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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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Band's MySpace page
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Sponsor
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Cocoatech
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Path Finder 5
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Drop stack to gather up files and centrailze for archiving.
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Size browser to find large files
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Free trial available
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News
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iPad, the second coming
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DigiTimes reporting that Apple has begun lining up suppliers for the next gen iPad
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Ibiden, Tripod Technology and TTM Technologies will be the initial Printed Circuit Board (PCB) supplier
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Largan Precision as having been selected to provide camera lens modules
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They ship 5-megapixel lens modules for tablet devices and do provide lower rez modules, but those are produced out of house
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Reportedly they will begin shipping parts in December
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More supplies online in February
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Features according to "hit and miss" tech pub
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Retina Display
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Front-facing camera for FaceTime video chat
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A thinner glass panel for a lighter build
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A USB port
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A 3-axis gyroscope
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Digi also reported Apple is ramping up their orders for touchscreens in Q4 of 2010
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Likely to match holiday demand from iPhone 4
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Some want to still speculate it's for a CDMA iPhone.
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Could be also locking up supply for that new iPad due next year.
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iPad sales stay strong
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NPD numbers show 11% of people surveyed plan to buy an iPad by February
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They also looked a usage of current owners
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58% bought a wi-fi only model
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Usage goes up after longer ownership. 15 hours a week in the first 3 months, but 18 hours per week after owning it for 3 months
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37% take on trips, 21% use the device at the office, and 7% use it during a commute
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Apple continues the global iPad assault.
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Just launched in Taiwan, Denmark, Portugal, The Czech Republic, Sweden, Poland, Norway, Hungary, Finland and South Korea. Later this week in Brazil
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Apple Software Updates
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Safari 5
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Boot Camp Update
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for 32 Bit and 64 Bit Windows
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Support for the ATI Radeon HD 5870 graphics card
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Support for Apple USB Ethernet adapter and the MacBook Air SuperDrive
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MacBook Pro EFI Firmware Update 2.0
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Resolves an issues where an attached external display may occasionally would show a purple color cast.
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Macbook Air continue to impress
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Macworld Labs put them up against Windows 7 ultraportables and netbooks
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Tested with an 11" Macbook Air running 1.4GHz processor and 2GB or RAM (against the netbooks) and a 13" Macbook Air running 1.86GHz and 2 GB of RAM (against the ultrportables)
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Ran WorldBench 6 test suite and the games Call of Duty 4 and DiRT 2.
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Not surprising the Macbook Air beat the Netbooks handily likely due to running a full Core 2 Duo processor even though it's clocked down to about the same speed as the netbooks
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The new books came in about 1/2 to 1/3rd the cost of the MBA
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Netbooks also offered about 2 hours better battery life.
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On the ultraportable side things were a little closer
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Performance was as good or better than all but one of the Ultraportables in Macworld's benchmark tests
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Battery life was within 30 minutes of the top Windows ultraportable competitor
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Still the Windows systems came in at about 1/2 to 1/3rd the price tag of the Macbook Air.
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Mac OS 10.6.5 fixes Macbook Air bugs
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Problems with display flickering, fading and discoloration when waking from sleep
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According to Changewave the Air may be responsible for a surge in Apple notebook sales in November
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36% users planning to by a laptop in the next 90 days said they would buy a Mac notebook.
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Up from 25% in October.
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Component suppliers report that Apple should see Macbook shipment hits 1 million units a month in the quarter with 20-25% of those shipments being Macbook Airs.
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Apple "locking" iPhone with torx
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9to5 Mac reported on some serviced iPhone 4 units coming back with their standard "phillips" replaced by torx ones.
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They note that since launch Apple's own images have always shown torx
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Theory is Apple is unhappy with customers swapping plates with aftermarket components and that the more difficult to remove trox may slow stop some customers from messing with the device.
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AppAdvice reported that new iPhone 4 units are coming with torx screws installed.
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Macs still safe from viruses
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For now at least. Cult of Mac has numbers from a report by free anti-virus maker Sophos
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For the 2 weeks beginning in November they looks at 50,000 virus reports from 150,000 users
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The biggest exploit was actually a Windows Media Player exploit that can't harm the Mac
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Second biggest hole was Java exploits
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Another reason why Apple may have canned in-house Java build's in favor of letting Oracle do the updating.
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By getting latest build directly from the source Mac users can stay better up to date with patches.
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There were only 2 Mac specific malware on the list accounting for less than 1% of the total
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They can be avoided by safe browsing habits.
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Extra iOS 4.2.1 goodies
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Launch a FaceTime call via voice control or directly from an SMS
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Support for Bluetooth devices with FaceTime
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Support for ICS files in email attachments
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new Text Tones that can be assigned per contact.
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More HTML 5 support
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Accelerometer and Gyroscope support in the DeviceOrientation API
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Support for WebSockets API
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Printing from Mobile Safari
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iOS 4.1 for Apple TV
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Added AirPlay support
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Added VoiceOver support
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Video support in Photo Albums
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Choose Photos to Share from the Advanced menu in iTunes, and ensure that “Include Videos”
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Fixed playlist sorting and "blue dot" issues
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Displays "unchecked" iTunes items, but they are "grayed out" on the Apple TV
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Security fixes including a FreeType exploit that could allow for arbitrary code execution
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Still no support for iTunes LP or iTunes Extras
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iOS 4.3 here soon
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Rumors are flying that Apple will have a new iOS update ready just 1 month after the release of iOS 4.2.1
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A driving force behind the update may be Rupert Murdoch and News Corp.
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Daring Fireball reported that Apple and News Corp have been working on enable subscription billing and possibly push updates of new content.
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Reportedly to support a new App based daily news ePub called the Daily which would provide access to daily news content for USD $0.99 a week.
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Beatles selling well on iTunes
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9to5 Mac reported on Billboards sales numbers for the first week of Beatles on iTunes
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2 million songs and 450,000 albums
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"Here Comes the Sun" was the top track and "Abbey Road" the top album
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Apple moving into HP's old digs
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According to the San Jose Mercury News Apple has purchased the 98-acre HP campus in Cupertino
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Apple has added 12,300 employees worldwide in the past year and it had been reported room space on the 1 Infinate Loop site was getting tight.
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The site is about 5 minutes away from the main Apple campus and across the street from another 50 acre site that Apple also acquired from HP about 4 years ago.
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Apple still tops in satisfaction
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PC World's reader survey of 79,000 on service and reliability of various tech products and companies
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Apple came out on top by a wide margin in the Desktop, Notebook, and Smartphones categories.
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21% reported issues with PCs that couldn't be resolved, while only 9% of Mac issues were unfixable.
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In notebooks the numbers were 25.6% PC average, and 8% for Apple
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Also customers said Apple laptops need components replaced about as often as other laptops do.
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Still seems like a higher failure percentage for Apple
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Motorola beat out Apple in the Smartphone category
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AT&T service (coverage) still seems to be the sticking point. All seemed generally "meh" at customer service.
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Also a fair number of "out of the box" issues.
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Geniuses help the customer experience
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Even with long waits and some issues I think customers appreciate a personal experience
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I highly recommend Apple's new online site
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Improved support interface
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Express Lane support
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More video tutorials
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Apple data center chief passes away
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Olivier Sanche, global data center director at Apple, died of a heart attack on November 25th (Thanksgiving)
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He came to Apple after working at eBay and AT&T
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He was an advocate for green initiatives and helped construct a data facility in Utah while at eBay that was awarded US Green Building Council had awarded LEED Gold certification.
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The North Carolina Apple Data Center is said to go on-line soon and it's tragic timing for Sanche's passing
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Sponsor
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Circus Ponies
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Notebook
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Multiple uses from one app
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Notes
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Outlines
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research
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To dos and lists
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Annotation (audio, notes, flags, highlighting, stickies)
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Diagrams and org charts with drawing tools.
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If you have it, you'll find a use for it.
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Feedback, Comments and Commentary
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Free Find My iPhone
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Requires an Apple ID (free to create) and an iPhone 4, iPod Touch (3rd gen), or an iPad running iOS 4.2 to sign up for an account.
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Sign up on the device from the 'Mail, Contacts, and Calendar' settings
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Click Add Account-->Mobile Me
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Sign in using an existing Apple ID or you use the 'Create Free Apple ID' button.
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My experience with AirPlay
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So far only seem to work from the Video or iPod apps and YouTube app
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Works OK, but have had some jumping back and forth (starts on Apple TV and jumps back to iPad)
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Surprised that I couldn'couldnt get Safari video to work.
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Assume 3rd party apps are coming? There seem to be mixed opinion on this.
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Reportedly a Jobs email said they plan on opening up 3rd party and Safari support in 2011
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There is already a hack to allow 3rd party apps to play video over AirPlay from jailbroken devices.
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HDCP issue when connected to display that doesn'doesnt support HDCP even on my own videos
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Only an issue when playing from an iOS device?
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Making AirPrint work
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As shipped by Apple it only seems to support the 6 new HP ePrint printers
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Was reportedly support in a beta build of Mac OS 10.6.5 was pulled at the last minute
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An email reportedly from Jobs claims more AirPrint support coming soon.
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9 to 5 Mac has the old CUPS files you need to make it work
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Need to replace 3 system files with the ones from the beta
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Backup first
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AirPrint Hackivator
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Still a hack, but automated and makes backup of old files
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Free
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Or just get one of two 3rd party apps
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Printopia
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FingerPrint
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Moving to your new Mac
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Around this time of year a get a number of questions about how to prepare and move to a new Mac
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Preparation
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Backup, backup again, and then verify your backups.
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Can you boot from one of your backups?
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Up to date, make sure all your software, OS, drivers, firmware, etc. is up to date.
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Inventory your stuff and clean house
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Decide what you want to move, save, and dump
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Archive and clean house
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Gather all your serial numbers and product keys. Get Disks or URLs for software you want to migrate.
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Run repair permissions, clean caches, etc.
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Clean up your "real" desktop. Do you have space to work in.
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What if there are issues with the current set-up?
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3 areas to check
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1) User account. Create a new account and see if those go away.
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If yes, you won't want to migrate your Library folder. Start with a new use on the new set up and just move the (Files and Folders) Documents, Photos, Music, Movies, Sites, etc.
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2) Individual apps
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Consider reinstalling Apps rather than migrating
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3) Hardware
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Kernel panics. Try running with just a mouse and keyboard to see if issues go away
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Change out cables and remove/swap hubs.
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Add one item at a time back into the chain to find the culprit
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Define what your going to migrate
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Based on the assessment you just made
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De-register iTunes!!
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Connect the old Mac
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Firewire cable (if you have it)
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Ethernet (direct or network), can also use wireless.
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USB external drive. Clone or TimeMachine
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Use the Migration Assistant
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If moving from PPC to Intel and moving Apps, drivers, etc. make sure you have upgraded to all Universal Binary
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Post upgrade
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I keep the old machine around for a week or two to make sure I moved everything (1 clone back-up too).
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Re-attach extra hardware. 1 by 1 if you need to troubleshoot.
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Re-establish cloud syncing
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Network setting should have migrated over if you choose that option.
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Mobile Me
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Dropbox
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1Password (in dropbox)
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Re-install apps if you decided not to migrate them
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If you migrated the Library then likely some will already have preferences and registration set.
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Otherwise re-register.
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Time Machine
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You know how they say, "you can't take it with you"?
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Time Machine generally can't append onto an old backup with a new machine.
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One exception is if you use Migration Assistant with your old TM backup to restore the new Machine
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Even then there are some big gottchas
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TM will append the data to the old Time Machine backups, but still does a "full" TM backup of the new system when you activate TM and point it at the old drive
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You will need free disk space on the old TM drive of 120% to accommodate the new data plus overhead. So total TM drive size of at least of 2.2 times your used disk space.
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Even then it will start deleting the oldest data to make room.
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I just start fresh
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I have the migrated data on the new drive, plus a clone.
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I format the old TM drive and start fresh.
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Advantage of cloned backups like SuperDuper is they can pick up where you left off.
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I need a good iPad outliner
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With all the "notes" apps you'd think one would offer good outlining
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Many like Elements and PlainText are nice and sync directly with Dropbox
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Elements
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PlainText (my current favorite)
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Class notes, to-dos and study guides
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Course Notes
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Audio recording
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Audiotorium
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Handwriting recognition
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Guess I need to wait for CircusPonies and OmniGroup
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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
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Smile
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Faronics, Deep Freeze
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Cocoatech, Pathfinder 5
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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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New Music
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"Feliz Navidad" by Darrell Smith
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From Music Alley
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Artist's site
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Buy on iTunes
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EOL: Apple Deconstructionism
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Cool Apple art created via destruction of the products (via TUAW)
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