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Tech news:
Apple announces they will use Intel chips beginning in 2006. Steve Jobs announced at the World Wide Developers Conference that it will shift to using Intel chips in its computers, severing its long relationship with IBM, which had supplied chips to Apple. “This is not going to be a transition that happens overnight. It’s going to happen over a few years,” Jobs said. Steve Jobs also revealed that OsX has been developed from day 1 to be able to run on an x86 chip and all versions of OsX will be compatible with this architecture. Code-writers will now create universal binaries of their programs that will run on either the PowerPC or x86 platform.
Steve Jobs has also confirmed that the next version of iTunes will have podcasting built in. At the World Wide Developers Conference, Jobs had a demo of this new feature. iTunes will allow you to download podcasts for free from the iTunes Music Store and also subscribe to the feeds from right within the program. If implemented correctly, this can spell doom for the other podcasting programs out there.
The Best Buy website has one set of prices that tend to be cheaper than the in-store prices. However, if you use an in-store Best Buy kiosk to surf their website, the higher prices show up, rather than the lower ones. Store managers have apparently been told to give people the lower price if they complain.
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Ask A Geek:
Drew asks: I would like to know how I can create an ISO of my current Windows installation with all of my programs and files in it.
There is a great tool that allows you to image an entire drive along with its contents. Norton Ghost has been a long standard in drive image creation. Once installed onto your machine, you tell the program what drive to image, compression you want, and what drive to send the image to. Just be aware that you cannot image to a drive you’re imaging from. You can use your CD burner as a destination drive.
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Hack: Copy songs from iPod to iTunes on a mac
Back on Geekcast #12, I showed you how to copy music from your iPod onto your PC. At the time I was still looking for a program that would allow you to do this on OsX. After some research, I have found Senuti, a small but great program to get those tunes off that small white box and onto that big white box.
When you launch Senuti with your iPod connected, you get a listing of all the playlists and songs on the iPod. By selecting the songs you want to get off there, and pressing the ‘Copy Selected’ button, the process will begin and the songs will now exist on your mac. When the copy process is finished, all the songs will be automatically added to iTunes, ready for your listening pleasure. If you aren’t sure which songs you want to transfer, you can play the tracks from within Senuti to get an idea of which ones you want.
Senuti is a fantastic program that works great, matches the OsX interface and does its work seamlessly. Senuti is free, requires OsX 10.3 or higher and can be found at http://wbyoung.ambitiouslemon.com/senuti/
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