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Apple in the News for Wednesday March 29 17:05 PM

March 29th, 2006
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NEWS From digg.com

Apple adds noise limit to iPod firmware

Volume discount
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Apple Turns Down the Volume

In response to recent concerns over the potential for MP3 players to cause hearing damage, Apple has released iPod Software Update 1.1.1, which adds a feature that lets you set the iPod’s maximum volume.
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Apple software chief stepping down

Avadis “Avie” Tevanian, Apple Computer’s chief software technology officer, will step down at the end of the month, the company confirmed Tuesday.
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iPod gets volume limit

following the recent controversy regarding the hearing loss due to supposedly intolerable volume levels of iPods, the new firmware comes with a volume limiting functionality for your ipod.
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Apple vs Apple: High Court freaks out

The Royal Courts of Justice came alive to the beat of the 1978 disco classic Le Freak today as two giants of the music business clashed in a battle over internet downloads and a piece of forbidden fruit.
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Steve Jobs, Take Down This DRM Wall (AAPL)

While this sounds radical, Fairplay is no real protection for content today. Anyone who wants to create an unprotected digital copy of an iTunes track today need only write it to CD and then re-rip it into digital AIFF or MP3 form. Those who don’t want to bother with the CD can download the PlayFair utility that simply removes the DRM.
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Apple in the News for Wednesday March 29 00:02 AM

March 29th, 2006
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Geneva iPod Speaker Systems Now Shipping….pics included

Geneva Labs has announced that it is now shipping its first two Geneva Sound System models. Available in red, white or black, the Geneva Model L (100 watts) and Model XL (600 watts) feature a dedicated iPod dock, built-in CD player, FM radio, and audio inputs
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Apple IIe – End of an Era?

Mr. Carruth/Vance, a third grade teacher at Agnes Smith Elementary School in Huntington Beach, CA has been supporting over twenty Apple IIe systems for the past 15 years… Vance’s third graders fight over the chance to get use of one of these puppies. Vance will be retiring and no one to support the computers…
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Apple in the News for Wednesday March 29 00:02 AM

March 29th, 2006
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Geneva iPod Speaker Systems Now Shipping….pics included

Geneva Labs has announced that it is now shipping its first two Geneva Sound System models. Available in red, white or black, the Geneva Model L (100 watts) and Model XL (600 watts) feature a dedicated iPod dock, built-in CD player, FM radio, and audio inputs
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Apple IIe – End of an Era?

Mr. Carruth/Vance, a third grade teacher at Agnes Smith Elementary School in Huntington Beach, CA has been supporting over twenty Apple IIe systems for the past 15 years… Vance’s third graders fight over the chance to get use of one of these puppies. Vance will be retiring and no one to support the computers…
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Apple in the News for Tuesday March 28 23:41 PM

March 29th, 2006
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Amazing iPod tricks!!! Very cool and funny!!!

Great optical illusions that you can do with your iPod. You have to check this out!!
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South Park Season 10 Season Pass Just Added

$11.99 for all current and furture episodes of South Park, Season 10. Link for itunes
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Sumo Debuts Limited Edition World Cup iPod Cases

Sumo Cases has introduced a new collection of leather iPod cases designed for the 2006 World Cup soccer tournament. Made for fifth-generation iPods, the new striped cases feature the flag colors of eight countries, a soccer ball patch, and hexagon-shaped stitching.
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Giant iPod Seen From Space

March 29th, 2006
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Weird. Someone has a serious Apple fetish. This is a link to a Google Maps image of a gigantic iPod that is visible from space. Its not done, but once it is – I hope to God that it wont be playin’ “Bananarama”
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Impressions of the Apple MacBook Pro

March 24th, 2006
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I still don’t have a MacBook Pro (poor me..) but the first impressions are starting to arrive from people that received their laptops.

A blogger posts his experience with the new machine

I’m quite happy with it. Immediate impressions:

  • Much faster than my old PowerBook
  • Gorgeous screen
  • Awesome power connector
  • Runs hotter
  • Better sound
  • Nicer form factor (slightly thinner)

He also claims that some programs running under Rosetta in the new MacBook Pro are even faster than their native versions, what he attributes to poor optimization of the x86 code.

Anyway the MacBook Pro looks like an impressive machine.

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Apple wins a large contract to supply laptops

March 22nd, 2006
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Apple has recently won a big contract with the state of Maine to supply laptops for education purposes.

According to the contract, Apple will be supplying 36 thousand laptops in the next few years to professors, students, and others involved in the educational project of the state of Maine.

This is the second big contract won by Apple this year. The other contract also involved laptops. Apple has winning these contracts against other big suppliers such as Dell. This show the acceptance that Apple is having among educational institutions.

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Running windows on the Apple Mac

March 22nd, 2006
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Running Windows is not what most mac fans like to do (otherwise, they would move to the PC world), but it seems that there is some people considering the Apple just as a glorified hardware platform for running windows software.

Among the hackers determined to run windows on Apple Macs, some have had good success. In the picture, Windows Media Center is shown in a brand new iMac Intel. It shows that the new Macs will conquer much more than the hard core mac users, but also a new generation that just wants a fancy machine to run the old Windows programs.

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Apple iPhone: more mockups

March 21st, 2006
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There are some products that, if they don’t exist, they should. One example is the rumored Apple iPhone: a simple iPod extended with mobile phone capabilities is the dream of numerous people.

Some people get even to the length of design a new product, in the way they would like to see it. For example, the iPhone has a large amount of possible designs, as can be see in this page.

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If the iPhone, if launched, be as exciting as shown in some of these pictures, certainly it is gonna be a huge success.

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A new competitor for Apple Mac Mini

March 18th, 2006
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The Gizmodo blog reports on the announcement of a new competitor for Apple’s Mac Mini computer. The small computer is called the Tango Cocktail CK-5201 Mini PC.

What this computer has is a Intel Core Duo T20300 processor at the clock speed of 1.66 Gz. And, more important for the home user, it has a nice design, shown in the picture above.

For mac fans, however, the big problem with the Tango Cocktail is really that is doesn’t run Apple’s Mac OS X. In fact, this can only be good if you are satisfied with the uggly Microsoft Media Center. Another downside: the video card is not the best for heavy game playing.

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