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Apple And The Absolute Hypocracy Of The Apple App Store

February 25, 2010 By: lilybird Category: iPhone/iPod

Apple’s hypocrisy with regard to the App Store is something I know well. Several times last year I wrote about Apple allowing apps like “Asian Boobs” and upskirt apps into the App Store while rejecting things such as satirical apps that mocked public figures. It was ridiculous. So you might think I’d be happy that Apple is now rejecting and removing sexy apps from the App Store as well. But actually, the hypocrisy is much worse now.

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Problem number one is that while Apple is removing most of these sexy apps from the App Store, it’s not removing all of them. So who gets to stay? Big publishers like Sports Illustrated and Playboy. In fact, not only is Sports Illustrated’s Swimsuit 2010 app not being removed, it’s being featured in the App Store. Both it and the Playboy app clearly violate the new rules of the more prudish App Store, yet they get to stay. Why?

As Apple VP of Worldwide Product Marketing Phil Schiller explained earlier to the New York Times, it’s because they’re well-known companies known for that content. Yet, he also cited women being upset about feeling degraded and parents being upset about kids having access to sexy apps as the main reason Apple is cracking down on them. The omission of the fact that parents probably also don’t want their kids downloading the Playboy app, or that some women might also find the Swimsuit app degrading is laughable.

Now, are some apps worse than others with regard to sexy content? Of course. But Apple has removed over 5,000 apps and counting under these new rules — surely some of those would likely be considered less offensive then the Playboy app. Further, this is creating the ultimate gray line when it comes to what is and what is not permissible in the App Store. For example, what if there’s a smaller publication also known for nude pictures that wants to make a lingerie app? Will Apple reject or accept that? Is there a certain circulation threshold one has to have to be considered “well-known” in Schiller’s words?

Problem number two is that Apple is breaking a golden rule: don’t take away what you’ve already given (in this case, to both developers and users). Apple has not always allowed these sexy apps in the App Store. But at some point over the past several months they changed their minds and apps like “Asian Boobs” started getting accepted. Why did they do it? At the time, the thought was that with the new parental controls in the iPhone OS 3.0, they could leave it up to parents to decide what their children can or cannot download/use.

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Apple was probably happy to let another huge rush of apps into the store, while yes, generating revenue off of them. Meanwhile, this spawned a wave of developers who were making these types of apps. Several of those developers have reached out to us over the past few days basically saying that Apple has just destroyed their businesses. Again, businesses that these people would not have created without Apple approving these apps in the first place. Apple giveth, Apple taketh away.

Problem number three is related to number two. I fail to see the reason that Apple built parental controls into the iPhone OS if they weren’t to be used for situations like this. Why even bother? For games with violence? Please. I’m all for kids not having access to mature content if their parents are against it, but that’s exactly what these controls are made for.

So why is Apple making this big change that is pissing a lot of people off if they have this safeguard in place? Clearly, they must not trust it. But if that’s the case, why not remove the explicit content from iTunes? After all, the parental controls for apps are in the exact same place as the ones from music, movies, and TV shows.

Problem number four is perhaps my favorite one. Apple is going through all this trouble of removing these apps, and creating more work in scanning for the next sexy apps to reject, when built into every iPhone and iPod touch is not one, but two huge entry points for explicit material — and both are apps made by Apple themselves. The first, I alluded to above: iTunes. There are no shortage of films and TV shows with nudity and sexual content (along with violence and everything else) that are available on iTunes for purchase on the device. The same is true for explicit music.

But the second app is far worse: Safari. Each iPhone and iPod touch has a web browser that is more than capable of accessing any site on the web with a few clicks. This includes sites with hardcore pornography, or anything else a teenage kid can dream up. Apple is going through all this trouble to block sexy apps (which have never contained nudity, by the way, just sexy pictures), when they offer one of their own that makes it much easier to find far more sinister content.

Of course, if they removed Safari, it could well destroy the iPhone. So they’re not going to do that.

The sad truth is that while everyone can clearly see Apple’s hypocrisy here, it’s unlikely to matter. Just as with all the hoopla over the Google Voice app rejection, this too will blow over. As long as people keep voting for Apple with their pocketbooks, Apple will continue to do as it pleases, hypocrisy or not.

The lesson, I suppose, is that killer products give you carte blanche.

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MS Access Online Training

February 25, 2010 By: lilybird Category: Software

When you have made up your mind about getting Microsoft Access certification, you probably get very excited about it. This certification might not have the same importance and weight as some others, but it is still very good to have for your personal and career development. There are several ways you can get ready for MS Access certification and one of the ways to learn is via online tutorials. This way of learning may seem a new one for many people, but still very appealing to many of us. Many people, knowledgeable about computers, really enjoy learning through using modern technology and where online Access tutorial comes into play.

You should be ready from the very beginning to spend some time to learn MS Access before taking the exam. You cannot just register for the examination and start preparing for it the day before. Even though a small percent of people will pass the exam after a short preparation, but it is still not a very good idea. The whole point of getting MS Access certification or another kind of similar exam is to know how to use the program as well as show others. Even if you pass the exam surprisingly without proper learning, such certification will not help you when you will have to perform your job. So, make sure you start your online Access tutorial long before the day of exam so that you can spend enough time and effort to learning the application.

The best way to begin with MS Access online training is to see what tutorials are available. A lot of websites provide Access tutorials and you should choose the best one for you. Once you select the website and the tutorial, it is time to get to work. Start going through the Access tutorial and try not to move from one training to another, unless you are completely sure that you are familiar with all the information presented there. A good idea is to concentrate on one or two Access tutorial per day, depending on how you absorb the information and the level of difficulty of a particular tutorial. Some tutorials are quite easy and you will be able to learn a couple of them per day, because you will encounter information that you already know. And some tutorials will require a couple of days for you to learn. Just make sure you give yourself plenty of time to learn the new information and focus of what is really important for your Access certification exam. This way you will be able to become MS Access certified. If you study all the Access information the way you should, it won’t be hard for you to pass the exam and get your certification.

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Microsoft Access Database Software.

February 25, 2010 By: lilybird Category: Software

Microsoft Access has many useful and very functional objects such as forms, tables, queries, reports and others. All of them have their own tasks to perform in order to create a good database. Well, queries in Access database are mostly used for viewing, modifying and entering data into the Access database tables. And these tables created and stored in Access database can be often damaged and corrupted due to some changes, virus, and system malfunctioning or other problems. After the Access database table gets corrupted, the created query might also provide invalid records. In such cases, the best way to solve the problem is by using the valid backup. But, if you don’t have an updated backup or the valid backup fails to repair your database, then you will have to use an advanced MS Access recovery tool.

Imagine that you are working with your database and need to perform a very important task or access valuable data, but you suddenly encounter an error message, when trying to open a reference to a linked Access table named “Customers”. The error message says something that it cannot find the table or query with this name and asks you to check the name or spell it in a correct way.

After you encounter the above error message, the data stored in the needed table becomes inaccessible, so you cannot continue your work. Besides, you get the same error message every time you try to access the necessary table.

This situation can have several reasons for happening. The first reason is that the needed table “Customers” is not updated. The second cause for the error message is that the table is corrupted. And the third possible cause is that the table has been renamed or even deleted.

This scenario is not uncommon for using Access database that is why it is important to know the way to resolve the problem. In order to get rid of the above error message and finally access the data stored in the inaccessible table, you should follow the next steps.

You should save the needed table to any other place. Make sure that only the required table is placed in the folder. If these measures do not resolve the problem, then you will have to recover the corrupted table. There is a repair tool inbuilt in the MS Access database, which is called “Compact and Repair”. You should use this utility, but if it is also unable to solve the problem, then you should definitely use the third party advanced MS Access repair software for these purposes. These pieces of software use powerful scanning algorithms, which repair and restore the Access database completely with all its components. These tools are also easy to use and understand which is great for people, who don’t have advanced Access training.

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Microsoft Access Database Functions.

February 25, 2010 By: lilybird Category: Software

Microsoft Access database is very functional and it comes with some pre-loaded database templates, which can be used to create many kinds of databases like contact databases, expense databases, inventory control databases and others. These templates can help you create a simple database in a matter of minutes and without any prior Microsoft Access training. Every database you create this way will include several tables, which also include various fields such as name, phone number, address, etc. But there are chances that you will have to add custom fields to your company’s tables in order to organize all the needed information properly.

If you want to have more control over this database application, you should consider taking a short Microsoft Access database training. But after reading this article you will learn how to add a couple more tables to your database and make a little more personalized.

But you might ask why not just add some fields to already existing tables. During many Access database courses you will learn that it is much better to create separate tables for every type of information instead of just adding too much of unrelated fields to one table.

So in order to start, you should open MS Access and create a new database by clicking on New and then selecting Blank Database. Give your new file a name and save it in the folder you want. You will see a database window appear in MS Access. Then, click on the New button in this database window and select New Table. The table wizard will appear. You should double click on it and take you time to look through the different table categories. You can select “customers” from the list of sample tables, for example.

Then, pick out the fields you want your customer database to include by selecting the field name and then moving it to the newly created table. If you want to add the field that is not in the field list, you should move one field over that you don’t want in your table, then highlight the field and click the appropriate button to rename the field. Leave the table name as Customers and choose the option so that you could set the primary key. When you are done click Next.

Make sure you leave the option to enter data directly into the table as a default and click Finish. You will see a new table appear with all the selected fields. You can look through the different categories and close the new table. After you close the table by clicking on the red cross in the right corner, you should see the dialogue box you have started with.

You have just created a new custom table by yourself and if this is your first time using the Access database, you might be amazed by how simple it can be done.

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