What’s new in iTunes 10.5.2
iTunes 10.5.2 includes several improvements for iTunes Match and fixes an audio distortion problem when playing or importing certain CDs.

iTunes 10.5.1 included:
• iTunes Match. Store your entire music library in iCloud, including music you’ve imported from CDs, and enjoy your collection anywhere, anytime, on your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, computer, or Apple TV.
• iTunes in the Cloud. iTunes now stores your music and TV purchases in iCloud and makes them available on your devices anywhere, any time, at no additional cost.
• Automatic Downloads. Purchase music from any device or computer and automatically download a copy to your Mac, PC and iOS devices.
• Download Previous Purchases. Download your past music, TV, app, and book purchases again, at no additional cost. Previous purchases may be unavailable if they are no longer on the iTunes Store.
• Sync with your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch with iOS 5.
• Wi-Fi Syncing. Automatically sync your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch with iTunes any time they’re both on the same Wi-Fi network.

For information on the security content of this update, please visit: support.apple.com/kb/HT1222

I came across an apple forum post that may or may not help, I just disabled this feature today.

I upgraded my ipone 4 to ios5 and had the same issue.  I did the same thing everybody did and turned all the cool fetures off, I even went to apple.  I could litterally watch the batter drop.  I started looking again and found a new feature on ios 5 called diagnostics & usage under settings, general, about.  If you click on it and changed to don’t send rather than automatic send your battery life will be back to normal.  I looked up the reoports it was sending down where it says diagnostic & usage data, and found my phone was sending out around 200 reports a day back to apple.  This is what was draining my battery and most likely yours too.  Apple uses this to help diagnose problems with the ios and apps.  Good Luck!

Thought I would repost it here as I had a hard time finding it in the first place.

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1. Connected my iPhone to my Macbook
2. Opened Image Capture and selected my iPhone from the device list
3. Selected all of the images shown (Command+A).
4. Click the delete button at the bottom of the Image Capture window
5. Sit back, it takes a while to clear off the images

After hearing the specs of the iPhone 4S I really want to get one.  It comes with better talk time, better camera, as well as what really got me the A5 processor.  Since owning an iPad2 I have noticed that when using my iPhone 4 it seems slower than I once though, only when compared to the device using an A5.  Another awesome feature is Siri, I have attached a video of the Siri demo which is just amazing.

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4D4kRbEdJw]

What are your thoughts? Will you be getting an iPhone 4S or will you be waiting for the iPhone 5?

Access Denied

You don’t have permission to access “http://www.apple.com/” on this server.
Reference #18.301deb3f.1317756953.ae3bd422

And a whois of apple.com shows the following

Domain names in the .com and .net domains can now be registered
with many different competing registrars. Go to http://www.internic.net
for detailed information.

APPLE.COM.WWW.BEYONDWHOIS.COM
APPLE.COM.WAS.PWNED.BY.M1CROSOFT.COM
APPLE.COM.MORE.INFO.AT.WWW.BEYONDWHOIS.COM
APPLE.COM.IS.OWN3D.BY.NAKEDJER.COM
APPLE.COM.IS.0WN3D.BY.GULLI.COM
APPLE.COM.BEYONDWHOIS.COM
APPLE.COM.AT.WWW.BEYONDWHOIS.COM
APPLE.COM

To single out one record, look it up with “xxx”, where xxx is one of the
of the records displayed above. If the records are the same, look them up
with “=xxx” to receive a full display for each record.

>>> Last update of whois database: Tue, 04 Oct 2011 19:33:53 UTC <<<

Dont know if it would be wise to order anything from apple.com right now ….

You can find the PPA information needed to install AirVideo here. Using the PPA installing was a breeze and I now have AirVideo setup and streaming to my iPad, iPhone and soon to Kats iTouch.

You can find the startup script here and there is also some other great information covered little more in depth here.

defaults write com.apple.desktopservices DSDontWriteNetworkStores true

The 10.7.1 update is recommended for all users running OS X Lion and includes general operating system fixes that enhance the stability and compatibility of your Mac, including fixes that:
Address an issue that may cause the system to become unresponsive when playing a video in Safari
Resolve an issue that may cause system audio to stop working when using HDMI or optical audio out
Improve the reliability of Wi-Fi connections
Resolve an issue that prevents transfer of your data, settings, and compatible applications to a new Mac running OS X Lion
For detailed information on this update, please visit this website: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4764.

Nothing about my crazy mail issue I am having though.

cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@fink.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/fink login
[just hit return when prompted for password]
cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@fink.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/fink co -P fink
cd fink ; ./bootstrap /sw64

During the bootstrap process you will be prompted with two questions, make sure that you answer them as shown.

Fink must be installed and run with superuser (root) privileges. Fink can automatically try to become root when it’s
run from a user account. Since you’re currently running this script as a normal user, the method you choose will also
be used immediately for this script. Avaliable methods:
(1) Use sudo
(2) Use su
(3) None, fink must be run as root
Choose a method: [1]
Your hardware is a 64bit-compatible intel processor, so you have the option of running Fink in 64bit-only mode. This
is not recommended for most users, since many more packages are available for the default mode (which is mostly 32bit
but includes some 64bit packages). Which mode would you like to use?
(1) Default (mostly 32bit)
(2) 64bit-only
Choose a mode: [1] 2

Next you will need to edit the following config file /sw64/etc/fink.conf and change line 4 to look like this:

Trees: local/main stable/main stable/crypto unstable/main unstable/crypto

After that run the following command to get Fink all updated.

source /sw*/bin/init.sh
fink selfupdate-cvs
fink -y update-all
fink scanpackages

Then edit /sw64/etc/apt/sources.list and add the following sources as they are the best(only) ones I could find for 10.6

deb http://sage.ucsc.edu/fink_intel_10.6_64bit stable main crypto
deb http://sage.ucsc.edu/fink_intel_10.6_64bit unstable main crypto

Now your all set you can issue the following commands to update the source list and be on your way.

fink scanpackages
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

1. Download the wget source
2. tar -xvzf wget-latest.tar.gz
3. cd wget-latest
4. ./configure
5. make
6. sudo make install
7. wget should now be in /usr/local/bin

Sequential 80.49
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Uncached Write 88.27 49.94 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 57.64 16.87 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 102.37 51.45 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Random 29.31
Uncached Write 10.77 1.14 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 67.13 21.49 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 56.85 0.40 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 90.02 16.70 MB/sec [256K blocks]

7200 RPM Drive

Sequential 110.33
Uncached Write 157.12 96.47 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 147.66 83.54 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 60.14 17.60 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 154.07 77.44 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Random 28.42
Uncached Write 10.59 1.12 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 41.99 13.44 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 71.40 0.51 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 117.68 21.84 MB/sec [256K blocks]

Over my birthday weekend Kat and I took a trip to San Francisco. While we were there we ended up playing with her sisters Macbook Pro. I had been feeling the bug to upgrade from my Macbook, but not having played with the Macbook Pro I couldn’t really justify it…. that was until after that weekend. After using it I knew that I needed to upgrade. So the day after we returned I decided it was birthday present time and I made a trip to the local apple store. Picked myself up a new Macbook Pro 13in (base model), and must say it was a good investment. Not to mention I gave my old Macbook to Kat so she can finally leave the Windows/Dell world she was accustom too.

Open Disk Utility
Click on the Partition
Click on the Current Volume Scheme drop-down and select One Partition
Click on the options button and chose either the GUID Partition button or the Apple Partition Map button
Click OK, you can adjust the other options if you so desire
Click Apply, The partition screen should open
Click Partition

After that has completed it will unmount and remount. Upon remount Time Machine might ask you about using the drive for backups, I chose no. Hope this helps anyone that has format issues with their Seagate 1tb FreeAgent.

/System/Library/CoreServices/AppleFileServer.app
/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/ByteRangeLocking.framework

Upload the files to your AppleTV and then SSH to the AppleTV. Run the following commands to move the files to the proper location

sudo mv AppleFileServer.app/ /System/Library/CoreServices/
sudo mv ByteRangeLocking.framework/ /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/

After you have moved the files you need to edit the hostconfig file to enable AFP to autostart

sudo nano -w /etc/hostconfig

Change the following

AFPSERVER=-NO-

to this

AFPSERVER=-YES-

save the file and then run the following command to start it. If it works you wont get an error message.

sudo /usr/sbin/AppleFileServer

Once started you cant hit Apple+K and enter the following to connect

afp://appletv.local

Use frontrow as the username and the password and you should be all set.

• defaults write com.apple.iTunes allow-half-stars -bool TRUE

Let you give a more specific rating than with single solid stars