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- 80% of US businesses have Macs
Filed under: Apple Corporate, Enterprise
Computerworld is reporting on the results of a Yankee Group Research report that finds that 80% of US businesses now have Macs. This represents an huge increase from just two years ago when only 47% of businesses reported having Mac users. The Yankee Group estimates that corporate marketshare has risen to 8-10% overall with 21% of firms reporting more than 50 Mac users. Interestingly, and perhaps not surprisingly, 28% are running Windows in virtualization.
While the consumer marketshare (and better yet, profitshare) numbers have looking up for some time now, it's good to see that Apple is finally starting to gain (or regain) a serious foothold in the corporate sphere as well. It's no surprise that as more users get acquainted with Apple gear at home that they're bringing pressure on corporate IT managers to implement Macs at work as well. Things just keep rolling for the bean counters in Cupertino.Read | Permalink | Email this | CommentsПереслать - Apple Store North Star: Your reports
Filed under: Retail
Apple opened a new retail store in San Antonio, Texas earlier today, number 14 for the Lone Star State. As usual, we asked any TUAW readers who may have attended to share their reports and/or pictures. So, did you go, and if you did, how was it? Let us know in the comments. Here's hoping you scored a T-shirt!
If you haven't gone down to the store yet, grab your camera and add anything especially interesting to our Flickr pool!Read | Permalink | Email this | CommentsПереслать - TUAW Best of the Week
Filed under: Features, TUAW Business, Weekend Review
Welcome to the latest installment of TUAW's best of the week, where we gather up our favorite posts for your easy clicking enjoyment. If you're using either Microsoft Office 2004 or Office 2008, you might want to check auto update sometime in the near future.
TV shows added to Australia iTunes Store
First the land down under gets the iPhone and Apple Store, now they're getting iTunes TV shows. This is no doubt something that Apple should have done a long time ago, but I'm sure there are many rejoicing Australians!
Mod: use your MacBook Air Superdrive on any machine
Ever since the MacBook Air Superdrives have been out, we've all been asking ourselves the same question: how can we use this on any Mac? Well, some creative individual found out a sure-fire way to do this.
Take back your iWeb galleries in Firefox 3
Have you been lonely without your iWeb galleries? Well, be lonely no more because someone found a way to fix Firefox's? ... erm ... Apple's? ... erm ... someone's problem with iWeb galleries in Firefox 3.
Last day to buy MacHeist Bundle
The MacHeist retail bundle is finally over, but you can now find MacHeist's new summer bundle that features Parallels and other nice applications for a very low price.
Keep your iPhone from losing its cookies
Has the cookie monster been lurking in your iPhone? Join Brett as he tries to find a way to rid the loss of cookies from your iPhone.
Original iPhone warranties about to expire
Did you buy a first generation iPhone? If you're reading this today, chances are your iPhone's warranty will be up tomorrow.
iTunes: Free Thursday
Get some free tunes.
Ask TUAW: 5.1 surround sound, bookmark syncing, MobileMe, MDI files, and more
Get some free Mac help.
Read | Permalink | Email this | CommentsПереслать - LiveDiscKit
Filed under: Software, Odds and ends, Open Source, Developer
Moments before our Macworld 2008 interview with Paul Kafasis he told me about the unique way the demo CDs they were giving out worked. What's the main problem with software on CDs? Those apps are suspended in amber, frozen in time, and many other overused metaphors. The fine folks at Rogue Amoeba make living, breathing code. They don't stop updating it for a second, and they wanted to make sure that the app you installed off of that CD was the most up to date version available.
Impossible, you say. Piffle! Not for Rogue Amoeba (that one celled organism is a determined little guy). They looked at the problem and thought of LiveDisc. LiveDisc is an application that is burnt onto the CD. This application points to the most recent versions of the actual app that you want the user to install (an Internet connection is required). A simple solution to a highly specific problem, which is why I like it so much.
Rogue Amoeba is now sharing LiveDisc with other devs in the form of LiveDiscKit, an open source plugin for Interface Builder. Simply tweak a few settings, point it at the right places, and you're set to press a large number of CDs which will never go out of date (CD pressing functionality is not included with LiveDiscKit), that is assuming CDs stick around for much longer.Read | Permalink | Email this | CommentsПереслать - ScreenSteps 2.1 released, interview with Blue Mango
Filed under: Software, WWDC, Interviews, Developer
Screensteps, the software documentation generator we've come to love, has reached an official 2.1 status and has been released into the wild. Well, as wild as software documentation gets, anyway. This gem is a TUAW favorite and I'm personally very psyched about the new upload-to-blog feature, which has come a long way since we first announced it in the beta. The other 74 enhancements, changes and fixes can be found in the release notes.
You'd expect software in this genre to be well documented ... you won't be disappointed. In addition to the extensive, ScreenSteps-generated online manual, there are new screencasts available on the updated website. You can also grab a 30-day trial of ScreenSteps Pro on the download page. The Standard version is priced at $39.95 and the Pro version comes in at $59.95 (feature comparison).
I happened to have a chance to sit down with Trevor and Greg, creators of ScreenSteps, at WWDC. It's quite by coincidence that I managed to finish editing and uploading the video right before they let me know about the 2.1 release. Our chat is after the jump.
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Read | Permalink | Email this | CommentsПереслать - Mac 101: Safari tabs
Filed under: Internet, Internet Tools, Mac 101
Here's a quick tip for Safari users. As you know, tabbed browsing is best thing to happen to the 'net since The Tron Guy. Keyboard jockeys create new tabs by pressing Command-T. But there are a few of you who dislike releasing the mouse, even for a second.
You folks can simply double-click the grey area next to a tab to create a new one. Everybody wins!
[Via Geek&Mild]Read | Permalink | Email this | CommentsПереслать - WALL•E - Robot with the heart of a Mac
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Apple
Several TUAW readers have reported after seeing midnight showings of Disney-Pixar's new and highly-rated movie WALLo.E that when the robot boots up, he makes the standard Mac startup sound. That's not the only Apple connection with the movie.
Of course, Steve Jobs is the largest single shareholder of Disney after Pixar was purchased by the entertainment giant for $7.4 billion in 2006. He still serves on a steering committee for Pixar that oversees the Disney-Pixar animation businesses, and he's on the Disney Board of Directors. I'm not sure, but he may be tapped to be the first CEO of BuyNLarge...
WALLo.E's job is to wander around an abandoned Earth, pick up trash, and compact it into small blocks. However, when he finds something nostalgic that he likes, such as an iPod or Rubik's cube, he keeps it.
The object of WALLo.E's desire, EVE, was actually designed with the assistance of Apple Senior VP of Industrial Design Jonathan Ive, who apparently spent a day with the Pixar team in 2005 consulting on the ultra-sleek floating robot.
Thanks to Matt for the heads-up and inspiration for this post!Read | Permalink | Email this | CommentsПереслать - iPhone 2.0 to include secure erase
Filed under: iPhone
A while back we noted that refurbished iPhones still contained previous users' data and that there was no built-in way to securely erase it (though there were some rough suggested work-arounds). With the new 3G iPhone, and lots of upgrading, around the corner the problem seemed more worrisome than ever. However, AppleInsider is reporting that the iPhone 2.0 software will have a solution.
Unlike the present "Erase All Content and Settings" feature in the iPhone Settings, the new version "will wipe data in similar fashion to the 'Secure Empty Trash' function of Mac OS X, by which all data is deleted, unlinked, and then overwritten several times to make it irretrievable by even the savviest of recovery tools." This is obviously good news for everyone looking to upgrade and it should roll out when iPhone 2.0 lands on July 11.Read | Permalink | Email this | CommentsПереслать - Rogers announces iPhone rates in Canada
Filed under: iPhone
We've known for awhile that Rogers would be bringing the iPhone 3G to Canada, but we didn't know what kind of plans would be offered. Well, the wondering can stop because Rogers has just posted a website detailing all the service plans and features you can get for your iPhone in Canda, and how much it'll cost you.
As you can see from the above chart service plans start at $60 (Canadian) and go to $115. Interestingly, there is no unlimited data option which might cause trouble down the road when you load up your iPhone with lots of heavy network using 3rd party apps.
Check out Rogers' page for all the details.
Thanks to everyone who sent this in.Read | Permalink | Email this | CommentsПереслать - Linksys offers Mac router setup tool
Filed under: Peripherals, Software, Airport
Linksys is offering their Linksys EasyLink Advisor (LELA) Setup Wizard as a native Mac application for managing some of their more recent router models. Similar to the Airport Setup Utility the EasyLink Advisor allows users to setup and manage their Linksys router based networks without going through the web page based setup that Mac users have traditionally had to suffer.
The LELA Mac Wizard is compatible with the Linksys WRT54G2, WRT111, WRT160N, and WRT310N routers and will be on on the setup CD included in the retail packaging. It is also supposed to be available for download on Linksys' Mac page, but I cannot yet find the download link.
Update: Thanks to a reader, found a download link (select version 1.0 from the dropdown menu to reveal it).
[via Macworld]Read | Permalink | Email this | CommentsПереслать - Are iPhone app devs getting a raw deal?
Filed under: Rumors, App Store
We mentioned yesterday a rumor that Apple won't cut a check for iPhone application developers until the dev's share of the sales tops $250. A lot of commenters were upset about this, if it's true: TomWBrowning said "So if you make an app that costs $1 you won't see a penny even if 359 people buy it?"
From the (indie) developer's perspective, this stinks. They've already paid at least $99 just to participate, and now they have to wait until they make (potentially) hundreds of sales before they see a dime from Apple. Will the high barrier for entry discourage truly good app development? Or will it act like a cover charge to keep out the riffraff?
From Apple's perspective, this is just good business sense. It costs money to cut checks and make electronic transfers in quantity. Plus, Apple can aggregate a great deal of interest on all those little sums they have tucked away. Their cut -- effectively -- is probably far more than the advertised 30 percent, depending on how smartly they invest their savings.
The model isn't exactly foreign: Google AdSense makes a great deal of money (on paper, at least) on the backs of smaller sites that don't earn the $100 minimum for Google to cut a check. Some commenters were suggesting that a $50 threshold for iPhone apps would be more reasonable.
In any event, it certainly makes ad hoc distribution look more and more attractive.
Read | Permalink | Email this | CommentsПереслать - .Mac is down: Gather your children! Into the cellar!
Filed under: .Mac
.Mac web services were "temporarily unavailable" for a time this morning, and things are still a little shaky. No explanation was given for the outage.
Mail was working when tested, but iDisk access through afp:// still appears to be shut off (at 10:50 a.m. ET). Homepages and access to iDisk public folders seem to be OK, too. We'll keep tabs on this, and let you know when the service is back up and running. Check back soon!
Update (11:20 a.m. ET): Web access seems to be up and running, but iDisk via afp:// is still down.
Update (1:45 p.m. ET): iDisk access is back up, but I'm not sure when that happened. One computer is still unable to connect, and the other computer connects just fine.
Thanks to everyone who sent this in!
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