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TidBITS#796/12-Sep-05

Apple’s special music event last week revealed the new iPod nano, iTunes 5, and release of the Motorola ROKR, an iTunes-enabled cellular phone. We have details and insight about the new devices. In non-music news, Jeff Carlson looks at ShowMacster, a utility for adding photos and movies to iChat video chats, Adam revisits how he uses email to get things done, and we note the release of Nisus Express 2.5.

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New iPod nano Replaces iPod mini

Remember when the iPod was a marvel of compact engineering? At a press event in San Francisco last week, Apple introduced the iPod nano, an ever-more diminutive music player that replaces the now-discontinued iPod mini and more closely resembles the original iPod design than the mini

Geoff Duncan No comments

Apple Releases iTunes 5

Apple Computer last week took the wraps off iTunes 5.0, the latest version of its free jukebox software for Mac OS X and Windows. iTunes 5.0 adds the following new features: After many years of user lamentation, playlists can now be organized into hierarchical folders

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ShowMacster Improves iChat Video

Chatting via video in iChat is cool, but I didn't realize I was missing something until recently when a client introduced me to ShowMacster, a utility that enables me to display more than just my ugly mug during a video chat. The notion behind ShowMacster is simple: why limit your outgoing video signal to what's in front of your webcam, when you can also interject other digital imagery such as photos or movies? Say you're video chatting with your mother and want to show her your latest digital photos

Adam Engst No comments

Getting Things Done in Email

Back in December of last year, I passed along a new technique I developed for handling email in Eudora. It relied on Eudora's long-standing capability to create "saved searches," which are essentially the same idea as the new "smart mailboxes" in the version of Apple Mail included with Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger

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Hot Topics in TidBITS Talk/12-Sep-05

The first link for each thread description points to the traditional TidBITS Talk interface; the second link points to the same discussion on our Web Crossing server, which provides a different look and which may be faster. FreeConference.com comments -- Adam's article about FreeConference.com prompts feature suggestions and a few questions