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
If one really thinks about it, text files are a kind of virtual memory. You can add strings, retrieve strings. And if the strings are of a fixed length, then you can even replace strings in a text file. But I found the text file commands of DOS3.3 and Basic.system very slow. Some recommendations were to save your strings to a BIN file instead. So I combined the two and created a sort of semi-Virtual memory for strings Applesoft is…
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…
This week, Apple shook up the education and textbook world with the introduction of iBooks 2.0, iTunesU for k-12 and of course their now ever so popular iBooks Author. Many educators we have talked to seemed enthusiastic about the possibilities presented with the new application, however, Apple has a caveat in the End User Licensing Agreement which prevents users of iBooks Author from selling books created with the package anywhere else other than Apple’s iBook Store. While PDF’s exported from…
Apple has released an update to iTunes to reflect the new introductions of software in New York City yesterday. This new version of iTunes allows users to sync their ipads with the new iBook textbooks purchased from Apple through the iTunes store. For more information about the update, go to: http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1426
This morning, Apple announced their new initiative to make education one of their highest priorities. This announcement has not really changed their stance on the subject of education, but the way in which they did it deserves merit. The first thing that Apple did is to eliminate the physical books and the cutting down of trees to print those books. This alone will save Billions of dollars each year and definitely help save the forests that are so important to…
Laminar Research, the producers of the X-Plane franchise of flight simulators, have released a new video highlighting their latest version of the product. X-Plane 10 was recently released on the desktop for multiple platforms and they have been slowly implementing some of the new features into the latest mobile offerings as well. The video is two minute fifteen seconds long. While we wanted more from the video, it did show brief glimpses of what Laminar Research is doing and the…
The Video from this mornings Apple Event in New York City is now available in the Apple iTunes Store. The event was held at 10am and was primarily focused on Apple’s push for education, introducing iBooks 2.0, iBooks Author, and the iTunesU App, You can download the latest video or any of the previous events from the iTunes store at: http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/apple-keynotes/id275834665
