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News
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Mac OS X Lion developer preview 3
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Features a redesigned login screen and boot animation
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silver-gradient backdrop and new icons across the bottom for sleep mode, restart, and shut down
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New graphical elements in the Finder's toolbar.
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New desktop wallpapers, lion included
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Reading list "eyeglasses" icon in Safari menubar
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9to5 Mac is also reporting that the reading list apparently syncs to iOS devices.
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New Reminders menu in iCal
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Lots of changes in Mission Control
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Now it's an actual app
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can add desktops right from Mission Control by clicking + button
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hovering over desktop thumbnails, magnifies thumbnails
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Nuance Voices in the Speech options.
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Significant because of the rumors of Apple in talks with Nuance to power speech in iOS 5.
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The voices seem to be the same once found in Nuance's RealSpeak Solo.
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Unsure why, but the Preview 3 update was pulled from Software Update reported due to reports of issues from Developers.
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iPhone 5 arriving in September
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details come from a research note from Jeffries & Co. analyst Peter Misek
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dubbed the "iPhone 4S." was Apple's backup plan
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No 4G. Chips don't meet Apple's requirements
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Adding HSPA+ support and launching on Sprint and T-Mobile
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Minor design changes
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A5 processor, like the iPad 2
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8 MP rear camera
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iPhone 5 rumors continue
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Larger screen (3.7"), thinner bezel, edge to edge
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An early iPhone 5 case design showing the flash moved to the opposite corner from the camera.
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Police raided a company making knockoff iPhone 5s in China and they threw out the evidence from 18 stories up.
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New iMac HD not user replaceable
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OWC discovered that replacing the drive will cause the fans to spin out of control
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OWC says Apple replaced the standard 4-pin power configuration to a 7-pin configuration with custom firmware on the drive to monitor temperature
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Removing the drive or moving it from the main bay causes the fans to spin out of control.
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Apple hasn't ever said the HD in an iMac is user serviceable.
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Other bay (SDD)and connectors appear to be fine.
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The developer behind HDD Fan Control said this is a problem that has been present in iMac models since late 2009.
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His software uses the SMART interface to control the fans.
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iPhoto 9.1.3
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fixes a problem that could cause some events merged in iPhoto to be split back into multiple events on iOS devices after being synced.
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iOS 4.3.3 update issues reported
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Some users reporting wi-fi and wireless connectivity issues after the upgrade.
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Connection busy indicator seems to get stuck
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Troubleshooting steps
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Do a hardware reset
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Forget your wireless connection
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Launch the Settings app.
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Tap Wi-Fi.
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Tap the blue circle with the white arrow on the network you want to forget.
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Tap Forget this network.
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Tap Forget
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Reset your network settings
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Launch the Settings app.
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Tap General.
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Tap Reset.
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Tap Reset Network Settings (if prompted enter your PIN).
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Also Apple TV Software Update 4.2.2
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Addresses an issue in which audio is not output when playing some video content.
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Addresses an issue in which video is not displayed when playing some content.
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Adds an audio output setting for switching to 16-bit audio for compatibility with some TVs and AV receivers.
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Improves the performance of fast-forwarding and rewinding live events.
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Addresses an issue in which the description information is not displayed for some movies.
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Addresses an issue in which YouTube subscription videos were not ordered by date.
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OS X Lion iCloud release soon?
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Cult of Mac reporting on an "all hands" retail store meeting scheduled for the morning of May 28th
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Lion is supposed to release "this summer"
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Amazon has stopped sales of Mobile Me. Apple pulled it from retail stores a few months ago.
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Patent trolls trolling indie app developers
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At least two developers, Computer LogicX and James Thomson (pCalc), were hit with the threat of lawsuits
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The infraction, in-app purchase and links to upgrades.
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Thomson isn't saying who sent the letter, but LogicX got theirs from LoadSys who acquired the patent in question from Dan Abelow in 2004
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The patent holder is listed as Ferrara Ethereal, LLC which has been reported to be a shell company for Intellectual Ventures.
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They are giving the developers notice to pay licensing or face a lawsuit.
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Guess is they figure small guys are easier targets than Apple.
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Sponsor
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Circus Ponies
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Great for research, notetaking, planning
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Built-in drawing tools for adding charts and graphs
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Annotate PDFs
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Multi-dex automatically indexes your data in multiple ways making finding stuff easy.
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Feedback, Comments and Commentary
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Evom, alternative video converter
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Keith recommends Evom from Tiny App Factory for doing video conversions
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Free app.
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One window interface
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Drop a video or URL on the window and it will prompt for a destination and format
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AVI, FLV, HTML5, OGG, OGV, MOV, MP3, MP4, MPG WMV
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Low, Medium, High quality
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Set destination to iTunes, iPod, Apple TV, YouTube, or a folder.
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Option to save just audio.
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Not a lot of control, but easy to use.
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Review: OmniOutliner for iPad
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Simple and clean interface
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Collapsing, expanding, indent and outdent, notes, columns, styles
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Customize numbering
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Citation and highlighting styles.
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iDisk and webDAV support, also email.
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Export to OO3, OPML, HTML, TXT
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Features I'd like to see
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Would like some controls for adding a paragraph break
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Row notes do allow for line breaks, an in-app work around could be composing your row in it's note field and then copy and pasting it into the row.
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Controls for splitting a pasted block at the line breaks into outline elements.
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Dropbox syncing
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They are working on this, but want a method for true live syncing in all apps.
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Export to PDF
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Support for "open in" to move to other compatible apps.
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Alternate use for Find my iPhone
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Pete's girlfriend, her brother and father are all currently cycling from Lands End in Cornwall, UK to John O'Groats at the northern tip of the Scottish mainland.
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900 miles over the course of 13 days.
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They are raising money For Meningitis Research.
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They borrowed an iPad 3G and updating their blog with progress from the road.
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Pete is the support vehicle and is using Find My iPhone to track Trudy's iPhone to provide support.
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He has the iPad, so he can toggle between the two devices and quickly track his location relative to theirs.
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In addition they are using a cycling app called Cyclemeter to track the route and stats of the ride. The data can be uploaded to the site and share Google Maps of the progress.
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They are on their 7th day and at about 50% of their £1,000.00 goal.
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Graphic creation apps
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Andrew was looking for some recommendations on apps he could use to create iPhone icons
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He mentioned Photoshop and Pixelmator as more for editing photos, but you can create with those also.
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I think what your thinking of is "drawing apps". Like Illustrator.
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Sketch
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Vector Designer
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Line Form
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Inkscape (Open Source)
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Still will likely use Photoshop to add effects and finish off the design
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Lifehacker tutorial on making an iOS looking icon with Photoshop
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If your not as graphically inclined check out ArtText from BeLight. Free Lite version on App Store
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Geekin' out with Geek Tool
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A system preference pane that lets you place terminal and Apple Script "widgets" on your desktop.
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Can have system monitors, log files, images from URL, web cams, etc.
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Monitor your Twitter feed from the command line
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Install Geek Tool
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Install Python Twitter Tools
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In Terminal type: 'sudo easy_install twitter'
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Then type 'twitter', oAuth and enter the code in the terminal.
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That will create a .twitter_oauth file in your home directory
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Install the Twitter Geeklet
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Set the settings.
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The Twitter Tools Python library gives you abunch of commands you can use in the Terminal. Type 'twitter -h' to see the help.
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Closing
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Podcast Marketplace
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Thanks to my sponsors
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Gazelle
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Circus Ponies
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Smile
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Faronics, Deep Freeze
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Stitcher
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Keep emails coming. Audio comments.
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MacCast Forum
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Follow me on Twitter
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New Music
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"Fallen Down" by Derek Clegg
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Artist's web site
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Off new free Digital Album, "It Seems as Though…"
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Buy on iTunes
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EOL - iBookstore Analog Edition
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Ok it's really meant to be an Victorian Era version of a Kindle, but who's counting. Illustration student Rachel Walsh was tasked with a school project to develop a way to explain the Kindle to Charles Dickens. This is what she came up with.
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