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The Perfect Christmas Gift: An iPod Shuffle

If you’re looking for the perfect gift for your 5 year old niece or nephew this Christmas and don’t want to break the bank but still want to out-do your misbegotten brother get the kids one of the revamped iPod Shuffles.

Apple has released all new iPod Shuffles, the little clip on iPod that gives you [...]

Apple Reports Fourth Quarter Results

Although not as high as originally predicted, Apple released it’s Q4 results reporting over a whopping 2,611,000 Mac’s shipped and 11,052,00 iPods for a total of $7.9 billion in revenue.
Apple: “AppleĀ® today announced financial results for its fiscal 2008 fourth quarter ended September 27, 2008. The Company posted revenue of $7.9 billion and net quarterly [...]

Hard Drive Crashes Don’t Mean You Have to Lose Your iTunes Library

Last weekend the Western Digital MyBook that I keep my iTunes library on died a horrid death leaving me high and dry. The unfortunate part was only a portion of my library was backed up to another drive. If I couldn’t find a way to recover my files I’d lose over $200 worth of music. [...]

Living La Vida OS X

I spend a lot of time talking with people about OS X and Mac’s. Most often people ask “Why do you love it so much?” to which I usually can’t come up with a good reason. Well here’s one little gem I’m going to have to remember next time someone poses me with the question.
In [...]

All That Glitters is Diamond

You’re a designer and a Mac user but your boss is a PC guy. While working on a project he sends you a Microsoft Word XML doc. You don’t have the newest version of Microsoft Office nor do you relish the idea of spending your hard earned cash on it. What are you to do? [...]