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Music is Say Anything by Manda and the Marbles
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Mandaandthemarbles.com
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News
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Fifth OS X Beta seeded to devs
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The latest version of Lion 10.7.3 is in developers hands for testing
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Rumors are that this build is either Gold master or close too it
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Developers we asked to test Address Book, iCal, Mail, Spotlight, and Safari.
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Three main fixes we called out in the release docs and include logging in with a smartcard, authenticating with directory services, and finally compatibility with Windows file sharing.
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There is also some speculation that the update contains drivers for upcoming Mac Pros, and support for a future ultra-sharp MacBook Pro display
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With iPad Apple could be largest PC maker
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In looking at the latest traditional numbers Gartner ranks Apple in 3rd in US market share for the 4th quarter with 11.6% of PC sales.
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Apple was the only major PC maker to see positive year over year growth in marketshare. Up almost 21%
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Overall the PC industry as a whole saw a almost a 6% decline in year over year marketshare.
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So what's replacing PCs? How about tablets and smartphones?
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In Q4 sales if you include the iPad Apple almost tied HP to be the top PC maker
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For Q1 analysts estimates on iPad sales average around 14 million. Mac sales for the same period are expected to reach around 5 million.
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If you count iPads as PCs the Apple's Q1 global PC market share is estimated to be 17.6 percent with HP taking the #2 spot at 13 percent.
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Latest on the iPad 3
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Imagination Technologies was on hand at CES showing off its next gen GPUs
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The PowerVR G6200 and G6400 GPU are the first in their new Power VR Series6 GPU family
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The company claims the new chips offer up to a 20 times performance boost and are 5 times more efficient.
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Apple is a major share holder in Imagination and we could see their new graphics tech alongside the A6 in the ipad 3
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The display is still expected to be a XQGA (2048×1536) panel, but Sharp might be out as a supplier as one report says they failed initial shipment test
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Samsung and LG have already reportedly begun full production and estimated to ship 6 to 7 million panels this quarter.
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Both Foxconn and Pegatron are reportedly handling assembly.
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Target to get Apple Store in Stores
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Target confirmed to will pilot 25 stores with Apple Mini stores I would assume much like the Best Buy Stores
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At Target it's actually part of a larger "The Shops at Target" program.
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They will start with 5 specialty stores in May. The Candy Store, Cos Bar, Polka Dog Bakery, Privet House, and The Webster.
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No word on when and where the 25 Apple "pop-up" stores would appear. But according to AppleInsider Apple plans locations at Target where they wouldn't themselves be able to support an official Apple Store.
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Using Photostream to find lost iPad
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While shopping at a Tesco store in the Sussex area a man left behind his iPad
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He figured it was lost for good until he noticed images showing up in his iCloud Photostream that were not his and obviously coming in from the device
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There was a dog, some pink suitcases, and a guy in a hat (assumed to be an acquaintance of the person who has the iPad)
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So, some great evidence but unfortunately the Location services had been turned off on the Photos, so no GPS.
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Doesn't sound like this time it will be recovered through Photostream, but how long until we have the first case where one is?
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Also makes me wonder why Find my iPhone wasn't turned on also.
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Apple NYC EDucation event
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Scheduled to be held at the Guggenheim on the 19th
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Expected to be an announcement related to textbooks and education
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At least one source says Apple has been working with McGraw-Hill since June
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Also, one of the biggest publishers of textbooks for higher education is rumored be attending the event
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There were some parts in the Steve Jobs bio about how he wanted to shake up textbooks on the iPad
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Including giving them away for free to get past state certification of textbooks which slows adoption of new textbooks ink schools.
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I think iPad textbooks offer some advantages, but bring their own new challenges.
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Apple needs to set up for publishers with better tools for creating ebook
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ArsTechnica says this Thursday's announcement will reveal just such a tool calling it a "GarageBand for eBooks"
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The announcement may include support for the EPUB 3 standard, enabling a wider variety of multimedia and interaction features that
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No hardware is expected, although some have speculated about a lower cost 7inch education only iPad.
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Sponsor
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Hover
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I had been hearing good things about Hover for a while, but hadn't tried them yet.
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I had a domain up for renewal, so I decided to try a transfer.
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It couldn't have been easier and was just $10.00 including the first year of registration.
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Clean interface, great help through the process, and no heavy up-sell or add-on charges. Domain privacy and locking was built in.
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The control panel is also very clean
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Focused on domains and that's it.
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Seem new, but they are part of Tucows, so they have been in the domain game since the beginning.
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Feedback, Comments and Commentary
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Apple total media domination
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Cult of Mac's Mike Elgan has a great piece that summarizes many of the ideas that I share about how Apple plans to disrupt media
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See traditionally content generation, distribution, and consumption were all different parts of the media chain controlled by different players.
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Apple likes to do things differently though. They make a little profit on all sides
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Hardware, software, content
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Their 30% is the part they make on that last bit
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It's all about control of the entire chain from creation to consumption.
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Music is the BETA, now they want print and video (TV and Movies)
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The fight will be tougher this time and music wasn't easy
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The lynchpin will be removing the middlemen, a difficult task, but possible
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We have already seen Netflix, Hulu and even podcasting with networks like Revision 3 and TwiT start the process.
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On the book side there are more an more authors self publishing eBooks, but marketing and distribution is still a challenge something Apple and Amazon are uniquely positioned to provide.
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If Apple can deliver the distribution system, they can (and will have to) deliver tools to make it easy for creators and publishers to get content into the channel.
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Something I think they already started to do with video in looking to change the Final Cut process and workflow.
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They still have obvious work to do on the book side and on the pushing of content into the iTunes Store, but they have a lot of experience doing this type of thing with Music and Apps.
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The upcoming publishing announcement is probably where we will get the first glimpse of Apple's strategy when it comes to a self publishing platform.
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Where I diverge from Elgan is that I don't believe Apple will offer a low cost 7” tablet to compete with the Fire. Unless it might be an EDU only product.
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The one part Elgan is really right about is that the first announcement will include the book publishers. In my opinion though, it's a deal with the devil (Apple being the Devil). The end game is to cut them out completely.
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Replacing iDisk
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Sarah, like many of us, has come to rely on Apple's iDisk to keep documents and file in sync between Macs, PCs, and iOS devices.
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On June 30th iDisk will cease to exist and be replaced by Documents in the Cloud, which is at best at the moment a "sudo" substitute.
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Until third party apps, and even Apple own iWork, fully integrate Documents in the Cloud, what is a replacement?
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I think the key for an integrated cloud based document solution is integration across all your platforms and at the moment the best solution we have is Dropbox
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in many ways it's better than iCloud because it already has tight integration with many popular apps
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Seamless syncing and versioning.
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An iOS app and you can use the 'Open in…' option from the action button to shuffle documents in and out for those apps that don't have built in integration
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Cost and storage are about the only two limiting factors and those are minor
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You do get 2GB for free vs. the 5GB from iCloud
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You can pay $99.00/yr. to get 50GB of storage.
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Some other ways that I access cloud storage
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CrashPlan
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Round-tripping through GoodReader to Dropbox for upload.
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Mail attachment and Outlook issues
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Ian was having an issue where suddenly attachments sent from Apple Mail to an Exchange Server were no longer working
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There is a know issue with PDF attachments sent from Apple Mail to a Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 with Update Rollup 3 for Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 3 (SP3) to an Microsoft Outlook 2010 client.
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Very specific, but possible in Ian's case as he was sending PDFs to an Exchange 2007 Server from Apple Mail.
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It does bring up the bigger conversation of Mail attachments and opens the discussion fro tips and tricks.
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One often cause of confusion is just simple how different clients display and access attachments
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Mail does it by default in-line and will try to display know formats like Images and PDFs.
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Can Save them by dragging out of the Mail Window, Click 'Save' (saves to download folder), Click 'Save' and select 'Save All…' to bring up Save dialog, File > Save Attachments…
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Attachments are also saved to ~/Library/Mail Downloads
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On Windows clients it may be totally different
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Images may be in-line or not depending on settings
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In Outlook Express 6, attachments other than images are under the "paper clip" icon in the preview pane or under 'Attachments' in the header if you open the message
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File extensions are often critical for Windows
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In OS X you can confirm if you filenames have extensions by changing the Finder preferences
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Finder > Preferences > Advanced
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Uncheck the 'Show all filename extensions'
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If the file doesn't have an extension you may consider adding one
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The JPG vs JPEG issue.
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Mail also has several options you can use for better compatibility
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The first is the 'Send Windows Friendly Attachments' checkbox at the bottom of the Open Dialog when your adding attachments in Mail
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Secondly you can use the Edit > Attachments > Insert attachments at end of message option
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Apple has a support article that says 10.5 and 10.6 can have an issue sending Attachments to Exchange if you don't use this option.
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You have to set this each time you compose a message
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Can use a terminal PLIST hack to set it permanently, but that causes some issue, like inability to attach vCards.
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defaults write com.apple.mail DisableInlineAttachmentViewing -bool yes
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Finally. Right+Click and choose 'Show a Icon' for inline supported formats. May still be processed as inline on the receiving side though
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Forcing the issue
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If all else fails I generally create a ZIP and send my attachment that way
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A little more work on the receiving side, but both OS X and Windows handle ZIP natively pretty well
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Select multiple files or a folder in the Finder, Control+Click and choose the 'Compress' option. Creates an Archive.zip file next to the selected items. You can rename that and attach it to your email
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Use a Mail add-on
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I can vouch for it, but Attachment Tamer from Lokiware claims to address a number of cross client attachment issues
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Claims to:
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display (and print) images, PDFs, audio and video as icons with an optional file size limit and exceptions;
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send messages compatible with Microsoft Outlook, Exchange and other software, preventing the superfluous “ATT0001” attachments;
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send images as regular attachments, making it easier for the recipient to manipulate the image files;
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send images embedded in HTML layout and safely mix embedded images with other attachments;
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display full attachment names regardless of length instead of truncated names;
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prevent unwanted image resizing or set a default size for automatic image resizing.
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Windows on the iPad
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OnLive released OnLive Desktop for iPad
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basically give you a free virtualized Windows 7 Desktop environment on their servers
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You get 2GB of storage for free
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Access to Office 10 apps. Word, Excel, and Powerpoint
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Has pretty good touch controls and Ink support (handwriting to text). Uses Microsoft Touch Pack for Windows 7
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Windows Media Player, Stick Notes, Windows Journal, Microsoft Surface Collage, etc.
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Performance over y Wi-fi was surprisingly good.
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Documents need to be access via a web interface (like iWork), but they say they are working on Mac, Windows, TV, and Android clients.
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Closing
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Thanks to my sponsors
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Faronics, Deep Freeze. 5.0 released with Lion compatibility
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Smile
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EOL: To the Bat-pad
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Checkout this awesome home-grown turbine powered Batmobile with integrated Bat-iPad.
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