MacCast 02.24.2009 - Show #257
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Opening
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Opening Music
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Music is Say Anything by Manda and the Marbles
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Mandaandthemarbles.com
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Sponsor
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Thoughtout.biz
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Ped3, Naja King, and Ped3 Auto stands
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All Thoughtout's stands feature
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Full rotation
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Compatible with most cases and skins
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THOUGHT OUT strives to make our products upgradable and interchangeable, this includes whatever APPLE has in the works. You will be able to purchase just the holder if need be.
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Made and THOUGHT OUT with quality in the USA
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Thoughtout is one of the original companies making iPods stands and have stuck with it as others have come and gone.
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Testament to their quality, support, and innovation.
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Go to their site to see, images, video, and get more deatils. You can also sign up for their mailing list.
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News
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Three new Apple Stores planed for Europe
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Wired's Cult of Mac Blog has news of new Apple stores planned for 3 European cities in 2009.
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Apple will pick one of two possible locations in Paris France. The Carrousel du Louvre mall or a location near the Garnier operahouse.
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Stores are also planned for Milan, Italy and Hamburg, Germany.
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Apple also expanded it's iPhone presence in the Middle East
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The iPhone went on sale in Saudi Arabia
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The carrier Mobily said they activated 25,000 subscribers in the opening day
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This is despite a high price and lack of Arabic language support, which is expected in about 3 months according to a Mobility spokesman
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Not to be left out the US will get a new Boston area store. Dedham, just southwest of Boston in the Legacy Place mall. Should open in the fall according to ifoAppleStore.
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Are Intel's Core i7s destined for Macs?
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Electronista says a post from Fudzilla claims Intel is prepping a Core i7-based equivalent to its new Core 2 Quad S chips
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The chip would be ideal for all in one PCs and compact desktop since it would have a thermal peak power consumption of 65W
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Based on Intel's Lynnfield designs the new chips would be lower performance versions of the Core i7 which eliminates the traditional frontside bus using an integrated memory controller and a point-to-point interface instead.
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The piece says the new baby i7s should hit the street sometime in early 2010
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Core i7 dispute might be what's holding up new iMacs
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According to AppleInsider via a Mac NN report
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They say Apple has been waiting on the new CPUs from Intel which is why they weren't updated in the Fall or at Macworld
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Now legal wrangling between Intel and Nvidia over chipsets may be causing further delays.
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The i7s have integrated memory controllers and Intel claims NVIDIA doesn't have the licensing rights to make compatible chipsets for the new processor.
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If NVIDIA loses it could be bad for Apple who is using NVIDIA controllers in it's new models.
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Continued security warnings for Macs
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A student from Italy presenting at the Black Hat conference in Washington DC has claimed to have discovered a security vulnerability in Mac OS X according to Mac NN
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Vincenzo Iozzo says that by sifting through the Mach-O file format he has discovered a flaw in the way Macs Macs allocate memory that could compromise the Mac by allowing malicious code execution.
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Apple has tried to prevent this type of attack in the OS by randomizing the location of certain variables, but Iozzo says the method is not really random.
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The fix would require a low level rewrite of the OS, but it is unclear if a fix would be part of Snow Leopard.
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There are other vulnerabilities would have to be exploited to even execute Iozzo's hack and those can be easily patched.
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Adobe has issued a security alert for Acrobat Reader and Professional
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An potential exploit exists in versions 7, 8, and 9 of Acrobat, Acrobat Pro, and Acrobat Pro Extended, and versions 7, 8, and 9 of Adobe Reader.
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Can crash the system and allow an attacker to take control of an exploited system
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Switch to Preview, Get Info... Open With->Preview. Change all.
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Un-check "Display PDF in browser using:" in Acrobat's or Reader's preferences
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Fix for version 9 is expected on March 11th with older versions coming later.
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Not to be left out of the party, Microsoft said it's looking into a potential security flaw in Excel that impacts the Mac
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Discovered by Symantec in Japan, opening an infected file could allow for remote code execution, but the hack only effects the older Excel .xls format, not the newer .xlsx format.
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Microsoft plands to issue an update as soon as they finish their investigation.
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And then there were 2. Displays that is.
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Apple quietly stopped selling their 20" LCD Cinema Display
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Now they have just the new 24" LED Cinema display and the 30" LCD
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Thought that Apple will soon kill off the 30" as well. Moving to all new displays with Mini display port connectors and LED backlights
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Apple may be waiting for new Mac models, like the Mini, iMac and Mac Pros that support the new display connector standard.
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Leaked Mac Mini photos and video
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MacNN and other rumors sites were cross-posting all over themselves with supposed leaked images of a new Mac mini design.
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The case itself looked more or less the same, but on the back shows a Mini-DVI connector, Mini Display Port Connector, power, ethernet, Firewire 800, security slot, optical/analog audio in and out, and 5 USB ports.
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Suspicious to me is the FW800 and dual display connectors (maybe because a pre-production model?).
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$99 iPhones at Best Buy, sort of.
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If you were a Reward Zone member before Feb 21st.
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Standard members get $50 off new iPhone 3Gs with service contract. Premier Silver members get $100 off.
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Offer good now through Feb 28th.
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Apple release Safari 4 Beta
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Apple release a public beta of Safari 4 for both Mac and Windows
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It is Beta
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It will replace the core of Web kit and Safari 3, but there is an uninstaller.
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Highlight Features
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Top Sites, your most visited sites in an original Apple TV esque curved screen grid view
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Cover Flow view of history and bookmarks, cuz Apple's gonna milk that purchase for all it's worth.
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Full History Search, or as I like to call it the Spousal Porn Excavation, Extraction, and Discovery (SPEED) tool
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Tabs on Top, Awesome. Really opens up main viewing window. Some don;t like the change
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Nitro Engine, Javascript on rocket fuel
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Windows Native Look and Feel, for both XP and Vista.
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My first impressions
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Fast, fast, fast
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Like the tabs on top
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Cover flow images for history and images for Tops sites loaded slow.
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Some complaints that Apple copied features
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From the Maccast forum
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The tab on top copied from Google Chrome
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The Top Sites feature copied from Opera's Speed Dial
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The incremental search copied from Firefox
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The new Javascript engine is to response to Chrome and the new Firefox 3.1
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Others might not like the Ui updates, but there are already Terminal preference hacks to "fix" things and I'm sure GUI hacks are on the way.
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Safari 4 download is available on Apple's site
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Macintosh Requirements
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Any Mac running Security Update 2009-001 and Mac OS X Leopard 10.5.6 or Mac OS X Tiger 10.4.11
Mac with an Intel processor or a Power PC G5, G4, or G3 processor and built-in FireWire
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256MB of RAM
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Top Sites and Cover Flow on Mac OS X Tiger require a Quartz-Extreme compatible video card
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Happy Birthday Steve
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Steve Jobs turns 54.
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Feedback, Comments and Commentary
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Printer preset tip, setting custom default
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Play tip from Ulrik
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Macworld 2009: Microvision
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Play interview with Microvision
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Microvision ShowWX Pico Projector
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"Find out how" to use the Mac
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Via TUAW, there is a complete list of text and video tutorials from Apple on how to do stuff on your new Mac
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Topics include, Mac Basics, Photos, Movies, Web, Music, iWork, & MobileMe
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Sections are further divided by app versions, like iLife '08, iLife '09, iPhoto '08,'09, Aperture, iTunes, etc.
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Tons of videos in each section.
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Still using Appleworks under Leopard
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Play comment from Dave
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Couldn't find an Appleworks Quicklook plug-in
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Can use Maclink Plus version 16 to convert Appleworks and Clariswork files to RTF or Microsoft formats that you can open in Pages.
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Review: iLife '09
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Dave is also not loving iLife '09. Play review.
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Try to address some of his complaints.
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LCD monitor fonts and resolutions
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Play clip from Mike about setting up his external monitor resolution.
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Make sure you are driving the LCD at native (default) resolution.
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Check and/or adjust the "Font smoothing style:" setting in the 'Appearance' System Preferences.
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Automatic, Standard (CRT), Light, Medium (LCD), Strong
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Checkout my 12/11/2008 show on the reasons for the difference in Mac vs. Windows font rendering.
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Closing
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Podcast Marketplace
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Thanks to my sponsors
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Circus Ponies, Notebook
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Smile on my Mac
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Softpress, Freeway Express and Freeway Pro.
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Faronics, Deep Freeze
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Thoughtout.biz
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Keep emails coming. Audio comments.
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281-622-4269 or 281-Mac-I-Am-9
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PLEASE LEAVE YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS
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MacCast Forum
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"Head First" by Better with Ed
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From Jony a Maccast lstener and member of this band out of SFO
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Link to MySpace page
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EOL: Dancing with Woz
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In case you somehow missed it, Woz will be one of the contestants on this seasons Dancing with the Stars here in the US.
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