Filed under: Analysis / View, Odds and ends, Internet Tools, Apple

Fortune has the latest market share figures for December (according to a survey by Net Applications), and it’s good news all around for Apple– Mac systems jumped from a 6.8 share to 7.3, a 7.35% increase. Which is actually nothing compared to the iPhone, which jumped 33%, or even the Playstation, which jumped 50%.

Wait a minute, the Playstation? Where are they getting these numbers from? Apparently Net Applications gets these figures by monitoring browser information from sites tracking their hits through their products (of which Hitslink is one). So a jump for “Mac” systems doesn’t mean a jump in sales figures, or even ownership– all it means is that more people whose browsers reported them as Macs visited Hitslink sites in December than in November. And more people whose browsers reported them as the iPhone did the same. Not quite the definitive numbers they first claim to be, but Net Apps says (of course they would) that these numbers do correspond to trends found by more objective studies.

And as long as they’re firing up the flames on both the OS wars and the gaming platform wars, Net Apps goes ahead and swings for the triple play– they also report that, according to their numbers, the map of people reporting as Mac owners corresponds extremely well to the blue sections of the red/blue maps of the last US elections. Um, yeah– we’re not touching that one. You guys can fight it out in the comments.

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Hooray it’s the eighth year of the 21st century! Let’s begin 2008 the right way by following our New Year’s Freelancing Resolution!

It’s a new (if somewhat arbitrary) beginning, and Contract Worker has a lot of content on starting things. You can either click on this link to see them or just visit http://contract-worker.com/search/begin. Enjoy!

I really do advocate you sit back and relax for today; tomorrow is when we’ll get back into business. Happy New Year!

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The New Year’s Eve is the last chance for us to come up with our own freelancing New Year’s resolution. You probably already have a resolution for your personal life; I’m speaking about one covering your career as a contract worker.

I, for one, resolve to use technology to my advantage, and be less of a slave to it. I resolve to take advantage of the fact that I have the ability to schedule articles for publication on Contract Worker, instead of taking time away from my friends and family to work on December 31 (thankfully, this article is pre-scheduled). Of course, such a resolution will require superior foresight. Absolutely understanding how to maximize technology requires the formulation of long-term plans and the willingness to stick to them.

Not surprisingly, coming up with New Year’s resolutions for your freelancing career is not that different than coming up with other kinds of resolutions. It as “easy” as coming up with specific goals and the concrete steps required to accomplish them.

So, what’s you’re freelancing New Year’s resolution? (Inspired by FreelanceSwitch)

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