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what's happening brian Tong here and welcome to the Apple Viper everything good and bad inside the world of Apple now the top story this week comes from all things D and they report Apple will hold its next invitation-only event on tuesday october the 22nd with iPads the new mac pro and OSN mavericks being the focus now ipad leaks continue to pour out including these high-res images from Sonny Dickson with a new iPad 5 in its space gray color as well we've heard rumblings of an improved camera but we're just a few weeks out from the official announcement the new Mac Pro's won't be a surprise anymore but we'll find out how pricey they come in at an OS 10 Mavericks will also be featured but a report from nine to five Mac says Apple has already begun development on its successor that's internally being called sera after a type of wine after this screen shot was now now if you want to hear more Apple product rumors a report from cnet says according to NPD DisplaySearch predictions Apple is planning multiple screen size improvements and enhancement in 2014 including get ready for this list because these are their predictions two models of the iPhone including an iphone 6 with a 4.7 inch display and a phablet size 5.7 inch iphone okay they also talked about a 12 point nine inch big ipad and ipad mini 2 with the retina display and finally they expect to see a retina macbook air and i watch with a 1.3 inch screen and the Apple TV in two flavors a 55 inch and 65 inch screen side so we'll check back with this list in a year and see how they did all right one of the new features in the iphone 5s has been its camera a National Geographic photographer jim richardson decided to use the 5s to photograph the Scottish Highlands and leave his nikon DSLR behind although he found it difficult to get used to it first he described the 5s as a very capable camera with amazingly good color and exposures and he was a fan of the panorama an option for taking square photos to get into Instagram but I should probably stress that not everyone will be able to take pictures that look this good with their iphone 5s in fact they'll probably look more like this alright let's take a break some people are happy with Iowa 7 some people aren't and it runs horribly on an iphone 4 don't even do that if you can avoid it but here's a how to for helping you save battery life a new version of iOS means a fresh new look handy new settings and a boatload of features that have good intentions but really just suck up your phone's battery life so if you noticed your phone is draining faster since updating to iOS 7 or you want to know how to get more juice out of it here are some tips background app refresh is a feature that lets background apps stay active while you multitask the problem is that by default all your apps aren't able to refresh in the background which is a huge battery hog head on over to settings general then background app refresh here you can disable the feature entirely or you can disable just the ones you don't absolutely want to refresh iOS 7's automatic updates aren't generally a problem but the last thing you want is 15 apps to start updating when your battery is at twenty percent so turn that feature off just go to the iTunes and App Store settings and disable this updates option now you can update your apps whenever it's best for you one of the biggest battery drains is always location tracking usually that applies to using mapping apps but hidden in your settings menu are a whole bunch of new settings that sneakily track your location under privacy go to location services then scroll all the way down and choose system services some of these settings are designed to improve your experience for instance popular near me tracks your location to give you a pre commend ations based on where you are go ahead and disable any features you don't absolutely need including this frequent location setting at the bottom spotlight is super useful because it lets you search for almost anything on your phone and the way it works is by constantly crawling your phone for new data and indexing it that's a huge battery drain back in settings go to general spotlight search and uncheck the items you don't absolutely need indexed with that and all the other adjustments you should see a nice boost in your battery life thanks for that one share now on to the quick bytes there's a lot of people asking about when iTunes radio is coming to their neck of the woods may not be as early as you like but according to Bloomberg apples planning to expand the service to the UK Canada Australia and New Zealand by early 2014 Samsung's Galaxy gear is airing their commercials for the new SmartWatch but it definitely has the same feel to ashes original iphone ad campaign it's just too bad that the attempt to be first to market didn't work out when it's getting hammered by reviewers across the board and this is pretty cool Johnny I've teamed up with friend Mark Newsom create a few one-of-a-kind products for an upcoming product red charity auction now a couple of the items 18 karat solid rose gold Apple earpods that would kind of match the phone but check this one out it's a one-of-a-kind laser machined aluminum body leica m camera that just looks sick now it took eighty five days to create it went through 561 different models and nearly 1,000 prototype parts so this is all pretty sweet stuff alright guys keep sending us your emails to the apple bita cnet com or tweet me up brian Tong and i'll get to your questions when i can that's gonna do for this week's show i know it's kind of a short one but will bring more for you next week i'm brian Tong thanks for watching and we'll catch you next time for another bite of the Apple you