French site “MacGeneration” is reporting (http://www.macgeneration.com/news/voir/175852/xserve-pour-ainsi-dire-personne-ne-les-achetait-steve-jobs) that one of its readers emailed Apple CEO Steve Jobs to inquire about the reasons behind the decision to discontinue the Xserve rackmount server.
Jobs reportedly sent one of his succinct replies from his iPhone. He simply said, “Hardly anyone was buying them.”
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On July 7, 2009, the .Mac HomePage web application was discontinued by Apple. Now the company is discontinuing HomePage viewing as of Nov. 8 (that’s today).
As of July 7, MobileMe users were no longer be able to create new pages or edit existing pages using HomePage. HomePage was the web site creation tool in Apple’s US$99-per-year .Mac suite of Internet services (formerly .Mac, now MobileMe).
Last month Apple sent a letter to MobileMe subscribers that read:
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A re-elected Victorian government in Melbourne, Victoria, would employ an extra 2,800 doctors, nurses and other health professionals to treat hundreds of thousands more patients under a $1.5 billion health package, as well as provide an iPad for every doctor working in a public hospital, reports “The Age” (http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/state-election-2010/record-investment-brumbys-15bn-health-pledge-20101108-17jto.html).
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On the new “MacVoices” (http://www.macvoices.com), Jeff Carlson, the author of two new books, “Photoshop Elements 9 for Mac OS X: Visual QuickStart Guide” and “Photoshop Elements 9 for Windows Visual QuickStart Guide, ” talks about the new version of the Adobe software.
Read MoreApplications for Life Company has released Imposition Wizard 1.8 (http://www.impositionwizard.com), an update to their professional level, standalone imposition software for Mac OS X 10.5 or higher.
As a standalone application, Imposition Wizard doesn’t require any third-party software, it just reads and writes PDF files. Version 1.8 sports several small improvements, and features a two-up preview mode, reads bleed and trim data from source files, as well as allows to rotate sheets and define their default parameters.
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