A Thankful Tribute to Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs meditating

Steve Jobs. Truly a personally inspiring person who laid roads that influenced my whole life in a very positive way.

Without the Macintosh Computer, I wouldn’t be where I am today. I wouldn’t know what I know today. I wouldn’t be as open minded, customer focused as I am today. Working with the Apple Mac shifted my mindset to “Think Different” in terms of thinking in a simple way and not to go the complicated way.

It started in the 1990′s when I first got my hands on the Apple Macintosh. Being a proud owner of my own Mac and living in a household where the Apple Macintosh was the computer deviced used.
Following with my own iMac in later years, in continous competition with friends defending the status and value of Microsoft PCs. Not letting me get caught by it’s attraction back then, but sticking to the Mac for years.
Initiating my first experiences in the Internet, developing small scripts and later applications on it. Finding lifetime friends who share the same love to Macs.
Making me think of working at Apple would be the goal of my life and meeting this man a great personal honor and inspiration.
Getting professionally creative and productive at a later stage by building and publishing everything from Webservers, Websites to important term papers for my educational career.
Bringing my advanced knowledge of computer use in my daily work, enjoying the simplicity and comfortability of the Mac and Mac OS X at home.
Improving my performance with the iPhone in recent years, moving myself away from the mindset that a phone is “only” to be used as a phone.

I am really proud of the way I went with the Macs and Apple in the past. And I will continue to do so – standing above any minor downsides or obstacles to overcome. Keeping the innovative thinking, the “different” thinking, the easyness and simplicity always in my mind and trying to apply this in my daily work and life.

Thank you Steve Jobs, for making this possible. Thank you Apple, for keeping it going like this forever.
Steve Jobs Thinking

MacBook Pro Power Adapter (beinahe) durchgebrannt – Apple??

Angefangen hat es damit, dass ich eine Art Wackelkontakt mit dem Stromadapter meines MacBook Pros festgestellt habe. Da beim Mag Safe Anschluss selbst bereits leicht die Isolation “wegrutscht” war das natürlich der erste Ort an dem ich suchte.

MacBook Pro Mag Safe Isolation

Aber ich fand schnell heraus, dass der Wackelkontakt am anderen Ende des Kabels lag – und zwar dort wo das Kabel dem Power Adapter entspringt. Naja, mit diesem Wissen habe ich flott weitergearbeitet – bis ich kürzlich erkannte, dass das Kabel am Ende beim Power Adapter beginnt durchzuschmoren!

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Schon wieder: neuer Akku für mein MacBook Pro

Kürzlich funktioniert das Trackpad meines MacBook Pros nicht mehr richtig. Dies zeigte sich dadurch, dass Klicken nicht mehr möglich war; wenn man jedoch neben dem Trackpad auf das Gehäuse drückte, wurde ein Klick ausgeführt… Nach kurzer Suche im Netz fand ich folgenden Beitrag im Apple Support Forum:

I think I may have solved this one. I had not noticed that My MacBook Pro battery had started to ‘bulge’ and it was obviously exerting pressure from underneath on the Pro’s mousepad causing the ‘no click’ mode. I removed the battery and am just using the power cable until my replacement arrives and this seems to have solved the problem completely.

Und ein anschliessender Blick unter mein MacBook Pro bestätigte, dass auch bei mir sich der Akku WIEDER aufgebläht hatte. Durch den Druck von der Unterseite her, wurde die Funktion des Trackpads gestört.

Aber im Gegensatz zum letzten Mal, als ich einen Ersatzakku von Apple beanspruchte, lief es dieses Mal schnell und unkompliziert: heute Anruf beim Apple Support, morgen Lieferung durch UPS. Und das ganze informativ abgedeckt durch 3 E-Mails von Apple über den aktuellen Status. Das war top!

My personal Review of the Macworld Keynote 2009

Steve Jobs at an Apple Keynote

Today Apple held its annual Keynote at the Macworld Expo in San Francisco. I followed the show by one of the several Text Feeds available on the net during each Keynote, Macprime.ch was my choice.

The first several minutes excited me quite a lot – it was about iLife ’09, especially about iPhoto. The rest of the show was quite interesting and typical Apple-like too, I even got those classic Keynote-watching-feelings even if I could just read some informative texts every several minutes.

However, here is my personal review about the new products and only in reference to the text stream I followed:

Update: for those who have not already noticed – the Keynote record is officially available from the Apple website.

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