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• Apple earnings; Safari Windows beta; .Mac syncing; iPhone notes - Apple is set to report earnings after the close of the stock market today. Meanwhile, the company has issued a new Safari build for Windows and made changes to .Mac syncing. Also, readers point out that Apple on its website has redacted references to accessing Leopard notes on the iPhone. AppleInsider
• Steve Jobs talks future Mac OS X upgrades, Mac sales, and more - In a new interview with the New York Times, Apple chief executive Steve Jobs hints that his company will continue to pump out rapid revisions to the Mac OS X for the foreseeable future, while also shedding some color on current Mac sales mix and the birth of multi-touch. AppleInsider
• Apple set to report fruits of busy summer - news analysis With its quarterly earnings due Monday, the expectations are high for the maker of Macs and that fancy new gadget. C|Net News
• Apple is firing on all cylinders - The iPhone maker reports its latest results Monday. FORTUNE's Philip Elmer-DeWitt says Apple should have a blowout quarter. CNN Money
• Analyst: Apple to Beat the Street in Q4 - But analysts' expectations for December quarter are excessive. Insanely Great Mac
• Spotlight on Apple earnings today; Mac to be major focus - Apple Inc. is scheduled today to give what will be one of the season's most highly watched... MacDailyNews
• Chemical Industry Group slams Greenpeace over unfair iPhone criticisms - A chemical industry group has lashed out against Greenpeace... MacDailyNews
• Reminder: Apple to report Q4 07 earnings results later today - A reminder that today marks the beginning of a big week for Apple, Inc... MacDailyNews
• iPhone, iPods Expected to Lead Apple to Strong Q4 - Apple reports earnings for its fourth fiscal quarter on Monday. The following is a summary of key developments and analyst opinion related to the period. During its fourth quarter, the Cupertino, Calif., company experienced the impact of the iPhone and introduced a bevy of new products. Near the end of the fourth quarter, Apple said it had sold its millionth iPhone. MacNewsWorld
• Apple announces latest financial results today - Apple will announce its latest financial results today at 2 pm (Pacific). Naturally, Macsimum News will be bringing complete coverage, but there’s also live video streaming of the Fourth Quarter Results Conference Call. MacimumNews

• Inside Apple retail - a true story - Undercover journalist Alex Frankel is impressed by the culture and set-up of Apple's retail stores, favourably compares retail store culture with that of other major retail brands. Macworld UK
• Apple to deliver strong Q4 - analysts - Apple will disclose its fourth-quarter business results tonight, and analysts expect the company will continue to impress as it dives into the busy Christmas shopping season. Macworld UK
• Woz Still Misses Homebrew Computer Club and Apple - UtahSaint writes "The Electronic Design site has nabbed a short interview with the Woz, where he waxes poetically about his time growing up as an Engineer and founding Apple. Even to this day, he says, he still misses the Homebrew Computer Club and his days running around Apple leading the technical teams. 'I miss the technical camaraderie ... The whole feeling of being on a revolution, on the edge. I miss the intuitive philosophies.'" Slashdot
• Apple to Announce Q4 Earnings at 2 p.m. - Expect more good news out of Cupertino this afternoon as Apple prepares to release its fourth quarter results starting at 2 p.m. this afternoon. In addition to giving more concrete data on iPhone and Mac sales, Apple is also expected... Wired

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Mac Hardware

• SanDisk's challenge to Apple - The maker of flash memory cards announced Monday that it is introducing a new product to allow people to move video files from their computer to their television. CNN Money
• RDX QuikStor available with 300GB capacity - Tandberg Data, a supplier of backup and archiving solutions, has announced the general availability of the internal RDX QuikStor with a USB connection, enabling customers to free up SATA ports for use with internal RAID configurations, and allowing integration without requiring a HBA. Pat Clarke of Tandberg Data says the company is one of the first vendors to supply a 300GB RDX QuikStor cartridge.MacimumNews
  
• Tandberg Data ships VXA-320 products with Firewire for Mac OS X - Tandberg Data, a supplier of backup and archiving technologies, has announced the availability of two new products for Mac OS X: the VXA-320 Firewire/USB Tape Drive, and the StorageLoader VXA-320 Firewire. MacimumNews
• Apple preps new MacBooks - The latest Apple rumour claims new MacBook models will ship, perhaps as soon as the end of October, speculates models will reach customers by mid-November. Macworld UK

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OS X & Software

• Road to Mac OS X Leopard Server: Collaborative Info Sharing Services - Leopard sports a series of changes both under the hood and in its user interface that improve the performance and usability of the Mac desktop for individual users, and combine to deliver new collaborative server features for networked machines in office settings. Servers and shared services are also moving into the home; here's a look at what's new in Leopard and Leopard Server related to file sharing and collaborative information services, and where the plumbing inside Mac OS X comes from. AppleInsider
• THIS DAY IN APPLE HISTORY October 22, 2002: OS X free for Teachers - To foster the move by schools and educators to OS X Apple decided to do something very unApple like, give away free copies.
  The move was explained thusly by VP (read more) Applematters
• Leopard up-to-date details revealed - Upgrade kit available for $10, up to 20 copies Insanely Great Mac
• Apple Pulls Boot Camp Beta - But you can still get a copy. Insanely Great Mac
• 'Marble of Doom' - How much of your time's been wasted? Insanely Great Mac
• Get Camino 1.5.2 - Includes v1.8.1.8 of Mozilla's Gecko browser engine. Also, Firefox 2.0.0.8 is out and brings Leopard compatibility... Insanely Great Mac
• Apple Remote Desktop 3.2 - Improved reliability, asset management, remote control Insanely Great Mac
• Leopard’s chance to pounce on Vista market share - It’s not just existing Mac owners that Apple wants to entice with Mac OS X 10.5 ‘Leopard’, but the vast number of Windows XP and Vista users who could easily tempted by having a Mac and a PC in the same computer – with other unannounced Leopard surprises inevitable! itwire
• Apple’s new Mac OS X Leopard Server - Leopard sports a series of changes both under the hood and in its user interface... MacDailyNews
• Mossberg: Shun the Windows dilemma and buy a superior Apple Macintosh - Vista has proved to be a disappointment, even though Microsoft says... MacDailyNews
• As Macs gain share, Apple CEO Steve Jobs sees new Mac OS X version every 12 to 18 months - Two research firms that track the computer market said last week that Apple... MacDailyNews
• Apple pulls Boot Camp beta from site; mirrors still available - Concurrent with the public release of Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard), Apple will no longer support the Boot Camp beta for prior versions of Mac OS X (including Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger). This means that while current installations of Boot Camp will continue to function properly under Mac OS X 10.4.x, the Boot Camp beta assistant will cease to properly function, disallowing the creation of new Boot Camp partitions, the ability to apply Boot Camp updates and more. MacFixIt
• Time Machine in Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) will allow easy system downgrades - Perhaps the most used and useful guide in our tutorial library details the process for reverting to an earlier version of Mac OS X by means of reinstalling the system. Generally the process requires recording salient user data, starting up from a Mac OS X install disc, performing an archive and install, recreating users, migrating data, then bringing your system back to the desired state (prior to a problematic update, for instance). This is the best process for quickly eliminating any issues introduced by an incremental Mac OS X release. MacFixIt
• Apple and SMBs, Part 1: The Case for the All-Mac Shop - Few products in the technology world inspire more ardent devotion and passionate debate than Apple's Macintosh platform. Today, the phenomenon is even more widespread than before following the recent success of Apple's iPod and iPhone, in particular. "The strength of these edgy and popular devices has translated into a modest uptick for Apple desktops and servers in the corporate environment," Laura DiDio, a research fellow with Yankee Group, told MacNewsWorld. MacNewsWorld
  
• OPINION Leopard vs. Vista, Brazil vs. Cisco, True Security Horror Story, Product of the Week - We are on final countdown to the launch of Mac OS X Leopard. You'll see lots of feature head-to-head pieces start to ramp up, but the real difference is that Vista is from an engineering-driven company while Leopard is from a marketing-driven company -- and that is worth exploring this week. MacNewsWorld
• ITWire: Microsoft Engineer Admits Vista Bloat - A Microsoft senior engineer, with the title "distinguished engineer," admitted to the Vista bloat and described his vision for the future -- Windows with a leaner core, WinMin, according to ITWire on Monday. Mac Observer
• Microsoft Caves to EU Antitrust Demands - Microsoft finally threw in the towel on Monday and agreed to comply with the European Union's 2004 antitrust decision against the company. The move follows a three year battle where the Redmond company worked to gain concessions from the EU Competition Commission. Mac Observer
• Leopard's "Secret" Features - When Apple CEO Steve Jobs first introduced Mac OS X 10.5, he said there were some secret features that would be revealed at a later date. Today TMO readers are discussing whether or not all of those "secret" features have been revealed, or if there is a surprise in store for the October 26 launch. Mac Observer
  
• ShutterBug 2.3 Adds LightBox, More - XtraLean Software announced the immediate availability of ShutterBug 2.3 on Monday. The updated version of the image editing application added a new LightBox image viewer, enhanced HTML output, and more. Mac Observer
• GimmeSomeTune 4.0 Adds Leopard Support - iPodObserver - Eternal Storms Software announced the immediate availability of GimmeSomeTune 4.0 on Monday. The new version of the lyrics and cover artwork tracking application for the Mac added support for the upcoming release of Mac OS X 10.5. Mac Observer
  
• Jobs: A Decade of OS X Upgrades Ahead - Mac OS X 10.5 isn't due out until Friday, but that isn't stopping Apple from putting its sites on what comes next. The future of Mac OS X still has plenty of growing room, and CEO Steve Jobs expects to offer new operating system versions every 12 to 18 months using Leopard as the foundation. Mac Observer
• .Mac Updated Ahead of Leopard Launch - Apple began rolling out updates to its .Mac service over the weekend presumably to add new Mac OS X 10.5-specific features. The update requires Mac OS X 10.4.10, and Mac OS X 10.3.9 or earlier users will no longer have the ability to sync calendars with Mac OS X 10.4 users. Mac Observer
  
• BusySync Offers Server-free iCal Sharing - BusyMac announced the immediate availability of BusySync 1.0 on Monday. BusySync lets users share their iCal calendars on a local network without requiring a dedicated server. Mac Observer
  
• Printing: Web Receipts - TMO Quick Tip - If you use the Internet to make purchases on a regular basis, it can get difficult to keep track of everything you bought and just how much you have spent. Mac OS X can make that chore a little easier thanks to a cool printing feature that saves Web receipts as PDF documents. Mac Observer
• Jobs: Leopard Will Anchor Product Schedule For A Decade - In an interview with the New York Times, Apple CEO Steve Jobs said that the Macintosh has a lot of momentum and the upcoming Mac OS 10.5 Leopard release will anchor a schedule of product upgrades that may continue as long as a decade. MacRumors.com
  
• Leopard gets geotagging support - Mac OS X 10.5 (“Leopard”), which goes on sale Friday, adds geotagging support, Stephen Shankland notes in a CNET blog. Geotagging enables people to organize photos by where they were taken, not just when. MacimumNews
  
• Microsoft settles EU lawsuit - Microsoft agreed to obey key parts of a 2004 antitrust ruling upheld by an appeals court last month, EU regulators said Monday, cutting royalties for rivals and handing information over to open source developers (as reported by CNN Money.MacimumNews
  
• Leopard pre-orders double that of Tiger - Some solution providers say pre-orders of Mac OS X 10.5 (“Leopard”) are more than double the volume for the same time prior to the last major Mac OS release (Mac OS X 10.4 or “Tiger”), and point to new features and dissatisfaction with Microsoft Vista as key drivers, notes ChannelWeb. MacimumNews
  
• ‘MacVoices’ looks at preparing for Leopard - On the new MacVoices, Take Control author Joe Kissell offers some tips on upgrading to Mac OS X 10.5 (“Leopard”), which goes on sale Friday. He suggests some housecleaning, contingency plans if something should go wrong, and tells about making some tough decisions about leaving some software behind. MacimumNews
  
• The Macsimum interview: Toon Boom - Macsimum runs a semi-regular series of interviews with Mac specialists, dealers and companies worldwide. This week we’re talking with Karina Bessoudo of Toon Boom, which makes animation software. MacimumNews
  
• Countdown to Leopard - By this time next week Leopard will be out in the wild. But don’t wait for October 26 to get ready for Mac OS X 10.5—Joe Kissell talks about what you can do to get your Mac ready for the upgrade. Rob Griffiths continues to explore the Safari 3 beta and discovers a much-improved Reset Safari feature in the next version of Leopard’s built-in browser. Also, with OS X 10.5 adding the Time Machine back-up feature, will that spark a surge in storage sales? Macworld
• Leopard for £5.95 deal announced - Apple is offering Mac OS X 10.5 and Mac OS X 10.5 Server for just £5.95 to users who acquired their Macs since 1 October. Macworld UK
• OS X Leopard orders outstrip Tiger - Apple's Leopard is selling twice as fast as Tiger did on launch, as switchers reject Vista and Apple CEO Steve Jobs talks up the future of computing. Macworld UK
• Apple drops .Mac sync support for Panther - Apple is applying changes to .Mac syncing designed to support its upcoming Leopard release, warns users that Mac OS 10.4.10 or later is required for full service use. Macworld UK
• Apple publishes Leopard tour video - Mac users can fill a few days until Leopard ships with an in-depth video tour of Mac OS X 10.5, available for view and download now from the company's website. Macworld UK
• WYSIWYG website software updated - iPhoto 08 compatibility and leaner HTML encoding highlight latest point upgrade for WYSIWYG website design editor, ShutterBug. Macworld UK
• Leopard events across UK confirmed - Apple and its resellers have arranged special launch events across the UK and Ireland to welcome the release of Mac OS X 10.5 'Leopard'.Macworld UK
• MS Antitrust: More US states for settlement extension - New York, Maryland, Louisiana and Florida have asked the court to extend the term of the Microsoft judgement for another five years. Macworld UK
• Google founders 'fight' evil - Google reputation in focus at Web 2.0 Summit, while the cost of human genome scanning just keeps falling. Macworld UK
• Apple's Missed Opportunity With Leopard Delay - An anonymous reader writes "According to an article on OSWeekly.com, Apple missed a big opportunity by not releasing Leopard soon. They could've taken advantage of Vista's losing streak and one upped Microsoft, the author suggests. 'It's not uncommon for Windows users and technology consumers in general to say that Microsoft missed out on making the most of Vista both before and after its launch. Longtime fans of Windows have changed their tone due to Vista's inadequacies, and regular users are in many cases stuck with trying to figure out why they still can't get certain things to work within the operating system. Granted, it's not a completely horrific OS, but is that even a compliment worth accepting?'" Slashdot

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iPods & iTunes

• Stabucks installing Akamai iTunes servers - Akamai servers to be installed across Starbucks stores as iTunes WiFi Store deal gathers pace. Macworld UK

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iPhone

• So, I'm Trying Not to Hate the New iPhone Commercials - Some of the funniest commercials I’ve ever seen have come from Apple’s “Get A Mac” series. Featuring John Hodgman as PC and Justin Long as Mac, these commercials are 30 (read more) Applematters
• Does Microsoft have an iPhone answer? - perspective CEO Steve Ballmer is speaking at the big mobile-phone trade show Tuesday, and News.com's Ina Fried says it will be interesting to see the tack Ballmer takes vis-a-vis Apple. C|Net News
• AI: iPhonet # 4 US Handset - On track for number 1, perhaps within the next 6 months. Insanely Great Mac
• Chemical Group Critical of Greenpeace iPhone Report - iPodObserver - Greenpeace called Apple to task over chemicals found in the iPhone, and now a chemical industry organization is doing the same to the environmental activist group. The Bromine Science and Environmental Forum (BSEF) claims the brominated chemicals found in the combination iPod and smart phone's earbuds are not only allowed, but are necessary to help prevent potential fires. Mac Observer
• iPhone tops AT&T sales - Apple's iPhone became AT&T's top selling phone in its first full quarter, and the number four handset in the overall US market. According to the research firm behind the numbers, that's just the start. itwire
• Excitement builds over iPhone/iPod Touch SDK - After 10 months of more Apple coverage than ever, thanks mostly to the iPhone, and the things that can and can’t be done with one, the SDK announcement has restored faith in many users who thought Apple had begun turning to ‘the dark side’. itwire
• Mossberg: U.S. mobile phone system is an ‘intolerable, backward, stifling laughingstock’ - It's intolerable that the U.S. has trapped its citizens in a backward, stifling system... MacDailyNews
• iPhone Rebate Countdown: 39 Days - iPodObserver - The deadline to submit a request for Apple's iPhone early adopter rebate is just over a month away on November 30. Buyers that purchased an iPhone prior to August 22 can apply for a US$100 credit that can be redeemed at Apple's retail and online stores. Mac Observer
• Apple Weekly Report: Greenpeace's Toxic iPhone, More Lawsuits, and the Leopard Countdown Begins [UPDATE] - Podcast - Even though Apple's iPhone complies with European hazardous chemical regulations, Greenpeace thinks it's still a toxic handful, and now a California group is ready to sue the Cupertino company over the findings. Apple CEO Steve Jobs said the iPhone and iPod touch will be open to third party developers come February, iTunes Plus tracks saw a nice price cut, and the Leopard count down begins. [Update: We have corrected the audio syncing issue and uploaded a new file. - Editor]. Mac Observer
• BSEF blasts Greenpeace’s criticism of the iPhone - The Bromine Science and Environmental Forum (BSEF), the international organization of the bromine chemical industry is knocking Greenpeace, condemning the environmental lobby group for making unfair criticism of Apple’s iPhone’s green credentials. The firm also claims Greenpeace has sensationalized its findings. MacimumNews
• zCover releases iSAglove Dockable Kit for the iPhone - zCover has released the iSAglove Dockable Kit for Apple iPhone, a US$49.99 protector kit mobility with the 360 degree rotating removable Belt Clip. With it, you can convert your Apple iPhone Dock Connector Cable, iPod Dock Connector to USB Port Cable, or even iPod Dock Connector to Firewire Port Cable into an iPhone Dock. MacimumNews
  
• Bromine group slams Greenpeace iPhone report - A chemical industry trade body has slammed Greenpeace's recent report into the iPhone for ignoring that Apple's device is well within existing environmental guidelines for consumer electronic products. Macworld UK
• zCover ships iPhone dock - zCover has announced a new docking and case system for the Apple iPhone. Macworld UK
• Briefly: iPhone, others take the wind out of FileMaker Mobile - FileMaker will announce next week the demise of its FileMaker Mobile product and will cease both development and sales of the software later this year, sources say. Think Secret
• Chemical Industry Group Refutes Greenpeace on iPhone - A chemical industry group has lashed out against Greenpeace, condemning the environmental lobby group for making unfair criticism of Apple's iPhone's green credentials. Yahoo! NEWS
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