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IMP Live 083

Host: Bart Busschots
Panel: Stu Helm, Paul Shadwell, Michael King and Oliver Haslam

Apple Competitor Watch

  • Stu: Judge hands Apple victory in initial case against Psystar - via ArsTechnica
  • Paul: Microsoft shareholders grill Balmer on Apple & iPhone - via AppleInsider
  • Mike: Microsoft Office 2010 beta hints at new features of Mac users - via MacWorld UK
  • Oli: Droid only supports 256mb for app storage, Android limitation - via 9 to 5 Mac

Mac Musings

  • Quick News (Bart)
    • Apple updates printer drives for Snow Leopard - via TidBits
    • Build Number in Bug Report suggests Apple working on OS X 10.7 - via Cult of Mac
  • Stu: Apple beats HP, Dell, Acer and Lenovo but behind Asus and Sony in build quality study for portables - via ArsTechnica
  • Mike: Hackers get Mac OS X 10.6.2 working with Atom chips - via Cult of Mac

iStuff

  • Quick News (Bart)
    • 5th gen iPod Nano gets firmware update - via Macworld UK
    • Virgin Mobile Canada become fifth Canadian iPhone carrier - via TUAW
  • Stu: Star Trek comes to iTunes with iTunes Extra content - via ArsTechnica
  • Mike: Gameloft cutting back on Android development due to iPhone App Store dominance - via MacWorld
  • Paul: Apple looking to hire games developer for in-house iPhone team - via AppleInsider
  • Oli: Apple to launch Concierge app for iPhone / iPod Touch - via MacWorld UK

App Store Antics

  • Bart: Apple introduce automated tool to check for private APIs in app submissions - via AppleInsider

Apple Adventures

Panel Picks & Tips

  • Stu: BoinxTV - amazingly powerful video presentation / production tool 
  • Mike: 2.53 GHz Mac Mini
  • Oli: Sky Mobile
  • Bart: Tip - the "Classical Music" smart album in iTunes gives a breakdown of your classical music by Composer & Collection. Perfect since most classical music has the conductor + orchestra as the artist, not the composer, and most albums contain many pieces, with each piece split over many tracks. The collections field lets you group these correctly. If you rip your own CDs you may have to set these fields yourself to use this view. (tip from Brendan Finan of the Classical Introductions Podcast)
  • Paul: FourSquare Now available for Zurich and Geneva as well as many other European cities.