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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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Faronics
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DeepFreeze
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Good for any shared computing environment even the home.
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Protect the system from young users while not restricting access to persistent storage.
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You define what gets protected.
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Many hotels, schools, government organizations use DeepFreeze
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Trials available
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News
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OS 10.6.6 and the Mac App Store
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Beyond the App Store it includes:
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Addresses a cropping issue with some postscript printing in landscape page orientation.
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Resolves an issue with some Macs (that have in ATI graphics card) in which the mouse pointer movement could become erratic if an external DVI display is connected.
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After running the update new App Store icon added to Dock
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Replaces ''Mac OS X Software…" link in the Apple Menu
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New "App Store…" link
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Old page still on Apple's site
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Software update (in System Preferences) doesn't notify of App Updates. Those are done using the "Updates" view at the top of the App Store window.
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Other items from the AppStore
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Log-in with AppleID (iTunes, or MobileMe account)
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Updated Terms and Conditions
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If you get an "Error 100" it's related, quit and relaunch the App Store App, or iTunes, or the Mac
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Parental controls to block or restrict downloads based on ratings
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Background "Store Helper" app to keep track of things (updates, purchases, etc).
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Dialog with new "Search App Store" button when a file extension is not recognized
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9to5 points out the feature is similar to one on Windows that searches the web for know apps that support specific file types.
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First impressions
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"Jump down to dock" animation
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Get a progress bar and icon in dock when downloading
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Leaves icon in dock and set's it to 'Keep in Dock'
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Does "see" apps installed prior to update
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May need to update the app to latest version outside App Store first
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Launch app after update?
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As pointed out by "Cult of Mac" uninstall by trashing now requires entering admin credentials even if logged into an admin account
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Apps seem to be installed as root:wheel
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Pricing
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Are we going to see another "race to the bottom"?
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Apple lowered Aperture and Apple Remote Desktop to $79.99 ($199 and $299 before)
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iLife apps are $14.99 ea. (iWeb and iDVD not there) and iWork Apps for $19.99/ea.
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Pixelmator $29.99 ($59.99 online)
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"Any Mac you own" license
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Burden is on developers to use "receipt checking" to prevent piracy
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Uses UUID of Mac to check purchases
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CDMA iPhone soon?
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DigiTimes reports Apple upped Q1 iPhone orders to 20-21 million units
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5-6 million units being CDMA models shipping to the US and Asia-Pacific regions
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Is a rumor and consider the source
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Also Apple's Q4 shipments are estimated at 15.5 million, so 20 million units would be aggressive considering the iPhone 5 is likely due this summer.
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Unconfirmed report of Apple Store vacation "freeze" for 3 weeks beginning at the end of January (Boy Genius Report)
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AT&T and Apple dropped the price of the iPhone 3GS to $49.00 with 2 year contract
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Leaked iPhone parts
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A couple sources are showing off what are reportedly new iPhone parts
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Verizon or iPhone 5?
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Most significant change seems to be new placement of the external antenna dividing lines
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The one on the top of the iPhone 4 has been repositioned to the left side just above the mute switch.
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Gives it a more symmetric look
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Also internally on the middle plate there is a new metal band just above the home button.
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Changes could be for new antenna system for CDMA or to deal with antenna issues?
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Rumored features of next gen iPad
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Dual-core processor. Likely using a dual core 1GHz ARM Cortex A9 design matching upcoming tablets from Motorola and Blackberry according to Rodman & Renshaw analyst Ashok Kumar.
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Dual cores would allow better performance and support for better multi-tasking, but might effect battery.
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CDMA support (DigiTimes)
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Redesigned rear speaker, volume buttons
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Thinner bezel, thinner body, tapered edges, flat back
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Front and rear cameras
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Better anti-smudge and anti-glare screen
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512MB of RAM
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6G iPod Nano Hack
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iLounge has word of hack James Whelton of nanohack.me getting past the devices cache comparison routines to allow him to remove an app icon
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Developer points out it's not yet a jailbreak but could lead to one.
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For now he was just able to:
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Boot iPod with modified files
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Remove apps from springboard and insert blank space
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Cherokee language support in iOS 4.1
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iOS supports over 50 language keyboards
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Cherokee was actually added in 4.1
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The Cherokee Nation is working to fight the loss of their spoken and written language.
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Only about 8,000 of the 290,000 members of the tribe still speak the native dialect
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The hope is that the support on devices like the iPhone and iPod Touch will make it available to a generation growing up with technology.
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More new Apple Support Features
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Added Support Profiles
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View all products, repair history, find self service articles
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Phone numbers and SMS if you want support to TXT you?
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Register and assign "nicknames" to your registered product
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Intel's next gen Mac chips?
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CES has kicked off and Intel wasted no time making big claims about it's next gen chip designs
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Codenamed Sandy Bridge there will be 29 different chips running up to 800% faster than current generation Core 2 Duo designs. 60% faster than the current Core i7 chips in the iMac
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Intel might be overstating things expect 10-50% real world performanceperforce bump over current gen.
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Key features
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4 cores and an integrated on-die GPU
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32 nanometer
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sips power
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Some iLife and iWork Updates
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GarageBand 6.0.1
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improves overall stability, and addresses compatibility and a number of other minor issues
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Fixes an issue related to undoing Flex Time edits
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Removes occasional latency that can occur on guitar tracks
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Restores ability to use the Quantize Note Timing menu for tracks with Groove Matching
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iMovie 9.0.1
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improves stability and fixes other minor issues
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Fixes an issue where stabilization would not be applied correctly to some video clips from iPhone and iPod touch.
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Fixes an issue that prevented use of some valid Facebook passwords that contained non-alphanumeric characters.
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Improves compatibility with some cameras that create content in multiple formats.
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Improves performance when scrolling the Project Library.
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iWork 9.0.5
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Adds support for playback of Keynote presentations on iWork.com public beta, with over 15 animations and effects, when using the latest version of Safari.
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Adds support for Keynote Remote 1.2, including high-resolution slides for the Retina display.
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Addresses an issue in Keynote with ruler numbers when moving or resizing a shape or scrolling.
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Addresses an issue when exporting a Keynote presentation to iTunes/iPod when iTunes 10 is installed.
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Improves the readability of ePub documents exported from Pages.
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Includes public sharing and private upload document sharing options for iWork.com to Keynote, Pages, and Numbers.
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Studios play with exclusive iTunes Extras
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Sony has at least 3 titles that have extra content exclusive to the iTunes versions
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The Other Guys, Salt, and Resident Evil: Afterlife
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Search the script for dialog, direct sharing of select clips on social media sites, add a soundtrack playlist to iTunes (previews only).
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Until they get the better pricing and long term storage issues resolved I think direct video downloads are going to be a bust.
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Feedback, Comments and Commentary
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Dock connector products finally making the rounds?
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CES has begun and beyond 80 iPhone tablet competitor, iPad 2 cases, iPhone cases, iPod watch bands there are 2 exciting things
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iPod Dock connected hardware and software integration
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Part of the iPhone OS 3 announcement
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Tivizen over the air DTV receiver and free app
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Withings Blood Pressure monitor. Also iHealth.
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AirPlay supported hardware
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Encrypting TimeMachine Backups
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Using sparse images
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PGP Whole Disk Encryption
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FileVault
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Works, but Time Machine will only run when you are logged out of your account
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Backing up a NAS
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Steven has a DLink NAS drive that he is now storing his iPhoto and iTunes libraries on, but TM won't backup from a NAS
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Possible solutions
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Manually copy
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Could be scripted
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Rsync
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Requires some heavy terminal mojo
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Also SSH and remote login
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Bombitch has more info and how to build rSync 3 on the Mac
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Carbon Copy Cloner
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Uses similar techniques to rsync
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provides a tool to install the authentication
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Still need to enable remote login
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Backs-up to a sparseimage bundle
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Won't allow backup to the OS X boot drive
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Can be automated
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File Syncing app
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I like ChronoSync
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Can also do backup and bootable clones.
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Automount volume on start-up
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Select the Volume from the 'Shared' category in the Finder
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Click the 'Connect As…' button and enter your username and password for the remote volume.
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Make sure to check the "Remember this password in my keychain" if you don't want to be prompted each time you reboot
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With the volume connected, go to System Preferences-->Accounts and select your account
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Click on the 'Login Items' tab and in that pane click the 'plus' button to add a new item.
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Select the volume or network folder you want to auto mount at start-up and click add.
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Exit the System Preferences
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Now when you reboot the volume should automatically connect.
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Alternative Mac Cloud syncing
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Play comment from Bob
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Partition to separate TM and file storage
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SugarSync
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Box.net
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Selective cloud and Time Machine backup
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Anything that is able to be recovered in another way may not need to be included
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CDs that you have originals, Apps that can be re-downloaded or re-installed
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iPhoto '11 scrolling issues
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Justin mentioned having issues with jittery or slow scrolling after upgrading to 9.1.1
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I've had this issue since iPhoto '11 (9.0) came out.
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My library isn't that large at around 7,500 images
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I tried re-building the Library
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Hold Command+Option while launching iPhoto
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Several choices
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I choose 'Repair the iPhoto Library Database', 'Rebuild the photos' small thumbnails', 'Rebuild all of the photo's thumbnails (this may take a while)', and 'Examine and repair iPhoto Library permissions'.
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'This may take a while' translated into over 2.5 hours
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Result? Seems a little faster, but not much.
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Adjusting the 'Zoom' size to be larger and display fewer previews (thumbnails) on the screen at a time seems to improve scrolling performance
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Performance seems to be the same on most newer Intel Macs i'v tried regardless of the size of the Library
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Seems to be more of a rendering issue than a disk access or CPU/GPU issue?
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Seems to cache, jump, and catch-up if that makes sense
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Unless someone has a magic fix, this may be a "wait for Apple to fix" issue.
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iPhoto Sorting Fix
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May or may not be a fix, but worked for at least one listener
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Noticed new events imported from his camera weren't showing up properly when sorted by date in iPhoto '11
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Normally you have the option to sort by date or title and then can start to move things giving you a manual sort view.
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You can then switch between the 3
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For some reason it was like the manual sort was causing some events to "stick" in position even when the view was set to By Date.
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Fixed by going to View-->Sort Events-->Reset Manual Sort
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You will lose any previous manual sorting so be aware.
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Mac beeps at shutdown
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Play question from Kyle
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Mac Power On Self Test (POST) tones
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Typically happen at startup and if your Mac has a Power light LED that may flash
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1 tone usually means RAM not installed. 3 tones typically RAM doesn'doesnt pass integrity checks
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Re-seat RAm
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Upgrade firmware tone
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One long tone when power button is held down during startup
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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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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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"Christmas is here" by Number One Fan
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From Music Alley
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Buy on iTunes
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EOL: Jobs iMosaic
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Really cool image of Jobs made from thousands of images of Apple and iProducts
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