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    Music is Say Anything by Manda and the Marbles
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News
  Internet Feud is impacting MacCast
    Level 3 Communications, has cut off direct communications with rival Cogent Communications
    Hinges on "peering agreements" in which they agree to establish direct connections between their networks.
    Really impacting Earthlink and Time Warner customers
    As of Friday things should be back to normal
  October 12th "One more thing..." event
    Major speculation is that will be the video iPod
      BBC Music 6 supposedly "leaked" a confirmation
      Apple stopped updating music videos
    80 GB iPod (possibly silver), camera iPod
    Also rumored, a special edition pink "Madonna" iPod Nano
    New PowerMacs or PowerBooks
      Same size displays, but in higher resolutions
      Possibly using DDR2 memory to further improve performance
    Apple HD TVs or new Cinema Displays with TV tuners?
    There are so many theories it's almost funny. This may be part of Steve's master plan. Leak out a ton of stories so no one knows what to believe.
  "News Flash", Apple can't meet Nano demand
    This should be no surprise, but there is a shortage of 4GB Nanos at least according to Off the Record Research
    Small $50 price difference. Black is the hardest to come by.
Feedback, Comments and Commentary
  Clarifying iPod Nano Scratching Issue
    Play comment from jabakes
    After everything I have read I agree with recent statements from Walt Mossberg. Even though Apple claims the Nano is not more susceptible to scratching, I say don't remove the protective plastic until you get a case or film like The Invisible Shield
  Followup: iMovieHD won't import video
    Everyone has a theory
    Play comment from Jim
    Listener Steve says it may be a burned out Firewire port on the DV camera.
      He works for a school and they have several cameras and this has happened to a couple of them.

      He says, "The only thing you can do to avoid this is make sure
      you plug in a camera with the power OFF, plug in and then turn on."

    Listener Mike said he has the same issue and resolved it by freeing up drive space (he only had 2GB left on a large HD) and also closing all other apps.
      I had just heard for best performance you should always have 10% of your hard drive space free.
    Listener Josh says it may be a bad user profile. He had the same issue and an Apple tech told him to try creating a new user account and then import under that account, sure enough it worked.
  Storing encrypted data on an iPod
    Play question from Robert
    PodSecret from Pariahware
    iNotePad - VoJou
    PGP Desktop Home 9.0
  Getting better game performance by moving the files
    Listener Tim in the UK found out an very interesting way to improve the performance of your mac games
    He recently installed "Battlefield 1492" from Aspyr and was getting poor framerate performance.
    He contacted support and they told him:

      "...avoid installing the game to Applications or the Desktop; there
      are permissions conflicts that can arise when games are installed
      here. Games work best when they are installed in the Users/Shared
      folder or in a separate games folder on the top/root level of your
      hard drive."

      This can sometimes just be fixed by moving the game, no reinstall required.
    Tim was wondering why and I suggested that maybe just running repair permission would have the same affect, but it didn't.
  iTunes Music without "bonus" content
    Play question from Chris
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