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Music is Say Anything by Manda and the Marbles

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The Debate over iPod Nano Sales

Seems to be some confusion in the media

Some outlets says sales are slow, while analysts like Piper Jaffery says sales are good?

Many non-Apple Store retail locations only have the 2GB models and there seems to be a shortage of the Black color.

Apple files for "iPodcast" trademark

Some are speculating it could be an attempt to make Podcasts proprietary

www.apple.com—iPod Nano

Remember the proprietary RSS tag issue where they created "duplicate" itunes versions of existing tags.

There are two filings one to cover hardware and one to cover communications

I would be home interested in seeing a software use. An iPodcast app for the production of Podcasts.

Windows users cry foul with iTunes Update

Problems include: crashing during installation, loss of playlists, inexplicable duplication of songs, conflicts with other software, and issues with the iTunes Music Store.

Apple has made it almost impossible to roll-back.

I had one listener who was providing instructions and help for users to roll back on Apple's Discussion forums and his posts were removed and he was asked to stop posting links to the old iTunes 4.9 software install.

Possible PowerMac G5 revisions?

It seems too early since they were just updated in July

Think Secret is reporting, due to slow sales, a premature revision of the PowerMac is due this month, possibly at next weeks Mac Expo

Possibly using the IBM Dual-Core 970MP processor. 50-80% performance improvement over single-core PowerPC

"Hidden" video icons in iTunes 5 fuel speculation

New "Gift Video", "Buy Video", and "Add Video" icons found within the resources in iTunes 5

Most likely are to support Apple selling music videos at $1.99

New JAVA Updates available

Java 1.3.1 for Panther and 1.4.2 Release 2 for Tiger are available via Software Update

Offer improved reliability and compatibility with JAVA

Kensington Pocket Mouse

Play review from Chris

Kensington Pocket Mouse ($39.99)

www.kensington.com

As expected Motorola E398 Hacked to do iTunes

TWiT and John (I get no SPAM) Dvorak reporting that someone has provided a firmware hack to allow the Motorola E398 to sync with iTunes

Entry on Dvorak/blog

Apparently this hack existed even before the ROKR came out.

DVD Studio Pro 4.0 Templates missing

Play question from John

Answers from Apple's forum

discussions.info.apple.com

Go to preferences/general. Select DVD = SD.
Then, the DVD 4 templates show up.
The reason is, they're only HD!

In the Preferences of DVDSP4 and in the Destination Pane there is a drop down menu. Embedded down in the last line of the selections is the Show Palette Elements. Upon clicking Reset in the Stock category DVDSP began to load all of the templates back into the application.

So, when setting Destination Folders on a Project be sure to not change the Palette Elements. And, if they are changed for some reason, click Reset and DVDSP will load them back.

Follow-up: More phone device syncing options

PocketMac Pro for Pocket PC and other devices

www.pocketmac.net

Tip: Use Spotlight to find by "anything"

Alex pointed out the "Other..." option when you do a Command+F find and select the Kind drop-down.

This will let you search by just about any type of file metadata.

Follow-up: More Dialog box keyboard controls

Gregory points out...Pressing tab (forward) or shift-tab (back) will let you shift focus on controls in the dialog boxes. This includes buttons.

You can change this in the Keyboard and Mouse settings Preference pane, using the Keyboard Shortcuts tab. At the bottom are options for Full Keyboard access you can make it "textboxes and lists only" or "All controls"

Follow-up: DivX Fusion Beta works in Tiger

Listener Adam reports that this distribution of DivX is working fine under OS 10.4.2 and with Quicktime 7

DivX Fusion Beta

labs.divx.com

Tip: More Hotkeys

Play comment from Trent

Apple+Shift+4 and press spacebar to get camera and take screen shots of individual elements

Question: Bluetooth goes missing

Play question from Mike

Make sure you have the latest Apple Bluetooth firmware update

Apple Bluetooth Firmware Update

May want to research a little on Apple's discussion board, so have had trouble running the update

Make sure you installed the BSD subsystem. If not install it, in the optional installs folder on your OS X install discs

Bluetooth BSD Subsystem

Motion VFX Contest Winner

Mike Holley, a film student in Utah.

Get a copy of the MotionVFX Volume 1 & 2 DVDs with professional Motion templates

www.motionvfx.com

Thanks to Szymon (She-mon) for donating these copies.

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Mac Podcast list

I know there are more, feel free to add them on the forum.

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