Monday, September 4, 2006
News
Apple Buys Pod Rights
Maker of entertainment gear Apple has paid an undisclosed sum to a New Jersey woman to stop her using the word 'pod' in a protective case she designed for laptops.
iPods Spread Seeds Of Fitness
Virtual trainers are the latest trend in fitness, and they can be downloaded right onto your iPod or other MP3 player.
Apple Financial Announcements Now On Podcast
Interest In Mobile Music Downloads Wanes
Twice as many respondents favoured mobile handsets incorporating an MP3 player than said they would prefer music players with mobile phone features.
Taiwan Firm Drops China iPod Libel Case
A Taiwanese firm has dropped its libel claim against two Shanghai journalists and their newspaper for saying that workers at a plant manufacturing iPods were mistreated, the official Xinhua news agency said on Sunday.
Opinion
Apple, You've Failed Me
I'm seriously up to right here with this pointless copyright nonsense.
Macinterface
I like that OS X has a strong application-based metaphor for performing tasks.
Apple's Secret Ingredient
Fearlessness allows you set aside all ideas of what people might think and focus on what feels right instinctively. Without that sort of conviction, there wouldn't be Mac OS X, the iPod, or even the Mac.
Review
How To Get More From Your iPod
A few simple, affordable adjustments can make your digital music listening experience better and easier.
Sidetrack
Sam! I Do Like Green Eggs And Ham!
My daughter is in love with Dr Seuss right now. (She is 3-going-on-to-4.) The Cat in The Hat, Green Eggs and Ham.
And, for reasons unknown to me, she has assigned Thing One to be a "boy-boy" and Thing Two to be a "girl-girl."
Oh, and CNN have some pointers on reading to your child.
