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A Dell Ditty? Yahoo Music?
Wasn’t Pepsi just involved in giving away millions of free iTunes downloads, for the SECOND time? How the hell did they go from teaming up with the premiere digital music store and music device to dealing with the BIC lighter of MP3 players and a second rate downloadable rental store?
And who [...]

Reader "Kuro" writes in to let us know there have been some improvements made to the Front Row hack that surfaced earlier this week.
The new zip file contains an updated version of the .app file, instructions on installing and using the application, icons, Romeo and Sailing Clicker scripts, a fix for the playing DVD’s through [...]

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As fan of the “small form factor” (SFF) PC, it was only fitting to fall in love with the new Mac mini. As a cross platform user I enjoy working with both platforms as each offers me something for my daily computing life. I would not consider myself a “fan boy.” I’m simply a geek [...]

 
Apple’s new Photoboth app, which was recently unveiled on the newly released iMac computers, made it’s way onto peer to peer network in just a matter of days. So it is not surprising that it would only be a matter of time before someone figured out a way to move the more desirable Front Row [...]

Well the site’s theme troubles continue. I have been trying to test out a number of different themes hoping to stumble upon one that encompasses everything I want to get out of this site’s look and feel, all with little to no modification on my part. I have been largely unsuccessful. So here is the [...]

My apologies for visitors to the site using IE. I just became aware of some glaring problems with this theme when using IE. Namely there was no IE specific style sheet loaded so you go a very plain Jane "just learned HTML" looking web page. Secondly it appears that the IE version of the site [...]

Just a day after it’s official release I am already tired of reading everyone else’s reviews of the new video capable iPod, and not being able to write one of my own. For a number of reasons, my iPod purchase will be need to be made at a Best Buy store. But due to an [...]

Updated PowerBooks, PowerMac Quads, and a gauntlet throw down at the feet of Adobe!! All in a days work for Apple. Or at least that is the way it seems these days with Apple after their 3rd press conference in a seven week span!
Today the deities at Cupertino gave us significantly improved screens on the [...]

That’s right folks, the store is offline again and you know what that means……new products. 
Today, right here in NYC, Apple is holding one of their famous "new product announcements" at the PhotoPlus Expo 2005 being held in the Jacob Javits Center. Rumor sites have Apple announcing updated PowerBooks and PowerMacs, possibly with dual core PowerPC [...]

A new HOW-TO:
Next up in the 5th Generation iPod HOW-TO series - "Get TV Shows off of your TIVO and onto your iPod (with video)", courtesty of Engadget. 
You may or may not agree that $1.99 is a fair price to pay download an episode of Lost, but you’ll certainly agree that Apple’s initial video library [...]

Yesterday AppleInsider reported that Apple had begun shipping new iPods via FedEx from Shanghai China on Monday and those who ordered online last week might start receiving hte new devices as early as today.
It looks like they was right on the money as a reader over at AppleInsider has contributed the photo record of their [...]

Two new pieces of software that utilize the Dashboard and Automator functionality on OS X tiger have hit the net.
The first, ‘Export for iPod v1.0′, "converts video for the new iPod in one easy step — much easier than most of the other convoluted techniques out there."
From Automator.us:

This action uses the QuickTime Player application to [...]

 
While the wait for the new video capable iPods to hit store shelves continues; speculation, debate, and analysis regarding Apple’s latest foray into another corner of the digital marketplace rages one.
There are already HOW-TO guides for getting your DVD’s, Bit Torrents, and even Porn, into a suitable format for downloading to your iPod, comparisons [...]

In my earlier post about attending the grand opening of the new Apple store in the Staten Island mall I mentioned how the pickings were kind of sparse in the Nano accessories department. Specifically I was looking to pickup a case for my new 2 gig black iPod Nano, but was unable to find anything [...]

This past Saturday I had the opportunity to attend my first ever Apple Store grand opening at the new Staten Island New York location in the appropriately named Staten Island Mall.
The store, along with the rest of the mall, opened at 10 am and just to be sure I got a spot close to [...]

When you are picking up your morning coffee you might want to grab the new issue of Time as Jobs & Co., aka Apple, are featured in a cover story that trys to answer the question "just how do they do that?".
The editors over at iLounge had a chance to read the article (I haven’t [...]

The above comes courtesy of the always hilarious GeekCulture.com. Check them out. 
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It’s been awhile since I have gotten around to adding to my "Get a Mac" series but between migrating my other sites to new servers, and getting this one off the ground, I haven’t had time to get in depth on some of the compelling reasons why the Mac is the best option for the [...]

I am surprsied Steve didn’t cover this during Apple’s "Special Event" yesterday.
Luckily an enterprising youth by the name of Mark Pilgrim has come up a little tutorial to help you guys out.
HOWTO Put Porn On Your iPod

C.K. Sample III, over at TUAW, put together a nice review of just what kind of quality you can expect for shelling out $1.99 on iTunes for a single episode of Lost. His conclusion is pretty much in line with what I expected it to be. That is to say the video looks good on [...]

I am surprsied Steve didn’t cover this during Apple’s "Special Event" yesterday.
Luckily an enterprising youth by the name of Mark Pilgrim has come up a little tutorial to help you guys out.
HOWTO Put Porn On Your iPod

It may not hit shelves for another week or so but that didn’t stop the internet denizens from already compiling  a HOW-TO guide on how to rip your DVD’s into MPEG-4 format to load up on the new iPods. All done with FREE software,
For a little advance prep before you pick up your new iPod [...]

iLounge editors Jeremy Horwitz and Dennis Llyod had a chance to play with the new video capable iPods after yesterdays announcement and have put together a fairly comprehensive review on how well the device performs it’s new tricks. The verdict is a mixed one. While Apple has done a good job incorporating a high quality [...]

From AppleX.net
New iMac, iSight, PhotoBooth, Front Row Posted by: eobanb Oct 12, 2005 - 01:16 PM MacNews      1093 Reads
"The funnest app we’ve ever written"
Steve Jobs has announced a new model of iMac, featuring an ever-slimmer casing, a built-in iSight, and a new application called Photobooth.
The iSight in the [...]

According to Engadet
New iPod announced! The new iPod, as speculated, features video capabilities and the wider display, but it’s still a music-first device. The device will feature a 2.5-inch display, QVGA resolution (320 x 240), and will MPEG-4 h.264 (natch), and presumably Quicktime. The new iPod will be 30% thinner than the current 20GB iPod [...]

iLounge Exclusive: New iPod revealed iLounge has snapped exclusive photos of advertisements for the new iPod, which will be introduced today at Apple’s "One more thing" event in San Jose, California. The familiar silhouette posters clearly show an all-new iPod model with a noticeably larger display, approximately 2.4 to 2.6 inches diagonal, compared to the [...]

From iLounge..
 

A full 24 hours after the announcement that Cupertino deity Stevie Jobs would be sharing some brand new Apple goodness with us next Wednesday, speculation continues to grow at a frenzied pitch regarding what it is that will be unveiled.
Those in the "iPod Video" camp, of which I am firmly entrenched, point to the [...]