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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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Circus Ponies
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Notebook
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Back to school. Perfect time to pick up this app
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Take course notes, plan schedules
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Audio annotation to record lecture and sync time points up with your notes.
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Latest update is Lion compatible.
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Demos available
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News
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Rumors on the next iPhone(s)
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Still jumping back and forth between an iPhone and iPhone 4 rumor
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Now the iPhone 4 update is said to be a less expensive version to compete with lower priced smartphone from Apple's competitors
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Rumored pictures from a Vietnamese website who has had legit pictures in the past .
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Shows a white model with the glass panels replaced with cheaper plastic ones
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I see no reason for Apple to do this. Their old method of selling the last gen model at the budget price works very well
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Rumors of iPhone 5 release in early September or October
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AT&T Store vacation freeze and memos to expect a busy schedule in September
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Newer rumors that the next iPhone will drop in October
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Confirmed upcoming AT&T data throttling for heavy users starting in the first week of October.
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On current and new "unlimited" plans
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Verizon (February 2011) and Virgin have similar policies. Slow speed once you go over a cap (256Kbps download)
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Virgin's plan goes into effect in October also and also coincides with a price increase on their unlimited data plans
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Also rumored that AT&T will re-price their phone insurance policies that same week
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The plan changes lead to speculation of new hardware soon after.
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New hardware changes:
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Reported by the Wall Street journal, Bloomberg, and This is my next.
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Slightly larger. 5 inches tall by 2.8" wide to accommodate slightly larger screen
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Off set that by having tapered edges and being thinner. Think more like the iPad 2
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Possible a metal back? Not sure how they resolve antenna issues? Maybe behind the front glass and using logo like on the iMac?
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Mute switch moved to opposite side
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iPhone 4 price drops
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Rumors that Radio Shack and Target will be lowering US prices $30.00
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16GB iPhone 4 for $169.99 and the 32GB model to $269.99
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iPhone 3GS is also rumored to be dropping to $19.99
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All prices are based on signing up for a 2 year service contract.
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iPad 3 rumors
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Maybe or maybe not in the Fall
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Not surprising. A recent study of 1,400 tablet customers by IHS (iSupply) showed the iPad with a 79% market share.
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When I see tablets almost exclusively iPads
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Nook is also common and reports have said only a sub $300 tablet could unseat Apple's dominance
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As an interesting contrast:
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In Smartphones Android is reported to have a 48% of global smartphone shipments. With Apple clocking in 19%, seems far behind, but…
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That 19% tops the handset shipments and Apple own almost 2/3rds of the global smartphone profits.
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Pegatron has been chosen as the new manufacturer or added as a second manufacturer to Foxconn depending on which rumor you'd like to believe.
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Rumor is that Pegatron simply outbid Foxconn for the new contract.
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With the new plant in Brazil and other huge demand I would believe it's more likely Apple added Pegatron.
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Major component supplies seem to be remaining the same.
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Lion freezes on wake from sleep
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An issue I have read about and heard from some of you
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Seems to be a bug related to video playback and sleep on 2011 iMacs mainly
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Some Macbook Pro users have reported issues as well.
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Need to hard reboot via the power key
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Not related to Flash.
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New Thunderbolt controller in Macbook Air
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iFixit has revealed that the new Macbook Airs have a different version of the Thunderbolt controller chip
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Called "Eagle Ridge" it's about half the size of the big brother "Light ridge" chip used in Macbook Pros and iMacs
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The smaller chip is believed to also be cheaper so might bode well for adoption in cheaper PCs and 3rd party devices
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The overall performance is said to be about the same. There are two versions, but the smaller form factor one has:
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Only two bi-directional 10Gbps channels vs. four
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Supports only 1 DisplayPort output channel vs. two.
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Apple TV update
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Now at version 4.3
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Purchase TV shows through Apple TV, stored in cloud.
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Streams purchased TV shows, including access to all shows purchased through the iTunes even if deleted off your Mac
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Vimeo support
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Cloud icon shows items stored in cloud.
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TUAW readers note some of their TV purchase history is still missing. Hopefully just roll out issues.
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Can now also redownload purchased TV shows in iTunes
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New "Purchased" category in the TV Shows section of the iTunes Store.
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Likely US only?
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New terms and conditions for iTunes
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Apple TVs also seem to be selling better
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Apple shipped approximately 480,000 Apple TV in the second quarter which is a 70% year over year growth.
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Contrast that with reports this week from Logitech that their Google TV based Revue box is said to have returns rates exceeding sales.
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I think the Roku set top box is out selling even the Apple TV though.
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Concord Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo doesn't see Apple updating the hardware this year though
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Resurface the Apple HDTV rumors
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Analyst Trip Chowdhry with Global Equities Research told his investors Apple plans an HDTV for release in March
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Claims 3 sizes and price points
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I said on WHC that I think if anything Apple may license Apple TV technology for integration in 3rd party sets, but even that is a stretch.
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iTunes longer song previews go International
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Wow, that only took forever. Gotta love the music industry.
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Reports that the longer 90 second iTunes song previews are now available in United Kingdom, Ireland, France, Australia, Mexico, The Netherlands, Italy, Sweden, Luxembourg, Denmark, Switzerland, New Zealand, and Canada.
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The delay is likely because Apple has to do deals in each country they want to roll out the feature in.
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Feedback, Comments and Commentary
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Hide mail pane in Lion
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Mail.app in OS X Lion has a new layout and I thought it was like iOS where the message Mail pane was always visible and there was nothing you could do about it.
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Trouble is that means after deleting an item in my inbox it would automatically jump up to the next item
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Causes the message to be displayed and marked as read
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Could alert a SPAM sender that I read the message validating my email address
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In Classic layout
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3rd pane at the bottom has the divider bar with the "dot" that you can use to resize or hide the pane
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You can go back to classic view in Lion. Mail-->Preferences-->Viewing (tab)
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Check 'Use classic layout'
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Turns out you can hide the 3rd pane in the same with the new layout, it just doesn't have that divider bar and dot.
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If you hover over the line at the left edge of the message pane you'll see you get the "line double arrow" cursor icon indicating you CAN resize the pane
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A double click in that are does indeed collapse the pane and when it's collapsed at the far right edge it now has the bar and little resizing dot.
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Thanks to Macroundtable listener Jim for pointing this out. Now I can scan through and delete messages in Mail using the new view without it marking messages I don't want read as read.
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The Applization of OS X
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Consumerfication. simplification, "dumbing down"? A lot of power users aren't happy with some of the things Apple is doing to the OS
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OS X Lion Server is getting a lot of flack for this. So is Final Cut X. Apple did it to iMovie and Quicktime X
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Things like hiding the Library folder from Users
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It's a hard change for use geeks and power users, we are going to have to learn the tricks to get our power tools and functionality back, but isn't that the point?
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We will do that, but Apple's changes help not us, but those who just want stuff that works
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I truly believe this is why the iPad is such a success and why Apple's competitors just don't get it.
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I for one am trying to see the value in doing things the "Apple way"
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Often time my experience become better and more productive by doing this
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iPhoto, iMovies, Time Machine
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Letting these tools manage my data and stuff for me and not trying to tweak them
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There are great tools for power users, but if you don't know what your doing they can get you into trouble
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I mentioned using Spotlight as my application launcher
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Great tools out there like Alfred, Quicksilver, and Launchbar
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Spotlight does what I need and it's built-in, so why add extra stuff to my system that I may not use? Just because a power users says I should?
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More and more we need to be making "experience" based technology decisions, not "geek" based ones
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We can get lost in making a better and better tool and forget to actually use the tool we have to make stuff.
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Sometime good enough is enough.
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You can fight it or embrace it, but it's happening
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If you don't like it then more and more Apple seems to be willing to show you the door.
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Lion Steve "catchphrase" Easter egg
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Pointed out by Cult of Mac piece
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There is a new profile image of a vinyl record
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If you look closely at the track titles on the label they are classic Steve Jobs catchphrases from his keynotes
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1. Magic 2. Revolution 3. Boom! 4. Unbelievable
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You can see for yourself
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1) Go to the main Library folder off the root of your hard drive
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2) Navigate to 'User Pictures'-->'Instruments' and select the 'Turntable.tif' file
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3) Open in Preview or use Quicklook to view the image
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Apple has had similar Easter Eggs on icon in the past
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The TextEdit icon features the "Here's to the Crazy Ones" ad copy
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Podcast Publisher
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"Using Podcast Publisher, you can record videos of yourself, your computer display, or a narrated screen recording and organize these into unique podcasts."
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It's in 'Applications'-->'Utilities'-->'Podcast Publisher'
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Single window interface. Click the "New Podcast" to create a new show
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Gives a "cork board" interface to add new episodes "click post-it".
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By default it adds a 'Movie' episode, but you can also choose an "Audio" one from the main Podcast screen
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Movie Mode
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Toggle at the bottom to capture iSight video or your desktop
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Give a 3,2,1 count down
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After recording you can trim the episode.
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No advanced editing that I could see
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No separate audio track
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Share options
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iTunes, Mail, Desktop
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Generates a MOV file. H.264 video and AAC 44.1Kbps stereo audio
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Also send to Podcast Library or Remote Workflow (???)
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Podcast Library on OS X Lion Server
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"Podcast Library in Lion Server provides a centralized location for hosting and publishing podcasts uploaded from Podcast Publisher. Podcast Library provides long-term storage for content and automatically generates the appropriate RSS feeds based on the podcast and episode names, title, and metadata provided by Podcast Publisher".
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Other things you can do
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Get Info on a podcast to enter metadata including: title, description, album art, categories, keyword, etc. (Click 'Show Advanced')
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Edit and add episode metadata
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Click the pushpin in the main interface to access 'Get Info' on an episode
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Can also delete an episode
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Manage multiple podcasts
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Import media from file menu or media browser
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Import shows from an existing URL (podcast RSS Feed)
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Data is stored in the 'Podcast Publisher Library' file in ~/Library/Application Support/Podcast Publisher
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Show package contents.
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'Collections' folder contains podcasts and the episodes are .ite (iTunes Extras) files (like Movie extras)?
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There isn't much functionality here, but it's 1.0 and the fact that it seem to be building on iTunes Extras has some potential
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Builds on my theory that Apple plans to offer content creators a beginning to end creation, publishing, and distribution solution
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View Dock in full screen apps
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Tip via Macworld
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Move your cursor to all the way to the edge of your screen that has the dock
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Move the cursor again in the same direction and the Dock will pop-up.
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Cool.
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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. 5.0 released with Lion compatibility
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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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EOL: iPad Head Girl
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Strange marketing campaign by Hurst publishing for a new iPad only Men's Cosmo magazine replaces a girls head with iPads.
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