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iPod Holiday Sales are through the ROOF!
According to Mac Rumors, Steve Jobs and Co have a lot to be happy about this holiday season (ya know, except for that whole stock thing). Traffic to the iTunes music store was up 413% compared to last Christmas…the spike in traffic is credited to new iPod owners flocking to the iTunes music store to
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Free audiobook podcasts
As I look around the web, it appears that most of us are still recovering from Christmas (heck, I’m still HAVING Christmas), so, as you can imagine…the news is kinda slow today. Still, there is cool stuff to be found on the web, and today I stumbled upon Open Culture’s collection of audiobook podcasts. These
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New iPod Shuffle a HUGE Success
Apple Insider is reporting that the new iPod Shuffle is outselling it’s predecessor…in fact, it’s selling TWICE what the previous iPod Shuffle did at this time last year. Sales for the small flash audio player have been so good that it is the #1 flash player on the market. The $79 price point has seemed
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Two New iPod Games: Sudoku & Royal Flush Solitaire
Well, my list of 10 Games that SHOULD be on the iPod is down to 9 – because EA released two new games for iPod yesterday: Sudoku and Royal Flush Solitaire. Both games are graphically impressive, and I should have a review of Sudoku up soon. You can access previews of the games in iTunes,
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Look Ma! No On/Off Switch!
Following a post I made a while back on ForeverGeek citing comments that Windows Vista has too many options for shutting down, I’ve been thinking about how Apple designed the iPod to have no power button. True enough, as of recent public betas, Vista users have at least nine ways to turn off their computers.
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No Sale of iPods in North Korea
iPods hold the honor of being among “luxury items” that the U.S. government is banning from export in North Korea as a trade sanction aimed at personally annoying North Korean President Kim Jong Il. he Bush administration wants North Korea’s attention, so like a scolding parent it’s trying to make it tougher for that country’s
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New iPod Games at Macworld?
Mac Rumors is reporting that we might see some new games for the iPod at Macworld this year. The rumored listed includes Jezzball, Snood, and Pinball. Mac Rumors admits that the list is speculation at this point, since it can’t be confirmed…but let’s face it…it’s kind of a slow news day If you’re interested to
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Universal plans to seek money for each iPod sold – is there a lawyer in the house?
So here we go…the music companies are finally going too far. So we’re all thieves by default…we’re all guilty straight out of the box. Universal Music Group exec Doug Morris, sure to be one of the most hated men on the ‘net soon (if he’s not already), told the Reuters Media Summitt that his company
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New Keyboard w/ iPod Dock from Apple?
Think Secret has an interesting article up that claims that Apple has sent several customers replacement keyboards that have built-in iPod docks. According to sources, who were unable to see the keyboard themselves but heard about its existence from those who had, a small number of the unreleased keyboards were sent out to customers on
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Belkin TuneFM Review
I wasn’t really planning to get an iPod anytime soon, but all my siblings were snapping up latest-generation iPods of their own (2 second-gen Shuffles, one second-gen Nano, and one fifth-generation/Video). They got theirs cheap because of educational discounts (about 20% off) so I was actually considering riding on their discount since I no longer
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