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Looks like apple just released 10.6.1, its only around 70 MB. Surprised it’s not on tuaw.com or macrumors.com, or 123macmini.com. You can read what’s new in 10.6.1 here. Ahh it’s on macrumors.com now.

Improves compatibility with some Sierra Wireless 3G modems
Addresses an issue in which some printer compatibility drivers might not appear properly in the Add Printer browser
Addresses an issue that might cause DVD playback to stop unexpectedly
Addresses an issue that might make it difficult to remove an item from the Dock
Resolves an issue in which the Command-Option-T keyboard shortcut would sometimes bring up the special characters menu in applications such as Mail and TextEdit
Addresses instances in which auto account setup in Mail might not work
Resolves issues when sending mail with certain SMTP servers
Addresses an issue in which Motion 4 could become unresponsive
Includes an update to Adobe Flash Player plug-in version 10.0.32.18

It only cost me a whooping $342.40 with one day shipping and tax. One day shipping is 16 bucks, two day shipping is 10 bucks, so paid 6 bucks more for one day. Since I ordered directly from apple, I’ll probably have to sign for it, not a big deal, don’t want anyone to steal it. My first gen 8 GB touch was 300 bucks when it first came out. Probably give my old touch to sister. Oh yeah the new nano’s have a video camera, to bad the touch’s don’t. Sweet I’ll be able to fit all my music on it, I only have 14.90 GB of music. The new iTunes isn’t showing up in software update yet for me anyways. iTunes found the 3.1 firmware for my touch though. Home sharing will be nice, then my mom can get all the apps I bought on her touch.

Update
Looks like you can pre order the 3rd generation iPod touch’s on amazon now. Apple site says shipping in 24 hours, who knows when amazon will have them in stock. I’d only pre order from amazon if I had a gift card.

Update
APPLE charged me $17.39, have no idea why, or what that charge is for. Shows up on my bank’s site. They charged me that after charging me $342.40. Might need to cancel debit card, apple might be a thief, receipt makes no mention of this $17.39 charge. Only way to find anything out is if I call the fuckers. Never ordering from apple online store again, assholes. Hmm look and see if on bank I can do something to stop it, no point in calling apple, looks like there a bunch of assholes. Wonder if I cancel the order, if they’ll refund $17.39 too.

Oh yeah don’t bother trying to use online chat in store to figure it out, you’ll get a lame response like below.

I am sorry you are having an issue.
Although I am here to assist online shoppers with their apple.com product questions, I am happy to assist you by guiding you to the answers you need
The number for Customer Service and Sales Support is 1-800-676-2775.

It might just be a temporary thing, like when you first use your debit card or credit card at some online stores.

Sometimes, though, the merchant doesn’t know the transaction amount until after it’s authorized. A good example of this is at the gas pump. Before you fill up your tank, you’re asked to swipe your debit or credit card to authorize your purchase up to a specified amount. Say, for example, the authorization request is for $50. This amount also shows in your Account Summary as a pending transaction. Your gasoline purchase ends up being $22.50. That’s the actual charge that will be paid to the merchant. In rare instances, the actual transaction is posted to the account before we receive an updated list of pending transactions. In that case, it may look like you’re being charged for the authorized amount of $50 and the actual purchase amount of $22.50. In reality, the pending charge will usually be removed with the next update. In no case will you be charged both amounts.

But usually shows up before the other transaction, but considering bank is a slow ass, its hard to say. They should make it a dollar authorization like every other online store I’ve used does. Bastards.

I’m guessing the $17.39 charge will go away, or the next email from them will tell me what it is…

Incase you didn’t know there has been a mac version of Quake Live for a while now. I get lag in some games, like the one in the video below.

Every time I click FN + F8(play/pause button on apple keyboard) iTunes opens, didn’t do that in Leopard. I use Cog to play music, not deleting iTunes, need it for my iPod touch. Doesn’t look like I’m the only one with that problem. Thanks apple for being a dick. Guess I could keep iTunes open and select the Store tab, but I don’t want iTunes open, then it will use my valuable ram.

Update
Possible solution found here. Didn’t try it yet, you need to edit the file in a terminal and as root.

sudo mv /System/Library/LoginPlugins/BezelServices.loginPlugin/ /System/Library/LoginPlugins/BezelServices.loginPlugin.bak/
sudo cp /System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.RemoteUI.plist /System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.RemoteUI.plist.back
sudo nano /System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.RemoteUI.plist

and replace the contents with below:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>Disabled</key>
<true/>
</dict>
</plist>

save it and reboot. Credit goes to forum user FortyRock on forums.plexapp.com.

Also sounds like it won’t control the volume on your mac after you do that, doesn’t really matter to me, there’s a knob on my speakers to control volume.

Just did it and it works.

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I pre ordered it from amazon, and just got it today. Finder is faster, and so is copying a file to a SAMBA share, doesn’t look like I have to use FTP now to copy files to my linkstation. Only noticed one program not working, Cameras doesn’t do anything when I put SD card into card reader, it use to automatically download my pics, but not anymore. Kind of sucks, no update yet either. My printer is still in Printers, so I think it works, haven’t tried printing anything. My printer is on the printer compatibility list. Time machine doesn’t really seem faster, think it might actually be slower, never really paid any attention to it, so I don’t know for sure. Think it might of freed some space up, had around 50 GB free in leopard, now have around 60 GB free.

Update
Cameras was updated and works with my SD card now.