Where To Post Product Feature/Improvement Suggestions

Hi,
I have a bunch of suggestions for product improvements and new features (mostly security-related) that I would like to send to Apple development teams. Do I post it in the discussion forums or do I e-mail it to Apple ? If I have to e-mail it, what's the address ?
Thanks

Hi bartron2007!
Go here Product Feedback.
And note "Please read Apple's Unsolicited Idea Submission Policy before you send us your feedback."
ali b

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Use either one of these links.
iPod Feedback.
iTunes Feedback.

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Apple does not accept input from the general public. They advise AGAINST it.
http://www.apple.com/legal/intellectual-property/policies/ideas.html
Apple or any of its employees do not accept or consider unsolicited ideas, including ideas for new advertising campaigns, new promotions, new or improved products or technologies, product enhancements, processes, materials, marketing plans or new product names. Please do not submit any unsolicited ideas, original creative artwork, suggestions or other works (“submissions”) in any form to Apple or any of its employees. The sole purpose of this policy is to avoid potential misunderstandings or disputes when Apple’s products or marketing strategies might seem similar to ideas submitted to Apple. If, despite our request that you not send us your ideas, you still submit them, then regardless of what your letter says, the following terms shall apply to your submissions.
TERMS OF IDEA SUBMISSION
You agree that: (1) your submissions and their contents will automatically become the property of Apple, without any compensation to you; (2) Apple may use or redistribute the submissions and their contents for any purpose and in any way; (3) there is no obligation for Apple to review the submission; and (4) there is no obligation to keep any submissions confidential.
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Feature request...where to post them?

Hi everyone!
I have seen a friend's iPhone (which was jailbroken), which had the ability of turn-down-to-mute (when the iPhone is ringing, you turn it facing down, and it mutes automatically). It was some app named mcool iphone or something like that.
I'm not on a jailbroken iPhone, my question is when can Apple implement this feature, so we won't have to illegally hack our phones to get this cool feature?
Older nokias (like 8800 arte) already support this thing...
Where can we post a feature request to apple?
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Here ya go:
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Improvement Suggestion: Add Animation to Movie Clips in Repositories

Hi there,
I have been trying to post this improvement suggestion by filling-in the corresponding form but it didn't allow me enough characters to describe it correctly. So I am posting it here now and going to reference it in the Improvement Suggestion form...
Currently it's hard to perform a good edit because Adobe Premiere Pro doesn't provide a clip basket showing all available clips running, allowing the user to preview and choose from different takes of the same scene.
I'd like to suggest to animate all movie clips in all repositories, like Media Browser and Project panels, in order to create kind of an animated lightbox.
These clips should be run without audio, in low resolution and, optionally, at a lower framerate, depending on the machine's capabilities and user's preferences.
Clicking (and thereby activating) one of those movie clips should ...
magnify that clip,
enable audio for that clip,
display a timeline,
and display an in-point and an out-point marker.
Using these markers, the user shall be able to limit the preview loop of the clip in that particular repository (e.g. to repetitively monitor only a small scene of the movie clip).
Here's a link to a small movie clip demonstrating the improvement suggestion as a virtual live demonstration:
(While recording I was suffering from a tonsillitis, so the text might be hard to understand from time to time.)

After carrying this thought with me around for a while I'd like to add an update to my original suggestion:
When comparing different takes (= clips) of the same recorded live scenes, the usual editing process while working with Premiere Pro would be to drill down on the take that's supposed to be inserted into the sequence. So if there were 8 takes of the same scene, first there would be 8 clips to compare, then 7, 6, 5, 4... until the final clip is found.
In the course of the comparison process it would be very helpful to be able to "switch off" those takes that have been decided not to be used. So I'd like to update my suggestion to provide the following additional features:
Each preview clip should provide a play/pause feature. So playback shall be switched on and off individually for each of the preview clips.
As mentioned in my original suggestion, when activated (zoomed), the preview should provide buttons for manipulating that clip preview's playback. Originally I suggested a Play Audio button (with a speaker symbol).
I now, additionally, suggest to add a Play/Pause button to an activated (zoomed) clip preview. If playback is active, that button should display a Pause icon. If playback is paused, the same button should display a Play icon.
Given that, an active preview would be displayed something like this:
After a clip has been selected for an insert, the next editing step would be to search a clip from the repository for the next insertion into the sequence. So all tracks would be back in the game.
So there should be a new menu item, resuming playback of all preview clips in the repository: "Edit > Preview > Play all clips".
If the user wants to concentrate on the Program Montitor video, he/she should be able to pause all preview clips. So I suggest the should be a new menu item complementing the previous one: "Edit > Preview > Pause all clips".
Some people might prefer not to see any animation in the repositories at all. For them there should be a new option available in Premiere Preferences to pause all preview clips by default (this setting would equal to the current behaviour).
The user might want to concentrate on a single preview clip and just want to have this single clip being played back when activated (zoomed).
So I suggest there should also be a Solo option available.
By holding the [CTRL] key down while clicking the Play/Pause button suggested in provision #1, all preview clips should be paused and the currently active (zoomed) preview clip should be played back alone.
In my suggestion I have been focussing on using Premiere Pro with the mouse. But there should be keyboard shortcuts available for all these actions, too.

Critique my W530 Build for Post-Production Work

Hi everyone!
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My build and final specs I've gone with for a similair configuration (heavy VM use, some video editing, some 3D CAD/CAM work in SketchUp and older games like TF2).
As Shipped:
CPU - Intel Core i7-3720QM ($200 for less than 5% performance improvement from the 3820 isn't worth it)
GPU - K2000M (Twice the CUDA, worth it, newer video editors take full advantage)
RAM - 4GB RAM shipped
HDD - 320GB 5400RPM Hard Drive (See notes below for the trick)
Bay - Blank Travel Bezel
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RAM - 32GB DDR3 1600Mhz PC12800 from G.Skill
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Text forwarding
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Proxy support with WiFi
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Landscape mode for viewing email
Fix Alarms bugs (alarm not going off when warning is up or when screen is off, alarm goes off on weekends when weekdays is set)
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Bookmarks for media player
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Update 6/18: I have directed this thread to a manager of Palm's technical team, he advised me that many of these suggestions were forwarded to the development team and most are being worked on/considered. He also confirmed that an update is coming over the next couple weeks that will fix a few issues including the SSL issue with EAS... and there is another update that will fix the MSFP issues (security policies) with EAS email (in around 60 days) It's good to hear that Palm is very responisive to our needs and suggestions.
Update 7/11: Since this thread has received so much attention and ideas I have not been able to post all the different suggestions on this front page. I have put this forum thread in front of several sprint/Palm employees that do have a say in future updates... so please keep posting suggstions! Please also use the link below. Thanks!
Feel free to add your request/reccomendation here... Palm's official feedback form: http://www.palm.com/feedback/
Message Edited by gregdep on 07-11-2009 11:25 AM

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hi Chris, thanks for the helpful information. Right now the iMac is in the shop, having been verified that is indeed has a working FW buss and ports. I'm bringing my DVC30 video camera (firewire) to the shop this morning to see if the knowledgeable gentleman there can get it working for me. Hopefully so, this is the whole purpose of purchasing the iMac in the first place..
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We are using an application that has a host/client structure on several systems that use Windows Vista and XP. I have been told by the support team for this application that they use Java for printing tasks. I don't know if the entire application or just the print engine were developed in Java.
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