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Anatomy of Apple Design is an incredible video presentation produced by Transparent House.

Anatomy of Apple Design from Transparent House on Vimeo.

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CIBC just launched an iPhone app:

It’s simple, effective, clean and works well. I did not notice an option to look at my investment account but I am sure that this will eventually come as well as it would be nice to place a buy/sell order from wherever you are.

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If you are into photography like I am you will be glad to know that Apple released Aperture 3.0 a couple of days ago.

You can download and try it for free for thirty days.

Have fun!

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Mr Jobs presented the iPad to the world today.

My thoughts are:
-It’s going to sell like crazy.
-Pricing point is pretty good.
-Would you buy a windows netbook if you could have an iPad for a little bit more?
-This will motivate a lot of windows users to move to the Mac World.
-There’s a huge iPhone user base out there that will be getting one.
-It’s missing a Webcam.
-Developers must be going crazy now as there are huge revenue opportunities associated with this new device.
-I wonder if the iPad screen will perform well under sunlight and if it will be a pleasant experience to read a book on it. If hat works well then Amazon can stop selling the kindle.
-Would love to replace my heavy laptop with it.
-The iBook app looks like Delicious Library.

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Right now there’s huge speculation regarding what Apple will present to the world tomorrow and shortly after the show it will be fun to read some of the predictions to see how much was right on spot or missed.

What do you think the tablet will do?

Cook food and prepare coffee?

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I’ve opened an account with Carbonite.com to handle off-site backup. Unfortunately at 1 Mbps upload speed it will take one year before my initial backup is complete.

I have close to 500 Gb of pictures and close to that in video files.

It may be a better solution to buy a big disk and store the off-site backup at work.

I know that it would not protect me against nuclear explosions and earth quakes but at least it would decrease the probability of seeing all my stuff burning if there’s a fire at my place.

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I am running Google Chrome beta for Mac and I am finding it way faster than Safari. It loads fast and the whole system seems to be running faster as I assume that Google Chrome memory requirements are smaller than Safari’s.

Worth the try even though Google Chrome beta for Mac is still missing features available on its windows counterpart such as bookmarks sync, extensions and full screen browsing.

Very promising and worth a try as competition is always a good thing.

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Tweetie 2.0 has been updated and now supports lists and retweets among other things.

It’s a free update.

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Thanks for the folks at iWebFaq.org I managed to find a solution to the error that was affecting iWeb on my kid’s iMac.

I found a link to the site after searching the issue on Apple’s support discussions’ site and believe or not it looks like the issue is associated with a font and only affects iWeb on Snow Leopard.

In case you are experiencing the same issue then this is what you should do:

1. Go to Applications => Font book
2. Select Hoefler => Ctrl+click on it and “Remove Hoefler Text Family”
3. A message will appear telling you that all Hoefler files will be trashed
4. Emptying trash you will probably be told that the file is in use. Restart your computer and after the restart empty the trash.
5. Click here to download Hoefler text
6. You will find a folder called “11628″. In it you find a file called “Hoefler Text.dfont”
7. Move that file to:
Macintosh HD => Library => Fonts
Start iWeb and you will see that it’s perfectly working.

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WhatsApp

In case you are tired of paying for SMS to chat with your iPhone friends then WhatsApp may be the app for you.

WhaydApp is a direct iPhone-2-iPhone messenger chat application that allows you allows you to carry on a conversation in real time with your contacts without having to pay for SMS.

What’s App will ask for your phone number in order to allow it to identify you on your friends’ Contacts database and it does the job well.

Enjoy.

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