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Entries for April, 2004

12-inch Customization with Free mini-Cooper stickers…

Looks like I am not the only one who had this idea:
Arrogant Mac Snob
Gene Jablonowski of Chicago writes, “The May 2004 issue of Wired has a Mini Cooper ad that provided pinstriping stickers to personalize a Mini. I personalized my 15″ Powerbook G4 instead. Perfect match. :-)” [Cult of Mac]
Here’s what I did:

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New Opera Beta for your 3650…

Rael points to the newly released Opera Beta for Series 60. Check it out.

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More on iTMS DRM (a longish rant)

I received an email from Josh in reply to my earlier post about the new iTunes 4.5 DRM. He points out that my mentioning of the DRM being cracked is misleading because it only allows networked-sharing of the tunes, and doesn’t actually strip them of the DRM. Yes, but cracked is cracked. [...]

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MailEnhancer…

I don’t know how I missed this until now, but thanks to the new MacWorld that Zinio delivered to me this morning, I just discovered MailEnhancer. The automatic signature-synchronization feature alone makes this a great little Mail.app add-on. Get it.

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Gmail update…

Well, I think we’re a week into this experiment now, and the response came in a huge 175MB burst at the outset. Since then, the numbers have crawled up to 180MB of 1GB of Gmail filled. Come on people! LET’S FILL THIS SUCKER UP! cksampleiii@gmail.com. Also, the spam filter continues [...]

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DRM crippling older purchased iTMS songs…

A nice breakdown of why iTMS DRM sucketh. All your 10 times burnable DRM songs were robbed of three of their burns when you updated to iTunes 4.5. I don’t know about you, but I feel as if I am entitled to a partial refund.
I think this sort of “we can change [...]

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New Panther-compatible Sizzle

Sizzle is the best. It is free. It makes disk images from mpeg, vob, and other files associated with DVDs. Use DVDBackup to rip the files from your DVD, then use Sizzle to break up the vob files across several DVD-Rs. You can then use Disk Utility to burn the images. [...]

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Where were all the bottles?

See this:
Pepsi iTunes Promo A FlopThey wanted to give away 100 million free iTunes Music Store tracks, only 5 million were claimed. I’m not mathmatician but that seems a little under schedule to me. [The Unofficial Apple Weblog]
I blame Pepsi distribution for this lack of free songs that were cashed in. I only [...]

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New iTunes Locks down your Tunes again….

In case you haven’t had the chance to play around with it all yet, here’s the scoop:
New iTunes Makes Beating the DRM That Much Harder
If you messed around with iTunes 4.5 today you might have noticed a whole gang of changes, one you probably didn’t notice is that it’s a lot harder to beat the [...]

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Record HDTV with your Mac…

Thanks to Lance for pointing out this nice little Mac OS X Hint about requesting a firewire capable HDTV cable box from your cable company (they are required to provide this by law if asked) and using a few bits of software to capture and watch HDTV directly on your Mac via Firewire. That’s [...]

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BluePhoneMenu

Rael over at MobileWhack points to BluePhoneMenu, which provides info about your paired 3650 (or other bt phone) in your 12-inch’s menu bar.

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Use your 12-inch with the lid closed…

KBarticle on using your 12-inch with the lid closed and an external monitor. I didn’t think this was an approved feature, but hey, they released a Knowledge Base Article on it. Coolness.

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Software Update finally populated…

I have all the new stuff now. That took a while…

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Your Software is Up to Date…

Check this out:
QuickTime / iMovie get minor updates
Both QuickTime and iMovie got minor updates today–making it a great day to run Software Update (iTunes was also upgraded to 4.5). The most interesting addition to QuickTime is the “Apple Lossless Encoder” which retains the full quality of an audio CD, but in half the space. AAC [...]

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