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Opening
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Opening Music
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Music is "Say Anything" by Manda and the Marbles
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Band's MySpace page
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Sponsor
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Faronics
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DeepFreeze
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Good for any shared computing environment even the home.
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Protect the system from young users while not restricting access to persistent storage.
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You define what gets protected.
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Many hotels, schools, government organizations use DeepFreeze
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Trials available
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News
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Verizon iPhone
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Available February 10th
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Specs
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Pretty much the same iPhone 4 with CDMA support
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No SIM and moved antenna gaps
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Mum on data plans and pricing
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Will support "hotspot" feature
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Concenus is that the added "gap" in the antenna design fixes the issues
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Spencer Webb, AntennaSys
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Speculates a top and bottom antenna and software to switch between them to maintain best signal
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Verizion's network actually "requires" dual antennas
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Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and GPS antenna may have moved inside the case
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May be supported by the leaked video with what seemed to be an internal gap in the main frame above the home button?
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AT&T hasn't made fans
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Remember when something 30% of reported new iPhone purchasers were also new to AT&T?
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A December (pre-announcement) Changewave survey shows 16% of AT&T customers will move to Verizon if they had the iPhone
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26% if they already owned an iPhone on AT&T (41% of those said they'd switch in the first 3 months).
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Does the new vPhone have a short lifespan?
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Replaced in June or not?
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I still don't think Apple will do an LTE phone this year.
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Next Gen iPad and iPhone rumors
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New CPU
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According to Engadget the "A8" based on a Dual Core ARM Cortex A-9
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There is also a single core version of the A-9. Dual core may require more power effecting battery.
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New GPU. PowerVR SGX543 from Imagination Technologies
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iOS 4.3 Beta shows driver bundle reference for SGX543
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Apple in 2009 upped it's holdings in Imagination Technologies to 9%
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The current iPhone A4 chip have older PowerVR SGX535 GPU which was also in the 3GS
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The new chips are OpenCL-capable and can reportedly generate 1080HD video without breaking a sweat.
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Move to GSM/CDMA/ baseban from Qualcomm
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No LTE yet
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iPad updates
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Higher resolution display
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Not "retina", but packing more pixel density
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quadruple resolution to 2048x1536, 260ppi indicated by new higer res graphics versions of the iBooks app
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Bigger speaker
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Front and rear camera
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SD Card slot
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More RAM? (256MB)
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Flat back design with tapered edges
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Beatles sell 5 million songs on iTunes
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According to a report on The Loop
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The iTunes Store recently exceeded 5 millions Beatles songs and 1 million Beatles albums sold worldwide.
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Beatles music went on sale November 16th 2010 and a week later it was announced they had sold 2 million songs and 450,000 albums.
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The iTunes deal for digital Beatles track is exclusive and ends in 2011, but Apple won't confirm a date only saying "expiring in 2011".
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A recent rumor suggest that Apple is paying digital royalties directly to the Beatles rather than to the label.
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Abby Road remains the top selling album and "Here Comes the Sun" the top selling track.
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iOS newspaper subscriptions delayed
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Was reported that we were getting clode to an announcement from NewsCorp and Apple about "the Daily"
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According to "All Things D", the service still needs to be tweaked
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Once launched we will finally have a true subscription model in iOS apps
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European report that Apple's is blocking current attemps to offer paid apps that give free access to paid print subscribers
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New features in iOS 4.3
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Reported features
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New Multi-Touch gestures to the iPad.
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No support the iPhone 3G or iPod touch 2G.
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GSM iPhones will get the Personal Hotspot feature with iOS 4.3 (AT&T is a go).
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FaceTime gets a new icon
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iAds can now display in full-screen.
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Physical screen lock switch option. (Yeah!)
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New Messages alert settings and a new font in notes.
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"Noteworthy" replaces "Chalkboard"
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AirPlay support for some H.264 web video
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Rumored features
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Camera app updated, support for iPad 2?
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Photo Booth to iOS devices
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Supports more powerful graphics processors.
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‘Find my Friends’ feature
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Gestures to replace physical home button
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Feedback, Comments and Commentary
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Time Machine with NAS
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John pointed out that he is using a NAS product just fine with 2 Macs and TimeMachine
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NAS from Synology (model DS209)
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Configuration has a single checkbox to enable the feature.
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I looked into this further based on John's email
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There are many NAS products that claim to be Time Machine Compatible
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Drobo, Synology, QNAP, etc.
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Apple doesn't offically support back to NAS other than TimeCapsule
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Even on a supported NAS check the requirements
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Need to enable AFP
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Typically need to format the whole device or at least a share (disk image?) as HFS+
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Some only allow one TM AFP share, so if using with multiple Macs adust size accordingly
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If you need a larger share, may need to recreate which means re-formatting. If your sharing the TM share this could be an issue.
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How I set up Time Machine
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Go through what I backup and how I set it up
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Reminder about adding exclusions when adding new externals
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Additional options when you hold the 'Option' key and click menubar icon
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Verify Backups for Time Capsule-based Time Machine backups
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Browse other Time Machine Disks
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Create new 'Empty' album in iPhoto '11
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OK, this one has been annoying me to no end and an email from David prompted me to look into it.
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Choosing New Album (Command+N) in iPhoto results in a new album with whatever items are selected in iPhoto at the time
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This includes if you have entire Albums, Events, or even the entire Library selected.
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Same goes for using the new 'Create' button in the "lower" menu bar.
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The fix is to hold the 'Shift' key
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Then the menu becomes 'New Empty Album'
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Command+Shift+N
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Doesn't seem to work when using the 'Create' menu bar button
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Seems similar to the change Apple made in the Finder. Command+N = 'New Finder Window' instead of new folder. Have to remember the "shift" since Apple "shifted" it on us.
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Physical control for iPod Touch
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Play comment from Greg
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I don't think you'll damage the iPod
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Don't need to slide to unlock. Double tap from lock screen to bting up iPod controls.
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Use the iPod Touch headphones with the in-line controls.
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Can get 3rd party adapters with controls
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Griffin Smart Talk adapter
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Could get an dedicated iPod Shuffle
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Dock hacks
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I've done a couple "What's in your Dock" member episodes
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Ken told me about a cool utility called "Deeper" from Titanium Software (Onyx)
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Uses PLIST hacks to enable or disable hidden features.
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enable
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Ken mentions "invisible" spacers, but go over options.
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Keyboard control dock
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Control+F3 to focus on Dock
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Arrows or Tabs to move selection
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Spacebar to select or open
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Up arrow to bring up menu, including options.
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Stacks have roll over highlighting in 'grid view'
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Closing
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Podcast Marketplace
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Thanks to my sponsors
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Circus Ponies
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Smile
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Faronics, Deep Freeze
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Keep emails coming. Audio comments.
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281-622-4269 or 281-Mac-I-Am-9
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PLEASE LEAVE YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS
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MacCast Forum
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Follow me on Twitter
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New Music
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"Shine" by Kevin Reeves
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From Music Alley
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Artist's site
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