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  Opening Music
    Music is "Say Anything" by Manda and the Marbles
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    DeepFreeze
    Good for any shared computing environment even the home.
      Protect the system from young users while not restricting access to persistent storage.
      You define what gets protected.
    Many hotels, schools, government organizations use DeepFreeze
    Trials available
News
  Verizon iPhone
    Available February 10th
    Specs
      Pretty much the same iPhone 4 with CDMA support
      No SIM and moved antenna gaps
      Mum on data plans and pricing
      Will support "hotspot" feature
    Concenus is that the added "gap" in the antenna design fixes the issues
      Spencer Webb, AntennaSys
      Speculates a top and bottom antenna and software to switch between them to maintain best signal
      Verizion's network actually "requires" dual antennas
      Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and GPS antenna may have moved inside the case
        May be supported by the leaked video with what seemed to be an internal gap in the main frame above the home button?
    AT&T hasn't made fans
      Remember when something 30% of reported new iPhone purchasers were also new to AT&T?
      A December (pre-announcement) Changewave survey shows 16% of AT&T customers will move to Verizon if they had the iPhone
      26% if they already owned an iPhone on AT&T (41% of those said they'd switch in the first 3 months).
    Does the new vPhone have a short lifespan?
      Replaced in June or not?
      I still don't think Apple will do an LTE phone this year.
  Next Gen iPad and iPhone rumors
    New CPU
      According to Engadget the "A8" based on a Dual Core ARM Cortex A-9
        There is also a single core version of the A-9. Dual core may require more power effecting battery.
    New GPU. PowerVR SGX543 from Imagination Technologies
      iOS 4.3 Beta shows driver bundle reference for SGX543
      Apple in 2009 upped it's holdings in Imagination Technologies to 9%
      The current iPhone A4 chip have older PowerVR SGX535 GPU which was also in the 3GS
      The new chips are OpenCL-capable and can reportedly generate 1080HD video without breaking a sweat.
    Move to GSM/CDMA/ baseban from Qualcomm
      No LTE yet
    iPad updates
      Higher resolution display
        Not "retina", but packing more pixel density
        quadruple resolution to 2048x1536, 260ppi indicated by new higer res graphics versions of the iBooks app
      Bigger speaker
      Front and rear camera
      SD Card slot
      More RAM? (256MB)
      Flat back design with tapered edges
  Beatles sell 5 million songs on iTunes
    According to a report on The Loop
    The iTunes Store recently exceeded 5 millions Beatles songs and 1 million Beatles albums sold worldwide.
    Beatles music went on sale November 16th 2010 and a week later it was announced they had sold 2 million songs and 450,000 albums.
    The iTunes deal for digital Beatles track is exclusive and ends in 2011, but Apple won't confirm a date only saying "expiring in 2011".
    A recent rumor suggest that Apple is paying digital royalties directly to the Beatles rather than to the label.
    Abby Road remains the top selling album and "Here Comes the Sun" the top selling track.
  iOS newspaper subscriptions delayed
    Was reported that we were getting clode to an announcement from NewsCorp and Apple about "the Daily"
    According to "All Things D", the service still needs to be tweaked
    Once launched we will finally have a true subscription model in iOS apps
    European report that Apple's is blocking current attemps to offer paid apps that give free access to paid print subscribers
  New features in iOS 4.3
    Reported features
      New Multi-Touch gestures to the iPad.
      No support the iPhone 3G or iPod touch 2G.
      GSM iPhones will get the Personal Hotspot feature with iOS 4.3 (AT&T is a go).
      FaceTime gets a new icon
      iAds can now display in full-screen.
      Physical screen lock switch option. (Yeah!)
      New Messages alert settings and a new font in notes.
        "Noteworthy" replaces "Chalkboard"
      AirPlay support for some H.264 web video
    Rumored features
      Camera app updated, support for iPad 2?
      Photo Booth to iOS devices
      Supports more powerful graphics processors.
      ‘Find my Friends’ feature
      Gestures to replace physical home button
Feedback, Comments and Commentary
  Time Machine with NAS
    John pointed out that he is using a NAS product just fine with 2 Macs and TimeMachine
      NAS from Synology (model DS209)
      Configuration has a single checkbox to enable the feature.
    I looked into this further based on John's email
      There are many NAS products that claim to be Time Machine Compatible
        Drobo, Synology, QNAP, etc.
      Apple doesn't offically support back to NAS other than TimeCapsule
      Even on a supported NAS check the requirements
        Need to enable AFP
        Typically need to format the whole device or at least a share (disk image?) as HFS+
        Some only allow one TM AFP share, so if using with multiple Macs adust size accordingly
        If you need a larger share, may need to recreate which means re-formatting. If your sharing the TM share this could be an issue.
  How I set up Time Machine
    Go through what I backup and how I set it up
    Reminder about adding exclusions when adding new externals
    Additional options when you hold the 'Option' key and click menubar icon
      Verify Backups for Time Capsule-based Time Machine backups
      Browse other Time Machine Disks
  Create new 'Empty' album in iPhoto '11
    OK, this one has been annoying me to no end and an email from David prompted me to look into it.
    Choosing New Album (Command+N) in iPhoto results in a new album with whatever items are selected in iPhoto at the time
      This includes if you have entire Albums, Events, or even the entire Library selected.
      Same goes for using the new 'Create' button in the "lower" menu bar.
    The fix is to hold the 'Shift' key
      Then the menu becomes 'New Empty Album'
      Command+Shift+N
      Doesn't seem to work when using the 'Create' menu bar button
    Seems similar to the change Apple made in the Finder. Command+N = 'New Finder Window' instead of new folder. Have to remember the "shift" since Apple "shifted" it on us.
  Physical control for iPod Touch
    Play comment from Greg
    I don't think you'll damage the iPod
    Don't need to slide to unlock. Double tap from lock screen to bting up iPod controls.
    Use the iPod Touch headphones with the in-line controls.
    Can get 3rd party adapters with controls
      Griffin Smart Talk adapter
    Could get an dedicated iPod Shuffle
  Dock hacks
    I've done a couple "What's in your Dock" member episodes
    Ken told me about a cool utility called "Deeper" from Titanium Software (Onyx)
    Uses PLIST hacks to enable or disable hidden features.
      enable
    Ken mentions "invisible" spacers, but go over options.
    Keyboard control dock
      Control+F3 to focus on Dock
      Arrows or Tabs to move selection
      Spacebar to select or open
      Up arrow to bring up menu, including options.
      Stacks have roll over highlighting in 'grid view'
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