Mystery Mac Mini Connector

Could it be for an integrated iPod dock?

www.lbodnar.dsl.pipex.com—macmini_ipod.html

Has a Firewire controller and connectors

Stream audio to AirPort Express from any program

Airfoil from Rouge Amoeba

www.rogueamoeba.com—airfoil

Apple 24 hr Chat support

Available to iMac Customers who purchased in the last 90 days

www.apple.com—chat

iTunes Downloads pass 300 Million

Apple stated that the total purchases and downloads from the iTunes Music Store have topped the 300 million mark

More "Asteroid" Breakout Box Evidence

AppleInsider has found a hidden .tiff file within GarageBand 2 labeled "asteroid.tiff".

The file appears incomplete and is unable to be opened, but can be clearly seen in the package contents.

sources told AppleInsider that Apple has "postponed the project indefinitely" due to poor initial execution.

MacRumors readers have found within iLife '05 Install DVD/Individual Packages/Packages /GarageBandApp20.pkg/Contents/ Archive.pax.gz - Asteroid Max Volume, Asteroid Min Volume, Asteroid Slider, Select Asteroid Input and many, many others.

iSight Revision Due Soon?

Low levels in the Supply Chain

Would be the third revision. Version C

eMacs replace in children's area of some Apple Retail Stores

Think Secret reports that some stores have replaced eMac in children's area with 17" iMacs

Possible phase out of eMac at least at Apple Retail

AppleInsider claims that a revision to the eMac lineup has been in the works for the last six months, and is waiting for Apple to give the go-ahead for a full production ramp.

Jef Raskin passes away at 61

Jef Raskin, the interface expert credited for the original Macintosh, passed away this weekend from pancreatic cancer at age 61.

Raskin joined Apple in 1978 as the 31st employee and spearheaded a small team on a project that would become the Macintosh.

Credited with naming the Macintosh after his favorite fruit.

Raskin left Apple in 1982 after a falling-out with Steve Jobs.

Migilia Technology announces Evolution TV

www.miglia.com—evolutiontv

Mac Personal Video Recorder (PVR)

USB 2.0 connectivity

MPEG-2/4 and DiVX hardware compression.

TitanTV scheduling

iCal and iMovie integration

More Apple Reseller Stores Close

Canadian reseller First Avenue closes after 20 years

Ottawa-based B.Mac Le Magasin Inc., which closed three of its four stores in the Montreal by September 2004

Apple will open Toronto store on May 21st

Florida-based MacCenter ceased consumer sales, business sales and service for Apple products as of February 28, 2005.

Troy - Answer to Bill's Powerbook DVD burner issue

Play audio

Users reporting Dim Mac Minis

Listener Daniel reports that many Mac Mini owners are reporting having dim screens when attached to VGA devices.

Entourage to PC Attachment Fix

Listener reported attachments arriving to PC users as .DAT files

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The problem is with Entorage's default encoding which is AppleDouble Byte

Gary Question on Map Software

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Mac equivalent to MS Streets and Trips

Matt Hack to use Shuffle on more than one computer

Shuffle can only be attached to one copy of iTunes

Jeffery - Camino vs. Firefox

Firefox replaced Camino as far as I know.

Both based on Mozilla open source browser from Netscape

Manuel - Saft IDN Spoofing Fix Plug-in for Safari

haoli.dnsalias.com

Displays alert in Safari warning of possible spoof

Compatibility problem with PithHelmet recommended earlier

Sam - Safari Plug-in to block Pop-Unders

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PithHelmet Safari Pop Under Plugin

Aswad - Pod2Go Review

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Pod2Go

Apple Stuff on the Cheap

Mark mentions iPod closeouts at MacMall

www.macmall.com

4GB Mini $179 and 40GB Photo for $379 ($50 more than current 30GB)

Cody 14 and looking for older iBook with Warranty

Look at Apple certified products

Apple Store - Apple Certified

PowerMax Pre-Owned

www.powermax.com

90-day warranty

Darrell - Bluetooth Mouse issue

Mouse isn't recognized when waking from sleep on PowerBook 1.5GHz

Has to open up bluetooth file exchange and try to browse the mouse. That obviously doesn't work, but it does get the Powerbook to probe the mouse-- after which the mouse works.

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