MacCast 03.16.2009 - Show #259
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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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Mandaandthemarbles.com
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Sponsor
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Smile on My Mac
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PDFPen Pro, now has continuous scrolling
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Can use as your default PDF app
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Free trails available, enter "maccast" for where you heard about Smile.
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News
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Mac netbook rumors gaining strength
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From the Dow Jones Newswire via a piece on Electonista
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Taiwan's Wintek Corp is producing 9.7 to 10" touchscreens
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Quanta Computer will do the assembly
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I have doubt's Apple offering would be a sub $500 "netbook".
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Name will not be Macbook Touch, maybe Macbook Mini, but even that sounds lame. An not iTouch please. That just sounds dirty.
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Apple release talking iPod Shuffle
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The 3rd gen Shuffle
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4GB in Silver or Black for USD $79.00
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Almost half the size of the previous model. 1.8 inches tall by 0.3 inches thin.
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Headphone to USB dongle cable for docking and charging.
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No playback controls on the device, uses an in-line controller on the ear-buds.
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Has switch for power and shuffle mode.
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VoiceOver control of songs and playlists with multiple language support. Also status information like battery life.
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Controls
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Standard: Volume up, Play/Pause, and volume down
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Click and hold center button to hear artist and track info in Voice Over
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Double click center button for next track, triple click for previous track
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Double click and hold center button to FF. Triple click and hold center button to RWD.
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Playlist menu
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Click the Center button until you hear a tone, and then release to switch the playlist menu. You'll hear the current playlist, all songs, and then remaining playlists in alphabetical order followed by audiobooks and podcasts.
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You can click + or - to move quickly through the playlist menu.
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When you hear the name of the playlist you want, click to select it.
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Click and hold the center button to exit the playlist menu.
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According to Macworld, Apple says it will allow 3rd party adapters for controls
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iLounge says they have discovered a DRM chip in the headphone control that would prevent 3rd party reverse engineering under the DMCA
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Ensures companies have to license from Apple.
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Boing, Boing confirms there is a chip, but stops short of calling it a DRM chip.
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It's not a DRM chip, but is a a control chip that can be licensed from Apple's "Made for iPod" program.
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iTunes 8.1 released
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Better performance and accessibility when browsing in the Library and on the store
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Improved parental controls
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Party Shuffle is now the iTunes DJ allowing listeners to "vote" to impact playlist. Apple Remote app supported. Welcome message.
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Auto-fill feature link on the Shuffle
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Thanks to Tid-bits
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Have to put iPod in manually manage mode and then select it from the Devices source list to see the auto-fill options at the bottom.
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App Store reviews are now grouped according to version.
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Remote 1.2, adds iTunes DJ voting support.
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Front Row 2.1.7 which “provides improved iTunes 8.1 compatibility.”
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Apple pre announce 8.1 along with features that were missing from the final release.
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Genius for Movie and TV wasn't there. As of midnight Monday it finally appears when you select the Movies or TV libraries, but with a "Sidebar coming soon" message.
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iPhone 3.0 announcement
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Apple has invited the press to a special iPhone 3.0 event on March 17th at 10:00 AM PDT in the Apple Town Hall
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Rumored and wanted features
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MMS picture messaging
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Tethering
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Background processes, possibly limited and user controlled. Notification server?
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Turn by turn GPS, either by Apple or allowed by 3rd party
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Stereo Bluetooth headphone support
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Copy & Paste, Kevin Rose detailed. Double clicking to activate selection quotes with magnifier.
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improved home screen app launcher.
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Apple has extended iPhone Developer's iTunes Connect contracts to July 11, 2009 according to Electronista.
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Sponsor
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Circus Ponies
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Notebook
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Tear out pages in 3.0, so now you can look at one page while working on another
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Free 30 day trial
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Feedback, Comments and Commentary
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More on DIY Mini Upgrades
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Received a ton of feedback on this issue
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Bottom line seems to be this:
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Doing the upgrades yourself will probably not void your entire warranty, but you leave yourself open for having Apple deny any claims.
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Felipe had installed his own memory and had is HD die. Apple replaced the HD under Applecare with the 3rd party RAM still installed.
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Matches my experience with replacing the drive in my iMac (broken temp sensor).
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Case for in bag Macbook protection
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Play comment from Phillip
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Consider in bag protection for your Mac.
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I like Radtech Sleevez, but also consider Zagg Invisible Shield, Speck See-through hard shells.
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Trouble on the Bus
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Scott found a great deal on a $10 USB hub and then discovered that a deal is sometimes a deal breaker
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Can a USB hub cause a kernel panic?
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Some internal devices are on a shared bus.
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Internal keyboard/trackpad, IR receiver, iSight.
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Non-powered, or low power ports and hubs.
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Shorter cables, different cables, different configurations.
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Macworld 2009: Iomega
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Play interview with Iomega
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Using iWork to open Appleworks docs
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A few shows back I had suggested MacLink Plus for conversion
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Paul pointed out a Breen Mac 911 article that notes you can right-click the Appleworks (.cwk) files and look at the "Open with…" option which will list Pages.
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Opens as a RTF document with formatting in place.
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Also works for AppleWorks spreadsheets which will open in Numbers.
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AppleWorks database files have to be saved out as ASCII text and imported into Excel or Numbers and you may lose the column header info.
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Removing duplicates in iPhoto
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iTunes has a nice feature for displaying duplicate tracks, but iPhoto doesn't.
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Steven was looking for an easy way to remove his dupes and we found Duplicate Annihilator which seemed to do the trick.
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Play review
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I would recommend backing up the iPhoto Library file first.
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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, Notebook
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Smile on my Mac
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Audible
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Faronics, Deep Freeze
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Thoughtout.biz
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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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"Rosie" by The Young Dubliners
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Since it's so close to St. Paddy's day I figured another Young Dubs track was in order.
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Catch them on Jimmy Kimmel and buy their new album "Saints and Sinners" on iTunes.
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Bands site
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EOL: When you gotta go, ya gotta...
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A free iPhone app that uses GPS to find the closest bathroom. Includes which ones are open to the public, along with ratings for cleanliness, and other useful info. (via Gizmodo)
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