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    Music is Say Anything by Manda and the Marbles
    Mandaandthemarbles.com
News
  Utility available to run Dashboard Widgets under Panther
    Mesa Dynamics today released a public beta Amnesty Widget Browser
    Lets you run 3rd party widgets on the desktop. Cannot run Apple's widgets.
  Mac OS X Server 10.4.1 Update released
    The 38.8 MB update is available through Software Update or from Apple's website.
  Canadian retailers concerned over Apple Store
    Worried about lost sales of as much as 10%
    The new Yorkdale store in Toronto will open at 9:30 a.m. on May 21
  Apple announces battery recall
    Affecting various models of it's portable line sold between October 2004 and May 2005.
    Models include the 12-inch iBook G4, 12-inch PowerBook G4 and 15-inch PowerBook G4.
  Motorola says iTunes phone is not being shunned
    The phone that support iTunes Music files, dubbed the Rokr will be available in a couple months and no major carriers have any issue supporting the phone.
    Report from the Chicago Tribune
  New head of AppleCare
    According to sources, the Cupertino, Calif.-based company in recent months named Bill Frederick its new Vice President of AppleCare.
    Frederick replaces former AppleCare chief, Mark Wilhelm, who was reportedly "let go" from the company back in November.
Feedback, Comments and Commentary
  Comments on Mac Tablet
    Play comment from Ryan
  Spotlight indexing network drives
    Play question from Stewart
    Geek Alert: Indexing Network Drives
      Use at own risk. Involves using terminal and shell commands
  MBox fix
    Play comment from Kyle
  Spotlight initializations and open searches
    Stephen want's to know why "du" does not act like an initialization search and return results like Disk Utility. A feature of apps like LauchBar, Quicksilver and Butler.
    Also wants to know how to search all files in a date. For example all files created in the last 24 hours.
  Resources for Mac Developers
    Candace, who does the Nashville nobody knows podcast, her husband is the developer of an Mail archiving program called, MailSteward and now has a bug introduced with Tiger.
    What are good resources for Mac Developers?
      Apple Developer Site
      MacDevCenter
  Apple CD Exchange leaves much to be desired
    Listener Robert sent in his Tiger DVD on May 3rd and still has no CDs
    A call to Apple resulted in 45 minutes on hold and he hung up in disgust

    The exchange form says, in small type "will be shipped within 24
    hours via US Mail."

    Since he was required to send in the DVD he can do nothing but wait.
  iLife Burning to external DVD drive
    Play comment from Jakob
    Macworld Lab Director James Galbraith created a movie in iDVD 5, saved it as a disc image, and then used Toast 6 to successfully burn the image to a blank DVD using a LaCie FireWire DVD burner.
  DVD Backup Tiger Issues
    Play comment from Aaron
    DVD Backup Software
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