How Mac OS X changed Apple

How Mac OS X changed Apples world in Ten years

Ten years ago today and Apples [AAPL] first full public version of Mac OS X went on sale worldwide to a gleeful reception as thousands of Mac users attended special events at their local computer shops all across the planet. I was at one such event in Central London. What we didnt know then was that Apple was preparing to open up its own chain of retail outlets, nor had we heard Steve Jobs use the phrase, iPod. Windows was still a competitor, and Google was still a search engine. These were halcyon days, when being a Mac user meant belonging to the second team.

When Apple had goodwill

Way back in 2001, the UK event saw journalists from across the tech press attend retailer, Micro Anvika. Over 400 people turned up late at night to see some of Apple UKs top dogs put Apples new pussycat through its paces (Forgive the clumsy proximity of these analogies).

Mac OS X is the most important software from Apple since the original Macintosh operating system in 1984 that revolutionized the entire industry, said Apple CEO Steve Jobs in a statement released at that time. We cant wait for Mac users around the globe to experience its stability, power and elegance.

There was a lot of excitement. Dont forget that Mac users had been loyally hanging onto a platform in crisis. We needed a new OS to help stave off falling market share; wed seen Jobs abandon the licensing arrangement for Mac clones and wed been through the painful Performa period.

Life had been tough, until very recently when things began to change, with the arrival of the iMac, the iBook, and the PowerMac G3.

Steves NeXT step

Despite the success of those machines, we all knew Mac OS needed to change for the new Century. In recent years wed been avidly reading and researching Apples own attempt to develop a new OS (Copland); wed followed the companys brief flirtation with Jean-Louis Gasses BeOS OS and the eventual Hosannah moment as Steve Jobs rode back into town on the back of his little futuristic NeXT-based analogous donkey. Stretching the analogy a little, Jobs was even accompanied by his very own band of disciples, including familiar names such as: Nancy Heinen, Jon Rubinstein, Bertrand Serlet, Avie Tevanian, Jean Marie Hullot and many others.

What was special about NeXT? It certainly wasnt its commercial success, though it had some, but its pioneering work trail-blazed the whole notion of object-oriented programming and graphical user interfaces. Apple even made an attempt to create its own object-oriented OS with the Taligent project, which began in 1989. And failed.

Now NeXT was at Apple, work really began. Perhaps someone somewhere has a copy of the Apple turnaround road map. But even at this stage Jobs had decided the company would move to implement the NeXT OS, would develop a retail presence with a series of highly stylized stores (the NeXT offices were also fabulously arty), would introduce new concepts in computer design.and would eventually run on Intel processors.

The NeXT OS was ported to both PowerPC and Intel processors in Apples labs under the code name Rhapsody. There were a bunch of development tools (Cocoa) while Apple also built an environment called Blue Box (Carbon, now defunct) which delivered backwards compatibility to the OS, allowing older applications to run.

Better than all the rest

This was a very important event. Apple now held an advanced OS everyone including Microsoft had tried and failed to emulate; it also meant Apple had a future ten-year plan, and a product to market strategy that should ensure that, at least at first, no Mac user need be left behind.

It is worth noting Apples execution in all of this. Take for example the move to field a succession of well-received iMac and iBook computers in advance of the OS X release. This was incredibly smart because it both built the companys profile while also ensuring that when the OS launched there was an existing ecosystem of technologically-compatible Macs which could run the OS, immediately boosting adoption.

And oh, what an adoption rate we saw. On my way to the London launch party back in 2001 I came across an Italian Mac user banging on the door of a Micro Anvika branch. I need it! Let me in! I have to have it! he yelled as he hammered at his magic portal. I gently sympathized with him and pointed out that the Micro Anvika branch he needed to visit was ten minutes walk up the Tottenham Court Road.

The lost but Mac-passionate Italian reflected everyones excitement. Fabio De Rosa, a freelance graphic designer, said: I had to be here. Its an historic moment. I eat, breathe and sleep Mac.

A historic moment

Inside the shop a rapt audience of Mac users, developers, retailers and Apple staff stood to attention as Apple UKs popular and charming MD, Mark Rogers, modestly delivered a presentation which showed us what the OS could do.

The early release was quickly condemned for being a public beta, we all understood that change had to come, and it was exciting to be part of it. The need to add features including DVD playback and CD burning as well as ironing out a few wrinkles (cough: kernel panic, anyone?) meant Apple didnt begin shipping OS X as the default OS on all Macs until the release ofMac OS X 10.1, Puma.

March 24, 2001 was still a good start. Simon Smith, Micro Anvikas Macintosh manager, told me: I think OS Xs features are great, its very easy to use. It will be excellent for first-time buyers, but has so much to offer to advanced users. Its the applications we are waiting for.

Apples then PR manager, David Millar, said: We expected a good turnout, and everyone Ive been talking to has been a professional designer, Web animator or programmer. We have an audience of professionals here.

Event attendance was excellent around 500 people showed-up that evening that may not sound like many people at all, in these days of retail store queues for every Apple launch, but this was thepre-iPod world, people. Things really were different then. Sales of the OS were to coin a phrase insanely great. Similar events in other countries saw Mac fans produce OS X-shaped cakes. There was a real energy across the Cult of Mac.

Developers, developers

Fast forward just four months to July 2001, and Apples VP Worldwide Developer Relations, Ron Okamoto, said: In a short amount of time we have seen incredible growth in our developer community and the number of Mac OS X applications now tops 1,000. Every major Mac software company sees a huge opportunity and is bringing applications to Mac OS X, while new developers are helping broaden the applications available to Mac users around the world.

Today and we see each successive release of OS X causing Apples Mac audience to grow, not shrink. When Apple stormed into Sonys world with the introduction of the iPod a few months later in October 2001, Apples fortunes really began to transform.

The PowerPC problem

Apples OS couldnt hide some legacy disadvantages. The new operating system was more advanced than anything anyone else had to offer, (bar perhaps some breeds of Linux at the time), but it still ran on slow, under-powered Power PC machines.

Despite all the claims to the contrary, Apples sales seriously suffered on the conception that PowerPC computers were slower and less capable than their Intel competition. Things had to change and, as was planned from the beginning, on June 6, 2005, they did. Thats when Apple announced a move to Intel processors, a transition it completed by August 2006.

The later move to introduce an iPhone in 2007 (though an earlier attempt to make a 2005 launch of an Apple mobile device was shelved at the eleventh hour) consolidated the position. It also meant Apple now offered a version of a NeXT-based operating system for both Macs and mobile devices.

Whats coming next?

From the OS to the platform to the eventual widening of the platform to include both mobile and desktop products, the recent ten-year history of Apple is inexorably linked to the OS it turned to after the nineties doldrums almost destroyed the Cupertino firm.

Were looking at the eighth significant OS X release in the next few months, Lion, which should offer some elements of unification between the iOS and OS X. Theres still some bugs to iron out though, particularly the problem with ACLs (Access Control Lists) inside the Finder. Hopefully departing ex-NeXT Mac OS chief, Bertrand Serlet, will be able to fix this before he leaves.

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Mac OS X - Business

history br main article history of x br x is based upon the mach kernel certain parts from freebsd s and netbsd s implementation of unix were incorporated in nextstep the core of x nextstep was the object oriented operating system developed by steve jobs company next after he left apple in 1985 while jobs was away from apple apple tried to create a next generation os through the taligent copland and gershwin projects with little success br eventually next s os then called openstep was selected to be the basis for apple s next os and apple purchased next outright steve jobs returned to apple as interim ceo and later became ceo shepherding the transformation of the programmer friendly openstep into a system that would be adopted by apple s primary market of home users and creative professionals the project was first known as rhapsody and was later renamed to x br x server 1 x was incompatible with software designed for the original and had no support for apple s own ieee 139 4 interface firewire x 10 x included more backward compatibility and functionality by including the carbon api as well as firewire support as the operating system evolved it moved away from the legacy to an emphasis on new digital lifestyle applications such as the ilife suite enhanced business applications iwork and integrated home entertainment the front row media center each version also included modifications to the general interface such as the brushed metal appearance added in version 10 3 the non pinstriped titlebar appearance in version 10 4 and in 10 5 the removal of the previous brushed metal styles in favor of the unified gradient window style br description br box artwork for x left to right cheetah puma 1 jaguar 2 panther 3 tiger 4 leopard 5 and snow leopard 6 br x is the tenth major version of apple s operating system for macintosh computers previous macintosh operating systems were named using arabic numerals e g 8 and 9 the letter x in x s name refers to the number 10 a roman numeral it is therefore correctly pronounced ten tn in this context though x ks is also a common pronunciation br x s core is a posix compliant operating system os built on top of the xnu kernel with standard unix facilities available from the command line interface apple released this family of software as a free and open source operating system named darwin but it later became partially proprietary on top of darwin apple layered a number of components including the aqua interface and the finder to complete the gui based operating system which is x br x introduced a number of new capabilities to provide a more stable and reliable platform than its predecessor 9 for example pre emptive multitasking and memory protection improved the system s ability to run multiple applications simultaneously without them interrupting or corrupting each other many aspects of x s architecture are derived from openstep which was designed to be portable to ease the transition from one platform to another for example nextstep was ported from the original 68k based next workstations to x86 and other architectures before next was purchased by apple and openstep was later ported to the powerpc architecture as part of the rhapsody project br the most visible change was the aqua theme the use of soft edges translucent colors and pinstripes similar to the hardware design of the first imacs brought more texture and color to the user interface when compared to what os 9 and os x server 1 0 s platinum appearance had offered according to john siracusa an editor of ars technica the introduction of aqua and its departure from the then conventional look hit like a ton of bricks however bruce tognazzini who founded the original apple human interface group said that the aqua interface in x v10 0 represented a step backwards in usability compared with the original interface despite the controversial new interface third party developers started producing skins for customizable applications for mac and other operating systems which mimicked the aqua appearance to some extent apple has used the successful transition to this new design as leverage at various times threatening legal action against people who make or distribute software with an interface the company claims is derived from its copyrighted design br x architecture implements a layered framework the layered framework aids rapid development of applications by providing existing code for common tasks br x includes its own software development tools most prominently an integrated development environment called xcode xcode provides interfaces to compilers that support several programming languages including c c objective c and java for the applentel transition it was modified so that developers could build their applications as a universal binary which provides compatibility with both the intel based and powerpc based macintosh lines br the darwin sub system in x is in charge of managing the filesystem which includes the unix permissions layer in 2003 and 2005 two macworld editors expressed criticism of the permission scheme ted landau called misconfigured permissions the most common frustration in x while rob griffiths suggested that some users may even have to reset permissions every day a process which can take up to 15 minutes more recently another macworld editor dan frakes called the procedure of repairing permissions vastly overused he argues that x typically handles permissions properly without user interference and resetting permissions should be tried only when problems emerge br as of 2009 x is the second most popular general purpose operating system in use for the internet after microsoft windows with a 4 5 market share according to statistics compiled by net applications in contrast it is the most successful unix like desktop operating system on the internet estimated at over 4 times the penetration of the free linux x is available in a variety of languages including english japanese french german spanish portuguese and italian br compatibility br software br the apis that x inherited from openstep are not backward compatible with earlier versions of these apis were created as the result of a 1993 collaboration between next computer and sun microsystems and are now referred to by apple as cocoa this heritage is highly visible for cocoa developers since the ns prefix is ubiquitous in the framework standing variously for nextstep or next sun the official openstep api published in september 1994 was the first to split the api between foundation and application kit and the first to use the ns prefix apple s rhapsody project would have required all new development to use these apis causing much outcry among existing mac developers all mac software that did not receive a complete rewrite to the new framework would run in the equivalent of the classic environment to permit a smooth transition from 9 to x the car bon application programming interface api was created applications written with carbon can be executed natively on both systems carbon was not included in the first product sold as mac os x mac os x server now known as mac os x server 1 x br mac os x used to support the java platform as a preferred software package in practice this means that applications written in java fit as neatly into the operating system as possible while still being cross platform compatible and that graphical user interfaces written in swing look almost exactly like native cocoa interfaces traditionally cocoa programs have been mostly written in objective c with java as an alternative however on july 11 2005 apple announced that features added to cocoa in mac os x versions later than 10 4 will not be added to the cocoa java programming interface br since mac os x is posix compliant many software packages written for the bsds or linux can be recompiled to run on it projects such as fink macports and p kgsrc provide pre compiled or pre formatted packages since version 10 3 mac os x has included x11 app apple s version of the x window system graphical interface for unix applications as an optional component during installation up to and including mac os x v10 4 tiger apple s implementation was based on the x11 licensed xfree86 4 3 and x11r6 6 all bundled versions of x11 feature a window manager which is similar to the mac os x look and feel and has fairly good integration with mac os x also using the native quartz rendering system earlier versions of mac os x in which x11 has not been bundled can also run x11 applications using xdarwin with the introduction of version 10 5 apple switched to the x org variant of x11 br hardware br for the early releases of mac os x the standard hardware platform supported was the full line of macintosh computers laptop desktop or server based on powerpc g3 g4 and g5 processors later versions discontinued support for some older hardware for e xample panther does not support beige g3s and tiger does not support systems that pre date apple s introduction of integrated firewire ports however the ports themselves are not a functional requirement mac os x v10 5 leopard introduced october 2007 has dropped support for all powerpc g3 processors and for powerpc g4 processors with clock rates below 867 160 mhz mac os x v10 6 snow leopard supports only macs with intel processors not powerpc br tools such as xpostfacto and patches applied to the installation disc have been developed by third parties to enable installation of newer versions of mac os x on systems not officially supported by apple this includes a number of pre g3 power macintosh systems that can be made to run up to and including mac os x 10 2 jaguar all g3 based macs which can run up to and including tiger and sub 867 160 mhz g4 macs can run leopard by removing the restriction from the installation dvd or entering a command in the mac s open firmware interfac e to tell the leopard installer that it has a clock rate of 867 160 mhz or greater except for features requiring specific hardware e g graphics acceleration dvd writing the operating system offers the same functionality on all supported hardware br powerpc versions of mac os x prior to leopard retain compatibility with older mac os applications by providing an emulation environment called classic which allows users to run mac os 9 as a process within mac os x so that most older applications run as they would under the older operating system classic is not supported on intel based macs or in mac os x v10 5 leopard although users still requiring classic applications on intel macs can use the sheepshaver emulator to run mac os 9 on top of leopard br applentel transition br main article applentel transition br in april 2002 eweek reported a rumor that apple had a version of mac os x code named marklar which ran on intel x86 processors the idea behind marklar was to keep mac os x running on an alternative platform should apple become dissatisfied with the progress of the powerpc platform these rumors subsided until late in may 2005 when various media outlets such as the wall street journal and cnet reported that apple would unveil marklar in the coming months br on june 6 2005 steve jobs confirmed these rumors when he announced in his keynote address at the annual apple worldwide developers conference that apple would be making the transition from powerpc to intel processors over the following two years and that mac os x would support both platforms during the transition jobs also confirmed rumors that apple has had versions of mac os x running on intel processors for most of its developmental life the last time that apple switched cpu familiesrom the motorola 68k cpu to the ibm motorola powerpcpple included a motorola 68k emulator in the new os that made almost all 68k software work automatically on the new hardware apple had supported the 68k emul ator for 11 years but stopped supporting it during the transition to intel cpus included in the new os for the intel based macs is rosetta a binary translation layer which enables software compiled for powerpc mac os x to run on intel mac os x machines however apple dropped support for classic mode on the new intel macs third party emulation software such as mini vmac basilisk ii and sheepshaver provides support for some early versions of mac os a new version of xcode and the underlying command line compilers support building universal binaries that will run on either architecture br software that is available only for powerpc is supported with rosetta though applications may have to be rewritten to run properly on the newer os x for intel apple encourages developers to produce universal binaries with support for both powerpc and x86 there is a performance penalty when powerpc binaries run on intel macs through rosetta moreover some powerpc software such as kernel extensions and system preferences plugins are not supported on intel macs some powerpc applications would not run on intel os x at all plugins for safari need to be compiled for the same platform as safari so when safari is running on intel it requires plug ins that have been compiled as intel only or universal binaries so powerpc only plug ins will not work while intel macs will be able to run powerpc x86 and universal binaries powerpc macs will support only universal and powerpc builds br support for the powerpc platform remains in mac os x version 10 5 such cross platform capability already existed in mac os x s lineage openstep was ported to many architectures including x86 and darwin included support for both powerpc and x86 although apple stated that mac os x would not run on intel based personal computers aside from its own a hacked

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How Mac OS X changed Apple

How Mac OS X changed Apples world in Ten years

Ten years ago today and Apples [AAPL] first full public version of Mac OS X went on sale worldwide to a gleeful reception as thousands of Mac users attended special events at their local computer shops all across the planet. I was at one such event in Central London. What we didnt know then was that Apple was preparing to open up its own chain of retail outlets, nor had we heard Steve Jobs use the phrase, iPod. Windows was still a competitor, and Google was still a search engine. These were halcyon days, when being a Mac user meant belonging to the second team.

When Apple had goodwill

Way back in 2001, the UK event saw journalists from across the tech press attend retailer, Micro Anvika. Over 400 people turned up late at night to see some of Apple UKs top dogs put Apples new pussycat through its paces (Forgive the clumsy proximity of these analogies).

Mac OS X is the most important software from Apple since the original Macintosh operating system in 1984 that revolutionized the entire industry, said Apple CEO Steve Jobs in a statement released at that time. We cant wait for Mac users around the globe to experience its stability, power and elegance.

There was a lot of excitement. Dont forget that Mac users had been loyally hanging onto a platform in crisis. We needed a new OS to help stave off falling market share; wed seen Jobs abandon the licensing arrangement for Mac clones and wed been through the painful Performa period.

Life had been tough, until very recently when things began to change, with the arrival of the iMac, the iBook, and the PowerMac G3.

Steves NeXT step

Despite the success of those machines, we all knew Mac OS needed to change for the new Century. In recent years wed been avidly reading and researching Apples own attempt to develop a new OS (Copland); wed followed the companys brief flirtation with Jean-Louis Gasses BeOS OS and the eventual Hosannah moment as Steve Jobs rode back into town on the back of his little futuristic NeXT-based analogous donkey. Stretching the analogy a little, Jobs was even accompanied by his very own band of disciples, including familiar names such as: Nancy Heinen, Jon Rubinstein, Bertrand Serlet, Avie Tevanian, Jean Marie Hullot and many others.

What was special about NeXT? It certainly wasnt its commercial success, though it had some, but its pioneering work trail-blazed the whole notion of object-oriented programming and graphical user interfaces. Apple even made an attempt to create its own object-oriented OS with the Taligent project, which began in 1989. And failed.

Now NeXT was at Apple, work really began. Perhaps someone somewhere has a copy of the Apple turnaround road map. But even at this stage Jobs had decided the company would move to implement the NeXT OS, would develop a retail presence with a series of highly stylized stores (the NeXT offices were also fabulously arty), would introduce new concepts in computer design.and would eventually run on Intel processors.

The NeXT OS was ported to both PowerPC and Intel processors in Apples labs under the code name Rhapsody. There were a bunch of development tools (Cocoa) while Apple also built an environment called Blue Box (Carbon, now defunct) which delivered backwards compatibility to the OS, allowing older applications to run.

Better than all the rest

This was a very important event. Apple now held an advanced OS everyone including Microsoft had tried and failed to emulate; it also meant Apple had a future ten-year plan, and a product to market strategy that should ensure that, at least at first, no Mac user need be left behind.

It is worth noting Apples execution in all of this. Take for example the move to field a succession of well-received iMac and iBook computers in advance of the OS X release. This was incredibly smart because it both built the companys profile while also ensuring that when the OS launched there was an existing ecosystem of technologically-compatible Macs which could run the OS, immediately boosting adoption.

And oh, what an adoption rate we saw. On my way to the London launch party back in 2001 I came across an Italian Mac user banging on the door of a Micro Anvika branch. I need it! Let me in! I have to have it! he yelled as he hammered at his magic portal. I gently sympathized with him and pointed out that the Micro Anvika branch he needed to visit was ten minutes walk up the Tottenham Court Road.

The lost but Mac-passionate Italian reflected everyones excitement. Fabio De Rosa, a freelance graphic designer, said: I had to be here. Its an historic moment. I eat, breathe and sleep Mac.

A historic moment

Inside the shop a rapt audience of Mac users, developers, retailers and Apple staff stood to attention as Apple UKs popular and charming MD, Mark Rogers, modestly delivered a presentation which showed us what the OS could do.

The early release was quickly condemned for being a public beta, we all understood that change had to come, and it was exciting to be part of it. The need to add features including DVD playback and CD burning as well as ironing out a few wrinkles (cough: kernel panic, anyone?) meant Apple didnt begin shipping OS X as the default OS on all Macs until the release ofMac OS X 10.1, Puma.

March 24, 2001 was still a good start. Simon Smith, Micro Anvikas Macintosh manager, told me: I think OS Xs features are great, its very easy to use. It will be excellent for first-time buyers, but has so much to offer to advanced users. Its the applications we are waiting for.

Apples then PR manager, David Millar, said: We expected a good turnout, and everyone Ive been talking to has been a professional designer, Web animator or programmer. We have an audience of professionals here.

Event attendance was excellent around 500 people showed-up that evening that may not sound like many people at all, in these days of retail store queues for every Apple launch, but this was thepre-iPod world, people. Things really were different then. Sales of the OS were to coin a phrase insanely great. Similar events in other countries saw Mac fans produce OS X-shaped cakes. There was a real energy across the Cult of Mac.

Developers, developers

Fast forward just four months to July 2001, and Apples VP Worldwide Developer Relations, Ron Okamoto, said: In a short amount of time we have seen incredible growth in our developer community and the number of Mac OS X applications now tops 1,000. Every major Mac software company sees a huge opportunity and is bringing applications to Mac OS X, while new developers are helping broaden the applications available to Mac users around the world.

Today and we see each successive release of OS X causing Apples Mac audience to grow, not shrink. When Apple stormed into Sonys world with the introduction of the iPod a few months later in October 2001, Apples fortunes really began to transform.

The PowerPC problem

Apples OS couldnt hide some legacy disadvantages. The new operating system was more advanced than anything anyone else had to offer, (bar perhaps some breeds of Linux at the time), but it still ran on slow, under-powered Power PC machines.

Despite all the claims to the contrary, Apples sales seriously suffered on the conception that PowerPC computers were slower and less capable than their Intel competition. Things had to change and, as was planned from the beginning, on June 6, 2005, they did. Thats when Apple announced a move to Intel processors, a transition it completed by August 2006.

The later move to introduce an iPhone in 2007 (though an earlier attempt to make a 2005 launch of an Apple mobile device was shelved at the eleventh hour) consolidated the position. It also meant Apple now offered a version of a NeXT-based operating system for both Macs and mobile devices.

Whats coming next?

From the OS to the platform to the eventual widening of the platform to include both mobile and desktop products, the recent ten-year history of Apple is inexorably linked to the OS it turned to after the nineties doldrums almost destroyed the Cupertino firm.

Were looking at the eighth significant OS X release in the next few months, Lion, which should offer some elements of unification between the iOS and OS X. Theres still some bugs to iron out though, particularly the problem with ACLs (Access Control Lists) inside the Finder. Hopefully departing ex-NeXT Mac OS chief, Bertrand Serlet, will be able to fix this before he leaves.

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Mac OS X - Business

history br main article history of x br x is based upon the mach kernel certain parts from freebsd s and netbsd s implementation of unix were incorporated in nextstep the core of x nextstep was the object oriented operating system developed by steve jobs company next after he left apple in 1985 while jobs was away from apple apple tried to create a next generation os through the taligent copland and gershwin projects with little success br eventually next s os then called openstep was selected to be the basis for apple s next os and apple purchased next outright steve jobs returned to apple as interim ceo and later became ceo shepherding the transformation of the programmer friendly openstep into a system that would be adopted by apple s primary market of home users and creative professionals the project was first known as rhapsody and was later renamed to x br x server 1 x was incompatible with software designed for the original and had no support for apple s own ieee 139 4 interface firewire x 10 x included more backward compatibility and functionality by including the carbon api as well as firewire support as the operating system evolved it moved away from the legacy to an emphasis on new digital lifestyle applications such as the ilife suite enhanced business applications iwork and integrated home entertainment the front row media center each version also included modifications to the general interface such as the brushed metal appearance added in version 10 3 the non pinstriped titlebar appearance in version 10 4 and in 10 5 the removal of the previous brushed metal styles in favor of the unified gradient window style br description br box artwork for x left to right cheetah puma 1 jaguar 2 panther 3 tiger 4 leopard 5 and snow leopard 6 br x is the tenth major version of apple s operating system for macintosh computers previous macintosh operating systems were named using arabic numerals e g 8 and 9 the letter x in x s name refers to the number 10 a roman numeral it is therefore correctly pronounced ten tn in this context though x ks is also a common pronunciation br x s core is a posix compliant operating system os built on top of the xnu kernel with standard unix facilities available from the command line interface apple released this family of software as a free and open source operating system named darwin but it later became partially proprietary on top of darwin apple layered a number of components including the aqua interface and the finder to complete the gui based operating system which is x br x introduced a number of new capabilities to provide a more stable and reliable platform than its predecessor 9 for example pre emptive multitasking and memory protection improved the system s ability to run multiple applications simultaneously without them interrupting or corrupting each other many aspects of x s architecture are derived from openstep which was designed to be portable to ease the transition from one platform to another for example nextstep was ported from the original 68k based next workstations to x86 and other architectures before next was purchased by apple and openstep was later ported to the powerpc architecture as part of the rhapsody project br the most visible change was the aqua theme the use of soft edges translucent colors and pinstripes similar to the hardware design of the first imacs brought more texture and color to the user interface when compared to what os 9 and os x server 1 0 s platinum appearance had offered according to john siracusa an editor of ars technica the introduction of aqua and its departure from the then conventional look hit like a ton of bricks however bruce tognazzini who founded the original apple human interface group said that the aqua interface in x v10 0 represented a step backwards in usability compared with the original interface despite the controversial new interface third party developers started producing skins for customizable applications for mac and other operating systems which mimicked the aqua appearance to some extent apple has used the successful transition to this new design as leverage at various times threatening legal action against people who make or distribute software with an interface the company claims is derived from its copyrighted design br x architecture implements a layered framework the layered framework aids rapid development of applications by providing existing code for common tasks br x includes its own software development tools most prominently an integrated development environment called xcode xcode provides interfaces to compilers that support several programming languages including c c objective c and java for the applentel transition it was modified so that developers could build their applications as a universal binary which provides compatibility with both the intel based and powerpc based macintosh lines br the darwin sub system in x is in charge of managing the filesystem which includes the unix permissions layer in 2003 and 2005 two macworld editors expressed criticism of the permission scheme ted landau called misconfigured permissions the most common frustration in x while rob griffiths suggested that some users may even have to reset permissions every day a process which can take up to 15 minutes more recently another macworld editor dan frakes called the procedure of repairing permissions vastly overused he argues that x typically handles permissions properly without user interference and resetting permissions should be tried only when problems emerge br as of 2009 x is the second most popular general purpose operating system in use for the internet after microsoft windows with a 4 5 market share according to statistics compiled by net applications in contrast it is the most successful unix like desktop operating system on the internet estimated at over 4 times the penetration of the free linux x is available in a variety of languages including english japanese french german spanish portuguese and italian br compatibility br software br the apis that x inherited from openstep are not backward compatible with earlier versions of these apis were created as the result of a 1993 collaboration between next computer and sun microsystems and are now referred to by apple as cocoa this heritage is highly visible for cocoa developers since the ns prefix is ubiquitous in the framework standing variously for nextstep or next sun the official openstep api published in september 1994 was the first to split the api between foundation and application kit and the first to use the ns prefix apple s rhapsody project would have required all new development to use these apis causing much outcry among existing mac developers all mac software that did not receive a complete rewrite to the new framework would run in the equivalent of the classic environment to permit a smooth transition from 9 to x the car bon application programming interface api was created applications written with carbon can be executed natively on both systems carbon was not included in the first product sold as mac os x mac os x server now known as mac os x server 1 x br mac os x used to support the java platform as a preferred software package in practice this means that applications written in java fit as neatly into the operating system as possible while still being cross platform compatible and that graphical user interfaces written in swing look almost exactly like native cocoa interfaces traditionally cocoa programs have been mostly written in objective c with java as an alternative however on july 11 2005 apple announced that features added to cocoa in mac os x versions later than 10 4 will not be added to the cocoa java programming interface br since mac os x is posix compliant many software packages written for the bsds or linux can be recompiled to run on it projects such as fink macports and p kgsrc provide pre compiled or pre formatted packages since version 10 3 mac os x has included x11 app apple s version of the x window system graphical interface for unix applications as an optional component during installation up to and including mac os x v10 4 tiger apple s implementation was based on the x11 licensed xfree86 4 3 and x11r6 6 all bundled versions of x11 feature a window manager which is similar to the mac os x look and feel and has fairly good integration with mac os x also using the native quartz rendering system earlier versions of mac os x in which x11 has not been bundled can also run x11 applications using xdarwin with the introduction of version 10 5 apple switched to the x org variant of x11 br hardware br for the early releases of mac os x the standard hardware platform supported was the full line of macintosh computers laptop desktop or server based on powerpc g3 g4 and g5 processors later versions discontinued support for some older hardware for e xample panther does not support beige g3s and tiger does not support systems that pre date apple s introduction of integrated firewire ports however the ports themselves are not a functional requirement mac os x v10 5 leopard introduced october 2007 has dropped support for all powerpc g3 processors and for powerpc g4 processors with clock rates below 867 160 mhz mac os x v10 6 snow leopard supports only macs with intel processors not powerpc br tools such as xpostfacto and patches applied to the installation disc have been developed by third parties to enable installation of newer versions of mac os x on systems not officially supported by apple this includes a number of pre g3 power macintosh systems that can be made to run up to and including mac os x 10 2 jaguar all g3 based macs which can run up to and including tiger and sub 867 160 mhz g4 macs can run leopard by removing the restriction from the installation dvd or entering a command in the mac s open firmware interfac e to tell the leopard installer that it has a clock rate of 867 160 mhz or greater except for features requiring specific hardware e g graphics acceleration dvd writing the operating system offers the same functionality on all supported hardware br powerpc versions of mac os x prior to leopard retain compatibility with older mac os applications by providing an emulation environment called classic which allows users to run mac os 9 as a process within mac os x so that most older applications run as they would under the older operating system classic is not supported on intel based macs or in mac os x v10 5 leopard although users still requiring classic applications on intel macs can use the sheepshaver emulator to run mac os 9 on top of leopard br applentel transition br main article applentel transition br in april 2002 eweek reported a rumor that apple had a version of mac os x code named marklar which ran on intel x86 processors the idea behind marklar was to keep mac os x running on an alternative platform should apple become dissatisfied with the progress of the powerpc platform these rumors subsided until late in may 2005 when various media outlets such as the wall street journal and cnet reported that apple would unveil marklar in the coming months br on june 6 2005 steve jobs confirmed these rumors when he announced in his keynote address at the annual apple worldwide developers conference that apple would be making the transition from powerpc to intel processors over the following two years and that mac os x would support both platforms during the transition jobs also confirmed rumors that apple has had versions of mac os x running on intel processors for most of its developmental life the last time that apple switched cpu familiesrom the motorola 68k cpu to the ibm motorola powerpcpple included a motorola 68k emulator in the new os that made almost all 68k software work automatically on the new hardware apple had supported the 68k emul ator for 11 years but stopped supporting it during the transition to intel cpus included in the new os for the intel based macs is rosetta a binary translation layer which enables software compiled for powerpc mac os x to run on intel mac os x machines however apple dropped support for classic mode on the new intel macs third party emulation software such as mini vmac basilisk ii and sheepshaver provides support for some early versions of mac os a new version of xcode and the underlying command line compilers support building universal binaries that will run on either architecture br software that is available only for powerpc is supported with rosetta though applications may have to be rewritten to run properly on the newer os x for intel apple encourages developers to produce universal binaries with support for both powerpc and x86 there is a performance penalty when powerpc binaries run on intel macs through rosetta moreover some powerpc software such as kernel extensions and system preferences plugins are not supported on intel macs some powerpc applications would not run on intel os x at all plugins for safari need to be compiled for the same platform as safari so when safari is running on intel it requires plug ins that have been compiled as intel only or universal binaries so powerpc only plug ins will not work while intel macs will be able to run powerpc x86 and universal binaries powerpc macs will support only universal and powerpc builds br support for the powerpc platform remains in mac os x version 10 5 such cross platform capability already existed in mac os x s lineage openstep was ported to many architectures including x86 and darwin included support for both powerpc and x86 although apple stated that mac os x would not run on intel based personal computers aside from its own a hacked

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Apple has lately announced a new addition to their line up - the Apple iPad. It's basically a tablet style computer that boasts plenty features. iPad allows you to play videos, browse the net, listen to music and launch different apps with it's 1GHz A4 system-on-chip processor. You can squeeze out a lot from it's battery life of 10 hours and it's utilizing the iPhone operating system. iPad tablet's Multi-Touch IPS LCD supports up to 132ppi with a resolution of 1024x768 pixels. Expected release date of the Apple iPad is going to be on late March and it will cost $499. Nevertheless, if you are not keen on shelling out that much for this new gizmo, then there's another option for you. Get free Apple iPad by becoming a tester. There are companies out there that needs user feedback and this is your chance to get a free Apple iPad. Along with the iPad announcement, Apple also made known that 12 applications have been specially made for the new tablet computer. The 12 iPad applic ations will be for sale in the App Store and with them, you can adjust your iPad to your needs. Also, users will be able to acquire their e-books from the iBookstore, their music and movies from iTunes, and additional apps from the App Store. Reportedly, the new Apple iPad tablet applications will include Multi-Touch capabilities and can adapt to either landscape or portrait views. You can essentially tilt your Apple iPad and the applications will animate to accommodate your current view. The Apple iPad can run most of the 140,000 apps already available in the App Store and Apple also improved a couple of its apps to bring out the tablet pc's functionality better. A new version of iWork was especially made for the iPad, bringing desktop apps Keynote, Pages and Numbers to the tablet pc. In case you aren't familiarwith the aforementioned applications, here's a little briefer. Keynote allows for users to make presentations, Pages for documents while Numbers are for spreadsheets . Users can purchase the said apps one by one from the App Store for $9.99 each. Another app you could find handy is iBooks for iPad. With the said application that includes Apple's iBookstore, users will be able to browse e-book titles from major and independent publishers, purchase the titles they wish and read them on the highly mobile tablet pc. Another thing heavy iBookstore, App Store and iTunes users will be happy to know that the iPad will be able to sync to their Macs or PCs by a USB connection. Just like its gadget cousins the iPhone and the iPod Touch, the Apple iPad will sync everything you have downloaded to your iTunes library.

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Nobody wants to think Don t think that all of this fossil fuel is going to last forever, because it will disappear sooner than we think. The convenience of fossil fuel is starting to disappear more and more and the time to start preparing for alternative energy is yesterday.

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Photovoltaic cells are the incredible technology that they use for renewable solar energy. These photovoltaic cells, or PV s as they are often referred, are semi conductors which have two layers of silicon. It is not vital for you to have a complete understanding of how PV cells work, however it is significant that the contractor you hire does.

There is also the alternative of doing it your self, and it is really not that hard when you have the right information. Some folks like to start off with home made solar panels first then move on to either to wind or magnetic energy to cover all the bases. There are a range of projects online which take hardly any time and are a fun activity.

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Another great Mac Pro model is the MB971LL/A. This unit has 2.66 GHz Quad-core Intel Xeon 3500 "Nehalem" processor. The super fast 3 GB RAM is expandable to 16 GB. The upgradeable 640 GB hard drive will satisfy the need of saving videos and other things. You will be very satisfied with this product because it is a powerful one that offers the highest technology for you technology geek.

Here are the specs of Apple Mac Pro model MB971LL/A:

* NVIDIA GeForce GT 120* DDR3 512MB* Mini Display Port* dual-link DVI port* Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard* iLife '09* Five USB 2.0* four FireWire 800* Gigabit Ethernet* Apple keyboard* Bluetooth 2.1+EDR* Optical audio input & output* 16x SuperDrive

If you are a pro designer, you will be satisfied with this unit. It can bring fast graphic which is very excellent in color. It is like bringing the image into real world. The iLife '09 brings applications such as iPhoto, Garageband, iTunes, and iMovie.

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Whatsoever computer you have, you may need to extend its memory because of many reasons. It may be due to change in nature of work or application of new software needing more memory. Apple is a famous brand all over the world. To upgrade the memory of apple computers, you need a reliable source to get Apple memory. Memoryx is always found at the top in the preference list of the experienced professionals. It specializes in providing 100% compatible Apple computer memory.

When you search for the Apple computer memory, you have many options to select from. These are Samsung, Micron OEM and third party high quality memory. A wide range of Apple memory is available in the stores for Apple Power Mac, Power Mac G4, iMac Flat Panel, Mac Pro Tower, iBook, PowerBook G4, MacBook, MacBook Pro, Xserve, iMac Intel Core and G5 iMac etc. If you are an experienced computer professional, you may upgrade Apple computer memory yourself otherwise you will need an expert. Authorized outlets like MemoryTen offer this service even at the distant places at much reasonable price.

The Mac Pro Tower is the most demanded Apple memory product by Apple Inc. It uses Xeon and Intel 5400 chip set microprocessors. Intel Xeon CPUs are designed specifically for 8-core and quad Mac Pro Towers. Mac Pro's main memory uses 667 MHz FB-DIMMs while its successor has 800 MHz FB-DIMMs. Both technology modules are installed in pairs vertically. The cards of Mac Pro Tower Apple computer memory have 4 DIMM slots. Each of these cards has the capacity of 32 GB of memory. Installation of more RAM in Mac Pro may improve memory bandwidth but in parallel it increases the memory latency also. Prior to buying of memory for your computer, you must judge accurately how much extra memory you really need.

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Every computer needs memory to perform, to process the calculations and give out best results in a limited amount of time. If you are upgrading your computer with less performing and a local computer memory, it is quite obvious to find that your computer will show a reduction in the performance. A point to be noted out here is that every computer works on its own specific and compatible memory. It is also the case with Mac Apple Computer, which is fitted with specially designed Memory. With time the efficiency of Apple Memory is reduced, and which is why the memory has to be replaced and upgraded with new and compatible Apple Memory. The integration and upgrading of Apple memory in the Apple Computer makes it perform better, where it would hardly take seconds for your Mac to calculate memory mapped graphics or the written text. One thing is for sure, the configuration and also the hardware structure of Mac Pro Apple Computer is not similar or alike IBM, HP and Compaq. The memory modules as well as the features of Apple memory is quite different from the type of memory used in IBM, HP, Compaq or for that matter any other assembled type computers. Therefore great care has to be taken to incorporate high quality Apple Memory into the Mac Pro Apple Computer in order to keep it performing and providing impressive calculations. The very process of up gradation of Apply Memory is also quite different from the process of upgrading the computer memory in other genres of computers. The very first thing to do before you start upgrading Apple Memory of Mac Pro Apple Computer is to scan My System function. This will provide you precise information about what all is installed on your Mac Pro Apple Computer. Next, you'd be shown the option for up gradation of Apple memory on the Mac screen. The options will also show compatibility memory modules for your Mac Pro Apple Computer. In addition, you also need to keep in your mind that when you are going for upgr ade in Mac Pro Apple Computer, you need to select the memory according to the precise memory specifications as listed by Apple OEM.

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The Memory that you plan to upgrade your Mac Pro Computer with should have 100% compatibility, or otherwise, the performance of the computer system will not be enhanced. Moreover, you'd also waste your precious money and time. It'd again be a good idea if you learn the complete installation procedures of upgrading Memory of Mac Pro Apple Computer. This will save you both time and money. And all the more, it is always better to understand the technology rather than depend on others.

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Any person who wants to build an online business and be successful should regard SEO services with all seriousness. It doesn't matter how good your website looks or of what high-quality your products are if you can't deliver the right message to target consumers. They must stumble upon your website and click on the link to see what products and services you provide and for that to happen, you must be at the top of the Google search page.

Among all the aspects that make your website search engine friendly, link building is the most important one, because that is the easiest way to the top of the Google search. As more and more people click on your link, search engines increase your ranking and you'll be able to deliver your products and services to more internet users, hoping they will become loyal customers.

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Any person who wants to build an online business and be successful should regard SEO services with all seriousness. It doesn't matter how good your website looks or of what high-quality your products are if you can't deliver the right message to target consumers. They must stumble upon your website and click on the link to see what products and services you provide and for that to happen, you must be at the top of the Google search page.

Among all the aspects that make your website search engine friendly, link building is the most important one, because that is the easiest way to the top of the Google search. As more and more people click on your link, search engines increase your ranking and you'll be able to deliver your products and services to more internet users, hoping they will become loyal customers.

The SEO link monster is said to revolutionize the world of online business by providing the best link building program on the web. Even if there aren't so many reviews at the moment, given the fact that this program is created and designed by the experts in internet marketing, Brad and Matt Callen and Dori Friend, chances are a whole revolution in online marketing will take place.

But how can you tell this is not, in fact, a scam like so many other programs on the internet that make tall promises and claims just to deliver nothing of use? Well, the best answer to this question is the reputation and success of all the creators of the program, who have been in the online marketing and SEO business for a long time and have obtained huge profits by using the exact techniques and strategies provided by the SEO link builder. You can also go over the SEO link monster review. Taking their success and reputation into account, there's really no doubt about this product's efficiency.

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Compare with the MacBook Pro 13 and Pro 15-inch MacBook Pro Macboook 17 has a 40% larger battery (vs 95WH 68WH) 17inch and larger. On MBP17 has a 2.66 or a 2.93 GHz processor, up to 8 GB of RAM and two Nvidia 9400M (integrated) and 9600 (discrete) graphics cards. A 320GB 5400RPM hard drive is standard, but can be converted into a drive with 320 GB 7200 RPM drive or a solid state 128GB/256GB. But at 6.6 pounds, not really so heavy in the hand, as expected. And to 0.98 inches, is only slightly thicker (0.03 inches) than the other two MacBooks.

In fact, the MBP17 battery is enormous. Occupies almost the entire lower half of the bottom of the computer. For the battery as large as possible, Apple has even eliminated the battery removal mechanism. Apple Lithium-polymer pack screws and promises a lifetime of 1000 full load, which means 2000 charge cycles, half or quarter of 4000 charge cycles before battery capacity reduced by 80%.

Apple calls: * Assuming the screen at half brightness, wireless, light browsing, light word processing (for which no Bluetooth, but otherwise a default configuration). Integrated graphics 8 hours, 7 hours with beefy GPU. In fact, the screen just a hair over half brightness, WLAN, Bluetooth off, keypad with backlight, discrete graphics, Web browsing and the occasional Photoshop work, we managed 3 hours of 57 minutes time (the others are the half will light up 4 hours 39 minutes running time). That's almost two hours longer than MBP15 battery* t, and 2 hours and 30 minutes longer than MB13 battery.

Apple MacBook Pro 17 Battery Specifications:

Technology: Lithium-polymer Capacity: 68wh Color: Silver Weight: 652.05 g Working Hours: 8 hours Battery Code: A1189 MA458, MA458 * / A MA458G / A MA458J / A Compatible Model: Apple MacBook Pro 17 inch Series battery Warranty: 1 year limited warranty

17-inch Apple MacBook Probattery reivew of users:

I have two of these batteries and provide power for three or four hours. Performance and durability are achieved according to the instructions in the help section. Apple powerbook g4 battery calibrate once a month for the instructions, and do not let him all the time connected. If you remove the power plug, remove the battery from overcharging. If you do these two things, you will receive a lifetime.

Apple has designed a large battery for 17-inch MacBook Pro keeps, chug 3.5 to 4 hours and far exceeds my old G4 15 "PowerBook battery with double the operating time. I am very impressed. Good job Apple!

After nine months of continuous use my MacBook Pro 17, an unexpected system has recently been completed and is expanding the battery cover and buckling and will not be charged. The life cycle with other rechargeable battery systems I have used seems to be more or less the same.

I had absolutely zero problems with all my purchases from Apple (which is very important.) It seems, however, was my 13-inch MacBook Pro battery shot from the inside, with one side 1.25 "high normal verses 0.5." Of course will not work from within and are exposed to the weather and all internal parts are swollen I bought my MacBook Pro for $ 3514 on my MacBook Pro in 2007 -. without success (my warranty went) through Apple technical service calls, I hope this problem in my Apple Store to be solved. I will be disappointed if I have to pay for a new, after already spending more than $ 10,000 in assets from Apple in the past 10 years.

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Buying Guide: MacBook Air vs. MacBook Pro: Which Apple 13-inch Air should you buy? - Computers - Computer Forensics

Buying Guide: MacBook Air vs. MacBook Pro: Which Apple 13-incher should you buy?

Just a few short months ago (in March, to be exact), we wrote about an odd glut in Apple's otherwise streamlined lineup of products: instead of one or even two 13-inch laptops to choose from, Apple was offering three. The white MacBook, the MacBook Air, and the MacBook Pro each had a slightly different value equation in terms of design, features, and price.That glut's been lessened a little now that the white MacBook has been discontinued. The MacBook Air and the MacBook Pro are the only two MacBook product lines left, and they represent two different solutions to same problem. The unibody aluminum Pro used to be considered thin, but it's-relatively-thick at 1 inch, and weighs over 4 pounds. The Pro offers better specs, while the Air, which has just been recently updated, leans toward light weight and quick booting as its advantages.There's more to consider, though: the 2011 13-inch MacBook Pro and new 13-inch MacBook Air have become more similar than they've ever been bef ore, for several reasons-performance, battery life, and a Thunderbolt port.Two 13-inch MacBooks: which do you choose?Let's put them side by side and compare. (Note: For additional price-based consideration, we're throwing the higher-end 11-inch Air into the chart comparison, since its $1,199 price matches the entry-level 13-inch MacBook Pro.)11-inch MacBook Air (2011) 13-inch MacBook Air (2011) 13-inch MacBook Pro (2011)CPU 1.6GHz Intel Core i5 1.7GHz Intel Core i5 2.3GHz Intel Core i5RAM 4GB 4GB 4GBStorage 128GB SSD 128GB SSD 320GB HDDWeight 2.38 lbs 2.96 lbs 4.5 lbsScreen resolution 1,366768 1,440900 1,280800Battery life 276 minutes 406 minutes 402 minutesPrice $1,199 $1,299 $1,199Size: How quickly things change: in March, the 2011 MacBook Pro was the newest laptop in Apple's stable. Now, it's the oldest. It's obviously far heavier than the 13-inch Air, by over a pound and a half. Edge: Air.Performance: Last time, we recommended the entry-level 13-inch MacBook Pro as the b est all-around Apple 13-incher in terms of price, design, and performance. The MacBook Air has caught up fast. Its price and base RAM/storage specs are still the same, but the new Air has a dramatically faster second-gen Core i5 CPU that makes for a far better computer. Benchmark results are so close they're practically indistinguishable: despite the Air having a lower-speed CPU, it performs nearly identically to the Pro. The 11-inch Air's no slouch either, and it's nearly as good, its performance lag likely being due to having less RAM and a .1GHz slower processor. Edge: Tie.Battery life: Again, nearly the same. The MacBook Air lost the battle in the spring, but the new, more power-efficient second-gen Intel Core i5 CPU has evened the comparison. Both 13-inchers netted around 6 hours and 40 minutes. Edge: Tie.Extras: The 13-inch Pro wins on features, but it's a narrower win than you'd expect. A larger hard drive and a DVD-burning optical drive are the larger Pro's advantage s, along with an HD Webcam. Port-wise, the Pro adds a FireWire port and an Ethernet jack, and that's it. However, the Air has a higher-resolution 1,440900-pixel display, while the Pro, oddly enough, has a 1,280800-pixel screen. Edge: Pro.And now, case by case:Best value for the money: Pro. Unless you truly value size and weight above all else, the 13-inch Pro offers more features, ports, and hard-drive space, along with an optical drive. The advantage is narrow, though; narrower than it's ever been.For the coffee-shopper and frequent traveler: Air. Obviously, size is key. The Air's tiny, and now it also has improved battery life. Some people, though, might prefer the even smaller 11-inch Air, although it doesn't last as long on a charge.Student who wants to save money: Pro. Last time, we said to get the white MacBook, the king of value. You're out of luck on deals this time. The $999 11-inch Air is the cheapest, but sacrifices valuable storage space. The $1,199 Pro's technic ally a good value, but more expensive. Educational discounts currently have the entry-level Pro at $1,099 and the entry-level Air at $1,249. Does a difference of $150 affect your purchasing decision? Alternatively, perhaps consider the $499 iPad, or a Windows laptop.Money is no object, best computer: Air. We would have said the 13-inch Pro a year ago, but you might as well consider splurging on a 256GB 13-inch Air with an upgraded 1.8GHz Core i7 processor, and get a Thunderbolt-connected storage array along with a Thunderbolt Display to dock with. It'll cost a fortune, but you said you were rich, right?

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Blog to Make Money - Internet - Free

I'm going to teach you ways to make money from your blogs. Hopefully you can make some big sums of money, and do it as a day job, only if that's what you want. Or you can just do it as a side thing and make extra cash on the side.

Learn the secrets of making money from your blog, Blog To Make Money.

Now, here's the important stuff to know. Usually operated by a single person, a blog is in fact a fully functioning website, that contains numerous informative articles that are based on certain events and/or topics, which can be from a person's life or experiences. Blogs are free websites, that anyone can create for themselves. Whenever you would like, you may upload entries into your blog once it's up and running.Blogging to make money secrets are revealed later in this article, keep reading on.

For any person, the simplest websites that they can make are blogs. They are also very easy to understand, and are searched upon by many people. There are many blog promoting sites that will promote your blog if it contains great content. The Internet is full of valuable information nowadays about so many topics, so writing about anything will do.

So, putting up articles on a blog, means you're a "blogger" and the process of doing it means you are "blogging". People on the Internet are able to see your blog, and the entries you put up.

When content is put up on your blog, people will start visiting, and this is how your "money-making" journey begins. You'll be earning the money, by offering options to your visitors. A few ways you can do to make money from your blog are:

1. Advertisements - Ads can be placed on your site from certain sites.Yahoo Ads and Google Adsense offer the best advertisements that you can put on your blog relating to your content. Personally, I suggest Google Adsense. On your blog, you can put free ads from Google Adsense once you've signed up. You get profit for every ad which is clicked. The amount you get per click is usually over 50 cents, which is a good amount.

2. Affiliating - You can promote products from sites like Clickbank. Check out this report if you'd like to learn Affiliating, How to Affiliate. Using this method, you can earn the greatest amounts of money from your blog.

3.Referrals - If you refer a person to another site, such as a survey or rewards site, you get rewarded when they sign up. For extra information on this, take a look at this article, Get Paid to Click. They are sites which reward you to click ads. For everytime one of your referrals completes a survey or clicks on ads. you are rewarded as well. This results in a very neat money-making system set up, as it's a referral matrix of rewards being sent up the chain.

To get more people coming to your blog, you can advertise using Google Ads. More information on this can be found here, Google Adwords Tips.

At the end of the day, if you'd like to blog to make money, these are the best ways. The greatest way to generate money is to have valuable content on your blog that is beneficial to your visitors. When free valuable content is provided, the |traffic comes automatically and you will generate reputation. You can earn money like this because of the connection created between you and your readers, they will keep coming back to your blog. Blogging for money is an easy and affordable online business, and you should definitely give it a go.

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Apple iPad : An Amazing, Sleek and Trendy Tablet PC - Technology - Cell Phones

Tablet PC was the only area untouched by Apple Inc. With almost all the products related to the world of computers, Apple Inc. has always provided the best to the user. Be it mobile phones, laptops, music players, Personnel Computers or even computer softwares, Apple Inc. is every where. Lot many expectations were there regarding tablet PC, and with Apple iPad, Apple Inc. has proved that they bag the best of the technology and are just not comparable when it comes to design.

Apple iPad released in April 2010, proved to be a huge success with more that 3 million devices sold in the first 80 days. This itself proves the trust and faith that people have in the company. Like the Apple phones, iPad deals are also available in the stores. The reason for such a large sales figure lies in the options that the iPad deals provide.

The most appreciated is the iPad contract deal. In the iPad contract deal the over all cost is covered by the service provider whose service the Apple iPad will be using. The user has to pay the price in the form of easy monthly installments. The features which make the Apple iPad an amazing and very popular a gadget are enormous. Only Apple Inc. or Chuck Norris are known to all the features.

To discuss a few features, this gadget operates on iOS 3.2 operating system and is powered by 1 GHz Apple A4 PowerVR SGX 535 GPU processor. The device bags a 9.7 inches touchscreen display at a resolution of 1024x768 pixels with LED back lighting and a fingerprint and scratch resistant coating to safe guard it. Not only this the touchscreen is embedded with features like Multi-touch, headset controls, proximity and ambient light sensors, 3-axis accelerometer and magnetometer. The only thing that this device misses is a camera.

The gadget comes in two versions, one is the Wi-Fi one and the other is the Wi-Fi + 3G one. Apart from this the gadget was released with variable memory option of 16 GB, 32 GB and 64 GB. Just like Apple iPhones which gained popularity as soon as they were launched, this very gadget takes the legacy a step ahead. With such a high technology based device in his hand the user is able to do every thing. Be it work, listening to music, watching a movie or even reading a book, with Apple iPad there is nothing to worry.

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Apple iPad

Tablet Computer was the only area untouched by Apple Inc. With almost all of the products related to the field of computers, Apple Inc. has always offered the best to the user. This includes mobile phones, laptops, even music players, PCs, or even computer software, we can see that Apple Inc. is every where. Lot many expectations were there regarding tablet PC, and with Apple iPad, Apple Inc. has proved that they bag the greatest of the technologies and are just not comparable with regards to design.

This Apple iPad huge success was proven when it sold more than three million units in its initial 80 days release on April 2010. This only means that customers across the world really believe and do have real trust with this company. Just like the Apple phones, iPad deals are also available in the stores. The reason for such a big sales figure lies in the choices that the iPad deals offer.

iPad makes a contract deal that the majority of the customers appreciate. In the iPad contract deal the over all cost is covered by the company whose service the Apple iPad will be using. This will be paid by the user in forms of installment. The features which make the Apple iPad an incredible and very popular a gadget are enormous. These features are only know for Apple Inc. or Chuck Norris.

Talking about its features, Apple iPad is installed with iOS 3.2 OS with 1GHz Apple A4 Power VR SGX 535 GPU processor. The device bags a 9.7 inches touchscreen display at a resolution of 1024x768 pixels with LED back lighting and a fingerprint and scratch resistant coating to safe guard it. Not only this touch screen is embedded with features like Multi-touch, headset controls, proximity and ambient light sensors, 3-axis accelerometer and magnetometer. Although it has plenty of good functions, unfortunately it doesnt a camera.

Apple Inc. created two versions of iPad, initial is the one with Wi-Fi only, and second will be the one with Wi-Fi + 3G. Customers may also select with the various options in buying this gadget based on its memory, theres 16GB, 32GB, and 64GB hard drive space. Apple iPad has boomed in the market when it was launched and become one of the most popular item under its category, just like the Apple iPhones. The user will be able to do every thing when he has the best device on his hand. No matter what things you wants to do, like listening to music, watching movies, reading books, Apple iPad will certainly offer the best service for you.

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Apple May Unveil Voice Technology With IPhone - Technology - Information Technology

Apple Inc. (AAPL)'s next iPhone, due to be unveil at an event today, can be a showcase for improved voice controls, bringing phones closer to the realm of "Star Trek"- style speech recognition.New voice commands will let user make appointments in their calendar, send text messages or e-mails, and waves the Web, said Gene Munster, a psychiatrist at Piper Jaffray Cos. Apple already has essential voice-control ability on the iPhone for placing a call or accessing a song. Today's occasion is called "Let's talk iPhone," hinting at an expansion of the features.Voice technology is up-and-coming as the latest showground for Apple's rivalry with Google Inc. (GOOG), which has spent years promote speech technology. In progress Google features transcribe voice letters to text and perform Web searches base on verbal commands. The face up to so far has been getting middle-of-the-road users to adopt the technology, said venture capitalist Larry Marcus, who has invested in speech-recognit ion company SoundHound Inc.Apple can "make it exciting and create people think about it in different customs," Marcus said. "Voice controls are a very original way to interact with your device."Voice information won't be the only features additional to the new iPhone. The device may include a better camera and a stronger central processing unit to make program run faster, people familiar by means of the matter said earlier this year. Apple show off some of the new software for the device in June, as well as new messaging and notice features.ICloud ApproachesThe company also is readying iCloud, an overhaul for storing files such as movies and music on Apple's remote servers so they can be access through iPhones, iPads and Mac computers.Natalie Kerris, a spokeswoman for Cupertino, California- based Apple, declined to comment on today's event.The fifth-generation iPhone comes at a key time for Apple. Today's event will be the company's first major product presentation since co- founder Steve Jobs submissive as chief executive officer in August, what time he turned the job over to longtime deputy Tim Cook.The new speech technology would put together on a service Apple introduce in 2009 called Voice Control, which lets users make a call or play tune by speaking into the phone. Those skin tone haven't taken off, Marcus said."They have probably been taking further time to figure out how to get it accurate," he said.Nuance SoftwareSpeech-recognition technology also is obtainable from companies such as Nuance Communications Inc. (NUAN), which offers voice-to-text transcript software. Automakers are adding speech skin tone as well, letting drivers make a call or prefer a song while keeping their hand on the wheel.Mobile devices symbolize a growth marketplace for voice-command technology as people try to perform more complex compute tasks on the go. Facial appearance will increasingly blend vocal and physical information, said John Donovan, chief knowledge officer of AT&T Inc. (T), a carrier for the iPhone."Certain things are more naturally verbal, some things are more as expected typed, and some things are more unsurprisingly swiped," he said, referring to the swiping motion that iPhone users compose on the device's touch computer screen. While declining to talk about Apple specifically, he said a big item for consumption event can "pick up the pace" adoption.Apple acquired a speech-recognition software corporation last year called Siri, which lets users make restaurant reservations or investigate for a flight with voice information. Apple also is probably functioning with Nuance to power the right to be heard capabilities of the new iPhone, said Mike Phillips, chief know-how officer and co-founder of Vlingo, which also makes voice-recognition technology.How Far?The move is good for the whole market, Phillips said. "The question is: How much farther do they go?" he said. "Do they really try to transform the search experience ?"That would mean making voice a main method of searching, rather than a once-in-a-while method, Phillips said.Apple also is facing mounting competition in touch-screen smartphones -- a market it pioneered. Samsung Electronics Co. and HTC Corp. are relying on Google's Android software to woo iPhone users. And Google is acquiring its own mobile-phone company, Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc., for $12.5 billion.The Apple-Google rivalry has expanded to the courtroom, where Apple and Android adherents are suing each other for patent infringements.Smartphone ShowdownAt stake is leadership in the market for smartphones, which is projected to double by 2015, when 1 billion of the handsets will be sold, according to research firm IDC. While Apple is the single biggest smartphone maker, the Android coalition leads the market, accounting for 41.7 percent.The iPhone is Apple's top-selling product, generating almost half its sales last quarter. The company hasn't released a new model sin ce June 2010, so there may be pent-up demand for an update. Apple will sell a record 25 million iPhones during the December quarter, Piper Jaffray's Munster estimates.The success of the product has helped Apple's stock weather market turmoil and the loss of its CEO. Shares of Apple, the world's most valuable company, have climbed 16 percent this year. The stock fell 43 cents to $374.17 at 9:55 a.m. New York time on the Nasdaq Stock Market.Even so, the long delay between new iPhones has put pressure on Apple to ward off competitors, said Ramon Llamas, an analyst with Framingham, Massachusetts-based IDC.

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Apple App! Don't miss a bite... - Computers - Software

Did you ever catch of a site where a group of people sharing technology news and flashing out their high-end smart phones and still noticeably didn't bring iPhone in the discussion.

Well, that could have been possible, but just before January, 2007, when this smart gizmo designed and marketed by Apple Inc. was not introduced to the sufficing pleasures of techno-beings.

iPhone has captured the identity of a cult smart phone in no time and established the essence of eminence with the kinship of labeled smart apps which are being developed and promoted by various competent iPhone Application development conglomerates.

Diverse and lateral functionality of the device and functional parameters that keeps on improvising makes it a prolific yet challenging job for custom iPhone Apps development segment to deliver the iPhone apps keeping up with the identity and image of the brand.

With the user interface options like multi-touch screen, including a virtual keyboard and extended functionalities like games, reference, GPS navigation, social networking it provides great options for an application to work with.

To do justice to this very concept iPhone Application Development entails every criterion to match the benefits that iPhone is equipped with. Instant availability and access, real time integration with dedicated automated devices M2M, GPS systems, compatibility, home automation, and integration with information systems, connectivity with EDGE or Wi-Fi and various other proponents of the iPhone Application development segments puts it into a state of a resonant matrix which makes the Smart Phone applications evolve into a thorough property parameter.

iPhone Applications development characterizes proficient technical knowledge well supported by sufficient equations of researches in the field of communication technology. The work parameters need to have definitive amount of planned resources and operational depth in command with the technology. Above all, the phenomenon requires the equipments and the processes to be treated with great amount of precision implemented in the entire development procedure.

SmartPhone application segment was never ever so big and so rich, but with iPhone apps development it has touched significant heights and pushed smart phone component and smart phone application dynamics to the state-of-art propositions.

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