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News
  Euro iPhone Launch reaction a mixed bag
    T-Mobile claims it was a success, exceeding expectations and selling tens of thousands of units.
      Deutsche Telekom, CEO Rene Obermann said holiday demand could exceed supply.
    Business week is reporting that O2 is not offering business plans for the phones, which is slowing sales.
    According to an ArsTechnica report, O2 claims having 8,000 iPhone activations by the close of business on Friday. Despite reports of issues will the activation servers. CNN Money reports "tens of thousands" of phones sold.
    O2 claims it is the fastest selling device in their history and one report predicts they will sell 400,000 by the end of the holiday season.
    Many UK sources are saying it's just too expensive. Not used to the pricey phone, pricey contract double whammy.
      The iPhone runs UK buyers £269 (about US$550)
    China and Canada could be next
      Rumors are flying that Rogers could have the iPhone out early in 2008
      China Mobile claims to be in talks with Apple to sell the iPhone.
  iPhone and iPod Touch 1.1.2
    Adding mostly International support with more languages, International keyboards, Asian fonts, etc., plus bug fixes.
    iPod Touch owners can now add calendar events
    Also closes TIFF exploit security hole in Mobile Safari, which shutdown some of the latest JailBreak methods (jailbreakme.com)
      New Jailbreaks were out hours after the release.
      Need to start in 1.1.1, can downgrade to re-jailbreak
    Ringtones back on the iPhone.
      Any m4a file, approx. thirty-seconds, change the extension to .m4r and double-click to add it to iTunes
    Several listeners claim their iPhones feel "snappier" after the update. Safari/EDGE performance does seem a bit better to me.
  IPod Video Update 1.2.2
    Simply said "bug" fixes
    According to MacNN users are reporting that it adds support for syncing recent iPhoto events, but maybe that's a iTunes 7.5 feature?
    some Windows Vista/XP reporting losing the display of songs after the update, but running 7.5 fixes the issue
    Worse Win 2000 users are delivered the update, but can't upgrade to iTunes 7.5.
  Lots of Apple Software updates
    Hard Drive Update 1.0
      Fixes bugs for iMac Core 2 Duos and Mac Pros running either Tiger or Leopard.
    Mac OS X 10.4.11
      Includes Safari 3.0
      A bunch of bug fixes and security updates including, improved reliability when running VMWARE's Fusion
      Restart "grey screen of unconsciousness"
    Panther Security Update
      Security Update 2007-008 for 10.3.9 client and server.
      updates for AppleRAID, bind, CoreFoundation, Flash Player Plug-in and Foundation
    Updates to Final Cut Studio
    Releases Final Cut Express 4
      Lower price of US$199 ($99 upgrade).
    iPhoto 7.1.1
      improves overall stability, and addresses a number of other minor issues.
    Safari Beta 3.0.4 for Windows with "bug fixes".
    iMac graphics firmware update 1.0
      for 20- and 24-inch aluminum iMacs with the ATi Radeon HD 2660 Pro graphics card and running 10.4.10 with the iMac Software Update 1.2.1 or Leopard with iMac Software Update 1.3
      Fixes "freezing" issue (didn't we fix that already, twice?).
  Apple release first Leopard update
    Just 20 days after the launch Leopard is updated to 10.5.1
    The update contains a bunch of fixes but some of the most significant are:
      fix for the Finder data loss issue
      updates to Mail including fixing an issue with email accounts added using the "Simple Setup" feature in which messages cannot be sent due to an SMTP connection failure.
      Funniest update: In Security preferences' Firewall tab, the "Block All" option is now called "Allow Only essential services"
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    "PR Lady", "Boxer" and "Podium."
    All three targeted directly at Vista.
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  You can ignore that repair permissions error
    Several listeners have asked me about this error when repairing permissions in Leopard
      Warning: SUID file "System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/MacOS/ARDAgent has been modified and will not be repaired.
    Thanks to Mac Observer for pointing out an Apple Support Article (#306925) on the issue
    Apple says it's correct, but don't panic. "You can safely ignore this message. It is accurate, but not a cause for concern."
  Moving menubar items
    Question from Connor
    Command+Click+Drag to move them around
  Typing Accented characters on the iPhone
    tap+hold a key to get alternate characters
    Thought it was part of the 1.1.2 update, but have been told it was there since 1.1.1
    Tip from Harry
  Finding Duplicates in the Finder
    Question from Jim
      FileBuddy
      Singular
      DupeCheck
  Getting Network volumes working with TimeMachine
    Listener Randy pointed me to a MacRunors post. Verified by thread on ArsTechnica forums
    Terminal hack to enable TimeMachine with Network volumes
      In terminal type: defaults write com.apple.systempreferences TMShowUnsupportedNetworkVolumes 1
    Several reports that this is working fine.
    I would only use it experimentally (not as primary backup). Apple must have it disabled for a reason?
  iPhoto Export Fails
    From listener Chris who was getting the error exporting images from a Smart album in iPhoto '08 using File-->Export...
    Would get a ways through and then error with the message, "cannot create file..."
    I ran into this one time in iPhoto '06, but couldn't seem to replicate it in '08
    My issue was the same as Chris'. There were several photos in the export with the same filename
    Solution is to change the 'File Name' setting in the Export dialog from 'Use filename' to 'Sequential'
    Could also locate the file in the Finder (right+click/control+click image choose Show file) and rename it.
  PPC to Intel Migrations can be tricky
    Feedback from Jeff on his upgrade to Leopard and from PPC to Intel
    Apple Partition Map vs GUID
      PPC uses Apple Partition Map and Intel GUID
      One can't boot from the other.
    According to Mac OS X Hints.com, using some partitioning an cloning mojo it can be done.
    Migration Assistant brings Library with Files and Folders.
      Can't leave out when you move files and folders to Leopard. You CAN, not migrate Applications.
      Library has Preference Panes that may not be Leopard Ready
      in Jeff's case a couple were crashing his system preferences.
      Remove them manually after the migration
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