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what's happening Brian song here and welcome to the apple pie for all the good and bad inside the world of Apple now the big news of the week the Steve Jobs biography is out on Monday and it's the closest look in an essay that most of us will ever see Walter Isaacson has written biographies on benjamin franklin and albert einstein and his latest work involved over 40 interviews over the past two years with jobs and some of them were taped right before his passing now Isaacson sat down with 60 minutes to talk about the book and how SJ initially refused surgery on his cancer and then they do a biopsy and they're very emotional they say this is good it's one of these very slow-growing 5% of pancreatic cancers that can actually be cured but Steve Jobs doesn't get operated on right away he tries to treat it with diet he goes to spiritualist he goes to various ways of doing it macrobiotic Lee and he doesn't get an operation why doesn't he get it operated on immediately you know I've asked him that he said I didn't want my body to be opened I I didn't want to be violated in that way he's regretful about it and his wife is a very solid decent person understood it but said no no the body is there to serve the spirit you should get this operator and soon everybody is telling him quit trying to treat it with all these roots and vegetables and things just get operated on but he does it nine months later too late well one assumes the lakers by the time they operate on them they notice that it has spread to the tissues around the pancreas how could such a smart man do such a stupid thing yeah I think that he kind of felt that if you ignore something if you don't want something to exist you can have magical thinking and it worked for him in the past he regret it wow there's going to be a lot of interesting stuff from that interview the full episode airs Sunday night on CBS but you can check out clips at our sister site cbsnews com where Isaacson discussed how jobs pled not to let money change him an SJ putting the odds at 5050 that there is a God now earlier in the week Apple paid should be the steve jobs at Cupertino headquarters where employees gathered inside the company's courtyard with large pictures of SJ draping some of the buildings you can see just how filled it was with some of our own aerial footage where Apple CEO Tim Cook gave a speech and musicians Norah Jones Chris Martin from Coldplay and Randy Newman perform now let's shift over the Apple product side and if you doubted how well the iphone 4s was going to sell apple sold over 4 million 4 s's in the first three days compare that to the iphone 4 which hold 1.7 million units in that same time a year ago now those are just monster numbers now you've all seen from last week that I've started creating my own personal bond with Siri I'll spare you the details but the Android and Windows Phone big guns have downplayed series threat at the asia d conference android boss Andy Rubin said that he doesn't believe your phone should be an assistant your phone is a tool for communicating but Andy what if my phone is the only person that will talk to me plus do you know she talks dirty talk dirty to me the carpet needs vacuuming get your mind out of the gutter you sickos but it was you the Apple biters that really need to get some help because that was one of the responses you sent me from last week's show and I would never talk to my phone like that all right now one big problem with Siri though is its security the iphone 4s is default settings lets anyone send emails text messages and even make calls with siri even if it's passcode locked awesome see that's a big nasty bad apple but the good thing there's a fix that i would highly recommend for you so go into your settings then general and passcode lock settings and switch Siri to off you can still use the feature but not when your phone is locked like it should have been alright plenty of you were able to feel like you received a brand new phone with iOS 5 and one of the most subtle and greatest features included is custom text tones not ringtones but text tones so we decided to keep asian skunk around one more episode with this how to bryan song here with sina com and one of the new features in iOS 5 allows you to use your custom ringtones as custom text tones because there's plenty of you that have reached for your phone when it was someone else who received the text message loser so we're going to show you how to do it and if you've seen our ringtones video the process is almost exactly the same but let's refresh your memory so first off let's start in itunes and find a song like this one that i want to turn into a ringtone or text tone right click on the song and select get info a window will appear with track information and you want to select the options tab and look for the start time and stop time settings click on the boxes next to those settings for now now i know where i want my custom tonus start so i'll enter in a start time and a stop time there's a 40 seconds max duration for itunes custom tones and if you want to use sound effects or sound bites from your favorite movie just make sure you have an audio file that's playable in itunes once you've set the time press ok then go to advanced on the main menu bar and select create AAC version itunes will create the shorter version of your song below the original file you'll see the duration time and you want to drag and drop that version onto your desktop to make a copy now there's a little housekeeping we need to take care of first if the option to create AAC version is not available in iTunes go to your preferences and in the general tab find the section that says when you insert a CD click on the import settings and then select import using AAC encoder the option should now appear in the menu bar you also want to go back to the original audio file in itunes and then check off the start and stop time so that it plays normally from now on ok back to our custom audio file on the desktop we're going to change the extension name on the file from m4a to m4r you'll be asked to confirm the changes and we'll use em for our now from Windows users you'll need to go to your control panel then choose appearance and personalization select the folder options and in the view tab make sure you've unchecked the box to hide extensions for known file types that will allow you to see and change the file type ok we're almost there but before you bring your ringtone back into itunes you have to delete the custom version that we initially created and if you don't do this itunes will not accept the ringtone so this is an important and crucial step once you've done that drag and drop the renamed m4r file into the source column of iTunes and the word library should highlight it will copy the file into itunes check out the ringtone section and voila you have a new ringtone plug in your phone into your computer make sure you set it up to sync the ringtones in the appropriate section and your custom tones will be synced to your phone now the final step is to take your iOS device go into your settings then sounds and we already know about ringtones so this time let's go to your text tones and you'll be able to choose your default sound of choice from the ones you've created and if you want even more customization you can go into your contacts and set specific ringtones and text tones for your friends I'm Brian song with your how to percussion learning jones and text tones for iOS 5 there's no reason for you to pay money when you can do it this way hey Chewbacca just texted me use it wisely that's one of our most requested tips throughout the year but we also want to know how the battery life is working out for you because it's been a mixed bag since the update is it a bad apple a sweet apple pie just let us know all right onto the quick bite it looks like the iTunes Match service is just around the corner and the big a did say it would be ready at the end of October but the music settings in iOS 5 has now gained a toggle for turning iTunes Match on or off so it's coming soon now Apple likes to talk about its retina display with a resolution of 326 pixels per inch and it's really sharp but toshiba is taking it to the next level with their 498 pixels per inch 6.1 inch screen display an apple doesn't have any 6-inch products but the technology is rapidly advancing and I've got it new rumor here right here on the apple byte the ipad 3 will be a 6 inch tablet with the super and finally if you're a fan of the iphone 4s camera so is the avengers cinema photographer cmas mcgarvey who filmed parts of the movie with the iphone that made it into the final film and a couple of those shots are also in the movie trailer see even i told the production crew here it's completely legit to shoot a movie with the iphone foxy lady see in 26 take 37 super powers will save you right all right that's going to do it for this week's show send us your emails to the Apple by to cnet com i'm brian Tong thanks for watching we'll see you guys next week for another bite of the Apple