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  Opening Music
    Music is "Say Anything" by Manda and the Marbles
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  New Macbook Air impresses the press
    Getting great reviews
    Despite the "downgrade" of the processors performance is improved.
      Performance on new Macbook Air reportedly up to par with 15" Macbook Pros?
        SSD and GPU seems to help over prior gen models.
        Boots in 8 seconds according to the Macworld review
    Many like the second USB port and SD card slot on the 13"
    Has lost the backlit keyboard, not a feature I use too often on my 15" to be honest (turn off to save battery)
    Like the improved screen resolution
      1,440 by 900 pixels on the 13" and 1366 by 768 on the 11"
    Option to have 4GB (this should be standard IMO)
    Have been some early reports of issues
      Kernel panics
      Video issues. “weird colors in vertical lines” extending across the entire screen.
      Hopefully not another NVIDIA video disaster.
      There was the MacBook Air (Late 2010) Software Update 1, addressing wake from sleep and movie playback issues
  iPhoto update addresses data loss
    Apple rushed out iPhoto '11 9.0.1 update to address some customers reporting data loss when upgrading their iPhoto '09 (8.X) libraries
    According to Apple's release notes the issue occurred in "extremely rare cases"
      I had more than a couple reports of the bug.
    Apple recommends installing the update prior to upgrading your Library
      The issue seems to be mostly related to users force quitting the app thinking it's stalled
      For very large libraries, iPhoto '11 may appear to be inactive for several minutes before the progress bar is displayed — do not force quit the application during this period.
      If you have force quit iPhoto '11 during a library upgrade, you should not attempt to open iPhoto '11 or upgrade the library again without first installing the iPhoto 9.0.1 Update.
  My impressions of iLife 11 so far
    Love the full screen mode and info bar in iPhoto
      Also the new controls
      Except the loss of the "Merge/Split" and rotate buttons in the toolbar
    Book and Card templates seem more approachable and easier to work with
    Love the new slideshow options and export feature
    Love the "Add to" and "Share buttons", but took a while to get used to.
    iMovie trailers are fun, but might get old
    Audio editing in iMovie is a nice edition, but wish there was more control. Still need to see if there is improved Garageband round-tripping
    Haven't had a need to use the new garageband features
      Groove Matching and Flextime are serious tools
      New lessons are also welcome.
  iTunes get it's Genius (back) on
    Apple quietly updated the "Ping" sidebar in iTunes 10
    The renamed it the 'iTunes Sidebar'
    Added back in Genius recommendations
    Genius stuff appears below the Ping "Like"/"Post" section and the "Recent Activity".
  No USB 3 on Mac, blame Intel
    Reportedly an inquiry to Jobs via email resulted in this response:
      "we don't see USB 3 taking off at this time." and…
      "no support from Intel,"
    Emails need to be taken with a grain of salt
    Intel has pushed back Lightpeak
      It won't be here until 2012
      10Gbit/sec (USB 3 theoretical max is 5/Gbit/sec)
      It's fiber optic and gets past cable length issues, latency, etc.
      No word on solution for power. Intel trying to bundle copper wire.
    USB 3.0 is here today and will do sustained transfer rates that beat Firewire 800, but maybe not eSATA?
    Apple has all but abandoned FW
      Not supporting new FW standard(s) yet
      Not supporting eSATA or USB 3.0
      No Lightpeak?
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Feedback, Comments and Commentary
  We still want iDVD
    Many of you responded to day that you love iDVD and burn DVDs of your iMovie projects
    I had said I wish Apple would add new features to iDVD to allow it to output on DVD formats compatible with iTunes and AppleTV
    I had been thinking it was one or the other, but there is no reason to do away with DVD burning, at least not yet.
    It could be additive
      iTunes LP, iTunes Extra, and iBook (eBook) compatible files.
      Across the board in iLife. Why not have that iPhoto album as a iBooks eBook.
      Can save iPhoto books as PDF and load them into iTunes, sync with iBooks
        Problem is it's not optimized for iPad.
  Can your iPhoto Library get stale?
    Play comment from Stephen.
  Restore iMovie missing clips
    I have a project where I used clips that I later moved to my external drive.
    I moved the clips the wrong way.
      Don't do it in the Finder (Movies-->iMovie Events)
      Do it in iMovie
        click the Hard Disk button to see all available hard disks listed in your Event Library
        Move the events from one drive to the other. Will ask you if you want to move only the events not used in projects
        Hold the 'Command' key down as you copy the video to have it moved from one location to the other maintaining the project links.
    If you mess up.
      Quit iMovie and move it back to the original location via the Finder
      Re-launch iMovie and move it as described.
    Use aliases
      Hover over the yellow "caution" or number icons to see the path iMove expects the file to be at on the local disk
      Create an alias at that location that point to the source file on the external drive.
  Macbook Air or iPad
    Play comment from Garrett
    For me they are two really different animals, but I've been hearing this comparison a lot.
    Thickness (0.5" on iPad vs 0.68 to 0.11" on the 11" Macbook Air)
    Weight ( 1.5 lbs. vs. 2.3 on the 11" Macbook Air)
    Size
      iPad: 9.56" x 7.47"
      Air: 11.8" x 7.56"
    Price: $699.00 w/ 64GB (iPad), $999.00 w/ 64GB 11" Macbook Air
    Similarities seem to end there
      iOS vs Mac OS X
      USB ports, full keyboard and trackpad, 1.4 GHz Core 2 Duo processor, NVIDIA GeForce 320M graphics.
    iPad has double the battery life.
  Items not streaming to Apple TV
    Ken noticed that his movies had to be checked (in the list view) in iTunes to be able to be seen and streamed to his new Apple TV
    I like many uncheck music and music videos so they don't play on random. You can also prevent unchecked items from syncing to your devices.
    Apparently many are also reporting a bug where the "blue" played/unplayed dot isn't updating properly after playing items on the Apple TV.
  Review: iRig
    Play review from Dave
    iRig
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    Full review on Dave's blog
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