Opening Music

Music is Say Anything by Manda and the Marbles

Mandaandthemarbles.com

www.mandaandthemarbles.com

Apple's big music announcement today

Apple/Cingular/Motorola iTunes Phone ROKR

www.apple.com—mobile

Up to 100 Songs on flash memory

Syncs like iPod Shuffle.

Music pauses to allow you to take phone calls.

I'm generally unimpressed. Design is not so cool. RAZR is much better. At least the storage is decent.

Kevin Rose had the scoop on the iPod Nano. 2GB iPod with color screen, smaller than the Mini for $199.00

iPod Nano

www.apple.com—ipodnano

Flash based with color screen. Two capacities, 2GB ($199) and 4GB ($249)

Two colors Black and white

Super thin and sexy.

iPod Nano web page doesn't display properly in Safari.

Listener reactions.

New iTunes 5

Redesigned "squarish" interface.

www.apple.com—itunes

Parental controls.

Improved search capabilities by narrowing scope.

Playlist folders

"Smart" less-random shuffle.

Outlook syncing on Windows

Madonna and Harry Potter exclusives

Appears Podcasts are now mixed into main Library with no option to go back to the old 4.9 method.

Many users reporting issues with upgrade

Unable to download or update. "Close iTunes before updating" even after reboot.

From Craig Patchett, "Hey Adam, a lot of people are reporting problems with the upgrade to iTunes 5, including things like lost podcast subscriptions, lost playlists, reset "Date Added", and more. You may want to post a warning."

QuickTime 7.0.2 Released

Minor update with bug fixes and compatibility enhancements

Steve Jobs will not keynote at Apple Expo

He will be in attendance, but there will be no Keynote.

Is this a diversionary tactic to keep rumors and leaks down? Does Apple really have nothing to announce?

Sony and Apple in licensing talks for Japan iTunes Music Store

You may have noticed the store launched in Japan with no Sony artists on board

Japan Today reports Apple and Sony are in talks about licensing its catalog to iTunes.

Listener reation to Apple announcements

Play comment

Hurricane Relief PSA

Play PSA

There are many charities and organizations you can help.

Donate clothes, canned goods, diapers, toilet paper, etc.

iMac G5 Power Supply Issue

Play comment from Scott

Apple Do it yourself repair and upgrade. PDF with detailed instructions for many Apple models.

www.apple.com—diy

Before you get upset or say Apple has issues with quality, remember 1,000 bad out of 1 million is only 0.1%

Yet another browser, Shiira

Listener Alex let me know about a new browser

hmdt-web.net—en

Based on Apple's Web Kit and written in Cocoa

cool features, like Safari and Firefox bookmark integration and Exposé tabs

Ran a bit slow for me. Liked the logo.

Audio issues? Check the MIDI Setup

Some audio applications may change your computer's audio settings to a sample rate that is too high for other applications to use.

Solution is to check the Applications/Utilities/MIDI Setup Output settings.

If they are greater than 44100.0 Hz, changechange it back.

I think this must be what GarageBand does when you use the open close trick we have discussed before.

Cancel the Save Dialog from the Keyboard

Play question from Jeff

You want to escape. Just press the "esc" key.

Review: SuperDuper

Play review from Mark

SuperDuper from Shirt Pocket.com

www.shirt-pocket.com

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Contest has ended. And the winners are:

Album Art Contest

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Comment - peterweisz

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Follow-up - tdream

$10 iTunes Gift Certificates for each winner

motion|VFX Contest

Syzmon a video professional and recent switcher who fell in love with the Mac so much he has created a new online community for users of Apple's Motion

www.motionVFX.com

He also developed a product and we are giving away a set of his DVDs with Motion HD video templates.

Send an email to maccontest@gmail.com

Put motion VFX in the subject line.

Entries must be in before midnight PST on Sunday September 11th.