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  • Apple posts 3 new Get a Mac ads

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    Ever since the iPhone was released it seemed that Apple was funneling all of its advertising budget into iPhone advertising. This meant a lack of those fun Mac vs. PC commercials that we have all grown to love. Luckily for us, Apple has just started airing three new entries into their 'Get a Mac' ad campaign, and i must say that these are the best yet.

    All two of the three ads (Podium and PR Lady) focus on the general public's lackluster response to Vista, and the fact that some PC users are actually downgrading to XP. The Podium ad actually made me laugh out loud, which is high praise for a commercial.

    The remaining commercial (Boxer) focuses on people switching to the Mac for its ease of use.

    All of the ads have been updated with an iMac sporting Leopard's default desktop.

    What do you think of the new ads? Sound off in the comments.
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  • 1.1.2 Jailbreak Software Released

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    Conceited Software/TouchFree has just released its GUI jailbreak. This is the "final bit" that performs the jailbreak after you run OktoPrep in 1.1.1 and then upgrade to 1.1.2. The Software runs under OS X and Windows, grabs the data off your iPod touch or iPhone, upgrades it with the Jailbreak, installs Installer.app and SSH.app, and reloads it back to your unit. The whole procedure takes about 10 minutes and after, you have a fully updated 1.1.2 jailbroken system.

    You will need to downgrade to 1.1.1 if you bought a system with 1.1.2 already installed. This is discussed in the README.txt file in the zip and at the this jailbreakme.com webpage. This procedure is only for iTunes-activated iTunes and iPod touches--"hactivated" iPhones need not apply. That's because once you upgrade to 1.1.2, you'll need to be able to have a phone that's activated before running the program.

    You can read more about my personal 1.1.2 jailbreaking in this earlier post.

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  • DeviceLink.framework offers wireless device syncing

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    Apple created its Cocoa development environment out of libraries of code called frameworks. These frameworks exist on every Mac OS X computer. You can find them in /System/Library. There are two kinds of frameworks available: public and private. Recently, super-hacker "Pumpkin" has been looking into the DeviceLink private framework and suggested I take a peek through its strings.

    Sure enough, the framework seems to provide device-to-device wireless Bonjour connection support. The framework address incoming and outgoing sessions, device pairing, file transfer, and authorization. What this means is all the technology to connect iPhones, iPod touches and Macintosh computers (not to mention Apple TVs) together, using simple programming with all the heavy lifting done by Apple.

    This is a private framework. Like MobileDevice, the framework that powers a lot of iTune's iPod- and iPhone-data transfer, this indicates that this is not a feature that will soon pop up in a public Software Development Kit for easy access to members of the Apple Developer Connection. And that's a shame because the framework is both exciting and intriguing.

    If you'd like to look for yourself, navigate to /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/DeviceLink.framework and run the Unix strings command on DeviceLink. I found the framework both on a Tiger 10.4.10 system with iTunes 7.5 and on a Leopard 10.5 system with iTunes 7.4 as well as the 1.0.2 iPhone files but not on an original Apple TV. So chances are likely that the framework is already on the system you're using.

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  • Pixelmator 1.0.2: Now Leopard ready

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    Plenty of readers have contacted us here at TUAW about Pixelmator not working quite quite right under Leopard, so I'm sure there will be plenty of cheer at the news that Pixelmator 1.0.2 is now available to download. "What's been fixed?" you're probably wondering. Here's a selection of things the folks at Pixelmator have fixed:
    • Leopard issues resolved
    • Blur and Sharpen tools are now significantly faster
    • Tab shortcut now shows/hides all palettes
    • Fixed bugs in the Magic Wand tool
    • After Cut and/or Clear Layer thumbnail now update
    • Problems when moving selection fixed
    • When resizing the whole image, layer masks also resize now
    • Fixed bugs when moving type layer
    Version 1.0.2 is just a bug-fix release: more Leopard features are promised for version 1.1 which is apparently due out later this month.
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  • Reader Survey: Leopard the (bad) little things

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    Okay so now I want to turn the tables. We just posted on the good little things in Leopard. Now I want to focus on the bad or annoying little things. What are the niggling little things that make your time in Leopard less enjoyable? As before, I'll get you started with a few of mine.
    • Network mounts in the Finder sidebar are now in the SHARED submenu. This means an extra click to browse the network mount vs. Tiger.
    • The dynamic Dock folder icon in stacks. I find this to be especially asinine. The folder icon for stacks in the Dock changes to reflect the first item in the stack. This can be especially confusing when all you stacks now look the same because they all have sub-folders in them.
    • Because of the translucency, text in the menubar is no longer anti-aliased. This means that my MenuCalendarClock date and time looks worse than in Tiger.
    • Spaces isn't smart enough. It will sometimes pull you into a space you don't want to be in because of a dialog sheet.
    Okay, so there are a few to get you started. What are your little Leopard annoyances?
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  • Reader Survey: Leopard the (good) little things

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    Okay, we've all had a chance to play around with Leopard for a while, so I thought it was now a good time to take a step back and ask: what are the little things that you really like about Leopard? I'm not talking about the headline new features: Time Machine, Quick Look, etc. Rather, I'm interested in the little features that make Leopard a bit better than Tiger.

    I want to focus on the good for this post. We'll get to the niggling Leopard annoyances in a separate post. To get us started I thought I'd throw out a few of my favorites. Remember these are not the best or most important new features in Leopard, just little things that make me glad I upgraded.
    • The Finder permissions editor. The permissions editing interface is updated and improved.
    • The Print sheet. The full print sheet with integrated preview is nicer than Tiger's
    • The network mount bug seems finally to be fixed. It used to be the case that if you lost connection to a network mount OS X could freeze up. Leopard handles this problem much more graciously.
    • The spotlight calculator. Need to do a quick calculation? Just invoke Spotlight and type in the equation.
    So there are a few to get you started. What are your favorite, but often overlooked, little features in Leopard?
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  • AFP for iPhone and iPod touch

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    Insanely awesome iPhone hacker and developer "Core" just finished implementing AFP for the iPhone and iPod touch. This software connects your iPhone (or touch) to your computer using AFP, the AppleTalk Filing Protocol. Your iPhone shows up on your desktop as a disk with full read/write access.

    The AFP server is brand new, so it is not yet available in Installer.app. To install by hand, use sftp to copy the tar file into /opt/iphone. Extract the archive on your iPhone or touch--the tar archive program is part of the BSD program; use tar xvf name-of-archive.tar--and run /opt/iphone/afp/startserver.sh &. The ampersand lets the program run in the background. (You will need to restart it after reboots.)

    Once installed and running, go to Finder. Choose Go > Connect To Server, and enter the afp address for your iPhone, in my case afp://192.168.0.111. Just use the afp:// prefix with the local IP address of your iPhone. Enter your user id (root) and password (alpine) and your iPhone or iPod appears in the sources list for your Finder windows.

    Once your iPhone learns how to add itself as a disk, you'll start wondering how you ever lived without this. To add new applications, just drop them into the Applications folder. To back-up your personal data, just copy /var/root/Library. This is just an awesome accomplishment. Thank you Core!

    Hopefully soon, we'll see not only an Installer.app version but one with a controllable launch daemon that will let you enable and disable the service as desired.

    Update: If you're installing by hand, make sure you use the version for Registered Users. It's the one from November 10th. Don't use the earlier one that only allows guest mode.

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  • Ask TUAW: Menubar aesthetics, Airport disk sharing, OS X disc burning and more

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    In this round of Ask TUAW we have a questions about darkening the Leopard menubar, sharing disks with the Airport Extreme, burning discs with OS X, using Time Machine with network drives and more.

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

    Continue reading Ask TUAW: Menubar aesthetics, Airport disk sharing, OS X disc burning and more

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  • iTunes 7.5 and iPhone 1.1.2 return custom ringtones

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    For reasons I do not begin to understand, the combination of iTunes 7.5 and the 1.1.2 iPhone once again allow you to add custom ringtones without fussing with property lists and special software. Take any m4a file, thirty-seconds or less (although some report success with tracks up to 40 seconds), rename it to m4r and double-click to add it to iTunes. The file appears in your ringtones and can be synched--I tested this out myself--to your iPhone.

    So has Apple relented? Or is this a momentary lapse of oversight? Only time will tell.

    Thanks to Dave P

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