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what's happening Brian song here and welcome to the apple pie for all the good and bad stuff inside the world of Apple now there's so many iphone 5 rumors floating around there and we ignore a lot of them but many of you have been writing in to ask what's been happening with the iphone 5 so we have a little rumor roundup for you from the past week and a half so first off get your save the date on your calendar ready until the actual date is announced but according to the iphone blog and 9to5 mac apple is targeting pre-orders for the next iphone on the last days of September into the 29th of the 30th and shooting for a launch date in early October and even as early as october the seventh or the 14th so more and more guesses you can bet are pointing to october now now everyone is question if the iphone will come with 4G or not no one has confirmed it yet but the boy genius report has obtained information and documentation that shows apple carrier partners are at the very least testing iphone models with LTE capabilities again this doesn't mean the next iPhone will have LTE but Apple is actively testing them with their networks then 4G rumors got even hotter after engadget tipsters reported a major apple store was getting LTE 4G equipment installed by AT&T but battery life issues and the 4g chip size in the thinner iPhone form factor aren't really ready for primetime chest yet and what about the looks of the phone we've seen plenty of concepts some say it will resemble the current iphone 4 and others say it will be drastically different well macrumors took things another step further by commissioning a company to create high-quality renderings based on the allegedly leaked iphone 5 case design that have been pretty accurate in the past now the renderings look pretty nice with the elongated home button and tapered design but just consider this an imagination of the next iPhone it's kind of like how I imagined flying like an eagle soaring high and caring for my babies now the other story everyone asks about is if there's really an ipad 3 coming out this year because it makes complete sense for Apple to release you know a new product six months later that's still in high demand hopefully we put this one to rest for a while after digit times the publication who months ago said an ipad 3 was coming out this year recently claimed that difficulties in building high res retina displays that meet Apple standards will push the release out to 2012 but it won't hurt them after a surprise announcement one that really came out of nowhere when HP announced it will be discontinuing its line of web OS devices specifically the touchpad and web OS phones now webOS was expected to be a strong computing platform but the touchpad flopped with a lesson lukewarm response in no other tablet has been able to give the iPad or run for its money all right let's switch gears for a moment if your iTunes media has taken over your hard drive space we have a how-to to move your iTunes library onto an external drive to get started open iTunes and make sure the drive you want to move your library to is connected to your computer and ready to go next go into your iTunes preferences on a PC you'll find this under the Edit menu and for macos under the iTunes menu click under the Advanced tab and where it says itunes music folder location change the location to a folder on your external hard drive next make sure the copy files to music folder option is checked this ensures that any new content you download or rip into itunes gets transferred to the new location after that hit the ok button now you're not done yet there's one more big step to take before iTunes really starts moving your library to the new location when you're ready to make the transfer click the itunes file menu then go to library and select organize library you'll see a window with options here for consolidating and organizing your library check them both if you can but the critical one here is the first option for consolidating files this is going to take all the files referenced by itunes on your computer your movies your music your audio books podcast TV shows and it's going to copy it over to the new location on your external drive it will take some time and remember it's not deleting the old files it's just copying them to the new location if you're feeling confident later on you can move your old itunes media files on your local drive to the trash can after the transfer is complete then check again to make sure everything is still working and then permanently delete the old files watch out for deleting your local itunes itl or XML files low as these might still be used for your playlists and ratings for cnet com I'm Donald L helping to give your iTunes library some extra breathing room all right thank you mr. Donald now apple recently released the floor plans that are proposed mega headquarters in my hometown of Cupertino California that Steve Jobs and friends hope to have finished by the year 2015 it looks so magical now the Mac Observer took the plans crunch the numbers and found that the UFO will be just slightly larger than the Pentagon it's longer than the Navy's nuclear-powered USS enterprise and the Empire State Building and did you know that Apple even has more cash than the United States government so it's official welcome to the United States of Apple now in other large glass object Apple revealed its plans as it remodels the Fifth Avenue glass cube in New York changing its exterior to 15 panes of glass instead of its 90 that just had way too many visual scenes and really looks so horrible all right guys on to the quick bites we told you how a german court ruled in annapolis favor to ban the sale of samsung's galaxy 10.1 tab in europe because apple argued it resembled the ipad too closely well the court is now lifted that banned except in germany and a discovery in the filings show ha apples submitted pictures of the galaxy that weren't the actual galaxy tab but an edited and resized version of the tab that looks exactly like the ipad we know you guys are good with photoshop and graphics but come on not that good also apples joining the social party and adding links to products on their online store so now you can share what you like on facebook and twitter and show friends gift suggestions that they will never buy for you and if you haven't updated already Mac os10 lion 10.7 point one is out with bug fixes for Wi-Fi reliability data transfers and hdmi out and with lying out what's the next version of Mac OS 10 going to be called the Cougar joke is totally played out but what about this idea from kooky zoo Mac os10 Maru the internet famous cat yeah you know I'm not a fan of cats and I'm allergic to them but this one I could really rally around alright that's going to do it for this week's show send me your emails to the Alpha Beta cnet com ask away since we're putting together another email episode for you i'm brian Tong thanks for watching and we'll see you guys next week for another bite of the Apple