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Had a glance at the Apple product timeline and on reflection Apple products have been a big part of my life.

Apple computer products owned 

1979 – NZ – Apple II- used for VISICALC (first spreadsheet) and games sold to Hamilton Jet family

1985 – SING – Apple IIc Plus – Mostly used for games

1989 – SWE – Apple SE/30 – Stopped off in California and bought on way to Sweden – Used for accounting, Compuserve and AOL.

1992 – SWE – PowerBook Duo 210 – Mostly used for Accounting software as well as Mosaic then Netscape the forst WWW browsers.

2003 – AUS – PowerBook G4 Aluminium (17″) – Used for everything including seminars etc through data projectors (still going strong! – PowerPC)

2007 – AUS – iMac (Intel-based) 24 inch 2.0 GHz (T7300) Intel Core 2 Duo (still going strong) – Dwsktopm used for day to day work

2009 – AUS – MacBook Pro (Unibody) 15″ – Used for portable computing (still going strong) – used when travelling but retired

2010 – AUS – Apple iPad (Wi-Fi) (still going strong) – used to read books

2011 – AUS – MacBookAir 4,2 (13″)  256 GB 1x Thunderbolt port (still going strong) – used when travelling and is an awesome computer

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Second hand book stores are great placed to spend some time but for the owners just browsing doesnt pay the rent. Some old favourites have moved on over the years but many still remain. Here is a way for some of them to survive. Integrate the strore with an on-line bookstore!

APP.COM – Rural stores thrive by opening doors to a wider world of customers | Asbury Park Press Online

Seems linking to the iTunes store is going to increase tremendously.

Google links to iTunes are now able to top search terms.

Only other person I found blogging about this was Theresa Valdez Klein

iTunes comes up number one when Christine Aguilera’s number one song “Ain’t No Other Man” is entered into your Google Search bar.

Here is the iTunes number one tune located through a straight Google search on the song name!

Could be the new “iTunes” affiliate program that is driving this.

Imagine … now you can get rewarded for recommending music to your friends and contacts!

It is being operated by Link Share!
LinkShare pioneered online affiliate marketing, and today runs the largest pay for performance affiliate marketing network on the Internet.

They feature patented technology, and provide all the tools and services merchants need to create, manage and optimize a successful affiliate marketing program.

With over 10 million partnerships in the network it is the most successful pay for performance network of its kind.
Apple must have done their homework before agreeing to get Link Share to manage the iTunes affiliate program.

The iTunes Affiliate Program allows you to place links on your website to the U.S. iTunes Music Store. You can link to songs, albums, artists, audiobooks, popular public radio programs, podcasts and more. Earn a commission on all qualifying revenue generated by links posted on your website to iTunes

Once you complete the iTunes Affiliates registration form, you will receive an email from LinkShare regarding your participation as an affiliate in the LinkShare Network. Your email will contain your username and password. Within 3 business days, you will receive an email from iTunes regarding the status of your iTunes Affiliate Program application.

Once you have been accepted as an iTunes Affiliate, you will be able to access your account from www.linkshare.com using your LinkShare username and password. From there you can access all of the tools you will need to create links to iTunes.

Check it out here or in other words become an affilaite here!

If you dont want to become and affiliate just backspace in the URL bar until you have the main domain name. However, with iTunes now on Link Share, sign up you can have “What I’m Listening To Now” on your web page and when anyone else clicks and buys the album you earn dollars!

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Our videos find their home on YouTube.
Our blogs are stored on .mac, Blogger or a histed WordPress site

Now we can share our spreadsheets.
Google.s new spreadsheet may be short on features but it is a pointer to the future. Read more here!

Google Spreadsheets has better collaboration tools than Excel, but not better features | News.blog | CNET News.com

Sweden and Norway have long been ahead in many social and technology trends. Whether it is the comprehensive daycare system or the ability to shop in supermarkets where the customers not only scan the goods themselves but also pay in a machine, these countries often give us a vision of where we are going.

The fact that they have now made a move against Apple means that this will be a long unwinding process which will eventually mean that iTunes purchased tracks will be able to be played on a plethoa of media players.

Norway believes the present practice is unfair. “Bjorn Erik Thon, director of The Consumer Ombudsman’s Office of Norway, a government authority with power to fine companies for marketing and business practices that it deems unfair, “dismissed the claim Apple has often made that its policy helps combat copyright violation. ‘They are not protecting against
piracy, but instead encouraging it,” Mr. Thon said. “When consumers cannot copy an iTunes song onto their mobile phone, they will get a download of it free from Napster.’ Consumer protection authorities in Sweden echoed Norway’s action today, and Denmark is expected to do the same… Mr. Thon said that he himself had bought a large number of songs from iTunes for about 1 euro apiece, and now wanted to transfer them to his new Nokia N80 cellular phone, but could not.”

MacDailyNews | Apple’s iTunes Music Store faces fresh legal attacks from Norway and Sweden