Daring Fireball: Some facts about AAC

Daring Fireball: Some facts about AAC
John Gruber of Daring Fireball debunks many misconceptions about the AAC audio format that iTunes uses. "There are some people who have long insisted that Apple
’s grand scheme for the iPod and iTunes hinges on proprietary file format lock-in, and I think what they’re doing now is grasping for some way to continue making this argument."

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Stolen Laptop Pics Not a Hoax After All - Gizmodo

Stolen Laptop Pics Not a Hoax After All - Gizmodo
London--Stolen laptop posts images of thieves to website, check out the pics to see if you can identify the people.

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High school teens say they'll plunk down $500 for iPhone

High school teens say they'll plunk down $500 for iPhone
Though it hasn't yet hit the market, most high school students (84 percent) are already aware of Apple's iPhone device, with a significant number those who are away (25 percent) saying they will fork over the $500 to make one their own, a recent study has shown.

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Automate Your BitTorrent TV Downloads on OS X

Automate Your BitTorrent TV Downloads on OS X
Downloading your favorite TV show is much easier than it was a few years ago with the help of torrent indexing sites and great software. With the arrival of the open source TVShows application, the whole thing just got even easier.

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Mac tip: One iPhoto library to rule them all

Mac tip: One iPhoto library to rule them all
How to sync your iPhoto library across Macs...

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First 3rd-party app for iPhone appears on Apple's site

First 3rd-party app for iPhone appears on Apple's site
Scenario Poker by Scenario Software is a Texas Hold ‘em poker game in the form of a widget that lists among its features the line “Designed for the size of iPhone’s touch screen”. It seems to also support touch sensitive controls in addition to standard mouse click i

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Have your Mac say Bonjour to tout le monde

Have your Mac say Bonjour to tout le monde
Your Mac speaks more French than you think: the story of Wide-Area Bonjour and the (dynamic) DNS.

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