Opening Music

Music is Say Anything by Manda and the Marbles

Mandaandthemarbles.com

www.mandaandthemarbles.com

Circus Ponies

Notebook, free 30 day trial

circusponies.com

Quote from Jim, "This thing goes way beyond a simple notebook. I had no Idea that it was so powerful a tool.
Thanks for turning me on to it. I love it."

Screencasts Online #0096

Notebook Screencast

3.0 will be out in Q2 of 2008 (so soon) and if you buy now (after 1/1/08) you get a free upgrade.

Case of the missing iPhones

Reports all over the Applesphere of Apple stores sold out of iPhones

Listener reports of outrages in NYC, Washington DC, and Michigan

Rumors from "Asian" sources that Apple has placed orders 10 million 3G phones. OLED display to conserve power.

Reports Kevin Rose said there would be a front facing video cam for chat and June release date.

Some reports that Apple has stepped up orders for high-capacity Flash (4GB) modules from Hynix and Samsung.

Gene Munster predicts sales of 45 million iPhones in 2009

Lower prices, 3G

Apple sales up in down market

A Changewave report covered by ArsTechnica

Apple on track to sell 2 million Macs this quarter, better than the 1.5 milion for the same period last year

About 30% surveyed said they are considering a Mac notebook purchase

Another Changewave survey of 2,200 corporate users shows Leopard users are the most satisfied.

3% of those using Leopard reported they were very satisfied with their operating system, compared to only 40% of Windows XP and just 8% of Vista users.

Safari 3.1 and Webkit rocked the ACID test

Webikit has scored a 100 and Safari 3.1 scores 75

ACID3 measures web standards compliance and performance

Webkit is the underlying technology that drives Apple's Safari and Mail web engine

Macbook Air hacked

At the CanSecWest hacking PWN2OWN competition

Macbook Air was hacked and P0wned by Dr. Charlie Miller who also got $10,000 grand to boot

Happened vis a Safari exploit on the 2nd day when they allowed browser access

Dr. Charlie Miller was also the security researched who uncovered iPhone vulnerabilities in mobile Safari back in July.

Apple has been informed of the exploit and details were not revealed

Apple releases v2 of iPhone SDK

Biggest change is that they have now included Interface Builder

Also beta 2 of Xcode 3.1

Apple TV Update 2.0.1

Update includes bug-fixes

Menu performance snappier

Browse movies by genre under “My Movies”

Podcasts now sync back to iTunes

Some reports of Wi-fi issues on N. According to iLounge, problem seems to be related to some 5GHz 802.11n networks; switching to a 2.4GHz network or simply turning off the “Use wide channels” option of Apple’s Airport Extreme Base Station appears to alleviate the problem.

Some followup on music sharing

Play comment from Matt

Google Map Hack for older iPods

If you don't have an iPod Touch or iPhone, listener Jimmy had this trick for Google Maps.

Go to Google Maps and get your directions.

Zoom in and take Screenshots

Load those into iPhoto (create a Maps album)

Sync with iTunes.

CDs with labels are unreliable

Play comment from David.

I would remove the labels with time, patience, and elbow grease

I would avoid any kind of solvents recommended on may sites, like mineral spirits, alcohol, WD-40, GoofOff, lighter fluid, etc.

Even water may be an issue if it spots, or get in the layers.

I would recommend using a direct to CD/DVD printer or a technology like Lightscribe.

Can get direct inkjet label printers for under $100.00

Automator and iCal, the perfect auto scheduling pair.

Steven has to rely on satellite for his connectivity (expensive) and wanted to automate getting his podcasts from between 12:00 AM and 3:00 AM.

In Leopard Automator can be used to create iCal plug-ins.

Save as plug-in for iCal Alarm

In iCal you can schedule events to run the Automator plug-in.

Plug-ins also work for Finder, Script Menu, folder actions, etc.

In previous versions of iCal (Tiger) you could launch apps, including Automator apps.

A great Automator site, Automator World

automatorworld.com

Mac log file maintenance

I thought Since Tiger you really don't need to run these scripts manually. Switched to launchd (Tiger).

Looks like the issue persisted under Tiger, thus Anacron was developed.

Anacron

Now fixed in Leopard. If missed they should pickup and run the next time your Mac is on.

You can still run them manually from the Terminal using 'periodic' (Tiger) or 'newsyslog' (Leopard) commands.

Or use a tool like Onyx or Cocktail.

My experience hacking the AppleTV

Thanks to some thought seeds from Tim Verpoorten I hacked my Apple TV

Applecore LLC aTV Flash - Take 2.0 ($59.95)

aTV Flash

I created my own patchstick using the iClarified instructions

Make an ATV Patchstick

Hacks to add...

Divx, Xvid, Windows Media and other support

Browser with Flesh support

File browsing

SSH

Looks like the 2.0.1 updated will undo my handywork.

My thoughts on Apple refurbished products

I generally like them

Some warnings

Brent had model that was non-standard. iBook G4 933MHz with 80 GB drive (normally had 40GB). May have been upgraded post purchase. Had to have it serviced and Apple replaced his drive back with a 40GB factory drive.

Also heard stories of non-wiped drives making it back out into the wild.