If you’re looking forward to a relaxing Thanksgiving holiday with friends and family don’t forget about your Mac! Many people will leave their machines idle while enjoying turkey, football and stories with the family. Phooey. Here are some suggestions about things that you can do with your Mac over the Thanksgiving holiday.
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As you can probably tell, I’m pretty fired up about the iPod video lately. It went from having little or no video content available for it to a glut in less than a month. I previously blogged about how to convert your own content and DVDs to the iPod’s 320*240 (QVGA) format, and about a new service (Guba) that has transcoded 25,000 videos from usenet into files easily downloaded to the iPod video.
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On Tuesday I blogged about options for finding content for the iPod video other than from the iTunes Music Store. I’ve found what may be the holy grail of video content for owners of the new iPod video.
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Smartphones are definitely the wave of the future for mobile technologists. They offer real-time access to email, Web, IM, RSS and just about every other Internet application that matters. In fact, there’s a movement afoot to replace some notebook computers with smartphones because of their ever increasing functionality.
There are numerous options when choosing a smartphone but Mac users need to consider compatibility issues before diving in. I’ve used several allegedly “smart” phones that were great in the field, but when it came time to connect them to my computer, a PowerBook G4, they couldn’t have been dumber.
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Sick of Lost or Desperate Housewives yet? Why would you purchase the Kanye West music video for Gold Digger from the iTunes Music Store for US$2 when you can download it from his Web site for free?
While most of the video content on the iTMS doesn’t make a compelling case for me to buy an iPod video, I think that I’ve finally found a reason (or several) to buy one.
Read the rest of the story on my ZDNet Blog: The Apple Core.

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Last week I reported that the first Intel Macs may be coming sooner than originally expected. New PowerBooks and iBooks built on Intel hardware are rumored to arrive as soon as April or May 2006

Mike Evangelist’s Writer Block Live has an interesting post about his disdain for the Digital Rights Management (DRM) included in music purchased from the iTunes Music Store. In it he says that he’s not going to “spend a another dime on content that I can

It looks like I may have spoken too soon in my article on the Mac being immune to the Sony Rootkit

The announcement of Apple’s new dual-core Power Mac G5s last month was a much needed shot-in-the-arm for the company’s desktop lineup but the new chips left a gaping hole in the product line. The machines that arguably need the increased horsepower that the dual-core chips provide the most

Almost as soon as Apple released their OS X for Intel developer kit enterprising hackers undid the security scheme that was supposed to prevent it from being installed on any old generic beige box. In addition to being able to install OS X on a cheap PC from Wall Mart, they’ve turned it into a sport to see how cheap you can build an x86 Mac.
I’m not interested in installing the hacks to try to get OS X running on one of my old PCs