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TIME “I appreciate that soldiers have got a Mac” to communicate with their families, the president said.

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According to CNET News.com Apple’s iPhone will be released on June 11. I can’t hardly wait, my Treo 650 is on it’s last legs.

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Dvorak numbers must be down so in an effort to get some attention he decided to pull something out of his ass and write a column on how Apple should pull the plug on the iPhone.

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I was getting duplicate entries for some movies in Apple TV after a sync. Even if I deleted and re-synced I would still get duplicate entries on some movies. I turned off Apple TV to try it on another TV and when I did that the dups went away. So if you are having duplicate [...]

Playlist Apple on Thursday introduced a service on the iTunes Store called Complete My Album. The service allows users that have purchased individual songs on an album to purchase the full album at a reduced cost.

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If you have a Mac and want to rip some of your DVD’s for your new Apple TV check out Handbrake. Ripping some of my daughters DVD’s and putting it on my Apple TV is very nice.

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Back from vacation in Hawaii and Fedex delivered my Apple TV. In future posts I’ll talk more about it, but the setup was a breeze. The UI is great, though I wish there was a way to have folders or group by genre in the movies section. The 40 GB hard drive doesn’t cut it, [...]

Tim Westergren the founder of Pandora writes “It’s an utterly ridiculous ruling that renders any form of internet radio non-economic. We are continuing in the belief that sanity will return as everyone involved, including the 50 million avid online radio listeners, realize just how outrageous this is.”
Another example of the power of the RIAA to [...]

Reuters.com “Reunited Australian rock band the Hoodoo Gurus are returning to the United States for their first tour in 13 years, dusting off their melodic garage punk for college kids who are all grown up.”

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Yahoo! News “Brad Delp, the lead singer for the band Boston, was found dead Friday in his home in southern New Hampshire. He was 55.”

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A little Squeeze since they are getting back together and touring.

Billboard
U.K. pop/rock combo Squeeze has jumped on the reunion tour bandwagon and will play U.K. shows under that name this fall for the first time since 1999. Group member Glenn Tilbrook made the announcement on his Web site, saying the dates come in conjunction with an extensive Squeeze re-release campaign of which he and member [...]

Reuters.com
New Order bassist Peter Hook is gathering some famous friends to collaborate on his new project, Freebase.
The group — which comprises Hook, former Smiths bassist Andy Rourke and former Stone Roses/current Primal Scream bassist Mani — will turn the mic over to some of Manchester, England’s best-known frontmen.
“We’ve been working with some great singers. (The [...]

New York Times
Apple’s iPhone is still several months away from being available, but its flexible interface is already shaking up the cellphone industry, including Palm, which makes the hybrid phone-organizers known as smart phones.
Palm has been sitting on their ass for years.

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Great article over at WSJ.com on Apple and the iTunes store.
Every day, the roughly one million people who visit the iTunes Store home page are presented with several dozen albums, TV shows and movie downloads to consider buying — out of the four million such goods the Apple site offers. This prime promotion is analogous [...]

Cringely says that Apple may be adding H.264 decoding and encoding chips to all their computers. A little out their perhaps, but oh please let it be true.

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Billboard
As expected, the reunited Genesis will visit North America on a fall tour that begins Sept. 7 in Toronto, the group announced this morning (March 7) at a media event in New York. So far, 13 dates have been announced through Oct. 12 in Los Angeles but more will be added. Some tickets begin going [...]

IHT “But there are times whan an iPod simply cannot compete with the rich, complex tones of a vintage tabletop radio.”

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The Police have unveiled dates for late summer/early fall European tour, beginning Aug. 29 in Stockholm. So far, 13 shows are confirmed, although additional dates in Italy, Switzerland, Belgium, and Denmark are pending, according to the band’s Web site.

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According to Terry Lawson of the Detroit Free Press the re-mastered Beatles albums will be made available first on all the digital download services, not just iTunes and not initially on CD. He says that Apple will have an exclusive with a Beatles iPod, these will be pre-loaded iPods that will have one Beatles album [...]