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what's up i'm brian tong and welcome to the Apple bite it's all the good and bad inside the world of Apple so let's get to it we haven't talked about this because of the timing of our show but OTR global reported last week that Apple is planning to manufacture a world mode phone that will be compatible with both of our eyes ins cdma2000 network and current gsm UMTS carriers like AT&T now you can think qualcomm for its hybrid chip that will enable the iPhone to work not only on the two carriers but pretty much every other carrier outside of the United States as well nothing is confirmed but the report also says production will start in q3 of next year conveniently around the time a ents exclusivity with Apple is believed to expire the Droid is out now and it's a great phone but there's still plenty of you Verizon people drooling for Apple's crown jewel and I would switch over the second it happens what you Apple biters think let us know now if you've been debating about jailbreaking your iPhone you might not want to after new malware called iPhone privacy a is allowing hackers to access users personal data non jailbreaking phones are not vulnerable so you guys are all safe but people who have installed SSH to gain remote access capabilities and have not changed their default password you guys are open to an attack so change your password mine is on all my accounts now Mac OS ten point six point two has been released and after a bunch of back-and-forth it's now been confirmed that support for Intel Atom processors is gone so those of you running Mac OS 10 on your notebooks do not update anyone running a hackintosh pretty much knows what they're doing but it's such a small percentage of users and there's no way it's really affecting Apple's bottom line the big a is just turning people off to OS 10 they might have wanted just a little taste of it on a lower-cost PC before making the jump down the road and you know what this smells like people oh yeah a bad apple but hey that's how Apple rolls you can love it leave it or just hate on it like we do all right let's check out our iPhone App of the I thought we'd do something a little different and I know a lot of you love taking pictures especially with the holidays so I wanted to focus on a few photo apps that will enhance how you use your iPhone or iPod Touch for existing pictures now the first one is snap sure there's no zoom on the iPhone but this $1.99 app gives you the ability to zoom in and then touch the screen to take a picture it is a digital zoom so it's not gonna be as clean as an optical one but it's better than no zoom and a feature that takes three rapid shots in a row is really nice now we also know there's no flash on the iPhone to check out i flash ready for $0.99 it adds a software-based splash and typically it will give you better results by focusing on the shade of individual pixels instead of adjusting sliders after the photo has already been taken I got to tell you I think this thing works pretty well there's also a lot of editing apps out there but I like this one it's free it's called Photoshop calm mobile and it comes from you from Adobe you might have heard of them and it's really a bunch of simple adjustments like cropping exposure and preset color effects with a simple clean interface and it's free so try those out and I'm sure there's plenty of others that you all use and feel free to send them along so we can showcase your favorites as well and finally we'll keep on taking care of you with a special giveaway for three Apple biters our good friends at Kensington have hooked us up with three nightstand charging docks so ditch your alarm clock and use your iPhone instead it comes with a free rise and shine app with the really cute name with three different display modes you can tap to find out the weather and the dock keeps the iPhone standing upright while charging so really cool stuff and to win you guys have to watch last week's episode and tell me what is my beloved game from Angie moco and we'll enter you in the random drawing to win all right that's gonna do it for this week's show send me your questions or comments to the Apple byte at sea Netcom i'm brian tom they should watch it I come back next time for another bite of the Apple you