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    Music is "Say Anything" by Manda and the Marbles
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    Notebook for Mac and iPad
    Collecting disparate bits of data and info.
      Redecorating a room
      Web links, photos of samples, notes, to do lists, diagrams, scanned receipts & pdfs
      Separate sections for a whole house
    Free trial of Notebook for the desktop.
News
  Apple opens up subscriptions
    Publishers can offer outside payments, but also need to support in-app at the same price
    Have until June 30th to comply
      Kindle and other eBook apps may have issue
      Unsure about services like Hulu or Netflix.
    Apple features
      review and manage all of their subscriptions from their personal account page, including canceling the automatic renewal of a subscription
      Apple takes 30%
      Publishers can can choose to provide free access to existing subscribers who buy outside the app (but I assume would be required to offer in app purchases).
      Publishers may no longer provide links in their apps (to a web site, for example) which allow the customer to purchase content or subscriptions outside of the app
    Privacy and information
      When purchasing a subscription through the App Store will be given the option of providing the publisher with their name, email address and zip code when they subscribe.
      Information will be used under the publishers privacy policy
      Publishers can request additional if the customer opts in
    Elle and Popular Science already updated
      Includes "free" digital option for existing subscribers
    Reactions haven't been all too positive
    Google countered with OnePass
  iWeb 3.0.3 and Aperture 3.1.1 Updates
    iWeb 3.0.3
      Addresses an issue when using the iSight Movie widget on certain Macs
      Addresses an issue publishing iWeb sites using FTP
      Improves compatibility with Mac OS X
    Aperture 3.1.1
      Addresses overall stability/performance issues
      Fixes for compatibility with the iLife Media Browser
      Improves reliability when upgrading existing Aperture libraries
      Addresses issues with publishing photos to MobileMe, Facebook and Flickr.
    iWork '11 soon?
      Posted as available on February 19th on Best Buy's Mexico site
  New Macbook Pro rumors
    Possibly due in March
    Injection molded unibody case using the LiquidMetal technology
      Up to 20% lighter
    20% better battery life
    Using Intel's Sandy Bridge technology
      Had issues related to SATA controllers
      Possibly delayed Macbook Pros
    Lower pricing
    Modular Bays
      Allow for easy swapping of optical or SSD, SATA
  iPhone 5 speculation, smaller iPhone
    iPhone 5
      Rumors of a larger 4" screen
        Would be edge to edge or need a larger form factor than the iPhone 4
        Doesn't make sense to me.
      NFC support
        Deutsche Telekom showed a slide on NFC support with an image of an iPhone
      Faster processor (A5), based on ARM Cortex A9 design
      Better battery
      Better camera
        OmniVision did announce an 8MP sensor (OV8830) that would "drop in" to the iPhone 4 design.
        Backside illumination
        1080p support
        Still the pixel sizes would be smaller and that brings noise (esp. in low light).
          OmniVision says the OV8830 has a 35% improvement in low light
          Still won't beat the current 5MP sensor
      Slide out keyboard (No way)
    Smaller iPhone "Mini"?
      Complete with other entry level smartphones
      Less storage or in-cloud only
        mobile me with media streaming
        Would need unlimited data from carriers, right?
    Apple said to be spending $7.8 billion with Samsung in 2011
      Screens and Flash memory
      Mobile processors
      LCD displays for Macbooks and Macbook Pros
  Disappointing ViPhone Sales
    BGR did some informal checks of 5 Apple retail stores (approx 1,500 from each store)
    ViPhone barely outselling the AT&T version?
    Pre-orders were reportedly 550,000 units.
    Converter numbers:
      14% from AT&T
      30% from Android and 25% from Blackberry
    Verizon (according to Bloomberg) is happy with sales so far, but won't give numbers
    Reports are that Verizon is handling any new data traffic just fine.
  Apple's 2011 Suppler Responsibility report
    2011 Supplier Responsibility Progress Report
    Apple has upped the number of audits almost 25%
      40% of the companies they audited said Apple was the only company to do so.
    Reports of underage workers, chemical poisonings, etc.
    Apple is at least doing more that most, but it's likely still not good enough.
    Nets and counseling for Foxconn workers, but the conditions aren't changing much.
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  The iPads Mac dependency
    Play comment from Mike
    Backup and updating software is really the only reason I can see.
  Converting iTunes track from Chinese
    Play question from John
    Need to crowd-source this one.
  Quick tip: Spotlight Math
    I know we've talked about it before, but here are some more tricks
    Command+C will copy result to clipboard
    Supports advanced math operators
      ^ or pow() to do "power of"
      pi, cos(), sqrt()
      In Terminal type: 'man math' (spacebar to advance, q to exit).
  iPhone Password hacking explained
    Fraunhofer iPhone security report (PDF)
    Play interview with George
    George Starcher
    Typical Mac User
    Mac OS Ken
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  New Music
    "Shine" by Kevin Reeves
    From Music Alley
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  EOL: Invisible iPhone 4
    OK not quite as cool as an invisible jet or man, but loosen a couple screws and add some paint thinner and you got yourself a window into your iPhone 4 (via Cult of Mac).