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    Music is "Say Anything" by Manda and the Marbles
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  More on Papergate
    Wall Street Journal reports that Papermaster just didn't fit in at Apple
    Jobs chose to move forward with iPhone antenna design despite the risks
    iPhone 4 supply issue may have played more of a role than the antenna
    Apple executives are expected to not delegate and look over the smallest details
  12-core Mac Pros are ready
    USD $4,999.00
    Two 2.66GHz 6-Core Intel Xeon "Westmere" 12MB shared L3 cache per processor
      Option: Two 2.93GHz 6-Core Intel Xeon "Westmere"
    6GB (six 1GB DIMMs) of DDR3 ECC SDRAM at 1333MHz. Expandable up to 32GB
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  iDevice Rumor Roundup
    Updated iPad next year
      ARM Cortex A9, 512MB RAM
      7-in iPad, also with A9 and 1,024-x768 resolution IPS display
      Gyroscope in next iPads according to EE Times.
    CDMA iPhone produced by Pegatron. For both Verizon and China Mobile
      Metal backplate with integrated antenna.
      Codenamed the N92 according to John Gruber
        At the EVT (engineering verification test), but not DVT status (device verification test)
      Should be ready in January, but where.
      AT&T Q10 filing mentions ending of exclusivity arrangements on "a number of attractive handsets".
      Two different surveys showed over 30% of At&T would consider moving to Verizon if they had the iPhone
        AT&T commonly reports that 40% of their iPhone customers are new to AT&T
    New Apple TV rebranded as iTV
      UK Broadcaster not all too happy with the potential name change.
      Based on AMD Fusion solution (maybe)
        If Apple goes with A4 it wouldn't support 1080p
      No hard drive which I assume means solid state.
      App support
    An Apple Special event is likely to happen September 8th or the 14th.
  Apple licenses Liquid Metal technology
    An SEC filing found by the Baltimore Sun revealed the agreement
    Apple obtained an exclusive worldwide license to the Liquidmetal technology for use in consumer electronics
    Liquid Metal got to pay off $10.9 million in debt.
    Don't think Terminator liquid metal
      Benefits Apple may be interested in:
        Superior Strength/Weight Ratio
        Superior Elastic Limit (bounces?)
        High Corrosion and wear Resistance
        Impact Resistance
        Thermal and Electrical Conductivity
        Acoustic and Dampening Characteristics
    Can be cast into very complex shapes. Flexible and doesn’t fatigue or crimp like other metals so potential to make a seamless one-piece hinge.
    According to Cult of Mac, they say they've been talking to Liquidmetal’s co-inventor, Dr. Atakan Peker and he says the metal is already in use in at least one Apple product.
  iOS 4.0.2 closes security hole
    Release takes care of the PDF font security hole
    3.2.2 for iPad also
    This was the exploit that Jailbreakme.com was using to allow a web based jailbreak of the iPhone.
  iMac gets brightness update
    iMac (Mid 2010) Display Brightness Update 1.0
    Addresses an issue with 21.5-inch iMac (Mid 2010) display brightness.
  Apple exec arrested for taking kickbacks
    US Marshals Service on Friday arrested Apple worldwide supply manager Paul Shin Devine for money laundering and wire fraud relating to leaking iPhone and iPod secrets.
    According to the report in the San Jose Mercury News, the information was used to negotiate better deals with Apple.
    Apple also filed it's own lawsuit against Devine claiming the exec took over a million dollars in bribes and kickbacks.
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Feedback, Comments and Commentary
  Applescript UI Scripting
    Bob is an IT guy and has a server that runs some software that occasionally throws up a dialog with an error. If not cleared the dialog eventually crashes the machine.
      Has to remote in with VNC or some other tool.
      Wants an app to just accept the dialog default after X number of seconds.
    Back in OS 9 days there was Okey Dokey. No longer available.
    For OS X the closest thing is an app called Lazy Mouse. Moves the cursor to the "OK" or default selection button of the dialog window, but won't click.
    I understand the possible concerns over an app like this. Could cause all kinds of havoc, but in specialized situations like Bob's it makes sense.
    Solution may lie in AppleScript and a feature of OS X called UI Scripting
      Google for "Applescript UI Scripting" and you'll find how to's
      UI Scripting is a feature in Mac OS X that provides a way for AppleScripts to interact directly with interface elements in running applications.
      UI Scripting is based on Mac OS X's accessibility framework and takes advantage of System Events, a background application that provides a central location for interacting with various aspects of Mac OS X
      You need to "Enable access for assistive devices" in the System Preferences-->Universal Access control panel.
    AppleScript Editor
      Applications-->Utilities-->Applescript Editor
      Window-->Library (Command+Shift+L)
      Double-click the "System Events" to see the dictionary of available elements, options, and parameters.
  Maximize RAM and performance
    Play Graden's question about iMac RAM
    I have also always wondered about the real world benefits of "dual-channel" RAM configurations.
    Some memory benchmark tests show a huge performance gain in memory performance.
      Trouble is that "memory" is not the only thing that makes up your computing architecture.
    Some respected sources I trust have shown that dual-channel seems to mean very little when it comes to real-world applications
      Tom's Hardware
      Barefeats
      Anandtech
    All the numbers are see are showing a minimal gain. 5-15% in most applications.
      Barefeats ran real world tests on iMovie, Final Cut Pro, Cinebench, and Motion. None of them showed any gains in performance from multi-channel RAM.
    There may be some advantages when addressing large RAM blocks, but in the end is its a question of more RAM or less "matched" RAM the more seems to almost always be better.
  Review: Bento 3 for iPad
    Anyone who remembers Apple's Appleworks knows it had a DB. iWork doesn't.
    Bento from Filemaker, Inc. the void very well.
    Comes with 25 templates to get you started
    Easy to design and edit the items within a database
      Drag out new field and select fields type
        Text, Number, Time, Date
        Advanced fields like Choice (drop down) or checkboxes.
        When adding or editing data fields give the appropriate iPad style interface
          Date tumblers
          Dropdown tumblers
          URLs have "labels" and can open in the app when clicked.
          Addresses have "map" button that launches Map app.
          Mail field can send email from Bento.
      Can hide fields within layouts.
    Supports portrait and landscape views
      Searching
      Can create collections within a library
    Designed very well for touch interface
      Swipe through records and data
      Gesture support, like double tapping to view full images from media fields.
    Syncs with Bento for desktop
      iPad shows as a device (like itunes) and you can sync all or selected libraries.
      Associated List fields won't sync, so in iPad templates use standard versions
        Address, instead of Address List
        Email Address, instead of Email Address List
        Phone Number, instead of Phone Number List
      Related data comes across, but you can't create related fields on the iPad
      Clicking a related field brings up it's record in a floating window if sync'd
        Shortcut at bottom to jump to the record in the related Library.
      Very easy to navigate.
    Set a passcode on the iPad to protect your data.
    USD $4.99 on App store
  iPhone Camera Roll numbering
    Scott has an issue with the iPhone and how it names (numbers) pictures in the Camera Roll
    More specifically this has to do with importing and removing items from the phone after import.
    The naming convention is to be "IMG_XXXX" starting at XXXX = 0001
    It then goes up from there, but if you remove all the items from the iPhone starts back at 0001.
    There seems to be no option to change the setting to always be sequential.
    Trouble is that depending on how you import you might get duplicate filenames.
    In iPhoto the duplicate names don't seem to be an issue because when iPhoto is organizing the imports they are separated into folder by date.
    One workaround may be to keep photo "IMG_0001" always in the Camera Roll. Then it continues to number sequentially.
      In iPhoto you can check the "Hide photos already imported" checkbox which you see after selecting you camera (iPhone) from the Devices section.
    There probably should be a setting on the iPhone to name one way or the other. Many cameras have that option.
  Managing iWeb from multiple Macs
    Hamish had some great questions about managing iWeb with multiple sites and from multiple Macs
    1) Can you build more than one site or is it limited to just one site with several pages using 1 domain name?
      You can build many sites with iWeb '09 (version 3.0.X)
      File-->New Site…
      You can have each site publish to different places
        Select the site and you can update the "Publish" settings
        Publish to Mobile Me, FTP, or a folder on your Mac
      In Mobile Me all the pages are put into a directory under web.me.com/username/SiteName
        With MobileMe you can only map one Domain per account
        Family plan gives you more accounts (up to 5)
        Domain forwarding with masking (Bluehost and GoDaddy support).
    2) Is there a way to access an iWeb site from my desktop mac and notebook so I may work on a new site and update it periodically from 2 different computers depending on which one i am using?
      Apple doesn't really support this, but we can hack it in a way.
      Quit iWeb
        Move the ~/Library/Applications Support/iWeb/Domain.sites file to a shared location.
        I used my Dropbox folder and created a iWeb folder in that.
        Select the .sites file, File-->Get Info…, set "everyone" permissions to read/write.
        Double click the Domain.sites file. Should open iWeb and associate it with the new location.
          Do the same on the second machine, opening the Domain.sites file from the shared location
          If that doesn't work then opening iWeb (if you moved and didn't copy the Domains.sites file) should prompt you to find the Domain file.
          You may need to authenticate with your OS X keychain to publish.
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  EOL: That's Just Woz
    Another video from Jonathan Mann, the iPhone 4 Antenna song guy. This time he was commissioned by Woz's wife to compose a song for Woz's 60th birthday.