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  Opening Music
    Music is Say Anything by Manda and the Marbles
    Mandaandthemarbles.com
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News
  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
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  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.
    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
  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.
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Feedback, Comments and Commentary
  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.
    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
      iToner from Ambrosia - USD$15.00
  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
      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
        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
      Audio Recorder, Free
      Voice Candy, USD$12.95. Can change your voice. PhotoBooth for your voice.
    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.
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