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TidBITS#1147/22-Oct-2012

While we gird ourselves for Tuesday’s Apple announcement (An iPad mini? A ultra-compact iCar? A floor wax?), we have a spate of great articles for you. Adam Engst reports on the MacTech Conference 2012 (including a behind-the-scenes trip to Disney Animation Studios), Tonya Engst looks in depth at the new features of AirPlay in Mountain Lion, Jeff Carlson rounds up all the new photo-related features in iOS 6, and Michael Cohen gets geeky with an explanation of how Apple Mail in Mac OS X and iOS notify you of new email messages in completely different ways. Be sure to check the TidBITS Web site tomorrow for our coverage of Apple’s announcement!

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MacTech Conference 2012 Opens Mental Doors

Adam Engst enjoys most conferences, but last week’s MacTech Conference 2012 was superlative, combining useful sessions, interesting discussions, and delightful evening entertainment in a way that left his mind pondering all sorts of new possibilities.

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Playing with AirPlay in Mountain Lion

A technology that started out as the audio-only AirTunes in 2004 and transmogrified into AirPlay in 2010 has now been enhanced in Mountain Lion to enable us to mirror our Mac screens to AirPlay-savvy devices like the Apple TV. Read on to find out what else you can do with it, and to learn how to recover the commands formerly on the Display menu bar menu.

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Exploring iOS 6’s New Photo Features

Photos from the iPhone 5 are better than those from the iPhone 4S, but not all photo enhancements are due to the new device’s hardware. Jeff Carlson looks at photo improvements in iOS 6 that owners of the iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, and camera-enabled iPod touch models can enjoy.

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ExtraBITS for 22 October 2012

For ExtraBITS this week, we have links to an article by Glenn Fleishman about what it was like to be on Jeopardy (alas, the actual shows aren’t online) and to an interesting overview at MacStories of where in the world Apple sells its media properties.