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

Photo Credit from: here

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.