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Episode 113: PowerPage Podcast Jason D. O'Grady: Episode 113 of the PowerPage Podcast has been posted. This week we discuss iPhone, 3GS, overheating, shortages, OS 3.1 and we play “What’s on your Mac?” Featuring: Jason O’Grady, Rob Parker and Tom Hesser. You can subscribe to it in iTunes. Thu Jul 02 19:41:10 PDT 2009 How-to: Reset a noisy optical drive in the Mid-2009 MacBook Pro Jason D. O'Grady: While playing with my new 3GHz “Mid 2009” MacBook Pro I noticed that it made that weird optical drive load/unload sound three times in a row, instead of the usual one, any time the drive was used. If you don’t have a CD or DVD handy you can invoke the sound by clicking on System Profiler [...] Thu Jul 02 15:13:42 PDT 2009 iPhone executes SMS binary code as root Jason D. O'Grady: A security flaw has been discovered in the iPhone OS that could allow attackers to gain root access to the iPhone OS and allow them to install and execute malicious programs at will. Charlie Miller announced the discovery of the vulnerability during a presentation at the SyScan conference in Singapore on Thursday. DailyTech explains: The iPhone apparently [...] Thu Jul 02 13:58:54 PDT 2009 The correct way to use your MacBook's battery Jason D. O'Grady: Recently a battery completely failed in a two-year old black 2.16GHz MacBook that was covered under AppleCare. It worked fine one day, went completely dead the next. It wouldn’t charge and no LEDs would light up. When I brought it into the genius bar at my local Apple Store I learned something interesting about the [...] Thu Jul 02 13:45:33 PDT 2009 [Sponsored] Thu Jul 02 10:30:21 PDT 2009 Apple files patents on haptic feedback, biometrics and RFID detection Jason D. O'Grady: A patent application filed by Apple in February 2008 for multi-touch display screen with localized tactile feedback indicates that the company is researching haptic feedback for possible inclusion in the iPhone and iPod touch. Most telling is a line in the application about the competitive advantages of haptic or “tactile” feedback found in other devices: Unless touch [...] Thu Jul 02 10:30:21 PDT 2009	The Apple Core Sponsored Free eBook: Complete Guide to Information Management Best Practices Help your company thrive in today's economy by learning how to leverage its most valuable asset: information. Read more in this eye-opening eBook. Whitepaper | Category: White Paper
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