All Things Apple
a place for discussions about Apple, Inc. now that Apple is much more than just the Mac
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My dear friend Tom Holman has been hired by Apple to head up all things AUDIO for the company. You can read one of the articles: HERE Notice as well that this is a link to one of the experimental sites I have been working on to possibly replace this site. The post to the forum on that site demonstrates one of the things I like about it: you can paste a web page directly into the message composition area and it preserves the whole page with links and everything (something not possible with this SMF forum).
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Well, I finally have an iPad and what Scott and others have been saying for a long time is true --- this site is not compatible with the iPad!! Bummer. When you want to post a message , you can enter text in the topic Subject box but that's it --- no way to get the cursor into the message body and start typing. I tried using the "Next" button on the iPad but that just cycled through the whole text editor etc., and never arrived at body of the message. This is something I really need to look into now that I have an iPad! I will let you know what I find. Note: one of the new sites that I am considering for other purposes, and maybe to replace this site, has its ow…
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Well, Macrumors claims Kevin Timmons was Microsoft's data center manager, but how does that explain the dust mop in this picture? The Macrumors article is here: http://www.macrumors.com/2011/04/14/apple-hires-microsofts-data-center-manager/
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Hybrid tech site and store MIC Gadget this week quietly unwrapped an adapter to give iPad and iPad 2 owners much-requested card format support. The CF Card Reader for iPad lets photographers with higher-end DSLRs and some older compact cameras load photos and videos directly to either of iPad. Format support on Apple's tablet is currently the limiting factor and currently excludes RAW photos as well as some video formats, primarily those that exceed Apple's official 720p, 30FPS video limit. The reader does take modern UDMA-capable cards, although it will be capped at the USB 2.0 port's speeds. A regular-sized USB port is built-in and will take any device that uses 20mA…
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Not to be mischevious,but......this article in today's 'Observer' (UK) may be of interest http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/mar/06/john-naughton-apple-dominates-market Mutt n' Jeff
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http://www.apple.com/thunderbolt/
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Insight into Steve Jobs' Product-Centric Approach 1985 Interview in Newsweek Magazine Sunday January 23, 2011 01:08 AM EST Written by Arnold Kim for Mac Rumors Early last week, Steve Jobs announced that he was once again taking a medical leave of absence from Apple. The news has been met with understandable concern about his future at the company, and resulted in many a "look back" at Apple over the years. One particularly insightful article is this Newsweek article interviewing Steve Jobs back in 1985 shortly after his ousting from Apple. It's interesting to see how his views and attitudes about product design hasn't changed much in 25 years. Steve Jobs co-found…
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http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2011/01/project-hijack-uses-iphone-audio-jack-to-make-cheap-sensors.ars Hijacking Power and Bandwidth from the Mobile Phone's Audio Interface - Integrated Prototype "Project HiJack is a hardware and software platform for enabling communication between a small, low-power peripheral and an iDevice. The system uses a 22kHz audio signal, which is converted into 7.4mW of power at 47 percent efficiency. That power runs a TI MSP430 microcontroller as well as any attached electronics, and allows the HiJack to communicate with an iOS application. The components to build a HiJack cost as little as $2.34 in significant quantities." -- Jan
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In case there was any doubt, The Wall Street Journal confirms that the Verizon Media Event on January 11th will feature the long rumored Verizon iPhone. The largest U.S. wireless carrier will say Tuesday that Apple Inc.'s iPhone will be available to its subscribers, according to a person familiar with the matter. The Wall Street Journal offers no additional details about when the Verizon iPhone will become available to the public.
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Prominent British international business newspaper Financial Times today announced that it has selected Apple CEO Steve Jobs as its "Person of the Year" for 2010, marking yet another accolade for the company and its leader that have seen remarkable success over the last decade. A rebuttal of F. Scott Fitzgerald's much-quoted aphorism that there are no second acts in American life does not come more decisively than this. When Steven Paul Jobs first hit the headlines, he was younger even than Mark Zuckerberg is now. Long before it was cool to be a nerd, his formative role in popularising the personal computer, and Apple's initial public offering on Wall Street - which ca…
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So my wife wants a new laptop for Christmas. She has finally realized what pieces of crap each of her previous PC laptops have been, and since we are all Apple on everything including our phones, she wants a MacBook. But.... There are a couple of programs (including her software that runs her embroidery machine) that are Windows only. I downloaded a demo of Parallels on our iMac, but couldn't seem to make it work properly. Can someone suggest the best version of Windows and the best "parallel" software to run Windows programs on a new MacBook? Do I have to buy Windows AND the "parallel" software. Any suggestions about getting a full version of Windows inexpens…
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Apple is planning to open its first Dutch retail store in Amsterdam, a local website claims. Citing several sources, One More Thing says that Apple has leased the ground floor and mezzanine of the Hirsch Building, found at Leidseplein 29. Beautiful building. Read more
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I have been using a Mac Mini for Boom Recorder on my cart since 2006. I started out with the first generation that finally bit the dust (probably literally) in 2007 and upgraded to the intel version. However it has been plagued with continual "logic board" failures. By the way "Logic Board" failure seems to be the "fits all" repair solution for misbehaving Macs. Just searching this topic will reveal that just about every brand of mac has had "bad" logic board issues for years. But I digress. The intel Mac Mini had it's logic board replaced in November 2008, then May 2009 and most recently in August 2010. In all cases I was not charged for the repair, I did not have…
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CNET reports that Intel is preparing to launch its Light Peak high-speed computer connection standard as soon as early next year, paving the way for 10 Gbps connections.Light Peak is now on track to appear in products in the first half of 2011--and likely earlier in the year than later, according to an industry source familiar with the progress of the technology. Light Peak is significantly faster than even USB 3.0, carrying data at 10 gigabits per second in both directions simultaneously. Apple is expected to play a key role in the deployment of Light Peak, as the company was said to have played a key role in the development of the technology.. . .Apple is expected to…
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Another example of cheap outsourced labor manufacturing the things Americans want so badly. http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/11/foxconn-photo-gallery/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+wired%2Findex+%28Wired%3A+Index+3+%28Top+Stories+2%29%29&pid=731&viewall=trueWhere the Workers Who Made Your iPhone Sleep At Night
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It's free, works with their wireless timecode receivers (or any LTC timecode source). Looks good as a display for numbers on a cart, scripty, or other non-frame accurate timecode needs (I'm sure the software is solid, but limitation of latency of iPad screen refresh rate? Need to test...). There are some slate applications out there that charge a lot of money for this feature.
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Anyone carry around 2 phones? http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.49004 I wonder if this works?? -Richard
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Cult of Mac recently conducted an interview with former Apple CEO John Sculley, who headed up the computer maker from 1983 until 1993 and on whose watch Steve Jobs was ousted from the company he founded. The interview offers an interesting glimpse into Jobs' perspective on Apple and how his principles of aesthetic design, minimalism, and perfectionism have influenced Apple over its entire existence. Sculley emphasizes Jobs' view of the customer experience, incorporating that perspective into every aspect of product design. But even from their earliest days, Jobs and Apple shied away from focus groups, with Jobs arguing that it was impossible to gain feedback on revolut…
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I used to carry a Leeder portable oscilloscope to check azimuth on my Nagra... how great is it that I can now use my iPhone! Oh, I just remembered, I don't need to check azimuth... oh, well. Oscilloscope for iPad, iPhone and iPod touch
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Thursday September 30, 2010 10:33 AM EST Written by Eric Slivka Hardmac reports that Apple's plans for a thorough overhaul of its Final Cut Studio have "suffered significant setbacks" that will see a release pushed back to 2011 from a rumored goal of a 2010 launch and result in significantly scaled-back changes to the professional-level video production software package. A few months ago we told you that Apple were hoping to release a new version of their Final Cut Studio suite in 2010. It now seems likely that this target has been missed according to one of our sources. The development of this software suite has suffered significant setbacks and it will be necessary …
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I didn't have good luck w/ Toast when I used it a few yrs ago, and went back to burning disks from the finder (DVD-R). No complaints so far. What's better about Toast (re Mac only)? phil p
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no iMovie?
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So, I upgraded to snow leopard a little while ago, and last night I was going to dick around in iMovie. To my surprise, I couldn't find it. Is it not included in snow leopard?
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Solar Charger For iPhone Swiftly Sucks Up The SunThe very concept of keeping an iPhone fully charged? Laughable. But using the sun as a power source? That's positively preposterous. Apparently crazy is on the menu over at Dexim HQ. Their new solar-powered P-Flip promises to juice an iPhone's talk time up to eight hours. The rigging basically looks like a bulky black and camouflage case. You slide the iPhone in (there's a version for BlackBerry schlepers too) and the panels soak up sunlight and transfer it over to the phone's power-hungry battery. While the P-Flip manual claims a full solar charge takes 10-12 hours, Dexim's website says 15 hours. Whatevah! In our testin…
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Tested the timecode stability a software timecode generator on an iPod Touch 3G. Downloaded Pocket Sync, a timecoode generator app from France: http://www.polytonic.fr/ Set Pocket Sync to 25fps / 48KHz. Jammed a GPS calibrated Ambient Master Controller to the Pocket Sync signal via the headphone jack. Drift was approx +0.9 frame per hour. Set Pocket Sync to 30fps / 48KHz. Drift was approx +1.2 frame per hour. Set Pocket Sync to 24fps / 44.1KHz. Drift was approx +0.6 frame per minute! Pocket Sync 29.97 shows up as 30fps drop. Perhaps there are math division errors in dividing the sample clock by the timecode rate. C…
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Is anyone out there using a netbook hackintosh for simple file management or non-critical playback? I recently got OSX running on a Dell Inspiron Mini 10v and so far it appears to work pretty well. A 10" laptop with 6-hour battery that fits on a cart nicely and can be found used for less than the price of a lavalier mic. Is this all too good to be true?
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