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  Opening Music
    Music is "Say Anything" by Manda and the Marbles
    Band's MySpace page
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    Taking notes and research
    Clipping services
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      Clip and annotate allows you to add context to your clipping
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News
  Apple Music Event
    Live streamed for the first time in a long while
  Apple Retail update
    Paris Store - Restored old building
      Spent 18 months restoring
    Shanghai Store
      40 foot high glass cylinder
    London - Covent Garden
      Restored old building
      Old and new together
      300th Store
    300 Apple Retail stores
      10 Countries
      11th country will be Spain
    Over 1 million visitors a day at some stores
      Small dig at Macworld Expo
      80,000 one to one classes
      Over 50% of purchasers new to Mac
  iOS Update
    120 million iOS devices
    230,000 NEW iOS activations a day. Not including upgrades.
    6.5 billion apps downloaded
      200 per second
    250,000 apps in the store
      25,000 iPad apps
  iOS 4.1 - preview today
    Lots of bug fixes
      Proximity, Bluetooth, iPhone 3G
    HDR Photos
      - 3 photo exposures
      - Combines into one
      - Store both normal and HDR, not individual exposures though?
    Game Center
    HD video upload over WiFi for MobileMe and YouTube
    TV Rentals
    Available next week
  iOS 4.2 - Sneak Peak
    All about iPad - Bringing 4.1 features to iPad
    Terry pointed out that at 15:27 in Jobs said HDR Photos were coming to iPad in iOS 4.2
      No camera on the iPad and you don't have multiple exposures from the iPhone to transfer to the iPad. Was it just a mistake or hint of new iPad?
    Wireless Printing
      Print Center in Multitasking bar
    AirPlay
      Change AirTunes to AirPlay
      Stream audio and video over wifi to other devices
    Available in November
  All New iPods
    275 million iPods sold to-date
    Every year they improve iPods
    "Gone wild", all new iPods
    Biggest change ever
  iPod Shuffle
    Feedback
      Missed the buttons
      Loved playlists and VoiceOver
      best of both
    New design
      Smaller, but looks like 2nd gen shuffle with extra stuff on the left side trimmed off.
      buttons, voiceover, and playlists
    VoiceOver in 25 languages.
    5 colors: silver, blue, green, orange, or pink.
    2GB for USD $49.00
      Prior model was $79, but 4GB
  iPod Nano
    Touch based, multitouch
      1.54-inch (diagonal) color TFT display
      240-by-240-pixel resolution
      220 pixels per inch
    Small and square
      Square format for Photos and video is a bit strange?
    Has a clip, wearable
    46% smaller, 42% lighter
    Volume buttons
    FM radio, Nike plus, Pedometer
    24 hour battery
    Not IOS, but updated to look like it.
      Mini Apps
      Jiggle Move icons like the iOS devices
        4 icons per screen
    2 finger screen rotation
    7 colors
    8GB USD $149, 16GB USD $179
    Video is now completely out
      No camera
      No video playback
  iPod touch
    Thinner
    Retina display, 326 ppi, 24-bit LED backlit
    A4 Chip
    3 axis gyroscope, Accelerometer
    iOS 4.1
    Front facing camera and FaceTime
      FaceTime to iPod Touch and iPhone
      Uses a new Facetime app and registers your email address to make the connection.
    Rear facing camera
      HD Video Recording
      Stills at 960x720 (0.7MP ?) resolution
      iMovie for iOS
    8GB $229, 32GB $299, 64 GB $399
      no 16GB and why buy the 8GB?
    All iPods ship next week, pre-order today
    New, "All kinds of Fun" ad
      Focuses on Video, Gaming, and FaceTime
  iTunes 10
    11.7 Billion songs downloaded
      450 million TV episodes, 100 million Movies, 35 million books
      160 million accounts with credit cards <-- Hacker target
    Updated logo, ditch the CD
      why not the name and music note? Branding.
    Hybrid view
      more than 5 songs from the same album
      shows artwork instead of duplicated album name
    Ping - Social for music
      Music discovery
      Follow and be followed
        Artists
        Circle of friends
        private or public
      On iPhone and iPod Touch too.
        Although not working for me at the moment. "Store not available"?
      A lot of pressure to "follow". I'm keeping this one private I think.
    Available today. (Late) About 6:00 PM PDT
    Dramatic and puzzling UI changes
      More than just logo
      Vertical window "signal" buttons
  Apple TV One more hobby…
    First introduced in September 2006
      Not a big hit
      Users love them but want more:
        Hollywood movies and TV shows on demand
        Everything in HD
        Lower prices
    New AppleTV, same name.
    1/4 the size. It's tiny.
      If it were round you might mistake it for a hockey puck.
      Hockey puck: 3 in diameter, 1 in thick, 6 oz.
      Apple TV: 3.9 in square, 0.9 in thick, 9 oz.
    Black on black design
    Ports: Power, HDMI, Ethernet and Wi-Fi 802.11n
      HDMI supports video and audio
      Micro-USB (for service and support)
    A4 chip
    720p playback and support for Dolby Digital 5.1 surround sound pass-through.
    Apple aluminum remote
    All rentals, no purchases
    No storage - Streaming, no syncing.
    Content pricing
      $4.99 same day movie rentals
      Movies become cheaper as they get older
      $0.99 TV show rentals
        ABC and Fox first
        Hoping others will come on board soon.
      Full pricing
        HD Movies
          New releases - $4.99, Library titles - $3.99
        SD Movies
          New releases - $3.99, Library titles - $2.99
        TV shows
          $0.99 for either HD or SD.
      Content available in 8 countries to start.
        TV Show rentals and Netflix are US only.
        Movies rentals are only available in the US, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Ireland, New Zealand and the United Kingdom.
    Netflix, youTube, Flickr, MobileMe
    Same UI as current AppleTV
    Rotten Tomato ratings and reviews
    AirPlay
      Stream content from iOS device to AppleTV
      Controls to send to AirPlay device
      Works over wi-fi or ethernet connection Apple plans to integrate the technology into speaker docks, AV receivers, and stereo systems from 3rd parties
      Dennon, Marantz, Bowers & Wilkins, and JBL are already announced as partners
      Send data too. Song titles, artists, album names, elapsed and remaining time, and album artwork
    USD $99.00
    Pre-order today, available in 4 weeks
    Updates for older Apple TVs?
      I have an email into Apple PR
      ArsTechnica said they were told no, and that older Apple TVs would continue to operate as they have with rental and purchases remaining the same?
  Odds and ends from todays announcements
    iPod Classic is still with us, but unchanged in design, features or price.
    Clicky mic+control headphones work with all devices, but not standard. Have to buy them for $29 bucks. Obviously mic doesn't do anything on the Shuffle.
    Apple drawing a clear line between iPod and iOS devices
      Video is for iOS, iPod is all about music.
    Rumors left standing
      New or smaller iPad
      iLife 11
      New iPhone, Verizon, etc.
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    Pathfinder 5
    We spend so much of our time on file and folder management. Shouldn't it be the best most full featured app on our system?
    The Finder very often falls short
      Features like tabs, split window browsing are just handy
      Easier to use and understand permissions
      Easy to view invisible files when needed.
    I had the Finder fail to open a password protected ZIP file. Pathfinder handled it just fine.
Feedback, Comments and Commentary
  PDF Images not viewable on iOS 4
    Anthony was having trouble getting a PDF file to view properly in iBooks on his iPhone.
    The strange thing was that I could view the file he sent me on my iPad, but not iPhone
    Text content would load fine
    A check of Good Reader support mentions that newer versions of the iOS don't support PDFs with images compressed using the JPEG 2000 format.
    Good Reader says all you should have to do is open the image in Preview and do a Save As... to get an iOS compatible file.
      Didn't work for me.
      I also couldn't find a way to change the Image Compression using Preview
    Under Save as you can use 'Quartz Filters'
      One is an option to 'Reduce File Size'. This actually applies JPG compression at medium quality to the images, but you can't change it.
    Luckily you can create your own Quartz Filters, but it's not obvious how.
    Use the ColorSync Utility. Applications-->Utilities-->ColorSync
      Open up ColorSync Utility and switch to the “Filters” pane. This will list all of the filters that you currently have available.
      In the lower left, click on the “+” button. This creates a new filter.
      Give the filter a name (I called mine 'Images for iOS'), and press return.
      To the right of the filter’s name, choose the down arrow. A menu will pop up.
      From the pop-up menu, choose “Add Image Effects Component”, and from that menu choose “Image Compression”.
      Adjust the image compression Mode to JPEG.
      Adjust the image compression quality however you prefer. I went with 'Max' to preserve the best image quality. That increased the file size a bit though. You can play with this setting to find the best balance.
      Once you have it set you can quit ColorSync Utility
    Now open the document in Preview to save it out using your new Quartz filter:
      In Preview choose “Save As...” from the file menu
      In the save dialog choose format as PDF
      For the Quartz Filter select the filter you created earlier
      Save the file
    Now you can sync this new file to your iDevice in iBooks, Good Reader, etc, and it should display properly.
  Multiple displays with your Mac
    Play question from Reggie
    Additional hardware graphics cards are your best bet.
      General rule is 1 port, 1 display.
      Macbook only has 1 port, so 1 monitor even with "dual link" DVI which supports 30" display.
        Older Macbook Pros with Express 34 card slots can add video adapters.
      Mac Mini has a HDMI port and a MiniDisplay Port, so 2 monitors are possible.
      Mac Pros have 2 Mini Display Ports and a Dual Link DVI port, so 3 displays. Add a second Video card and you get 6 displays.
    Video breakout boxes
      Matrox dual head to go and triple head 2 go. creates 1 "giant" desktop.
      Display Link USB to DVI adapters.
        Cheaper. Up to 6 displays. Mac Drivers
        Lag a bit. May not be ideal for video, but Display LInk claims full-screen DVD playback over USB 2.0.
  HD video import options in iMovie
    Richard has some video he's importing from HD cameras in iMovie '08 but isn't happy with the quality. Want to know if there is something he can do to improve it.
    A couple things might be going on here
    1st is to check the camera settings
      If possible record source video in progressive mode, not interlaced
      Also see if you can do full 1280 x 1920 resolution.
    Make sure the video is imported at "Full resolution" and not the "Large" which is the default
      There is debate on if this is necessary or not, but if you want the highest quality then try
      If you camcorder records 1080i video at 1440 by 1080 pixels then "Large" should be fine.
      Your file sizes will be larger and editing might not be as smooth
    Know your destination
      Interlacing may be Ok if your output is for TV
      Computers can't deal with interlacing so you get the "lines"
    iMovie has "preview" video that is used when editing
    If you have 1080i video, use the 720p export option (HD) option
      Share-->Export Movie… and choose HD (1280 x 720)
    If you want higher than 720p export and you have 1080i video you'll have to de-interlace yourself
      Full de-interlace instruction here: davidglover.org
      Basically
        Import video at full size
        Edit
        Export using Quicktime and the Apple Intermediate Codec”, at the full res (1920×1080). This will make a giant file (1GB per minute)
        De-interlace the file with JES Deinterlacer
        Do final compression and export with Quicktime Pro 7
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  EOL: Grey's iPhone Anatomy
    Cult of Mac featured this cool illustration by artist Mads Peitersen. It depicts what an iPhone 4 may look like if it's guts spilled out.