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We made it!After a flight delay, Jerrica and I finally arrived late Monday night (11:30pm Pacific) and we are already enjoying San Francisco.Keep an eye on this page throughout the week for more developments from this exciting event. Photos will follow later in the day.
Just a quick post detailing the state of affairs here at the 5th Avenue Apple Retail Store!
I arrived just before noon, and was about #200 in line. News trucks and cameras from all the major networks are in front of the store, and the line snakes around the block of the Apple Store, currently coming to a rest on 59th (closer to Madison than 5th).
Some major corporations have representatives walking around handing out freebies. My personal favorite: The Virgin Atlantic Premium Economy amenity kit, complete with socks, toothbrush, pen and more! They also sent two guys around with lemonade kegs strapped to their backs. Tasty! We were visited from record companies and Izze beverages, and Lesser Evil snacks brought Kettle Corn as well.
I spoke with many folks in line excited to be the first to get their hands on the device. Most are genuinely thrilled to be owning it, some are eBaying, some are doing both (you can buy 2 at Apple Retail), and some are selling their spot for $1,000s of dollars!
I was interviewed by several small blogs / internet TV stations - I’ll update the site if any of those interviews show up.
Less than 2 hours to go. I’m very excited because the rumor appears to be that the store received at least 1,000. Hopefully I’ll get a hold of one - will keep the site updated. Here are some photos from the mayhem:
The Apple iPhone Questions and Answers Page is currently showing an exciting piece of information that I had missed. Here is a quote from the website:
What kind of security features does iPhone offer?
You can protect your iPhone with a four-digit password, which is then required whenever iPhone is turned on or wakes from sleep. For secure Internet access, iPhone supports industry-standard Wi-Fi security and virtual private networking (VPN).
The mention of VPN is very exciting for business users in particular, or anyone who wants to safely browse the internet while at a WiFi ‘hotspot’ such as Starbucks or the airport.
Virtual Private Networking in its most common form, and such as the type that Digital Reality sets up for businesses, allows employees away from the office to securely access the company network from anywhere with an internet connection.
If the iPhone indeed supports this technology, users might be able to access important company files such as documents, databases and more from their shiny new portable devices starting this Friday. More information will surely be released regarding iPhone’s particular breed of VPN support, but we can be optimistic that the usage will be as I mentioned above.
In another scenario, iPhone may support the ability to reroute all network traffic through your home or office’s VPN for secure web browsing. This would come in handy when surfing the Internet at an insecure location, like a coffee shop’s free WiFi connection. Using your iPhone to tap into your home/office VPN, you could securely encrypt all data being sent to and from your computer, so that fellow java slurpers would not be able to intercept your special message to Mom or confidential stock portfolio information.
Always be aware of your surroundings at a hotspot with or without a VPN, since shoulder surfing (when a fellow patron merely looks over your shoulder at what you are typing/browsing) is just as dangerous and requires far less technical know-how on the side of the perpetrator!
All shall be revealed Friday…
For some design and business professionals, this one feature is enough to send them running to the Apple Store to buy a first Mac.
Built into Mac OS X since the very beginning is the ability to save any file that you can print to a PDF. For the uninitiated, PDF stands for Portable Document Format and is the absolute choice to send a document to colleagues, regardless of their operating system. PDF viewers are available for free on Mac, Windows, Linux, Palm, Windows Mobile, the upcoming iPhone and more.
The beauty with PDF is that it retains all of the fonts and formatting from the original computer, meaning that your recipient can have a completely different setup or set of applications, and they will see the file as you intended. Anyone who has ever spent hours prettying up a Word document and learned that their boss received it as a jumbled mess of Courier text will surely understand the joy of PDF.
Here’s how you do it.
That’s it!
Bonus for Graphics People: Under “Save as PDF” is an option called “Save PDF as PostScript”.
Extremely handy for those folks dealing with print graphics.
If you find yourself in the Finder with a folder full of photos (try saying that 10 times fast), try using an outstanding built-in tool of Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger - “Slideshow”.
Navigate to the folder, and then choose the photos you would like displayed.
Right click (or control click) on any of the newly highlighted photos and select “Slideshow”.
Voila - you have a great slideshow of images without opening any separate applications. The feature even comes complete with eye-pleasing transitions.
Apple is currently offering a number of excellent values on the Certified Refurbished Mac page. These systems have either been returned or repaired, and are brought back to 100% specification by Apple. In addition, they include the full 1-year warranty of a new system. The only disadvantage, in fact, is you receive a brown box and not the fancy white Apple box. A loss, perhaps, but at 20% off - I’ll take the brown!
Some of the current offerings:
These offers tend to disappear quickly, so if you are interested, head on over to the Digital Reality Apple Store and get a great Mac for 10-20% off. The 2 hours of free training promotion still applies to these purchases.
This post is the first in a series of Mac Basics.
Seasoned Macintosh users can feel free to skim past these, or pitch in your own thoughts in the comments!
Many of my clients who are accustomed to using Microsoft Windows will often ask me why the Mac does not have a right click option. Thankfully, the Mac has had this ever-useful option for many years.
If you are using one of the newer Mac desktops (iMac, Mac Pro, etc.) - you might already have a multi-button mouse and not realize it. The newest “Mighty Mouse” that ships with Apple desktops is touch sensitive - if you click the left side of the mouse, it detects it, and the same is true of the right side of the mouse. If you have an older Apple mouse, or an Apple laptop, here are your options:
While we are at it, here’s another tip for recent Apple notebook users: Scroll horizontally or vertically by placing two fingers on the trackpad and moving the fingers horizontally or vertically. The Mac detects that you are using more than one finger and immediately goes into scroll mode. This is perfect for web pages or long documents. Say goodbye to the scroll arrows or mouse wheel!
I took a break from work to reboot into Vista and play a little Lord of the Rings Online (LOTRO) on my MacBook Pro. (I haven’t had a chance to check out Parallels 3 and the new 3D support - review will be coming.)
Once in Windows mode, I got the urge to make Vista more visually Mac-like, and stumbled on some great sites offering skins, docks and the like for Windows. Not having that much time, I decided a quick way to ‘get my Mac on’ would be to install the newly released Safari 3 for Windows.
I have only been using it for a few hours - but it seems excellent so far! I particularly love the floating sharp edge look to the Safari Window. It’s snappy and responsive. One potential snag is my WordPress WYSIWYG - I’m having trouble adding HTML links in the visual mode, but will have to test further to confirm that it’s a Safari issue.
Update: Confirmed issues with the WordPress WYSIWYG photo app and link app. Sent off a bug report to Apple - please do the same with any issues you find. Safari for Windows comes in as the underdog, but I am hopeful that, like iTunes, it will become a great product to introduce non-Mac users to the Apple line. Here’s to a fruitful beta test!
Apple’s Leopard features page has some great news about the upcoming version of iCal.
Particularly nice updates:
It looks like little iCal is all grown up!
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