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An extended water cooler chat with Jerry, Sam, and Joe, discussing issues facing new ACN members, featuring tips from seasoned pros.
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- Gary Hustwit, director of the Helvetica and Objectified documentaries tweeted that the correct pronunciation of Helvetica Neue is "noya"
- Command-Control-power "Have you tried restarting?" first generation shirts funded!
- hybrid Managed Services offerings; Joe\'s "Tech Checkup", Sam\'s "Wellness Visits"; Jerry\'s offering periodic monthly maintenance to check backups, check disks, run updates; discounted rate when paying for six or twelve months in advance
- the advantages of sporting an Apple logo onsite and in public; whether or not to\\xa0advertise on your car; great sources for logo merchandise aside from the ACN-direct options: Zuse,\\xa0Queensboro
- Apple Professional Services; operating as an arm of Apple; how to get involved with APS? face time with Apple, building a reputation over time
- Francois Daumard, formerly heading up Mobile Technology Competency at Apple in the Apple Consultants Network, left Apple a couple of weeks ago to join\\xa0Fiberlink, sellers of MaaS360, a cloud-based Mobile Device Management (MDM) solution
- Apple Remote Desktop frustrations;\\xa0Jerry coins a phrase for dealing with the\\xa0black screen of doom: "cleaning the windshield"
"There\'s just these big black chunks of blocks and you have to open up a new Finder window and drag it around to have it\\xa0clean the windshield." \\u2013 Jerry
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