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		<title>Apple releases iOS 5 &#8211; everything you need to know</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2011 22:22:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>As promised, Apple dropped iOS 5 to everyone this morning. This new update to the iPhone, iPod, and iPad brings a lot of new features to Apple&#8217;s mobile devices, some which were sorely needed.</p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As promised, Apple dropped iOS 5 to everyone this morning. This new update to the iPhone, iPod, and iPad brings a lot of new features to Apple&#8217;s mobile devices, some which were sorely needed.</p>
<p><strong>Custom messaging ringtones</strong></p>
<p>Originally, iOS only allowed you to assign ringtones to people in your address book. Now you can assign custom ringtones to events such as text tones, email sending and receiving, tweets, and voice mail.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.geekistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Ringtones.png"><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2253" title="Ringtones" src="http://www.geekistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Ringtones-200x300.png" alt="" width="200" height="300" /></a></p>
<p><strong>Double-tap the home button while locked for camera and iPod access</strong></p>
<p>The one thing that annoyed me the most about the iPhone was the time it took to get to the Camera app. You had to unlock your phone, click the Camera app icon, and wait for the aperture to open. Now, all you have to do is double-tap the home button and you have instant access to the Camera app. You also have limited access to your music.</p>
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<p><strong>Notifications</strong></p>
<p>One major annoyance about iOS in the past was the way the phone handled notifications. If you got more than one, there was no way to look at the history of the notification that were sent to you. Now, you&#8217;re shown all your notifications on your home screen that came in since the last time you checked. What&#8217;s better is you can now swipe down from the top of your screen and see a longer notification history. You also get a scrolling stock ticker at the bottom of the notifications list.</p>
<p>If you get a notification while using your phone, instead of a giant dialog box intruding on your work, the top 100 pixels or so will &#8220;rotate&#8221; down like the answers in Family Feud, and display your notification that way. You can then choose to tap the notification to read it, or simply ignore it.</p>
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<p><strong>iMessage</strong></p>
<p>Instead of sending messages over SMS, Apple has created a new system called iMessage which allows you to send text, pics, and movies to anyone else that has iOS 5 with iMessage. Now you no longer have to send messages over the clunky SMS system, you can do it all over 3G and Wifi. You can even send messages to multiple people. If the person you&#8217;re sending the message to has iMessage as well, their name has a blue bubble. If not, they have a green bubble.</p>
<p><strong>Reminders</strong></p>
<p>Originally, all you could do in iOS to remind yourself about anything was to use the Notes app. Now, iOS 5 has a Reminders app that not only keeps your list of reminders, but also pushes everything to iCloud, so it wirelessly syncs across all your devices. You can set priorities, and tell Reminders how often to remind you about your&#8230;reminder.</p>
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<p><strong>Photo Stream</strong></p>
<p>When you take a picture on your iPhone, or add one to your iPhoto library on your Mac, it&#8217;s automatically sent to all your devices.</p>
<p><strong>Camera updates</strong></p>
<p>One of the first things you&#8217;ll notice when you launch the Camera app is the grid lines it puts up by default. This is an excellent way to make sure your pictures are as straight as possible. Nobody wants their pictures to look crooked, as if they were taken in a villain&#8217;s lair from the old Batman TV show. HDR is also an option now so that you can take the high dynamic range pictures along with regular pictures.</p>
<p>Some people didn&#8217;t like that you had to touch the camera icon in the Camera app to take the picture because it was in an awkward position, so you can now use the volume up button on the iPhone 4 to snap the picture.</p>
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<p><strong>Software updates over the air</strong></p>
<p>While beta testing iOS over the last few months,<br />
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<p> I was able to update iOS over the air. I found that iOS will pull the update for you and let you know when it&#8217;s ready so that you don&#8217;t have to wait for it to download. You can, of course, do it manually. I was at a concert one evening when I got the notification that there was a new update available. I told my iPhone to proceed and was updated in less than 15 minutes. The downside is that if something does go wrong, you want to be close to your computer to restore from a recent backup. I would suggest not doing an over the air update unless you&#8217;re backed up and near a computer in case something goes wrong.</p>
<p><strong>Sync and backup over Wifi</strong></p>
<p>This is one feature that&#8217;s long overdue. I didn&#8217;t like that I had to attach my phone to my Mac every time I wanted to do a backup. Now, you can tell your iPhone to do its backup over Wifi. It has to be done over the local network where your computer resides, or at least have some kind of VPN access to it over the Wifi network you&#8217;re connected to.</p>
<p>While some people might not think that iOS 5 is a major upgrade, I saw a lot of little things that I absolutely love about it. iTunes Match won&#8217;t be ready for another few weeks, so watch here for our review of that service.</p>
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		<title>Episode 60 is up, &#8220;Flanel was cool!&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2011 15:58:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>Is any kind of piracy ok?</p>
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<p>Did you get your HP Touchpad?</p>
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<p>Steve Jobs stepping down as CEO</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Apple&#8217;s newest update for Mac OS X is here: Lion. As with all Mac OS X updates, Apple promises hundreds of new features. Some will be well known, others will be more obscure. This article will go through some of the more useful features, as well as some of the different ways Lion will interact with you.</p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Apple&#8217;s newest update for Mac OS X is here: Lion. As with all Mac OS X updates, Apple promises hundreds of new features. Some will be well known, others will be more obscure. This article will go through some of the more useful features, as well as some of the different ways Lion will interact with you.</p>
<p><strong>Installation</strong></p>
<p>Unlike previous installations of Mac OS X, Apple now requires Lion to be installed after downloading it from the App Store. There&#8217;s no physical DVD version of Lion. This can be a problem for people that like to do clean installs of operating systems on any platform. You can put Lion on a DVD or thumb drive, but then how do you boot the Mac into that image of Lion? With a physical disc you can tell Mac OS X to boot from it in the Startup Disk System Preference, press Option when the Mac boots to select which partition you want to boot from, or press &#8216;C&#8217; when the Mac boots to boot from a disc, but when there&#8217;s no bootable version of an OS, what can you do?</p>
<p>If you want to try to create a bootable Lion disk, Egg Freckles has <a href="http://eggfreckles.net/tech/burning-a-lion-boot-disc/">a tutorial here</a>. If you can wait, Apple will be selling a USB drive with Lion on it for $69 in August.</p>
<p>Whether you install clean or if you install over Snow Leopard depends on your needs, and how much hard drive space you have. I personally like starting clean because it gives me the ability to use only what I need. What I installed at the start of one OS&#8217;s life may not be what I need at the next one&#8217;s. If you install over an old OS, you keep most of your settings (mouse, keyboard, etc.). However, there may be some problems with the OS lurking in the background which may or may not come to light immediately. I personally like starting clean.</p>
<p><strong>Scroll wheel and trackpad settings are inverted</strong></p>
<p>The first thing that I had to change in Lion was inverting the scroll wheel on my mouse. Lion is trying to mimic the iPad&#8217;s gestures, so scrolling down moves the content down which is reverse of what every other OS does. Even the trackpad setting is backwards.</p>
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<p><strong>Safari</strong></p>
<p>Apple&#8217;s own browser Safari has been updated as well. It&#8217;s noticeably faster and boasts many new features. What&#8217;s noticeable right off the bat is the change to the download window. When you download files in the browser, Safari now has a small download indicator in the upper right hand corner of the browser window. Rather than using a separate window for your downloads, you simply click on the indicator icon and it lists the files that were downloaded for that session.</p>
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<p>The arrows in the upper right hand corner make the browser window full screen.</p>
<p>I tried Lion with Google Hangouts and it had a problem saving the settings for my audio and video devices. Some people have reported that problem with Snow Leopard, but I didn&#8217;t see that problem at all in SL.</p>
<p>You can now read articles in Lion in a reader format by clicking on the &#8220;Reader&#8221; icon in the address bar. Safari will show you your article in a cleaner format without all the distractions. If you want, you can add the article to a reading list which can be accessed by clicking on the eyeglass icon on the left side of the bookmark bar.</p>
<p><strong>Launchpad</strong></p>
<p>Launchpad is Apple&#8217;s way of putting the familiar iPad home screen on the Mac. When you go to Launchpad, all your applications are there for you. It&#8217;s a nice way to not have to go to your Applications folder or your dock for those apps you use less frequently.</p>
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<p><strong>Auto-save and Versions</strong></p>
<p>Lion now gives you the ability to save versions of documents without the need for other apps to keep track of them. When you&#8217;re running an app, you have the ability to click on the document title and select which version of the document you want to load.</p>
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<p>When you click on &#8220;Browse All Versions&#8230;&#8221;, you get a Time Machine-like interface which allows you to browse the versions you created.</p>
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<p><strong>Resume</strong></p>
<p>Lion gives you the ability to resume where you left off in a document. While this may seem like a good feature, it&#8217;s not if someone is looking over your shoulder when you&#8217;re firing up something you don&#8217;t want them to see. To turn if off, go into System Preferences-&gt;Appearance and uncheck &#8220;Restore windows when quitting and reopening apps&#8221;.</p>
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<p><strong>Where are the hard drive icons?</strong></p>
<p>When you do a clean install of Lion, by default it hides your drives from the desktop. Go to the Finder preferences to bring them back.</p>
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<p><strong>Loading your old iTunes library</strong></p>
<p>If your installing a clean copy of Lion, you can pull in your old iTunes library by holding down the option key when launching iTunes. It will ask which library you want to load. Point it to your old library and it will pull it in.</p>
<p>Final thoughts</p>
<p>As with any new OS release for any computer, jumping in may not be the best thing for everyone. As I stated before I&#8217;m already having problems with Google Hangouts and some .dmg files won&#8217;t open. The Console app, which I depend on for critical OS messages, doesn&#8217;t have a &#8220;Console Messages&#8221; section, just &#8220;All Messages&#8221; which gets noisy.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m impressed with Lion so far, I&#8217;m just going to have to wait for a few things to get fixed before a move to it full time, just as it took me a while for me to move to Snow Leopard because some drivers weren&#8217;t updated for it yet.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ll be posting updates for Mail once I get settled in Lion.</p>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jun 2011 22:32:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Gaines</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Music in the cloud seems to be the Next Big Thing on the internet. First Amazon gave it a shot, then Google announced a beta of their service, and Apple announced theirs two years after acquiring music service Lala. As usual, Google slowly rolled out their beta invites, but this time I seem to have gotten an invite sooner than their other services. Is Google nervous?</p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Music in the cloud seems to be the Next Big Thing on the internet. First Amazon gave it a shot, then Google announced a beta of their service, and Apple announced theirs two years after acquiring music service Lala. As usual, Google slowly rolled out their beta invites, but this time I seem to have gotten an invite sooner than their other services. Is Google nervous?</p>
<p>Google requires that you download a Music Manager application so that you can upload music to your Google Music account. While setting up, Google asks you what music you want since it will add some files to your folder for you. Very nice, I&#8217;ll take some AC/DC, please.</p>
<p>After you install and run the app, it asks you to log in and which folder you want to upload music from: iTunes, Music, or Other. At first I told it to upload my iTunes folder (17,000+ songs) just to see how well it worked. It scanned the files fine, and then&#8230;.disappeared. I thought the app crashed. It turns out that on the Mac, the app changes to a System Preference pane without telling the user. Also, it uploads in the background even when you select &#8220;Upload Manually&#8221;. Some people have bandwidth caps and I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s a good idea for Google to put together any kind of app that could strain a user&#8217;s connection without easily giving them a status icon in the system toolbar on the top of the screen.</p>
<p>After finally finding the preference pane, I found there was no way to stop the upload without logging out of the system or changing the folder to upload from. I was hoping that there&#8217;d be a pause button in case I wanted to clear up some upload bandwidth. Granted, on a 35/35 connection I shouldn&#8217;t need to do that, and I think I&#8217;m an odd case where uploading media would be a problem just for me, but it would still be nice for power users like myself. The app itself seems clunky. From my experience, it feels like a wxWindows app, an API wrapper that allows you to write once for Mac and Windows systems. I wouldn&#8217;t be surprised if this app was in fact written in wxWindows.</p>
<p>I felt that uploading my entire library would be a complete waste of time and effort so I decided to log out of the system to stop the upload, and tell Google Music to only upload from two folders: Nine Inch Nails and Steve Roach. I wanted to hear how the music sounds on hard rock and ambient music.</p>
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<p>During the upload, Music Manager told me that 57 songs were skipped. It turns out that some of them had DRM due to buying them on iTunes, and all of NIN&#8217;s &#8220;Ghosts&#8221; wouldn&#8217;t work because Google Music doesn&#8217;t support either .wave files, or the format of the .wav files (24/96).</p>
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<p>Now that I have  good amount of music in my Google Music library, I decided to take some of the tracks for a spin. One thing I noticed while uploading was that the playback was very choppy. It&#8217;s definitely not my connection, so I have to attribute it to either Google&#8217;s servers or my CPU doing enough to stutter the playback. I shut down all my apps and windows in Safari and the choppiness persisted, but only for a while. As I write this, I haven&#8217;t heard any chop for about ten minutes. I&#8217;m not going to make an effort to determine where the choppiness came from, but it was worth noting. Another problem with the system is that live albums like NIN &#8220;And All That Could Have Been&#8221; aren&#8217;t played back without gaps. There&#8217;s a gap of at least three seconds between songs which means that it&#8217;s not caching any of the music as it plays.</p>
<p><strong>UPDATE:</strong> The problem seems to be with the way Safari distributes cycles to its own windows. If I fire up a web site with a lot of objects in it, leave it up for about thirty seconds, and close it, the music stutters a lot while the window is closing.</p>
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<p>Songs have an icon which, when clicked, brings up a drop down menu that allows you to add the song to a playlist, delete the song, edit the song info, or shop the song. This icon isn&#8217;t available for albums or artists for some reason. If you select &#8220;shop&#8221;, you&#8217;re brought to a Google page where you can buy music from the artist. There doesn&#8217;t seem to be an actual Google store.</p>
<p>Control over the music doesn&#8217;t seem to work with standard keyboard controls such as the left and right arrows for skipping and the spacebar for pausing. This is mostly a problem for Mac and Windows users that have keyboards with specific controls for their music apps, Google Music won&#8217;t work with them.</p>
<p>The Settings for Google Music don&#8217;t offer much except the ability to deauthorize one of your devices. According to the page, you can authorize up to eight devices and have a maximum of 20,000 songs.</p>
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<p>One serious problem I found is that when I want to pause music, I have to figure out what window or tab has the music player. There are ways to handle that such as putting everything in its own window in an easily accessible area of your screen, but if that&#8217;s behind two or three windows, it can get hard to find and become quite an annoyance.</p>
<p>Google hasn&#8217;t yet announced pricing on their service, but for someone like myself with a massive library, buying a hard drive-based iPod and keeping it up to date may be a more practical alternative.</p>
<p>I have to say that I like the idea of streaming all my music from anywhere I have a connection, but in time it can eat bandwidth. Apple&#8217;s service as we currently know it will require you to download the songs you want in the cloud to your device which is a nice alternative since you don&#8217;t have to keep streaming the same song over and over, and your device does have storage. Storage is cheap, and keeping all my music on at least one hard drive that isn&#8217;t dependent on an internet connection is quite appealing. Access is fast, and iTunes is as good of a music manager as I can find.</p>
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		<title>Music in the Cloud with iTunes 10.3</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jun 2011 14:26:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Gaines</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Late last night, iTunes 10.3 dropped to the internet after waiting hours for the 10.2.2 update to change. Visually, there isn&#8217;t much different about iTunes 10.3 compared to 10.2, but it has one special feature and that&#8217;s the ability to pull music that you bought from iTunes onto an iOS device that didn&#8217;t have all your music synced with it yet. While this isn&#8217;t quite the full iTunes Match we were all hoping for, it&#8217;s still a useful feature for those of us that might have bought music over different devices and never synced them up.</p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Late last night, iTunes 10.3 dropped to the internet after waiting hours for the 10.2.2 update to change. Visually, there isn&#8217;t much different about iTunes 10.3 compared to 10.2, but it has one special feature and that&#8217;s the ability to pull music that you bought from iTunes onto an iOS device that didn&#8217;t have all your music synced with it yet. While this isn&#8217;t quite the full iTunes Match we were all hoping for, it&#8217;s still a useful feature for those of us that might have bought music over different devices and never synced them up.</p>
<p>For example, I would sometimes buy music at work. In order to use that music at home, I&#8217;d have to remember to copy the songs to my iPod&#8217;s file system manually, and then drag the files off the iPod to my computer at home later that day. Now, when you buy music from the iTunes store, that music is available for download from iCloud on any of your iOS devices.</p>
<p>When you go to the iTunes home page, you&#8217;ll see a new item called &#8220;Purchased&#8221;. This gives you a list of all the music you&#8217;ve ever bought, and whether it&#8217;s on your current device or not.</p>
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<p>From the Purchased screen, you can see all the music that you&#8217;ve bought by selecting &#8220;All&#8221;, or just the music that&#8217;s missing on the current device by pressing &#8220;Not In My Library&#8221;.</p>
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<p>Most desktop users won&#8217;t see much missing from the &#8220;Not In My Library&#8221; menu, but as you can see here, there was one album I never moved over to my desktop library from when I bought it at work. From here I can re-download the album.</p>
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<p>This first step into moving the music to the cloud is an important one. While this isn&#8217;t the music streaming service we had hoped for, I believe we&#8217;ll get there eventually. I would think that cell carriers wouldn&#8217;t be too pleased with all that data going across their systems just yet. Device storage space is cheap, and while I&#8217;d personally like a streaming option, this is a great alternative.</p>
<p>When iTunes Match is released in the fall, which allows you to match music you own to music on Apple&#8217;s servers, and upload your music they don&#8217;t have for $24.99/yr., then I&#8217;ll get excited. There are so many times I&#8217;ve wanted an album with me in the car only to find that I didn&#8217;t sync it with my iPhone. Now I&#8217;ll be able to download it when I want.</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Feb 2011 23:19:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Gaines</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>For years I&#8217;ve been asking people in the music industry &#8220;why can&#8217;t we get 24-bit or at least CD-quality lossless music online?&#8221;. Nobody could answer that, and knowing how the music business works, it&#8217;s no surprise that it took this long for someone to wake up and do the right thing.</p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>For years I&#8217;ve been asking people in the music industry &#8220;why can&#8217;t we get 24-bit or at least CD-quality lossless music online?&#8221;. Nobody could answer that, and knowing how the music business works, it&#8217;s no surprise that it took this long for someone to wake up and do the right thing.</p>
<p>When CDs were introduced in the early 80&#8242;s, they were marketed as having better sound because they were digital versus their analog vinyl counterparts. The reality is that CDs cut off the music at 16 bits, so although the CD was portable and dust-proof, it was still limited in sound quality when compared to vinyl.</p>
<p>With the digital age, I was hoping for years that we&#8217;d finally get 24-bit copies of the music we want to buy. Sure, some people won&#8217;t care because they listen with their earbuds, but for people like myself that invested a lot into audio playback, this is something I&#8217;ve wanted for a long time.</p>
<p>CNN is <a href="http://edition.cnn.com/2011/TECH/web/02/22/24.bit.music/" target="_blank">reporting</a> that Jimmy Iovine, a long-time record executive, is working with Apple to bring 24-bit quality music to the iTunes store. &#8220;We&#8217;ve gone back now at Universal, and we&#8217;re changing our pipes to 24 bit. And Apple has been great,&#8221; Iovine said. &#8220;We&#8217;re working with them and other digital services &#8212; download services &#8212; to change to 24 bit. And some of their electronic devices are going to be changed as well. So we have a long road ahead of us.&#8221;</p>
<p>This means that right now, playback on some devices isn&#8217;t possible. I&#8217;ve synced my library with some devices that tell me the 24-bit music I have which works on my Mac won&#8217;t work on older iPods. That&#8217;s ok for now, but it&#8217;s going to be an issue moving forward, especially for third party devices if you want to play 24-bit music through them.</p>
<p>As for the cost, a CD at my local Best Buy costs about $13-$15, and that same album is about $10 on iTunes. I&#8217;d easily pay CD prices for a 24-bit digital download of that same album without blinking. It&#8217;s been said for years that CDs were overpriced so why not finally get master quality for that same price?</p>
<p>I&#8217;m hoping this happens sooner rather than later. I implore anyone that&#8217;s interested in music to find a friend or a store with a good setup and listen to the differences between CD and vinyl, or a 24-bit audio file and see if you can tell the difference. If you can, perhaps you&#8217;ll be more interested in higher quality music.</p>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Sep 2010 16:46:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Gaines</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>When Apple announced its new Ping service on Wednesday, I was ecstatic. Most people use Myspace to find and share music, but I didn&#8217;t like Myspace at all. In fact I don&#8217;t even have a Myspace account. Integrating iTunes with a music-based social media network felt like two things that went well together &#8211; like chocolate and peanut butter.</p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>When Apple announced its new Ping service on Wednesday, I was ecstatic. Most people use Myspace to find and share music, but I didn&#8217;t like Myspace at all. In fact I don&#8217;t even have a Myspace account. Integrating iTunes with a music-based social media network felt like two things that went well together &#8211; like chocolate and peanut butter.</p>
<p>iTunes 10 dropped for us around 10pm on Wednesday night. I quickly downloaded it, set up my Ping account, and was completely underwhelmed. At first it just gave me a list of artists to follow. I followed Lady Gaga, and that was about it for me. What I was expecting was a service similar to last.fm where the songs you&#8217;re currently listening to are listed in your friends&#8217; feed. Although this feature wasn&#8217;t stated during Steve&#8217;s keynote, it just seemed like a logical extension of an iTunes-based social network.</p>
<div id="attachment_1964" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://www.geekistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/ping1.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-1964" title="ping1" src="http://www.geekistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/ping1-300x290.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="290" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">There needs to be an option to not list these people</p></div>
<p>Ping gives you a list of genres to pick from, but you can only select three. I found this to be extremely limiting since I listen to a wide range of music types. I had to settle for the three I listen to the most, but would have liked five, or more.</p>
<p>I tried liking albums in my library, but I found that you can&#8217;t do that from your library. Despite what Apple claims about this being a social network, it&#8217;s more than that &#8211; it&#8217;s more about turning its users into promotional tools, and they prove that by forcing you to like items that are only in the iTunes Store. That means I can&#8217;t like anything by AC/DC, nor can I like &#8220;The Wall&#8221; since it&#8217;s not in the iTunes Store.</p>
<p>Liking albums and songs aren&#8217;t very well thought out either. In order to like an album or song, you need to go to it in the iTunes Store, and then click on the little triangle next to the price. There you&#8217;ll find the &#8220;Like&#8221; item. The same goes for songs, just click on the triangle next to the price for the same menu.</p>
<p><em><strong>Pro tip:</strong></em> If you want to Like albums by a specific artist, search for that artist and click on &#8220;Show All&#8221;. There, you&#8217;ll see all the albums by that artist, and it&#8217;ll be much easier to click on the triangles of the albums you want to like.</p>
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<p>Once I liked a bunch of albums, I took a look at my own feed. It was nothing but a list of individual &#8220;likes&#8221; for each album. I was hoping to maybe see them bunched up, but I think Apple set it up that way so you can post comments on each one. The problem is that it looks spammy, and if you like more than ten albums, the list starts to fall off since it only shows you ten per page. I would like to have a section for each artist or genre I like. There, people can see all the Rush or Nine Inch Nails or Iron Maiden albums I like.</p>
<p>I remember seeing that Ping allows you to see what concerts your friends are going to. I clicked on &#8220;Concerts&#8221; in the Rush section above and the show I&#8217;m going to tonight was listed. You can click on a button called &#8220;I&#8217;m going!&#8221; and the concert will be listed on your profile.</p>
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<p>After Krissi and I tested the system out for about an hour, I was very unimpressed. This is supposed to be a music-based social network! I want to know what people are listening to, what their favorite albums are, what praises they&#8217;ve sung for specific songs, and have it all grouped by genre or artist. I&#8217;d also like a list of matching favorites; I may not know that someone listens to NIN also. Friends should also feature albums to their friends with a post saying &#8220;this is why I think this album is freakin&#8217; awesome!&#8221;. You can add a post to an album, but once that liked album falls off the current list, friends won&#8217;t see it unless they find it on the page it&#8217;s on. I&#8217;d also like Apple to allow us to list albums that aren&#8217;t on the iTunes store. Not only does that limit what I can post, but it makes the service as a whole seem a little disingenuous since I feel they only made this to sell music, and not because they love music as they claim.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ll continue to use Ping, but I&#8217;m not as excited about it now as I was two days ago. Apple should listen to its userbase now that they&#8217;re in this space and build the network to something that we&#8217;d all expect from Apple.</p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s that time of year-the leaves turn color, sports bars start to fill up again, and Apple announced a media event. As always, there&#8217;s speculation about new iPods and what may come of the iPad, but I&#8217;m more interested in one thing: iTunes. Ever since Apple bought Lala early this year, I&#8217;ve been eagerly awaiting to see what Apple did with the technology.</p>
<p>What set Lala apart from the other services was that it had a library of music on its servers, and matched your music with theirs. If you owned a track, you and you could listen to that track whenever you wanted. If Lala didn&#8217;t have it on their servers, you could upload the track to them. This allowed you to put your entire music library in the cloud, and not worry about storage since Lala already owned a lot of music themselves.</p>
<p>There were two flaws to this service. One, you needed a WiFi device in order to stream your music away from your computer. Even though I have an iPhone, I use my iPod every day simply because it has much more storage and the volume&#8217;s a little louder on it. The second flaw was that there was no iPhone app, and since Lala relied on Flash, there was no way to stream the audio to your iPhone/iPod Touch, even if you wanted to. An app was in the works, but scrapped after Apple bought Lala.</p>
<p>Apple also once allowed users to stream music from their Macs, treating them like servers, but once Apple got wind of how users were using the service to share music outside its intended scope, Apple turned that feature off, leaving it only for a closed network. A Lala-based service could bring that service back without worry of sharing the music outside its intended recipients.</p>
<p>So that brings us to today. iTunes is up to version 9.2, and hasn&#8217;t had a major upgrade since 09/09/09. iTunes 8 had a one-year lifespan, so it&#8217;s possible that iTunes will get bumped to iTunes 10 (X?), and feature a streaming service. The new music streaming service Rdio got a lot of traction recently, but I haven&#8217;t signed up simply because I wanted to see if Apple would come up with something. It looks like we may see the fruits of that on Sept. 1.</p>
<p>Oh, and I also predict cameras in iPod Touches.</p>
<p>What are your thoughts on this? How would it affect both WiFi and home bandwidth? Could this be banned by workplaces? Talk about it <a href="http://geekistry.com/forums/showthread.php?p=14857">in our forums</a>.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Computers weren&#8217;t very exciting in 1984. Their graphics were blocky and didn&#8217;t have many colors, there wasn&#8217;t much of a user interface unless you liked staring at a blinking cursor, and sound was tinny 8-bit. While watching the Super Bowl that year, some people caught a glimpse of a 30-second commercial for what seemed to be&#8230;.a new movie? A TV show? No, it was Apple&#8217;s first commercial for the Macintosh.</p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Computers weren&#8217;t very exciting in 1984. Their graphics were blocky and didn&#8217;t have many colors, there wasn&#8217;t much of a user interface unless you liked staring at a blinking cursor, and sound was tinny 8-bit. While watching the Super Bowl that year, some people caught a glimpse of a 30-second commercial for what seemed to be&#8230;.a new movie? A TV show? No, it was Apple&#8217;s first commercial for the Macintosh.</p>
<p>Men, walking in single file with no expression on their faces, are penned in a giant room with a screen at the end of it. On screen is a man, dictating to his people what has come out of the company they work for:</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong><em>Today we celebrate the first glorious anniversary of the Information Purification Directives.</em></strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong><em>We have created for the first time in all history a garden of pure ideology,</em></strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong><em>where each worker may bloom, secure from the pests of any contradictory true thoughts.</em></strong></p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Outside, a lone woman carrying a hammer is running from the hallway into the giant room. She&#8217;s being chased by what seems to be storm troopers, dressed in black.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong><em>Our Unification of Thoughts is more powerful a weapon than any fleet or army on earth.</em></strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong><em>We are one people, with one will, one resolve, one cause.</em></strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong><em>Our enemies shall talk themselves to death and we will bury them with their own confusion.</em></strong></p>
<p style="text-align: left;">She stops, spins, and throws the hammer at the screen.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong>We shall prevail!</strong></em></p>
<p style="text-align: left;">The hammer blows up the screen, and the announcer says that we&#8217;ll see &#8220;why 1984 won&#8217;t be like 1984&#8243;.</p>
<p>Today, has Apple become the very thing they worked hard to fight? The woman represented breaking out of the shackles of the boring PC. The Mac was supposed to allow people to be more creative, and it truly was revolutionary for its time. The commercial, while perhaps over the top, did represent what computing was like then.</p>
<p>Recently, Apple applied for a <a href="http://http://www.patentvest.com/console/reports/docs/app/20100207721.html" target="_blank">patent</a> that determines if your phone has been stolen or hacked. By using facial recognition, voice recognition, and heartbeat pattern matching, the iPhone can tell if it&#8217;s the proper owner that&#8217;s using the phone. If not, the phone could send sensitive data to Apple for backup, and wipe the phone. The byproduct of this is that Apple can also see if the phone&#8217;s been modified in any way, including being jailbroken. If so, the phone could be shut down. Apple does this all in the name of consumer protection, but after the Library of Congress has deemed that jailbreaking is legal, has Apple gone too far?</p>
<p>When you buy a product from any vendor, who does it belong to? Most people will say that it belongs to the consumer, and rightfully so since they paid for it. However, in order for an electronic device to run properly, its code needs to be protected, or unforseen problems can happen. Apple claims that jailbroken phones can wreak havoc on cell towers if an unscrupulous developer chooses to do so. To date, there hasn&#8217;t been one report of that, or anything serious happening with a jailbroken phone. Is it possible? Yes.</p>
<p>So looking at the 1984 commercial today, there&#8217;s almost an ironic twist to it all. The woman now wants to break free of any restrictions, and the storm troopers represent Apple, trying to prevent anyone from seeing the light.</p>
<p>Consumers need to be allowed to have control over their purchases, and if they break the device and void the warranty, that&#8217;s their issue. It&#8217;s unknown how many users that jailbreak their phone don&#8217;t know the risks in the first place but it&#8217;s probably safe to say that most do. Apple may want to think of the ramifications of executing such a system.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Apple&#8217;s iOS 4 is expected to drop to users today. I&#8217;ve been using it for several weeks as an iPhone Developer and since it&#8217;s going out to the public today, I can talk about what&#8217;s new, what to expect, and what&#8217;s limited in this new release.</p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Apple&#8217;s iOS 4 is expected to drop to users today. I&#8217;ve been using it for several weeks as an iPhone Developer and since it&#8217;s going out to the public today, I can talk about what&#8217;s new, what to expect, and what&#8217;s limited in this new release.</p>
<p>If you&#8217;re an owner of the first generation iPhone, you&#8217;re out of luck. iOS 4 won&#8217;t run on it. iPhone 3G, 3GS, and iPhone 4 users will be able to upgrade.</p>
<p><a href="http://wp.me/pWrHH-ty" target="_self">Click here</a> to see what steps to take before upgrading to iOS 4.</p>
<p><strong><a href="http://www.geekistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/software-icon-multitasking-20100607.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-1836" style="margin: 5px;" title="software-icon-multitasking-20100607" src="http://www.geekistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/software-icon-multitasking-20100607.jpg" alt="" width="47" height="47" /></a>Multitasking</strong>. Despite the fact that multitasking on the iPhone isn&#8217;t true multitasking as us developers know it, it still works pretty well. When I tested the Palm Pre last summer, it was nice having some apps run in the background, but even having it, I never really used it very much. When I did need it, it was because I was writing something with one app, and had to switch to another for reference. On the iPhone, not everything will give you that luxury.</p>
<p>For multitasking to work on the iPhone, the application needs to be built with the iOS 4 SDK. That means your current version of Pandora won&#8217;t work in the background yet. <em><strong>Note that multitasking will only work on the iPhone 4 and 3GS</strong></em>. What will work are the following:</p>
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<li>Background Audio</li>
<li>Voice over IP</li>
<li>Background Location</li>
<li>Push Notifications</li>
<li>Local Notifications</li>
<li>Task Finishing</li>
<li>Fast app Switching</li>
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<p>To switch to another application, double tap the home key to bring up a list of apps.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.geekistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/4721498420_0935660027_o.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1845" title="4721498420_0935660027_o" src="http://www.geekistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/4721498420_0935660027_o.jpg" alt="" width="320" height="480" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.geekistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/software-icon-folders-20100607.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-1837" style="margin: 5px;" title="software-icon-folders-20100607" src="http://www.geekistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/software-icon-folders-20100607.jpg" alt="" width="47" height="47" /></a><strong>Folders</strong>. If you have 12 pages of apps, it would be nice to organize them into folders. iOS 4 allows you to do that. Press and hold an icon until they start to jiggle. Once they jiggle, drag one icon on top of another you&#8217;d like to make a folder with. Once you drop it, iOS 4 will create a folder for you in that location that you can rename. Very handy.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.geekistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/4720847533_9ced440571_o.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1842" title="4720847533_9ced440571_o" src="http://www.geekistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/4720847533_9ced440571_o.jpg" alt="" width="320" height="480" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.geekistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/software-icon-mail-20100607.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-1838" style="margin: 5px;" title="software-icon-mail-20100607" src="http://www.geekistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/software-icon-mail-20100607.jpg" alt="" width="47" height="47" /></a><strong>Unified Mailbox</strong>. One of my biggest gripes with the older iPhone OS was the need to dive three levels deep into each of my mailboxes to read messages, then go out three levels to get to my account list, and then dive three levels in again. It was a chore, and now iOS 4 gives you the ability to have a unified mailbox where all your mail comes into one big list. You still have the ability to look at mail inside individual mailboxes, but seeing it come into one list is great for people like me that have many mailboxes to read every day.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.geekistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/software-icon-bluetooth-20100610.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-1839" style="margin: 5px;" title="software-icon-bluetooth-20100610" src="http://www.geekistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/software-icon-bluetooth-20100610.jpg" alt="" width="47" height="47" /></a><strong>Bluetooth keyboard support</strong>. I have to admit, I hate writing long passages on my iPhone. Eventually, the need to shift, shift, shift gets on my nerves and I wish I had a keyboard to do what I wanted. With iOS 4, you can now connect a Bluetooth keyboard to your iPhone and type away. Even arrow keys and volume controls work with it. This ability also exists on the iPad.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.geekistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/software-icon-homescreen-20100607.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-1840" style="margin: 5px;" title="software-icon-homescreen-20100607" src="http://www.geekistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/software-icon-homescreen-20100607.jpg" alt="" width="47" height="47" /></a><strong>Background wallpaper</strong>. I never liked the plain black background. Now everyone has the ability to use whatever wallpaper they want on their home screen.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.geekistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/4720845359_e64a22f4c7_o.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1844" title="4720845359_e64a22f4c7_o" src="http://www.geekistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/4720845359_e64a22f4c7_o.jpg" alt="" width="320" height="480" /></a></p>
<p>You can see the rest of the iOS 4 features on <a href="http://www.apple.com/iphone/softwareupdate/" target="_blank">Apple&#8217;s iOS 4 web site</a>.</p>
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