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				No HardDrive's for Mac Portables Flash memory has come a long way these past few years, allowing us to sport multi-gigabyte portable music players without having to worry about moving parts and stunted battery life. While Samsung announced that they would be releasing some UMPCs and notebooks sporting NAND solid state drives (SSD) a couple of weeks ago, they are going to be some uber pricey pieces. Well, big glossy player Apple wants a big piece of this flash memory computer pie as well. As such, the electronics giant is said to be working on some ultra-portable notebooks equipped with NAND memory only. No hard disk drives, whatsoever. According to UBS, these next generation MacBooks could even make an appearance as early as MacWorld 2007 in January. The result? Faster start up times, extended battery life, cooler running temperatures... the list goes on. And unlike the Samsung pieces, these NAND-based MacBooks might actually be "reasonably priced."

				Microsoft readying Apple iPod rival By AppleInsider Staff Published: 10:00 AM EST Microsoft Corp. is laying the groundwork to compete against Apple Computer's iPod digital entertainment device and iTunes service, sources familiar with the plans told Reuters on Friday. The world's largest software maker reportedly held licensing discussions with the music industry to create its own music service. At the meetings, an entertainment device that plays videos and music was also demonstrated, according to Reuters' source. Microsoft has previously denied having aspirations of entering the digital music business, currently dominated by Apple in the United States. On Thursday, the Redmond, Washington-based company announced a two-year transition process that will ultimately end with the departure of chairman Bill Gates.

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				From Martin Pickering - Microsoft Messenger I've bought my wife an iPod for her birthday (shhh!) and I've been installing mp3 greek lessons into iTunes on her G4/400 from CD. Ejecting each CD was taking several attempts and taking minutes, not seconds. Lots of spinning beachballs! I traced the cause to the fact that she'd downloaded the latest "Microsoft Messenger" and was running it from the "disc image" on the desktop. Aaagh! Let this be a lesson to all Mac newbies out there. If you download a program, please INSTALL IT according to the instructions. Usually this is simply a matter of double-clicking a ".dmg" file, which creates a "disc image", then dragging a copy of the application from it to your "Applications" folder. Drag the disc image to the trash, empty the trash, and store the ".dmg" file somewhere safe (preferably burn to a CD) in case you need to reinstall at a later date. By the way, because of lack of space, my wife uses a short keyboard that has no "eject" button. I located a file called "eject.menu", double-clicked on it, and a new eject "button" appeared in the menu bar. Of course iTunes has its own eject "button" but it's handy to have one in the menu bar if it's not a music CD. And, finally, I got sick of iTunes and iPhoto launching and interfering when I was trying to make backup disc copies with Toast. The solution was easy when I found it. Click on the Apple menu icon and select System Preferences. Click the CDs & DVDs icon and set the bottom three options to "ignore". By the way, the short keyboard came from www.keyboardco.com Note this is Keyboard Co, not simply Keyboard, and the full URL is: http://www.keyboardco.com/keyboard_details.asp?PRODUCT=168 It's the SB002 with 2 USB ports. Total price is £40. My wife and my mother each have one and think they are great. A couple of keys are wrongly labeled for the Mac (@) and (") but that's easily fixed with a CD marker pen. Best Wishes, Martin Martin T. Pickering B.Eng. Technical Director SatCure Distribution I think I forgot to mention that the "open drawer" menu bar button becomes a "close drawer" button when the tray is open. It greatly reduces the risk of damaging the CD drawer, which might happen if you push it by Fromhand.

				From Martin Pickering - warning about Video iPods I bought the latest "video iPod" for my wife's birthday. Luckily I decided to put some tracks on it in advance, so she didn't have to wait hours for it to load on her birthday. I knew it wouldn't come with a Firewire lead (my G3 iPod didn't) so I had bought one separately. I connected it up and a message appeared on the iPod screen saying that Firewire was not supported and I must use the USB2 lead supplied. My wife's G4 tower has no USB2 port!  Aaaagh! Luckily, I had added a PCI USB2 card to my own G4 tower for use with a Freeview TV "TERRATEC" box (that didn't work). So I was able to put this PCI card in my wife's G4 and the iPod worked quite happily. It also charged up OK (despite someone telling me that it wouldn't through USB2). Note that NO charger is supplied. I had to buy a mains "wall wart" off eBay. After I had done all this, I had an idea and connected the iPod to the USB1 hub. Lo and behold, the iPod uploaded songs quite happily (albeit ten times more slowly). So you *can* use it with USB1. You just need more patience.

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				From Ryan Gray regarding Shuffle's. About the podcast/audiobook rewinding: mine was doing the same thing until I noticed what was wrong was that they changed the skipping behavior at some point, and I didn't know. For podcasts (and bookmarkable files I presume), if you press rewind once, then it will rewind to the beginning, but if you press rewind twice quickly, then it will move to the previous track and leave the file bookmarked where you left off. However, if the podcast is already at or very near the start, then only a single rewind press goes to the previous track, and - you guessed it - doing a double press when already at the beginning of a podcast will skip to the previous track, and if it is a podcast bookmarked in the middle, it will rewind that one. So cheers to Apple for giving us a way to rewind a podcast, but boo for making it so awkward, you often rewind them when you don't want to. Well now I've just been playing with it some more, and what I said is not strictly true. I can press rewind once, and the current podcast rewinds to the beginning, but within a second or two, I can press rewind again and move to the previous podcast and my place in the current podcast is not lost after all, even though it rewound to the beginning, but only for a second. It seems to work that if you rewind a podcast hot e beginning, but switch to another track within a second or two, it retains the original bookmark location instead of leaving it at the beginning. Hmm. Then again, mine could be on the blink and all this is not normal at all... The other problem that does seem common is the shuffle forgetting where it was in a podcast. This consistently happens when I pause one for a long time and it goes into sleep mode. It seems to not save where it was and reverts to the previous bookmark or something when you restart it. One thing I've been trying for this is to pause it, turn on hold mode, then shut it off. Lock Button... if by a "lock button" you mean a hold mode, it has that. You hold the play/pause button for 3 seconds, and it flashes amber to confirm. You do the same to take it out of hold. The method I mentioned to keep it remembering where it was even when you turn it off seems to be working: pause it, press pause/play for 3 seconds to put it in hold mode, then turn it off. When you turn it on again, it won't be in hold mode, and it will pick up where you left off. It seems that just pausing it and turning it off doesn't always save the bookmark. Here's hoping for a firmware update.

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