Steve Sande

<p>Along with all of the other goodness found in this weekend's leak of the iOS 11 golden master, it appears that the iPod touch may finally get an update. Leak source Benjamin Geskin <a target="_blank" href="http://appleinsider.com/articles/17/09/11/7th-gen-ipod-touch-with-face-id-hinted-at-in-ios-11-gm-code" rel="noopener noreferrer">found reference to a device labeled as "iPod8,1"</a> in the code, which may point to an all new iPod touch.</p>

<p>In case you were battening down the hatches for Hurricane (now Tropical Storm) Irma or just had a really big party weekend, you may have missed the fact that there was a leak of the iOS 11 Golden Master (final version) and the tvOS 11 firmware. As usual, a band of merry developers joined with <a target="_blank" href="http://twitter.com/stroughtonsmith" rel="noopener noreferrer">Steve Troughton-Smith</a> to sift through the code line by line to pull out secrets. Here's some of what they found:</p>

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<p>As we head into the weekend before an Apple event next Tuesday, we have a handful of short news items to keep you entertained and up-to-date:</p><ul><li>Disney is pulling streaming rights for Star Wars and Marvel titles from other services, keeping them only for the upcoming Disney streaming service</li><li>Siri Remotes are on backorder or out of stock in a number of countries -- could a newly-designed Siri Remote be on tap for Tuesday?</li><li>Spotify won't give Apple Safari users access to its Web Player</li><li>A group of Microsoft interns has developed <a target="_blank" href="https://myworkspace.ms" rel="noopener noreferrer">a new useful Mac app</a> for users of Office 365</li></ul>

<p>We don't know exactly what will happen starting at 10 AM on Tuesday, September 12, 2017, but based on past history and the current rumor mill both Dennis and I are making our predictions on how the event will unfold. This is my post; expect to see Dennis's take on the event on Monday.</p>

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<p>Things are a bit quiet this week, thanks to the anticipation of next week's Tuesday Apple event. But we still have enough unpublished news items to give you one of our patented News Updates!</p><ul><li>Yesterday's hacker attack wasn't, and today there was an iCloud Mail outage that was never reported</li><li>More code has been found showing that there will be a fifth-generation Apple TV and that it will support High Dynamic Range content</li><li>Amazon has Apple Park envy and wants to spend $5 billion on a new "second headquarters" somewhere</li></ul>

<p>The Apple Pencil is an odd little beast. With no built-in way for it to nestle with its natural partner — the iPad Pro — the Pencil has a tendency to wander. The accessory artisans at Pad & Quill have come up with <strong><a target="_blank" href="http://www.shareasale.com/r.cfm?B=695070&U=1170474&M=54540&urllink=" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Quill Apple Pencil Case</a></strong> (US$39.95), a very chic way to keep your Apple Pencil nearby and looking good. Here’s “Mr. P” (Brian Holmes) talking about The Quill:</p>

<p>On Tuesday, we'll be treated to the first interior views of the Steve Jobs Theater at <a target="_blank" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Park" rel="noopener noreferrer">Apple Park</a>, which will be the likely location of many future product reveals by Apple. Drone pilot <a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoc4iO1r4Bv0kuABk5PUwdw" rel="noopener noreferrer">Duncan Sinfield</a> has been treating folks to wonderful videos of the construction of Apple Park, and in this latest video you can see a group of people -- Apple execs, perhaps? -- standing inside the completed facility.</p>

<p>Our buddy Niles Mitchell (AKA <a target="_blank" href="http://twitter.com/napabar" rel="noopener noreferrer">napabar</a> on Twitter) is back with another one of his fun videos. This time, Niles is using a <a target="_blank" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starpath_Supercharger" rel="noopener noreferrer">Starpath Supercharger</a> plugged into an <a target="_blank" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_2600" rel="noopener noreferrer">Atari 2600</a> game console, connected to a small Bluetooth receiver that's linked to his Apple Watch. With a tap on the Apple Watch, he quickly loads <a target="_blank" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frogger" rel="noopener noreferrer">Frogger</a> onto the Atari console and away we go!</p>

<p>My love affair with crowdfunding is officially over.</p><p>For a long time, I’ve been a huge fan of Kickstarter and Indiegogo, having backed a number of successful campaigns. I was even such a proponent of crowdfunding that Ross Rubin invited me to be his co-host on his <a href="http://backerjack.com">Backerjack</a> podcast. But now, you can count me out on spending a dime on any future campaigns.</p>

<p>Apple's developer portal appears to have been hacked, self-driving cars get a legislative boost, we know what you'll be doing a week from Friday, and another beta is delivered by Apple:</p><ul><li>developer.apple.com has been down for a while today, and many think it's due to a hacker attack. Many accounts had profile information changed to a Russian address</li><li>The US House of Representatives unanimously voted in approval of a proposal to accelerate autonomous vehicle testing and research</li><li>September 15 at midnight Pacific Time appears to be when pre-orders for new Apple products will be available</li><li>iOS 11 beta 10 makes it to developer devices less than a week before the golden master may be released</li></ul>

<p>Soon -- hopefully next week -- Apple will release new versions of all of its operating systems including macOS. Over the past week, I upgraded my 2017 MacBook Pro with Touch Bar to <a target="_blank" href="https://appleworld.dreamhosters.com/search?q=High%20Sierra" rel="noopener noreferrer">macOS 10.13 High Sierra</a> with hopes that the latest and greatest beta (#8) would be stable and ready to go. High Sierra is running on the MacBook Pro...but not without some issues along the way. Here are five tips that should help you prevent some of the issues that I ran into.</p>

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