Internet Feud is impacting MacCast

Level 3 Communications, has cut off direct communications with rival Cogent Communications

Internet Outage Feud

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.

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

www.theinvisibleshield.com

Followup: iMovieHD won't import video

Everyone has a theory

Play comment from Jim

Supported Cameras

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

PodSecret - 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.

www.aspyr.com

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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