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A podcast about Macs done by a Mac geek for Mac geeks. Show 39. Second quarter Apple sales outpacing industry, Apple wins back UK iTunes domain, Mac Mini vs. VIA Mini-ITX System PC, Google X, Apple wants a cut of iPod Accessories, Retro style iPod Shuffle headphone hack, John Edwards, Podcaster? New Term: PodShanking, The PsiberAudio: Hi-Fi Tube Amp for iPod, PodBrix Woz Sweepstakes, Custom PrePaid iTunes Cards at SXSW, Apple updates iWork and KeyNote, 100 Free Loops from MacJams.com, pyMusique opens up iTunes Music Store (maybe too far), Band releases their album on a Shuffle, Toshiba’s 4GB 0.85-inch hard drive, Apple aquires SchemaSoft, New GM Vehicles to have line-in for iPod and MP3 players, Jackonsville, FL Apple Store opens, CenterStage (Mac Media Center Project) goes Alpha and the latest Tiger builds add recording feature to QuickTime 7 Pro. Listeners provide feedback on managing Podcasts, Dorothy’s GarageBand loop, check out the Colmination Podcast, new additions to the MacCast website. Listen in. Shownotes in HTML or OPML

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Featured Music: Death of Me, Sci-FI Lullaby

The folks over at PodBrix.com are running a cool sweepestakes. You can enter to win a one-of-a-kind Woz PodBrix. Go to the sweepstakes page to enter and for more details

So here is the Skittles iPod and iPod iSkin you can win in their Star Wars Episode III promotion. Is it just me or is this one even lamer than the one available for sale at ShopStarWars.com?

In a question left at the MacCast Feedback site, http://mcfeedback.blogspot.com listener Shayne wanted to know about backing up OS X. There are several options available depending on what level of backup you want.

1) If you have a .Mac account you can get Backup2 from Apple for free. It allows you to backup to disk or removable drives and can be scheduled.

2) SilverKeeper is a free backup utility from LaCie and does basic incremental syncing of files and can be scheduled.

3) Dantz Retrospect Desktop is a commercial app ($99.00 USD) that should meet most backup needs.

4) Carbon Copy Cloner is a utility that will create a complete bootable backup image of your entire drive. It also offer syncronization and scheduling of backups. It is also free.

Another MacCast listener, Paul, recommeneds using the UNIX command line utility rsync. He even provided this link to an article he wrote on the topic.

Listener Lim let me know about 7-11 stores in Singapore that are now selling iPods. He included an ad from a local paper. I think it is great that 7-11 is now a “Apple Authorized Reseller”. Notice the logo in the ad.

Lim says:
Seven-Eleven Singapore is working with Apple Singapore to sell iPod products in Seven-Eleven Stores in the island. Soon you can walk into Seven-Eleven and get your iPod!

Podbrix, http://www.podbrix.com has released it’s second edition collectible mini “LEGO” figurine. This one is titled “Keynote” and features Steve Jobs doing a presentation and holding an iPod Shuffle. The limited edition of 300 hand numbered and signed figures went on sale at midnight on February 25th and sold out in just 36 minutes.

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