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We have received an anonymous tip that iTunes Match will come out next week on Tuesday October 25th.  While the rest of iCloud launched last week, there were many problems with the system being overloaded.  Apple probably delayed iTunes Match due to the intensive processing they will have to do to build up everyone’s playlists that subscribe once it’s release.  We were also told that likely the service will be rolled out for the US first then other countries in a staggered fashion.

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*Warning Unverified Rumor*

If you own a iPhone 3G or a 3GS, then it’s a good move to upgrade, IOS 5 will bring some new features, but performance always lags on full version upgrades.  If you have a iPhone 4 and it works great for you already, then have fun with IOS 5, and wait it out.  Especially if you have to pay expensive upgrade fees because you only have had it for a year or so.

Only time will tell.

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4895

Essentially go to settings > iCloud and use your me.com username (After converting it), and for iTunes you go to Settings > Store and used your iTunes ID there.  Same for Mac.  Settings Me.com use your iCloud info, and in iTunes use your iTunesID for your iTunes.

So you keep your iCloud individuality, but your iTunes are kept separate so they can still be shared with the family.

Accessories consisted of a single DisplayPort to HDMI Cable which worked with our HDMI Switch that goes into our TV.  The packaging was simple and the instructions as if you really needed it were to the point, concise, and easy to understand.  Setup was instant unlike some competing products which could 30 minutes or more, your most difficult decision was deciding if the white cable needed replacing.  A quick remedy on mono price I’m sure if it’s that important to you.  In our house it blended in well enough.

The Byte-Dock is priced at 149 Euros, and for us Americans that translates 199.99 roughly.  You can find them and more information by clicking here.

I ask that anyone who can be at Steve’s funeral show up and outnumber these cowards and show them that Americans are tired of this behavior.  They’re bullies and nothing more and we need to treat them as such.  I would ask our overseas friends to complain to their MP’s about this with the hope that if any of these cowards were to go overseas they can be held accountable for their hate speech if possible.  I do not appreciate their abuse of freedoms that soldiers current and former like myself sacrificed much to protect, they spit on the efforts of countless men and women before any of us were born.

Update: Looks like Steve’s funeral was Oct 7th.  It was a private affair so these loons did not have a chance to be there.  However that does not stop their hate messages online.  Time for a twitter bomb?

My third story is about death.

When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: “If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you’ll most certainly be right.” It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: “If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?” And whenever the answer has been “No” for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.

Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

About a year ago I was diagnosed with cancer. I had a scan at 7:30 in the morning, and it clearly showed a tumor on my pancreas. I didn’t even know what a pancreas was. The doctors told me this was almost certainly a type of cancer that is incurable, and that I should expect to live no longer than three to six months. My doctor advised me to go home and get my affairs in order, which is doctor’s code for prepare to die. It means to try to tell your kids everything you thought you’d have the next 10 years to tell them in just a few months. It means to make sure everything is buttoned up so that it will be as easy as possible for your family. It means to say your goodbyes.

I lived with that diagnosis all day. Later that evening I had a biopsy, where they stuck an endoscope down my throat, through my stomach and into my intestines, put a needle into my pancreas and got a few cells from the tumor. I was sedated, but my wife, who was there, told me that when they viewed the cells under a microscope the doctors started crying because it turned out to be a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with surgery. I had the surgery and I’m fine now.

This was the closest I’ve been to facing death, and I hope it’s the closest I get for a few more decades. Having lived through it, I can now say this to you with a bit more certainty than when death was a useful but purely intellectual concept:

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalog, which was one of the bibles of my generation. It was created by a fellow named Stewart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park, and he brought it to life with his poetic touch. This was in the late 1960′s, before personal computers and desktop publishing, so it was all made with typewriters, scissors, and polaroid cameras. It was sort of like Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google came along: it was idealistic, and overflowing with neat tools and great notions.

Stewart and his team put out several issues of The Whole Earth Catalog, and then when it had run its course, they put out a final issue. It was the mid-1970s, and I was your age. On the back cover of their final issue was a photograph of an early morning country road, the kind you might find yourself hitchhiking on if you were so adventurous. Beneath it were the words: “Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.” It was their farewell message as they signed off. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. And I have always wished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you.

Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.

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