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| The result of Apple trademarks not passing in Chinese courts: "iPnoho6" |
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
YourMacStore's News Updates: January 31st
RAM Disk Utility "RAMDrive" by Scintilla
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| $4.99 in Mac App Store released 1/28/2012 |
The RAM disk utility “RAMDrive” is on sale in the app store. A RAM disk or RAM drive is what uses part of your primary storage as a disk drive. The app “RAMDrive” allows you to create your own RAM disk. That means, if your computer has a large amount of memory, you can use a part of it as the RAM disk. Even the Mac Mini today has a 16GB max storage, so RAM disks can be comfortably used today by the average person.
As the app store says, “the speed of such disk can be up to 5 GB per second.” That’s obviously faster than a standard disk drive and even faster than an SSD. Making the bank-switched RAM behave like disk drives harnesses this speed because it frees the RAM from the limitations of the data bus and CPU.
The disadvantage of the RAM disk, however, is that it is created in the volatile memory. It means that if you turn your computer off, all the data is lost, thus making the functions of it limited. When RAM disks were a standard utility in the Mac OS of the past, several megabytes of the RAM disk would be used as a Photoshop scratch disk...perhaps it could be used in a similar fashion today.
RAMDrive has a number of functions that make the use of RAM disks more comfortable. The app store says, “RAMDrive supports automatic mounting on the disk when starting the system. Additionally, you can set the automatic backing up of the disk at logging off the system and recovery at logging in.”
We’ve gone a long ways since the old days:
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| 256MB Daystar RAM PowerCard; RAM disk mounted on Quadra 950 |
Links:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ramdrive/id497452513
http://memory.dataram.com/products-and-services/software/ramdisk (for Windows)
Monday, January 30, 2012
Tenosynovitis: The Health Issues of Pinching an iPad
Recently, there's been quite a few accessories for the iPad where you could hold it with just one hand. The whole point of it, though, is not design but health. Health issues are emerging in the design of tablets being too thin. The thin tablets are making consumers "pinch and hold" with one hand. But this pinching action could create an inflammation in the tendons called Tenosynovitis. It's an inflammation in the thumb side of the wrist and you could get it if you are pinching your tablet for a prolonged period of time.
If you are a pinch holder, here are some single hand grips you could get for your iPad:
http://www.handeholder.com/
http://www.freeonehand.com/
http://thehandstand.com/
Friday, January 27, 2012
Thursday, January 26, 2012
One more thing...a $250 discount on iPads for Apple employees
Team,
Thanks to everyone’s hard work, we’re off to a great start in 2012. Last week in New York we launched a groundbreaking initiative for education with iBooks textbooks, and today we reported the strongest quarter in Apple’s history.Please join me tomorrow morning at 10 a.m. in Town Hall. We’ll review our record-setting results and discuss some exciting new things going on at Apple.The meeting will be broadcast live to many sites in Cupertino and other Apple locations. Please check AppleWeb for details.
Tim
Thanks to everyone’s hard work, we’re off to a great start in 2012. Last week in New York we launched a groundbreaking initiative for education with iBooks textbooks, and today we reported the strongest quarter in Apple’s history.Please join me tomorrow morning at 10 a.m. in Town Hall. We’ll review our record-setting results and discuss some exciting new things going on at Apple.The meeting will be broadcast live to many sites in Cupertino and other Apple locations. Please check AppleWeb for details.
Tim
At the Town Hall Meeting held at 10AM yesterday, Apple CEO Tim Cook announced a new discount standard for employees. It used to be 25% on all kinds of Macs (1 purchase per year; 15% off for friends and relatives up to 3 purchases per year). Now it's a $500 discount on Macs (except Mac minis) and $250 discount on iPads. The new discount can only be used once every 3 years. The amount of discount increased but the number of times you could use it decreased. Was it really that great of a change?
Nothing could have been more exciting when the Town Hall Meeting was first held in a long time by then CEO Steve Jobs in July 2007. It was the day before the iPhone was going to be released on the historic Friday (28th). He announced there that all full-time and part-time Apple employees who'd been working for more than a year (apprx. 20,000 employees) will get a free 8GB iPhone with a retail price of $599. That's basically a $12-million giveaway by the company.
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Here's the message that Steve sent to his employees:
From: Steve Jobs
Date: June 27, 2007 1:47:55 PM PDT
To: [redacted]
Subject: Town Hall Meeting Tomorrow
Team,
We're launching the most revolutionary and exciting product in Apple's history this Friday. And given Apple's legacy of breakthrough products, that's saying a lot.
I'd like to get together and share my thoughts about this amazing moment for our company. So please join me for a company-wide communications meeting tomorrow, Thursday, at 11:00AM in Town Hall.
This meeting will also be broadcast to other Apple campus locations. Please check [redacted] for details.
See you there,
Steve
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How discouraging it must have been for the employees who knew the Town Hall meeting in 2007 to go to the 2012 meeting and hear that they'll only get a $250 discount on iPads. Steve gave away free iPhones in anticipation of great revenue increases in 2007 (which did actually happen), but Tim's announcement came after one of the greatest revenues in history and all he did was give a $250 discount.
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