Station A

In Apple Stores April 1, 2006. .
Listen to the iZilla roar through the internal six speaker surround system offering 5.1 channel surround sound with up to 120 watts per channel. Or enjoy your music privately with the included DJ-Style wireless bluetooth headphones up to 15 feet away. Built in wi-fi (802.11g), Gigabit Ethernet, [...]

With March coming to an end, and Apple’s anniversary right around the corner, you would think Steve had something up his sleeves.
I’m guessing he does…
What do you think? Is it going to be just another weekend or will we have something to talk about come next week.
-Geekboy

Some people just listen to music in their headphones so loud that it’s annoying. If you’ve ever felt this way, Apple’s new iPod update with a maximum volume limit setting, may be music to your ears.

Ever since Apple started introducing new shows to iTMS on days other than the so called "New Content Tuesdays" you never know what you will be greeted with when you launch iTunes. Today it’s Scrubs, no "Season Pass" option, but all 16 episodes of Season 5 of NBC’s half hour comedy are now available in [...]

 
I am not a developer. Nor am I a security guru. And quite frankly I don’t know my way around Unix, WebKit or Core Image. But I do know when there is an issue involving the aforementioned areas that needs to be addressed.
This…..whatever this is, needs to be addressed by Apple. And quickly.
The lowdown; apparently [...]

And now South Park jumps on the "Season Pass" bandwagon.

And unlike the Season Passes introduced this morning for Lost and Desperate Housewives, season 10 of South Park has only seen one episode air to date, so you would be getting in on the ground floor. 
12 bucks for what will probably amount to between 15 and [...]

Me in Stealth Stalker mode Originally uploaded by blueneurosis.
I promised a few weeks back to put more focus on reporting the goings ons at the brick and mortar Station A, the Apple retail store located in the SoHo section of New York City, and this sites namesake. So [...]

Apple this morning applied their innovative approach to selling subscriptions to episodic TV shows through iTMS by offering "Season Passes" to ABC’s hit dramas Lost and Desperate Housewives.
 
For $34.99 you will get all past and future episodes to both shows sophomore seasons, which are currently more than halfway through to their season finales. Like with [...]

Maybe Steve didn’t get the memo, but it’s almost April and still no news about some exciting new/updated Apple stuff! I have learned through the years that Apple does things “different” and it would not surprise me if nothing happened this anniversary. When I decided to take the plunge years ago and buy my first [...]

Now here is one I hadn’t heard before, but Macenstein.com is reporting that in the absence of a keynote filled with new product releases to commemorate Apple’s 30th birthday, most notably the introduction of the one "true video iPod" (not to be confused with the "one true ring", which is still rumored to be tethered [...]

Ilene Hoffman, reviews editor over at MacNN.com, posted a cool little piece today on her experience upgrading her G4 PowerBook with Crucial RAM. Basically it reaffirmed the first rule of maximizing your computers performance; pack it with as much RAM as possible. The reason this particular article stood out for me was its focus on [...]

In typical Joy of Tech fashion Nitrozac & Snaggy weigh in on the distinct possibility that all we will get from Cupertino on April 1st, Apple’s 30th Anniversary of existence, is nothing more than deafening silence. Click the image above for the full cartoon. 
- AH 
Source: Cult of Mac 

ThinkSecret has today confirmed what many of the Mac faithful have long suspected; Apple has a secret plan to bankrupt me before the year is out. How, you may be wondering, do they plan to do this? By opening more and more Apple retail locations in the New York City area, that’s how.

According to [...]

If you are thinking about sending Steve and the thousands of other folks down in Cupertino some happy birthday wishes, but Hallmark just doesn’t seem to have the right card to mark the occasion, perhaps you might want to head over to HappyBirthdayApple.com to get your message across.
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Glen Wolsey, who I can only assume is associated with the fine folks over at MacZot, stopped by this morning to let us know that the software discount powerhouse MacZot has released it’s first podcast for todays featured application Easy Frame.
 
From Glen;
MacZOT has its first Zotcast now posted for today’s application.
We apologize about [...]

If you are anything like me you spend a good portion of your work day browsing the "Mac web" and have probably read a lot about Apple’s recent move to let big retailers know that the 60 gig model of the 5th generation video capable iPod was being placed "at risk". What exactly does that [...]

Through a combination of PSPbochs (x86 emulator for PSP) and vMac (680×0 emulator for x86), this girl has got Mac OS 7 running on a Sony PSP!

According to an article on MacRumors.com, the next version of OS X may include virtualization software, code named Chameleon, that will allow Mac’s to run more than one operating system at the SAME TIME!

Speculating on the possibility of Apple making an iPod phone has almost become a part-time hobby for analysts and Apple rumor web sites. Everyone thinks Apple will eventually make an iPod phone but there was no solid proof… until now.

Jack Black, the star of Paramount Pictures’ Nacho Libre, will take audiences behind the scenes with exclusive “confessionals” about what it was like to make the upcoming comedy film in a series of video podcasts debuting on the iTunes Music Store and QuickTime.com.

It took a week for us to get word of the "official" announcement, but as expected Dell pulled the trigger and acquired high end gaming PC manufacturer Alienware.
 
From CNET;
Dell has agreed to purchase gaming PC maker Alienware, in a rare acquisition designed to improve Alienware’s supply chain and boost Dell’s standing among PC enthusiasts.
Financial [...]

Ignoring the age old adage "never kick a man (or company) when he is down" Forbes tears Microsoft a new one regarding yesterdays admission that Vista has fallen behind schedule yet again, and won’t see the light of day until January 2007 at the earliest (at least as far as the consumer market is concerned, [...]

Given that a certain someone around here (ah hem…. GeekBoy) may soon be the proud owner of a brand new Mac Mini Core Duo I thought he, and many of you, might enjoy the latest episdoe of Leo’s Laporte’s new Mac focused video podcast "MacBreak".
From MacBreak.com;

The only Macintosh show you’ll ever need. [...]

Received the following in email just a few minutes ago;
 
Thank you for your recent purchase of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.
We have discovered that the episode "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart 3/20/06" contains an error. We are currently working on fixing this problem and will notify you once we have a [...]

Weeks, months, years, it’s all the same to those zany folks in Redmond. The bottom line?
 
From Ars Technica: 
Jim Allchin, co-president of Microsoft’s Platforms & Services Division, told analysts that the target time has been bumped to January 2007 for all consumer versions of Windows. He also said that editions aimed at business users would be [...]

The Best idea ever Originally uploaded by thorner.
Came across the above pic on Flickr this morning and was instantly impressed by the ingenuity exhibited by the shop owner responsible for this stores window. The picture has little in the way of a description, but it looks like it [...]

Pardon the non-Apple related interruption; but I wanted to take a moment to offer a heartfelt congratulations to this sites designer, and sometimes contributor, GeekBoy, for winning first place in the "Core" category of the recent Expression Engine "Machine Shootout". His personal blog, Bananabits.com, was recently re-designed using the excellent Expression Engine publishing platform, and [...]

MacWorld has posted their experience running Windows XP on one of the new Intel iMacs.
 
From MacWorld:
"As I write this, it’s still rough going. Our iMac works, even supporting Ethernet and Wi-Fi, but internal audio is disabled and without a native video driver, moving windows around on screen is painfully slow. (As a Mac user who [...]

While browsing through Mac related del.icio.us bookmarks this morning I came across a pretty cool webpage collecting over 50 scans of the various magazine covers Steve Jobs has made his way onto over the years.
If you are a longtime Machead some of these covers may bring back memories, some fond, some not so much, but [...]

PC -vs- MAC Originally uploaded by Ryan_C.
Sums it up prettily nicely doesn’t it?
- AH