Opening Music

Music is Say Anything by Manda and the Marbles

Mandaandthemarbles.com

www.mandaandthemarbles.com

FCC documents verify Motorola iTunes model

A manual submitted by Motorola to the FCC verifies that Motorola E790 is the much awaited iTunes phone.

Connecting the phone to your computer causes it to appear as a device in iTunes that you can then drag tracks and playlists to.

Details on Macncell

www.macncell.com

Flash based iPod Minis or 2 and 4 GB Shuffles?

An analyst has reported that Samsung has offered Apple flash memory at the same size and prices that Apple currently pays hard drive manufactures

This could mean smaller more durable iPod minis and helps Samsung secure a long term contact with Apple for flash media.

Meanwhile there are reports that Shopping.com temporarily posted listings for 2GB and 4GB iPod Shuffles.

Welcome the next governor of the great state of California, Steve Jobs?

The San Francisco Chronicle is reporting that "democratic activists" are throwing Steve Jobs name around as a potential candidate in 2006. They are also throwing around Robin Williams name too, so not sure I'd put too much stock in this.

Tip: Speed up spring loaded folders

Listener Per-Olof pointed out that if you use spring loaded folders, you can bypass the wait by pressing the spacebar while hovering over the folder.

Is there a way to go back up a level when using spring loaded folders?

I personally use column view, so i can just move left back a column

Some serious issues with some 30" Apple Cinema displays

Listener Kenny told me about an issue with the 30" display where some displays (his included) display flickering or dancing blue-green pixels

Threads on Apple's forums have literally hundreds of posts on this.

discusssearch.info.apple.com

No real long term solutions offered. Turning off the display offers short term resolution. Other recommened reducing brightness, changing desktops, etc.

Theories as to the cause are overheating, running at non-native resolutions and dual link cards.

Review: Desktop Manager

Play review from Sky

Desktop Manager web site

desktopmanager.berlios.de

The developer warns that this is alpha software and was tested on Panther, so use carefully.

Tiger no longer uses Crontab for periodic maintenance

Listener Ben pointed out that Tiger now uses a Launch daemon (launchd) for the scheduled periodic maintenance.

Normally launchd will schedule daily maintenance and 3:15 at night,
but if your mac is not on at that time it will perform the
maintenance at a later date (similar to anacron).

Don't need to run repair permissions from CD/DVD

Several listeners pointed to that repair permissions will run just fine (and is probably preferred because of changes between updates) when launched from your boot volume.

You still need to boot from CD/DVD if you want to repair a boot volume.