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Ah yes, our old friend -- the Post-it of Unavailability. The Apple Store is down in the US, UK, Australia and presumably elsewhere as well.

Could be maintenance, could be something else (although it seems awfully early for the rumored Mac Pro refresh). We'll know in a few hours, give or take.

Update: The store is back up with no major changes; however commenters note that the previous days-to-ship product information is now replaced with simply "In Stock" except in the case of the Mac Pro. That may be aimed at avoiding further commotion when simple ship time fluctuations occur.

Apple Store down Thursday evening (Updated) originally appeared on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Fri, 09 Sep 2011 00:25:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Sep 9, 2011 11:29:08 PM

Apple Introduces World?s First Thunderbolt Display

Apple today unveiled the new Apple Thunderbolt Display, the world?s first display with Thunderbolt I/O technology and the ultimate docking station for your Mac notebook. With just a single cable, you can connect a Thunderbolt-enabled Mac to the 27-inch Apple Thunderbolt Display and access its FaceTime camera, high-quality audio, and Gigabit Ethernet, FireWire 800, USB 2.0, and Thunderbolt ports. The new display features a thin aluminum and glass enclosure and includes a MagSafe connector that charges your MacBook Pro or MacBook Air.

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Sep 9, 2011 8:29:09 PM

Apple's Strict Security Measures for Pre-Release Hardware

Leaked photo of iPad bolted to table (Source: Engadget)
Business Insider offers some details from one of the first outside developers to work with the original iPad before its debut, describing the steps Apple went through to ensure secrecy. While some of the same details were reported last year, the new account offers a few additional items of interest.

The criteria was that we had to have a room with no windows. They changed the locks on the door.

Three developers and I were the only people allowed to go in the room. Apple needed the names and social security numbers of the people who had access.

Apple needed to be able to drill a hole in the desk and chain the devices to desk. They used those bicycle cables.

They had these custom frames built around them so we couldn't even tell what the iPads looked like. We could plug into them so we could code to them and we could touch the screen and play with that, but we couldn't see the form factor.

Then they took pictures of the wood grain. If any pictures leaked out, they could trace it back to which desk they came from.

While those security measures were obviously quite strict, they were not enough to prevent several photos of the device in testing from leaking out the night before the iPad was unveiled.

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Sep 9, 2011 2:29:07 PM

Apple Introduces iCloud

Apple today introduced iCloud, a set of free new cloud services that work seamlessly with applications on your iPad, iPhone, iPod touch, Mac, or PC to automatically and wirelessly store your content and push it to all your devices. iCloud services include new versions of Contact, Calendar, and Mail; iCloud Backup and Storage; Photo Stream; and iTunes in the Cloud. And for just $24.99 a year, iTunes Match will give you all of the benefits of iTunes in the Cloud for music you haven?t purchased from iTunes. iCloud will be available this fall, along with iOS 5. A free beta version of iTunes in the Cloud is available today in the U.S. and requires iTunes 10.3 and iOS 4.3.3.

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Sep 9, 2011 11:29:09 AM

(Insider) The Macalope Daily: High margin hobby

Is OS X getting demoted to hobby status? Are you kidding?

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Sep 9, 2011 8:29:06 AM

10.7: Using FileVault2 to encrypt a second hard drive with user folders

FileVault2 is an excellent addition to Lion. Amusingly though, Apple has done exactly the same thing as Microsoft did when it introduced Bitlocker in Vista (which it corrected with Windows 7). Apple has made it easy to encrypt the system drive, and difficult to encrypt other drives.

This hint describes how to place a user home directory on a FileVault2 encrypted partition on a second hard drive and have that partition load automatically on boot.

The primary issue is that when the user home directory is on a secondary encrypted drive it will not automatically unlock when the user logs on, thus resulting in a logon error for that user. Once unlocked the partition with the user home directory will automatically mount.

Note: Once these operations have been performed, Disk Utility cannot be used to modify the second disk. Terminal and diskutil need to be used instead.

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