Apple Updates

Compatibility Update for QuickTime 7.

"delivers increased compatibility with iLife,"

Keyboard Software Update 1.2

For aluminum keyboard

Install this software to take advantage of your aluminum Apple Keyboard's special features.

They were working fine for me before, so?

Apple releases Logic Studio

Logic Pro 8 featuring a redesigned interface

Introduces MainStage, an innovative new live performance application

includes SoundTrack Pro 2

Studio Instruments and Studio Effects, 80 plug-ins like vintage compressors and amp models.

Studio Sound Library. 18,000 Apple Loops, 2400 channel strip settings, and 1300 sampled instruments

USD$499

iPhone unlocking continues

iPhone dev team releases free iPhone unlock, iUnlock and a hacker, Erica Sadun, has been developing a GUi for it. The hack requires Jailbraking the iPhone.

iPhone Dev Team

The MacNN piece notes, as I have stated. While DCMA allows unlocking phones, other steps in the process may be illegal

2 other commercial solutions. IPhone SIM Free and Uniquiephones

Listener Guido's (German) experience with 2 iPhone SIM Free vendors.

Horrible instructions and software he paid $70 dollars or more for only to be referred to the free hack.

Shooby has pretty clear instructions on how he used iUnlock on his site

shoobysaysthings.com

iPod Touch available now

Listener Luis says he picked his up at an Apple Store in Florida today.

The Apple Store still say ship date is by September 28th, but Macworld has confirmed that several Apple Stores have at least the 16GB units.

iT does have and support the WiFi iTunes Store, no update of the iPhone yet.

Secretive Apple UK Press event

MacFormat received an email invite to an Apple press conference to be held September 18th at the companies Regent Street Apple Store.

The email is titled, "Mum is no longer the word".

Finally announcing the iPhone? Rumors of 3G support for Euro launch.

I would figure they would do it at a larger venue like Apple Expo in Paris, France September 25th-29th..

Possibly Beatles on iTunes with an in store performance? They have had some major acts there with the "Live from London" series.

Circus Ponies

NoteBook

Replacement for paper. Clippings integrate with web browser and other apps via the services menu. Easily send items to your notebook for later review.

Great way to get thoughts, ideas, and research organized. Try it and see for yourself, free 30-day trial.

Circus Ponies Notebook

Free Screencast Online tutorial in episode Episode 0096 on 4/30/07.

SCO - Notebook Tutorial

I am a new iPhone owner

Guess I helped put the over a million early. ;)

Relay switching experience and how I left Verizon

How I got out of my contract without paying ETFs.

Impressions of the iPhone

Mail is killer for me

Camera is disappointing

EDGE is SLOW, but works in a pinch.

3rd Party apps, with Installer.app?

Will I hack mine?

Apple says they will remain neutral

Creating Ringtones for free

Apple added ringtones this week for USD$0.99, but you can make your own for free.

Find your audio. Unprotected AAC, MP3 Wave, etc.

Edit it down. Up to 30 seconds. Fission or Audacity. Add fade in or fade out.

Fission

Save it out as an AAC audio file, I use 128kbps 44.1 KHz and add a .m4r extension.

Add the file to your iTunes library.

Select iPhone from Devices. Choose the ringtone tab, check the new ringtone and hit sync (or just sync iPhone). You will get an error that the ringtone cannot be syncd'

Go to your iTunes Music folder-->Ringtones folder and locat the file. Change the extension from .m4r to .m4a

Go back to iTunes and sync the iPhone.

On iphone go to Settings-->Sounds-->Ringtones

Enjoy your new ringtone.

Apps to make the adding ringtones process easier

MakeiPhoneRingtone from Rogue Amoeba - FREE

MakeiPhoneRingtone

iToner from Ambrosia - USD$15.00

iToner

iPod Touch vs. iPhone

Here's a list of what the iPod Touch is missing:

No Email

No Google Maps

Limited Calendar ("add events" function disabled)

No Microphone

No External Speaker

No Bluetooth (for headphones)

No Camera

Here is what it has:

Double the storage at same price

No AT&T contract with the iPod Touch

Can activate the iPhone and then cancel. Have 30 days to do so, but will be liable for the activation charges and other charges before you cancel. If you cancel in 3 days or less can get activation fees back.

"I have something to say…" Apple EU Perspective

Play conversation with Peter about Apple experience in Europe

Play comment from Marc on pricing differences

UK store is now displaying the price before VAT below the regular price.

Why the 10% to 15% difference? Import costs? US iPods come from China anyway

Recovering Finder Sidebar Icons

Listener Kin "poofed" his iDisk icon and wondered how to get it back.

Reconnect to iDisk using the "Go" menu and drag the icon back to the sidebar.

Go to Finder-->Preferences. Click on Sidebar tab and check the checkboxes next to the items you want.

Broken stock icons

If you re-name, move, or deleted any of your standard home folder items, like Music, Movies, Documents, etc.

Put the items back or restore the names and then log out and log back in (restart)

Photobooth Mini Review

Play review

Dock organiztion and tricks

Add folders to right side for:

Application launcher

Download folder

"In" Box, to keep items off the desktop

Categorize your apps

Productivity (Mail, Address Book, iCal, iSync)

Web (MarsEdit, Net News Wire, Transmit, Firefox, Safari)

iLife (iPhoto, iMovie, GarageBand, iTunes)

Communications (iChat, Skype, MSN Messenger, Pownce, Twitteriffic)

Development (Feeder, OmniOutliner, TextMate, Dreamweaver, CSSEdit)

Dock dividers

Dock Dividers

Listener Malcom told me about these. Icons that look like little dividers. have a .app extension so they will go in the left side of the dock.

Status apps

You can find lots of little apps (docklings), that do cool stuff or display useful information

DockStar, lets you get unread counts for different email accounts in Apple Mail

DockStar

Monitor system stats, clocks, control volume, etc.

Control click reveals hidden powers

ITunes, set song rating, next, previous, mute, etc.

Question: Audio Recording and iPod Syncing

Play questions from Matt

Audio recording on the Mac

Quicktime Pro, worth the $30. File--> New Audio Recording

Audacity, free

audacity.sourceforge.net

Audio Recorder, Free

Audio Recorder

Voice Candy, USD$12.95. Can change your voice. PhotoBooth for your voice.

Voice Candy

iPod recorders

Feature enabled when you attach hardware to the dock connector

Products from Belkin (TuneTalk) and XtremeMac (MicroMemo)

44.1KHz 16-bit MP3s, sync to iTunes.

Syncing iPods Between 2 Macs

Manually Manage the iPod and drag stuff onto it from each Machine. Except for purchases you can't get content back off. Add and delete only.

Sync on one. Then check the Manually manage when on the other machine to add stuff. Then uncheck it when back on the first machine to restore syncing.

Will wipe out content added from second system

Enable disk use, put copies in there as well, add them to the library on the first machine before syncing again.

Holding 'Option' at launch let's you set up multiple libraries.