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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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Band's MySpace page
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Sponsor
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KamAlert
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Kamalert turns your iPhone into a portable Personal Safety Device with intelligent photographic Surveillance for the home, hotels, offices etc., along with Medical and Panic alert buttons using GPS technology.
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EMERGENCY ALERT SYSTEM
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"Panic buttons" can be set up for medical or personal emergency situations
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at the press of a button SMS and/ or email messages are sent out several different people or organizations with GPS data and contact details
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SURVEILLANCE DEVICE
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Set up your iPhone as a motion detector
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Detects motion and can send email and/or SMS alerts along with photos
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Monitor your hotel room, sleeping, kids, or maybe room
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possible re-use for your old iPhone
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Based on user feedback, they Just released version 1.21 which has greatly improved the sensitivity of the motion detection and usability of the app!
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USD $4.99 on the AppStore
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News
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Apple's Third Quarter Results
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Revenue of $15.7 billion with net quarter profit of 3.25 billion. That's a year over year revenue gain of 61% with profits up 78%.
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3.47 million Macs sold. A quarterly record and up 33% year over year.
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Not concerned about iPad cannibalization.
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3.27 million iPads
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8.4 million iPhones, up 61% year over year.
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AT&T reported activating 3.2 million iPhones in the quarter. And that pre-order sales were10x higher than for the iPhone 3GS.
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iPod sales were down 8% with Apple selling 9.41 million in the quarter.
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International sales accounted for 52% of the quarter's revenue.
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Selling iPads and iPhones as fast as they can make them.
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Working to increase capacity and don't see any specific component shortages slowing production.
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Reported they expect the costs of free iPhone 4 cases to be around $175 million.
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iPhone and iPad in business
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60% of the Fortune 500 are deploying iPhones
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50% for the fortune 100 are deploying or testing the iPad
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Reports that Apple Stores are setting up teams to target small local businesses
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Data Center on schedule and should be completed by the end of the year.
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Conservative for the 4th quarter
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New products have higher component costs which reduces Apple's margins
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Apple explains how it collects geo location data
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Policy was updated June 21st. Any iTunes purchases or downloads after that date required acceptance of the new terms.
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Concerned two U.S. House of Representatives members asked Apple for clarification on how it gathered the data
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When a customer's device sends Wi-Fi, cell tower, GPS, or diagnostic location information to Apple, it does not include any information identifying the particular device or use.
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For iAds, a user's latitude and longitude coordinates are collected anonymously and immediately converted to a five-digit ZIP code. The latitude and longitude coordinates are not maintained.
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iAd server does not match ZIP code info with a particular device or user.
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Advertisers never see the ZIP code info.
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Apple points out that customer can turn off location services completely or on an app by app basis.
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They are also notified when an app first want to activate location services and must allow it it do so.
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An icon also appears on the device anytime location services are active and in the Location Services setting it shows which apps have activated location services in the past 24 hours.
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iTunes 9.2.1 update
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Disables older versions of some incompatible third-party plug-ins
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Addresses minor issues with dragging and dropping items
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Addresses a performance issue when first syncing to some devices with iTunes 9.2
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Addresses an issue upgrading to iOS 4 on an iPhone or iPod touch with encrypted back-ups
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Addresses other issues that improve stability and performance
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iBooks 1.1.1
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Double tap an image within a book to view it in greater detail.
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Experience books that include audio and video.
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Enjoy substantial performance improvements when reading PDFs.
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Look-up definitions to English words inside books without a specified language.
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Addresses an issue that may have caused some book downloads to not complete.
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Includes many stability and performance improvements.
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1.1.2 update
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Addresses a bug some users faced when installing the 1.1.1 update.
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iPhone 4 dropped call rate gets perspective
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Gruber found a publicly available powerpoint that put AT&T Dec '09 network dropped call rate a 0.91%
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Assume the 3GS dropped calls were slightly higher than network average, 1-1.5%
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Jobs said iPhone 4 was <1 per 100 higher than 3GS. That means it' s rate is 1.5 to 2 times more.
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Still about the 2% range which isn;t too bad.
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BGR found a more recent numbers given to Tech-Ex website in response to a ChangeWave survey. AT&T said the numbers were 1.44 % for AT&T network in March 2010.
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Important to note that the cause of the drops is not a factor nor is the distribution mentioned.
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I imagine NYC, SFO, etc are higher rates and other locations are better.
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In Q&A Apple noted it takes 3 years to get a new cell tower approved for San Francisco. 3 Weeks in TX.
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Gruber himself points out "the iPhone 4 gets usable reception in areas where previous iPhones got none. Those may well comprise many of the extra dropped calls."
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iPhone 4 Free Bumper program
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Free refunds already credited to customers who paid by credit card in store
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If you paid cash then you need to go back with your receipt
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Fill out a rebate coupon if you purchased your Bumper at AT&T
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Free app to submit order for free case
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Shipping in 3-5 weeks.
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Available in all countries where iPhone 4's have been sold.
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Case choices
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Apple Bumper (Black)
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Incase Snap Case for iPhone 4 (Smoke or Clear)
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Belkin Shield Micra for iPhone 4 (Clear)
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Griffin Motif iPhone 4 Diamonds/Smoke or the Griffin Reveal Etch iPhone 4 - Black/Black Graphite
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Speck Fitted Case iPhone 4 (Black Tartan) or the Speck PixelSkin HD iPhone 4 (Black)
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If you already bought one of the 3rd party cases it doesn't look like you'll get a refund.
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White iPhone delayed until end of the year
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Official announcement from Apple on Thursday.
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Just two days after Q3 results call where they said end of July
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Week after the "Antenna" press conference where Jobs announced the end of July ship date.
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The black iPhone will launch on July 30th in 17 other countries.
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Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Hong Kong, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, New Zealand, Singapore, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland
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Apple prepping retail for iMac refresh?
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AppleInsider says Apple began advising its direct and indirect sales channels of near-term shortages of iMacs
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No more stock of the entry level 21.5-inch, 3.06GHz iMac for in-store pick-up
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I didn't even know it was an option
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Apple launched a "Reserve and Pick Up" program in Nov. 2009
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Now good luck finding the links on their site. I Googled for it.
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Dual Core i5 Models, Quad Core i5s and i&s, and possibly Core i3s at the entry level.
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USB 3.0 support and a faster FireWire interface
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Mac Pros are also reportedly "out of stock" at several locations.
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I don't know if the "In store pickup" feature can be used as an indicator. I imagine in store stock goes up and down on a daily basis.
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On-line orders are still shipping in 24hrs for both iMacs and Mac Pros.
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Sidenote: Buzzing of an iLife Refresh
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iLife '10 or '11
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Out mid-August (in line with iLife '08 release timeframe)
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Apps all 64-bit, dropping iDVD, new "mystery" app. All new iWeb (HTML 5?)
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Mystery app: Make you own iTunes Album or iTunes Extra content. iBooks?
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Sponsor
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Smile On My Mac
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TextExpander and TextExpander Touch
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Couldn't get through my email without it.
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Sync your snippets wirelessly between the desktop and iOS devices.
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Integrated with over 30 apps for your iPhone and iPod Touch
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Some of the most popular Twitter Clients, Writing apps, and more.
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Free trial available
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Feedback, Comments and Commentary
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Follow-up on using star ratings
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From Robert. Mark tracks you want to delete on your iPod as 1 star. then when you sync back to iTunes you can quickly identify them for removal.
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Hold down Option when you delete it from a playlist and it will also remove the track from the main library and move it to the trash.
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Rate tracks from the Dock or the Menubar
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Control+Click the iTunes icon in the dock, select Rating, and assign it stars
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Michael points out "I Love Stars" from Potion Factory. Give you the ability to rate the currently playing iTunes track from the menubar.
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And if you want to control iTunes from the menubar too he points out Synergy (5 euro)
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A better explanation of de-tuning
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Play comment from Ted
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We Have Communicators podcast with Spencer Webb of Antennasys
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Bridging the gap is not causing the antennas frequencies to mix.
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Your body is changing the characteristics of the cellular antenna. Like grabbing a vibrating bell.
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Also the "hot spot" is that gap which is the connection point for the antenna.
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Signal strength can play a roll in the severity of the effect.
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Solution is to allow space (air) around the antenna.
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That's why the effect is minimized with internal antennas
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Also, the hot spot was on the back of older phones, now on side.
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On the back the natural "cupping" while holding provided a natural space for air around the antenna.
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Bumper or cases provide that "pocket" between your hand and the antenna hot spot.
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Tape and stickers have to be pretty thick (a mm or so) to help. A couple thousandths of an inch won't help.
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Print your own Cards from iPhoto
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Many people are aware of the Card, Book, and Calendar features of iPhoto
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But you don't have to buy them from Apple
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Play with the different designs and themes.
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Themes:
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Holidays, events, etc.
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Card vs. postcard
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Color
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Design
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The Picture Card, Picture Collage, and Year and review designs offer a lot of options
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Embed "text" and titles into photos using the cards
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Adjust
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Select photos and adjust. B&W, Sepia, Antique presets. Color, exposure, contrast.
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Settings
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Control fonts and turn off "Apple Logo"
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Print
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Order from Apple
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Print direct to Photo Card stock or Postcard stock
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You'll need to play with print setting a lot to get a workflow that works
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Print to PDF
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Open in Preview to get more control of printing or convert to JPG/PNG, etc.
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Print PDF to iPhoto to enable other sharing options, like email.
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Time for your quarterly security reminder
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A couple of Mac security warnings this month, so be diligent.
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Malicious websites could use Auto-fill, plus Javascript to scan for and post saved password and credit card data
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Consider turning off auto-fill and clearing existing data
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Know what sites you visit. In Safari View-->Show Status Bar (Command+Slash). Hover over links in Mail to get URL tooltip.
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ArsTechnica reports that Apple has displaced Oracle as the company with the most security vulnerabilities in its software, according to security company Secunia.
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Report is on just number of flaws not severity
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All software is considered, so not just Apple's or the OS, but also 3rd party
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Quicktime, Safari, iTunes (quicktime via extension), Adobe (Flash and Reader), Java (Oracle)
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Keep your software up-to-date
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Converting VHS to H.264
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I finally began this project and here is my experience so far
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Finding a VHS player ain't easy
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Using the Elgato Video Capture device and software
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Makes it dead simple.
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USB to composite or S-video. Conversion done in software
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Wizard walks you through the set up
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Video, audio, capture.
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Trim and then send to QuickTime, iTunes, iMovie, or upload to YouTube.
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Great features
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H.264 or MPEG-4. Encodes directly, so it's fast.
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640x480 max resolution, but appropriate given the source content.
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Looks as good as source material.
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Adjust video color, contrast, etc. Adjust audio gain.
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Auto stop the capture based on length (10,30,60,90,120, or 180 mins.)
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Mute sound during capture
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A few minor issues
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Occasionally I am getting what I think are a dropped frame or two
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Switching to discreet GPU seemed to help, but now I get "crackling" pass through audio (not in capture though)
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Can only trim ends, unlike Turbo.264
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Adding metadata with Meta X
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Recovering a deleted iTunes Library
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Play comment from Chris
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Prosoft Data Rescue 3
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Reminder about the 3 places rule.
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Apps that use Song Fingerprint
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MusicBrainz database and AmpliFIND music ID
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Jaikoz
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SongGenie and CoverScout
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Closing
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Get even more Maccast
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Become a Maccast Member
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Podcast Marketplace
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Thanks to my sponsors
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Smile on my Mac
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Cocoatech, Pathfinder 5
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Gazelle
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KamAlert
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Rogue Amoeba
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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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Follow me on Twitter
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New Music
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"One Perfect Day" by Adrienne Pierce
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From Musicalley
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Artist's site
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Other music available on iTunes
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EOL: Darth's iPhone 4 Support Call
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An Apple support rep gets a call from the dark side on the iPhone 4 antenna issue
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