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Apple's Other Operating System
Mac Enterprise Sales Surged In June
Apple's Government Mac Sales Surge 200%, Enterprise Grows 50%
British Contributions To The History Of Computers
Apple Reseller Slashes Mac Prices To Lowest Seen All Year
Welcome to the iMac Touch
Why I'm Sticking With the Mac
Intel: Dual-core N550 Atom Netbooks On Sale Now (Or Soon)
Buffalo Scrollwheel Mouse Looks And Works Like An iPod
CleanHaven Freeware Text Cleaner Utility For MacOS X, Windows and Linux
Giving Family History a Voice With MacSpeech Dictate





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Apple's Other Operating System

John Siracusa, writing for Macworld.com asks:

With all the attention being paid to the iOS, whither Mac OS X?

Until a few months ago, I fully expected Apple to announce Mac OS X 10.7 at this year s Worldwide Developer Conference. But when I saw that there was no Mac-specific track on the conference schedule and that Mac apps would be excluded from the annual Apple Design Awards, I got the message loud and clear: iOS and the products it powers the iPhone, iPod touch, and now the iPad are now the stars of Apple s software show. Mac OS X, last updated a year ago, now plays second fiddle.

For the full commentary, visit:
http://www.macworld.com/article/153576/2010/08/siracusa_osx.html






Government, Business Mac Sales Surge

MacNN reports:

Macs saw unusually high levels of government and business interest during the June quarter, says Needham analyst Charlie Wolf. Looking back at figures, Wolf notes that government Mac sales grew a colossal 200.8 percent year-over-year, over 16 times faster than the rest of the PC market's 12.1 percent.....

For the full report, visit here:
http://bit.ly/boFB2N






Mac Enterprise Sales Surged In June

Fortune's Philip Elmer-DeWitt reports:

Given the Mac's tiny share of the worldwide PC market -- roughly 3.5% as of June -- Apple has a lot of room to grow. And grow it did in the second quarter, as a note to clients issued Monday by Needham's Charlie Wolf makes clear....

To read more, click here.
http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2010/08/23/mac-enterprise-sales-surged-in-june/






Apple's Government Mac Sales Surge 200%, Enterprise Grows 50%

Appleinsider's Neil Hughes reports:

Apple's Mac sales to enterprise and government customers in the June quarter saw tremendous growth, easily beating competing PC makers in the three-month span.

As noted by analyst Charlie Wolf of Needham & Company Monday, Mac government sales grew 200.8 percent year over year in the June quarter, well beyond the 12.1 percent growth seen by the rest of the PC market.

For the full report, visit here:
http://bit.ly/dkYgfs






British Contributions To The History Of Computers

The Telegraph's Claudine Beaumont says that while US companies such as Apple and Microsoft dominate the modern computing landscape, historically, British mathematicians, scientists and engineers have been at the forefront of the computing revolution, helping to shape many of the rules and theories that underpin the concept of computing and problem-solving.

[Editor's note: Nice photo of an Apple Lisa heading this article. Ed.]

For the full commentary, visit:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/7955813/The-history-of-computers.html






Apple Reseller Slashes Mac Prices To Lowest Seen All Year

AppleInsider Staff report:

In a bid to capitalize on this year's back-to-school shopping season, one of Apple's largest authorized resellers has dropped Mac prices to the lowest seen this year, offering $150 of white MacBooks, up to $180 off new iMacs, and up to $300 off MacBook Pros....

For the full report, visit here:
http://bit.ly/cyZrCA






Welcome to the iMac Touch

PatentlyApple reports:

While most of us were getting ready for the iPad's arrival in January and Patently Apple hard at work preparing our major series called the Tablet Prophecies, a major iMac Touch patent was being quietly published in Europe. And while some of the graphic figures of today's patent did slip out in Europe, we were never able to verify whether they were legitimate or not. Well, today we finally get to post the Mother Lode of all information concerning the iMac Touch and it's absolutely brilliant!...

For the full report, visit here:
http://bit.ly/bRV8I3






Why I'm Sticking With the Mac

Macworld's Daniel Jalkut says:

Let's face it: The iPad, iPhone, and iPod really are pretty great. But as a long-time Mac developer, I have to admit that I'm disappointed that they've overshadowed my beloved desktop computer. For several years there, the Mac faithful were treated to a revival in Mac marketing. But lately, "Hello, I'm a Mac" has been replaced by "There's an app for that."...

I'm spending a lot of time and energy targeting these new products. But I'm also still committed to the Mac.

For the full commentary, visit:
http://bit.ly/9WXmNy






Intel: Dual-core N550 Atom Netbooks On Sale Now (Or Soon)

Netbooks are not dead yet, and they're getting a turbo-boost

The Register's Tony Smith reports that Intel has announced the arrival of netbooks based on its new dual-core Atom processor, the N550, naming Acer, Asus, Fujitsu, Lenovo, LG, Samsung, MSI and Toshiba as netbook manufacturers who will be shipping N550-based machines "now and through the end of the year."

Intel claims its DDR 3-supporting CPU's battery drain profile is "similar" to that of the ubiquitous single-core 1.66GHz N450 netbook chip, which consumes up to 5.5W of power, thanks to the N550 running at a lower clock speed of 1.5GHz, the operative theory being that the extra core more than compensates for the slower clock speed.

N550 netbooks will support displays of up to 12 inches according to Smith's report, which you can read here:
http://bit.ly/bf0VHE






Buffalo Scrollwheel Mouse Looks And Works Like An iPod

This extremely small (8mm thick) 800dpi USB mouse from Buffalo features an automatically retractable cable (at the push of a button) and a unique scrollwheel for web surfing and other applications.

When you turn the scrollwheel left or right, it moves to the document. But when you push down on the left or right side, it acts as a mouse click. The scroll wheel has a glowing blue LED, and the mouse comes in white, silver, or black.

Features:
• 8mm Thick
• Unique Scroll Wheel
• Retractable Cable

Starting at $69.99

For more information, visit:
http://www.dynamism.com/accessories/mouse_buffalo.shtml






CleanHaven Freeware Text Cleaner Utility For MacOS X, Windows and Linux

CleanHaven is a program designed to make text cleaning much easier. The cleaned text can be reset as the main text with additional cleaning performed. Once finished the cleaned text is available from the global cleaned text window. You may want CleanHaven to make changes to thousands of lines of contact details before importing into CRMHaven. For example you can turn all company names to Sentence Case, postcodes to Uppercase or remove any trailing spaces, tabs or punctuation. Copy a column of data from Excel, clean it, then paste it back into Excel.

How CleanHaven works:

• Simply paste the text you want to clean into the main window. There is no limit to the amount of text that can be pasted.

• Set the attribute you want cleaned such as setting the text to Title Case above. You can set multiple attributes.
When you are ready press the Clean button - the converted text will appear in the Cleaned Results window. If the text has not changed the way you expected, change the attribute and click Clean again.

Values Handled:
Case (Title Case, Sentence Case, UPPERCASE, lowercase, random case, curly quotes), Sort order (ascending, case-sensitive, descending, random, reverse, numerical value), Duplicates (remove, only duplicates, only unique), Remove characters (excess returns, excess spaces, linefeeds, linefeeds to returns, non-ASCII, non-letters, non-numbers, periods, punctuation, returns, returns to linefeeds, spaces, tabs), Personal (combine columns, combine paragraphs, email address to web URL, full name to first/last name, phone number format, salutation, UK postcodes), Info (only correctly-spelled words, only incorrectly-spelled words, original-spelling and result, ASCII, overall text information, value and frequency) and Find and Replace text.

Options:
• The cleaned text will appear in the Cleaned window.
• If you want to make further changes to the changed text, click the Make Source button to pass the cleaned text back into the main window.
• Set more attributes and keep repeating as needed.

New in CleanHaven version 2.1:

• [New} You can now perform most functions by words as well as paragraphs. The Cleaned Results window will reflect the results word by word.


• [New] You can now toggle between Table and Text views in the Settings tab (or typing Command-T). Choose whether all columns are affected by Convert and Replace actions or just a particular column.


• [New] When formatting Phone numbers CleanHaven asks for the position of the space divider.


• [New] The text fields now remove all formatting when text is pasted into them.


• [New] The Info menu can now show the Frequency of Paragraphs or Words from most to least common.


• [New] The CleanHaven window displays a counter of the text variables. The number of variables is reduced when viewing over 100,000 characters (to reduce the slowdown).


• [New] The Cleaned Results Text window can now be saved as a plain text file.


• [New] The Cleaned Results Table window can now be saved as an Excel XML, tab-delimited or CSV file.


• [New] Optionally the English dictionary can be replaced with any one of the French, German, Italian, Spanish, Icelandic and British English dictionaries (download the AllDictionaries.zip file, rename the chosen dictionary with filename words and copy over the previous words file in the Resources folder of the application. Mac users will have to right-click the application and choose Show Package Contents first).


• [New] Now uses the English YAWL 3 dictionary with 264,058 words (rather than the previous SCOWL 6 lite dictionary with only 77,676 words).


• [New] Menu Commands can now bring the CleanHaven or Cleaned Results to the foreground.


• [New] Auto-suggests conversion of Linefeeds to Returns in text (NeoOffice and OpenOffice use linefeeds as delimiters).


• [New] An Open dialog now opens any text file. If the file contains a .csv extension the data is parsed as a CSV file.


• [New] A Clipboard button on the Cleaned Results window copies the whole Results text to the Clipboard. If you need only a portion, then highlight that portion then use the normal Copy command.


• [Fix] Title Case now makes capitals after - , . , ( and / . Words such of are made lowercase. Paragraphs ending with UK, UK and (UK) have this extension made all uppercase.


• [Fix] The Value conversion has been moved from the Personal menu to the Info menu.


• [Fix] The UK postcodes have been updated to be more accurate.


• [Fix] The Text Information calculation of the number of words and paragraphs has been improved.


• [Fix] The text field font is now much smaller.


• [Fix] The Salutation have been updated to be more accurate and some non-gender-specific first names have been removed.


• [Fix] The Phone Number formatting now takes into account any extension.


• [Fix] The Cleaned Results text is now read-only.


• [Fix] On Windows, after a Clean the text window now is scrolled to the top of the list.


• [Fix] Fixed a problem where removing excess spaces was removing spaces before plain quotes.

For more information, visit:
http://bit.ly/9AQZXI






Giving Family History a Voice With MacSpeech Dictate

[Press Release]

Your life isn't an isolated period of time: it's part of a continuum that reaches deep into the past and extends far into the future. You want to record those stories, so sons, daughters, nieces, nephews, grandchildren, and other relatives can pass them along to future generations.

The best way to do that? Simply tell your stories with MacSpeech Dictate, so you capture the natural flow and rhythm of your voice. It's the preferred method for creating a conversational style that will keep readers captivated, and with MacSpeech Dictate, documenting family history becomes a breeze. Simply start speaking and MacSpeech Dictate accurately turns your talk into text. And your family can get in on the fun too MacSpeech Dictate supports a variety of voice profiles, so each family member can join in.

You'll soon find related uses for speech recognition software too, such as the discovery made by "I Speak Dragon!" contest entrant in the United States. Bill told us: "I volunteer at our local historical archives. My job is to transcribe letters written in the 1800's. It's difficult enough to read the handwriting, but to combine that with my lousy typing the task becomes laborious. Using MacSpeech Dictate, I can concentrate on the letter and not have to fiddle with the keyboard. The change in productivity is astounding!"

With MacSpeech Dictate and all the great Dragon speech recognition products, you'll see why we say Your Family. Your Friends. Your Life. In Your Own Words.

Your Family. Your Friends. Your Life. In Your Own Words:
http://nuance.com/talk/ancestry/

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