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3 Sep 12

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Ewen Rankin @ewenrankin
Andrew Stephens - Dr Happy Mac @drhappymac www.doctorhappymac.co.uk
Kyle Swager @kyleswager kyleswager.com
Chris Foresman @foresmac arstechnica.com
Will Green @BritishMac www.britishmac.com www.stoneburn.com/

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The Week in Mac

iPad shrine - http://www.tuaw.com/2012/08/20/soundshrine-gives-your-ipad-the-royal-treatment/

OS X 8.1 to fix Battery Issues - http://www.macrumors.com/2012/08/21/os-x-10-8-1-may-address-mountain-lion-battery-life-issues/ http://www.macrumors.com/2012/08/17/apple-seeds-new-beta-of-os-x-mountain-lion-10-8-1-to-developers/

Discussion on USB power outputs.

iPod Nano is Landfill fodder - http://arstechnica.com/apple/2012/08/where-can-the-ipod-nano-go-from-here/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+arstechnica%2Findex+%28Ars+Technica+-+All+content%29

German site says iPhone 5 definite for Setp - http://www.techradar.com/news/phone-and-communications/mobile-phones/iphone-5-coming-in-september-confirms-german-carrier-1093007?src=rss&attr=all

Former Presentations Guru sues after ‘Job for Life’ - http://www.macrumors.com/2012/08/21/apples-former-keynote-address-producer-files-suit-claiming-steve-jobs-promised-lifetime-position/

TechBasic 2.3 - http://www.engadget.com/2012/08/21/techbasic-update-links-ios-devices-to-world-of-sensors-with-bluetooth-le/

iPad on a segway - http://www.businessinsider.com/double-robotics-2012-8

Picks

Will Green - Virtual Box

Notes: the admin password for all of the IE VMs is “Password1″ without the quotes. This has been tested and confirmed to work with Mac OS X 10.7 Lion and Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard.

Download & Install VirtualBox – Download Now (direct .dmg download link) – visit VirtualBox Downloads page
Launch the Terminal (located in /Applications/Utilities/)
Decide which versions of Internet Explorer you want to download and install – each version of Internet Explorer is contained within a separate virtual machine that runs within VirtualBox. In other words, if you want to run Internet Explorer 7, 8, and 9, you will need to download three separate VM’s, which may take a while so keep that in mind. Select the text below and copy it:
- Install ALL versions of Internet Explorer: IE7, IE 8, and IE 9
- curl -s https://raw.github.com/xdissent/ievms/master/ievms.sh | bash
- Install Internet Explorer 7 Only
- curl -s https://raw.github.com/xdissent/ievms/master/ievms.sh | IEVMS_VERSIONS="7" bash
- Install Internet Explorer 8 Only
- curl -s https://raw.github.com/xdissent/ievms/master/ievms.sh | IEVMS_VERSIONS="8" bash
- Install Internet Explorer 9 Only
- curl -s https://raw.github.com/xdissent/ievms/master/ievms.sh | IEVMS_VERSIONS="9" bash
Copy and paste the selected command from above into the Terminal and hit return, this will start the download and conversion process. How long this takes depends on your internet connection and how many versions of Internet Explorer you chose to install
Launch VirtualBox and boot Windows & Internet Explorer – select the virtual machine corresponding to the version of Internet Explorer you intend to use: IE7, IE8, IE9, then click on the “Start” button to boot that Windows machine with that version of Internet Explorer.