Steve Jobs, who is suffering from hormone disruption.

For weeks rumors about the health of Steve Jobs - Apple now has the boss a statement delivered in their own right: He was not renewed because of a cancer so emaciated, but due to a hormonal disorder.
  New York / Cupertino - Apple CEO Jobs said he needed only a "relatively simple" treatment. His leadership at Apple, he will be retained. "A hormone imbalance in my body has robbed the proteins, which he needs in order to be healthy," said Jobs in writing. "Sophisticated blood tests" have now confirmed this diagnosis.
The rumors about the health status of jobs had in recent weeks strengthened after Apple announced, Jobs will not be as usual, the opening speech at Apple's Macworld trade show hold.
Philip Schiller, the marketing director of the company, the speech, which usually also includes product launches, on tomorrow, Tuesday, to Jobs' body hold. The rumors also had several times the market price of Apple Inc. clearly fall - Jobs is regarded as a guarantee for the success of the company. In response to today's news, the Apple shares on the New York Stock Exchange around four percent. Analyzed the stock market as an end to speculation about jobs.
The company's founders was a little more than four years to pancreatic cancer, the disease had claimed to own but overcome.
Its clearly visible weight loss in the past year, the rumors about a renewed outbreak transported. Now, Jobs said that it is merely a "problem with the nutrient supply," he had with the treatment already begun. This will however take some time to come: He had all the weight did not "in a week or one months lost," said Jobs, according to his doctors expected that "at least until late spring will last until I have recovered ".
The company Apple published alongside an opinion: "Apple has a lot of luck, Steve as a manager and CEO, and he deserves our full and unwavering support." The Apple will he and his executive also definitely get.
Jobs said in the letter that he would continue as the Apple chief available. "I will be the first who resigns and the Board informed when I no longer my duties as head of Apple can fulfill."

Apple kuscheln disciples one last time

This is love for the product: Apple fans from all over the world travel to San Francisco to deal with wild strangers to pay homage to the group. The Community is an urge the rest of the old Mac culture - but the company now disposes of the last remnants of folklore.
  San Francisco - Why Alfred Phoon Vancouver flown to San Francisco is a few hundred dollars for a hotel room and the entrance to the Apple's Macworld trade show has paid, he can now do not say so exactly. The programmer is petite with a big SLR between a good dozen other Macworld visitors on the beach, a few hundred meters from the crow flies of the Golden Gate Bridge, looking for the right aperture for the photo and a sentence, which explains why he is here .
Of course, Steve Jobs, he wanted to see live once. Early morning queue for the opening speech of the Apple-heads to hear. Just keep in jobs this year's speech, but marketing chief Phil Schiller. The Apple has surprisingly few weeks ago announced - long after fans like Phoon had bought their tickets.

But it annoys the 31-year-olds are not. He was not only because of the Apple-heads here, but also to assist in a workshop at the Macworld bit more about photography to learn new software and equipment out, people to meet. And then says Phoon interesting sentence: "That must be one once."
Once a pilgrimage to Mecca Mac - it belongs to Apple somehow cult.
Mac disciples from Belgium and Canada
Most Mac users who like Phoon two days before the fair via the Internet directly to a stroll through San Francisco have found together, are more fun than business here. For example, Philippe Simon, 39, from Belgium, of the "Macworld himself on the 40th birthday" has. Or Assistant Attorney Lizzie, the MacBook Pro "Steven" is called? after one (Jobs?) or others (Wozniak?) Apple co-founder, whatever that is betraying them.
It is not so easy to understand why people hundreds or even thousands of miles to fly to attend product launches, which it also called Webvideo to see. In order to meet people with whom you first have the computer brand in common.
Urge this community is the most interesting part of the Apple myth. Because the culture of trade fairs and meetings without the user control by the group emerged.
The counter-culture image has once Apple itself with advertising campaigns to miss - but the user groups and the resulting sense of community there, the company never planned.
Mac community was without Apple
The history of the Mac community is the documentary "Macheads" for, at the Macworld Expo celebrates its premiere on Thursday. Director Kobi Shely draws from his research that concludes: "The Mac community based primarily on long-face meetings such as the meeting of the Mac user groups. These little communities spread the passion for the brand and the Apple-created myth. The Macworld trade fairs was the meeting point of these groups. "
In Macheads "seen in the original recordings from 1986, as the founder of the Berkeley Macintosh User Group (BMUG) in the U.S. television show" Computer Chronicles "on their group told:" We help ourselves to better deal with our computers to work. " Thursday, members met in Berkeley to a question-and-answer session, including software and presentations followed by dinner. It was necessary, says guide author Irene M. Hoffman in "Macheads": "Computers were a bit mysterious. The people had to learn how to use them. The Mac users make more with it: They talked not only about computers."
Her best times BMUG published books, shareware collections and a newsletter for those of its 13,000 members who live outside Berkeley. They even have a mailbox business in Tokyo.
It was a symbiotic relationship: The Apple brand was held and the groups. The groups and meetings of the mark in turn, gave Apple a Community Touch.
Veterans meeting the computer generation
But this was before the Internet Allerwelts media literacy and computer knowledge was. In 2000 the BMUG filed for bankruptcy.
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In Macheads "illustrated a scene that change very impressive. Kobi Shely has filmed during the Macworld Expo 2007, "Netter's Diner," a joint dinner of Mac users to run the place since 1985. A dozen tables are in space, elderly ladies and gentlemen sitting there, most beyond the 50th One wonders in the round: "Since when do you use Macs?" 2007? 2006? Nobody raises a hand. 1988? 1987? Nobody. 1984? Almost all raise their hands. In the year was the first Macintosh computer on the market.
Focal lengths and babies
What of the once with the Apple brand interwoven community and counter-culture sensation remained, noted today still at maximum self-user meeting, such as the San Francisco tour. There are graphic artists, designers, programmers Rechtsanwaltsgehilfinnen and 20 to 60 through the city, only the Mac at home (and the iPhone in their pockets perhaps) together, are very fast but quite good.
Phoon programmer tells of his two children, the youngest daughter is just seven months. He looks forward, while the Macworld to be able to sleep properly. Where children are great, for Christmas, he has a gift single-lens reflex camera, which you can also filmed. And soon to discuss a couple of each other until recently completely alien people from different continents and focus on babies.
What if Apple is in the coming year as announced by the Macworld retires? For spontaneous meetings lacking then perhaps the external event. It could be the end for the remains of the Mac community.
"The Web has changed the community," has "Macheads" director Shely the Fachdienst Cnet said. "The younger generation does not need any user groups, answers to questions, there is online. But they still had the Macworld. Without this personal contact will be the Mac Fantum have a hard time."
Perhaps the slow Fanobjekt a normal product.

Guesswork to giant iPod.

For Apple fans, the Bescherung only now - with the special Macworld trade show in San Francisco. On the wish list are in addition to the mega-iPod Mini iPhone and new desktop computers. From Apple there is no comment. And so there seething in the rumor mill.
  On Tuesday against 18 German time clock will happen.
At the Macworld trade show in San Francisco, in this Monday evening and will be opened in which everything revolves around Apple's products, is not the first time boss Steve Jobs personally hold the opening speech - but its head of marketing Philip Schiller.
This announcement was in December 2008 prompt renewed speculation about Jobs' health condition is triggered. And of course, rumors, what Schiller at the trade fair will present.
In the puzzle Apple blogs diligently. They interpret the few facts fanciful - it is the last Macworld, Apple on the issue itself (ie a big farewell announcement?), It is the first keynote that Steve Jobs does not hold (that is nothing earth?), But there will be a few weeks later the first Macintosh computer 25 years old (so maybe a Anniversary Mac?).
Whether Apple at Macworld, but really, how the fans hope, new hardware and how the show might look like, is pure speculation. The complex offers imaginative: an iPhone Nano (smaller, cheaper - the rumor courses for a year now, Chinese equipment manufacturers announce even cover for the phantom product), an iPhone Pro (with Ausschiebetastatur).

"Tech Crunch" blogger Michael Arrington reported on New Year's Eve, in the fall will be a new, larger iPod Touch on the market - allegedly with nine inch diagonal screen would also be suitable Surftablett. For the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, which also begins this week, comes with a number of product launches are expected from this corner: Perhaps, as the calculus, the surprising success of smaller, lighter laptops, called Netbooks, in the wake the EeePC eventually Tablet PCs with touch screen flow? Several manufacturers will be at the CES touch-sensitive mini-laptops expected - since Apple would be with a giant touch forefront.
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The most interesting Apple rumor has the blog 9to5mac down: Supposedly Apple has developed a media server, an intersection of the W-Lan-hard "Time Capsule" and the Videoabspielers AppleTV. The new Media Server will be music, movies and photos and save all the computers in one household (via the wireless network) access, but also via the Internet in conjunction with an account with Apple's online service Mobile Me record.
Even if there is not Apple's Media Server, there should be - a development of the now elderly arg multimedia flounder Apple TV 2009 must appear when the iPod for the living room to be anything else.
In contrast to the wild speculation about new Apple hardware is the case with software clear: Fairly sure Apple will Schillerstraße manager at Macworld further details of the next version of Apple's OS X operating system perform. The version 10.6, called Snow Leopard, will appear this summer.
Due eyes new features are not to be expected, the system is intended primarily to run faster and more stable - the technical details (parallel programming, programming platform for graphics) but probably more likely because developers fascinate fans.

May's a bit more radio be?.

Walls and ceilings are designed for wireless networks often insurmountable obstacles. Those who still want to surf on the top floor, is equipped with a Wi-Fi repeater happy. The devices amplify the radio signal - in series, they can provide whole streets.
  Daniel Frenzel has a problem: The apartment of 23-year old student, an old building in downtown Fürther runs over two floors. In the bottom, next to the door, there are telephone and wireless router. But Frenzel would also like to the first floor from the bed to surf. And no matter where the student is in his bedroom - anywhere his laptop shows "no wireless connection" to.
Also, the landlord can not do anything. His lapidary statement: Stark screen the buildings. Thick walls and ceilings, lots of steel and iron in water pipes or cables, and - what exactly the Radio-stop care can not be ascertained. One, however, was clear: In Daniel Frenzels bedroom, it will be for the foreseeable future, no internet.

Conventional DSL Router with Wi-Fi wireless technology, depending on the nature of walls and ceilings only several meters wide. If you want to enlarge the home network, however, can a technique to fall back, currently at home users is growing in popularity: For several months, for example, offers Internet provider 1 & 1 "in addition to his new FRITZ! Box a so-called" Wi-Fi repeater. For 49.99 euros, even inexperienced users will be "with only a few simple" expand its network and also in remote corners of the apartment can direct.
While Wi-Fi repeater has been a niche product for private users, not new is the W-LAN extension, however, not the former Siemens subsidiary Gigaset produced Wi-Fi repeater for five years. AVM presented competitors this year. By FRITZ! WLAN Repeater manufacturer is an improvement in the Wi-Fi range for each user, easy: "The repeater can be connected to any electrical outlet used for a secure wireless connection reaches only a brief touch of the screen," says AVM Samira Jordan spokeswoman.
Repeater: No more than one data-passing
The functioning of the Wi-Fi repeater is explained with a sentence: The unit reinforces the Wi-Fi signals so that in theory, even the supply of entire streets with W-LAN is possible and feasible. This is made possible by a technology often called "Wireless Distribution System (WDS). Here, the repeater at the range limit of the Wi-Fi router positioned to receive the signals, amplifies it and sends it again. Even neighbors could be the signal with any Wi-Fi-enabled computers receive and thus share the DSL connection.
Most buyers repeater set the device but not for the local Wi-Fi-socialism, but also to its network in remote corners of your own home use. An example: "The access point is located near the entrance and the computer in the house diagonally opposite to the upper floors. If a repeater vertically above the access point installed in the next floor, sends and receives the signals from the repeater then" horizontally on the floor, "says Christopher Volk, product manager at Gigaset Broadband Communications. Even if the Wi-Fi in other buildings on your own land, for example, in the garage, or with neighbors will be used, makes the use of a repeater sense.
To the network amplifier into operation, there are no professional skills necessary: "The repeater supports the upcoming Wi-Fi N standard, but also standard 802.11g, b or a," says spokeswoman AVM Samira Jordan. The repeater can transmit data in the 2.4 - or 5-GHz band transferred. This allows many users with Wi-Fi wireless networks, in the neighborhood to the less-used 5-gigahertz Frequenband dodge. The integrated multi-antenna methods MIMO (Multiple Input Multiple Output) is also a very good coverage and higher data rates.
W-LAN ENLARGEMENT: THE SOLUTION FOR HÄRTEFÄLLEEine further option, a Wi-Fi to expand the building if the harder is the bridge with the aid of a power line connection. Manufacturers such as Netgear adapter to offer the Internet with a connection on the power grid possible. For exotic cases, there is Power Line-W-LAN adapter, the Internet signal within the first circuit on the transport and power lines in the target area then a W-LAN network. The Powerline-hybrid solution is useful if the pure radio solution despite not gain enough: As long as DSL / router and Powerline Empfänger/W- LAN Extender other within one on a common security protection secured grid connected, does the thing - no matter how thick the walls are. Near Prone is about to guests with a LAN party via W-LAN, or to allow family members with a preference for laptops only. Otherwise, the direct path from DSL to the computer via Powerline significantly naheliegender.Netgear adapter calls this a "Wireless Range!
Extender" - an established, alternative term for the text addressed in Wi-Fi repeater. A package of Powerline adapter, which is directly connected to the DSL router or a tin can connect, and an extender will cost around 100 euros. Pure Repeater/Extender- solutions from other manufacturers, as Wi-Fi signal amplifiers are used, are 50 to 120 euros haben.pat
An unlimited Wi-Fi expansion is equipped with a repeater, however, not in it: "Under ideal conditions, is almost a doubling of the Wi-Fi coverage," says spokeswoman AVM Samira Jordan. Wi-Fi repeater can be connected in series in order to send a signal over a number of repeater stations, mainly in one direction to extend. "You can also star-arranged to ensure greater coverage in the area to ensure" says Christopher Volk, production manager at Gigaset Broadband Communications. It may be 4-6 Gigaset Repeater together, with series connection halved, however, the flow rate of repeater to repeater. "At the end of the chain is still possible, Internet access, transfer of videos, however, may be limited," warns the people.

"It is not the goal, the people to cultivate."

Until robots deployed to the nursing staff in routine tasks to relieve it is only a matter of time - it is believed at the Fraunhofer Institute for Production Technology and Automation. It shows a prototype in a test apartment, which he may be cooler, but more reliable Butler.
  The training apartment of "Care-O-bot 3" has a kitchenette and a living room with sofa. By the Fraunhofer Institute for Production Technology and Automation (IPA) in Stuttgart has developed service robot can fetch drinks or even empty the trash.
"He can operate perfectly," says Christopher Parlitz, with his colleagues, the helpful assistant has co. Around 250,000 euro cost of the prototype. The ultimate is the use in the care sector. But until then the way is long.

Although running since early November a model project in a nursing home. But there will be only one try, for what the machine is used at all. Parlitz clarifies: "It is not the goal, the people to maintain." Conceivably, for example, would be the issue of food or the transport of files. This would allow the staff of routine tasks and will intensify its efforts to patient care.
The 32-year-old graduate mathematician says that the only people to around 150 kilograms of heavy machinery should be used. It radiates even something human, if they just nod and thus indicated that they understood what their role is.
Controlled is the assistant of the future with the voice of the people. The prototype is aware of a cold and businesslike design marked. "The more human, the robot looks, the more expectations are awakened," says Parlitz. A face has a very mobile and non-jointed machine.
Cooler guy with manners
For the detection of objects that he should hand over, the robot uses a special camera. She is paired with a color, a colored three-dimensional picture of the environment provides. The robot can be used in any direction and tight spaces sovereign happen. Is he in his apartment of training a person who he knows approached, he verbeugt.
At the front is a tray attached, the interface between the robot and its users. Through the use of the tablet for the surrender of a bottle, for example, ensures that there is "a safe interaction between humans and robots", as Parlitz calls.
At the back of "Care-O-bot 3" is a 120 centimeter long arm mounted. A total of 28 motors and numerous joints ensure that the machine is mobile and flexible applications. But before they may even correct in the nursing service is doing, the Fraunhofer scientists are still many more experiences.

How to get a ship into the stadium brings.

By composing picture can we draw from simple ingredients to create miraculous. Function, form and color are sizes that will play key roles. How they are interrelated, and how to get the "Cap San Diego" in the football stadium brings, says author Uli Staiger.
  Actually, the issue of image composing not make mistakes. The fact that individual image files to a large whole can add, is entitled to the result, composing the name to carry. Certain rules, for example in the field of optics, or the design of teaching play a significant role and lead, depending on the state of knowledge of Composers, more or less acceptable results. Because: A good Composing is like a toy, you want to not only see but also can use it should be a function reveal or tell a story, preferably both, or in other words: There must be something going on.
FOR PERSONUli StaigerUli Staiger, born in 1966, began in 1987 after leaving school trained as a photographer. Upon completion of the stations followed Gesellenprüfung Barcelona, New York and Berlin, where he worked as an assistant. From 1996 to 1998 graduated Uli Staiger training for technicians and photographers photo master. Also in 1998 he founded the Berlin Fotostudio the lighting design. Staiger deals with still life and landscape photography and has focused on the theme of specialized digital composing.
The observance of this first of the three F (function, shape, color) will ensure that the displayed objects of association between bring and prevent combinations of things that are planned in the viewer a mental impasse can run like dogs, the on a cloud or burning flowers that bar any reflection on the water.
The form supports the function in the best case perfectly and then transported to the image content directly into the subconscious of the beholder. It ensures that the lines in harmonious picture, the perspective is correct and that the foreground is a logical connection with the light received. It provides more than the function, whether we have a picture as a sedative, chaotic, harmonious or unbalanced feel.
Function (Herta 01) Uli StaigerAuf first glance, the Berlin Olympic Stadium and the cargo ship "Cap San Diego" very little in common. So must be a common denominator to be found, which combines both a water surface makes the stadium to the port, leave the great staircase in the background and puts away the left part of the stadium even further to the left, it now justifies the visible presence of the sea Giant ocean. Through the simple device of the inserted surface ship and the stadium will cross reference and functionally verbunden.Form 1 (Herta 02) Uli StaigerDa focal lengths and image sizes of the two files match, the ship into the stadium screen integrated. In the picture are only the most recognizable lines. We see that the generous, in the lower part of the repetitive swing stadium roof well with the majestic forms of the hull fits. The peace and serenity of the forms of both picture and components are transported through the quiet, horizontal horizon supported. The !
corners and edges of the glass roof will find a comparison in the superstructure of the ship. The complementary forms merge into a Einheit.Form 2 (Herta 03) Uli StaigerDie details of the form point to two things, which so far only about could be: First, it is clear exactly where the vessel is there must be far above or positioned below the size ratios on the head, too far left or right perspective does not fit into the concept and perhaps obscured the view out to sea. Secondly, the size. If you have a sailor in front of the bow jumps on board, he would have to be a man of normal size closest point on land to save and be as still as a giant dwarf ankommen.Farben find (Herta 04) Uli StaigerWir summarize : It is a balanced image, due to the curved lines of the stadium and the majestic supremacy of the hull shape. The mystical atmosphere of the surreal-looking scene radiates a cool calm, so unobtrusive, cool colors. So that the water is transparent, it should be blue as the arc!
hitecture of the stadium, the sky, the picture opening upwards!
must no
t leaden press on the subject. In order for this but not in the monochrome is sinking, the red painted parts of the ship übernommen.Modellierung (Herta 05) Uli StaigerIm compared with the upper display is clear, which in addition to the placement and scaling of the individual components of work done yet: In addition to adjusting the Colors of the stadium, ship, sky and water must be the shadow of the ship and the mirror of the stadium will be built. The sky must be at the lower end will be brighter, as the horizon, in addition, a darken the foreground for more depth in the picture. Discreet, barely visible mist over the water surface in the stadium to support the cool mystique of Motivs.Photoshop 1 (Herta 06) Uli StaigerDer moment of truth has arrived, the individual components are built. Honestly, would you the picture in this state see whether the unkohärenten despite cleaner choice as the acting fretsaw ausgesägt images ever form an overall motif, a unit could be? It's!
clear to see, because you have the steps previously a function of the image parts down, you know that the shapes fit together and have a color palette designed by the above situation. Without this mental preparation would be your vision may be tarnished and you have no idea how close to the target already sind.Photoshop 2 (Herta 07) Uli StaigerDie colors were adapted, shadows, reflections and fog added. The adjustment of the frames could together with a minimum of effort to be done. Fortunately, because the ship's superstructure with all the ropes free, it would certainly not have fun. But, the sky behind the ship simply by color and contrast adjustments on a layer mask in the sky above the stadium to be integrated.
The third, function and form supportive size is the color. They also control the subconscious, but the interpretation is influenced by the shape-dependent, with which it is associated: the same red, a picture of the cozy comfort gives, in a different context as threatening and aggressive perceived.
VIDEOTIPPvideo2brain / Uli Staiger: "Photoshop Power Workshops: Composing techniques" 9 hours of video training and Uli Staiger.Addison Wesley Publishing, with a bonus DVD Magazine, March 2008; 49.95 euro.
The rest is Photoshop. The fine-tuning for shade, brightening, color and everything else that makes the picture to life and the individual picture elements together, is the real work of what is commonly referred to as composing understands.
However, the result is convincing, if you do not only with form layers and pallets employed, but previously with the conceptual and creative concept of function, form and color interest. Actually a pity that not even Photoshop with F writes.

Photoshop Mops contributes Major uniform.

A few yellowed photos from the imperial era, Photoshop, and the tips of a professional - as family photos from a surreal narrative project in which sheep preach fleets command dogs and a goat with Pickelhaube poses.
  A picture must be able to. But it is often more interesting when his pictures through texts an additional significance. Most photographers are limited in this respect up to a picture title. Rike Mahlberg said however in their work like long stories, consisting of multiple images and text. Or she goes one step further and delivers? as in this case? the viewer with the equipment to their own stories from a scene out further.

So a kind of parlor game selbstgestalteten playing with Photoshop. The project "Ahhhhhnen" shows an example of how to deal with collages images a virtual world can create the space for their imagination allows.
FOUND IN ... DOCMA 1/2009Doc Baumanns magazine for digital imaging free booklet & Abowww.docma.infoDOCMA Award 2009 "image forgery" Initially, the artist vintage prints from the family album and then scanned with animal heads alienated. When the Ahnengalerie figuratively was completed, received a perfect narrative basic amenities. So a name, relationship and a few connecting plot elements that are a small, scenic history revealed.
Stylistically Mahlberg uses this image as textual aesthetics of the Empire. To the basic ingredients of interested viewers to elaborate further, invited Rike Mahlberg the five pictures individually with appropriate linguistic link to the photo community, where using the comment function soon a whole series of more or less witty advancements found.
What it came out, everyone can read. We want us here on the Photoshop technical side of the project and concentrate on the example of Dr. Curl show how such matters are mixed. What exactly to do was to explain Rike Mahlberg in their own words. (ck)