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  • TUAW Talkcast: Join us live tonight, Sunday 10/21 9p ET

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    We're inside the five-day mark for Leopard's launch, and nobody is more excited than the team here at TUAW. Please join us live tonight for a free-range discussion of upgrade strategy, most-anticipated features, and more (including the iPhone SDK announcement aftermath) with Mat Lu, Mike Schramm and me as we fire off TUAW Talkcast #11, live and in color at 9 pm ET. Be sure to hang around after the show for our post-recording open phones session and the now-infamous 80s music trivia quiz.

    To participate in the call and the always-illuminating text chat, scootch over to Talkshoe ahead of time, sign up/download the client and get to a phone or VoIP client for the show. To listen in without the full client, either stream the show from the Talkshoe page, or you can join the show in listen-only mode from any phone by calling (724) 444-7444 at 9 pm ET, entering the show ID (45077) and then pressing #-1. Hope to hear you there!
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  • Ask TUAW: Ripped DVDs in Front Row, Sleeping MacBook, game controllers, and more

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    In this round of Ask TUAW we've got questions about viewing ripped DVDs with Front Row, sleep issues with a MacBook Pro, the best game controllers for Mac, saving a Boot Camp partition when installing Leopard, controlling AirTunes while in Front Row, and more.

    As always your suggestions are most welcome, and questions for next week should be left in the comments. And now on to the questions!

    Continue reading Ask TUAW: Ripped DVDs in Front Row, Sleeping MacBook, game controllers, and more

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  • BusinessWeek is lukewarm on iPod Touch

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    BusinessWeek's Cliff Edwards recently reviewed the iPod Touch. While he gave it four-and-a-half out of five stars, he also made the same mistake that's plaguing many technophiles with regard to this device: Forgetting it's an iPod.

    It's an easy mistake to make. The iPod Touch is handicapped by its resemblance to the iPhone and the fact that it was released during the iPhone media blitz. As a result, people expect it to operate just like its twin. When it doesn't, they're disappointed. For example, Mr. Edwards writes:

    "The Touch...lacks the iPhone's e-mail application, as well as its microphone, camera, and Bluetooth connection...widgets for gathering stock quotes, weather forecasts, and other information."

    That's not an oversight, it's an example of Apple keeping the iPod true to its primary function as a digital music player. It's tempting - but unfair - to compare the iPod Touch to the iPhone. When the iPod Touch is compared point-by-point to its older siblings, it's clear what an advancement it is. Imagine the iPod Touch in a world without iPhones. People would be tripping over themselves to buy one.

    "But the iPod Touch has Safari and YouTube," you say. I'd argue that Safari was only added as a concession to public Wi-Fi hotspots that require a login, and YouTube followed as a "Why not?" feature.

    Later in the article, Mr. Edwards laments the Touch's lack of a "...slower cellular data connection" as a fall back for data transfer, as well as the fact that it can't download videos from the iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store. The latter isn't unique to the iPod Touch, and the former goes back to my original point: It's an iPod, not a phone.

    Finally, he says that the Touch "...will appeal to a smaller audience than the Classic or Nano because of its limitations and inflated price tag."

    That's true, the nano has typically been the best-selling model. While the Touch is the priciest iPod, it's hardly limited.
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  • Found Footage: Apple Store refuses service to iPhone sans AT&T contract

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    Reader Jake B. (who apparently has been covered on Fox News) had a broken iPhone, one without an active AT&T contract as it happens, and judging by Apple's one-year limited hardware warranty he figured he could just walk it into the store and get it fixed. Well, there, not so fast...

    Even though the hardware warranty should apply, and regardless of whether the phone was ever registered with Apple (note that Apple's reg page says " Your warranty is the same whether or not you register"), none of that seemed to help; in the video above, at about the 5:55 mark, the hapless retail Apple employee tells Jake that "without an active AT&T contract, or an active phone, there's no way to tell that this [problem] wasn't caused by some sort of third-party software, or an unlock." Oops. The suggestion was that Jake call AppleCare and see if they could work out a warranty repair or get the phone registered.

    Anyone else run into this kind of end-zone defense when trying to get an unactivated phone repaired at an Apple store?

    Update: By and large, our commenters "see this guy with the video camera as insincere (at best)," and downright devious/dishonest at worst. Granting the point that someone who does actually hack or unlock their iPhone should have no realistic expectation of warranty service, I think the other issue here is whether the retail rep should be making that call for a phone that won't turn on. What if the iPhone was a gift, given more than 14 days after purchase, with no AT&T service on it yet -- shouldn't someone in that scenario be able to get warranty service on a DOA handset, without the presumption that the device has been modified? I don't deny that the Apple employee was in a tough spot -- maybe policy says you can't give out a loaner phone to someone with no AT&T service, or maybe this store has seen a flood of hacked phones. Without evidence of the phone being modified, however, I don't know that this was the correct response.
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  • Stacks on the iPhone

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    So I finally had a chance to watch that Leopard guided tour that everybody has seen already this week, and one thing struck me like a bricked iPhone thrown directly at my head: boy, Apple really does love iTunes, don't they? It's everywhere in Leopard, from the unified toolbars to the Finder with its CoverFlow interface and drop-down sidebars. Leopard might as well be called the iTunes OS.

    But in the future, a few months from now, we can only hope that some of Leopard functionality comes back around, and beefs up our iPhones and iPod touches. Until then, we've got this awesome hack-- someone has put Leopard's stack functionality onto the iPhone's little dock. Very cool-- if you made all four of the icons on the dock into four little stacks, you could have all of the application access, and none of the clutter.

    Especially when the SDK comes out (and already, those with jailbroken iPhones are feeling the icon squeeze), we're going to need expansion slots like this. Apple clearly borrowed lots of ideas from iTunes and the iPhone in their new OS, and with this idea, it's time to start borrowing them back.

    Thanks, Steve!
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  • Leopard Spotlight: Preparing for Time Machine

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    One of the most visible new features in Leopard is Apple's integrated backup tool, Time Machine. Taking backups -- a chore that few people do and even fewer do correctly -- and making them one-click simple is bound to improve the lives of millions of Mac users who, despite being practically perfect in every way, sometimes delete files they don't mean to delete. (I know, painful but true.)

    There is a lot of excitement about Time Machine, but also some confusion; reader Matteo wrote in from Switzerland to ask that we cover some basics for setting up Time Machine. Your wish; our command. Most of our answers are gleaned from Apple's feature page for TM, a worthwhile read.

    Continue reading Leopard Spotlight: Preparing for Time Machine

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