Apple Joins Blu-ray Disc Association Board of Directors

Blu-ray Discs will have five times larger capacity than today's DVDs, with a single-layer Blu-ray Disc holding up to 25 gigabytes of data and a double-layer Blu-ray Disc holding up to 50 gigabytes of data. Current DVDs hold 4.7 gigabytes on single-layer discs and 8.5 gigabytes on dual-layer discs.

Board of Directors consists of Apple; Dell Inc.; Hewlett Packard Company; Hitachi, Ltd.; LG Electronics Inc.; Mitsubishi Electric Corporation; Panasonic; and many other. Over 100 companies.

Rumor: Apple May Be Increasing Standard RAM

AppleInsider reports Apple will boost standard RAM in all models to 512MB by mid-year. Around the time of the relase of Tiger.

In January, made 512 the standrd amount of RAM in all G4 PowerBooks

Rumor: Finally a Two Button Apple Mouse?

AppleInsider reports their sources say Apple is "feverishly" working on a two button optical mouse it intends to release.

Why? Apple needs to as it attempts to claim market share from Windows. PC users expect a two button mouse.

Also, the company is expected to introduce updates to both its AirPort Extreme and AirPort Express products in the coming months

One hot, but unconfirmed, rumor is that Apple may be considering the addition of a standard optical audio out port to its AirPort Express product. The current version ships with a 3.5mm mini-Audio jack for analog or optical digital sound, but requires that users purchase a $40 kit to tap the optical interface

Steve gets his annual $1 salary

Jobs also did not receive stock options or restricted stock from Apple last year.

In March 2003, Jobs voluntarily canceled all of his outstanding options, excluding those granted to him in his capacity as director.

Jobs is Apple's second-largest shareholder, with more than 10 million shares, or 1.23 percent of the company's outstanding share count

iTunes Mototrola Phone Delay

Due to differing opinion on how early to display soon to be relased products.

Motorola does it months before the product goes on sale. Steve opinion is if you announce it on Friday you sell it on Monday.

New Tiger Build Sent Out

Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger Build 8A41 is rumored to be one of the final builds before the OS goes Gold Master.

Still know issues with iTunes syncing, probels with 1.33GHz 14-inch iBooks, some of which cannot boot from the DVD, as well as some Z-class Lexmark USB printers.

Apple Responds to G4 Trackpad Issues

Recommend using only 1 finger operation as using the new two finger method can cause "erratic behavior"

Can reset the trackpad by placing your entire palm over it for 3-4 seconds.

Apple is aware of the issue and investigating a resolution.

MacCast HitTest #2

Jan Toilette Gives another quiz. System Sounds.

Recommendation: FreeVerse

www.freeverse.com

Makers Original Mac Games (OMG)

Latest title is Kill Monty

www.freeverse.com—killmonty

Other great titles include, Burning Monkey Solitaire, AirBurst Extreme, WingNuts and ToySight

James - How to schedule email sending in Entourage

Do you know (or do any of the listeners know) how to or a way of changing the mail delivery queuing in Entourage 2004? Eudora has a way of queuing mail so that it can be sent at a later date (and a few other options as well). Entourage on the other hand seems to only have Send Now or Send Later (where it sends next time you connect).

I recommened using Entourage Scheduling which is under Tools ->schedules in Entourage and works like rules. This did work for James.

Answers Lance - Linksys Router DHCP Issue

Neil has audio response. Trouble with DHCP server crashing when device goes out of range.

Update - Mac Mini Apple VGA Display Issues

Daniel ordered a 1.42 GHz Mini and connected to a 22" Dell (Sony Trinitron) CRT.

Called Apple and they are aware of the issue, and tell me that the problem lies with people with SVGA or XGA monitors (as opposed to plain old VGA). They do not have a fix

Answer - Keep iTunes Library Focus when attaching iPod

Dave recommends AppleScript called iTunes View Keeper

Available at Doug's AppleScripts

www.dougscripts.com—scripts08.php

Mike - Keeping Podcasts Organized

Play audio comment.

Playlists, Smart Play Lists, etc. Deleting old shows?

Manuel - Bookmarkable AAC files and 4G iPods

Mono Bookmarkable AAC files cause 4G iPods to crash

Know bug from Apple no fix yet

discussions.info.apple.com—webx

Workaround is to re-encode in iTunes to Stero