Here is the short version of Steve Jobs’s presentation…

iTunes 10 is now out, and it’s pretty cool. If you have a Mac, click on the Apple menu in the upper left corner of your screen and select “Software Update” to get it. For PC users, you should be prompted to
update iTunes if you have the Apple software update program installed. If not, just go to here and download it.

In addition to iTunes 10 coming out, Apple announced that it will be releasing a brand new version of the iPod Touch, iPod Shuffle, and iPod Nano. Apple will also be releasing a new version of iOS 4 (version 4.1; the operating system that runs the iPod Touch, iPad, and iPhone), which will be available as a free download from iTunes next week. And they will be releasing a brand new Apple TV, which will be 1/4 the size of its predecessor! Amazing.

Here is a brief rundown of what’s new:

iOS 4.1 (operating system for iPod Touch, iPad, and iPhone)

• Bugs have been fixed (Proximity, Bluetooth, iPhone 3G)
• High Dynamic Range photos (it takes 3 photos in rapid succession; one normal exposure, one with under exposure, and one with over exposure and combines all three into one photo; you will have choice between normal exposure and HDR version of photo)
• HD video upload via WiFi
• TV show rentals
• Game Center – all about multi-player games; can challenge
  friends, or it will auto match you with others if you don’t have
  any friends; compare scores; discover new games your friends are
  playing

Price: FREE
Available next week
Free download via iTunes

iTunes 10

• New Logo – no longer has a CD in the logo since it’s becoming
  obsolete
• Shows album cover in Playlist if you have more than 5 songs from
  that album
• iTunes Ping – a new social network all about music. It allows
  you to follow artists and friends, keep up on their recent
  activity, and know when their next concert is. You’ll even be able
  to see which artists your favorite artists like. You can get as
  private and as public as you want with regards to who can follow
  you and what you share. Starts with an immediate customer base of
  160 million people. Pretty cool service.
• TV Show Rentals – you can now rent TV shows in HD commercial free for
  99 cents
• Airplay – Now you’ll be able to play music wirelessly throughout
  your entire house with AirPlay-enabled speakers. You can even
  stream movies, photos, and music from your iPad or iPhone to your
  Apple TV. That will come in November with iOS 4.2. Nice.
• Apple TV – Now it has more movies and TV Shows, plus your music
  and photos. It also has improved syncing capabilities with iTunes.

Price: FREE
Available Now
Get it here or via Software Update

Apple TV

• It’s 1/4 the size of its predecessor
• Can hold it in the palm of your hand
• No power brick with power cord
• HDMI connection
• Ethernet & Wifi 802.11n
• 1st Run Movies, TV shows, & music
• All HD (when available)
• You don’t store the content, you rent it; no purchases
• No storage management, because you’re not storing anything on it
• Streaming – no syncing
• 99cents to rent HD TV Shows (commercial free) – ABC & FOX shows
  for now
• Rent 1st Run movies in HD for $4.99 (Steve demoed Ironman 2 during
  the presentation)
• Can stream Netflix to Apple TV for free
• Stream videos from YouTube
• Stream photos from Flickr
• Stream photos and movies from MobileMe
• Stream music from Internet Radio Stations
• Stream music, photos, and video from your computer
• Will even be able to stream your music, photos, and video from your iOS device (iPod Touch, iPad, or iPhone) when iOS 4.2 comes out in November 2010

Price: Only $99
Available in 4 weeks
Can pre-order now by clicking here

iPod Shuffle

• It now has buttons + voiceover + playlists
• It will speak the playlists for you
• Genius Mixes
• It will even tell you when the batteries need charging (I mean
  tell you via a voice, not a light; at least that was the impression
  that Steve gave)
• Has a belt clip
• 15 hrs of music

iPod Shuffle 2GB $49
Available next week
Can pre-order now by clicking here

iPod Nano

• Make it smaller – it’s very small
• Half as small and half as light as its predecessor
• Now has multi-touch screen
• It also has a clip
• FM Radio, Pedometer, Nike Plus
• 24hr Audio playback

iPod Nano 8GB $149 (pre-order here)
iPod Nano 16GB $179 (pre-order here)
Available next week

iPod Touch

• It’s even thinner than its predecessor
• Retina display (4x the number of pixels; same as iPhone 4)
• Apple A4 chip – same as iPhone 4
• iOS 4.1 with Game Center
• Facetime with Front Camera
• Can do Facetime (video calls via Wifi) with iPod Touch to iPod
• Touch and iPod Touch to iPhone 4
• Rear Camera with HD recording
• Can edit videos right on phone and upload to YouTube via Wifi
• 40hrs of music playback

iPod Touch 8GB $229 (pre-order it here)
iPod Touch 32GB $299 (pre-order it here)
iPod Touch 64GB $399 (pre-order it here)

As usual, all of the new products look fantastic. Apple always comes out with such amazing products. Gotta love them!

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Here’s what I did to get my pics and vids back.

Apparently I had installed an app that changed my settings, and it changed my settings so that my iPhone 3GS was no longer saving the photos in the Camera Roll album in my Photos. I tried using the Image Capture app on my Mac to access the lost pictures and videos, but that did not work. That’s because it only looks in the default folder for the pics.

So what did I do to get access to my lost pictures and videos on my iPhone? iPhoto, baby! I just hooked up my iPhone to my Mac, launched iPhoto, clicked on the icon for my iPhone in iPhoto, and voila! There were all of my lost pics and vids! I was very happy about that.

To fix the issue, I just have to find the app that changed the settings and uninstall it. The I’ll use the app SBSettings in Cydia to change the settings back. Your iPhone needs to be jailbroken to do this. Good thing jailbreaking is legal now! I used SBSettings to fix it once, but whatever app is installed that changed it changed it right back after I fixed it. So now I just have to find that crazy app and kill/delete it. I’ll do another post on how I fixed it once I find that pesky app and ban it from my phone!

Enjoy your lost pics and vids!

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Well, today is the last day that you can register for MacWorld 2011, which will be held in San Francisco, California from January 25th to January 29th of next year.

I’m definitely an Apple fanboy, so I’ll be there. Want to be there as well?

Here’s the link:

MacWorld SF 2011 Free Registration

Go and register now before it ends today!

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What’s the secret? How do you do it? Easy…

All you have to do is just play the audio of the video, and not the video of the video, if that makes sense.

So if you don’t have a need to actually watch the video, and you can just listen to it (like while you’re working out or in the car for example), then this tip is PERFECT for you!

Here’s how to do it:

1. Go into videos (or playlist if you have a video playlist)
2. Start playing a video
3. Hit the sleep/wake/power button (the button on the top of the iPhone)
4. The video will stop playing, and the screen will go off (sleep mode)
5. Press the home button twice quickly so you see the play button at the
top of the screen
6. Hit the play button
7. If you are playing a video playlist and are moving around (like working
out), then hit the wake/sleep/power key right after you start playing the
video so that it won’t skip to the next song when you move the iPhone.
8. ENJOY!

And if you prefer to see how to do it, I made a video showing you exactly how to do it.

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Here’s how:

1. Hold down the home button (the round button on the face of the phone) and the power button (AKA sleep/wake button) on top of the phone for 6 to 8 seconds. You will then see the Apple logo. It will stay on the apple logo for a while (a few minutes, at least it did in my case), and then it will go to the home screen and you’ll be good to go!

NOTE: After I fixed it, I did some more research and one guy said you first have to hold down the home button and the volume up botton, and then hold down the home button and the power button. But I didn’t have to do this. Some of you might though, so I figured I would mention it.

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Here is what happened and how I fixed it:

My iPhone 3GS was acting crazy saying there was 37% of the battery power left, then 5%, then 17%, and then it would shut off. It kept on doing this. To get it to turn back on, I would have to wait a few minutes, plug it in, and then it would come back. It was acting as if it didn’t remember how much of the battery was left. Never had that happened before, and I have had it for about 1 year.

At first I thought it was the battery, but decided to do more research. I did some research online and talked to some guys at Fry’s. Some people online said it might be because it got wet or that it just needed to be re-jailbroken. The guy at Fry’s suggested that I re-jailbreak it. I didn’t really care to do that, as I am running 3.0.1, and did not want to go through the hassle of finding the new jailbreak for the latest version of the OS. Plus, I either want to wait for OS 4.0 to come out (hopefully June 7 at WWDC) and jailbreak that when it comes out, or if Steve Jobs rocks our world and releases the iPhone 4G at WWDC, then I’ll buy that.

I decided to try some other things first, as this problem did not happen gradually. It happened suddenly. So I figured it was probably something that I did.

So, I tried a couple of things.

1. I deleted the most recent app that I installed (it was a free alarm app that is in the top 50 free apps in iTunes)
2. I copied all of the pics and videos that I had in my Camera Roll in my Photos app onto an external hard drive and deleted them from my iPhone (there were over 1300 pics and videos, which totalled up to about 1GB of data).

Since I did both of the above actions, the issue is resolved. I’m not sure which action fixed it. Maybe it was a combo of the two, but I had just installed the alarm app (even though I already had a different one already installed), and that’s pretty much when things started going crazy.

With regard to how much space I had available on the hard drive of my iPhone before and after, before I took the above actions, I had a little over 1Gb of hard drive space left, and after, I now have 2.3GB of space left, and I have a 16GB version.

So that’s it. That’s how I fixed it. I’m surprised that fixed it, as I really did think the battery was going.

If this helped you or someone you know, or if you have any questions, please comment below. Thanks!

UPDATE: After I did this, the percentage for the battery power was no longer fluctuating, however two days later, it shut off unexpectedly again. So I did some more googling, and found a fix. I blogged about it here.


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Here it is:

1. Open your document
2. Go to the VIEW menu and select “HEADER and FOOTER”
3. Look in the TOOLBAR for the HEADER and FOOTER section
4. Check the box next to “Different First Page”
5. Either put a different header or footer on the first page, or leave it blank if you don’t want one on the first page
6. In the document, either in the header or footer, click “close”
7. Done!

For a video and more detailed instructions, go here.

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There is a simple fix for this…

It simply means that your “num lock” is on. Hit your F6 key on your Macbook (it’s the key in the top row of your keyboard in the middle), and you should be good to go! If your keyboard on your Macbook is just not typing anything, then take it into the Apple Store, as it is most likely a hardware problem.

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Well, the free app that I am going to tell you about in a second or two may not have all of those features either, but it does talk to you, giving you instructions as you drive, and it does act just like a GPS navigation software should. It even allows you to access your account online so you can plan your trip online with your computer at home, save your trip, and then access it via your iPhone in the car. Pretty handy when you don’t want to have to plug in a route while en route to your destination or while in a hurry.

What’s the free app, you say? Well, it’s Mapquest 4 Mobile.

 
Good old Mapquest. I played around with it a little bit, and it seems great. Although I have not driven with it yet. I’ll give you an update once I do.

What are the other 5 GPS navigation apps that were reviewed? Which one of the six came out on top? Well, go check out Engadget’s blog post on the subject and read all about it.

Gotta love the iPhone!

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No problem. All you have to do is this:

1. Open Mail
2. Go to the MAIL MENU in the upper left corner of your screen and select PREFERENCES
3. Click on the COMPOSING tab
4. Half way down, you’ll see SEND NEW MESSAGES FROM. Click the pop-up menu to the right of it and select the email address that you normally want to send email from
5. Click the red circle/button in the upper left corner of that window to close it
6. Done!

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