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Inside Apple: How America's Most Admired - and Secretive - Company Really Works
Facts About Apple's Business That Will Blow Your Mind
MacBook (Mid 2010) EFI Firmware Update 2.1
Mac mini (Mid 2010) EFI Firmware Update 1.5
MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2010) EFI Firmware Update 2.5
Battery Status 1.0 Menu Bar Charge Status Monitor
Corel Painter 12 (Windows/Mac) Digital Art Software
aText Text Macro Utility
Announcing iFixit.org: The People Who Are Fixing the World
An Interview With HackintoshUK - Which Offers PCs That Run Lion
Logitech Solar Keyboard and the Scroll Lock/Num Lock Keys
Inside Apple: How America's Most Admired - and Secretive - Company Really Works
Adam Lashinsky's Inside Apple reveals the secret systems, tactics and leadership strategies that allowed Steve Jobs and his company to churn out hit after hit and inspire a cult-like following for its products.
If Apple is Silicon Valley's answer to Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory, then author Adam Lashinsky provides readers with a golden ticket to step inside. In this primer on leadership and innovation, the author will introduce readers to concepts like the "DRI" (Apple's practice of assigning a Directly Responsible Individual to every task) and the Top 100 (an annual ritual in which 100 up-and-coming executives are tapped a la Skull & Bones for a secret retreat with company founder Steve Jobs).
Based on numerous interviews, the book offers exclusive new information about how Apple innovates, deals with its suppliers and is handling the transition into the Post Jobs Era. Lashinsky, a Senior Editor at Large for Fortune, knows the subject cold: In a 2008 cover story for the magazine entitled The Genius Behind Steve: Could Operations Whiz Tim Cook Run The Company Someday? - he predicted that Tim Cook, then an unknown, would eventually succeed Steve Jobs as CEO.
While Inside Apple is ostensibly a deep dive into one, unique company (and its ecosystem of suppliers, investors, employees and competitors), the lessons about Jobs, leadership, product design and marketing are universal. They should appeal to anyone hoping to bring some of that Apple magic to their own company, career, or creative endeavor.
List Price: $26.99
Amazon Price: $16.19
For more information, visit:
http://amzn.to/zX54Vh
Facts About Apple's Business That Will Blow Your Mind
BusinessInsider's Jay Yarow says he's run through all the biggest numbers and added some context to give you an idea of how well Apple is doing right now.
For the full report, visit:
http://read.bi/zeeoXC
MacBook (Mid 2010) EFI Firmware Update 2.1
MacBook EFI Firmware Update 2.1 enables Lion Recovery from an Internet connection on MacBook (Mid 2010) models.
For more information about Lion Recovery, visit this website:
http://www.apple.com/macosx/recovery/
The MacBook EFI Firmware Update will update the EFI firmware on your notebook computer. Your computer's power cord must be connected and plugged into a working power source. When your MacBook restarts, a gray screen will appear with a status bar to indicate the progress of the update. It will take several minutes for the update to complete. Do not disturb or shut off the power on your MacBook during this update.
Boot ROM or SMC Version Information: MB71.0039.B0E
Version: 2.1
File Size: 3.1 MB
System Requirements
Mac OS X 10.7.2
For more information, visit:
http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1480
Mac mini (Mid 2010) EFI Firmware Update 1.5
Mac mini EFI Firmware Update 1.5 enables Lion Recovery from an Internet connection on Mac mini (Mid 2010) models and addresses an issue where the setting to restart after a power failure may not be retained.
For more information about Lion Recovery, please visit this website:
http://www.apple.com/macosx/recovery/
The Mac mini EFI Firmware Update will update the EFI firmware on your computer. Your computer's power cord must be connected and plugged into a working power source. When your Mac mini restarts, a gray screen will appear with a status bar to indicate the progress of the update. It will take several minutes for the update to complete. Do not disturb or shut off the power on your Mac mini during this update.
Boot ROM or SMC Version Information: MM41.0042.B03
File Size: 3 MB
System Requirements:
Mac OS X 10.7.2
For more information, visit:
http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1479
MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2010) EFI Firmware Update 2.5
MacBook Pro EFI Firmware Update 2.5
This update enables Lion Recovery from an Internet connection on MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2010) models.
For more information about Lion Recovery, visit this website:
http://www.apple.com/macosx/recovery/
The MacBook Pro EFI Firmware Update will update the EFI firmware on your notebook computer. Your computer's power cord must be connected and plugged into a working power source. When your MacBook Pro restarts, a gray screen will appear with a status bar to indicate the progress of the update. It will take several minutes for the update to complete. Do not disturb or shut off the power on your MacBook Pro during this updatep
Boot ROM or SMC Version Information: MB71.0039.B0E
File Size: 3.1 MB
System Requirements
• Mac OS X 10.7.2
Battery Status 1.0 Menu Bar Charge Status Monitor
Taylor Marks' Battery Status 1.0 is a menu bar application that shows battery information for Apple's external wireless mice, trackpads, and keyboards. It includes display of percentage of battery life remaining, date of last battery change, and "when the battery is estimated to die."
Battery Status is a handy little app that lives on the right side of the menu bar and will tell you, for each supported wireless device connected to your computer,
- What percent of the battery life is remaining.
- When the last time you replaced the battery was.
- When the battery is estimated to die.
Supported wireless devices include Apple's wireless mice, trackpads, and keyboards. If you have another wireless device that you'd like supported, don't hesitate to contact me, the developer, and I'll look into adding support for it in a free update to Battery Status.
Battery Status is currently on sale at an introductory price of just 1/3 of what it will be in a few days.
System requirements:
• Mac OS X 10.7 or later, 64-bit processor
App Store:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id496730170?mt=12
Corel Painter 12 (Windows/Mac) Digital Art Software
Corel Painter 12 is digital art software. Designed for artists by artists, it opens up a world of creativity by offering progressive drawing tools, lifelike Natural-Media brushes and the most realistic digital painting experience. With its impressive array of brushes, paper textures, paints, oils, watercolors and more, there are no limits to what you can create! And thanks to extensive file support, you can also build upon projects you've started in other programs, making Painter a great complement to Adobe Photoshop. This latest version helps artists evolve their creative possibilities more than ever! See it for yourself with a free trialPainter is changing whats possible in art.
Painter 12.1 Features
• Most realistic digital painting tools
• Breakthrough brush developments
• Customize to your liking
• Supports Adobe Photoshop files
Painters RealBristle brushes represent a major milestone for digital painting, reproducing the movement and feeling of traditional art on canvas when paired with a graphics tablet.
Progressive Digital Art Capabilities
New Kaleidoscope and Mirror painting features let you create electrifying patterns and colors on canvas, leveraging the symmetry, speed and precision of mirrored planes. This Kaleidoscope painting capability is exclusive to Painter.
Designed For Comfort
Painter 12 offers seven different workspaces, designed to make new users, Adobe Photoshop users, photographers, concept artists and others feel at home. Choose the workspace thats right for you, or create your own as you go along.
Perfect Complement To Other Software And Hardware
Photoshop support lets you easily work with Photoshop files and correctly preserve colors and layers when transferring files from Photoshop to Painter. Support for the latest pen tablets from Wacom gives you exceptional freedom of movement.
For more information, visit:
http://bit.ly/yP83LS
aText Text Macro Utility
Tran K. Nam's aText 1.5 is an auto-typing utility that recognizes custom abbreviations you type and automatically replaces them with snippets you've defined.
This release adds Search Snippets with a hot key, wildcard searches, suggestions for snippet abbreviations with a hot key, and other changes.
aText accelerates your typing by replacing abbreviations with frequently used phrases you define.
E.g. make an abbreviation myname to insert your name First Middle Last in any application.
With aText you can easily avoid typing the same thing over and over.
aText also makes it easier to type symbols as well as images and formatted text.
More Features
• Insert the current date and time in any format
• Embed clipboard content within snippet, embed snippet within another, send keys, use editable fields in snippet.
• Reposition the cursor in the expanded snippet.
• Built-in snippet groups for misspelling correcting, HTML and JavaScript coding.
• Import data from TextExpander, TypeIt4Me.
New in Version 1.5:
• New: Search Snippets with hotkey.
• Wildcard Search.
• New: Suggest snippet abbreviations with hotkey.
• Change setting "Expand at delimiter (discard delimiter)" to "Expand at Tab or Enter key".
• Bug fixes.
System requirements:
Mac OS X 10.6 or later
$4.99
Product page:
http://www.trankynam.com/atext/
App Store:
http://bit.ly/zPDCfP
Announcing iFixit.org: The People Who Are Fixing the World
iFixit, which taught millions of people how to fix their things have launched iFixit.org, a new site designed to address the "who and why" of repair.
On iFixit.org, they will...
(*) profile repair gurus from around the world, as in this post about Saleh, a car mechanic in Cairo
http://createsend.ifixit.com/t/r/l/ihhthtt/mydkhpy/j/
(*) investigate the motivations of people who do repair, as in this post about Simon Njugi, a water-pump repair man from Kenya
http://createsend.ifixit.com/t/r/l/ihhthtt/mydkhpy/i/
(*) and consider the larger ethical and philosophical issues surrounding repair, as in this post about how to find a responsible e-waste recycler
http://createsend.ifixit.com/t/r/l/ihhthtt/mydkhpy/d/
They will also be posting updates about their upcoming documentary, "Fixers," currently in post-production. My documentary team and I have been traveling to developing countries in Asia and Africa, visiting small repair shops, meeting "fixers" who breathe new life into devices the western world has tossed away, and filming the journey. Each post will showcase some photography from those travels.
Stay tuned here:
ifixit.org/301/announcing-ifixit/
An Interview With HackintoshUK - Which Offers PCs That Run Lion
HackintoshUK ( http://www.hackintoshuk.com/ ) is a new UK company that sells "Hackintoshs" - PCs that run Mac OS X 10.7 ("Lion"). Recently, "MacNews/MacTech" interviewed Tristan Kirkpatrick of HackintoshUK to get some details about the company - including how they planned to avoid the fate of Psystar.
You can check it out at:
http://bit.ly/AbIO3g
Logitech Solar Keyboard and the Scroll Lock/Num Lock Keys
Editor's Note; I use a Logitech Solar Keyboard for Mac. It's not the perfect keyboard, but it's a very good one, and not having to mess around with batteries is a huge advantage.
For Charles W. Moore's full review of the Logitech Solar Keyboard for Mac, visit:
http://bit.ly/hDHM9K
I wish it had a Caps Lock warning LED, and that AppleScripts assigned to F-Keys didn't need the fn modifier key to toggle them (oddly, this is not an issue with the Windows PC version of the Logitech Solar 'board).
OS X Hints contributor robg notes that this keyboard lacks a few other things, including dedicated Scroll Lock and Num Lock keys, that you may find on other keyboards. I hadn't noted that, but robg says they're useful if you working in Excel, which I don't use, and after some trial and error, and some Googling, he figured out how to turn them on and off.
You can check it out at:
http://macw.us/w0FXSZ
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