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31 October 2011
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Apple
Forrester research is a leading market research group that many in enterprise listen to with a keen ear, and they've just told their IT departments of their vast enterprise market to support the Mac. Back in 2008 they were quoted as saying "Windows is the only desktop you need support", and now they're completely back-pedalling on that statement and saying that Mac users are the ones who are the most productive, people who use new technologies and find ways to be more productive.
Patently Apple analyse a new Apple patent relating to iCloud which points to iCloud storage with much more capacity which is currently available. The patent itself actually seems to describe some sort of "librarian service" which manages the data from multiple users and so on, but reveals how Apple could eventually push iCloud storage to 1TB.
If you're the guy that people call when something is not quite right with their Mac, a Mac triage drive might be exactly what you need in your toolkit. The drive has the advantage of not being optical-based, and you can put all sorts of diagnostic utilities and bootable environments on it. The Mac Observer has some steps to get you (and your Mac) up and running.
As far as calendar apps go, QuickCal is right up there with the best of them. Just tell QuickCal the what, when, and the where, and it will do the rest.
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