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what's up Brian Tong here and welcome to the Apple bite it's everything inside the world of Apple now September's here and many of you are waiting for an official iPhone 5 launch date and there's been plenty of rumors throwing early to mid October around none of my retail sources even know yet but there are pieces to the iPhone 5 puzzle that are coming together now you might not like sushi but you will after this picture which is believed to be the first test photo from the next iPhone pocket now says the photo claims to be taken by an iPhone 4 and the X of data shows that the picture has been cropped to just over 5 megapixels but the original picture was just under 8 the rumored size for iPhone 5 photos now the camera has a fixed 4.3 millimeter lens with an f-stop of 2.4 translation that's closer to a point-and-shoot and better than the current Apple phone and you know why this picture is legit well the GPS data places it at Apple's campus and once it got out on Flickr they took down the picture smart move guys now the iPhone 5 cases are also floating around everywhere in China for sale and historically these cases have been pretty accurate MMIC gadget has built a gallery featuring all of them and if this comparison with the iPhone 4 is accurate it will be a thinner wider and longer phone that's as thin as the iPod touch with a teardrop like shape design and a mute switch that's moved to the opposite side plus they're still rumors about a form factor that's similar to the iPhone 4 with a slightly larger display which could be the 4s the 4G or the MST now if you're looking for more tasty McNuggets digitize reports suppliers are ramping up for full production capacity of the new iPhone with Foxconn already producing 150,000 phones a day they say shipments are set to reach five to six million units in September and over 22 million for the fourth quarter and in some cool iOS 5 news 9 to 5 Mac reports Apple has seated certain mobile carriers with a near final version of iOS 5 with FaceTime over 3G active for testing and it also includes the nuance dictation speech-to-text feature that Apple desperately needs an XL identically to the Android demo video all right let's take a quick break and show you a how-to for treating your own lion recovery disk hey guys Brian here with cnet.com and Mac os10 line users might be happy with how easy it is to download the Lion through the app store but there's no need to purchase an installer disc from Apple for 69 bucks and there's been no way to create a physical recovery disk until now Apple's made their own line recovery disk assistant that's available to download for free at the link you see here you'll be able to create your own physical recovery disk it's just over a Meg and it requires you have lion running with a recovery hard drive partition which is set up by default now first up insert a USB thumb stick or external disc drive with at least one gig of storage to your computer running lion run the line recovery assistant and it will create the recovery disk for you in a few minutes on that drive so from now on you'll have a line recovery disk and if you need to restore your computer in the future first plug in your disk drive then power up your Mac on startup hold the option key and a screen will appear that allows you to select which drive you want to boot up from so there you have it i'm brian tom for cnet.com with your recovery disk out - that will save you from potential headaches and more importantly save you some money use it wisely wow that guy's really been working out lately if you can tell alright thanks for the tip and let's get back to the show CEO Tim Cook put his first stamp on Apple recently with the announcement that Apple will now match charitable contributions up to ten thousand dollars for employees annually dollar for dollar Steve Jobs has not been known to donate publicly but has done so privately an Apple accidents philanthropy programs in 1997 so this is a nice change to the company all right to the quick bytes Apple has already proposed their UFO campus and is planning moving forward but it won't be the only one after Apple told the current Cupertino mayor that they will begin planning on a third campus after a UFO one is completed sometime in 2015 great so now the aliens will really know where to land when they want to take over I'll write in cool toys Atari is planning its own joystick controller for the iPad called the Atari arcade dual powered joystick because you know dual powered sounds so cool it's advertised as coming soon with no price and available yet but we can't wait for this and we leave you today with a story from the files of when people have too much money and time thanks to the magic of YouTube some idiot decided to showcase his culinary skills with a MacBook Air by slicing pieces of lettuce and how about deveining a shrimp because that's really smart and sanitary and of course slicing an apple seriously you know there's only one thing that should be doing with an apple and it's biting it all right that's gonna do it for this week's show now check this out let's have a nifty new mailbox so some of your comments right in here to the Alpha by to see Netcom will read a few of them next week I'm Brian Shawn thanks for watching only see you next time for another bite Apple