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The case study done by Faber Novel tells you how and why was Apple able to beat Microsoft and Google. See the growth chart below, in 2000 no one would ever had thought that Apple can grow so fast and even think of competing Microsoft or Google. “When you first start off trying to solve a problem, the first solutions you come up with are very complex, and most people stop there. But if you keep going, […] you can often times arrive at some very elegant and simple solutions.” Steve Jobs1 At Apple Inc, they talk about Vision, Focus and Goal. Vision: Apple identifies needs and use cases to make decisions about function and technologies. Focus: Drops 20 % of non-required functionality to perfectly design 80 % of key user needs. Goal: Attention to details leads to excellence in user experience. MacMasters would soon be releasing the case study which will give you more sight on this topic. This 50 page pdf file would help you understand the power behind Apple's success. 1 Q&A:

Sometimes while connecting to a server, you may get  a prompt of Kerberos log in failed. Kerberos is a "single sign on" technology in Mac for the convenience of the users. Next time if yu get this error then have a look at the clock on your Mac. It might be incorrect and hence creating this issue. So now as you are aware of the root cause, you can fic it yourself. Though it is easy for you to change the time ion your Mac, but if in case you face any issue while setting up time and date, please drop a mail at Laeeq.Humam@MacMasters.net

Time Machine: Smartest Application in Mac OS X. What Apple states it: " Time Machine is a backup utility, not an archival utility, it is not intended as offline storage. Time Machine captures the most recent state of your data on your disk. As snapshots age, they are prioritized progressively lower compared to your more recent ones." Using simple words, it can be stated as an application to back up files on your machine on the same or an external hard drive (USB or Firewire ), which later on can be used to retrieve deleted or lost files. When time machine starts it copies each and every file leaving the caches on your machine to the selected drive, which you can call as back up drive. It copies all the files in it original state without compressing it, so that when required it could turn your Mac in its original state. Time Machine keeps backing up files at regular intervals after the first back up that is termed as incremental backup, while doing this 'incremental/foll