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16 October 2011
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Some people are a little confused about Apple IDs and iCloud, but there's a nice Apple support article that aims to clear some of that confusion right up. It explains how you can use the same Apple ID for iCloud that you do for iTunes Store purchases, how to use a separate Apple ID for iCloud and iTunes Store purchases, and finally, how using a MobileMe account with iCloud affects things (you'll get more storage, for one).
If you're using Photo Stream with iCloud, you might be wondering why you can't remove individual photos from iCloud. You can, however, reset your Photo Stream entirely by logging into the iCloud web interface and pushing a few buttons as detailed in this support article — but it might have been better for Apple to allow a "selective remove" feature in the first place.
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13 October 2011
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Yesterday was a pretty big day for Apple. First there was the launch of iCloud, Apple's new sync service that promises to be much better than its predecessor, and even comes with a few web apps of its own. For many MobileMe subscribers, the transition yesterday wasn't so much "smooth" as it was "unavailable" due to impressive load on Apple servers, but those who did manage to make a connection were greeted with some new features. Now that iCloud is available to all, though, Macworld has the getting started guide you need.
No doubt some of that load on Apple servers was due to the launch of iOS 5 for a pretty large percentage of those 250 million iOS devices out in the wild — and with all those Apple fans upgrading at once, something wrong was going to happen sooner of later. Tales of woe and error 3200 flooded the internet, but amidst all the chaos Ars Technica published a single story: notifications, iMessages, and iCloud, oh my!
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12 October 2011
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The iCloud website has had its "beta" banner taken off and is now live for non-developers. 9 to 5 Mac report the help site is also up and running, but even though non-developers are now allowed to transition their AppleIDs to iCloud from MobileMe, it's still not clear when the 10.7.2 update for OS X, or iOS 5 for iOS devices will be released in order for devices to be able to connect — both items haven't been released at time of writing, but here's hoping that both with be out very soon.
Apple wins patents all the time, but Apple winning patents for multi-touch (or more specifically, the detection and processing of touch events), as well as an illuminated camera latch — something that Patently Apple seem pretty confident will appear in a future product, but I'm not so sure, as the design seems distinctly un-Apple like.
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11 October 2011
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According to TUAW, the Mythbusters will be hosting a Steve Jobs retrospective on the Discovery channel, set to air on October 16th. The retrospective by Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman will include interviews with key figures from Jobs's past, and will no doubt be a fairly interesting look at the life and times of Steve Jobs, perhaps with just a hint of added media spin.
Apple will also be hosting something similar, with an email sent from Tim Cook to the rest of the Apple team informing them of a private event to celebrate Steve Jobs' life, held in the outdoor ampitheater on the Infinite Loop campus. The event, set to occur on October 19th, will probably involve a lot of Apple employees taking the time to remember all the incredible things that Steve Jobs achieved, and the many ways he helped make the world a better place.
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11 October 2011
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Mark informed us that the Wellington (and Palmy) Mac communities are organising a Wellington Public Memorial Service for Steve Jobs. The service is being held on Thursday October 13th at 1pm at the Wellington Cathedral of St Paul on the Corners of Molesworth & Hill Streets. (There is no parking on the site.) The service will be 35-40 minutes long. We'll remember and celebrate the extraordinary life and contribution of Steve Jobs.
Mark invities the NZMAC community to participate.
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10 October 2011
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Boy Genius Report bring news that iPhone 4S pre-orders numbers have reached over one million in the first 24 hours of pre-orders being available, a pretty impressive number all by itself, but all the more impressive when you take into account that the iPhone 4S' predecessor, the iPhone 4, had just 600,000 in a single day. Looks like many pundits will be eating their words about the iPhone 4S being a lacklustre upgrade very shortly.
News this morning says that Sony is looking to produce a movie based on the official Steve Jobs biography by Walter Isaacson (which has also had its release date moved up to October 24th). According to reports, Sony are supposedly in the stages of acquiring the rights to the movie — and The Mac Observer says they already have a producer on board.
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09 October 2011
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It's a gross understatement to say that Steve Jobs had an influence on product design at Apple. If fact, Steve Jobs had such an influence on every aspect of product design that to say so could almost be classified as an outright lie. MacRumors reports that Steve Jobs has left four years' worth of products for the future Apple product lineup, products thought of by a man who created the industry-changing Macintosh. Products that you or I couldn't have even possibly imagined.
The iOS 5 gold master has already been released to developers, and the official release is mere days away — and already, one investigator has managed to find references to an AppleTV 3,1 — a model which currently does not exist. 9 to 5 Mac says there's the distinct possibility of an updated AppleTV, but with little external changes — instead, it's extremely likely that any changes will be purely internal.
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06 October 2011
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Apple has lost a visionary and a genius, and the world has lost an amazing human being. Those of us who have been fortunate enough to know and work with Steve have lost a dear friend and an inspiring mentor. Steve leaves behind a company that only he could have built, and his spirit will forever be the foundation of Apple.
All over the web, tributes have poured out — notable websites like Wired have put up a whole page of quotes about one of the greatest men of our time, Boing Boing has totally re-designed their website to pay tribute to the man who invented the Mac, and over at Ars Technica John Siracusa tells his personal rememberance. Companies like Panic and Realmac Software have also joined the chorus.
Rest in peace, Steve.
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05 October 2011
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It's currently unknown as to why New Zealand isn't in the first or even second release tiers for the iPhone 4S as announced by Apple yesterday, but Chris Rawson at TUAW says there's anecdotal evidence to suggest that previous iPhone launches bungled by one carrier might be to blame. Apparently Apple don't take too kindly to the aforementioned shenanigans when it comes to one of their best selling devices, and the result is a delay in the iPhone 4S release for New Zealanders.
With the launch of the new iPhone also comes a new kind of AppleCare. AppleCare+ is unlike traditional AppleCare in that it also offers accidental damage protection, say, in case you accidentally drop the phone or manage to damage it via some water-based means. There's also a good chance that AppleCare+ was created in a response to the number of accidental iPhone damage seen at various Genius Bars — with two slabs of glass, there's a pretty big chance that glass will shatter.
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04 October 2011
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At the "Let's talk iPhone" event that occurred early this morning,