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Apple Designer Jonathan Ive Is Knighted In Queen's New Year Honours List
Why Sir Jony But Not Sir Steve?
Apple's Design Successes Under Jonathan Ive
An Apple Genius's Open E-Mail to Tim Cook
Rare Photo Of Young Steve Jobs Flipping The Bird At IBM Logo Posted
Can Apple Survive Without Steve Jobs?
Steve Jobs and Japan
Republicans Who Use iPads
Insync, A Free Google Docs-Loving Alternative To Dropbox
SHOOTOUT: Dual Bay Notebook Drive Enclosures for the 2011 MacBook Pro
How To Get Your Window Controls Back When OS X Hides Them
How to Update Your Mac's Software
Apple Designer Jonathan Ive Is Knighted In Queen's New Year Honours List
The Register's Iain Thomson in San Francisco reports that Apple's chief designer Jonathan Ive, who is a British citizen, has been appointed a Knight Commander of the British Empire (KBE) in the Queen Elizabeth II's New Year's Honours list.
The award, which will allow Ive, who was described by the late Steve Jobs to biographer Walter Isaacson as his "spiritual partner," and who characteristically shuns the limelight, to call himself Sir Jonathan, and will be bestowed personally on Ive by the Queen at a future date.
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Why Sir Jony But Not Sir Steve?
Fortune's Philip Elmer-DeWitt notes that news that Apple's cheif designer Jonathan Ive being made a Knight Commander of the British Empire (KBE) raises again the question of why his boss and closest collaborator was never likewise honored.
Two reasons says Elmer-DeWitt: Steve Jobs' birthplace, and, reportedly, also due to a speaking invitation he blew off in 2009, after nearly getting his own KBE a year before Ive, citing a Telegraph report that Jobs was nominated for an honorary knighthood in that year, but his candidacy was blocked by then Prime Minister Gordon Brown because Jobs had declined an invitation to speak at the Labour Party's annual conference.
However, Elmer-DeWitt explains that even had he not been blackballed by Brown's apparent pettiness, Jobs would never been Sir Steve, since KBE recipients who don't have the British monarch as their head of state can append the letters KBE after their name, but not the honorific "Sir." Actually, even some folks who do have the British Monarch as their head of state can't be known as "Sir" either. QEII is Canada's official head of state, but Canadians have been effectively blocked from accepting British knighthoods baronetcies, and peerages since the so-called 1919 "Nickle Resolution" of Canada's parliament, that was carried, but never formally passed into law by the House of Commons.
Ironically, Americans are under no such restrictions, and U.S. citizen KBEs include Bill Gates, Billy Graham and Rudolph Giuliani.
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http://bit.ly/vhNyyi
Apple's Design Successes Under Jonathan Ive
The Drum's Stephen Lepitak profiles Apple's most prominent design successes under the newly knighted Jonathan Ive, noting that alongside the late Steve Jobs, Ive, an Apple employee since 1992, and who has led the Apple design team since 1996, has changed the way that world handles and views entertainment technology, since which he has overseen the design of the iMac, the iPhone, the iPad, the iPod, the Macbook Pro, and the MacBook Air.
You can check it out at:
http://bit.ly/tF72dV
An Apple Genius's Open E-Mail to Tim Cook
Glendale, Arizona-based former Apple Genius Chad Ramey has posted an open email message to Apple CEO Tim Cook, noting that it was one of the most heart-wrenching moments of his life when I had to walk out of the Glendale Apple store for the last time, that no one likes to abandon their passion, and that helping Apple's customers was not only something that he loved to do, but also something that he gave his entire heart and soul to doing.
However Ramey explains that he'd watched as Apple retail shifted from "something truly spectacular and wonderful to big-box retail that is no better than a Best Buy or a Walmart," and contends that a shift in the focus of these stores has transformed what was once a truly enriching place to work to a place that leeches and drains everything from their employees.
"Apple retail no longer values its people," says Ramey, "and when I say people, I am referring to both your customers and your retail employees serving you on the front-lines.... Everything I was led to believe in CORE training four years ago has become nullified; Apple is no longer about enriching lives, it is about enriching pocketbooks."
You can read the email transcript here:
http://www.thec13.com/
Rare Photo Of Young Steve Jobs Flipping The Bird At IBM Logo Posted
One of Apple Computer's original employees, Andy Hertzfeld, as 2011 memoriams for Steve Jobs draws to a close, has posted one more rare photo that illustrates Jobs's rebellious spirit.
Hertzfeld says:
"In December 1983, a few weeks before the Mac launch, we made a quick trip to New York City to meet with Newsweek, who was considering doing a cover story on the Mac. The photo was taken spontaneously as we walked around Manhattan by Jean Pigozzi, a wild French jet setter who was hanging out with us at the time. Somehow I ended up with a copy of it. My editor begged me to include it in my book, but I was too timid to ask for permission, especially since IBM was still making CPUs for Apple at the time."
You can check it out at:
http://bit.ly/tif2Np
Can Apple Survive Without Steve Jobs?
The Globe and Mail's Timothy Taylor says a friend emailed him recently, complaining that he'd been trying to set up a shared calendar with his wife on his new iPhone 4S, and ended up so confused he had to consult the product manual, something he'd never had to do with an Apple product before.
Taylor muses that given Apple's longstanding rep.for having clean and intuitive graphical user interfaces, his friend's experience raises a question that's been asked a lot since Apple co-founder Steve Jobs died in October: "Can the brand's core attributes be protected without him?"
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Steve Jobs and Japan
Apple founder and CEO extraordinaire Steve Jobs had a close relationship to Japan. Hayashi Nobuyuki, an IT journalist who has written about Steve Jobs and Apple for many years, traces the course of Jobs's links with Japan, dating from his first interest in Zen as a young man.
You can check it out at:
http://nippon.com/en/currents/d00010/
Republicans Who Use iPads
The good news: Republican presidential nomination candidate Michele Bachmann uses an iPad.
The bad news, at least for Bachmann's credibility, is that she used the Apple tablet to read a speech from on the stump at Creston, Iowa, after having long criticised President Barack Obama for relying on a teleprompter and promising that there will be no teleprompters in a Bachmann White House. According to a report by the Daily Mail's Mark Duell, Bachmann has been seen at other events with her trusty iPad.
You can check it out at:
http://bit.ly/sk5liH
Romney's Religion on the Road: Scripture on his iPad
Michelle Bachmann's rival for the Republican presidential nomination Mitt Romney is also an iPad fan. The National Journal's Sarah B. Boxer, citing a Huffington Post notes that Hillary Clinton carried a tiny little Bible in her purse during her husband's 1992 presidential campaign, and twenty years later, reads Scripture downloaded onto his iPad on the campaign trail.
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http://yhoo.it/sPEadw
Insync, A Free Google Docs-Loving Alternative To Dropbox
ThwNextWeb Jon Russell says if youre the kind of person who uses Google Docs and Dropbox a lot, perhaps for business, as is becoming increasingly popular, then you'll be interested to hear that Asian firm Insync has just announced that its cloud-based, Google Docs friendly sharing platform is available for free.
You can check it out at:
http://tnw.co/tZV7pu
For more information, visit:
https://www.insynchq.com/
SHOOTOUT: Dual Bay Notebook Drive Enclosures for the 2011 MacBook Pro
BareFeats' rob-ART morgan says:
A little less than a year ago, we did a shootout between various dual bay notebook enclosures. Since then some new products have appeared including a Thunderbolt dual bay notebook enclosure from LaCie. We decided to do another shootout to see how much the new crop exceeds the 200MB/s barrier we encountered.
Using the fastest 6Gb/s solid state drives (SSDs) we sought to test the limits of 6Gb/s eSATA and Thunderbolt interfaces. We included setups with HDDs and Hybrid drives for perspective. Some dual bay enclosures require the two drives to share a single I/O port. Some enclosures dedicated a port for each drive.
Main takeaway: Thunderbolt is the fastest option for Apple laptops.
Other findings at:
http://barefeats.com/hard143.html
How To Get Your Window Controls Back When OS X Hides Them
MacFixIt's Topher Kessler notes that in OS X you can resize and move window components around using the title bar as a grab surface, or the window resizing areas such as the edges of windows in Lion, or at the bottom-right of windows in other versions of OS X, however, in rare instances bugs can lead to odd window placements that render those controls inaccessible, and that the only way to clear this problem is to reset the properties the program is using to display its windows.
Find out how at:
http://cnet.co/vYxc5G
How to Update Your Mac's Software
MacInstruct's Matthew Cone recommends updating Apple's software on your Mac regularly, since using the latest versions of Mac OS X and Apple's applications can protect your Mac against malicious attacks, improve sluggish system performance, and fix bugs that can cause applications to randomly crash. His tutorial will show you how to automatically and manually update the Apple software on your computer.
You can check it out at:
http://www.macinstruct.com/node/207
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