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Apple Announces Red Friday Sale On January 6, To Celebrate the Lunar New Year [News]

Posted on 04 January 2012. Tags: Announces, Apple, Celebrate, Friday, January, Lunar, News, Sale, year

class="align-right" src="http://main.makeuseoflimited.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/apple-logo.jpg?323f2c" alt="" />Do you live in China, Taiwan, Thailand, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore or the Philippines? Do you find yourself jealous of Apple’s crazy Black Friday sales which you never get to enjoy? Well, Apple is thinking of you! On January 6, Apple will hold a “ href="http://store.apple.com/hk/browse/lunar_new_year">Red Friday” sale for the Lunar New Year. The sale will be held for one day only, and will feature “amazing iPad, iPod, and Mac gifts for everyone.”

Red Friday is similar to Black Friday in that you don’t get to know what the actual sales prices will be in advance. So if you’re in one of these countries, and you’re looking for an Apple bargain to start the Year of the Dragon, head over to your country’s Apple store on Friday, January 6, and see what kinds of deals you can find. On top of the obvious iPads and iPods, this might also include a range of accessories, gadgets and software.

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Apple has been launching more and more promotions in the Asian market, and it seems that they’re trying to get this market on par with their booming success in North America and Europe.

What do you think? Will a special sale like this prompt you to buy Apple’s products for the first time?

Source: href="http://www.tuaw.com/2012/01/03/apple-to-offer-lunar-new-year-sale-on-january-6/" rel="nofollow">TUAW

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Find Lots More Free Apps With Apps On Sale Lite [Mac]

Posted on 23 July 2011. Tags: Apps, Find, Free, LITE, Lots, More, Sale

class="align-right" src="http://main.makeuseoflimited.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/appsonlineicon_1.png?54167" alt="mac apps on sale" />Although there are pros and cons about Apple’s App Store, it’s still ten times easier to go there and discover new applications, displayed like a new clothing line in a storefront window. The App Store makes it easy to not only find Mac apps but also to download, manage, and add your purchased downloads to your other Macs. There’s no individual licenses to keep up with, and you can update all your app purchases from within the store.

Plus, there are always several dozen free apps that you can download, simply by clicking on the “Top Free” section of the App Store main page. However, don’t stop there. If you download class="vt-p" href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/apps-on-sale-lite/id448002467?mt=12">Apps On Sale Lite, you can discover existing App Store applications that have been marked down, from a few dollars to completely FREE.

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Apps On Sale Features

Apps On Sale Lite has a similar user interface to the official App Store. It first presents apps by categories, and from there you can choose to have it display both paid and free apps, or display them separately. Either way, Apps On Sale presents significant savings while introducing you to new apps.

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One of the best features of Apps On Sale that is not found in Apple’s App Store is the ability to “favorite” apps for later viewing and purchasing.

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You can view information about selected apps from within the Apps On Sale store, but when you go to purchase and download the app, you will be taken to the official App Store app where you can access your account.

Some Current Free Gems

At the time of this writing, Apps On Sale contained some 60 paid Mac apps marked down to FREE. Let’s take a look at a few of the useful ones.

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class="vt-p" href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/smilebook/id433599571?mt=12">SmileBook

SmileBook is a nifty little image collector that you can access from your menu bar. The app’s single sheet interface pops from the top-right corner of your desktop, and from there you can select and drag photos to the yellow folder where they can be retrieved later.

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SmileBook is not a completely developed app by a long shot, but for the price of free it’s a good one to download.

class="vt-p" href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/smartstop/id445668263?mt=12">SmartStop

If you’re an iPhone user, you will know that when you pull the headphone cable from the socket, the audio stops immediately. Well, SmartStop creates this same function for the Mac, but it goes a step further.

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When you plug your headphones back into your computer, it will start your music or other audio back up – that is, if you enable it to do so.

class="vt-p" href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/appydays/id428240257?mt=12">AppyDays

Oddly enough, AppyDays is similar to Apps On Sale. Both apps downloaded the same marked down Mac apps, but the AppyDays shopping feature includes apps, on sale and for free, for the iPhone and the iPad.

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Many app developers cut the prices of their apps for several days or just several hours, so how long these apps will remain free is beyond me to know; but I’m sure that when you shop in Apps On Sale Lite, or AppyDays, you will discover even more free apps and selections to fit your needs and wants.

For other MUO articles about the App Store and other free apps, start with these posts:

class="l vt-p" href="http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/10-free-productivity-apps-apple-app-store/" target="_top">10 Free Productivity Apps In The New class="l vt-p" href="http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/10-free-productivity-apps-apple-app-store/" target="_top">Mac App Store
class="l vt-p" href="http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/3-free-games-mac-app-store-mac/" target="_top">The 3 Best Free Games On The Mac App Store [Mac]
class="l vt-p" href="http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/twitter-mac-apple-app-store-mac/" target="_top">Twitter for Mac and the New Apple App Store [Mac]

If you find any other free useful apps using Apps On Sale, let us know about them in the comments.

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48-hour Fire Sale: 360Amigo System Speedup PRO and Returnil System Safe 2011 for $15

Posted on 05 February 2011. Tags: 2011, 360Amigo, 48hour, Fire, Returnil, safe, Sale, Speedup, System

style="border: 0px none;margin-left:20px;float:right;" src="http://main.makeuseoflimited.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/mini3.jpg" />For the next 48 hours only, 360Amigo System Speedup PRO and Returnil System Safe 2011 (worth $60 together) are available as a bundle for only $15. Purchasing this bundle automatically enters you into the lucky draws to win a 250 GB ioSafe Rugged Portable and a license for Nitro PDF Professional worth $99.99.

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Evaluating a Point of Sale System Hardware Before Purchasing

Posted on 30 August 2010. Tags: Before, Evaluating, Hardware, Point, Purchasing, Sale, System

The basic POS systems you may see on a typical retail establishment consists of a cash register (with or without a built in cash drawer), monitor, receipt printers, and an input device. It can also be a touch screen monitors, programmable keyboards, or scanners and handheld devices for inputting data into the POS system.

Touch Screens: With its flexible user interfaces and programming, many restaurants prefer to use touch screens. With this type of POS hardware, an employee can easily set orders and cancel an order within a second. It can also reduce mistypes and accelerate ordering. Aside from that, touch screens are easier to position in any counter and even uses less electricity, although, they can be more prone to breakdowns.

Handheld devices: Restaurant PDAs are handheld devices, commonly wireless, that transmits data back to its base station. You can use the newer version, which is the write-on handhelds that allows you to write information such as the orders and directly sends the order to the kitchen! This type of device perfectly fit when up-selling customers of desserts or drinks. Your employee can either roam their tables or take orders from customers waiting in line.

POS keyboards: Most grocery and convenient stores prefer to use this type of POS hardware because it allows them to program individual keys for specific item codes and prices. A standard keyboard consists of 101-key, which can be seen with any computer. Other have built-in magnetic stripe readers for processing credit cards, others are small and flat, like what we usually see in fast food outlets.

Scanners: This useful piece of electronic device that reads bar codes, converts and inputs its details to a POS system computer. This device fastens transactions and provide accurate data on products or services being purchased by a customer. POS scanners connects through Y-connectors called wedges that make them function as an extension of the keyboard.

Volume of customers: For different volume of customers, using different types of scanners can be very helpful. If the line has several customers, your staff can easily use a CCD scanner or entry-level laser scanner. If the line is loaded with customers, then an autosensing laser scanners would be better. This type of scanner turns on when an item is placed in front of it, scans its code, and then turn off again. But if the counter line is overflowing with customers, then you’re staff could really use the help of an omnidirectional scanner, where it can scan a bar code from any angle with its 15 or 20 lasers simultaneously!

Other Restaurant Hardware To Consider

Cash drawers: Used to store cash, checks, gift certificates and other important papers. When buying a cash drawer, look for a sturdy construction of at least 18-gauge steel, don’t just buy one because your local supplier tells you that it’s the best or simply because it looks fancy. Go for the most reliable cash drawer since the usable life of cash drawers are measured, you also have to make surer that you can replace rollers, bearings, and other parts. A typical cash drawer opens only when it is signaled by the POS printer.

POS printers: Every retail business owner has them, every POS system needs one of course! A POS printer is needed for printing a receipt and create credit card slips. There are two types of POS printers, the dot matrix printer and the thermal printer. The dot matrix printer uses ribbons and regular paper to print. On the other hand, Thermal printers are slightly expensive than the dot matrix printers because they are more reliable, they have less moving parts, faster and quieter when printing.

Customer displays: A customer display or pole display lets your customers view the price of the item they’re about to purchase, and can sometimes be used to support advertising. Just make sure that your customer display has the right height and width to perfectly fit in to your counter table, as well as it’s compatibility with your POS software.

Check readers: If you don’t have one, I suggest getting one now. This device helps you be preventing check fraud by verifying essential account information, saving you tons of profit.

Magnetic stripe readers: A simple piece of POS hardware that is used to read credit cards. For added convenience, look for POS keyboards and touch screens that has a built-in magnetic strip reader, so you don’t have to buy a separate one.

Fingerprint readers: This type of POS equipment can be used to limit which staff can access a POS terminal. It is typically used by employees to log on to their designated stations.

Keep in mind when purchasing a restaurant POS system, hardawre or software, you have to make sure that you review their details first. It doesn’t matter how expensive or cheap a POS equipment is, consider the environment where you’re going to use it. Regular cleaning keeps your keyboards and touch screens in top shape, vacuuming dust and lubing your receipt printer can extend its life and maintaining an over all clean workstation can help protect your POS terminal from dust and spills. You can always request for a FREE POS system quote online where local vendors will provide you competitive price lists on any type of POS terminal your business needs.

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Point of Sale Hardware

Posted on 03 July 2010. Tags: Hardware, Point, Sale

Every Point of sale system has some pos peripherals. Some of the mandatory peripherals includes computer system, receipt printer, cash drawer, barcode scanners, and customer pole display. Computer terminals with operating systems like Windows or Linux are essential to map the software into Windows or Java and to integrate it with the peripheral devices. Receipt printers for retail outlets and hotels come with cash drawer ports and both the printers and the cash drawers share a single port with the PC, leaving other PC ports free for other peripherals of the POS system. Barcode scanners read product information from the price tag or barcode of the products and feed the information into the computer, which then processes it and prints it. The scanners and readers are usually wedges in point-of-sale keyboards, USB port or serial port of the computer.

Docket printer could be dot matrix or impact printers or thermal docket printers. Dot matrix printers are slow but economical and uses bond paper and ink ribbon for printing, whereas thermal printer only need thermal paper roll and it prints with heat (Similar to old fax machines). Thermal printing fades after few months, whereas docket printed by impact printer will remain for longer duration

Barcode scanner could be a handheld scanner or desktop (Bench) scanner or a cordless scanner. Handheld scanner also comes with intellistand whereas users do not have to press the trigger if scanner gun is kept on the stand. When any item with barcode is passed in front of the scanner, it sends the light to the barcode and scans or read the items barcode.
There are CCD scanner and Laser scanner. CCD scanners more economical than laser scanner. With CCD scanner you will have to bring the barcode very close to scanner, whereas laser scanner can read the barcode from a distance of 5-10 cm.

The entire business will run much more smoothly, as the entire system is amalgamated with inventory management System. As a result customers need not wait in long queues at cash counter.
Now it is quite clear that both customers and retailers get benefits from POS systems. Retailers can provide improved and quick service to the customers, manage the inventory efficiently and run their retail business very smoothly. While selecting a POS system, it is advisable to consult an expert POS vendor who can suggest you the best POS system which suites your requirement and, helps you to run your retail business efficiently.

There are some POS vendors who offer you a complete solution i.e. Pos hardware, software, and support for installation etc. It suggested that you buy your hardware thru POS vendor rather than your computer company. Reason for this is that not all the computer companies know this specialized industry. POS equipment also need special configuration to go with your computer. If you do not know sometimes you can waste hours of time trying to configure yourself.

Some of the known POS peripheral manufacturers are IBM, NCR, Javelin, Posiflex, Motorola, Metrologic, Datalogic, and HHP etc.

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Apple Announces Red Friday Sale On January 6, To Celebrate the Lunar New Year [News]

Find Lots More Free Apps With Apps On Sale Lite [Mac]

Apps On Sale Features

Some Current Free Gems

class="vt-p" href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/smilebook/id433599571?mt=12">SmileBook

class="vt-p" href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/smartstop/id445668263?mt=12">SmartStop

class="vt-p" href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/appydays/id428240257?mt=12">AppyDays

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