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Стив Джобс е моят герой. Вече повече от 15 години… Със сигурност, в този блог ще прочетете тепърва още много текстове за този невероятен човек. Имам много какво да разкажа. Преди време бях запленен от неговата харизма и от тогава следя отблизо неговата кариера. А всичко, до което той се докосне се превръща в магия. В днешната публикация ще стане въпрос за една конкретна реч на Стив Джобс. Произнесена е на 12-ти юни 2005 година по време на церемонията по дипломирането на випуск 2005 на Станфордския университет. На пръв поглед – нищо специално. Но, поне за мен, това е една от най-вълнуващите речи, произнасяни някога. (Сещам се само за една, която е по-вълнуваща и обещавам скоро да ви разкажа и за нея). Ако съдя по броя на свалянията на клипа и по разпространението му в цялата световна мрежа – очевидно не само аз намирам тази реч за вдъхновяваща. Чуйте я сами! А за тези от вас, които не са съвсем на “ти” с английския- под клипа съм направил и превод на български език и съм добавил и няколко снимки от живота на Стив Джобс. Време е да му дадем думата: За мен е чест да бъда сред вас в деня на вашето дипломиране в един от най-известните университети в света. Аз така и не успях да завърша колеж. В интерес на истината, никога не съм бил на такава церемония толкова отблизо, колкото днес. Днес искам да ви разкажа три истории от своя живот. Това е всичко. Само три истории, нищо повече. Първата история се отнася за свързването на точките. Прекъснах следването си в Рийдс Колидж още след първите 6 месеца, но след това останах като прекъснал студент още 18 месеца преди окончателно да напусна. Защо се махнах? Това е започнало още преди да се родя. Биологичната ми майка е била млада, неомъжена студентка и тя решила да ме остави за осиновяване. Тя много искала да бъда осиновен от хора с висше образование и всичко било уредено след раждането да бъда осиновен от един адвокат и неговата съпруга. Само че, като съм се пръкнал и те решили в последния момент, че искат момиче. И така моите родители, които били в списъка на чакащите получили позвъняване посред нощ с въпроса: „Имаме едно непредвидено бебе от мъжки пол – искате ли го?“. Отговорът им бил: „Разбира се“. Биологичната ми майка след това разбрала, че майка ми никога не е ходила в колеж, а баща ми даже не е завършил гимназия. Тя отказала да подпише финалните документи за осиновяване. Съгласила се чак след няколко месеца, когато родителите ми обещали, че аз ще отида в колеж някой ден. И 17 години по-късно аз отидох в колеж. Но бях толкова наивен, че избрах колеж, който беше скъп почти колкото Станфорд и всичките спестявания на моите родители от работническата класа отидоха за таксата ми за колеж. След шест месеца вече не виждах стойност в това. Нямах никаква представа какво искам да направя със живота си и не виждах как колежа ще ми помогне да намеря отговора. И ето, че похарчих всичките спестявания на родителите си. Затова реших да прекъсна и се надявах, че от всичко това ще излезе нещо добро. По онова време беше доста страшничко, но гледайки назад, това беше едно от най-добрите ми решения. В минутата, в която прекъснах вече можех да не посещавам редовните лекции, които не ми бяха интересни и да се запиша в други курсове, които изглеждаха интересни. Не всичко беше розово. Нямах стая в общежитието, така че спях на пода в стаите на приятелите ми, връщах празни бутилки заради депозита от 5 цента и с тези пари си купувах храна и дори изминавах по 7 мили до другия край на града всяка съботна вечер, само за да получа свястно ядене в храма на Харе Кришна. Но ми харесваше. И голяма част от това, с което се сблъсках благодарение на своето любопитство и интуиция, по късно се оказа безценно. Ще ви дам един пример. По онова време Рийд Колидж предлагаше може би най-добрия в цялата страна курс по калиграфия. В цялото студентско градче всеки плакат, всеки етикет, всяка табела бяха написани на ръка с красив шрифт. Понеже се водех прекъснал и не трябваше да посещавам задължителните лекции, реших да се запиша в курса по калиграфия и да се науча да правя това. Така научих какво са серифни и несерифни шрифтове, изучих разликата между разстоянието в различните буквени комбинации и всичко онова, което прави един надпис красив. Всичко това беше красиво, историческо, артистично по начин, който беше недостъпен за науката и аз бях запленен. Нямаше и слаба надежда нещо от това да има практическо приложение в живота ми. Но след десет години, когато създавахме първият компютър Макинтош, всичко си дойде на мястото. И вградихме това в нашия Мак. Това беше първият компютър с красива типография. Ако не се бях записал в онзи курс в колежа, в Мак никога нямаше да притежава множество различни шрифта с пропорционално разстояние между буквите. И тъй като Уиндоус просто прекопира Мак, много е вероятно да липсваха и в който и да е персонален компютър. Ако не бях прекъснал, никога нямаше да се запиша в този курс и компютрите нямаше да имат сегашната си чудесна типография. Разбира се, беше невъзможно да се свържат точките по времето когато бях в колежа. Но гледайки назад, десет години по-късно всичко изглежда кристално ясно. Ще повторя: не можете да свържете точките гледайки напред в бъдещето. Това може да стане само с поглед назад. Затова трябва да вярвате, че точките някак си ще се свържат в бъдещето ви. Трябва да вярвате в нещо – вътрешен глас, съдба, карма, каквото и да е. Този подход никога не ме е подвеждал и това е, което направи живота ми такъв, какъвто е. Втората ми история е за любовта и загубата. Аз бях късметлия – на ранен етап от живота си разбрах какво обичам да правя. Воз и аз създадохме APPLE в гаража на родителите ми когато бях на 20. Работихме здраво и за 10 години Епъл се разрасна от нас двамата в един гараж до 2-милиардна компания с над 4000 служители. Година преди това бяхме пуснали на пазара най-доброто си произведение – Макинтош – и аз току-що бях навършил 30. И тогава ме уволниха. Как може да те уволнят от компания, която си създал? Ами, тъй като Епъл се разрастваше, ние наехме на работа човек, който аз смятах за много талантлив, за да управляваме заедно компанията и първата година нещата вървяха добре. Но после нашите възгледи за бъдещето започнаха да се разминават и накрая се скарахме. Когато това се случи, бордът на директорите застана на негова страна. Така на 30-годишна възраст аз бях уволнен. И то доста публично. Фокусът на моя съзнателен живот си беше отишъл и това направо ме разби. В продължение на няколко месеца не знаех с какво да се захвана. Чувствах, че съм разочаровал предишното поколение предприемачи, че съм изпуснал щафетата, която ми е била предадена за да я продължа. Срещнах се с Дейвид Пакард и Боб Нойс и се опитах да им се извиня за това, че прецаках нещата. Бях се провалил публично и дори мислех да напусна долината. Но бавно осъзнах, че все още обичам това, което правя. Обратът на събитията в Епъл не беше променил ни най-малко това. Бях отхвърлен, но все още бях влюбен. И така реших да започна отначало. Тогава не го осъзнавах, но уволнението ми от Епъл беше най-доброто, което можеше да ми се случи. Бремето на успеха беше заместено от лекотата на това да си отново начинаещ, да си по-малко уверен в каквото и да е. Това ми даде свободата да навляза в един от най-творческите периоди от живота си. През следващите пет години създадох компания, наречена NeXT, друга компания с името Pixar, и се влюбих в една невероятна жена, която ми стана и съпруга. Pixar създаде първия в света филм с изцяло компютърна анимация – „Играта на играчките“ – и днес е най-успешното анимационно студио на света. В забележителна поредица от събития, Епъл закупиха NeXT, аз се завърнах в Епъл и технологията, която бяхме създали в NeXT е в сърцевината на сегашното възраждане на Епъл. А Лорийн и аз създадохме прекрасно семейство. Уверен съм, че нищо от това нямаше да се случи ако не бяха ме уволнили от Епъл. Лекарството беше горчиво, но предполагам, че пациента се нуждаеше от него. Понякога животът те удря с тухла по главата. Не губете вяра! Убеден съм, че любовта към това, което правя беше причината да продължа напред. Трябва да разберете в какво сте влюбени. И това се отнася не само за работата ви, но и за личния ви живот. Работата обхваща значителна част от живота ви и затова единствения начин да сте наистина доволни е да правите нещо, което смятате за значимо. А единственият начин делата ви да са значими е да сте влюбени в това, което правите. Ако още не сте го намерили – продължете да търсите! Не се отказвайте! Сърцето ще ви подскаже когато сте го открили. И като всяка страхотна връзка, тази също ще стане още по-добра с времето. Така че, търсете докато го откриете. Не се отказвайте! Третата ми история е за смъртта. Когато бях на 17, прочетох една мисъл, която гласеше следното: „Ако живеете всеки свой ден сякаш е последният ви – един ден със сигурност ще се окажете прави!“. Тази мисъл ме впечатли силно и от тогава вече 33 години всяка сутрин се поглеждам в огледалото и се питам: „Ако днес беше последният ден от живота ми, щях ли да направя това, което се каня да направя сега?“. И когато няколко дни подред отговорът е „Не“, аз знам че нещо трябва да променя. Да си припомням, че скоро няма да съм между живите е най-важното средство, което ми помага да взема големите решения в живота си. Защото почти всичко друго – всички вътрешни очаквания, цялата гордост, целия страх от излагане или провал – тези неща просто се строполяват пред лицето на смъртта и остава единствено истински важното. Да помниш, че си смъртен е най-добрият начин, който аз знам, за да се избегне капана на представата, че има какво да загубиш. Вече си гол. Няма причина да не следваш сърцето си. Преди около година ми откриха рак. В 7.30 ч. сутринта ми направиха скенер, на който ясно личеше тумора в панкреаса ми. Аз дори не знаех какво е панкреас! Лекарят ми каза, че почти със сигурност този тумор е от нелечимия тип и че ми остават от 3 до 6 месеца живот. Моят доктор ме посъветва да си отида вкъщи и да си стегна нещата, което е лекарският код за „Подготви се да умреш“. Това означава само за няколко месеца да кажеш на децата си всичко онова, за което си смятал, че имаш на разположение поне 10 години. Означава също да си подредиш делата така, че да улесниш семейството си максимално. Означава да си вземеш сбогом. Живях с тази диагноза през целия ден. По-късно същата вечер ми направиха биопсия, вкараха ендоскоп в гърлото ми, през стомаха, чак до вътрешностите ми, боцнаха с една игла панкреаса ми и взеха няколко клетки от тумора. Аз съм бил под упойка, но жена ми, която присъстваше, ми разказа, че когато погледнали клетките под микроскоп лекарите се разплакали, защото се оказало, че това било много рядка форма на рак на панкреаса, която е лечима чрез операция. Бях опериран и сега съм добре. Тогава бях най-близо до смъртта и се надявам това да си остане така поне за няколко десетилетия напред. Тъй като съм го преживял, сега мога да ви говоря за това с малко по-голяма увереност, отколкото когато смъртта беше само интелектуална концепция. На никой не му се мре! Дори хората, които искат да отидат в рая не искат да умират, за да стигнат там. И все пак, всички ни чака една и съща участ. Никой не се е отървал. И така е правилно, защото Смъртта най-вероятно е единственото най-добро изобретение на Живота. Тя е агентът на промяната. Тя прочиства старото, за да даде път на новото. Сега вие сте новото, но някой ден, не чак толкова далеч, вие също ще остареете и ще бъдете отстранени от пътя. Съжалявам, че драматизирам, но това е истината. Времето ви е ограничено, затова не го губете, за да живеете чужд живот! Не влизайте в капана на догмата да живеете според очакванията на другите! Не позволявайте чуждите мнения да заглушат вашия собствен вътрешен глас! А най-важното е да следвате сърцето си и своята интуиция. Те някак си вече знаят какви всъщност искате да станете. Всичко друго е второстепенно. Когато бях млад излизаше списание, наречено „Световен каталог“, което беше нещо като библия за моето поколение. Беше създадено недалеч от тук, в Менло Парк, от един приятел на име Стюърт Бранд, който вдъхваше на списанието своето поетично вдъхновение. Това беше в края на 60-те, когато все още нямаше компютри или предпечатна подготовка, така че всичко се правеше с пишеща машина, ножици и полароидни снимки. Беше нещо като хартиен вариант на Гугъл, 35 години преди появяването на самия Гугъл. Беше идеалистично и бъкаше от съвети и велики идеи. Стюърт и неговия екип успяха да издадат няколко броя на списанието и когато времето му отмина, те подготвиха своя последен брой. Беше в средата на 70-те, а аз бях на вашата възраст. На задната корица имаше снимка на селски път в ранно утро, същия който можете сами да видите ако се осмелите да тръгнете на автостоп. Най-отдолу беше написано: „Останете си гладни! Останете си глупави!“. Това беше тяхното послание на сбогуване. Останете си гладни! Останете си глупави! И аз винаги съм си пожелавал същото. И сега, когато се дипломирате и започвате отначало, аз ви пожелавам същото. Останете си гладни! Останете си глупави! Благодаря ви много. 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Google Desktop is desktop search software made by Google for Linux, Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows. The program allows text searches of a user's e-mails, computer files, music, photos, chats, Web pages viewed, and other "Google Gadgets". In September 2011, Google announced it would discontinue a number of its products, including Google Desktop.[1] Features As of January 2008, Google Desktop features the following functionality: File indexing After initially installing Google Desktop, the software completes an indexing of all the files in the computer. After the initial indexing is completed, the software continues to index files as needed. Users can start searching for files immediately after installing the program. After performing searches, results can also be returned in a web browser on the Google Desktop Home Page much like the results for Google Web searches. Google Desktop can index several different types of data, including email, web browsing history from Internet Explorer, Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox, office documents in the OpenDocument and Microsoft Office formats, instant messenger transcripts from AOL, Google, MSN, Skype, Tencent QQ, and several multimedia file types. Additional file types can be indexed through the use of plug-ins.[2] Google Desktop allows the user to control which types of data are indexed by the program. Google Desktop only indexes 100,000 files per drive during the initial indexing period. If users have more than 100,000 files in a particular drive, Google Desktop won't index all of them during this initial period. However, Google Desktop adds files to the index during real-time indexing when users move or open them.[3] A prominent feature of Google Desktop is the Sidebar, which holds several common Gadgets and resides off to one side of the desktop. The Sidebar is available with the Microsoft Windows and Linux versions of Google Desktop. The Sidebar comes pre-installed with the following gadgets: - Email – a panel which lets one view their own Gmail messages. - Scratch Pad – here the user can store notes; they are saved automatically - Photos – displays a slideshow of photos from the "My Pictures" folder (address can be changed) - News – shows the latest headlines from Google News, and how long ago they were written. The News panel is personalized depending on the type of news you read. - Weather – shows the current weather for a location specified by the user. - Web Clips – shows updated content from RSS and Atom web feeds. - Google Talk – If Google Talk is installed, double clicking the window title will dock it to the users sidebar. Like the Windows Taskbar, the Google Desktop sidebar can be set to Auto-Hide mode, where it will only appear once the user moves the mouse cursor towards the side where it resides. If not on auto-hide, by default the sidebar will always take up about 1/6 – 1/9 of the screen (depending on the screen resolution), and other windows are forced to resize. However, the sidebar can be resized to take less space, and users can disable the "always on top" feature in the options. With the auto-hide feature on, the sidebar temporarily overlaps maximized windows. Another feature that comes with the Sidebar is alerts. When the Sidebar is minimized, new e-mail and news can be displayed on a pop-up window above the Windows Taskbar. Quick Find When searching in the sidebar, deskbar or floating deskbar, Google Desktop displays a "Quick Find" window. This window is filled with 6 (by default) of the most relevant results from the user's computer. These results update as the user types, and allows use without having to open another browser window. Deskbars Deskbars are boxes which enable searching directly from the desktop. Web results will open in a browser window, and selected computer results will be displayed in the "Quick Find" box (see above). A Deskbar can either be a fixed deskbar, which sits in the Windows Taskbar, or a Floating Deskbar, which may be positioned anywhere on the desktop. Email indexing Google Desktop includes plugins that allow indexing and searching the contents of local Microsoft Outlook, IBM Lotus Notes, and Mozilla Thunderbird email databases, outside of the client applications' built-in search functions. For Lotus Notes, only local databases are indexed for searching. Google Desktop's email indexing feature is also integrated with Google's web-based email service, Gmail; it can index and search the email messages in Gmail accounts. Gadgets and plug-ins Main article: Google Gadgets Desktop gadgets are interactive mini-applications that can be placed anywhere on the user's desktop – or docked in the Sidebar – to show new email, weather, photos, and personalized news. Google offers a gallery of pre-built gadgets for download on the official website. For developers, Google offers an SDK and an official blog for anyone who wants to write gadgets or plug-ins for Google Desktop. An automated system creates a developer hierarchy called the "Google Desktop Hall of Fame", where programmers can advance based on their gadgets' number and popularity. The SDK also allows third-party applications to make use of the search facilities provided by Google Desktop Search. For example, the file manager Directory Opus offers integrated Google Desktop Search support. Results list: title meta data Even though other desktop search programs can search files meta data, Google Desktop (for Windows) is the only one that uses the "title" tag for its results lists of all files (On Linux it shows the meta-data of HTML files, but not PDF files). Other programs use the file names for their results lists. The use of the "title" tag gives a significantly better user experience, since metadata titles (when present) are written in ordinary language, while file names are less communicative. When the title meta data is missing from a file, Google Desktop reverts back to use its filename. Release history Google Desktop was originally developed to bring Google search technology to the desktop. Google Desktop received much attention because it may allow reverse engineering of Google's proprietary search algorithm.[citation needed] A centrally administered version,[4] which integrates the user experience with the vendor's appliance, exists as well. Google Desktop was officially discontinued on September 14, 2011.[5] - Microsoft Windows - The first release of Google Desktop Search was released as a beta version on October 14, 2004.[6] - Version 2 was released as a beta version on August 22, 2005. The new feature that distinguishes Desktop 2 from Desktop is the addition of Sidebar, a panel that displays personalized information, which can be placed on either side of the Windows desktop and can display real-time news, e-mail, photos, stocks, and weather, among others. Sidebar includes a search box that can search just the PC or Google's other search types (like Web, Images, News, Groups.) Google Desktop 2 graduated from beta on November 3, 2005. New features include a sidebar plug-in for Google Maps and more plug-in developer support.[7] - Google Desktop 3 Beta was released on February 9, 2006. It includes support for searching multiple computers on a network.[8] Google Desktop 3 graduated from beta on March 14, 2006. Notable in this version is the quick search box, which appears anywhere on your desktop after pressing "control" twice.[9] - Google Desktop 4 Beta was released on May 10, 2006. It features Google Gadgets, modules that can deliver an array of information. It also introduces option to automatically remove deleted files from search results.[10] Google Desktop 4 graduated from beta on June 27, 2006. - Google Desktop v4.5 was released on November 14, 2006, adding a transparency aesthetic to the sidebar and "floating" gadgets. The graphic interface of the sidebar was also enhanced with more stylized icons for news, stocks, weather, photos, etc. Release 4.5 also added support for Windows Vista. - Google Desktop 5 Beta was released on March 6, 2007. - Google Desktop v 5.1 (the first post-Desktop 5 Beta release) is made available for download on April 27, 2007.[11] - Google Desktop v 5.5 was released on October 2, 2007.[11] - Google Desktop v 5.5 (5.7.0802.22438) was released February 29, 2008.[11] - Google Desktop v 5.5 (5.8.0806.18441) was released July 1, 2008.[11] - Google Desktop v 5.8 (5.8.0809.08522) was released September 11, 2008.[11] - Google Desktop v 5.8 (5.8.0809.23506) was released October 5, 2008.[11] - Google Desktop v 5.9 (5.9.0906.04286) was released July 8, 2009. It added support for the Chrome browser and is the last version mentioned in the release notes.[11] - Google Desktop v 5.9.0909.02235 added support for the Private Browsing features of Firefox 3 and Internet Explorer 8.[12] - Google Desktop v 5.9.0909.30391 has been released. - Google Desktop v 5.9.0911.03589 has been released. - Google Desktop v 5.9.1005.12335 was released in May 2010. - Mac - On April 2007, Google released Desktop 1.0 for Mac OS X, which can function alongside the Spotlight search tool in Mac OS X v10.4.[13] - On November 29, 2007, Google released Desktop v1.4.0.826 beta for Mac OS X,[14] which plugs into Dashboard for Gadgets support. - Version 1.6 of the Mac version of Google Desktop does not function under Snow Leopard. As of June, 2011, Google is yet to release an update for Snow Leopard support. - Linux - Google released Desktop 1.0 for Linux on June 27, 2007.[15] It currently features the basic functionality of the Windows version and the sidebar functionality. - Google added 64-bit support to the Google Desktop for Linux with version 1.1.1.0075, which was made available for download on December 18, 2007.[16] - Google Desktop for Linux version 1.2.0.0088 was released on April 11, 2008.[16] Criticisms Security In February 2007, Yair Amit, of Watchfire, found a series of vulnerabilities[17] in Google Desktop that could allow a malicious individual to achieve not only remote, persistent access to sensitive data, but in some cases full system control as well. The significant impact and the ease of exploitation forced Google to change some of Google Desktop's logic in Google Desktop version 5. Privacy Many privacy and civil liberties groups such as the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) have concerns that personal information on people's computers could readily be copied from users' hard drives.[18] Google Desktop version 3 contains certain features that raise serious security and privacy concerns. Specifically, the share across computers feature that introduces the ability to search content from desktop to desktop greatly increases the risk to users' privacy. If Google Desktop V.3 is set to allow Search Across Computers, files on an indexed computer are copied to Google's servers. The potential for information stored on their computers to be accessed by others if they enable this feature of Google Desktop v. 3 on their computers should be seriously considered. The EFF advises against using this feature.[18] Also, those who have confidential data on their work or home computers should not enable this feature. There are privacy laws and company policies that could be violated through the installation of this feature, specifically, SB 1386, HIPAA, FERPA, GLBA and Sarbanes-Oxley.[19] Other more far reaching concerns arise around the packaging and end user license agreement – specifically the level of intrusion on the local machine and the disclaimers that users implicitly agree to future changes in the license agreement without actually being able to see them immediately.[20][21] Outlook indexing There had been some issues with Microsoft Outlook indexing.[22] Deleted email listings were not removed and required re-installing Google Desktop for any new archived mail to be listed. Several versions have been released to patch the Outlook indexing.[23] During the first half of 2009, a large number of Google Desktop users reported that the product stopped indexing suddenly, when the index file reached approximately 4GB in size. A full uninstall (including manually deleting the indexes) and then reinstall would fix the problem temporarily, but the problem would recur when the index file reached 4GB again. The problem has been resolved as of Google Desktop Search version 5.9.[24] Currently, Google Desktop does not index email or contacts in Outlook 2010.[25] Thunderbird indexing By default, Google Desktop does not index email in Thunderbird 3.[26] See also References - ^ Alan Eustace (September 2, 2011). "A fall spring-clean". Google. http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/09/fall-spring-clean.html. Retrieved September 2, 2011. - ^ "All Indexing Plugins". http://desktop.google.com/plugins/c/index/all.html?hl=en. - ^ I can't find : Files – Desktop for Windows Help – Google - ^ Enterprise Edition Features - ^ Google (September 4, 2011). "Google Desktop Update". Google Desktop Release. http://googledesktop.blogspot.com/2011/09/google-desktop-update.html. - ^ Google Press Center: Press Release - ^ Official Google Blog: Desktop grows up - ^ Official Google Blog: New on your Desktop - ^ Official Google Blog: Stay in Ctrl Ctrl - ^ Official Google Blog: Yes, we are still all about search - ^ a b c d e f g "Latest Updates for Google Desktop". http://desktop.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=58591&ctx=sibling. - ^ "Indexing issues: Private Browsing Mode in IE8 or Firefox 3.5 Beta". Google. http://desktop.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?&answer=147833. Retrieved 30 July 2010. - ^ Mike Pinkerton (2007-04-04). "Google Desktop for Mac". Official Google Mac Blog. http://googlemac.blogspot.com/2007/04/google-desktop-for-mac_04.html. - ^ Google (November 28, 2007). ""Where can I obtain a list of known issues or release notes?" – "Current Version"". Desktop for Mac Help Center. http://desktop.google.com/support/mac/bin/answer.py?answer=64429&topic=11286#current. "Google Desktop for Linux". Google Desktop for Linux. http://desktop.google.com/linux/download.html. - ^ a b "Where can I obtain a list of known issues or release notes?". Google Inc.. http://desktop.google.com/support/linux/bin/answer.py?answer=72747&topic=11377. - ^ Overtaking Google Desktop (alternative link) - ^ a b Press Release, Electronic Frontier Foundation, 2006-02-09, http://www.eff.org/press/archives/2006/02/09 . - ^ More worries about Google Desktop 3, Asia: ZDNet, http://www.zdnetasia.com/news/internet/0,39044246,39311126,00.htm . - ^ "Terms of Service (Welcome to Google)", Google Desktop Tracked, Rix Step, http://rixstep.com/2/20070621,00.shtml . - ^ "The Aftermath", Google Desktop Tracked, Rix Step, http://rixstep.com/2/20070621,05.shtml . - ^ "Outlook Index and Search", Desktop, Google, http://desktop.google.com/support/bin/topic.py?topic=11602 . - ^ "Latest Known Issues", Desktop, Google, http://desktop.google.com/support/bin/static.py?page=known_issues.cs . - ^ "Something broken", Desktop, Google, http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Desktop_Something-Broken/t/806074cca88094f6?hl=en . - ^ "Outlook", Answers, Microsoft Corp, http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/outlookacct/thread/0c71ea0b-a5e2-484e-b3c9-c279ab589353 . - ^ , http://groups.google.com/group/google-desktop_something-broken/browse_thread/thread/3c5cdb02445d0cc9?hl=en-GB External links gmail: Ever wondered where an email goes after you hit “send?” Follow the journey of an email w/ Story of Send http://t.co/7WBVxCni mattcutts: A pretty fun peek at what happens when you hit "send" in Gmail: http://t.co/39uHN7Uy gmail: Psst...some of our technicians in the Story of Send really like to “DANCE." http://t.co/7WBVxCni TEKADDIKT: Amazon Cloud Drive--Now Available on Your... http://t.co/Ee0TSdH0 #amazon #apple #cloudstorage #GB #google #googledrive #mac #OS #osx #osx MetisComm: The Story of Send - track your Gmail message through Google's data centers http://t.co/ZFX6UfZM TechnoNews247: Android version of the desktop file manager Total Commander. Total Commander and all of its plugins are... http://t.co/oE3q2R5v #android LagosWRecord: USE A BROWSER BASED TRANSLATOR (Google Chrome on ur desktop will help) RT @ebuwa_forever: @LagosWRecord na germano dem dey yarn o! bakarelawal: USE A BROWSER BASED TRANSLATOR (Google Chrome on ur desktop will help) RT @ebuwa_forever: @LagosWRecord na germano dem dey yarn o! roneythomas6: Microsoft has ditched Aero Glass for the Windows 8 desktop Microsoft opines: Vista was 'chees… http://t.co/DFTttRLD DioBSD: RT @ubuntutweets: Desktop-like smartphones soon to be reality http://t.co/XP0VeKWy Lily__Mak: @LilyRasakham i have so many pictures of them on my computer and ipod. my google, tumblr, google chrome, and desktop background is all them. claireblogtip: Mobile Web and Mobile Search Strategy http://t.co/iw3gjgDZ #action #business #content #desktop #devices #engine #google proudfootcom: http://t.co/8bNmSg6g http://t.co/BMrnzjH2 JakeWilliamBull: really want one http://t.co/AWNFqGPA @_alishahk you used to have one didnt you? I remember him haha! mateusprado: Take a journey through Google’s data centers by following an email along its path: http://t.co/sES3sMsU lcarspadd: Five ways to avoid Windows 8: Metro looks and works better on a tablet than it ever will on a desktop. There's j... http://t.co/g7X5dmO9 DL_JR: The fact that Google Chrome syncs across my desktop and two laptops is unbelievably cool. jesusrivera22: Vayne - Other Wallpaper 1062155 - Desktop Nexus Video Games: Vayne. Download free Other wallpapers and desktop b... http://t.co/90K8weET Spencer Oyibo: A PREVIEW TO BCS ONLINE RADIO TO BE FULLY DEBUT ON WEDNESDAY MAY 30, 2012. LISTEN and DOWNLOAD THE BCS NATURAL AND CONTEMPORARY SONGS 24/7 via YOU iPAD and iPhone and your Desktop PC. For iPhone Users make sure that your Safari Browser is up and running and PC users you may download and install Safari or Google Chrome browser it works best with our web software. ENJOY!!! Web Presence: http://www.amboradio.com courtesy of TCW Spencer for Brotherhood World-Wide Alan James: I haven't posted anything in a long while, but I had to post about this app. It lets you control your Android phone from your desktop through a browser. It's just overall VERY well done. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sand.airdroid Pinak Deb Mazumder: The closing price means Facebook is worth about $105 billion, more than Amazon.com, McDonalds and storied Silicon Valley icons Hewlett-Packard and Cisco. But as many people looked for a big first-day pop in Facebook's share price, the single-digit increase was somewhat of a letdown. "It wasn't quite as exciting as it could have been,"said Nick Einhorn, an analyst with IPO advisory firm Renaissance Capital. "But I don't think we should view it as a failure." Indeed, the small jump in price could be seen as an indication that Facebook and the investment banks that arranged the initial public offering priced the stock in an appropriate range. It's also a supply and demand issue. Facebook offered nearly 20 percent of its available stock in the IPO, so there was enough to meet demand. In comparison, Google offered just 7.2 percent of its stock when it went public in 2004 and rose 18 percent on day one. To IPO desktop's Francis Gaskins, it means mom-and-pop investors are becoming "much more educated and careful"about not buying into hype. And he said that the banks taking Facebook public have learned from the 10 IPOs of social media companies in the past year and are better able to gauge how much stock to make available in an initial offering. It might not have been possible for the social network to live up to the hype that led up to its IPO. It's Facebook, after all, a place where people are emotionally invested in endless online diversions and rekindled friendships, an endless depository of baby photos, favorite songs and fleeting memories. "It's probably one of the first times there has been an IPO where everyone sort of has a stake in the outcome,"said Gartner analyst Brian Blau. While most Facebook users won't see a penny from the offering, they are all intimately familiar with the company. Earlier Friday, the company's 28-year-old CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, smiled as he rang the opening bell from Facebook's headquarters in Menlo Park, California Surrounded by cheering Facebook employees and wearing his signature hoodie, he pushed the button that signals the opening of the stock market in New York. The morning's events followed an all-night "hackathon"at the company, where engineers stayed up coding software and conjuring up new ideas for Facebook and its 900 million users. "Right now this all seems like a big deal. Going public is an important milestone in our history. But here's the thing, our mission isn't to be a public company. Our mission is to make the world more open and connected,"Zuckerberg said. "In the past eight years, all of you out there have built the largest community in the history of the world. You've done amazing things that we never would have dreamed of and I can't wait to see what you guys all do going forward." Teresa Hunt: COPYING PHOTOS AND IMAGES. Advice from a photographer friend. At least identify the person who took the amazing shot!! "first save the image to your own m/c - in windows, right-click image and Save As to yr desktop. Then go to Google images and drag the file across. Miraculously as it touches the edge of the file box thing, it recognises that you are offering it a picture file and says, drop in image (instead of type a word for the pic you are seeking). It then finds images of the same pattern, usually the exact same image straight away, especially if its something that recently gone vral so there are loads of copies. If youre lucky one of the pics will lead you back to the original version. It would be better if the FBs and blog hosts did not strip out the metadata that is embedded in every file, and for pro stuff includes contact info. A right-click on an intact file shows up the author if they have signed it. Thats legislation that needs to happen. It needs repeating - just because its on the internet does not mean it is free." Priyam Mukherjee: Why iPhone sucks - Fact List I don't have an irrational hatred of iPhones or even Apple. I do hate both, but it's based on facts. While hatred is an emotion, it comes from real, factual reasons. Just to be clear I don't own an iPhone, I have never owned one, and I probably never will but I have researched them several times when I was looking to buy another phone. They never measured up to other phones for features and never could fulfill my requirements. I have seen iPhones, I have operated them and I know what their appeal is, we'll discuss them along with the issues they come with. I am quite vocal in dissing iPhones and many times been told by iPhone owners "You can jailbreak it!". So, I will be covering that in this thesis as well. First of all, if you jailbreak it, it's not covered by warranty. Technically it's still an iPhone but really it's not, not the way Apple intended, so let us say my criticism applies more to out-of-the box iPhones, not a jailbroken one which I'd say is a custom device. The same way, you could root an Android phone and get even more functionality than you already get. Secondly, the iPhone is known and praised for its ease of use and user-friendliness. Rooting or jailbreaking a phone is a risky, non-user-friendly business. If you have to jailbreak it to make it any use, purpose defeated. Thirdly, even after jailbreaking most of the problems or lack of features in an iPhone remain unchanged. I hate it when people compare iPhone with latest model Android phones or come up with terms like iPhone-killer! Even the first model of Android phone, G1, could do things that the latest model of iPhone can't. So no need for a new model, no need to kill it, it's a piece of crap, you don't kill a piece of crap. Let's look at a list of things that iPhones can't do or won't do. The common theme in all these will be a lack of choice and freedom for the user as you'll see. Flash - I'll dispose of the most obvious and popular one first. Flash. iPhones cannot play flash, never have and possibly never will. Poor iPhone owners try to convince you that Flash is on its way out and HTML5 will replace flash in the very near future. While that maybe true I haven't seen this happen yet and until that happens I enjoy Flash on my Android phones while you can't. True story. I have heard that Apple (Steve Jobs) decided to keep Flash out of iPhone for perormance reasons. May be true. But it would delay things when you open a Flash-rich website, isn't it? Then it's up to the user to make that choice, not the company. Now you are serving up a fast internet by not loading part of the websites. I call that cheating. The company claims in their advt's that it's not "Watered-down internet". I call that false advertising. I am surprised nobody has taken them to court for that. Bluetooth - I was surprised to learn that while iPhone does have a bluetooth radio, it can only connect to bluetooth headphones. ALL of the other functionality of bluetooth is suppressed. Why? I have no idea. But you can't send and receive files over bluetooth, you can't use your phone as remove control to control other devices and you can't use it to exchange information like contact cards. USB - Even with an Apple cable you cannot use your iPhone as a USB drive and just copy files. No, you always have to use iTunes and you always have to "sync". And you know what's wrong with iTunes? It sucks! iTunes - I used it the first time (and last) when a friend of mine, idiot as he was, bought an ipod and asked me to put some songs on it as his own computer was back home in India. As soon as I started using it, I was apalled and infuriated by the asinine way it works! Do you know that you cannot transfer MP3's, you can only sync? Let me take an example, suppose you had 999 songs on your computer. You connected your i-device (iPod or iPhone) and copied them, oh, excuse me, sync'ed them to your portable device. At a later date, you moved those songs off your hard drive to an external hard drive to make space on your internal hard drive. Later you bought another song from iTunes online store and want to copy it to your ipod or iPhone. When you connect your device to your computer and sync it, it'll DELETE the 999 songs from your device and copy the 1 new song to it! Do you see how much fun that'd be? So what it means for an iPhone or iPod owner is that every time he wants to copy a new song to his collection, he'll have to first gather all his music collection to the computer, all hard drives, all CDs, all MP3s etc. etc. What if instead of taking a backup your hard drive crashed? I don't know if you'd still be able to re-download the songs you bought from iTunes but I know that any MP3 that were on your computer would be gone forever. But you think, "Oh, thank god, I have them backed up on my ipod." No, you don't. The next time you connect your ipod to the computer, iTunes will DELETE the songs from your ipod. Stupid, isn't it? And again, the user has NO control over how it works. Apparently, after you jailbreak it, you can use iPhone as USB drive. Compatibility - Be it Mac or iPhone or iPad, Apple users always bring this up as a big plus point. "Everything just works!", they are fond of saying. Well, all the devices and their peripherals are made by the same company, for the same device to work in that specific way. I'd be really shocked if they weren't compatible! It's like saying I and my brother are related! Well, d-uh! Or like saying that my Samsung TV remote works perfectly with my Samsung TV. Well, it was made to work like that! The flip side of it is that the Apple devices are not extensible. In my Dell laptop I can install a Western Digital hard drive and extend the storage. I'd still be covered for warranty except for that hard drive. But Mac Users must pay a huge premium to Apple for a part replacement when they even can get a part replaced. Most times they have to buy the new version of the item. But we were talking about iPhone. Adapters - Every lead, every cable, every adapter for iPhone must be either made by Apple or be Apple specific. If I forget my charger home, I can just borrow somoene's mini-USB charger or PC-connector cable. These days so many phones have mini-USB chargers that I'd have a good chance of finding one in the office. iPhone owners must find the proprietary cable. This doesn't change even if you jailbreak the phone. Camera - There was a time I was looking for a second phone just to use as a pocketable camera with the phone attached. At that time, I looked at iPhone spec's as well. Today I laugh at my misguided attempt! iPhone camera has always been behind time. (At that time I ended up buying a Samsung Pixon12 for the camera. A Non-android phone and my last non-Android phone even though it was great in itself.) That time iPhone had a 3.2MP camera with no flash. Even in iPhone 4 you get a 5MP camera, when most camera phones have 8MP or better cameras. What Apple fanbois will tell you though is that it's not megapixels that matter in photo quality, it's the camera sensor. What they would conveniently forget to tell you is that Samsung Galaxy S2 comes with an 8MP camera sensor while the iPhone4 comes with a 5MP sensor. The Samsung Galaxy S II can take 1080P video but Apple fanbois will try to convince you that it doesn't matter. Having seen both 1080P and 720P let me tell you - it does matter! Open both on your laptop and you'll see for yourself. New versions - This is my beef with the company for all their products. They release a device with very limited functionality and just as people start buying them they announce another one with some of the missing features added. Like the iPad had no camera but the iPad 2 had one. So, they didn't have the technology to install a camera in iPad, but got one in two months? How come Samsung and other manufaturers had no problem installing a camera in their tablets? And how come Apple call themselves innovators then? What do they innovate - new, flashy ads for their crippled, over-priced devices? Just to set the record straight, I could do copy-and-paste on my Sony Ericsson non-smartphone phone 2 years before the iphone was launched. But the first iphone had no such capability. But the new version had copy-paste. I am sure this makes the iPhone buyers feel like idiots when they see the announcement for the next version a week after they buy theirs. With Android also there are lots and lots of phone with varied capabilities, but they are all very powerful and feature-rich, and the technology is always state-of-the-art not suppressed for marketing reasons. Battery - iPhone battery life is supposedly great. Nothing compared to SGS2 though. But even with the first Android phone G1 I had the option to replace the battery. iPhone owners try to sell the idea that a replaceable battery is not a big deal, so let me prove why it is. Extra power for "those" situation - Sometimes you don't have access to a power outlet..for example, I won't say getting stranded on a desert island, but beach trips, long flights, long train journeys, cruises, picnics, day trips...you get the idea. In all those situations and places, an Android owner can simply slap in a spare battery (cheap to buy) while the iPhone owner can only use their run-down device to crack nuts. Actually not, from what I have heard, it's not a very strong device, physically. Then there's the question of repairs. If the battery dies, as in die forever, any normal phone can have a replacement. For an iPhone you have to send it to Apple and get the whole phone replaced. With a cost of course. I am sure you can guess that replacing a phone will be much more expensive than buying a battery for a tenner and putting it in yourself. MicroSD card - The internal storage in iPhone is okay, but you never get the option to add an SD card. Again, it might make things easy for Apple, but doesn't help the user. No matter how big the internal storage an additional card slot can always outdo it. No jailbreaking can fix this hardware limitation. Form factor - iPhone models right from the beginning have been OK to Ugly. Ugly being iPhone 4 with sharp corners, heavy body and unwieldy feel to it. It pisses me off when people call it a "good-looking" phone. It's not. It's the magic of marketing that makes it look attractive to people. Jailbreaking can't help that. Body - Can you believe that this is something the Apple fanbois actaully defend and praise? It's a glass-and-aluminium body. Glass not only adds weight, it makes it fragile as well. Once again, jailbreaking won't change that. Screen - At one time 3.5 inch screen was a good screen. But no more. If you doubt me, put your iphone 4 next to my Galaxy S II and play a movie. We'll see who can see more detail. But the retina display was quite good and is still comparable to the current phones. So I'd give it that. Customization - On my Android phone, I am the king, I have so much control it's scary. On iPhone you can't even control how your application icons will be displayed. My phone desktop is customized for maximum efficiency. On iPhone you can only have your icons as Steve Jobs wants you to. App Store - The AppStore is another argument that Apple fans try to use in a debate. While on paper it does look much better than Android market, in reality it's not. The Android market beats is on a couple of points. Just in sheer numbers there are more apps in the AppStore. Granted. But now that the number of Android apps have crossed the 100,000 mark with the growth continuing the difference is losing its significance. In reality so many of the apps are either useless or duplicate on both platforms. From personal experience I know that a lot of apps on AppStore are paid while their Android cousins are free of cost. Then comes the question of censorship. You simply cannot install a 3rd party app on the iPhone. On Android you can download and install from anywhere you fancy. While the censorships is applied under the guise of security and decency, it doesn't just stop adult apps. Anything that Apple or Steve Jobs don't like can be blocked from the iPhone. Like Google apps. You can't have them. why? Because they said so! After jailbreaking you can get around this. There are some iphone Apps that are not yet available on Android. But the reverse is true as well. The caveat here is that while the missing iPhone apps may ultimately be developed for Android, the reverse is not true. Here are some stories about Apple-banned apps that would surprise you: http://www.iphonehacks.com/iphone_apps_banned_or_removed http://www.pcworld.com/article/159887/rejected_10_iphone_apps_that_didnt_make_apples_app_store.html http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/08/reasons-to-jailbreak/ http://www.edibleapple.com/a-look-back-at-the-itunes-app-store-part-iii-the-bannings-and-the-rejections/ Apple can ban an app for politicial or commercial reasons, trying to keep their competition out. Case in point, the app Podcaster that provided the user more functionality than the Apple itunes was banned. Same is true for Google Voice. Problems - There have always been issues with the iphones. "You have to hold it exactly like this or it won't work." was the famous one, but there have been many, many others. Yet, Apple tries to suppress them and does manage to keep them out of the press, trying to maintain the image that everything works. Lawsuit - In order to keep their market share, Apple doesn't just spend money on marketing, they also try to browbeat anyone else to suppress competition. The latest example is the lawsuit against Samsung for the design of their 10.1 tablet. How many of these are bonafide cases? Probably none. The Cult - iphone fanbois have their cult. It's not allowed to say anything against Apple or iPhone. If you start pointing out things that are wrong with the iPhone the fanbois start frothing at the mouth and spouting profanities. Unfortunately, this is becoming true of Android as well. I myself would get red in the face if anybody in my earshot defends Apple. Unless it's a girl. Price - Hype Mohamed Nafly: Take a journey through Google’s data centers by following an email along its path by Google Green. http://www.google.com/green/storyofsend/desktop/ Jin Gadgets: Reformat and Repair works. 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Google juiced up Google+ notification e-mails in Gmail earlier this month, and before that had already started integrating Google+ into Gmail -- recent new features include being able to add people to circles directly from the desktop and viewing recent Google+ content in the people widget... In addition to the recent Gmail tie-ups, Google+ has been connected up with Google News and YouTube, moves not everyone has been happy about." Luis Fernando: O Google criou uma animação chamada “A História do Envio” http://www.google.com/green/storyofsend/desktop/#/clean-power Matthew Ruiz: omg ponies on my desktop! No Rainbow dash, quit standing on google chrome! Rarity quit trying to organize my mess! Vignesh Praveen: fact about the google data centre........ http://www.google.com/green/storyofsend/desktop/ Huu Thien Nguyen: "Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish." Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition See more at Steve Jobs' 2005 Stanford Commencement Address 'You've got to find what you love,' Jobs says This is a prepared text of the Commencement address delivered by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, on June 12, 2005. Video of the Commencement address. I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college. Truth be told, this is the closest I've ever gotten to a college graduation. Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That's it. No big deal. Just three stories. The first story is about connecting the dots. I dropped out of Reed College after the first 6 months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out? It started before I was born. My biological mother was a young, unwed college graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption. She felt very strongly that I should be adopted by college graduates, so everything was all set for me to be adopted at birth by a lawyer and his wife. Except that when I popped out they decided at the last minute that they really wanted a girl. So my parents, who were on a waiting list, got a call in the middle of the night asking: "We have an unexpected baby boy; do you want him?" They said: "Of course." My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college. And 17 years later I did go to college. But I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class parents' savings were being spent on my college tuition. After six months, I couldn't see the value in it. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out. And here I was spending all of the money my parents had saved their entire life. So I decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out OK. It was pretty scary at the time, but looking back it was one of the best decisions I ever made. The minute I dropped out I could stop taking the required classes that didn't interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked interesting. It wasn't all romantic. I didn't have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends' rooms, I returned coke bottles for the 5¢ deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the 7 miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple. I loved it. And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on. Let me give you one example: Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country. Throughout the campus every poster, every label on every drawer, was beautifully hand calligraphed. Because I had dropped out and didn't have to take the normal classes, I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this. I learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and I found it fascinating. None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me. And we designed it all into the Mac. It was the first computer with beautiful typography. If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts. And since Windows just copied the Mac, it's likely that no personal computer would have them. If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class, and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do. Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, very clear looking backwards ten years later. Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life. My second story is about love and loss. I was lucky — I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees. We had just released our finest creation — the Macintosh — a year earlier, and I had just turned 30. And then I got fired. How can you get fired from a company you started? Well, as Apple grew we hired someone who I thought was very talented to run the company with me, and for the first year or so things went well. But then our visions of the future began to diverge and eventually we had a falling out. When we did, our Board of Directors sided with him. So at 30 I was out. And very publicly out. What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating. I really didn't know what to do for a few months. I felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down - that I had dropped the baton as it was being passed to me. I met with David Packard and Bob Noyce and tried to apologize for screwing up so badly. I was a very public failure, and I even thought about running away from the valley. But something slowly began to dawn on me — I still loved what I did. The turn of events at Apple had not changed that one bit. I had been rejected, but I was still in love. And so I decided to start over. I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life. During the next five years, I started a company named NeXT, another company named Pixar, and fell in love with an amazing woman who would become my wife. Pixar went on to create the worlds first computer animated feature film, Toy Story, and is now the most successful animation studio in the world. In a remarkable turn of events, Apple bought NeXT, I returned to Apple, and the technology we developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple's current renaissance. And Laurene and I have a wonderful family together. I'm pretty sure none of this would have happened if I hadn't been fired from Apple. It was awful tasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed it. Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You've got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don't settle. My third story is about death. When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: "If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right." It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: "If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?" And whenever the answer has been "No" for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something. Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart. About a year ago I was diagnosed with cancer. I had a scan at 7:30 in the morning, and it clearly showed a tumor on my pancreas. I didn't even know what a pancreas was. The doctors told me this was almost certainly a type of cancer that is incurable, and that I should expect to live no longer than three to six months. My doctor advised me to go home and get my affairs in order, which is doctor's code for prepare to die. It means to try to tell your kids everything you thought you'd have the next 10 years to tell them in just a few months. It means to make sure everything is buttoned up so that it will be as easy as possible for your family. It means to say your goodbyes. I lived with that diagnosis all day. Later that evening I had a biopsy, where they stuck an endoscope down my throat, through my stomach and into my intestines, put a needle into my pancreas and got a few cells from the tumor. I was sedated, but my wife, who was there, told me that when they viewed the cells under a microscope the doctors started crying because it turned out to be a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with surgery. I had the surgery and I'm fine now. This was the closest I've been to facing death, and I hope it's the closest I get for a few more decades. Having lived through it, I can now say this to you with a bit more certainty than when death was a useful but purely intellectual concept: No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true. Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary. When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalog, which was one of the bibles of my generation. It was created by a fellow named Stewart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park, and he brought it to life with his poetic touch. This was in the late 1960's, before personal computers and desktop publishing, so it was all made with typewriters, scissors, and polaroid cameras. It was sort of like Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google came along: it was idealistic, and overflowing with neat tools and great notions. Stewart and his team put out several issues of The Whole Earth Catalog, and then when it had run its course, they put out a final issue. It was the mid-1970s, and I was your age. On the back cover of their final issue was a photograph of an early morning country road, the kind you might find yourself hitchhiking on if you were so adventurous. Beneath it were the words: "Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish." It was their farewell message as they signed off. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. And I have always wished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. Thank you all very much. Fatima Owais: dear Sisters i was previously christian but now accepted Islam due to following facts and findings which Christianity cannot answer at all. Christians blame that Islam is not religion of peace. say everyone to read this book,videos,literature and then justify impartially.truth cannot be hidden although how much propaganda is done against it. I've shared some documen...ts with you: > >> C:\Documents and Settings\ucp\Desktop\Index of Islamic Book Why Isabella > >> and Whole Christian Team Embraced Islam.doc > >> https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0B7JG_G1yU1nDZDczOTAwNGYtODNmNC00NWFjLWI2NzQtZGUxYTNmNDU3NWNi&hl=en > >> D:\Islamic Book\1.doc > >> https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B7JG_G1yU1nDNjQyOGJhYjctNDZhMy00MTc5LWIzN2MtMDcwNzE1MmU3Y2E2&hl=en > >> They're not attachments -- they're stored online at Google Docs. To open > >> these documents, just click the links above. > >> Dear Friends this Book '' 'Why and How Isabella and Whole Christian Team > >> Embraced Islam '' will tell you the facts and truths from which innocent > >> Christian Brothers and Sisters are kept away.ponder after reading this > >> book > >> cool minded and then take final decision on merits.to Discover a Right > >> path > >> is Vital for everyone so that he/she may succeed in this world and the > >> world hereafter See these verse then justify impartially Mark chap 10 verse 2 to 5.as first 6 books of old testament was sent to Moses therefore even now divorced women in jews and christians is unclean and a male cannot marry her leviticus chap 21 verse 7.in jews and christian how severly women is degraded.on one hand a severity is husband wil give wife divorce deed in her hand and kick her out of his house at any time and on second hand read this deutronomy chap 22 verse 13 to 22.in this story of degradation see how degradable way if a false objection is raised on a woman and see how funny way to prove if the woman is not guilty. if blame is not proved and woman is innocent even then she is compelled to remain in marriage deed of that boy who dishonoured her.moreover see deutronomy chap 22 verse 28,29 price of a woman only 50 shekels.also see deutronomy chap 24 verse 1 to 4.my dear a woman become unclean if she gots divorce from second husband .now she cannot approach Ist husband who gave her divorce for the first time and marry him because she is unclean.why Ist husband is also not said unclean.why only women are degraded.for divorce is said if he found some nonsense thing in her he can give her divorce.is this nonsense thing adultery?.no this is not adultery because the punishment of adultery has been stated death in Bible not divorce see deutronomy chap 22 verse 22. proved women have no place in society and husband can give divorce without any solid reason.dear Sister justify impartially how cruel law is this stated in Bible The concept of sword and doing battle,and Prophet Jesus declares himself quarrelsome,terrorism manners is also found in Bible see Matthew Chap 10 Verse 34. But Holy Quran never taught Quarrelsome manners "whoever kills a human being except in retaliation for murder or for creating mischief in the land,it shall be as if he had killed all mankind. And that whoever saved any human life,it shall be as though he had given life to whole mankind. " see Sura Al Maida Verse 32 Part 6 Holy Quran. Saint Paul Dishonoured Prophet Jesus by saying him cursed "Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law,being made a curse for us:for it is written,Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree " see Galatians Chapter 3 Verse 13.is this respect for Jesus that you are saying him cursed.if a boy says to his father cursed he kicks him out of his house and deprive him/her from his property then if you are saying Jesus in this world cursed then use you brain that how Jesus will say God to forgive your sins because you disgraced Jesus.similarly on doing alot of sins and then their forgiveness by a pastor on sunday in a church simply by accepting that i am sinful is quite ridiculous because Pastor is a man and man is full of sins.the example of such Pastor is Pastor John Terry of Florida Church U.S. A who committed adultery with a young girl.women is quite disgraced in Bible and she is solely responsible for ejection of Adam from Paradise whereas reality is that both Adam and her wife was involved in eating that fruit.a woman who is divorced/widowed in christian society is kept away from unmarried boys and she is considered unlawful by Bible to marry a unmarried boy who is going to do his first marriage in life see Bile old testament leviticus Chapter 21 Verse 13 Kim James Bible.thats is why Prophet Mohammed Peace Be Upon Him married a widow christian lady her first wife Khadija thus removed the cruel teachings of Bible.nuns are not allowed by Saint Paul in Bible to marry and many of them are found in doing adultery with young and old mans.doing marriage is right of everyone.why nuns are prevented to do legal marriage by saint Paul.preventing nuns from doing marriage is a great injustice on behalf of christian women and nuns. Like wise there is too much corruptions in Bible mentioned in this book.for any details,questions contact me without hesitation.we are taught in primary class that God loves truth hence we must must support truth to save our future and to save everyone from Hellfire.this is obligation of everyone. Now tell me if you want to expose truth to people then why you donot show such type of real truth C:\Documents and Settings\ucp\Desktop\Index of Islamic Book Why Isabella and Whole Christian Team Em docs.google.com See More C:\Documents and Settings\ucp\Desktop\Index of Islamic Book Why Isabella and Whole Christian Team Em docs.google.com Juleny Diaz: . Girl meets a boy on her yahoo messenger: crazy1 86: hey baby!!! h0tNsPiCy91: who is this??? crazy1 86: ur secret admirer!!!!! h0tNsPiCy91: oh really....quit lyin! who is this??? ... ... crazy1 86: i loved u the first time a stared in your eyes... crazy1 86: i think about u everyday... you are my dream come true. crazy1 86: we met once! i dont think u remember tho. crazy1 86: i cut myself because the pain takes away my feelings of u. crazy1 86: u will see me sometime tonight.... h0tNsPiCy91: ..WHO IS THIS!?!?!? crazy1 86:dont worry.... ill take very good care of you... crazy1 86 had signed off. The girl was so scared she locked all her doors and windows. She made sure her room was secured. She wasn't sure if it was a joke or for real. She didn't know when he was going to come. The girl was so frightened she decided to sleep with her little sister. The girl dozed off quickly. Then she heard a knock on the window. The girl slowly walked to the window. It started knocking louder. The girl looked through the windows and saw nothing... just some of the tree branches. The girl went back to bed with her sister. The bed was wet and had a pretty horrid smell. Maybe her sister wet the bed... the girl checked and found blood everywhere. The girl panicked. She didn't know what to do. She ran and hid in the closet in case the killer was there for her. While looking through the cracks of the closet the girl saw a shadow. It was dark, so she couldn't figure out who it was. She started to get more frightened. The shadow crept closer to the closet. The girl closed her eyes as if it was a dream. Then suddenly he opened the closet door and pulled her out. Her parents found her dead the next morning. She was completely skinned and hanging in her sister's closet. The younger sister was also found skinned and dead. Two years after the Smith sisters deaths, the parents had a baby boy. The girl's room became a guest room and the little sister's room where the murder took place became the baby's room. The baby grew up to be a successful kid. One night he was on the computer and received an instant messege. h0tNsPiCy91: Hey lil bro!!! 2seXay4u: Who is this? h0tNsPiCy91: It's your big sis. 2seXay4u: I never had a sister. I'm an only child. 2seXay4u: This is some kinda joke, huh? h0tNsPiCy91: Mom and dad never told you? h0tNsPiCy91: I died 15 years ago with your other older sister. h0tNsPiCy91: We were murdered in your room which was once my little sister's room. She was killed in bed when I was sleeping. I was killed in the closet and skinned to death. 2seXay4u: Quit lying. I never had a sister. If I did my parents would have told me. Whatever. Your stupid. h0tNsPiCy91: You don't believe me? Well if you wanna look in your closet floor. h0tNsPiCy91: I carved my name and the time and date I was being murdered. Then I carved my little sister's name. h0tNsPiCy91: If you don't believe me little brother check the internet. Google on ''Smith sisters murdered anonymously''. h0tNsPiCy91: I gtg little brother. I love you and mom and dad soo much. I can't believe they kept us a secret from you. They should burn in hell. The boy checked the closet. He saw the carvings. Was it true? He surfed the internet and information was there about the anonymous murder in the house. The next morning the boy went downstairs. It was so quiet. Maybe his parents were sleeping. Hours later the boy found his parents in their closet skinned and hung. Then he found more carvings on the ground. They said ''I TOLD YOU I WASN'T LYING LITTLE BROTHER, I LOVED MOM AND DAD.... BUT THEY KEPT ME A SECRET. I CAN'T BELIEVE IT. WELL I'M FREE FROM THIS COLD WORLD, I WON'T HURT YOU LIKE I HURT THEM. I LOVE YOU!" - LISA SMITH This is a death chain letter. 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The ears are wide at the base, pointed, upright, and turned forward. The ears of puppies under six months may droop slightly. The bushy tail reaches below the hocks and hangs down when the dog is at rest. The front legs and shoulders are muscular and the thighs are thick and sturdy. The round feet have very hard soles. There are three varieties of the German Shepherd: double coat, the plush coat, and the longhaired coat. The coat most often comes in black with tan, sable or all black, but also can come in blue, liver and white, but those colors are considered a fault according to most standards. White is not an acceptable color for the German Shepherd, however they are now being recognized as a separate breed, called the American White Shepherd. A piebald color has also occured in a single GSD bloodline which are now being called Panda Shepherds. A Panda is 35% white, the remainder of color is black and tan, and has no white German Shepherds in its ancestry. Temperament Often used as working dogs, German Shepherds are courageous, keen, alert and fearless. Cheerful, obedient and eager to learn. Tranquil, confident, serious and clever. GSDs are extremely faithful, and brave. They will not think twice about giving their lives for their human pack. They have a high learning ability. German Shepherds love to be close to their families, but can be wary of strangers. This breed needs his people and should not be left isolated for long periods of time. They only bark when they feel it is necessary. Often used as police dogs, the German Shepherd has a very strong protective instinct, and are extremely loyal to their handler. Socialized this breed well starting at puppyhood. Aggression and attacks on people are due to poor handling and training. Problems arise when an owner allows the dog to believe he is pack leader over humans and or does not give the dog the mental and physical daily exercise they need to be stable. This breed needs owners who are naturally authoritative over the dog in a calm, but firm, confident and consistent way. A stable, well-adjusted, and trained dog is for the most part generally good with other pets and excellent with children in the family. They must be firmly trained in obedience from an early age. German Shepherds who have passive owners and or who's instincts are not being met can become timid, skittish and may be prone to fear biting and develop a guarding issue. They should be trained and socialized from an early age. German Shepherds will not listen if they sense that they are stronger minded than their owner, however they will also not respond well to harsh discipline. Owners need to have an air of natural authority to their demeanor. Do not treat this dog as if he were human. Learn canine instincts and treat the dog accordingly. German Shepherds are one of the smartest and most trainable breeds. With this highly skilled working dog comes a drive to have a job and a task in life and a consistent pack leader to show them guidance. They need somewhere to channel their mental and physical energy. This is not a breed who will be happy simply laying around your living room or locked out in the back yard. The breed is so intelligent and learns so readily that it has been used as a sheepdog, guard dog, in police work, as a guide for the blind, in search and rescue service, and in the military. The German Shepherd also excels in many other dog activities including schutzhund, tracking, obedience, agility, flyball, and ring sport. His fine nose can sniff out drugs and intruders, and can alert handlers to the presence of underground mines in time to avoid detonation, or gas leaks in a pipes buried 15 feet underground. The German Shepherd is also a popular show and family companion. Height, Weight Height: Dogs 24-26 inches (60-65cm.) Females 22-24 inches (55-60cm.) Weight: 77-85 pounds (35-40kg.) Health Problems Indiscriminate breeding has lead to hereditary diseases such as hip and elbow dysplasia, blood disorders, digestive problems, bloat, epilepsy, chronic eczema, keratitis (inflammation of the cornea), dwarfism and flea allergies. Also prone to DM (degenerative myelitis), EPI (endocrine pancreatic insufficiency), and perianal fistulas and Von Willebrand's disease. Living Conditions The German Shepherd will do okay in an apartment if sufficiently exercised. They are relatively inactive indoors and do best with at least a large yard. Exercise German Shepherd Dogs love strenuous activity, preferably combined with training of some kind, for these dogs are very intelligent and crave a good challenge. They need to be taken on a daily, brisk, long walk, jog or run alongside you when you bicycle. While out on the walk the dog must be made to heel beside or behind the person holding the lead, as in a dog's mind the leader leads the way, and that leader needs to be the human. Most shepherds love to play ball or Frisbee. Ten to fifteen minutes of fetching along with daily pack walks will tire your dog out quite nicely as well as give him a sense of purpose. Whether it is ball chasing, frisbee catching, obedience training, participation in a canine playgroup or just taking long walks/jogs, you must be willing to provide some form of daily, constructive exercise. The daily exercise must always include daily walks/jogs to satisfy the dogs migration instinct. If under-exercised and or mentally challenged, this breed can become restless and destructive. Does best with a job to do. Life Expectancy Around 13 years. Grooming This breed sheds bits of hair constantly and is a seasonally heavy shedder. They should be brushed daily or you will have hair all over your home. Bathe only when necessary, over bathing can cause skin irritation from oil depletion. Check ears and trim claws regularly. Origin In Karlsruhe, Germany, Captian Max von Stephanitz and other dedicated breeders produced a responsive, obedient, and handsome German Shepherd using long-haired, short-haired, and wire-haired local herding and farm dogs from Wurtemberg, Thurginia, and Bavaria. The dogs were presented at Hanover in 1882, and the short-haired variety was first presented in Berlin in 1889. In April 1899, von Stephanitz registered a dog named Horan as the first Deutsche Schäferhunde, which means German Shepherd Dog in English. Until 1915, both long-haired and wire-haired varieties were shown. Today, in most countries, only the short coat is recognized for show purposes. The first GSD was shown in America in 1907 and the breed was recognized by the AKC in 1908. 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First, a man with an Indian accent, who claims to be calling from an Ohio based technical repair center for Microsoft, tells me they received a warning that a serious threat has been detected on my PC. Now you don't have to know a lot about how computers and the internet(z) work to detect right away that this is total bullshit. So I started asking him some prodding hows and whys, and he tried to skirt all of them. For instance, I asked how would he know my info, is he a Microsoft employee, how does he know my computer generated an error report, what is my IP address and location? etc. etc. He tried to bullshit his way out and still instructed me to do some things on my computer so that he can help me "fix the issue." At this point, I wanted to tell him to go pound salt but I also wanted to humor him to see what this scammer's modus operandi was. I did the latter, pretending to follow his instructions and all the while Googling any and all weird things he asked me to do, but without actually doing them. I followed all of his instructions ("uhuh.... until he asks me to type the command eventvwr.exe in my command line. At this point, Google finally returns pages of "scam alert" articles that described exactly what was happening to me in real time. At that point i told the guy "look, i just wanted to see what you would ask me to do. I have many layers of security that I know has not been compromised....," and before I could finish with "....so go pound salt!!!!" he says thank you and goodbye. So people please beware! It turns out, had I actually done what he was asking me to do I would have ended up installing a remote desktop application that allows them to access my PC and they would have actually charged me £46 on my credit card too for a "protection package". Lol! But hey!!! Some people (or at least according to forum posts) actually fell for this scam. And looking back, the dude actually told me "you know a lot about computers" because I kept asking him a lot of tough questions -- and the scammers are counting on non-tech savvy and paranoid people to pick up the phone when they call. Just remember: Microsoft does not give a hoot if your computer was compromised let alone know about it. And for Pete's sake, don't install crap on your computer that some random stranger asks you to :) Don't let scammers mind|=*c|< you and stay safe! Inder Jot Sandhu Gaddowalian: ਮੈਨੂੰ ਲੱਭਣ ਲਈ ਤੂੰ Facebook ਉੱਤੇ ਨਾਂ ਭਰਿਆ ਕਰੇਂਗੀ, Google ਤੇ Search ਸੋਹਣੀਏ ਕਰਿਆ ਕਰੇਂਗੀ, ਜਦ ਛੱਡ ਗਏ ਯਾਰ ਬੇਗਾਨੇ, ਮੁੱਖ ਹੰਝੂਆਂ ਨਾਂ ਧੋਵੇਂਗੀ, Desktop ਤੇ ਲਾਕੇ ਮੇਰੀਆ ਫ਼ੋਟੋ ਰੋਵੇਂਗੀ.......... Inderjot