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°C) AHEAD AND ASK SIRI, YOUR NEW WHIMSICAL ORACLE IPAD AT SCHOOL AVON OF ENDLESS TIM TU LE ol UOMIDILITE IAM FOR TEACHERS AND STUDENTS ALIKE storeMags.com - Free Magazines Download in True PDF format Release: StoreMags & FantaMag When choosing MINDFIELD DICITAL™™an@” our DBMD™ Program for your development services, you can be sure you will receive an app that will save you money and resources with the most advanced design and interface concepts. We Tollow an Application Vevelopment Cycle that has Its every step carried out to maximum perfection. Our application developers are experienced and knowledgeable, aiming at delivering top high tech Apps. Our team is constantly looking for promising partners in order to improve our quality, broaden our experience and create a global range of Apps that are always impressive and ign, 3D Graphics and have the most amazing concept de Sound FX. LW MINDFIELDDIGITAL.COM | wis NOVEMBER 18, 2011 Welcome to the third edition of AppleMagazine. The right magazine for the right audience. In this edition we continue to bring you you the most relevant news about the World of Apple. Teachers all over the world grapple with the difficult task of how to keep their students interested in the lesson plan in an era where the siren song of technology can be heard loud and clear wherever students are. So why not bring technology and its allure to the classroom? Our piece, “Why use the iPad in the Classroom?” offers ways for teachers and educators to make use of Apple’s trend setting tablet. A must read for parents and teachers alike. From education we move to technological matters, with three articles in sequence to quench your tech thirst. We begin with a discussion on Adobe’s recent announcement not to support Flash for mobile devices and what that move means for Apple users. Second, we have a report about Siri and what it is like to interact with Apple's electronic assistant. Finally, we soeculate whether Apple is moving away from physical media. We know that most of you out there certainly are. ES REVIEW, TECHMAC, FINANCE, APPLE SOCIETY AND MORE Next is our Cover story theme: Apple’s CEO Tim Cook. In three 4 articles, we offer our take on the current status of Tim Cook. Who is he? What has he done for Apple so far? Is everybody on board with him? How does he treat his employees? We even have Mr. Wozniak’s take on how Apple is being run. Don’ t miss it. Inside Apps and iTunes Review are here again to bring you the latest in games, apps, music and videos. Do you want to know what is worth spending your hard-earned paycheck on? Check out both articles to find out. Our TechMac area has two great artcles. One is an autopsy of the new iPhone 4S. Discover what is inside Apple’s new flagship smartphone. The other article is a tutorial on the post-processing camera features of iOS 5. Find out what you can do with your photos without having to resort to third-party software. As usual we end with Finance and Apple Society. The former examines the effect the global economic crisis has had in the world of tech, and the latter analyzes the opposite approach that Apple and PC companies use to create their hardware and software. : We hope you enjoy what is in store for you in this issue. =: il ] E Wai ra. i | i it ‘ i i Wee NE OTL ct HEE Vl TVvel ent ATES Hey MHWIZICWT OBYCTE | VO VI | Vor r wUY ae A | ] rN y - ™ = A Release: SloreMlags & Fantelilag TWO BOLTS LATER 38 INSIDE APPS AS ItM1UNES REVIEW 62 65 APPLE SOCIETY FINANCE 26 TIM COOK THE GATEKEEPER § FUTURE a +9 IPHONE EDITING TOOLS 24 THANKSGIVING WITHA BONUS iPAD AT SCHOOL 16 GO AHEAD AND ASK P ! iy , F - Lf | = : =, > NOZNIAK WORRIES - te ; \ f ' ~ Yer] r \o pep) Mele SAT 4 je ea ee Ft i wv] ba A WORLD OF POSSIBILITIES FOR TEACHERS AND STUDENTS ALIKE ‘ee e 3 As an ardent iPad user and a former high % school English teacher, if | had to choose one . | technical device for my classroom, it would __ undoubtedly be the iPad. | taught during the years when computer technology was just beginning to emerge (around 2001-2003), which at my school meant one computer in every classroom, and two tech lab rooms of PC and Mac computers for the entire school of over three thousand students. Back then, | quickly learned and saw Apple’s iMovie and Keynote programs as exciting tools for multimedia instruction, going way beyond overhead projectors and photo slide shows. With my classroom Mac connected to the classroom projector — which | borrowed we trom the school library and didn’t return t Sa i | }| until the last week of school — | could 1) pull up downloaded images, drafts of student writings, and short videos ~almost spontaneously if needed. And if | were teaching today the iPad would be my go-to device for showing pertinent YouTube videos, performing planned and impromptu Google searches, showing Keynote presentations, making video recordings of student presentations and skits, along with using numerous apps for constructing lesson plans, creating digital " flashcards and drawings. | would eimt try to stuff my entire curriculum in a 64GB tablet. Sr a ee eee ree A) Gee : 2, ie | Pam = a eels rote ee 31 SOO yy eo Se MULTIMEDIA INSTRUCTION The iPad is not much different from a computer. It is a computer, just smaller and a lot more portable. The iPad’s tactile interface and abundant app support makes it perfect for multimedia instruction. Since learning styles vary amongst all students, the traditional straightforward teacher lecture is not the best way to help all students learn facts, concepts, and skills. A combination of visual media, interactive discussions, constructive feedback and evaluation are more pertinent to a generation of students who are growing up in the age of the Internet, smartphones, and digital tablets like the iPad. With the iPad 2 hooked up to a video projector or television, teachers get the entire World Wide Web at their fingertips. A lesson on the Great Depression and the reading of The Grapes of Wrath, for example, can easily be enhanced with related short archives and documentary video clips, Google image searches of the time period, along with an online forum of teacher and student comments and responses about the subject or the book. The portability of the iPad, along with its long-lasting battery, makes it an ideal device for the classroom since it can be used like a laptop or desktop computer, as well as a tablet. Instructional materials can easily be added, taking the place of several file drawers and cabinets of documents, videos, lesson plans, and handouts. | would create accounts on various websites such as Wikipedia and YouTube specifically for classroom instruction material. Curriculum related videos, songs, famous oral presentations, and current TV news clips would be downloaded to support daily lessons and activities. iOS APPS The iTunes App Store is chockfull of apps for all grade levels of courses, including science, math, reading, language arts, social science, art, and geography. Long-established resources like PBS Kids, National Geographic, Time and Newsweek magazines have produced their own content-rich applications, as well as thousands of picture books and literature in e-book format. For example, an iPad app called TIME Populist (Free) is a collection of weekly lists of hundreds of popular culture movies, music, books, TV shows, and video games that could supplement language arts and social science lessons. The Civil War Today ($5.99) is also a multimedia, content-based app featuring maps from battlegrounds, photo galleries, newspaper headlines of the time period, and personal letters and diary entries from figures like Abraham Lincoln, Horatio Nelson Taft, and Mary Chestnut. Numerous art and drawing apps, along with a stylus pen, can be used not only for artistic instruction, but for also projecting handwritten markings and other content on a screen. IPADS FOR EVERY STUDENT The ideal way to use iPads in the classroom is to equip each student with a tablet. USA Today reported in September that Woodford County High was the first public high school to give each of its 1,250 students an iPad. Numerous schools across the US have begun pilot programs to see how a cart of 28 to 30 iPads could be shared from classroom to classroom and integrated within the curriculum. : 8 | The New York Times also reported that more than 200 Chicago public schools applied for a $450,000 grant to purchase iPads, and the “Virginia Department of Education is overseeing a $150,000 iPad initiative that has replaced history and Advanced Placement biology textbooks at 11 schools.” And in California at least six middle schools are using the first “iPad-only algebra course, developed by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt,” a textbook publisher. Many school administrators see the use of iPad asa long-term investment for cutting costs in textbooks, educational software, and other media resources. As textbook publishers begin to offer e-book versions of their publications, it means significantly reducing the amount of paper and ink for publishing; cutting shipping costs for sending textbooks to schools and universities, and keeping textbooks current by revising and updating content in a shorter amount of time. For the elementary level, Apple and other ebook companies are already selling Read and Listen ebooks so that young readers can follow along as the words are read aloud. Likewise, interactive ebook-formatted textbooks can include multimedia resources embedded within the software and/or linked to content on the web. The New York Times also reported that more than 200 Chicago public schools applied for a $450,000 grant to purchase iPads Apple’s own word processing and desktop layout program, Pages, can be used by teachers to write their own courses of study, manuals, children’s books, handout packets, which can be exported into ePub, the format for Apple’s iBooks app. iPads are of course cheaper and more versatile than regular computers, and they allow for both cooperative and collaborative teaching and learning to take place. Groups of students could, for example, do research on a specified topic and offer up their results for discussion and further study. Using well developed PDF reader apps like iAnnotate and GoodReader, teachers could teach students strategies for annotating text to increase reading comprehension and critical thinking skills. With iAnnotate, for example, annotations made within selected PDFs can be exported via email and become study aides for students. Numerous applications for teaching and supporting math lessons are already available for the iPad as well. The same goes for history, geography, and other social science tools and lessons. Many of these apps contain lessons and exercises that offer students immediate feedback to lessons and exercises. Some apps are developed as games that might better help students learn the subject matter. The mobile size of the iPad is easier to use than even laptops or notebooks. However, based on my experience, the iPad is not always ideal for creating content, such as writing research papers, complex spreadsheets or Keynote presentations. The iPad is most practical as a tactile, interactive media consumption device. How iPads will be used in the classroom largely depends on their availability to teachers and students. There’s of course a big difference between having an iPad for every enrolled student, and only having a cart of 35 iPads to be checked out on an individual basis. Integrating iPads in the classroom means considering supporting factors such as availability and speed of internet access throughout the school; the financial budget for purchasing iPads, at a cost of $600-$750 apiece; and how they will be distributed and shared if they are in limited supply. Training teachers how to use the device, and helping them locate resources that will supplement the curriculum must also be considered. Educators will also have to show through research how iPads improve teaching and student academic performance in order to justify the investment. In the meantime, individual teachers who own and use an iPad in the classroom can visit sites like lpadeducators.ning.com, ipadincschools.com, and emergingeatecnh. com to share their strategies and experiences with using the device which may well become as universal to teaching as blackboards and whiteboards. by Bakari Chavanu iPAD APPS USEFUL FOR TEACHER PREPARATION AND CLASSROOM Course Notes INSTRUCTION Doceri (Free): remote presentation software that works with your Mac or PC for presenting content on your computer or classroom screen. Stick Pick ($2.99): an app that “allows you to randomly (or intentionally) draw a student’s name from an on-screen can of popsicle sticks.” From there you can ask students questions based on the mode and level of difficulty for each learner, and then, every time that student’s stick is drawn, you Il be shown over a dozen Bloom Taxonomy-style question — uniquely tied to your learner’s individual ability level. Prezi Viewer (free) or Keynote: Prezi is a a cool, easy-to-use app for showing PowerPoint-like presentations on iPad that you create online. Apple’s iOS version of Keynote ($9.95) is also very useful for synching presentations between the iPad and Mac. Planbook Touch ($9.99): A lesson planning app with six customizable text fields and columns for assignments and due dates. CourseNotes ($4.99): An app that could be used for storing lecture notes and presentations. Content can be organized by subject and class and synched with a Mac version of the application. Me \ \ ' ' agazines Downl Release: StoreMags & Fa ntaMag 12| When it became apparent that the iPhone, iPod Touch and, subsequently, the iPad would not support Adobe Flash, many felt that Apple’s choice would consign their iOS devices to irrelevance, but 18 months after the iPad’s launch, Adobe has officially announced to developers that it is to cease development for Mobile Flash, in favour of focusing its efforts on HTMLS. In a statement, Adobe wrote: “Our future work with Flash on mobile devices will be focused on enabling Flash developers to package native apps with Adobe AIR for all the major app stores. We will no longer adapt Flash Player for mobile devices to new browser, OS version or device configurations. Some of our source code licensees may opt to continue working on and releasing their own implementations. We will continue to support the current Android and PlayBook configurations with critical bug fixes and security updates.” APPLE AND ADOBE’S PRIOR RELATIONSHIP If one were to look at the headlines which have resulted from Apple’s not allowing the use of Flash on iOS, it would be easy to come to the conclusion that Adobe and Apple are lifelong rivals. However, the truth is far more interesting. Apple and Adobe have a history of working well together, and it could even be argued that Apple gave Adobe its first ‘break’ by adopting Adobe's Postscript language for the LaserWriter printer. In addition, Apple invested heavily in Adobe and controlled approximately 20% of shares in the company for a significant period. This friendship ultimately soured due to Steve Jobs’ choice to single out Flash as a poor product and subsequently penning an article explaining Apple’s reasons behind their anti-Flash stance, Thoughts On Flash. __ ARE WE READY TO LIVE FLASH-FREE? x 5 = Ee i fp | Pee ay Mae, YouTube - Broadcast Yourself. _— —— 4 |» ] | rat } [rer Lt [eS nep: jwww.youtube.com/ html a ri Tube, fe] YouTube HTMLS5 Video Player This is an opt-in trial of HTMLS video on YouTube. f you are using 6 supported browser, you can choose Io use the HTML5 player instead of the Flash player for mos! videos. Your comments will help us improve and perfect he mixtures were working On. So jump in, play around and send your feedback directly to fhe brains behind ihe scenes Supported Browsers Search Browse TV Shows Flim Upload Create Account Sign In Ve support browsers hal support both the video tag in HTML5 and either the 1.264 video codec or the V/edM formal (with VP8 codec). These indude e Firefox 4 (WebM, Available here) | « Google Chrome (WebM) » Opera 10.6+ (WebM, Available here) «e Apple Safar (h.264, version 4+) « Microsof intemet Explorer 9 (h.264 Avaiiabie here, WebM support available here) « Microsof interme Explorer 6, 7 of 8 with Google Chrome Frame installed (Get Google Chrome Frame) Notes « Fullscreen support is partially implemented. Pressing the fullscreen button will expand the player to fill your browser. If your browser supports a fullscreen option, you can then use that to truly fill the screen e if you want to find videos with WebM formats available, you can use the Advanced Search optons to look for them (or just add Awebm=' to any search URL) Additional Restrictions (we are working on these!) e Videos wilh ads are not supported (they will play in the Flash player) # On Firefox and Opera, only videos with WebM transcodes will play in HTMLS e If you've opted in to offer testube expenments, you may nol get he HTMLS player (Feather is supported, hougn) What does my browser support? (@ Video tag © h.264 4%, You are not currently in the HTMLS trial Join the HTMLS Trial You Tube based on HTMLS — Help About | * * Reporiabug Try something new! New features for viewing videos online WHAT IS FLASH AND WHAT’S WRONG WITH IT? Adobe Flash is a multimedia cross- platform browser-based application which brings animations, video content and audio to web pages, in addition to games, such as those seen on Facebook. Supported web browsers can contain a Flash plugin and when that web browser encounters content written for Flash, the content will thus be displayed. Some users feel that their Internet experience is enriched by Flash, while many think of the plugin as synonymous with annoying pop-up advertisements. Whatever your opinion, it seems reasonable to state that Flash in its current form contains several significant and inherent flaws. Security firm Symantec has repeatedly singled out Adobe’s Flash Player as containing security weaknesses and indeed Flash will often be the first point of attack for would be hackers with nefarious intentions. Just as importantly for most Mac Release: Storelags & Fantallag Press & Bloga Copyright Creators & Partners anguagpe Engheh @ Weom Advertising Developers Safaty Privacy Terns cater United Kingdom Safety made Of users is that Flash is very inefficient and is known to slow down older Mac's, using up significant CPU, RAM and battery resources and often causing instability. By abandoning Flash, even very old PowerPC Macs can once again be useful for normal web browsing. There have been accusations from supporters of Flash that Apple only chose to not support Flash because it could offer iOS users a way of experiencing simple games and apps outside the so-called ‘walled garden’ that is the Apple-controlled App Store and thus decrease Apple's control and revenue. While this may potentially be true, it’s a simple matter of fact that adding Flash to an iPad would decrease battery life significantly and almost certainly result in reduced overall performance - as can be shown by Adobe’s failure in offering competing tablet and smartphone makers a version of Mobile Flash that works flawlessly. 13 14| Pare f-3 yet) L/P inttps:/ /extensions.apple.com/ - Facebook Cleaner sonsterMedia Facebook Cleaner hides visual distractions — like sponsored ads, pokes, and the Get Connected section — from the Facebook website. ick | ClickToFlash a | ClickToFlash Flash Marc Hoyois ClickToFlash prevents the Flash plug-in from running. It replaces any Flash element on a webpage with a placeholder; simply click the placeholder to load the Flash content, ClickToFlash also lets you replace Flash videos from select websites (such as YouTube) with H.264 video. Other optional features include advanced whitelisting. “| ‘Translate Side Tree Software Translate adds a toolbar item that translates the current web page using Google Translate. You can set the target language and translate in place or view the translation in a new browser tab or window. Safari extensions Screenshot LIVING WITHOUT FLASH In his article, Thoughts On Flash, Jobs states that most of the video missing to iOS users from not having Flash will be made up by HTML 5 and apps - though this did not happen overnight, it has mostly come to pass for mainstream media. There is already a definite perception amongst users and the entire industry that a good website should not rely on Flash alone to deliver its content and these feelings will increase significantly in the light of Adobe’s dropping Mobile Flash. H.264 is a popular video compression standard which all Blu-ray Disc players can play and has also been adopted by Google, Apple, Netflix, Vimeo and others. By making use of H.264, HTML5 and apps, iOS devices can remove the need for Flash entirely and access video from such varied sources as The New York Times, National Geographic, Fox News, ESPN and many more. All of this ensures that an iOS user will rarely find himself wishing for Flash support. Installed Meanwhile, on OS X, many Mac users choose to install Flash-blocking browser extensions such as those seen in Safari’s Extensions Gallery, to ensure their web experience is streamlined and free of invasive flash animations, while still benefiting from websites where Flash is required. It is interesting that such places are becoming ever more rare and a look within a website’s preferences will often uncover settings to replace Flash with an alternative method of media delivery. i THE FLASH-FREE ERA HAS BEGUN In the short time since the iPad launch, the Internet landscape has changed significantly. Mobile devices are making up an increasing market share of internet usage and, as the tech industry and consumers both turn their focus to highly portable, low-power devices, the use of Flash on both desktop and tablet seems to be decreasing. We are not yet at the point where Flash is never needed to view a web page properly, but this now seems likely in the near future. Will Flash still be considered important in another eighteen months? Perhaps, though the era which saw Flash as a widespread and integral part of internet browsing is clearly coming to an end.” by Adam Williams 5 = 3 = = a 3 Wage Pa ‘an Sto reliags.come bree in’, 3 > Releases stoneNlags & Fantallag A te Se -— | = r || oe | i A i = i | &o On May 1 9 remil a a fhe. : t's dad’s birthday 99 Here’s your reminder for May 19, 2012 at 9 am: 7 O Saturday May 2012 ™ Dad's birthday Cancel SIRI, YOUR NEW WHIMSICAL ORACLE ‘lf you have a new iPhone 4S, you'll get can pose to her -- no matter how silly, sexy your questions answered once you activate or serious that question might be. 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She's like having your own “Girl Friday~ out in the front office that will help you find a restaurant for lunch, remember to send your wife flowers, help you send an e-mail and even tell you what the weather Is like outside and if you should carry an umbrella or wear a coat. _In other words, Siri brings artificial intelligence to the 4S, making the Apple device the first smartphone that is really, well, smart. oa isn't just the hardest working ftware on the new 4S, but also the it lest. Go ahead and ask her what's on your mind -- but remember, the answers can | 9e quite enterta ning. 7e’|| turn down your marriage prc posal, calling you by your name. 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But when Apple’s engineers started including Siri into the phones, they added the ability for the phone to use customers’ nicknames, as well as to include names of other people and places important to the user. “We thought of it almost as a person on the phone, one Apple engineer said. Yes, Siri can be a lot of fun -- the kind of fun that could also bring in huge pronts for Apple. The iPhone 4S is flying off the shelves, and part of that reason could be the growing popularity of Siri: The virtual assistant software Is available only on the iPhone 4S. In addition to customers having a lot of fun with the questions, Siri also provides ranked, real answers to questions about restaurants, auto repair shops, retail te outletsandmuch more. es Apple's iAds could tie into Siri’s results and sell advertising based on the ranked results, and market some of the more popular answers back to O retailers. ww But even Siri can bea fickle new frend This past week, iPhone 4S users learned that the voice-activated feature will let anyone use the phone for e-mails and texts, and even make phone calls, even if Its passcode Is locked. Macworld and security firm Sophos both reported there is an easy way to keep unauthorized people from using locked iPhones through Siri. 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When the 1998 iMac G3 launched, Apple was criticized and even ridiculed by some for declining to include a floppy drive. Though the floppy disk’s small capacity had marked it out as a media which would not be around for very much longer, many felt it to be too entrenched at that time to be dropped from a home computer. In the years which followed, however, Apple’s decision was vindicated and though floppy drives limped on in the PC market for years and were maintained by some Mac users for legacy software, they were largely obsolete. If the rumours coming out of Cupertino are true, Apple hopes to once again use good timing to perform a similar feat with the floppy disks successors - CD's and DVD's. 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After all, one can always choose to purchase an external drive if necessary. NacRumors reported earlier this year that ne was testing an ultra-thin 15” Mac notebook, but the article was unable to confirm whether this would be a bigger MacBook Air or a thinner MacBook Pro. Though the machine in question was ~ | later stated by TUAW to be the latter, this confusion shows an inherent challenge opposing a new slim MacBook Pro; the blurring of product lines. If the MacBook Pro and Air continue to become more alike, there will only be a processor speed bump and a larger screen separating the two. There is an unlikely but potentially exciting solution to this problem and that is that Apple will resign the MacBook Air and Pro lines in favour of something new. Just as the PowerBook and iBook evolved into the MacBook Pro and MacBook; perhaps other changes will be made-to merge their successors into a new product line altogether. Of course, this is all mere speculation, but there is a definite i Release: Storellags) & fantalvlag Ly a = _— perception amongst those working in the technology press that Apple may have something big planned for the MacBook Pro, something more significant than the recent refresh which saw an incremental processor speed-bump. DROPPING PHYSICAL MEDIA IS INHERENT TO APPLE’S BUSINESS PLAN The trend toward consumers wishing to purchase and consume media as digital files seems only to be increasing with time, and this can be seen with the popularity of Apple’s offerings such as iTunes, iBooks and Newsstand, in addition to competing products like Amazon's Kindle e-Book reader. Thus, it is currently very unlikely that a consumer shift back toward owning physical media such as CD’s and DVD’s will take place on a Widespread scale in the near future. But ultimately, it is Apple’s own business strategy which most strongly the direction in which the company is headed. Apple is highly invested in encouraging its users to purchase and consume media digitally through outlets like iTunes and the App Store in order to ensure the company maximum profit. Will Apple be able to lure their customers away from physical media such as DVD's and ,CD’s completely? Only time will tell, but i ‘if the MacBook Air’s Current popularity / \s.anything to'go by,/we Can expect an eventual success for the minds at Infinite Loop-\s j at by Adam Williams APPLE LAUNCHES MAGSAFE REPLACEMENT SCHEME Following a recent lawsuit settlement, Apple has instigated an updated MagSafe replacement scheme which covers the fraying known to occur on some older ‘T’ style power adapters for both MacBook and MacBook Pro, known as ‘Strain Relief’. The company has posted a support document on their website which details the steps one needs to take in order to benefit from this scheme. Those who have previously purchased a replacement ‘T’ style adapter because of this fault may be eligible for reimbursement which covers up to three purchased adapters. The MagSafe Power Adapter Settlement Website contains all the relevant information and links to forms which must be filled in addition to the following text: The settlement will provide a cash payment if you are the original owner (by purchase or gift) of certain Apple MacBook or MacBook Pro computer models (“Subject Computer”) or separately purchased an Apple 60W or 85W MagSafe MPM-1 (“T”) Power Adapter (“Adapter”), your Adapter showed signs of Strain Relief Damage, and you purchased a Replacement Adapter within the first three years following the initial purchase of the Subject Computer or Adapter. If the court approves the settlement, you may be entitled to a cash payment in the following amounts depending on whether you purchased your Replacement Adapter during the first, second or third year following the initial retail purchase of the Subject Computer or Adapter: (a) first year, the actual amount you paid (excluding taxes and shipping/handling fees) up to a maximum of $79; (b) second year $50; (c) third year $35. There is a limit of three refunds per Subject Computer. You may also be able to obtain a Replacement Adapter at no charge from Apple if your Adapter shows signs of Strain Relief Damage now or in the future. 23 APPLE EMPLOYEES ARE GETTING AN JEARLY PRESENT FORTHE HOLIDAYS | | | Apple employees are smployi present for the holidays = A i ae _ ) | av for the THA WA ‘a record-se ting year so far~ 7 —_—— a vi heading J into the 1olidaysmmith fora {ear OTT al JTES : sive sales and ~ A , ct yn — ——e the stronc gest, product lineup in ou FIstory, — miss Ot ies Dewhioad th True PDF ternal le we've ever C new heig ht /e Oj | yorld’s minisholiday a etail workers 4 se that wo a. lucrative hanteetine eed Black Friday mayhem, but they'll be able to collect their holiday week when they are able, so no sleaset Storeilags & Fantalvlag reports for th ith qua which ended at aroun me same time Cook sent out the e-mail, showed yet another profitable quarter. iPhone sales were slightly down, compared to the third quarter, most likely because people were waiting for the new iPhone 4S to come out before they bought a new phone. However, Mac and iPad sales set new records, with $28 billion in sales. Apple will likely see record iPhone sales during this quarter, especially with the new model being out just before holiday sales kick off. Already, more than four million iPhone 4S models have been sold, and Cook is confident the iPhone will set all- time records this quarter, particularly with the Christmas holidays approaching. And if that isn’t enough, iPads are flying off the shelves. Apple has already sold 40 million iPads, Cook said, and he believes “the tablet market will be larger than the PC market.” lf Apple’s Chinese sales take off, the Cupertino, Calif. tech giant could see even more sales next year. According to Arstechnica, Cook says the Chinese progress is “amazing.” Revenues from China are up almost 300 percent, and in the last quarter accounted for 16 percent of Apple’s total revenue. The workers’ Thanksgiving break isn’t “ the first time Apple has given workers extra > time to enjoy the holidays. The company values its employees’ contributions, and often rewards them with such perks. StoreMags.com - Free Mageihnes Download in Tue PDF format But this time around, the company’s * sales and its continued growth show that .: these are workers who have earned their well-deserved time off. ate y , “i + ™ = Ke by Sandy Fitzgerald os r nN *’ ° TE AA S asl " SiS _ oe ~ * : =. ~ - : ~ - ~~ * : ~ ry . “= ‘+ 2 > as 1 whe owe 4 SUT Core) nS. e000 (Ul —- oS - > pce et a Gor ClO ECC COM : Tim Cook is no Steve Jobs — and that might just be the main reason Jobs hand- picked him as the heir to the Apple throne. But Jobs’ choice still has many people wondering if Cook, who worked behind the scenes at Apple for so many years, was the right one to keep the company moving forward. Tim Cook was the yin to Steve Jobs’ yang. While Jobs pounded conference room tables to get his point across, Cook has always been the guy who pushes forward multi-million dollar transactions with a cool, quiet nod. Cook was always content to let Jobs and rl2 Nae tne same vision | dich, ane we cout and let his company do the talking. Even without Apple, Cook would have been a success by any means. Before he came to work at Apple in 1998, Cook honed his skills serving in top executive roles in managing and distribution at Compaq, IBM and Intelligent Electronics. All that pales to his experience at Apple, where he served as chief operating officer until August, when Jobs stepped down because of his illness and the company followed his recommendation to put Cook on top. Jobs is widely regarded as the creative genius at Apple, but the company isn't all about Ingeraect ata nign Stratacie jayval ane | could juse forgat aoouta jo: OF tNiNgGS UNlass Apple take the spotlight. But that doesn’t mean he hasn't been a vital part to the Cupertino, Calif. company’s continued success for several years. To many its devices. Its carefully planned distribution and sales also brought Apple from being primarily a company whose computers were used in classrooms to one that financial analysts, Steve Jobs might have been the guy who made Apple products so sexy, but Tim Cook was the guy who made those products pay oft. N2 cz SO WHO IS TIM COOK? That’s the question a lot of people are asking in the weeks after Jobs’ death at 56 from complications of pancreatic cancer. Cook isn’t one to give a lot of interviews. By all accounts, he prefers to keep quiet me and Dinged me. offered some of the best- selling electronics in the past century. So when Cook arrived at Apple, he had one mandate -- to clean up the company’s manufacturing, distribution and supply divisions. Fortune Magazine, in a 2008 profile about Cook, said the new hire took no time revamping the company’s operations. According to Fortune, Cook met with his team and began discussing a problem with Asian distribution. “This is really bad,” Cook said. 127 i Mol hg nal ot —_ ; = * ' . < So 7. ’ il sal tate. 1 —/ te ess \ 9 an 7 «- i; « . Stet ee kom) SL 8 | = “25 A] ; "on" « =i “Someone should be in China driving ,” this.” Thirty minutes later, Fortune said, “*2 Cook looked at Beeerations executive Sabih ¢ pout any emotion, Ian walked out, drove to San Francisco national Airport and, without a ie of clothes, booked a flight to China. rding to experts, the story is just like no-nonsense, unemotional and : nding. it Cook is also known for being a man tion, and he’s already been making > moves to run Apple in his own Way. 1, he’s not Steve Jobs — which some = don't necessarily think is a bad r one, Cook has restructured Apple’s ' was eC ation division, making it fit better (> Apple’s business units. According to ~~ the™Wall Street Journal, the educational Ss" d Qn now has its sales and marketing a 5 split up, reshuffling the company’s cc rate StruCtTUrC7 ae Wibo, Cook and Apple have been taking stes to ensure the company’s top talents WOlmet seek greener pastures anytime soon. > In Mi@Vember said it would give each senior 28 = , including CFO Peter Oppenheimer A ar se- -presidents Phil Schiller, Jeffrey } illiams and Bob Mansfield 150, 900 stock uni with half the s 1 2013 ; late ‘stay 2m Stock ‘the next Million ‘as | The new CEO is also showing his pee generous side. While Jobs was notorious me? for refusing to donate to various charities cet: -- or he kept his donations quiet — Cook re ~ has spearheaded a charitable matching program to match donations made by employees, up to $10 thousand per year. Cook is also said to be a more 4 personable chief officer. He already *r, communicates more, including company- Seah wide emails that include details about the» CS matching program, about giving employ the entire week of Thanksgiving off th year, and even about the company-wid celebration of Jobs’ life. But while Cook is seen as amore notoriously often-demanding Jobs, he’ tough businessman who is credited w turning Apple’s fortunes around by gett the company out of manufacturing, closing factories and Warehouses and setting up relationships with contractors instead. Apple's inventory dropped drastica 7 only sitting on shelves for days insteac¢ i months. Cook believes too much inventory is “fundamentally evil,” and its value dr rapidly the longer it sits around. “You kind of want to manage it like ; you re in the dairy business,” he has saic Tf it gets past its freshness date, you hai a problem.” 4 And Cook, despite his quiet nature, \ ruthless. He cut Apple’s key suppliers di from 100 to only 24, and threatened th left with losing Apple's business uniegs they made better financial deals, Jol Ds biography says. Cook also closed 10 of Ap 4 warehouses to limit inve a result, he was able to speed up delivery of Apple’s devices, often within 48 hours of ordering, which helped keep the company’s customers loyal. Not many people think about such distribution strategies when they re using an iPhone, but without Cook's revolutionary theories, Apple may well have gone the way of lesser companies. Devices are worth little if they sit on a shelf, even if they are technologically advanced like iPhones and iPads. Jobs saw w Cook's Dus ipgss genius early n 16-year veteran away + a on, hiring Tr ig a Fonty held that from Srver after . job for Six months Me cetting him up ina corporate office near his own for years. ; Cook k plays a huge part in Jobs’ biograr hy, which has become a massive big seller ¢ given the continuing interest in the Apple co-founder’s life. The loombers and interview _— actions with 1 1998 after + being le let ZO Download) in lie eb Btornet eS SoOreiags con Bree Weagezi ReleasessloneNlagssogeantallag plogra phy is based c Dnt nore wera A0 a lot of things unless he came and pinged ff < me. And eventually, Cook came to be a vital part of Apple, overseeing the company during Jobs’ three medical leaves taken while he battled cancer. Cook told Jobs’ biographer, Walter Isaacson, that Jobs was a man witha mission, especially after he returned from his first medical leave in 2004. But Jobs credited Cook with sharing his, | vision about limiting the time inventory sits ; around, which revolutionized Apple. 4 “| knew what | wanted and | met Tim, and he wanted the same thing,” said Jobs. i ? e Ls Many analysts, though, are wondering if Cook will keep wanting the same thing as Jobs did as the company moves forward -- and in fact, if his quiet style willkeep the | company profitable. 7 After Jobs pepe down in Aug g elling bloomberg , to conanuing the work he loved? SO much - = —~. Cook and Jobs were very close, but even though Cook has led the Apple three times irned out to be a seven-year | peoperating ile. 2 ef ie ee tte, Bape) na) eee oi 30 the Cupertino headquarters, and travels worldwide to meet with manufacturers. Apple’s new CEO has also continued to focus on negotiations that will keep Apple growing well into the future. For example, Cook led talks with Verizon Wireless that brought the iPhone to that carrier, and also led Apple into developing the Chinese market, which he describes as being “key” to Apple’s future. As memories of Jobs begin to fade, Cook will have the challenge of making Apple his own business. While Apple is at the top of the charts right now with the iPhone and iPad, new devices are fighting it every day. Google’s Android is the top smartphone operating system, and Apple's rivals, HTC, Samsung and Motorola are all vying for their chance to outsell the iPhone and the iPad. Cook will also have to face the challenges posed through the numerous court battles his company is involved in. Jobs vehemently vowed to fight Android, claiming the operating system stole technology from Apple, and a battle-by- proxy is being waged against companies whose mobile devices use the Google system. The new CEO will also need to maintain Apple's core staff of executives, all of whom remained after Jobs death. Jonathan lve, who often collaborated with Jobs on design, oversees designers considered as the best in the industry. Scott Forstall is in charge of Apple’s mobile software, Bob Mansfield remains with hardware engineering and Peter Oppenheimer works as Chief financial officer. The core team has worked together for years, and even though Jobs was the front man for the company, that team doesn’t appear to be going anywhere. “The team here has an unparalleled breadth and depth of talent and a culture of innovation that Steve has driven in the company,” Cook said in January. “Excellence has become a habit.” Meanwhile, industry watchers shouldn’t expect Cook to become a “rock star” like Jobs was, because he just isn’t that way. Cook thrived under Jobs because he remained calm and decisive in contrast to Jobs’ emotional operating style -- but Cook doesn’t want to be in the limelight like his one-time boss was. “Some people resent the fact that Steve gets credit for everything, but I’ve never given a rat’s ass about that,” Cook told Bloomberg. “Frankly speaking, I'd prefer my name never be in the paper.” Cook ably showed in October, while unveiling the iPhone 4S, that while he doesn’t have Jobs’ showmanship, he does have a quiet sense of power investors could respond to well. The new iPhone was put on display just one day before Jobs’ died on Oct. 5, but it’s likely Cook knew his mentor was near the end when he displayed the new device. That didn’t stop him from expressing his delight in the iPhone 4S, or in the company’s continuing success. “This is my first product launch since being named CEO -- I’m sure you didn’t know that,” Cook dryly said when taking the stage. “! love Apple and consider it the privilege of a lifetime to have worked here for 14 years and to assume this role.” ot a ro — a. &: , C2 Fats, Pi, Jf =_——" a “fA ‘ony aoe Be goer cit inl Tonoor Sion ass coir He also delighted in outlining his company’s prowess, in the mobile market, noting that every state in the United States either uses or is planning to use the iPad. Also, Cook said, the iPad is used in almost all Fortune 500 companies and hospitals, and is the “undisputed” tablet leader, with three of every four tablets sold being one of the industry-leading Apple rs The team here has an unparalleled ical yes breadth and depth of talent and a culture of innovation that Steve has driven _ <2id back in 2009, while in the company, Gook said In January. “Excellence has become a habit. tlm. Cook sincerely comes by his pride, likely from years of association with his flamboyant boss. But he wasn’t Jobs’ “ man,” because the late CEO would never have put up with that. “| realized very early on that if you didn’t express your opinion, he would mow you down,” Cook said. “He (took) contrary positions to create more discussion, because it may lead to a better result. So if you (didn’t) feel comfortable disagreeing, then you'd never survive.” Cook could come to miss those kinds of discussions as he moves forward, because so far, he does not seem to yet have his own partner, as he was with Jobs. While Cook will likely miss his day-to- day interactions with Jobs, that doesn’t mean Apple should suffer much with him at the helm. After all, he still has his core 32 team, and Apple already has several years’ worth of future projects in the works, so even though Jobs has died, his visions will live on for some time. Although Cook’s expertise is in manufacturing, not design, he has a strong team that will lead him through the design end of the business, so Apple’s trademark designs, including a much-anticipated, thinner iPhone 5, will likely keep users satisfied and coming back for At the end of the day, Cook is just one man, and it may take more than one person to replace Jobs’ innovations and inventions. But as Cook himself Jobs was away fora liver transplant done as part of his treatment for cancer, Apple always has been more than just Steve Jobs, and the company will thrive no matter who is at the Jobs told Isaacson that the comment gave him trouble, but he didn’t know whether to be “proud or hurt that it might be true.” With Cook at the helm of Apple, Steve Jobs has every reason to be proud of the legacy he leaves behind. @ by Sandy Fitzgerald storeMags.com - Free Magazines Download in True PDF format | SS ‘ONTO AVE CAN YOUR WMO, UIPUENT UAT, ICSIDE APPS, iTUNES REVIEW, T) APPLE SOGIETY AND MORE es a a A a PP dee a eee oe | i) eo Pe aa) ine wmk \ A he rupwinT cade gus \o® s \ OPH WC Wren haa Li ORD Pa Bee Wa eA ae ee ed OF ra i “ wee ee de a . Bee ee gy, rs | | E Ps _ i a 4 aad ail al me ; . or) ‘ 7 ror : a. 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Apple store, nabbed a clip on an iPhone that was first posted on Tech Crunch The usually jovial Wozniak was quickly Surrounded by Apple fans who recognized him in line, and he obliged by taking their questions, chatting with people and signing the occasional autograph on people's iPads. And while Wozniak is optimistic for Apple’s future, he also hopes “there’s not a play fora At the last product introduction, they mentioned its dual core processor. Steve didn't want us to know that stuff ... Just the human things philosophy of making technology attractive to people. “You know, I’m a little afraid,” he said. “At the last product introduction (when the 4S was released), they mentioned its dual core processor. Steve didn’t want us to know that stuff ... just the human things. There was another statement that was overly technical, and it bothered me a lot to hear it. Steve would generally delete a lot of those things.” Wozniak said Jobs’ talent was knowing what customers wanted -- and knowing that customers really didn’t care so much about all the specs as they did about having stylish devices that worked well. “They were talking about split antennas, but what does that mean’” Wozniak said. “You should just say you have better reception ... just tell me in quality terms. The lot of people wanting to have power. It needs focus has got to be on the user.” one person, one mind in control.” Wozniak said he is concerned that Apple could go the way of Sony, which at one time had the “slickest, the best” designs, but He’s plenty worried, though, that it might not happen, and changes are already occuring that are different from the Jobs’ Siotellege.com = Flee Wegehes Dowhiogs ty Tite PDF tenet moved away from that when its corporate management changed. He hopes Apple keeps its trademark style and operating philosophy that has kept customers coming back all these years. The Apple co-founder also talked about Jobs death and the last time he spoke with his friend, but said the death didn’t come as a surprise. “His health was bad for so long,” said Wozniak, saying he had been “thinking about the incredible times we had when we were young. It is so sad to lose that. We would chat about those times and laugh. The last call | had, he said he didn’t have long to live.” He noted that Jobs said he'd heard rumors that Wozniak was maybe interested in coming back to Apple, but “Woz” said those were just rumors. “That was just the press, he said he told Jobs. “They take one little yes” and make a story out of it. Meanwhile, Wozniak thinks Apple still has an incredible future, even without Jobs. He said his friend left behind a legacy of slease: Storalilags & FantaMlag technology that will go on for years, and if the company can remember to keep people first, it should be able to stay on top. While Jobs went on to become a legend, Wozniak is also a Silicon Valley icon. He designed Apple’s first line of products, the Apple | and II, and influenced the Macintosh, founding Apple with Jobs and creating the Apple 1 personal computer. Wozniak left Apple in 1985, but has since kept himself busy in business and philanthropy, working on computers in school programs. 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While this simple feature is nowhere as good as advanced photo editing software, it does To pull up a picture from the Camera Roll or a Photo Album, you simply tap the Edit button and get instant access to the four editing tools. Note, however, when you make edits to an image in your iPhone camera, you can’t undo them after you tap the Save button. You can of course tap the Cancel button if you don't like an edit. So you might consider copying an original photo before making a major edit, such as cropping it. attempt to brighten darker areas of an image and subtly increase the contrast and sharpness of a selected image. This feature may also attempt to correct White Balance issues. However, Auto—Enhance can only improve photos taken in adequately lit areas. Unlike third-party iPhone camera apps (such as Camera+ and CP Pro), this feature does not allow for manual exposure adjustments. So if an image is too dark or slightly out of focus, Auto-Enhance can't be of much help. Cancel CROP AND ROTATE Another important feature is the ability to crop and rotate a photo. This is especially useful since the iPhone camera doesn't have a zoom lens. If your subjects in a photo seem too far away, simply tap the Crop icon on the bottom- right of the screen, and then use the handles to remove distracting areas of the shot. This cropping tool also includes the gridlines overlay, related to the rule- of-thirds in photo composition, which basically means composing or cropping your subject(s) in one of the four quartiles of the grid. Notice also the Constrain button in the Crop tool. This allows you to crop a photo to a specific dimension, especially for the purposes of printing it. You may notice that sometimes when you print a 4 x 6 photo, an important part of it might get cut off. Using Constrain, you can more precisely crop your images for printing. REMOVE RED-EYE For those dreadful red-eye flash shots, the automatic Remove Red-Eye tool might just do the trick. Red eyes might appear when you use the iPhone's flash. Tap the red-eye delete icon and then tap each rea eye to remove the color. Tap again to undo the edit. None of these editing tools, with the exception of the cropping tool, is as advanced as what you find in iPhoto. But they work well for quickly editing and sharing your iPhone camera shots with family and friends. by Bakari Chavanu =. al THE GLOBAL ECONOMIC CRISIS... DID TECH STOCKS WEATHER THE STORM? In 2008, a convergence of factors triggered what many economists believe to be the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930’s. Years of poor lending habits, particularly with home loans, coupled with a collapse in the American banking system, plummeted world economies into deep recessions. By late 2008, leading world indexes dropped more than 40% from their highs in early 2007, with Japan’s Nikkei 225 falling a staggering 60%. 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