Music fans have now downloaded and purchased more than three billion songs from the iTunes Store, and “we’d like to thank all of our customers who have contributed to this incredible milestone,” said Eddy Cue, Apple’s vice president of iTunes. The world’s most popular online music, TV, and movie store, iTunes features a catalog of more than five million songs, 550 TV shows, and 500 movies, and it recently surpassed both Amazon and Target to become the third largest music retailer in the US.
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Did you know that you could use your Apple Remote while giving a Keynote presentation? We show you how in the Quick Tip of the Week. Just visit the Small Business site to see this and other tips that will make you more productive on your Mac.
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Ethics. It’s a subject that has been spoken about by almost everyone.You are probably thinking “Oh no! Not another ethics conversation.” Well, maybe. The goal of this article is to go through a few of the basics of business ethics and how it ties into our last article, credibility.
When dealing in the SME and SMB circles, there are a number of “views” about your business that are paramount to success and building your business. The one that immediately comes to mind is ethics. Tied hand in hand, a combination of …

“After more than a week of using it—as my only personal phone—I’m still gushing,” reports Stephanie Angelyn Casola (hometownlife.com) of her new iPhone. It provided “the most painless set-up for a new cell phone I’ve ever experienced.” Casola explains that she easily assigned “pictures to my contacts. Then, when someone calls, I can see instantly who it is.” “The ease with which this is accomplished makes it easy to see why iPhone is so revolutionary. It’s not just the combination of uses, it’s the way Apple has managed to make …

Seven years after Gavin Strange left college life behind—”I couldn’t wait to get out there and get involved in design”—Strange attained an “international reputation as a cutting-edge young talent, with retail lines of skateboards, designer toys, clothing and other products, along with his mainstay business of web design and illustration.” As he explains, ”I use my MacBook Pro for absolutely everything. “The fact I can take it anywhere I like, but it’s as powerful as a desktop, is the winner for me.”
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Posting revenue of $5.41 billion and net quarterly profit of $818 million, or $.92 per diluted share, Apple today announced its financial results for its third fiscal quarter, ending June 30, 2007. The results, representing the highest June quarter revenue and profit in company history, compare to revenue of $4.37 billion and net quarterly profit of $472 million, or $.54 per diluted share, in the year-ago quarter. Apple shipped 1,764,000 Macs (a new company record by more than 150,000 computers) and sold 9,815,000 iPods, a 21% growth over the year-ago …

At the Kellman Corporate Community School in Chicago’s North Lawndale area, teachers and administrators have witnessed first hand the dramatic changes that can result when each student has his or her own wireless Apple notebook to use in school and at home. “From the moment we handed out the Apple notebooks,” notes Technology Director Helen Ross, “our students just jumped into learning with both feet. Every one of them has a new sense of pride and a sense that they are truly blessed to have this technology.”
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“I’m closing in on 30 days as an iPhone user and am still impressed,” reveals Bob LeVitus (Houston Chronicle). Now his “one and only phone,” he uses “it all day for music, telephone, Internet access, contacts and appointments, and I have yet to run out of juice before 9 p.m.” Levitus enjoys the map application and thinks the “built-in Safari Web browser is terrific. When the TV commercials tell you iPhone offers the real Internet, they’re not kidding.” In fact, LeVitus confesses that “after living with this review unit for …

If you’ve ever wanted to grab a screen shot, you’ll definitely want to watch the video Quick Tip of the Week. It shows you the keyboard shortcuts you can use to capture a single window, the entire desktop, or a portion of it that you define. From creating PDFs in any application to using the built-in Dictionary to viewing multiple Inspectors in Pages, the Quick Tip of the Week shows you how to get more out of Mac OS X, iWork, Mail, iLife, and other Mac applications.
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It took more than a year of planning and execution for 1741 Films to create the spectacular, attention-grabbing trailer for “Resident Evil: Extinction.” But as creative director Jim Read explains, using the Mac just made “the process a lot more enjoyable.” Compared to other systems they might have used, the Mac “manages memory better, and it feels more natural to use. And in our day-to-day work with Creative Suite, the Mac feels nicer. The interface is intuitive and easy to navigate; it lets us do things a little bit …