There is a great article (followed by some nice follow-ups) on MacRumors detailing the particulars about Apple's DRM for the Music Store feature in iTunes. The summary is that you are allowed to (as Jobs said in his speech on Monday): Play a purchased song on up to 3 …

No announcements yet, but a quote from Mr. Jobs in Time from an interview with Apple's CEO has the following exchange: TIME: What about independent labels? Will they follow suit? Jobs: Yes. They've already been calling us like crazy. We've had to put most of them off until after …

One of the new features in Apple's Safari browser is the availability of the various auto-fill capabilities. These have been done before in many browsers, but there are some very unique implementations to the version that the folks at Apple have brought us. My favorite, by far, is the …

Since Apple's new iTunes 4 software supports display of album covers, we all need to load up our album covers into our play lists. A discussion thread on MacSlash discusses this very issue.

If you are interested in CNet's take on the new Apple music service, you can check out the analysis article. I've read it and I agree that the visible changes may be evolutionary, but the packaging, ease-of-use, and DRM changes are rather large. I was amused to see some …

Georgia College and State University has come up with an interesting use for Apple's iPod. MacWorld is reporting that the university is running a program where students can load up iPods with audio tracks of lectures given during the semester. The specifics are interesting in terms of why and …

To almost nobody's surprise, Apple announced a series of new products related to personal music. In the follow on to "Rip, Mix, Burn", Apple is now encouraging people to "Buy, Mix, iPod". Stay tuned for a series of reviews on the music service and the new iPod (ordered today, hopefully …

A good hint appears on MacOS X Hints about moving non- standard iTunes directories between hard drives and computers without losing data.

The Register fuels the file of speculation about a possible AMD/Apple link, with an article debating the merits of a cooperation between Apple and AMD after an AMD representative made some obscure comments at a press conference this week that could be construed as implying that they may at …

Is your iPod starting to run out of juice faster? If so, you might be interested in checking out the battery[1] from Laptops for Less. They have complete installation instructions for the replacement batteries as well. Link no longer available. ↩︎

An article[1] in eWeek details many of the upcoming features in Apple's just-announced Panther version of its operating system. Many rumors see additional light in this description, but we'll really get our best view of it in late June when Apple unveils the OS at the annual WWDC conference …

Those who travel to San Francisco will be pleased to hear that BART has announced[1] that they will begin providing service to SFO by June 22. Just in time for Apple's WWDC in June. Original link (http://www.bart.gov/news/features/news_8466.asp) no longer available as …

With the theories about Apple's upcoming music offerings garnering more momentum every day, the company has now sent out invitations for a special event on April 28. It appears, from an article on MacCentral that invitations have been sent out and we will all know next week.

According to this story on MacRumors, Apple's much-rumored music service is nearly ready to go. Reports indicate that 5 major labels have signed up to provide their tunes for a fee to Apple for use in the service. This accompanies recent stories that Apple may be buying Universal Records from …

Apple released Beta 2 (v73) of Safari today. It fixes a ton of stuff and adds a bunch of heavily requested features. Go get yours at the Safari download page

Some of you may have seen sporadic reports (mostly coming from the L.A. Times) that Apple is in the process of coming out with an online music service this month, along with the long-awaited update to iTunes and the new versions of the iPod. Today, an article on MacCentral …

Have you been looking for a way to do auto-fill with Safari? If so, this page can be used to create a button on your button-bar that automatically fills in the information for web pages that ask for standard personal information. At least when I went to the site, the …

According to an article on ThinkSecret claims that Apple resellers are balking at new provisions in the reseller contract that would limit Apple's liability and prevent lawsuits on previous year's legal disputes. Dealers that may have been affected include: Buy.com, Fry's Electronics, MicroCenter, Dell and Target.

An article by David Nagel explains why Adobe found the PC "Preferred", even when comparing against a dual-processor Macintosh. The complaint is that it is Adobe's flawed After Effects software that is at the root of the problems. However, it isn't the usual "the software just stinks" complaint, it's a …

People are always coming up with interesting ways around seeming problems. According to an article on Yahoo! news, a small company called The Bioteam that does work with Biosciences companies. The company has been configuring clusters of Xserve computers to do Informatics Research. In order to get the machines bootstrapped …