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		<title>iPhone 2G vs 3G Continued&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 08:18:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I bit ago I wrote a quick post about why I wasn&#8217;t so sure about getting the new 3G iPhone here in Canada as I have been using a hacked 2G US model for some time and all I was really missing was a data plan.
Well lots has changed since the last post&#8230; Rogers caved-in [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[I bit ago I wrote a quick post about why I wasn&#8217;t so sure about getting the new 3G iPhone here in Canada as I have been using a hacked 2G US model for some time and all I was really missing was a data plan.
Well lots has changed since the last post&#8230; Rogers caved-in to some degree and is now offering iPhones on your old plan available at the subsidized pricing but you have to renew with a three year contract, I have even heard that some people are able to get iPhones at the $199 and $299 pricing without even getting a data plan? Rogers has also introduced a limited time offer 6GB for $30 per month data plan available for most Smart Phones including the iPhone.
So what does that mean to me? I&#8217;m sticking with my old 2G iPhone and grabbing the new 6GB data plan!! Ya I know I won&#8217;t have the built in GPS ( I already have a great turn by turn Magellan GPS in the car). And ya I know I&#8217;ll be waiting for my web pages to load up with my slow Edge based data connection. The truth is I really am not using my data as much as I thought I would, in the past 20 days I have only used just over 20MB of data. part of this is because I was in California for four days doing the Mac Video Training Tour. I guess I must do the bulk of my iPhone browsing from home based WiFi? (more&#8230;)
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		<title>MVT Road Show Continued - LA &#038; San Diego</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2008 01:19:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a bit of a marathon couple of weeks and I am just getting caught up. I wanted to post some updates while on the MVT Road Show but it turned out to be some very long days usually ending with getting into the hotel late and crashing.
The MVT Road Show was well worth [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a bit of a marathon couple of weeks and I am just getting caught up. I wanted to post some updates while on the MVT Road Show but it turned out to be some very long days usually ending with getting into the hotel late and crashing.
The MVT Road Show was well worth it in the end, we met with around 20 Mac Dealers, most of them where very interested in our Quick Start Your Mac Training Video. Paul and I even managed to sell a bunch of our courses and offset most our trip costs. It&#8217;s was really great going and seeing all of these amazing people and their Mac based businesses.
Now for some of the highlights&#8230;
Day 2 we went made our way to Cupertino and of course we had to stop in at the Apple Mothership.

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		<title>MVT Road Show - San Fancisco</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 06:47:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We made it to San Francisco and I have the photos to prove it. It was a bit of a marathon day getting up really early, the traveling and getting a few store visits in before the business day ended. We even found some time to make a stop in at the San-Fran Apple Store&#8230;
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[We made it to San Francisco and I have the photos to prove it. It was a bit of a marathon day getting up really early, the traveling and getting a few store visits in before the business day ended. We even found some time to make a stop in at the San-Fran Apple Store&#8230;
  
 
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		<title>Mac Video Training Website Goes Live</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 06:17:57 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[The Mac Video Training Website went live today! Still some minor changed to make but for the most part it&#8217;s a go.

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		<title>Mac Video Training Road Show</title>
		<link>http://www.switchingtomac.com/wp/mac-video-training-road-show/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jul 2008 20:02:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I am about to embark on a 4 day roadshow tour with my business partner Paul. We are starting with San Francisco, traveling to Los Angeles and ending with San Diego. The purpose for this trip is to promote our new Quick Start Your Mac video training course to the people of America (If you [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[I am about to embark on a 4 day roadshow tour with my business partner Paul. We are starting with San Francisco, traveling to Los Angeles and ending with San Diego. The purpose for this trip is to promote our new Quick Start Your Mac video training course to the people of America (If you come - they will buy it - or something like that??) We have a very busy four days ahead of us with plans to visit some 20+ retail Apple locations.
Time permitting we will try to post an update with some photos of our journeys&#8230;
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		<title>Get a new 3G iPhone or stick with your old iPhone?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jul 2008 21:07:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I haven&#8217;t really said too much about the new 3G iPhones coming out in a few days from now (July 11th). Originally I was very excited about the thought of being able to legitimately purchase and use an iPhone in Canada (along with 21 other countries) on July 11th. Unfortunately I live in Canada where [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[I haven&#8217;t really said too much about the new 3G iPhones coming out in a few days from now (July 11th). Originally I was very excited about the thought of being able to legitimately purchase and use an iPhone in Canada (along with 21 other countries) on July 11th. Unfortunately I live in Canada where we have the absolute worst Cell and Data plans in the world (Thanks Rogers/Fido!), I won&#8217;t go into the details, it&#8217;s much too depressing. In short the top end $115 plan doesn&#8217;t even get you unlimited data or even Call Display and all plans lock you into a 3 year term.
So I thought I already have an iPhone so maybe I could get onto the iPhone plan in Canada without the 3 year term in case I didn&#8217;t like it, no can do! If I want to get on the iPhone plan I have to sign a three year contract even if I don&#8217;t want the new 3G iPhone. No way I say!
Lucky for me Rogers recently announced some raw Data plans that are not too over the top compared to what we here in Canada are used to. I am trying out a 300MB for $30 plan that I simply add to my existing voice plan and I don&#8217;t have to lock into a 3 year contract. My only concern was that Rogers would pull the &#8220;Sorry your phone is not supported&#8221; card out and in the end my $30 data plan would not cover the data my non-supported iPhone used costing me 8 bazillion dollars for data. I have been monitoring my usage and I will have no problem keeping to under the 300MB cap (Going from non data to 300MB is easy to keep a leash on). I have had to pull a few teeth over at Rogers in order to find out if I am actually getting charged for my iPhone Data usage and it looks like my $30 plan is in fact working with my iPhone. For the record Rogers policy is you have to wait till the end of your billing cycle to find out how much data you have used and what you are getting charged for, that&#8217;s very convenient for them but not for us&#8230; I will keep you posted on how this plan works in the long run, I really hope Rogers makes some amendments to their iPhone plan so more people can get on board the Apple Train.
Here are some relevant links:

 Rogers iPhone Plans
 Canadian iPhone 3G plans lack unlimited data
 Early iPhone adopter on fence about new one
www.ruinediphone.com

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		<title>Switching From a MacBook Pro to a MacBook Pro</title>
		<link>http://www.switchingtomac.com/wp/switching-from-a-macbook-pro-to-a-macbook-pro/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jun 2008 01:19:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Well my MacBook Pro reached the 2-year-old mark and it was starting to show its age a bit, I use it near 24 hours a day, it&#8217;s always doing something&#8230; downloading, ripping, encoding, you name it! I have it set to never go to sleep.
In all that time it has never had a hiccup. The [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Well my MacBook Pro reached the 2-year-old mark and it was starting to show its age a bit, I use it near 24 hours a day, it&#8217;s always doing something&#8230; downloading, ripping, encoding, you name it! I have it set to never go to sleep.
In all that time it has never had a hiccup. The battery is in need of a replacement, it&#8217;s at about half of it&#8217;s original capacity which is not bad for a machine that has seen as much run-time as this one has.
I would actually still be using it but lately my trusty MacBook Pro has been letting me know to ease up a bit, I have been experiencing some annoying video card artifacts when I push it to the limit graphically speaking that is. This seems to only happen when I do my Screen Cast recording or other heavy duty video related work. I get these periodic and random horizontal lines in the video and as you can imagine this is not good when I am trying to record to print for my new Mac Video Training videos. It only happens when things heat up, if I start on a fairly cold Mac I can work for a while with no problems but as I said my MacBook Pro is usually working away so it stays pretty warm most of the time&#8230; Worst of all I didn&#8217;t get Apple Care which would have covered the battery and screen issue so for now resolving this issue would not be economically viable.
My previous MacBook Pro was the last generation Intel Core Duo (Not the Core 2 Duo) running at 2GHz. I had maxed it out to the 2GB of RAM limit and also upgraded the internal 80GB hard drive to a 160GB drive. The video card was an ATI Radeon with 128MB of VRAM. My older MacBook Pro did not have a FireWire 800 port, the Dual Layer DVD burner or the 802.11n capabilities. (but rather a 1 FireWire 400, Single Layer Super Drive and 802.11b,g) (more&#8230;)
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		<title>Apple Sells 5 Billion Songs on iTunes</title>
		<link>http://www.switchingtomac.com/wp/apple-sells-5-billion-songs-on-itunes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:20:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike</dc:creator>
		
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Apple has reached the 5 billion iTunes songs sold marker, sounds kind of like a McDonald&#8217;s slogan. Remember when McDonald&#8217;s used to put the total amount of burgers sold on their signage? And then I think they realized after they reached 8 catrillion or so that we all got the point, they sell a lot [...]]]></description>
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Apple has reached the 5 billion iTunes songs sold marker, sounds kind of like a McDonald&#8217;s slogan. Remember when McDonald&#8217;s used to put the total amount of burgers sold on their signage? And then I think they realized after they reached 8 catrillion or so that we all got the point, they sell a lot of burgers!
It&#8217;s still a tone of songs and reiterating the fact that Apple is the numero uno music store in the US and now even the most popular movie store with over 50,000 movies sold each and every day.
Congratulations to Apple!
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		<title>iPhone 3G for the people</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2008 05:32:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The new 3G iPhone is going to make its debut in 70 countries this year and 22 of them by July the 11th (Canada being one of them - yippee!).
So what&#8217;s different about the new 3G iPhone? It comes in Black and White (plastic backing), it sports a 2.5x faster 3G radio over its edge [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[The new 3G iPhone is going to make its debut in 70 countries this year and 22 of them by July the 11th (Canada being one of them - yippee!).
So what&#8217;s different about the new 3G iPhone? It comes in Black and White (plastic backing), it sports a 2.5x faster 3G radio over its edge based predecessor, it now has a built in GPS and it costs about half the price of the existing iPhone.
It&#8217;s all good news but I really want to point out the part that makes the most sense here&#8230; it&#8217;s being launched in 70 countries! Who really cares what the iPhone does if you can&#8217;t get one! Getting the price down will also make this little Apple gem not only a must have but a can have device. Apple is playing their cards very well here, by getting an iPhone into the hands of as many people as possible. Apple is effectively cramming Mac OS X and all it&#8217;s sexiness down the throats of of millions and millions of previous non-Mac users. Combine this with Apple&#8217;s new &#8220;me.com&#8221; dot-mac replacement and all of it&#8217;s push services and web based iApplications and it&#8217;s going to be really hard for the PC iPhone user to go back to that Windows based PC everyday. No matter what you thought about Apple, when an iPhone is staring you in the face day after day with all of its glory you are going to cave in at some time and take that first baby step into an Apple store even if it&#8217;s only the online one.
There was a lot more discussed at the (WWDC) today, Apple spent a lot of time talking about the new iPhone 2.0 software as well as the Software Development Kit (SDK) for developing Apple iPhone supported application. This only supports what Apple is doing by getting as many iPhones out their as possible and making sure the software is as good as it can be.
It kind of reminds me of what Apple did with the iPod, they turned the Walkman concept into something new that everyone wanted even though at the end of the day they both played your music. Could this be the future of the iPhone? Will the iPhone be the new iCon of the smart phone?
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		<title>What to do with your old PC after Switching to a Mac?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2008 07:08:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a long time since I switched to Mac but about a year ago my Mother-in-law switched back over to a Mac and so I inherited her used HP PC laptop. And until just recently it has sat lifeless on my shelf - so sad  
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a long time since I switched to Mac but about a year ago my Mother-in-law switched back over to a Mac and so I inherited her used HP PC laptop. And until just recently it has sat lifeless on my shelf - so sad  
I have been using my MacBook Pro as an iTunes server for my two Apple TV&#8217;s, I keep all my shows and movies on an AirDisk connected to an Airport Extreme all of which streams wireless throughout the house. The only downside to this is when I take my MacBook Pro with me, so to goes the iTunes Server content which leaves my wife movie-less.
So I got an idea, PC&#8217;s can run iTunes, why not turn my aging PC laptop into an iTunes Server? And then I remembered the AirDisk my movie data was on, which on a Mac is very easy to connect to and share. An so the Googleing began&#8230; I needed to find out if/how a PC could connect to an Airport AirDisk. A few minutes later and the results where in, PC&#8217;s can connect to AirDisks too, maybe not as elegantly as a Mac does it but at least it was possible.
So this is what I did or should I say did twice because the first time I got the PC iTunes Server up and running she decided to go down about a week later virus ridden and ashamed, nothing a day and of my time and a format and reinstall couldn&#8217;t fix! No more casual surfing with PC iTunes Server for me  And yes I had Virus software on it to boot! (more&#8230;)
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