Category: 585: All New iPods, iTunes and the Big Bang Theory

We had some frost last night in the valley, so a lot of people are beginning to think of winter and making the annual preparations. Artie has been cutting wood on his property and I bought a few cords to supplement my heating system this year. I’ve got a wood/coal furnace as back-up to my…

By now you’ve probably heard about Spore, the much-hyped new game from the creator of Sim City and the Sims. In Spore you create and oversee a species from a single-cell organism to a complex animal, to an intelligent being that eventually leaves its home planet to interact with alien species across the galaxy. Throughout…

Last week I reported that Spotlight in Tiger (OS 10.4) could perform simple calculations. Unfortunately, this is not correct; Spotlight will only do this in Leopard. If you’re online, it’s possible to use Google for simple calculations just as you’d use Spotlight. To use Google’s built-in calculator function, simply enter the calculation you’d like done…

At Apple’s Let’s Rock event on Tuesday, Steve Jobs announced the immediate availability of iTunes 8. You can download it by “clicking here:”:http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/ The most newsworthy feature of iTunes 8 isn’t even music related; it’s the return of NBC’s very popular TV programing to the iTunes store. NBC pulled its programing in 2007 after failing…

As I mentioned above, Apple announced all new iPods on Tuesday, and that included changes to the iPod classics, touches and shuffles as well. Some details: *iPod touch* The new iPod touch boasts better specs, but keeps the same capacity sizes of 8GB, 16GB and 32GB. New features below: * Slimmer design, with curved back…

On Tuesday, Apple announced updates on the entire iPod line. First up: the new iPod nano (4G). Here’s a run-down of the new features: *THE LOOK (__or what we like to call Form Factor__)* These nanos are strangely familiar looking! * Tall (rectangular) and aluminum, much like the 2G nanos * Rounded corners * Thinnest…

_Dear Friends,_ They fired up the biggest machine ever built this week: the super collider in Switzerland, which is a 17-mile super cooled tunnel buried underground with thousands of computers and support gear. It is all designed as a particle accelerator to create particle collisions to test the “big bang” theory as the start of…