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what's happening i'm brian tong and welcome to a little show we call the alpha byte for all the good and bad inside the world of Apple the 3d revolution is happening too whether you guys like it or not and Apple's making sure they'll be a part of it now do you really think Steve Jobs likes wearing those silly glasses well the Cupertino kids were recently granted a patent for a method that projects a 3d image without glasses an image would be projected onto a reflective surface then bounced into a viewers left eye and right eye separately creating the 3d effect it could also sense the location of both eyes of a viewer and multiple people could watch from a variety of angles redonkulous now could you imagine the Apple byte in 3d come on we would get so many more viewers now iOS 4.2 has been out for a couple of weeks now and it's been revealed by Nokia Siemens Networks that the new OS supports technology to reduce network congestion and improve battery life at the same time it's called Network controlled fast dormancy technology and put your phone in an intermediate state so it can wake up more quickly conserve more battery and reduces the number of signals needed to start a data connection ncfd has to be implemented on a network to take advantage of it but this could really help lighten the load on AT&T and also make Verizon look really good if its network sees little impact from the iPhone when it arrives now airplay has been a feature people were drooling over an iOS 4.2 there's no doubt its innovative but I find it slow to display full movies and media content like videos in Safari videos you recorded with your iPhone camera or media and third-party apps can't be viewed from your device to your TV so it makes for an inconsistent and half-baked experience yesterday addressed the issue to her MacRumors reader through what else but Steve mail and he said yep hope to add these features to airplay in 2011 now most of us aren't using paying anymore but now there's a reason - for a day Michael Jackson's do you posthumously released track much too soon as being streamed exclusively to MJ's profile page even though the service is still too little too late now an iPad news or you can call this one a rumor right now digit Times is reporting that Taiwan sources are claiming that larg on position is the sole supplier of the lens modules for the next iPad there's no word of how many megapixels we'll see or if it will be a front-facing rear-facing or both but we're really close to having iPads replacing cameras look good Tiger OS Tiger get me Tiger yeah your MacBook crash your said he says oh right there or not now over the holiday break patently Apple's website showcased Apple's new iPad design patent that confirms a landscape dock connection in addition to the dock connector that's currently there it opens up a whole new ecosystem of accessories so it's a strong bet that will see this in the next gen iPad all right let's take a breather and check out a few tricks you might not know about that you can do with your iphone hi I'm Sharon Vaknin and I'm here to show you how to make the most of your iPhone with some useful shortcuts and tricks longtime and recent parents of iPhones listen up I guarantee you didn't know at least one of these useful tips so you know your iPhone is equipped with the very useful alarm stopwatch and timer what you may not know is that you can use that timer to put your iPod in sleep mode open the clock app select timer and adjust it to the duration you'd like the music to play before it shuts off then tap when timer ends scroll to the top and select sleep iPod click set start the timer and play your music a lot of you iPhone users are aware that you can zoom in on an email photo or webpage by double tapping with one finger well this function isn't always available especially within apps so go to Settings General and select accessibility click zoom and slide it to on now you can zoom in anywhere by double tapping with three fingers and like every phone the iPhone is equipped with a calculator for doing all the simple calculations like adding and subtracting but those of you who need more advanced functions like finding the square root of a number or using exponents can turn to the built-in scientific calculator just rotate your phone to landscape mode and voila well there you have it a few tips to help you use your iPhone to its full potential for cnet.com I'm Sharon Vaknin see you next time well hello thanks for the tip Sharon and I will be looking forward to more of them now on to the quick bytes guys a recent report by change wave has found that Apple continues to gain share in the e-reader market while amazon's kindle losses it the ipad jumped from a 16 percent share in august to a 32 percent share in November while the Kindle dropped 15 percentage points from 62 to 47 in that same time the iPhone has finally just edged out rims blackberry 4 smartphone market share in the US by just half a percent the Nielsen Company study also found that females leaned relatively strongly to the iPhone / Android as their most desired phone while men on the other hand tend to prefer an Android phone well what does that say about me hey we need you in the studio right now well but my eye and in one of the best replications of Steve Jobs you'll ever see em I see gadgets SJ figurines immediately sold out of their first run of 300 it features his smirk the black mock turtleneck blue jeans and New Balance shoes you can even write your favorite sayings on speech bubble cards but like all things it was just too good to be true and the big a forced them to stop selling the figurines citing copyright infringement alright that's gonna do it for this week's show Center emails to the Apple buy the sitcom i'm brian tom thanks for watching and we'll see you guys next week for another bite of the Apple