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  Opening Music
    Music is Say Anything by Manda and the Marbles
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    John Hodgman, "The Areas of My Expertise" (abridged) with Jonathan Coulton
News
  iPhone SDK Special Event
    28% share of US smartphone market behind RIM (41%), 71% of US mobile browser usage.
    Enterprise
      Push email, push calendar, push contacts. Global address list. Cisco IPsec VPN. Certificates and identities. WPA2/802.1x. Enforced security policies. Remote device configuration and remote wipe
      Microsoft Exchange support with ActiveSync. Uses Mail, Contacts, Calendar already on the iPhone.
      Tested at Nike
    iPhone SDK
      Web apps, over 1,000 available. Facebook, BofA.
      Same APIs and tools used internally at Apple.
      Mac OS X 4 layers
        Core OS, Core Services, Media, and Cocoa (User Interface application Framework).
        Core OS, Core Services, Media ported straight over and added Cocoa Touch to create the iPhone OS architecture.
      Core OS
        OS X Kernel, Lib System, BSD TCP/IP, Sockets, Security, Power Mgmnt, KeyChain, Certificates, File System, Bonjour
      Core Services
        Collections, Address Book, Networking, File access, SQL Lite, Core Location, Net Services, Threading, Preferences, URL utilities
      Media (hardware accelerated)
        Core Audio, OpenAL, Audio Mixing, Audio Recording, Video Playback, JPG, PNG, TIFF, PDF, Quartz (2D), Core Animation, OpenGL ES (embedded OpenGL)
      Cocoa Touch
        Multi-Touch Events (single, multi, and gestures), Multi-touch Controls, Accelerometer (3 axis sensor), View Hierarchy, Localization, Alerts, Web View, People Picker, Image Picker, Camera
    SDK Tools
      Xcode - Source editor, project management, source control, integrated documentation, debugger (remote)
      Interface Builder - GUI design, code connections, localization
      Instruments - performance analysis tools (FPS, memory usage, CPU usage, etc.)
      iPhone Simulator - Simulates iPhone API stack on the Mac
    Demos
      Touch FX - App built in 2 days to play with Photos using image picker, Open GL mesh distortion. Photobooth style effects. Shake to undo.
      TouchFighter - 2 weeks, 10,000 lines of code. Open GL and OpenAL (positional audio). Tap to fire, accelerometer to steer.
        Used instruments to check FPS, and view stack trace to optimize performance.
      Gave other companies 2 week at apple to develop some games and Apps
        EA - A version of Spore
        Salesforce.com - CRM services
        AOL - AIM Instant Messenger
        Epocrates - Medical
        Sega - Super Monkey Ball - using accelerometer
    Amazing depth of apps, and focus on vertical markets that take advantage of the platform.
    Selling on the iPhone
      App Store on the iPhone
      Wireless download over cell or Wi-fi
      App store manages updates.
      iTunes Store - Sideload
      Exclusive way to distribute apps
      Business deal
        Developer chooses price
        70% to developer. Apple keeps 30%. Developers seem happy with this... I'm not sure about the marketing aspect as the store gets crowded.
        Apple does credit card processing, hosting, marketing, and pays developer each month.
        No charge for free apps
      Limitations on some apps, like porn, illegal, malicious, jailbreak, SIM unlock.
    iPhone 2.0 Update
      Developer SDK+Enterprise
      Beta today, shipping in June as free update for iPhone paid for iPod Touch
      SDK - Free SDK and develop on a Mac. $99.00 for developer program (test on iPhone, distribute app, etc.)
        Certificate that Apple can use to control apps.
      Enterprise - $299 to create proprietary, in-house applications
    iFund
      $100,000,000 for developers to create iPhone apps
      Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield, & Byers
      According to Macworld, they (KPCB) set up the iFund in order to invest in small start-up businesses, with the goal of helping them become standalone, public companies. KPCB's areas of focus are location-based services, social networking, mCommerce, communication, and entertainment.
    Q&A
      Apple will limit VoIP over cell network, but not Wi-fi
      How will developers respond to App Store exclusivity? Apple will only break even with the 30%. You can't get on the iPhone without going trough Apple
      iPod Touch fee. An accounting issue, but Apple doesn't view it as a profit opportunity. Price will be set in June.
      Enterprise program for companies who want to build and distribute private internal apps.
    What was missing?
      No word on a 3G iPhone
      Cut and paste? Notes syncing?
      No Flash. Jobs says Flash light is underpowered and Flash runs too slow
        Scoble disagrees. Flash runs on Chumby (1/2 the processor of an iPhone) and N800's have Flash 9 support
        Fight over PDF engine (licensing) may be at play?
    What's being said....
      Overall I think developers are very excited.
      Apple's servers were being crushed
      Looks like they are approving developers for the beta program, so not everyone can get in.
      Complaints and questions on application restrictions
        VoIP only on WiFi
        Will they allows apps that compete with their own services? Amazon MP3 app?
        Apps are not allowed to run in the background. Only one app at a time.
        File system access is "sandboxed" per app. App can only access it's own files. No access to iPod files (music, video, etc.)
      ArsTechnica other features of iPhone 2.0 include... view Powerpoint, mass move and delete for Mail messages.
    Sun says they will work to get JAVA on the iPhone. They hope to get a native version of Java Micro Edition running on the device.
  Macbook Air supplies low
    Ars Technica did some investigating last week and Macbook Airs seem to be hard to come by with many Apple stores out of stock
    Online ship times are 5-7 days
    Amazon and Best Buy are not fairing better
    Customers are even reported to be paying more for the SSD models to avoid waiting.
    So is it high demand or low supply?
      Apple Store sales rank widget has the MacBook Air outselling the MacBook, the iMac, and the MacBook Pro
  GarageBand 4.1.2 update
    Improves overall stability and addresses issues with the automation of software instrument parameters, FireWire and USB based audio devices and Magic GarageBand
    I know many people who were having issues with Alesis USB devices.
  Aperture 2.0.1 update
    A pretty significant update.
    Fixes to upgrading libraries from earlier versions of Aperture, publishing .Mac Web Gallery albums, Preview generation and deletion, and creating and ordering books.
    Other numerous bug fixes.
  Apple falls short of 1,000 rental goal
    I saw just shy of 400 rentals.
    Some rentals that were there seem to be no longer available
    Possible causes are longer time then expected to do encoding with HD and 5.1. Movie studio licensing?
    Jobs said it's taking movie studios more time than expected to get approval from various rights holders.
  Nike+ iPod expanding to the Gym
    Nike and Apple working with working with Life Fitness, Precor, Star Trac, and Technogym to bring the technology to gym equipment
    Data would be transmitted from Nike+ enabled equipment and sent to the Nike+ wireless dongle and the iPod and later synced to the Nikeplus.com website to set goals, track progress, and compete in challenges with their friends.
  BBC make iPlayer Beta available for iPhone
    Uses Quicktime streaming and web technology
    BBC-produced 'Whistleblower' documentary available on their site.
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Feedback, Comments and Commentary
  Automator to Automount volumes
    Last show we talked about using Login-items to set up automounting of network volumes. Andrew has another method since it didn't seem to work for Windows CIFS volumes.
    We worked out a way to get volumes to re-mount on wake from sleep using Sleep Watcher (daemon), some shell scripts, and AppleScript.
      Instructions for this solution can be found in the 'Followup' section on the forum. forum.maccast.com
  Review: Logitech MX Revolution Mouse
    Play review from David
    Logitech MX Revolution Mouse. USD $99.00
  Backing up your Mail
    Mail Steward
    Scheduled to scan my OS X Mail.app nightly. I also export MBOX files from Yahoo! mail (pro) and import. Detects duplicates.
    3 versions MailSteward Lite ($24.95), MailSteward ($49.95), and MailSteward Pro ($99.95).
      Lite and Standard can handle 100,000+ emails and uses SQL Lite database. Standard offers scheduling, export options, tagging, and merging.
      Pro uses MySQL server (required) and designed for enterprises.
  CopyCat X Review
    Play review from John.
    CopyCat X
  Errors with unzipping archives in OS X
    Listener Chris had used OS X's built-in "Archive" option in Finder, command+click and choose compress (Leopard), to archive some files to DVD
    He had issues when he attempted to restore (unzip) the files getting an "Error 1- Operation not permitted." message
    Make sure OS is using the built in Archive Utility.app (Leopard) or BOMArchiveHelper (Tiger) to do the unzipping. It may be set to use Stuffit Expander instead.
      In the Finder, select the file and choose Get Info from the Finder menu (command+I). Look at the Open with... option. Make sure it is not set to Stuff It. Change it to Archive Utility.app or BOMArchiveHelper. You may also want to click the "change all" for this file type option.
    Now these were large ZIPs, like 14GB, and I have read OS x may have issues with large ZIP files, so reverse may be needed.
    Some reports of success using the very latest versions of Stuffit Expander
  The AirDisk, Time Capsule, TimeMachine debate
    Play feed back from listener
    Listener Martjin agrees and points out some information from a comprehensive Ars Technica piece that explains TimeMachines use of UNIX 'hard links'.
    I have also had listeners say it's because TimeCapsule has some OS X server type software feature that control permissions that Air Disk lacks.
    The system preference hack is:
      Launch Terminal
      Type: defaults write com.apple.systempreferences TMShowUnsupportedNetworkVolumes 1
      Solution is buggy and should NOT be used if you want data to be safe
    An article on RoughlyDrafted has the best explanation I have heard to date. This is supposedly from an Apple developer list, "The problem is that integrity cannot be guaranteed — the AirPort acknowledges receipt of the data before it’s actually written". It would be a firmware fix.
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  New music, "Games We Play" by Chase the Light
    From listener Nick. We played a track from them last year
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