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Opening Music
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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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Annotation and organization
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Voice
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Tabs and flags
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Sticky notes
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Highlighting
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Multidex
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Creates an instant index
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Words, URLs, Numbers, ToDos (find them no matter which page they are on).
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Updates. Continue to enhance performance and support. Were right there with Lion support even before Lion was released.
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Free trial available
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News
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EFI Firmware updates
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MacBook Air EFI Firmware Update 2.1
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MacBook Air (mid 2011) models.
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Includes fixes that enhance the stability of Lion Recovery from an Internet connection, and resolve issues with Apple Thunderbolt Display compatibility and Thunderbolt Target Disk Mode performance
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Macbook Pro EFI Firmware Update 2.2
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MacBook Pro (early 2011) models
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Enables Lion Recovery from an Internet connection and includes fixes that resolve issues with Apple Thunderbolt Display compatibility and Thunderbolt Target Disk Mode performance
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Mac mini EFI Firmware Update 1.3
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Mac Mini (mid 2011) models
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Includes fixes that enhance the stability of Lion Recovery from an Internet connection, and resolve issues with Apple Thunderbolt Display compatibility and Thunderbolt Target Disk Mode performance
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iMac Graphics anomalies
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Cult of Mac reported on an iMac users having strange graphics and video issues under Lion
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One screen shot shows just the icon in the tabbed switching panel being scrambled
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A restart seems to resolve the issues, at least temporarily.
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Cult of Mac has confirmed that Apple Engineering is aware of the bug and it doesn't seem to be a hardware issue.
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There are reports in the comments of it appearing on other models.
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Apple didn't have a timeline for a fix, but hopefully it can be resolved in a future software update.
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New Macbook Pros this month?
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Electonista has an interesting rumor that Apple may bump Macbook Pro models mid season
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Even though the machines were released in February, they think them might get a speed bump this month
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Reason? Stay competitive with newer PC laptops recently released and because Intel has bumped the Ivy Bridge release back to March or later.
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If Apple waited then the Laptops would go over a year without an update.
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Apple has done mid-season bumps in it's history so the move wouldn't be unprecedented
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I assume it would be a quiet update of just the CPUs
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13-inch MacBook Pros would jump from the dual-core 2.3GHz Core i5 and 2.7GHz Core i7 of today to 2.5GHz and 2.8GHz
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15- and 17-inch MacBook Pros would jump from 2GHz, 2.2GHz, and 2.3GHz quad Core i7s to 2.4GHz, 2.5GHz, and 2.7GHz
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Also wouldn't hurt to juice the sagging Back to School sales and add to Apple's fiscal 1st quarter 2012 numbers
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Apple's sales for the current quarter are strong
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Gene Munster noted the latest NPD numbers indicate Mac sales may be up by 22%
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He expects Macs to sell 4.4 to 4.6 million units in the quarter
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Strong sales attributed to Lion, new Mac Book Air and Mac Mini
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Interestingly he expects the typical end of September slowing in sales resulting in a final quarter year over year unit sales gain of 13%- 18%
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Macs should make up 20% of Apple's revenue for the quarter.
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After Ivy Bridge
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At the Intel Developer Forum Intel disclosed details on the next gen chips codenamed Haswell
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Will also use a 22 nanometer design like Ivy Bridge
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Offer a 30 percent reduction in active power use over a modern Core i5
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Intel claims that it could result in notebooks that run 24 hours on a charge (so we may finally get the 8 hours we are promised on current gen chips. ;) ).
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Airport Express update soon
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AppleInsider is reporting
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They note some authorized resellers as showing the current 802.11n Airport Express as discontinued in their systems
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Also longer shipping lead times at resellers like Amazon
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This is further backed up by a source that claims an AirPort Utility 5.6 update currently in development references that it "Adds support for the AirPort Express 802.11n (2nd Generation) base station".
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Like the update that was quietly done to the Time Capsule and AirPort Extreme in June it's expected the Express will get improved range and performance.
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iPad 2 still dominates tablets
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Despite the rise of Android tablets IDC says Apple gained market share in the second quarter
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The tablet market saw an overall second quarter growth of 88.9 percent over the prior quarter and a year to year increase of 303.8 percent selling 13.6 million units.
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Apple's share for the quarter rose from 65.7 percent in the prior quarter to 68.3 percent in the second quarter.
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By contrast Android's share fell from 34 percent to 26.8 percent.
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I think tablet fragmentation in the Android market isn't helping.
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The negative press isn't helping Apple's competitors
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I think the general public see's iPad and "other tablets"
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Android likely suffers when HP, RIM, and Samsung start taking negative press
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Apple shipped 9.25 million iPads last quarter vs. RIM shipping 490,000 Playbooks (19:1) [Bloomberg]
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According Brazil's Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation new iPads could be shipping out of their Foxconn plant by December
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Will reduce iPad price in Brazil by 40%. They have heavy import tariffs.
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iPhone 5/4s rumor roundup
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Prepaid data plans ripe for 4s
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If you believe there IS a 4s which I didn't until this weekend
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An listing for a white iPhone 4s allegedly appeared in AT&Ts internal systems (Engadget)
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AT&T - 240 minutes, Unlimited messaging, $25/mo
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Virgin - 300 minutes, Unlimited text, unlimited data, $35/mo.
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Verizon - Unlimited voice, text, and data. $50/mo.
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No word on tethering and I believe all these carriers announced at least throttling if not caps on their data plans.
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It's also pure speculation if the iPhone will be supported. Historically it hasn't.
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iPhone 4 shipments from Foxconn slowed down in August (9 to 5)
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iPod Touch shipments are reportedly not slowing.
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Casemate may have leaked iPhone 5 images
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they were quickly pulled, but not before being picked up by my several tech blogs
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If they are accurate the radical new iPhone 5 design is basically the iPod Touch
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Aluminum back, but brushed material like the iPad 2
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Black plastic buttons, oblong like on the Touch.
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AppleCare reps were reportedly being told to expect 8 times increase in iOS call volume starting October 10th
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Could be iOS or iCloud
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Could release iOS 5 on the 10th and follow up with a iPhone lunch on Friday the 14th.
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Some estimates had the release date set to the 7th.
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Sprint getting iPad2 in addition to iPhone 5
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Would also bring Unlimited data plans to iPad 2.
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I'm with this rumor until they say it will be a different model than the Verizon one.
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Sprint and Verizon use CMDA networks.
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Speculation is Sprint's iPad 2 would have 4G WiMax support. (why since sprint already announced they'd be moving to LTE)?
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iPhone 5 demand is highest yet
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RBC analyst Mike Abramsky has numbers from a survey of 2,200 people
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31% said they were likely to buy an iPhone 5. A similar survey done before the iPhone 4 showed just 25% saying they were likely to buy an iPhone 4
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66% of current iPhone owners surveyed said the were likely to buy an iPhone 5
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iMessage coming to iChat
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MacRumors reported that a developer source found references to iMessage in the frameworks of OS X Lion's version of iChat
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The speculation is that when iOS 5 is released with iMessage that support will also be added into iChat.
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This makes a lot of sense
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Would add additional user base (Macs) to the new iMessage platform, which would help adoption rates
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You're conversations could follow you from Mac to mobile.
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Whether it's true or not Apple needs to do something because their messaging strategy is a mess
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iChat - Video, audio, text
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iMessage (Messages) - SMS and new iMessage protocol (text)
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FaceTime - Video calling
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Personally I's like to see all of this rolled up into iMessage across the OS
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Seems like there is not need for 3 apps that have such obvious crossover.
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Could separate text (iMessage, iChat text) and video (FaceTime, iChat video)
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Do a Skype style client that integrates it all.
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Not without its' challenges though
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iChat supports many other protocols (AIM, Jabber, GoogleTalk, Yahoo)
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Feedback, Comments and Commentary
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More on why Apple's upset with Samsung
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Tony pointed out some things that I think make Samsung a bigger target for Apple
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Apple has given 8 Billion dollars of it's business and they may have had more access than others to Apple's internal info
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This makes their "copying" seem more egregious
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Also likely why Apple is moving some contracts away from Samsung as they expire
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As Tony points out it's a similar situation with Google and Eric Schmidt or Andy Rubin.
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You might also make the same argument against Jon Rubinstein and HP and WebOS
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Cleanliness is next to Jobsliness
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Stan points out a bug that seems to have surfaced in the OS X Lion 10.7.1 update
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After a restart icons on the desktop are suddenly rearranged and ordered cleanly on the right side of the screen, despite how you may have arranged them yourself.
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Might be Steve's way of telling you to clean up your desktop, but I doubt it.
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Seems more like something is causing corruption of the desktops hidden .DS_Store file
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To fix:
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Use the Terminal or other app that displays invisible files to remove the corrupted file
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It will automatically rebuild and then you should be able to put everything back and have it stick.
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At this point you may wish to use the Terminal to make a backup of the file, as it seems like the corruption is likely to return.
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You could also write an Automator app to backup and restore the file.
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Apple obviously will need to address this in an update.
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What's in a name? For Apple, a lot.
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Seth Weintraub had a great piece this week on one aspect of Apple's consumer success that often goes overlooked, but is very significant none the less. Naming.
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Apple's naming
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Simple (Mac, iPod, iPhone, iPad, Apple TV)
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No confusing model numbers.
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The iPhone has numbers (3G, 3GS, 4, 4s, 5), but I think it further illustrates the point.
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Has extended to software
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OS X Lion, iLife '11, but in App Store titles are iPhoto, iMovie, GarageBand
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This change happened around the time Jobs returned to Apple
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Remember the Performa naming? Dozens slightly different models with cryptic model numbers. I had a performa 575
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Power Macintosh 6100/7100/8100. In the 7100 line there was also a 7200, 7215, 7220, 7300, 7500, 7600 and they were release sequentially. The 7220 came out after the 7600.
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Apple's competitors use numbers in much the same way
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Cryptic codes that define new models or slight variations in the specs within a line.
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They usually don't go in any kind of rational sequence and usually don't help the consumer make a buying decision
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You have to know the specs behind the code
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After Job's return the products were distilled down to the basic needs and given simple names
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PowerMac, iMac, Powerbook, iBook
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iPod, iPod Shuffle, iPod Nano, iPod Touch
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The philosophy extends to peripherals and accessories too.
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Airport, Airport Extreme, AirPort Express
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Magic Mouse or Magic Trackpad
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Apple often doesn't change the names as the products mature
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Much like people.
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The new iMac is also iMac
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The naming not only simplifies the choices, but also humanizes and personalizes the products to a certain degree
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Seth notes in his piece the subtle distinction that in keynotes Job's refers to products as "iPod" or "iMac", not "the iPod" or "the iMac"
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I know many Apple users who name their devices like pets.
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Apple simplifies not just the products buy the entire buying experience
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Are you Pro or Consumer?
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Portable or Desktop?
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Good, Better, Best?
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You buy based on your needs and not specs
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Competitors would point to this as a disadvantage. Limiting consumer choice.
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Most consumers are overwhelmed by choice though.
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Buying a digital camera or video camera takes days for me to decipher specs and I still often feel I make the wrong choice
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Apple stores are clean, bright, organized, and thought out
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You know where to go to get which product, accessory, or service
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Apple's online iPad buying page was recently changed
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Single page
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White or Black?
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Wi-fi or 3G?
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16GB, 32GB, or 64GB?
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Done. (Well on 3G models, you have to pick your carrier too ;) )
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Cross platform external drives in Lion
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Had a question about doing read/write to NTFS formatted drives using a Mac with Lion
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Macs have long had the ability to read from Windows NTFS formatted drives, but can't natively write to them
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For read write between Macs and PCs FAT 32 is usually the choice, but it has a 4GB size limit. Also not as efficient at storage.
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There are a few commercial product that add read/write NTFS support to the Mac
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Tuxtera NTFS for Mac (USD $34.20) - Lion compatible
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Paragon NTFS for Mac (USD $19.99) - Lion compatible
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Free solution has been to use MacFUSE
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FUSE - Filesystem in User Space, open source project. Basically creates a filesystem in the user space and bridges that to the the kernel interface
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MacFUSE is Google project and is an OS X port of FUSE
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MacFUSE was developed for Leopard and ran under Snow Leopard in 32-bit
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Tuxtera has created a MacFUSE port compatible with Lion FUSE 2.2
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There is also a new branch OSXFUSE
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NTFS-3G from Tuxtera for 10.4 - 10.6
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This does seem to work in Lion, but with errors, even using Tuxtera's Mac FUSE 2.2
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Errors mounting disk and it takes a while to mount.
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Seems to work once mounted
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Options
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Don't upgrade
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Use MacFUSE 2.2 and NTFS-3G, seems dodgy
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Buy a commercial product, pricing seems reasonable if you need this type of functionality
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Best option may be to switch formats
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There is a new version of FAT supported by OS X (10.6.5 and higher) and Windows, exFAT
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Supported by 10.6.5 and 10.7. Windows XP SP 2 (with update), Vista SP1, and Windows 7
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You'll need to backup existing drives, reformat, and restore data
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Doesn't really support Linux
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Thanks to Neil Turner's great article for summarizing all this info
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Mission Control tricks
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Assigning apps to a desktop
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Used to be done in the Spaces System Preferences
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In Lion you use Mission Control and Desktops and the assignment is performed within that Desktop
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Launch the App and use Mission Control to place it on the desired desktop
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You can enter Mission control and drag an app up to the upper right to get the "+" symbol to add a new Desktop
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Go to that Desktop and then Control+Click the icon in the Dock.
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Under Options you'll see 3 choices under 'Assign To'
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Need to have multiple desktops active in Mission Control before the Assign To option appears
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All Desktops - App will appear on every Desktop
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This Desktop - Will always launch into that desktop (i.e. Desktop 2)
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None (default) - Launches to whichever Desktop you are currently in
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Assigning to a Desktop and then removing that Desktop seems to break the link.
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Assign different background to Desktops
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Go to Desktop
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Launch System Preferences --> Desktops & Screen Savers
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Choose your Desktop
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Closing
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Thanks to my sponsors
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