Bart Busschots – www.bartb.ie, www.impodcast.tv, @bbusschots
Tim Verpoorten MacReviewCast.com and Surfbits.com : @surfbits
John F. Braun – The Mac Observer’s Mac Geek Gab, Monday’s Mac Gadget, @johnfbraun
Steve Stanger – http://themacattack.tv, @tmasteve
Katie Floyd – Macpowerusers.com, katiefloyd.me, @katiefloyd

Geotagging – be careful!

• Not all services to share photos strip out GPS data from the meta data (EXIF Data) in the photos you post (edit EXIF data with the free app Reveal)
• Many cameras now have GPS in them, including the iPhone, so many images have GPS data when they’re taken
• iPhone and iPod Touch apps should ask for permission any time they try to use your location
• Many Eye-Fi cards do this with WiFi, compatible with other schemes
• Note that location services are required for Find My iPhone/iPod Touch

The iPad

• Apple badly misses it’s target of “world-wide availability” in 60 days
• US get it a few days late
• UK & a few other large countries get it about a month late
• No release date at all for other countries like Ireland

What version of the iPad are people getting?

• Verizon using the opportunity to sell 3G data plans
• Broadband Access Day Pass -$15 a day
• Confirm availability before purchasing
• High cost per use, but may work for occasional users
• Benefit of having another wireless carrier besides AT&T
• No iPad Tethering

App Store

• Through some very clever trickery the EFF have legally, publically, released the iPhone dev agreement
• Selective rejection and removal of apps
• Why is Apple handling this so badly?

Picks:
Bart – 3D Sun – NASA iPhone
Katie – TextExpander 3
John – New 4GB RAM chip (OWC) and new Hitachi 500GB HD with case (OWC)
Tim – Fujitsu S1300 Scanner
Steve – HDRtist

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