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Hopelessly Devoted – iPod Shrine Contest
When it comes to religious devotion to gizmos, nothing inspires fanaticism like the iPod. This spirituality has been manifest in an endless processional of cases, docks, and speakers. But to date, it has not engendered much of a homegrown, folk-artsy patronage. There are no iPod milagros in Mexico. Certainly no Apple jinjas in Japan. No … Continued
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Hype Sheet
The Video iPod By Brendan I. Koerner The Pitch Abandoning its iconic dancing silhouette in favor of a more utilitarian approach, Apple touts the video iPod with a stark-yet-powerful print campaign. Six of the players are lined up in a row, their screens ablaze with track info, family photos, the title screen from Lost, and … Continued
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Intel Macs To Arrive In January Of 2006?
More Mac rumor madness for you kids. Now people are saying that Apple will have an Intel-based Macintosh by January, 2006. The big Intel deal is supposed to be announced during MacWorld in January, which makes sense to us. The original guesstimate was that Intel-based Macs wouldn’t hit stores until June, 2006, but that seems … Continued
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Upgrading Your 12-inch Powerbook for Fun and Profit
Hardmac ran an interesting upgrade article and one valiant reader took the plunge and cracked the hermetically-sealed titanium beast. After installing a DVD burner, a gigabyte of RAM, and a sassy new hard drive, he pulled the speaker cable out of the thing and had to use a soldering iron to put it back together. … Continued
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MacIntel Tested In the Wild
ZDNet UK got their paws on OS X for x86 machines and basically is acting like the monkeys that discover the monolith and learn to use tools. That’s not really all that bad, but it’s amusing. They go through the whole process—2 hour install, partitioning fun, and the magic of Sherlock—to come to the conclusion … Continued
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Nano Lawsuit Goes Global
By now, I’m sure everyone has heard about the lawsuit against Apple for the easy-to-scratch-up Nano Nano Class Action Lawsuit – It SKWATCHES Too Much! but now it ain’t just the good ole’ US of A leveling these malicious rumours. Looks like Nano buyers from the UK and Mexico have put their two cents in … Continued
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Apple to Microsft: Suck on Deez Tunes
Ever since the first sit-down with gaming journos, Microsoft has been hyping a feature of the Xbox 360 that allows for an iPod — or any other MP3 player — to be plugged into a USB port on the front of the console and played as the soundtrack to a game. Cool beans! Until… Redmond, … Continued
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DAP Delights for October 28
Today’s DAP Headlines: Colorware breaks out a colorized version of the new iPod. The Nano gets an armorshell. Minivian reviews the iAudio U3., and the Mobiblu DVH-100 reappears. The folks at Colorware always give the newest iPod their own special touch which usually consists of loads of different color schemes. The colorized new iPod from … Continued
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Return a 5G iPod-Why? Because You Can
Scratched your video iPod? Return it. Cat puked on your 5G iPod? Return it. Don’t like last week’s episode of Lost on your iPod? Go stuff yourself. Apple is allowing the returns of fifth-generation iPods that show any sign of hardware failure (including general abuse) with no questions asked. A nice gesture, right? Kinda makes … Continued
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FrontRow Works on Everything
I was just tooling around the back alleys of the Interweb when I stumbled upon a twee’ and fey 2MB file containing FrontRow for OS X. Installation was easy as pie and now I have a Mac Mini with Front Row. Kind of slow on my machine, but that’s not quite the point. I won’t … Continued
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DAP Delights for October 25
Today’s DAP Headlines: Creative teaches us the virtues of Mp3 and DRM, some college students don’t like iPods, and Samsung’s Yepp players get rebranded like no one’s business. Also, one last Zen Vision review for the masses. We can usually trust the gang at Creative for a laugh, or in this case, a lesson. A … Continued
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Getting Videos Into Your 5G iPod For Free
This was bound to happen: People everywhere have discovered how to get their DVD movies and TV shows onto the new video iPod for free. And really, it’s not that different from ripping a movie onto the PSP, except for a different transfer process. For starters, we found this excellent HOWTO from Mark Pilgrim on … Continued
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Live Bloggin’ the Apple Announcement
We’ve got a man on the inside. Hopefully we’ll have a bit of info soon. The Apple store is now down, so expect some hardware announcements. Cell traffic is closed in the room, but I suspect it’s just Javits center sucktasticness going on. PowerPage.org has some content up and our boy inside says it’s just … Continued
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Power User – The Best of Lifehacker
This week at Lifehacker: Don’t pay for video at the iTunes Music Store – subscribe to free, del.icio.us video in iTunes. Create your own own iPod videos. Or forget the White Status Symbol of Apple Cult Membership, and watch your video to go on a big screen PocketPC. Of course, if you do decide to … Continued
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More Apple Announcement Rumblings
Yawn, another day, another over hyped groundbreaking Apple announcement that has all Mac fan boys weak in their knees. Today is no different; Apple will be unveiling it “latest pro innovations” later today in NYC. Our cohorts over at Think Secret are reporting on the rumors of what this announcement will feature. There are unconfirmed … Continued
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Eminem and Nancy Drew and The Mystery of The Missing iPod Advertisement
Apple and Eminem have been on-again off-again enough times to merit a headline in OK! Let’s start with the backstory: The rapper s music publisher, Eight Mile Style, filed a lawsuit against Apple in early 2004, claiming the iPod maker used Lose Yourself in a commercial for the iTunes Music Store without permission. The dispute … Continued
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More Apple Stuff in the Works?
Ok, we’re done with Apple for today after this post. We’ll cover kitchen timers or something, because I’m all Jobs’ed out. Anyway, expect PowerMac and PowerBook updates soon because Apple is pulling its retail force together for another update on the 15th, which means there may be a smaller announcement later this month or in … Continued
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Apple Theatrical Debut in Pictures
Here are some live pics I took at the Apple press event yesterday, starting with the one up top of this incredible theater environment for the press event. I wonder if Steve had ambitions of being in the theatre when he was a wee lad. More close-up pics of the new iMacs, iPods, and Apple … Continued
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