Bye bye

After all the posts about Steve Jobs, hope you enjoyed and learned because this is the last one.
I'm going to talk about what I learned, the challenges and rewards of making this blog.

His Life and Companies
I learned about his childhood, the start of his businesses, like Apple, etc.
I didn't know, for example, that the reason why Apple is called Apple is because that's his favorite fruit, or also that he sold Pixar to Disney.
It's very interesting all the things you can learn from this.
 
Technology
With my fourth post I found out some tips to make any iDevice battery live longer, at first I didn't know what to do in this How-To post but I found this and it was successful I think, I had two comments on that post. With my third post, some interest aspects about the iPhone 5.

Compare
In my eighth post I compared Mac and Windows and that was hard because I couldn't find any article just about Mac and another one just about Windows, which surprised me because that's a very spoken topic... So I had to mix the information from two sources that compared both systems. Then, I expected to read that Mac is better than Windows, but both articles agreed that Windows was better for them, and affordable, which I agree but even tough I think it's worth it.

Writing and "Creative" Title
Writing in English without plagiarizing because once I find the information in Google, it's hard to change the words and sentences without changing the meaning, but that's why we learned how to paraphrase which helped me a lot.
Also, I didn't know how to do a creative title, so my titles were very simple.

Find Legal Pictures
I didn't know about the copyrights of the pictures online so it was interesting to learn how to copyright free photos legally and which web pages provide these.

Paraphrase
This was very helpful, learning how to find the main idea of a text and put a passage in my own words instead, without changing the meaning. Thanks to this, I improved in my writing as well as the format and organization like introduction, the main text, conclusion...
Now I know the difference between paraphrasing, summarizing and quoting.

I hope you enjoyed this blog as much as I did. Thank you for taking your time reading it.  



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Greatest Accomplishments of Steve Jobs

In this post I'm making a list of Steve Jobs' five greatest life accomplishments from least to most important, according to my opinion.

Accomplishment #5: Dyslexia
He suffered from dyslexia, which means that he had a learning disability, so it was tough for him to read and spell but that didn't stop him from being successful with his business. He has been overcoming it in fact, he learned about calligraphy, something that he loved.
Dr. Stefani Hines said to the abcnews.com a few months ago: "We're learning that individuals with dyslexia tend to have strengths in other areas, in creativity and imagination. They think outside the box". (ABC News)
Read more: here

Accomplishment #4: Next
As I mentioned in a previous post, Steve Jobs founded Next after being fired from his own company, Apple.
There, he basically continued working with technologies and when Apple has a crisis, the bought Next. It's not very well-known but it's influential for Apple, the technology created in Next is now in Mac and iPhone (Next).

Accomplishment #3: Pixar
Jobs bought "The Graphics Group" and renamed it as Pixar. Their main projects were making animated films, like "Toy Story", their first film, that had Disney's collaboration, which was really successful, and then followed by "Finding Nemo", "Cars", "Ratatouille" and more. Disney bought Pixar a few years later.
Read more: here

Accomplishment #2: iTunes
The best online store for music, video clips, movies, podcasts, etc.
This changed and improved the way of buying or renting online, which I think will be the future because it's comfortable and it doesn't take up any room.
Read more: here

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Accomplishment #1: Apple products

My post "Helping Lifes with Inventions" talked about the most successful products of Apple, which is also what you could read here because the iPod, iPhone, iMacs and iPad changed the face of the technology industry. Even though Steve Jobs died, Apple has great workers and this will continue improving. Let's see what they come up with!

Read more: here

Steve Jobs succeeded in his life with his business, because at college he didn't, he dropped out.

Besides that, he did a great job, he changed our future to better.

Mac or Windows?

Since Apple was created and is having a big success, most people wonder about which computers that are best between Macs or Windows PCs.
It's really interesting how some people tried Mac and thought that there's a huge difference and they are definitely sticking to the Apple side.
On the other hand, there are some people that decided to be loyal with their classic computers, Windows, also because they are more affordable.
In this post I'm going to compare two articles that talk about some different aspects of Macs and Windows PCs. Both sources compare the products, but from other points of view, so I'm going to take information from both and adapt it to mine.

Both sources agree that Apple computers run multiple operating systems besides OS X, like Windows, Linux, etc. For those who are used to the Windows operating system can use a Mac and won't feel any difference, just the visual design part where Apple wins, Mac are considered the best looking computers in stores.
Apple products are expensive but have a good resale value.
One of the main reasons the people that are following Apple is because Macs barely get viruses. This is an important detail at the moment of buying a computer because if you are working and the screen blocks all the time and doesn't work, that will make you mad and also waste your time.
Sometimes, I'm talking about my own experience, you can loose information, and all because of the virus.

In the other side, the sources I used talk about Windows PCs being affordable, their large selection you can choose from as well as the manufacturer.
They have a good backwards compatibility, so if you have an old computer and you install Windows 7, it will probably work.
With Windows PCs you can choose the design, case, motherboard, etc. at the moment of buying one.
They also have a lot of compatible accessories.

Read more: here or here

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Focusing on the similarities, both work great with the products of the company. The appearance on screen and the way to use the operating systems are similar.

On the contrary, the articles contained more differences than similarities. For example, the designs, Apple has better designs, more elegant, even though the PCs' aren't bad either.
Windows are more affordable than Macs.
Macs won't get as much viruses as PCs, so basically you don't need maintenance.
These also run other operating systems besides OS X, but PCs just run Windows.
One of the sources says: "If you want to have a combination of Mac and PC, a Mac is your best option".

Even though both sources at the end agree that they prefer PCs, I don't.
In my opinion Apple is better because of the design,they barely get viruses, it's easier to use, and despite of the price, it's worth it.

The History of Apple

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Apple was created in 1976 by Steve Jobs. The first product was a computer and after that it began to be famous.

This might be unbelievable but it's true, Jobs was fired from his own company because he put his head on it but not the money so the chief executive officer, John Sculley, fired him when their visions of the future began to diverge and they fell out. Then Steve created his other two companies Pixar and Next.
Then he was hired again because they realized that they needed him and his great ideas. The funny thing is that they also bought his new company Next.

After that, Apple began to grow and created iTunes, including the movie player, iMovie, and the photographic application, iPhoto.
In 2001, Apple released their first iPod which allowed you to have until 1,000 songs and it was portable so you could take it with you everywhere in your pocket. Even though, in comparison with the ones they have nowadays, it was big and heavy, it was a novelty and a big success. In fact, they became the greatest consumer electronics company on the earth.

Steve Jobs kept working hard as well as his workers to make more great products and be successful, they came up with the iPhone, which was introduced into the Macworld in 2007. Now, their newest product is the iPad.

Is interesting how he went to college and dropped out and created this company which is the best in the world related to electronics devices. A really good thing that they have is that their products improve a lot and are also very elegant, like you can use for example the iPhone without the case because it looks very good, even though is better to use a case for security.

Now, Steve Jobs is dead but I'm sure that all the people that he hired are good workers and also creative, so Apple will keep improving and will make our future lifes better.

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How to make your iDevice battery life last longer

Here are some tips you can follow:

• Keep it out from the sun, don't leave it out in the sun because heat kills batteries faster than anything else.

• Reduce your screen brightness, being at the maximum wastes a lot of battery and most of the times you don't need it, specially at night. Go to "Settings" and adjust the level of brightness in your screen in "Brightness & Wallpaper"

• Make the screen lock quick like 2 minutes so when you're not using it, the screen will turn off and won't waste battery. Go to "Settings", in the "General" section head into "Auto-Lock" to set the time of the screen lock.

• Use Wi-Fi instead of 3G if you can, the iPad battery lasts 10 with Wi-Fi and 9 with 3G, the iPhone 10 with Wi-Fi and 6 with 3G which is a big difference. In "Settings" go to "Wi-Fi" to connect or disconnect. 

• Reduce or eliminate Mail and Calendar checking, if you have a lot of emails and events in your calendar that will consume battery. If you head into "Settings" to the "Mail, Contacts, Calendars" section you can set your fetch of new data manually so when you need it, you do it yourself, or set a time so your iDevice will fetch automatically and will waste more battery.

• Reduce or eliminate Push Notifications, in "Settings" you can turn off the notifications of all the apps or just the ones you don't need to see what's happening every single moment.

• Reduce or eliminate the sounds of your apps, you don't need the sounds always so I don't think this is a big effort to do, but it's okay if you don't wanna do it because this will save just a small amount of battery life.

• Turn off your Location Services in the "General" section as well as the Bluetooth if you don't need it, this will save your battery life.

• Charge your battery completely and when it's dead make sure you charge it quickly.

Adapted from here

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iPhone 5 on sale!

People queued around city blocks worldwide just to get the new iPhone 5 that Apple recently released on Friday, September 21st.The smartphone went on sale in stores across Canada, the United States, Europe, Asia and Australia. Hundreds of people lined up around the block at Apple’s store on New York City’s swanky Fifth Avenue as well as in Apple’s main store in Paris. In London’s central Regent Street, about 1,300 people lined up to buy the iPhone 5, nearly twice as many as showed up for the previous iPhone. In Australia, about 600 people queued around the block at the Apple store in Sydney. In Tokyo, the lines stretched several blocks.The lines, in general, were 70% greater than the one for the iPhone 4S. Apple expected to sell 8 million smartphones over the weekend.

The success is due to the improvement and quality of the product, starting with the size and weight, is way thinner and lighter, has a larger screen, a 4-inch Retina display, an A6 chip, a battery that lasts longer, 8 megapixel iSight camera including the options of panorama and flash.
There are two colors you can choose from: white and silver or black and slate. The cost depends on the capacity so 16GB is $199, 32GB is $299 and 64GB is $399.

Apple's senior vice president of WorldWide Marketing, Philip Schiller stated in an interview with Forbes:

“iPhone 5 is the most beautiful consumer device that we’ve ever created,” said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing. “We’ve packed an amazing amount of innovation and advanced technology into a thin and light, jewel-like device with a stunning 4-inch Retina display, blazing fast A6 chip, ultrafast wireless, even longer battery life; and we think customers are going to love it.”(Steve Jobs)

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Helping lifes wih inventions

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Apple is a well-known American multinational company where Steve Jobs and other workers have created excellent technology products.

Starting in October 2001, Apple created a new style of mp3, lighter, smaller and more elegant that called "iPod", this palm-sized gadget changed the image of music industry. It has a central-scroll wheel on the front and a small window for the screen to select the songs. The first iPod was available in 5GB and 10 GB models and could have up to 1,000 songs.

After this, they created an online music store in 2003, iTunes. A media player and media library application used to play, download, save, and organize digital audio and video on personal computers.

In 2007, the iPhone was released. A smartphone with a multi-touch screen, including a virtual keyboard rather than a physical. It has Wi-Fi and cellular connectivity (2G, 3G and 4G). This year the launched the iPhone 5, it's getting better an thicker every time.

In 1984 the MAC system software was born. A series of graphical user interface-based operating systems. It's competing against Windows, and I think it's winning. MAC is faster, more elegant, it's hard to get viruses, etc.

The last amazing product is the iPad, which had a huge success. It's even used in education, this Apple product is an important tool in a student routine at school.
The iPad is a tablet computer that as well as the iPhone is a multi-touch screen, with a virtual keyboard, Wi-Fi, cellular connectivity, camera, email, etc.

Jobs has put his energy into massively improving quality of life with all of his inventions. He may not be a charity person as in giving money to NGOs but he benefited so many lives directly (because they've been hired) or indirectly (because they use the products to improve their quality of life).

"Being the richest man in the cementary doesn't matter to me... Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful... That's what matters to me" (Steve Jobs).

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