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    Music is Say Anything by Manda and the Marbles
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News
  WWDC Keynote Wrap-up.
  iPhone 3G coming in July
    What was announced
      3G iPhone, built-in "Assisted " GPS, battery life, flush headphone jack
      3G
        2.4x faster on average. Apple says Lonleyplanet.com loaded 48 sec. on Edge, 20 sec on 3G. For me it loaded 2:14 sec on EDGE.
        Let's talk battery specs....
          OLD: Talk time: Up to 8 hours, Standby time: Up to 250 hours, Internet use: Up to 6 hours, Video playback: Up to 7 hours, Audio playback: Up to 24 hours
          NEW: Talk time: Up to 5 hours on 3G (1 hour less) and Up to 10 hours on 2G (4 hours more), Standby time: Up to 300 hours (50 hours more) , Internet use: Up to 5 hours on 3G and Up to 6 hours on Wi-Fi (unsure as 1.0 didn't differentiate, but seems about the same to 1 hour less), Video playback: Up to 7 hours (same), Audio playback: Up to 24 hours (same)
      "Assisted" GPS
        with tracking, which normally means multiple GPS satellites and receivers, but that is where the "assisted" part may come in?
      UMTS, HSDPA, GSM, Wi-Fi, EDGE, GPS, and Bluetooth with 2 antennas, cleverly hidden in the metal ring around the camera, the audio jack, the metal screen bezel, and the iPhone circuitry itself.
    Pricing, 8GB $199.00 and 16 GB $299.00. Same in all countries.
      How the pricing really works (at least in the US).
        New: $199 + $70 for 24 months = $1879
        Old: $399 + $60 for 24 months = $1839
      O2 in the UK will completely subsidize (free) with some tariffs. 8GB free with a £45/mo (~ USD $89) plan and 16GB free with a £75/mo (~ USD $148) plan.
      Both Rogers and Fido will carry the iPhone in Canada in July.
    Available July 11th in the US and 22 other countries.
    What they didn't tell you...
      In-store purchase and activation only. 10-12 minute process.
      US price requires a 2-year new activation or re-up with AT&T and $30/mo increased ($10) data plan ($240 more over the life of the contract).
      AT&T press release confirms no more rev share with Apple.
      Ars Technica claims current iPhone owners who purchased after May 27th can get a free update to iPhone 3G
      No Go Phone plans.
    The great unknown. What wasn't mentioned or updated, but I wish it was.
      Bluetooth stereo headset support
      Copy and paste
      Wi-fi iTunes syncing
      MMS
      Video
      Flash
    Other details and tidbits
      TUAW reports it will require iTunes 7.7
      From Gizmodo and Engadget
        .02 inches of thickness and .1 ounces heavier. I think tapered edges make it look thinner.
        small power adapter. reminded me of the plug end of an extension cord, but square.
        Geotagging photos is there
        new body need a new dock
    New iPhone add is cool.
  iPhone 2.0 Software
    Highlighted features
      App store and 3rd party apps.
        70/30 rev split
        Fairplay
        up to 10MB over cellular. Over is WiFi or iTunes.
        Enterprise apps to authorized phones
        AdHock for developers, up to 100 iPhones.
      Exchange Support with Active Sync. Enterprise security Cisco IPSec VPN and WPA2 Enterprise.
      Mass email move and delete. Also save photo attachments to Photos app in iPhone
      Contact search
      More language and dictionary support, including character drawing for Chinese.
      File format support. Office, including Powerpoint and all iWork formats.
      Scientific Calculator
      Push service/server to get around background application limitations for developers
        Background apps use up memory, CPU and battery
        Can update badges, send audio alerts, or pop-up text alerts.
        Available to developers in September
      Free for iPhone owners. $9.95 for iPod Touch owners
  .Mac rebranded to Mobile Me
    Phil Schiller, "ActiveStink" - Exchange for the rest of us.
    Push email. Push contacts. Push calendar.
    Works with Macs, PC (XP or Vista), iPhone and iPod Touch.
    New Web Interface, with interfaces for Mail, Contacts, Calendar, Gallery, and iDisk.
    TUAW reader notes in the Terms and Conditions it requires 10.5.4 while 10.4.11 for Tiger.
    iCards will not be migrated to Mobile Me, web access to bookmarks is also lost, but not syncing.
  Snow Leopard is next big cat
    Inital pr from Apple show that it is focused on performance enhancements more than features
    Will be in development for the next year or so. So there may be a lot more to come.
    Key technologies highlighted
      Out-of-the-box support for Microsoft Exchange 2007 built into Mail, Address Book, and iCal.
      “Grand Central,” a set of technologies to make it easier to optimize apps and make them better advantage of multiple cores.
      Extend 64-bit support for more RAM access, in theory up to 16TB.
      Streamlined Quicktime X, handed down from the iPhone. Quicktime X provides optimized support for modern codecs offering more efficient media playback.
      Faster Javascript in Safari (assume from Webkit's new Javascript interpreter code named "SquirrelFish")
      OpenCL (Open Compute Library), allows developer to use unused cycles in the GPU for processing. Basically using it like another core.
  Apple updates Quicktime to 7.5
    Fixes several security issues where maliciously crafted PICT, AAC-encoded, Indeo video, and Quicktime content could lead to an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution.
    Available for: Mac OS X v10.3.9, Mac OS X v10.4.9 - v10.4.11, Mac OS X v10.5 or later, Windows Vista, XP SP2
  P.A. Semi to design iPhone, iPod chips
    In a NYT article on Snow Leopard they asked Steve about Apple's plans for PA Semi
    “PA Semi is going to do system-on-chips for iPhones and iPods,”.
  iMovie 7.1.2 and iDVD 7.0.2 updates
    Apple just released updates for iMovie and iDVD. According to Software Update, the iMovie update "addresses general compatibility issues, improves overall stability, and addresses a number of other minor issues."
    The iDVD update "supports general compatibility issues, improves overall stability, and addresses a number of other minor issues."
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Feedback, Comments and Commentary
  Follow-up on "Architecture not supported"
    Feedback from a listener gave some other possible causes and things to check.
    Make sure the Application has executable. Can do it from the Terminal or by using a tool like Pathfinder.
    Make sure you haven't run a utility like Monolingual that has stripped the non-native binaries from the app to save space. Could be a problem for users migrating from PPC to Intel.
  Mail photo attachments as attachments
    Several people pointed me to Iconizer from Lokiware
    Gives you much better control of how you handle attachments and not just images
    Supports PDF, Images, HTML.
    Can set a threshold, so say images above 500KB.
  Mac Maintenance tips and tools
    Play comment from Scott
    Repair permissions usually only when I start to have issues, same with PRAM.
    I will sometimes clear my system caches using a tool like Onyx or Cocktail
      Onyx
      Cocktail
    Disk Utility to scan and repair drives
    Also Drive Genius and Disk Warrior.
      Drive Genius
      Disk Warrior
    Reinstalling apps and OS X combo updates
    Yearly house cleaning, clean install OS and Apps. Migrate User data.
      SuperDuper
  Use your iPhone or iPod Touch as a disk
    For free, no jailbreaking required.
    App from Michael of DigiDNA, called DiskAid
    App lets you access and store files on your iPhone or iPod Touch.
    Works on Mac or Windows, simple file browser.
  Sync iTunes files between computers
    Play question from Kyle
    Manually, USB key, external drive, etc.
    For purchased content you can use an iPod, Transfer Purchases.
    Over a network
      TuneRanger
      SuperSync
      Martian Slingshot
      ChronoSync
      rsync
  What are .DS_Store files?
    Play another question from Kyle
    OS X system file used to store custom attributes of a folder such as the position of icons, size of the window, or the choice of a background image.
    May have used a tool to turn on the display of invisible files.
    Also a problem on shared drives from Windows.
  Remap keys from a Windows keyboard
    Play question from Kenny
    In Leopard you can do it in the System Preferences-->Mouse and Keyboard settings
    In the 'Keyboard' tab click the "Modifier Keys..." button.
    Can change for specific keyboards and can even disable keys (mean practical joke?)
  Mac retains state without battery
    Play comment from Anthony
    Magic of the Sleep image.
      Created when your Mac goes into hibernation or "deep" sleep mode.
      Disk image of the entire contents of RAM
      /private/var/vm//sleepimage
      Restored to RAM when system wakes.
    Will use hard disk space equal to the mount of RAM in your Mac
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  "Number One Rival" by Tango Alpha Tango
    Correction on track from last show. The track, "One", on the last show is from the band, "Argyle Street", not the album "Argyle Street", which you can find now on iTunes. The album is called "Departures".
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    "Hallway"