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A podcast about all things Macintosh. For Mac geeks, by Mac geeks. Show 142. Apple updates the U2 iPod. Apple vs. Creative battle round 2. Apple stockpiling Flash memory… new Nanos? Apple drops plans for India tech support center. New Apple Retail Store in Minnesota. Apple adds new @Work section to US site. Apple back to school promo offers free iPod Nano. New sexy Apple Intel Print ads featuring Gisele. Even more airline power discussion with tips for finding the best seat. What is the best Mac browser? A possible fix for iPod photo sync errors. Finding a good place for iPod repairs. Products for using your iPod to do mobile recording. How to schedule automated tasks using iCal. Remember to vote at PodcastAlley.
New music, See the Sun by Black Lab [ buy now ]
Welly, welly, welly, welly, welly, welly, well. To what do I owe the extreme pleasure of this surprising visit? — A Clockwork Orange (1971)
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Apple ordering large quantities of flash memory AND offering free Nanos for back-to-school days definitely gives the impression that all-new Nanos are coming soon. I wonder if the new Nanos will have a modified design or additional features.
Is it also possible that Apple could be designing a Flash-based 20-30GB iPod? that’d be awesome!
Re: browsers: I use Firefox and Safari and find that those two give me all the features I need. My wife swears by Camino.
Excellent reference to seatguru.com. I knew about the site but did not know it had the power info. Thanks John! I am going to go look right now to see if I can use my PowerBook on my long flight to Tanzania that is coming up.
Apple is not offering free nanos exactly. They are offering up to $179 back on a qualifying iPod (all are listed, including shuffles except U2 version). That’s not the same as nanos only in order to clear inventory. But that won’t stop people from predicting new iPod nanos coming! Sometime…in the future.
hey,adam, the way you mentioned minnetonka apple store was too funny, lol
i was wondering if anyone would be able to help me. i was using mac the ripper the other day, and i was only able to rip the video off of the dvd. there was no audio at all. i’ve done it before and there was audio, but what went wrong? if anyone knows of a better program to rip stuff off of dvd’s please respond. i’m at my wits end. also, does anyone know how to reformat your ipod from a pc to a mac base? thanks!
I heard the band (Black Lab) you featured at the end of this podcast and enjoyed it SO much, I ended up buying their entire CD collection. It’s now one of my most favourite bands thus far! Keep up the great work in featuring worthy bands like this who probably don’t get a lot of commercial radio play.
A fan from Ontario Canada!