In the public’s eye, Cook has become the Riker to Jobs’ Picard—and people generally like Riker.
Jacqui Cheng writing about Tim Cook’s first company letter as CEO of Apple.
Waitaminute… Captain Cook?
Here it is, as promised. Now it’s actually 2008 calendars, up from 2004.
Zombie iCal Calendars
Ever since Apple opened the beta version of Mail and iCal on MobileMe last year, my list of calendars in iCal (Calendars, not calendar entries) has been piling up.
I’ve got to the point of having more than 2000 calendars in iCal and that was causing the app on the Mac as well as on MobileMe to take such a long time in opening.
The MobileMe calendar actually would give up after several minutes and I haven’t even bothered to open iCal ever since. If I need to input anything into the calendar I would use the one on my iPhone instead and made sure it doesn’t sync with iTunes whenever I sync the iPhone.
I let my MobileMe account lapse last March and figured that would be the end of it. Having ignored iCal for months, I thought I might try Lion’s calendar for a change, completely forgetting that I have more than 2000 calendars, so it took a while to open and left me wondering until it finally opened and showed me my monster list.
I figured, okay, let’s find the proper calendars, export them to import back later and nuke the bastards so I can start iCal from fresh. Having gone through that, I opened iCal and found myself looking at a calendar app with no entries. Oh joy!.
A few minutes later, I saw that the proper calendars were already loading. Hmm, that was strange but okay, saves me from having to import them. Note that my Mac was online during all this.
After having added one new calendar and a handful of entries, the app began to slow down and wouldn’t quit unless I force quit it. And then I decided to head down to home/Library/Calendars/ where I found 2004 folders of calendars appearing out of nowhere. ZOMG ZOMBIE CALENDARS!! THEY’RE BACK FROM THE DEAD!
I realized I had lost three subscribed calendars in the process but there I was looking at 2004 calendars. Where had they come from? Can’t be MobileMe, my account is gone. So then I proceed to remove all the calendars directly from the Finder for the second time. It’s been about 30 minutes and the zombie calendars haven’t made their way back yet. We’ll see later on.
Since I no longer have access to MobileMe, I can’t see whether I can do anything on the server side from MobileMe to stop this form happening again.
It also seems that old appointments and invitations from the calendars were being resent. All the way back from 2006. How do I know this? I’ve been getting failed delivery messages of those invitations in my Gmail inbox. Why Gmail? Not sure. I thought it should have been on my mac.com address, which would have bounced.
So far I haven’t seen the zombies returning again yet but if they do, I’ll make sure to grab a screenshot and post it here.
While some see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.
Think Different (via minimalmac)
Chronology of Steve Jobs at Apple
From birth to his resignation as Apple CEO. Almost sounds like he died.
Enhance your calm.
Reuters ran this photoset of Steve Jobs mugshots that really shows the stark decline in Jobs’ health over the years. Good luck, chairman of the board.
Letter from Steve Jobs
August 24, 2011
To the Apple Board of Directors and the Apple Community:
I have always said if there ever came a day when I could no longer meet my duties and expectations as Apple’s CEO, I would be the first to let you know. Unfortunately, that day has come.
I hereby resign as CEO of Apple. I would like to serve, if the Board sees fit, as Chairman of the Board, director and Apple employee.
As far as my successor goes, I strongly recommend that we execute our succession plan and name Tim Cook as CEO of Apple.
I believe Apple’s brightest and most innovative days are ahead of it. And I look forward to watching and contributing to its success in a new role.
I have made some of the best friends of my life at Apple, and I thank you all for the many years of being able to work alongside you.
Steve
Shortly after this letter was published, Apple announced that the board has elected Steve Jobs as Chairman and Tim Cook is now CEO and board member.
End of an era.
MP3tunes ruling opens the door for online music lockers
Google and Amazon could well be allowed to run their music locker cloud service without having to seek permission from record labels as the judge in the mp3tunes case puts the responsibility in users’ hands instead of the site’s operators’.
mp3tunes was found to infringe only on songs that it new were pirated but did not remove following a notice.
the DMCA imposes no obligation to investigate potentially infringing activity absent a specific complaint from copyright holders. The only exception is links to sites with URLs containing “red flag” words like “pirate” or “bootleg.
The quoted paragraph above means that without a specific notice from copyright holders, a site’s operator has no obligation to voluntarily check whether files stored in its servers are infringing on copyrights.
In the future, I think the thin line between smartphones and feature phones will slowly disappear. There will be no such thing as a smartphone. There will be just .. phones.
And Blackberries.
Hmm, someone seems to have some faith in RIM.
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