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A report by Consumer Intelligence Research Partners states that of all of the buyers who purchased the iPhone 4s from October, 2011 to present, only 21 percent of the buyers chose the 64gb model. Online sales also decreased from 43 percent of total sales to 33 percent by the end of 2011 Source: Appleinsider.com
A report in CNN Money is claiming that the Apple stores are worth nearly as much as the White House is. According to the report, a square foot of an Apple store moves an average of $4,709 per square foot while the the White House is worth $4,752 per square foot. Just my opinion but since Apple is doing it every year, wouldn’t that make the Apple store more valuable?
The latest version of the Google Chrome browser has been released. Version 16.0.912.77 if primarily a maintenance release, fixing a number of bugs. You can download the latest version from the Google Chrome website at: https://www.google.com/chrome
According to a post on the Eamon Adventurers Guild Online blog, the beta version of Eamon Deluxe 5.0 may go out to beta testers as early as today. Frank Kunze is in the final stages of squashing bugs with the new version and expects that the beta will be in testers hands at end of day.
Virgin America has paid tribute to Steve Jobs by including a saying he used at the 2005 Stanford Commencement on its airplane. The expression “Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish” is now gracing the nose of the airplane with the tail number N845VA, just below the cockpit window on the left side of the plane. While Steve used the expression in his speech, it comes from the back cover of a 1970’s Whole Earth Catalog when the catalog was ceasing print. Now…
Ken Gagne of Juiced.gs has posted a very thorough profile of Mark Simonsen, former Beagle Bros programmer and owner. Mark attended Kansasfest in 2010, giving its keynote speech and participating in the annual Hackfest event which pits Apple ][ aficionados against the clock in an all out performance of their programming skills. To read the entire article, check out the Kansasfest website at: http://www.kansasfest.org/2012/01/loyal-to-the-core-simonsen/
In the 5 days since the launch of the Textbooks section of the Apple Book Store, they have sold approximately 350,000 books according to Global Equities Research. They also apparently gave away 90,000 plus copies of the iBooks Author software for textbook production. If these numbers and trends continue, Apple could well have the largest book store sales in the world within a matter of weeks instead of the normal years that it took Amazon to get to the top….
The Erie Apple Crunchers Users Group has posted the dates for all of their 2012 meetings. The group serves the Erie, Pennsylvania and surrounding area and has been serving Apple users since 1978. For more information about the group or for the complete schedule, check out the website at: http://www.erieapplecrunchers.com
Soon, people may have to begin thinking of Apple and Harrods in the same sentence. A report in 9 to 5 Mac is reporting that there will soon be an in store Apple store at Haarrods. Harrods was sold in 2010 to the Qatar Investment Authority by then owner Mohamed Al-Fayed. in foot traffic, the Harrods store could have more traffic than any other store other than the grand central station store which was recently opened by Apple, Inc….
This week showed a bit of how fickle the market can be when it comes to stock trading. In spite of a good announcement from Apple, Inc. on the 19th of January, the stock fell off the pace more than 11 points. However, RBC Capital recently said that the stock is still a buy and could go as high as $525 a share. While this might be true, the upcoming Conference Call tomorrow evening (5pm EST) will definitely tell a…
Mike Fort has created a version of Mini vMac which has LocalTalk support included. The support is through the serial port in Mini vMac. The beta of the release which is based on the version 3.1.3 of Mini vMac, is now downloadable from Mike Fort’s website at: http://web.me.com/mikefort/Mini_vMac_LT/index.html Mike is also working on a gateway solution which would allow traffic to go beyond the LAN. The beta requires that you be running Mac OS X version 7.x in 32-Bit Mode.
Gerard Puter has released an update to his Virtual ][ emulator. The latest release addresses a couple of issues with the 6.4 release. They include: You can download the update from the Virtual ][ website at: http://www.virtualii.com/
Alex Lee, curator of the What is the Apple IIgs website has written an extensive write up about how Desktop Publishing really changed the computing world. The article shows the changes between the cut and paste era and the digital editing era and how the differences were reflected in the magazines that were produced. You can read the full article here: http://www.whatisthe2gs.apple2.org.za/professional-desktop-publishing-and-the-apple-ii/
The latest version of the ActiveGS Plugin has been Released. Version 3.5.762 was released to address and issue with the Chrome extension deployment. ActiveGS is the Apple IIgs emulation plugin written by the Free Tools Association and used in the Virtual Apple ][ website ( http://www.virtualapple.org ) For more information, check out the ActiveGS Plugin Support page at: http://activegs.freetoolsassociation.com/
For those iPhone and iPad users lucky enough to have downloaded iMame prior to its being pulled on the 23rd of December, 2011, there is a nifty new instruction set available on the Internet for adding more ROMs. iMame came with 10 ROMs but none of them were particulaly exciting from the aspect of the average gamer. The one thing that was exciting was the fact that MAME had made it into the Apple App store. This has been rectified…
Ivan Drucker, creator of Slammer and NuInput has updated his website. The changes include the addition of his recently created A2Server and a new section for other projects he is working on. However, as he says, “There is no other stuff. Yet.”. Ivan’s recently release A2Server is a file server which runs on modern machine allowing the Apple //e and IIgs to connect and boot from the server. Ivan added a version of A2Server ready to go on a VMWare…
While Apple has put camera’s in most every device that they produce these days, many in the military or government cannot use the devices due to the sensitive nature of their jobs. That is until now. The M1 Shop in Singapore has the iPhone 4S models with no camera for sale now. While the cameras are a bit priceier than the camera laden models, they are worth the price for those who must have the phone but cant have a…
If you are in the middle of renaming a ton of files by hand, stop. Now there is an easier way that doesn’t involve the command line. 7 Bit Guys’ Stuff has released Easy Rename for Mac OS X, which resolves the problem of doing a mass rename based on the pattern in the file name. While most UNIX users know how to do such a thing by command line, for those folk who want to do a quick rename…
A quick read of all of the supporting documentation for the iBooks Author program show that there are some limitations to the program. Apple shows the limit at 2GB and actually recommends only 1GB in order to make it easily accessible to the users. While this is not all that unusual for Apple to recommend smaller sizes, a quick check of the current offerings in the Textbook section shows that the Person Biology textbook is over 2.7gb. ALso, E.O Wilson’s…
Apple Inc. (AAPL) Stock price finished the week at $420.30 USD, off over 11 points from the high of $431.37 USD reached just before Apple’s January 19th event. The next time a number will be presented which will allow investors to judge how the company is doing will be the first quarter results conference call which is scheduled for 24 January at 5:00pm EST. In after hours trading the stock price did rebound slightly but is still well off of…
