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Jason O'Grady Featured in the Current Issue of AUGmentations from The Apple Groups Team (TAGteam) - by Jim Anderson

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The new issue features an exclusive interview with Jason O’;Grady, the controversial writer, author and mobile technologies expert that was under fire from Apple Computer recently and this personal, candid interview will let you in on a little bit more about the man, himself. Jupiter, FL (PRWEB) January 9, 2006 — The Apple Groups Team (TAGteam), a not-for-profit user group community organization, is very pleased and proud to announce that our delayed December edition of “AUGmentations: The Apple Groups Team Newsletter” is now available as a free download for its members. Membership is free. This issue features an exclusive interview with Jason O’;Grady, the controversial writer, author and mobile technologies expert that was under fire from Apple Computer recently and this personal, candid interview will let you in on a little bit more about the man, himself. “I have maintained the same partiality that I’;ve always had in my reporting on Apple – I call ‘;em like I see ‘;em and will continue to do what I do…” - Jason O’;Grady in AUGmentations Also in this issue: •How effective are the Macworld rumors? •’;VLogs, Moblogs and Vodcasting •Holiday Wish Lists (good for anytime of year) •News At The Core with Dennis Sellers •On Deck with Randy Decker AUGmentations is an exclusive benefit for user group leaders, vendors, resellers, manufacturers, developers, Apple Consultants Network (ACNs) and Apple staff who are members of The Apple Groups Team. Members of the press/media (please do not publish the link - press only) and TAGteam partners may download AUGmentations for December 2005: http://applegroups.org/files/augmentations/122005augm.zip Updated: The Apple Groups Team (TAGteam) site archives of our previous editions for public viewing after sixty days. Editions include interviews with Steve Wozniak, Deborah Shadovitz, Bob “Dr. Mac” LeVItus, Christopher Breen, Dave Marra, Adam Engst and others. About The Apple Groups Team (TAGteam): Originally founded in 1997 as “The Delaware Valley Macintosh User Groups” with the concept of bringing multiple user groups together for more vendor cost-effective presentations and community events, the organization evolved into “The Tri-State MUG Team” in 1999, “The Mid-Atlantic Apple & Macintosh User Groups Team” in 2002, and now becoming The Apple Groups Team with more than 80 groups worldwide and welcoming all user groups, vendors, manufacturers, developers and resellers. The mission: Helping to provide cooperation, collective efforts, camaraderie and FUN for everyone - 100% free of charge. For more information about joining the TAGteam Leaders’; eList, visit the following link: http://applegroups.org/list.html For more information about The Apple Groups Team (TAGteam), visit: http://www.applegroups.org/ Contact: Jim Anderson, PR Officer The Apple Groups Team (TAGteam) www.applegroups.org The Apple Groups Team (TAGteam) is not affiliated with Apple Computer. All trademarks are property of their respective owners. ###

Ipod and MP3: Major Players - by David Smith

admin — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 05:15:02 +0000

Apple Computer was one of the pioneers of the PC industry and remains so today. It is one of the largest computer companies in the world, with sales of $6.2 billion in fiscal 2003. Apple designs, manufactures, and distributes a host of computer and related products, including desktop computers, notebooks, servers, and storage arrays, along with its own proprietary operating system and applications. In the past few years, Apple entered the music marketplace with its popular iPod music player and iTunes Music Store, which sells legally downloadable songs. Apple currently dominates the markets for both of these products. iPod Forum

Furthermore, Apple is scheduled to come to market over the next few months with several new products that should garner significant attention and drive incremental business. Apple also chose to control a greater percentage of its product distribution due to the differentiated nature of its products, a strategy that has been successful to date and may have played a key role in the company’s ability to hold PC market share in two of the past three quarters after consistently losing share in the marketplace for each of the past four years.

Our analysis indicates iTunes has the potential to be somewhat accretive to the overall business model if downloads continue to increase at their current pace and Apple can increase the number of songs downloaded per session, which would leverage the fixed credit check costs the company incurs per order. However, industry experts believe it will add only a few pennies to the bottom line as Apple continues to reinvest in the business. The main value iTunes brings to Apple’s business is increased awareness of Apple’s products and Web site traffic, which Apple can use to cross-sell its other products, especially iPod.

Understandably, Apple wants to avoid selling PCs at a loss, but unfortunately the growth prospects for $1,000-plus PCs are limited. This presents a conundrum for Apple longer term, but for now it maintains its current strategy. Incidentally, Apple’s revenue share has held much better, and while this is not an often-discussed topic, revenue share is probably more important than unit share. With regard to the compatibility of Windows and Mac OS X, even though Apple made a concerted effort to educate consumers about the ease with which these two products work together, it has fallen on deaf ears for the most part. Apple made some progress through its retail stores, where it estimates half of Mac purchases are from first-time buyers, but for Apple’s stock to work over the long term, the company needs to maintain share against Windows, at a minimum.

On a brighter note and possibly a sign of things to come, Apple reported strong Mac growth in its June quarter and held share. The June quarter is seasonally slow for most computer companies, but it is the education buying season, a market where Apple is regaining lost share. One quarter does not make a trend, but this may be a direct result of the increased awareness iTunes and iPod have brought to the Apple brand. http://www.ipodreviewforum.com

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iPhones in the UK: Changing Entertainment… - by Andrena Markley

admin — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 19:00:06 +0000

Mobile phones are perhaps the greatest wonders of the 20th century. These small yet powerful gadgets have transformed our lives into sophistication - communication is now a matter of few presses on the keypad. Mobile phones have metamorphosed into an all-in-one device. Apart from making and receiving calls, you can freeze some decent stills and videos, listen to music on the move, play lifelike games, access the web and what not! Apple iPhones boast of all these features which are selling like mad all across the globe.

The UK is a very good market for Apple. Apple is seeing very good response for its iPhones in the UK also. As we all know, iPhone managed to capture the hearts of many of those who waited in line for getting a device that works well as a mobile and plays music cool as a music device. Surprisingly, Apple sold half million units in the first 24 hours of its launch. “It’s awesome, it’s the best thing I ever saw in my life,” said New York private detective Jerry Gregory. “Once people see this phone they are going to want one. Everybody I show this phone wants one, even people who were anti-iPhone.”

With the availability of all types of mobile handsets of all make in the UK, Apple had no option but to offer the best quality features in its iPhones to compete in the burgeoning UK mobile market. The iPhone launched by Apple is a multimedia and Internet-enabled quad-band GSM phone with EDGE data support. Features like 3.5 inch touchscreen display, 2.0 megapixel camera, 4or 8GB internal memory, iPods, iTunes, H.264 etc. make the Apple iPhone a gem of a device.

In the UK, Apple iPhones can be purchased online from several online mobile phone shops. They are also available with most of the on-street mobile outlets.

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iPhone 3G Stylus

admin — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 08:13:32 +0000

Excellent accessory for your iPhone 3G or Ipod Touch. Lightweight stylus allows for smooth damage-free navigation across touchscreen! Same technology as other sytlus that retail for $20! Rubber angled tip provides enough contact with screen to allow proper electrocurrent flow to replicate the use of your finger on the touchscreen. Best for typing and selecting rather than “dragging”. To use properly, place entire flat edge of angled side, not just the tip of the angle, on the trouchscreen. Item wll not function proplerly if entire angled edge is not making full contact with the screen. Item comes with “pen clip” so that you do not lose it. Great accessory for your Iphone 3G or Ipod touch. Black color available (search Amazon for B001BSBVNA)

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iPhones : about to launch in uk - by adam caitlin

admin — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 02:45:04 +0000

have transformed our lives into sophistication - communication is now a matter of few presses on the keypad. Mobile phones have metamorphosed into an all-in-one device. Apart from making and receiving calls, you can freeze some decent stills and videos, listen to music on the move, play lifelike games, access the web and what not! Apple iPhones boast of all these features which are selling like mad all across the globe.

In the UK, Apple iPhones can be purchased online from several online mobile phone shops. They are also available with most of the on-street mobile outlets.

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iPhone Orbit, a resource for the hottest gadget of all time - by Simon Gittins

admin — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:30:04 +0000

iphoneorbit.com has been set up as a massive resource for all things iPhone. News, features, pricing and availability can all be found at iphoneorbit.com

The iPhone is a multimedia and Internet-enabled mobile phone, announced by Apple CEO Steve Jobs during the keynote address at the Macworld Conference & Expo on 9 January 2007, that is scheduled to be released on 29 June 2007 in the U.S. at 6 p.m in an unspecified time zone.

The iPhone’s features include those of a camera phone, a multimedia player, mobile phone, and Internet services like e-mail, text messaging, web browsing, Visual Voicemail and wireless connectivity. iPhone input is accomplished via touchscreen with virtual keyboard and buttons. The iPhone is a quad-band GSM phone, though Jobs mentioned in his keynote that Apple has a “plan to make 3G phones” in the future.Apple has filed more than 200 patents related to the technology behind the iPhone.

The iPhone’ s pricing and availability is subject to speculation, but is expected to be available initially from the Apple Store and from AT&T Mobility, formerly Cingular Wireless, with a price of US$499 for the 4 GB model and US$599 for the 8 GB model, based on a two-year service contract. Apple intends to make the phone available in Europe in Q4 2007 and in Asia in 2008.

Several addons are expected such as car chargers and holders, cases and earphone options

Simon Gittins, website designer,electronic and gadget enthusiast. Based in Newcastle upon Tyne England.

CaseCrown iPhone 3G 3GS Soft Polycarbonate Slim Fit Case - Pink

admin — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 08:05:25 +0000

Snap this CaseCrown PolyCarbonate Slim Fit Case onto your iPhone 3GS 3G to not only protect your phone, but also to enhance its aesthetics. This case offers optimal protection from dust, scratches, and damage as it remains securely onto your iPhone. The plastic material is malleable enough for you to secure it onto your phone without breakage, but hard enough to protect your phone. Show off your Apple logo with this case with a specific showcase opening. Use all of your iPhone features without having to remove it from the case: camera, headset, screen, port, etc. This case will comfortably fit in your hand with its ergonomic anti-slip design. This simple but stylish case is available in other colors!

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iPhone First Week Sales Lead to Sell Outs - by Abigail Beal

admin — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 02:15:04 +0000

Initial first weekend sales estimates are approximated at 500,000 to 700,000 for the latest Apple product. The iPhone is soon to become just as popular as other products, such as the iPod or the Macintosh computer.

Blackfriars Marketing noted an average of two to three customers coming out of the Apple stores with iPhones on Friday night every single minute. With this fact, they considered that at peak time, sales for Apple could have reached 30,000 per hour. Between Apple and AT&T it is believed that they have sold 500,000 iPhones the opening weekend. Trip Chowdhry of Global Equities Research estimates that the number of iPhones sold that opening weekend would be a bit higher: 525,000.

The Wall Street Journal Online afternoon report stated that:

“Goldman Sachs pegged weekend sales at least 700,000 units — double its prediction of 350,000 — and raised its projection for iPhone sales to 5.3 million from four million. J.P. Morgan analysts were considerably less sanguine, saying Apple would recognize 312,000 unit sales for the just-ended quarter. “We believe initial demand may have been disappointing, but it’s still early,” they wrote.”

All this buying frenzy led to empty shelves at Apple Stores and AT&T outlets across the country. The iPhone can be ordered online from the Apple website, but there is a two to four week wait for delivery. Not surprisingly the iPhone is already available at online auction site eBay.com.

In fact an auction was just how the first iPhone itself was obtained. One person paid $100,000 to get the popular phone - and to support a good cause. As of this writing the lucky winner still remains anonymous. Proceeds for the charity auction benefited Keep A Child Alive, a charity that gives anti-retroviral treatment to children with AIDS in Africa.

Abigail Beal writes about issues of interest to community groups and non profit organizations. She is a frequent contributor to StepbyStepFundraising.com which provides information about fundraising options such as charity auctions.

How will the iPhone affect the mobile phone market - by Paul Smith

admin — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 12:00:04 +0000

US firm Apple has confirmed its move into the telecoms industry, unveiling the long-awaited iPhone.

Users will be able to download music and videos with the phone, demonstrated by Apple boss Steve Jobs at the annual Macworld Expo in San Francisco.

Mr Jobs praised the phone’s design and told the audience the “magical device” would “revolutionise the industry”.

The phone, which will cost from $499 (£257) to $599, will be launched in the US in June and Europe later this year.

Apple is not yet saying how much the iPhone will cost in the UK, but using the comparison of a Mac mini computer the 4 gigabyte (GB) model would be about £335.

Also revealed at the Macworld Expo was Apple TV, a device to stream music and movies from a computer to the living room.

‘Super-smart’

The announcement ended months of speculation about the iPhone, which has no conventional buttons but instead uses a large touch-screen.

The firm has patented keyboard technology on the 11.6mm thick phone, calling it “multi-touch”.

It is essentially a computer with a blank screen that users configure so they can operate the monitor with their fingers.

But as the hype piled up Jobs told us we were witnessing history and he was going to reinvent the telephone - some doubts crept in.
Rory Cellan-Jones
BBC News’ Technology Correspondent

“We are all born with the ultimate pointing device - our fingers - and iPhone uses them to create the most revolutionary user interface since the mouse,” said Mr Jobs.

A full touch keyboard is available for text messaging and there is a built-in two megapixel camera.

Mr Jobs said the iPhone was a “revolutionary and magical product that is literally five years ahead of any other mobile phone”.

“It works like magic… It’s far more accurate than any touch display ever shipped. It ignores unintended touches. It’s super-smart.”

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History Of Apple Trees - by Pat Malcolm

admin — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 23:45:06 +0000

Apple trees were the most popularly grown fruit tree in colonial America and practically every settlement farm and backyard gardener planted this easily grown fruit tree, or easier, the seed of the apple could be planted to establish a permanent food supply. Growing these apple tree products could be eaten fresh or could be dried and preserved in many different ways to eat at a later time. Historical instances on the existence of apple trees are documented from folklore, legends, stone images on carved tablets, petrified slices of apples on plates for tomb offerings, and overwhelming numbers of references from Hebrew Bible scriptures and innumerable writings from poetry, songs, literary publications, and many other surviving accounts of all civilizations in the ancient world. One of the earliest archeological evidences of apple tree fruit comes from the remains of excavations from Jericho, Jordan, that has been dated 6500 BC by radiochemical analysis of carbon atoms.
The petrified remains of apple slices that were found in a saucer of an ancient Mesopotamian tomb, the burial site of royalty dates back to 2500 BC and was uncovered in southern Iran. In the ancient historical accounts of the fruit of the apple tree, there appears to be an incomprehensible trail of evidence that no other fruit could match. The interest shown in apples by the Greek and Roman philosophers, poets, historians, and literary masters was even extended to Renaissance painters, royal chefs to the Tsars of Russia and too many other references to mention.
In colonial America, apple trees were grown and planted from seeds in orchards by William Blackstone at Boston, Massachusetts in the 1600’s. Early documents on file at the National Library in Washington, DC suggest that all land owners in Massachusetts had begun growing apple trees by the 1640’s.
William Bartram, the famous explorer and botanist, wrote in his book, Travels, “I observed, in a very thriving condition, two or three large apple trees” in 1773, while traveling near Mobile, Alabama. It is important to realize that these large apple trees found growing in Alabama in 1773 could very easily have been grown from the seed planted by Creek Indians. Those seed may have been obtained by the Indians from American colonists on the Eastern coast of the United States at a much earlier time or from French farmers who settles in areas of agricultural land grants north of Mobile. General Oglethorpe planned in 1733 to plant “various plants, subtropical and temperate, which might prove valuable for Georgian farms and orchards,” according to William Bartram in his book Travels, published 40 years later. William Bartram’s father, John Bartram, trip to “East Florida” (Florida, Georgia, and the Carolinas) was, in part at least, an attempt to inventory the plant resources of England’s new acquisition–after expelling the Spanish from East Florida.
Many modern botanists believe that the improved apple that we know today descended from the crabapple that is commonly interplanted with apple trees for cross pollination. Old documents record that fact “cultivated apples descended from crab-tree or wild apple-Pyrus malus.” Wild crabapple tree seeds appeared on the list of collected seeds in the Plant List of 1783 of William Bartram and his father, John Bartram. In William Bartram’s book, Travels in 1773, he “observed amongst them (fruit trees) the wild crab (Pyrus coronaria) in his explorations near Mobile, Alabama. Robert Prince established the first operating nursery in the American colonies at Flushing, New York, in the 1700’s, where he offered apple trees for sale at his nursery that was visited by General George Washington, who later became the first President of the United States. President Thomas Jefferson was planting and growing apple trees at his fruit tree orchard in Monticello, Virginia, in the early 1800’s.
The legendary Johnny Appleseed was responsible for the rapid development of the apple trees growing and planting when he established a nursery in the Midwest that sold both apple trees and seed to be planted for growing into trees in the 1800’s. Over 2000 cultivars of apple trees are listed as being grown today, many of the trees resulting from the huge apple seed dispersion that was begun by the memorable ambition of Johnny Appleseed to entirely cover the landscape of America with the fruit of apple trees.
Over the centuries, apple trees became susceptible to many disease problems such as fire blight; however, Dr. C.S. Crandall from the University of Illinois performed several backcrosses that involved modern cultivars and the apple tree ancestor ‘crabapple,’ Malus floribunda. The wild crabapple contained an immunity factor within its genetic composition towards all major bacterial and fungal diseases of apple trees. In 1989, researchers from the pomology department at Cornell University extracted an immune fire blight gene from a nocturnal moth and transplanted it into an apple fruit, resulting in the total defeat of fire blight in that particular apple tree cultivar.
Fruiting of apple trees is perhaps the most troublesome characteristic experienced by an orchardist or a backyard fruit tree gardener. Most cultivars of apple trees require cross pollination of two separate varieties in order to set fruit on the tree.
It is necessary that the blossoms of the two apple tree flowers develop pollen at the same time, in order that fruit will be set, which can be a tricky problem to correct. The simplist solution to pollinate apple trees is to use the ancestor of the modern day apple cultivars, the crabapple, which sheds its pollen over a long period of time and easily overlaps the apple tree cultivar flowering period. Crabapple trees produce a fruit that is much smaller than the common apple, but it can be used in cooking in various ways, and it is loved by wildlife in the fall and winter when wildlife food is scarce for animals and birds. Crabapple trees are also valuable when used as flowering trees that begin blooming in early spring with huge clusters of pink, white, and even red blossoms. Several outstanding grafted flowering tree selections are available, such as: Brandywine, Red Perfection, Radiant, and Spring Snow.
Apple trees are easy to grow, and if a gardener purchases a large tree, he may experience fruit development even on the first year of planting and growing. The selection of the proper cultivar of grafted apple trees is extremely important, because even though the apple fruit can be grown in most areas of the United States, the trees require different amounts of chilling temperatures in order to flower. The interesting introduction of low chill cultivars from Israel makes it possible to experience apple growing and planting as far south as Florida. Certain popularly grown cultivars of apple trees in the United States today are: Arkansas Black, Gala, Granny Smith, Red Rome, Anna, Red Fuji, Yates, Golden Delicious, Red Delicious, Anna, Ein Shemer, and Golden Dorsett. Apples contain some mysterious quality that can preserve it from deterioration for centuries. Apple slices can be dried and kept delicious for long periods of time. This mysterious characteristic may be recognized by man’s association of paradise being connected and related to Eve and Adam picking apples from a fruit tree growing in paradise for their eternal pleasure, that was planted by God and described as the tree of life at the fabled Garden of Eden. We see this fruit of paradise recurs in the history of many other ancient civilizations. A similar account that we read as children in the book of Genesis from the scriptures in the Hebrew Bible.
Perhaps this mysterious genetic quality of apples in preservation makes it so important as providing medical benefits backed up by that memorable proverb, “an apple a day keeps the doctor away.” Experiments from researchers in California have shown that apple fruit is very rich in antioxidants, a biological compound that combats, stroke, heart disease, and many other health problems.

Patrick A. Malcolm, owner of TyTy Nursery, has an M.S. degree in Biochemistry and has cultivated apple trees for over three decades.