlie Hutchens, Rich Fitzgibbon, John Hamill, Marty Swartz, Terry Golightly, Bruce Wells and Dave Sevick for joining me today for our weekly workday at our Goodwill Computer Recycling Center "annex." Today was another lesson in time flies when you're having fun. Lots of folks, lots of laughs, lots of Macs flying off the benches. One way or another... :-) And Charlie brought is freshly-roasted chestnuts, beating most retail stores to the Christmas season. We were so caught up in the moment, we almost forgot about lunch. And we did forget to make faces at Dave while he was on a video Chat with a client. How's that for busy? We refurbished 22 Macs today, the highest weekly number in some time. Our all time total is now 3,095. We de-manufactured seven others. More Macs wait, so we'll be busy again next Friday. 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 7. 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 Sep 30 18:54:33 2011 From: dave at davesevick.com (Dave Sevick) Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2011 20:54:33 -0400 Subject: [NPMUG] Facebook and Apple ? Message-ID: http://macdailynews.com/2011/09/30/how-facebook-snubbed-hp-touchpad-to-court-apple-facebook-for-ipad-app-finally-coming-oct-4th/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+wordpress%2FxhfA+%28MacDailyNews%29 How Facebook snubbed HP TouchPad to court Apple; Facebook for iPad app finally coming Oct. 4th ?Tech titans Facebook and Apple have a contentious relationship that is frequently put to the test. But a Facebook for TouchPad application was very nearly the last straw,? Jennifer Van Grove reports for Mashable, citing ?multiple sources.? ?Facebook and Apple, united by a common interest in beating Google, will finally put their differences aside to launch the long-overdue Facebook for iPad app Tuesday. We also expect announcements on a new Facebook for iPhone application, a Facebook HTML5 mobile app platform, and perhaps even Facebook integration in iOS 5,? Van Grove reports. ?This all marks a significant leap forward in the sometimes hostile Facebook and Apple relationship.? Van Grove reports, ?Roughly three months ago, Steve Jobs ? then the Apple CEO ? paid a visit to Facebook to discuss a Facebook for iPad application with CEO Mark Zuckerberg? When Jobs learned of the webOS Facebook app during his summer visit to Facebook, he was livid. Zuckerberg vowed to get the app pulled. But Jon Rubinstein, the former CEO of Palm and then the GM of HP?s webOS division, refused to halt the release of the app. Facebook responded by restricting HP?s access to its APIs. Facebook was made aware of the application and device integrations. The company knew what was coming, changed its tune right before release ? and only did so to appease Apple.? 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