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Steve Jobs videos compiled into ultimate collection

Sat, 18 Feb 2012 05:43:45 -0800

Steve Jobs videos compiled into ultimate collection

via 9to5Mac by Jordan Kahn on 2/15/12

As pointed out by @nickbilton of The New York Times on Twitter, a pretty extensive collection of Steve Jobs’ interviews, keynotes, product demos, and rare company video was compiled by Scott Hurf on the video sharing website Chill. Head over to the site now to check out the full collection.

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Apple Teaches You How To Make Your First App Store App With New Guide

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 21:15:32 -0800

Apple Teaches You How To Make Your First App Store App With New Guide

via Cult of Mac by Alex Heath on 2/17/12

Are you interested in making iPhone and iPad apps for the App Store? If you’d like to get your feet wet, or at least see what’s involved, Apple has posted a new walkthrough called “Start Developing iOS Apps Today.”

The simple guide takes you through the initial setup and teaches you about basic tools, frameworks, Apple’s design policies, and more. The goal is that you will be able to create an app from scratch and have it ready to debut in the App Store.

While not the most technical explanation of iOS development, Apple has done a great job of consolidating information into one easy destination for curious eyes. Here’s the official rundown:

Creating iOS apps is fun and rewarding, and if you’re a new developer you might be wondering where to begin. This road map provides the perfect starting point for iOS app development. On your Mac computer, you can create iOS apps that run on iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch. Follow this road map to learn where to get the tools you need, understand the major concepts and best practices, and see where to find more information.

As you proceed through the road map, you will use Xcode and the iOS SDK, Apple’s tools for app development. You will learn the basics of programming with Objective-C, the language that powers all iOS apps and frameworks, and will explore the Cocoa Touch frameworks. You will create a simple iOS app and learn how to test it on a device. Finally, you will learn how to submit an app to the App Store.

The document is broken up into 13 pages. There’s only a couple paragraphs and illustrations per section, but Apple has included helpful links to more detailed resources from the iOS Developer Library, like how to write Objective-C code.

Anyone can access Apple’s new guide from this link. To actually publish an app in the App Store, you must purchase an official developer account from Apple for $99/year.

(via The Next Web)
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A visualization of Apple’s market cap and cash [infographic]

Sat, 11 Feb 2012 18:15:04 -0800

A visualization of Apple’s market cap and cash [infographic]

via BGR: The Three Biggest Letters In Tech by Zach Epstein on 1/31/12

Apple reported a monster first quarter last Tuesday that sent the company’s stock skyrocketing over the past week. Apple’s holiday quarter was the most profitable quarter ever reported by a technology company, and the second most profitable quarter reported by any U.S. firm. With a market capitalization that now sits in excess of $420 billion, Apple is currently the most valuable company in the world, and with more than $97.6 billion in cash and cash equivalents at the end of calendar 2011, Apple has amassed an unbelievable war chest that is unrivaled among its competitors. Business blog MBA Online recently put together an infographic to help us visualize just how big Apple has grown since it teetered on the brink of bankruptcy in the late 90s. Among the graphic’s bullet points are the facts that Apple’s year-end cash pile is enough to buy an iPad for each and every person living in Canada and Greece combined, and it’s also enough to pay off the entire public debt of eight countries within the European Union. The site’s full infographic follows below.

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A visualization of Apple’s market cap and cash [infographic]

Sat, 11 Feb 2012 18:04:28 -0800

A visualization of Apple’s market cap and cash [infographic]

via BGR: The Three Biggest Letters In Tech by Zach Epstein on 1/31/12

Apple reported a monster first quarter last Tuesday that sent the company’s stock skyrocketing over the past week. Apple’s holiday quarter was the most profitable quarter ever reported by a technology company, and the second most profitable quarter reported by any U.S. firm. With a market capitalization that now sits in excess of $420 billion, Apple is currently the most valuable company in the world, and with more than $97.6 billion in cash and cash equivalents at the end of calendar 2011, Apple has amassed an unbelievable war chest that is unrivaled among its competitors. Business blog MBA Online recently put together an infographic to help us visualize just how big Apple has grown since it teetered on the brink of bankruptcy in the late 90s. Among the graphic’s bullet points are the facts that Apple’s year-end cash pile is enough to buy an iPad for each and every person living in Canada and Greece combined, and it’s also enough to pay off the entire public debt of eight countries within the European Union. The site’s full infographic follows below.

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First White House Chief Technology Officer, Aneesh Chopra, steps down

Sun, 29 Jan 2012 19:06:46 -0800

First White House Chief Technology Officer, Aneesh Chopra, steps down

via Engadget by Donald Melanson on 1/27/12

He was appointed with a fair bit of fanfare as the United States' first Chief Technology Officer back in May of 2009, but it looks like Aneesh Chopra has decided that it's now time to make room for the nation's second CTO. The White House confirmed today that Chopra is stepping down from his position, noting that he has amassed a "dizzying array of accomplishments." Among those are his contributions to the Obama administration's national wireless strategy, a set of internet policy making principals, and a number of efforts related to the President's open government strategy, including the Data.gov platform. No word on his successor just yet, nor is there any official word on what Chopra plans to do next -- although The Washington Post reports that he's expected to run for lieutenant governor of Virginia.
First White House Chief Technology Officer, Aneesh Chopra, steps down originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:42:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Making Hidden Folders In OS X [Video How-To]

Wed, 04 Jan 2012 06:13:21 -0800

Making Hidden Folders In OS X [Video How-To]

via Cult of Mac by Michael Steeber on 1/3/12

Making hidden folders in Mac OS X isn’t an easily accessible command for the average user. Unlike most parts of Mac OS X, it’s not just one or two clicks away. In this video, I’ll show you how can make hidden folders to keep unwanted visitors out of your files.

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Adam Lashinsky’s look ‘Inside Apple’ will be released on Jan. 25

Tue, 03 Jan 2012 07:23:14 -0800

Adam Lashinsky’s look ‘Inside Apple’ will be released on Jan. 25

via 9to5Mac by Seth Weintraub on 1/3/12

Fortune Editor-at-Large Adam Lashinsky spent the last few years digging deep inside Apple looking for what makes Apple, Inc., tick. Fortune ran a bit earlier this year in a cover story called How Apple works: Inside the world’s biggest startup, and it holds up as a fascinating read. The full version of the book, Inside Apple, which is tabulated at 240-to-272 pages, hits stores Jan. 25. It is currently priced at $16.92 for the hardcover, or $12.99 for the Kindle version and $17.92 for the Audio version.

INSIDE APPLE reveals the secret systems, tactics and leadership strategies that allowed Steve Jobs and his company to churn out hit after hit and inspire a cult-like following for its products.If Apple is Silicon Valley’s answer to Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory, then author Adam Lashinsky provides readers with a golden ticket to step inside. In this primer on leadership and innovation, the author will introduce readers to concepts like the “DRI” (Apple’s practice of assigning a Directly Responsible Individual to every task) and the Top 100 (an annual ritual in which 100 up-and-coming executives are tapped a la Skull & Bones for a secret retreat with company founder Steve Jobs).
Based on numerous interviews, the book offers exclusive new information about how Apple innovates, deals with its suppliers and is handling the transition into the Post Jobs Era. Lashinsky, a Senior Editor at Large for Fortune, knows the subject cold: In a 2008 cover story for the magazine entitled The Genius Behind Steve: Could Operations Whiz Tim Cook Run The Company Someday he predicted that Tim Cook, then an unknown, would eventually succeed Steve Jobs as CEO.

While Inside Apple is ostensibly a deep dive into one, unique company (and its ecosystem of suppliers, investors, employees and competitors), the lessons about Jobs, leadership, product design and marketing are universal. They should appeal to anyone hoping to bring some of that Apple magic to their own company, career, or creative endeavor.

Lashinsky also interviewed Walter Isaacson last week which turned into an interesting conversation. The two authors, who were both deep diving into Apple, shared notes —so to speak. One subject we are looking forward to learning more about is Apple University. Lashinsky originally laid it out like this:

For years Steve Jobs was uninterested in the human resources department at Apple. Then, three years ago, just before his second medical leave, he hired Joel Podolny, dean of the Yale School of Management, to head something called Apple University. Podolny had been a widely quoted management guru. Yet when he joined Apple, typically, he vanished from sight. No one even seemed to notice when he was named vice president of human resources a couple of years later.

It turns out that Podolny has been busy working on a project that speaks directly to the delicate topic of life at Apple after Jobs. At Jobs’ instruction, Podolny hired a team of business professors, including the renowned Harvard veteran and Andy Grove biographer Richard Tedlow. This band of eggheads is writing a series of internal case studies about significant decisions in Apple’s recent history. It’s exactly the sort of thing the major business schools do, except Apple’s case studies are for an Apple-only audience. Top executives, including Tim Cook and Ron Johnson, teach the cases, which have covered subjects including the decision to consolidate iPhone manufacturing around a single factory in China and the establishment of Apple’s stores. The goal is to expose the next layer of management to the executive team’s thought process.

We are looking into getting a sneak peak and will update when we have more information.

Fortune releases ‘All about Steve’ (9to5mac.com)

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Podcast Using Built-In Tools On Your Mac [OS X Tips]

Mon, 02 Jan 2012 15:11:51 -0800

Podcast Using Built-In Tools On Your Mac [OS X Tips]

via Cult of Mac by Keir Thomas on 1/2/12

Is your New Years’ Resolution to start video or audio podcasting? Mac OS X Lion includes all the tools you need to produce professional results. Here’s how.

Here’s another tip from the new book Mac Kung Fu, which contains over 300 tips, tricks, hints and hacks for OS X. It’s available from Amazon and also as an eBook for all eReaders.

OS X Lion includes Podcast Publisher, a versatile and user-friendly podcasting app that helps you create both video and audio podcasts (all consumer-level Macs over the last five years have included high-quality cameras and microphones, so you already have all the hardware you need).

You’ll find Podcast Publisher in the Utilities folder within the Applications view of Finder, and using it is very simple.

Once the app starts, click the down arrow alongside the New Movie Episode button at the bottom left if you want to create an audio podcast (video is selected by default so you don’t need to make a selection), then:

If creating an audio podcast, say a few words to check the audio level (watch the meter at the bottom of the window). If it’s OK, hit the Record button at the bottom of the window and, after the countdown has completed, speak your podcast! When done, click the Record button again to end the recording.

If creating a video podcast, click the Add a New Episode sticky on the virtual corkboard to start the creative process. Once you’re happy with the video framing and audio levels (watch the audio meter at the bottom of the window), click the Record button to create and once the countdown has completed, begin speaking/performing. Once you’re done, click the Record button again to stop the recording.

To alter the audio levels, open System Preferences (Apple menu -> System Preferences), click the Sound icon, then ensure the Input tab is selected. Click and drag the Input Volume slider.

You can record audio or video podcasts

After making an audio or video podcast, you’ll be invited to trim the recording (in the same way as described in an earlier tip here at Cult of Mac). Trimming can be useful for deleting those few seconds at the beginning and end of the podcast when you’re unprepared and still looking at the screen, for example, rather than the camera. Type a name for the podcast at the top of the program window, overwriting the default name.

Click the Share button to automatically add the podcast to iTunes, save it to your desktop for manual uploading to your server, or attach it to an email. You can also upload the podcast to an OS X Server computer running Podcast Producer or Remote Workflow servers, although this will first need to be set up using the Podcast Capture app (also within the Utilities folder of the Applications list in Finder).
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Make An Apple Keyboard Work Correctly With A Windows PC Using This Free App

Mon, 02 Jan 2012 15:09:56 -0800

Make An Apple Keyboard Work Correctly With A Windows PC Using This Free App

via Cult of Mac by John Brownlee on 1/2/12

Do you just like using a well-designed Apple keyboard with your work PC? If so, you know that there are inevitably some drawbacks to using Apple’s own QWERTYUIOP bar with Windows, mainly in the fact that many keys — such a print screen, volume control, eject and more — don’t work outside of OS X.

As is often the case, if you want to use your Apple keyboard as Steve intended within the Windows environment, there’s an app for that. It’s called Apple Keyboard Helper, and it’s a free download. Here’s what it does.

Simply download the app from the official website and install it on your Windows machine. Once you have done so, the following keys will work as they are meant to:

F3: Print Screen
F4: Task Manager
F7-F9: iTunes control
F10-F12: System volume Control
Eject button toggles Fkeys/Functions.
Fn + F key triggers function
Fn + Backspace = Delete
Fn+ Eject: Eject CD
And more!

Of course, your other option is to get yourself a Mac and run Boot Camp: the Apple keyboard in Boot Camp works just fine. Still, for those stuck on a Windows PC for whatever reason, this is a fine solution.

[via Lifehacker]
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More Libraries and Museums Set to Become Hands-On Learning Labs

Thu, 24 Nov 2011 22:51:10 -0800

More Libraries and Museums Set to Become Hands-On Learning Labs

via Hack Education by Audrey Watters on 11/23/11

Earlier this month, we covered the Fayetteville Free Library‘s new Fab Lab, the public library’s plans to build a “makerspace” where library patrons could gain hands-on experience using 3D printers and other tools and could take programming and “shop” classes.

It’s part of a larger movement to rethink and re-imagine what a public library will look like and what functions it will serve. While many people do see libraries solely as book repositories, it’s clear that the library is much more than that. For many, it’s an important community center and a place that offers access to digital tools and media.

A new competition sponsored by the Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS) and theJohn D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation has just announced 12 winning libraries and museums that will receive $1.2 million in grant money help push the boundaries of what theseinstitutions look like, specifically helping to create facilities that are better “learning labs” for teens.

Read the rest of the story on MindShift

Photo credits: Flickr user tedeytan

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Watch Steve Jobs Brainstorm With His Team At NeXT In This Fascinating Docume...

Mon, 21 Nov 2011 19:26:09 -0800

Watch Steve Jobs Brainstorm With His Team At NeXT In This Fascinating Documentary [Video]

via Cult of Mac by Killian Bell on 11/21/11

Walter Isaacson’s terrific Steve Jobs biography offers a magnificent insight into how Steve created Apple, and the work he did behind the scenes. However, it doesn’t talk all that much about NeXT — another computer company Steve founded during his spell away from Apple in the mid-eighties.

These fascinating clips from a series called Entrepreneurs do, however. They show Steve as many of us have never seen him before — discussing new ideas with his team, brainstorming on company retreats, and leading NeXT to create something awesome.

Check out more of the documentary after the break.

You may notice that in the first clip above, one of Steve’s staff stands up to him at around the 10:30 mark. This is Joanna Hoffman, according to commenter Sho_hn on Hacker News, who was part of the original Macintosh team and had a reputation for standing up to Steve.

[via The Next Web]
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Steve Jobs' Secret Private Life - ABC News

Thu, 17 Nov 2011 13:00:32 -0800

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/steve-jobs-secret-private-life/story?id=14678496#.TsV0B4JmI9I

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Steve Jobs Secret Meeting to Explore an iPod Phone is Revealing (Jack Purche...

Thu, 17 Nov 2011 12:00:14 -0800

Steve Jobs Secret Meeting to Explore an iPod Phone is Revealing (Jack Purcher/Patently Apple)

via Techmeme on 11/16/11

Jack Purcher / Patently Apple:
Steve Jobs Secret Meeting to Explore an iPod Phone is Revealing — In our special report today we present you with a fascinating account of one of Steve Jobs' secret meeting that involved creating the iPhone and how the iPod Phone almost came to be. It was much closer to reality than any us could have ever imagined at the time.

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The making of the Xbox: How Microsoft unleashed a video game revolution (par...

Mon, 14 Nov 2011 20:49:39 -0800

The making of the Xbox: How Microsoft unleashed a video game revolution (part 1) (Dean Takahashi/VentureBeat)

via Techmeme on 11/14/11

Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
The making of the Xbox: How Microsoft unleashed a video game revolution (part 1) — Editor's note: This story is the first of two articles on the 10th anniversary of the launch of Microsoft's Xbox video game console, which debuted Nov. 15, 2001. The narrative is based on recent interviews …

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Microsoft unveils amazing new vision of the future video

Mon, 14 Nov 2011 17:44:35 -0800

Microsoft unveils amazing new vision of the future video

via WinRumors by Tom Warren on 10/27/11

Microsoft has created a follow-up to its “Office 2019″ video and the latest concept of the future provides some amazing insights into how technology will impact our lives in the future.

The latest video builds on Microsoft’s previous concepts of touch based computing anywhere and everywhere. The video opens with a business woman visiting Johannesburg and having the audio around her translated in real time thanks to some futuristic glasses. Other scenes in the video feature highly personalised experiences and touch computing on every surface. Microsoft previously created an “Office 2019” video which also features the same opaque smartphones and touch walls.

Microsoft’s future vision is designed to show what the world might look like in the next five to 10 years. GeekWire’s Todd Bishop managed to speak to the videos creators at Microsoft in a recent interview. “We see an expanded definition of productivity where it’s not just about getting things done,” said David Jones, Microsoft’s director of envisioning. “It’s also about doing the right things, and doing them well and enjoying the process with other people in a very natural way.”

Microsoft believes that most of the technology in the video exists in some form or another today. “All of the ideas in the video are based on real technology,” explains Microsoft’s Office chief, Kurt DelBene, in a blog post on Thursday. “Some of the capabilities, such as speech recognition, real time collaboration and data visualization already exist today. Others are not yet available in specific products, but represent active research and development happening at Microsoft and other companies.”

Check out the video below and let us know in the comments what you think the future of computing will be in the next five years.

Microsoft unveils amazing new vision of the future video originally appeared at WinRumors.com.

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Video of 75-Minute 1995 Interview with Steve Jobs [Mac Blog]

Fri, 04 Nov 2011 12:27:16 -0700

Video of 75-Minute 1995 Interview with Steve Jobs [Mac Blog]

via MacRumors: Mac News and Rumors - All Stories by Eric Slivka on 11/2/11

Last month, following the death of Steve Jobs, Computerworld published a transcript of a lengthy 1995 interview with Steve Jobs conducted as part of an oral history program for the Computerworld Information Technology Awards Foundation.
The complete, unabridged video of that 75-minute interview has now been posted, offering an interesting look at Jobs before his return to Apple.

In the interview, Jobs touches on his childhood, education, and the future of the Internet, while also sharing thoughts on his time with Apple, NeXT, and Pixar. The interview also includes an interesting take on death being the "greatest invention of life", a theme Jobs addressed in discussing the nature of start-up companies challenging the status quo to innovate and push technology further.
I've always felt that death is the greatest invention of life. I'm sure that life evolved without death at first and found that without death, life didn't work very well because it didn't make room for the young. It didn't know how the world was fifty years ago. It didn't know how the world was twenty years ago. It saw it as it is today, without any preconceptions, and dreamed how it could be based on that. We're not satisfied based on the accomplishment of the last thirty years. We're dissatisfied because the current state didn't live up to their ideals. Without death there would be very little progress.
Jobs would of course revisit that theme ten years later in his 2005 commencement address at Stanford University, but that time from a more personal perspective following his cancer diagnosis.

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'Codify' Brings Touch Based Programming to iPad

Fri, 28 Oct 2011 19:54:34 -0700

'Codify' Brings Touch Based Programming to iPad

via MacRumors: Mac News and Rumors - All Stories by Arnold Kim on 10/26/11

iOS developers TwoLivesLeft have just released an interesting new app called Codify, which brings touch based programming to the iPad.
The app allows users to create their own programs using the Lua programming language by typing code directly on your iPad. Also included are various assets and programming examples to be used in your creations:

Apps such as Codify are now possible since Apple relaxed their App Store rules that originally prohibited interpreted code in iOS apps. Apple now does allow for interpreted code to be run in-app, but still prohibits the download of such code. As noted by TouchArcade, this means that anything you create in Codify can't be exported (or imported).
I've heard more than a few developers attempting to create similar tools for the iPad, but all of them have hit various roadblocks in the Apple approval process because they all (in one way or another) allowed you to get code and assets onto the device and execute it. Codify sidesteps this by coming with a wide variety of assets, but unfortunately all of your creations will be trapped on your own device.
The developer has already submitted an update that allows sharing, but the developer isn't certain if Apple will allow it.
Due to the limited nature of the environment, the tool is mostly useful for experimentation and prototyping, as you won't be able to send your creations to anyone else. Still, it's an interesting idea and pushes the iPad into more content creation areas.
Codify is iPad only and is $7.99 in the App Store.

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Steve Jobs vowed to “destroy” Android

Sun, 23 Oct 2011 11:12:50 -0700

Look who is talking for a company which has not invented anything.

Steve Jobs vowed to “destroy” Android

via GigaOM by Erica Ogg on 10/21/11

Apple has a lot of cash in the bank, and now we know that former CEO Steve Jobs had at least one grand plan for what to do with it: Destroy Android. In his upcoming biography, titled Steve Jobs, to be released on Monday, biographer Walter Isaacson shows that Jobs was apoplectic over Android’s strong resemblance to iOS and was willing to go to great lengths to remedy what he called “grand theft.”

Here’s what Jobs told his biographer, according to an early copy obtained by the Associated Press:

Isaacson wrote that Jobs was livid in January 2010 when HTC introduced an Android phone that boasted many of the popular features of the iPhone. Apple sued, and Jobs told Isaacson in an expletive-laced rant that Google’s actions amounted to “grand theft.”

“I will spend my last dying breath if I need to, and I will spend every penny of Apple’s $40 billion in the bank, to right this wrong,” Jobs said. “I’m going to destroy Android, because it’s a stolen product. I’m willing to go thermonuclear war on this.”

The excerpts we’ve seen of the biography so far are fascinating for many reasons but especially because they break through the carefully phrased statements Apple tends to use whenever making public pronouncements. Compare Jobs’ candor above with an example from this week’s earnings call. Regarding the ongoing mobile patent disputes, CEO Tim Cook put it this way: “We spend a lot of time and money and resource coming up with incredible innovation, and we don’t like it when someone else takes those. And unfortunately that’s why we’ve been pushed in to the court system to remedy that.”

That’s a bit milder than Jobs’ proposed scorched-earth tactics. It is interesting, though, that Apple never sued Google directly and instead has chosen to target other handset makers that use Android, apparently to chip away at Google’s influence in mobile from the outside.

Looking back, the signs of Jobs’ intent to destroy have been there. Apple has not backed down or granted broad licenses to any of the companies it has sued recently over its mobile patents. Patents blogger Florian Mueller at FOSS Patents reminded us on Friday that earlier this week Apple made it clear in its ongoing and acrimonious court battle with Samsung over the Galaxy Tab 10.1 in Australia that there would be no broad licensing deal offered to settle the dispute once and for all.

In court documents Apple said it could potentially license Samsung “some lower level patents,” but Samsung would still have to “cease copying the features and functionality of Apple Inc’s products, and the iPad in particular.” In other words, Apple’s not giving in to make a couple of bucks, the way Microsoft did, and there will be no tacit approval of the patent infringement in exchange for licensing any of the higher-level patents Apple holds.

And this is Samsung we’re talking about, one of Apple’s most important suppliers for the iPhone and iPad, its two most important products. That’s a pretty good indication of what’s in store for the targets of Apple’s other mobile patent lawsuits, which include HTC, Motorola and others.

As Jobs reportedly told Eric Schmidt at the time: ”I don’t want your money. If you offer me $5 billion, I won’t want it. I’ve got plenty of money. I want you to stop using our ideas in Android, that’s all I want.”

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We’ve got the internal docs that Apple employees use to explain iCloud and i...

Tue, 11 Oct 2011 04:51:55 -0700

We’ve got the internal docs that Apple employees use to explain iCloud and iOS 5

via 9to5Mac by Seth Weintraub on 10/10/11

Last week, we detailed the internal docs Apple uses to tell its employees how to sell the iPhone 4S, the new iPods and the new Cards app. Today a tipster added to the trove two more internal docs. iCloud and iOS 5 First looks. These are the cheat sheets that Apple employees use to sell customers these products. Both below:

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iFixit Offers Kit To Install 2nd Hard Drive in 2011 Mac Mini

Sun, 21 Aug 2011 15:25:27 -0700

iFixit Offers Kit To Install 2nd Hard Drive in 2011 Mac Mini

via MacRumors: Mac News and Rumors - All Stories by Jordan Golson on 8/12/11

During its teardown of the 2011 Mac Mini's released last month, iFixit discovered plenty of room inside to install a second hard drive. One of our readers discovered the proper process to install a second hard drive in his Mini, but now it's even easier.
iFixit has released the Mac Mini Dual Hard Drive Kit for $69.95 that includes all the necessary components to install a second hard drive in a 2011 Mac Mini.

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