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what's happened in Bryant on here and welcome to the apple pie for all the good and bad inside the world of Apple now last week we showed off the mountain lion but this week we wanted to give you an inside look at some of the hidden features that you haven't seen it so let's jump into them first off cosmetically there have been a few uin system tweaks the dashboard app that allows you to add a variety of widgets has changed so you won't have to scroll through a bar at the bottom anymore but instead you'll be able to choose them from a launch pad like view you can stack widgets on top of each other like an iOS folder if you want and even widgets like stocks have a new way to flip through information and we might see more like this in the future now in the system preferences you'll also have a new lineup of screen saver animations like photo mobile look at how that flies in or the weathered aged look of the scrapbook theme or vintage prints now clearly they're adding a higher production value to mount line you also have a notifications preference to manage them just like you do in iOS so you can set how many are displayed which apps notifications you want to view but apps like mail also take advantage of it now so let's show you the mail app and one of the new features is VIPs it lets you mark the real important people that you interact with and you can make someone a VIP by clicking on the star icon to the left of their name in an email now once there a VIP you can select to read only emails from them but even better if you go into the preferences of mail and then into the rules section you can create a rule that sends you a notification every time that specific VIP send you an email and you'll never miss it now Safari combines the address and the search bar together while also making the reader button a permanent fixture that strips away all the ads and distractions when you're reading a story much like in iOS also Apple talked about share sheets but the slick addition is share sheets to the quick look mode now I know plenty of people who aren't even familiar with quick look where you press the spacebar on a file to instantly preview it but now you'll be able to share files directly in the quick look mode so that's pretty slick so there's a look at some of the additional features and tweaks and mountain line you haven't seen before it's released later this summer and I could tell you guys right now i'll be waiting first and lion for it you get it line and lion that's not funny uncle Brian oh really well I guess that means no more uncle Brian pillow jumps for you all right back to the actual show because that's why you're all watching in ipad 3 News macrumors acquired what they believe to be the rumored ipad 3 Retina display that's been circulating on the internet and this week they have confirmed with iFixit with the help of microscopes that the next gen ipad will have a resolution of 2048 by 1350 six and four times the pixels compared to the ipad to keep drooling Apple biters the unofficial March 7th date is just around the corner now we also love taking a peek at apple patents and there are some good ones that recently serviced on patently Apple one of them is a feature to create DJ style beat match crossfading between two audio streams for Macs and iOS devices so creating a seamless transition to some of your songs you might have in a genius playlist and another discovered by AppleInsider shows apples ambitions to reinvent the keyboard with a thinner and lighter design with a single support lever keyboard design with a travel range of 0.2 millimeters that's how far it goes when you press it down now the goal of this new design would be to create a slimmer keyboard that eliminates that rattle noise and slimmer products and accessories in the future all right let's check out our app of the week this week's app is on live desktop plus for the ipad now it's made from the creators of the online video game streaming service but this time they've created a way a real clever way to access Windows 7 in a touchscreen environment directly on your iPad with touch support so why should you guys care now in addition to having access to the entire office suite you'll also have the ability to watch flash content through the internet explorer browser that stream to your iPad over 1 gigabit connection now the lag between your finger touches and the responsiveness of the app is really minimal it's pretty amazing and it's one of the first examples we've seen of a cloud computing solution that works really well you'll also have two gigs of storage space that you can access through the cloud it's five dollars a month and it will be coming soon to Android max monitors and TVs and it's left me very impressed so you guys should check it out now back to the stories earlier this week apple gave abc's nightline behind-the-scenes access to their Foxconn production line during a fair labor association review that was paid for by Apple after the overwhelming reports about the poor working conditions on site now it's worth mentioning that ABC's parent company is Disney and Steve Jobs was disney's largest shareholder so no conflict of interest there but overall the report revealed nothing new but it did show that it takes 141 steps to make an iphone and it takes an iPad 5 days to build and passes through 325 hands during production workers are paid one dollar in seventy-eight cents an hour they pay roughly 70 cents per meal and pay 17 dot fifty cents a month to share a company dorm with five to seven other people now the next day after the segment aired reports from factory workers claimed that underage workers were transferred to other departments / not scheduled to work overtime during the inspection talk about a bad apple now it's really a story that won't go away no matter how much Apple wants it to and we'll keep you posted if anything new happens alright let's wrap things up on a happy note you know we're good friends of gelaskins here on our show it's the skin you always see on my eye goodies now they launched their new hardcase line that recently brings the same awesome designs on a real protective case and to celebrate they are hooking up five of my favorite apple biters with a forty dollar gift card so how do you win this thing well did you guys know that a cougar is a mountain lion okay okay i know you guys do and i love Cougars but there are other wild cats in addition to the Cougar that are mountain lions so named meet at least two if you're correct will pick your name randomly and announce the winners next week just like that alright that's going to do it for this week's show email us at the Apple by to cnet com thanks for watching I'm Brian Tom and we'll catch you guys next week for another bite of the Apple