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• Some Powerbook Keys Not Working Oddest thing. I pulled the PowerBook out the laptop bag and a handful of keys stopped responding. I’ve opened up the Keyboard Viewer to confirm. Here’s the list thus far: return & enter (came back after restart) Tilde Caps Lock F12 (initiates my Dashboard) Disc eject Left square bracket Arrow up Arrow right I plugged in the USB keyboard from the eMac and that
• iTunes Music Store Replies - More than Two Years Later  Dear Garrick Van Buren, Thank you for your interest in iTunes. After careful consideration of your application, we believe that the most efficient way to get your content up on iTunes in a timely fashion would be for you to deliver the content through one of the several digital service providers with whom we currently work.
• Apple iPhone: The Mobile Widget Web Calls 1. It’s not extensible by third parties, only Apple. The means at the moment no RSS readers, no Slingplayers. - Michael Gartenberg Seems to directly conflict Apple’s own messaging…especially the notion that OS X / Safari widgets can be used on the phone. RSS or otherwise. “That it’s a cell-phone, so what?” - Rex Hammock Yep. Which comes
• How the iPhone Unexpectedly Impressed Me I stopped by the Roseville Apple Store this afternoon to diagnose 2 recurring problems with my year old MacBook Pro; 6 month old battery barely holds a charge, and bottom quarter of the LCD screen is all multi-colored stripes - completely unusable. It’s just a few weeks outside of it’s one-year warranty, again proving to
• Internet-to-TV: How to Beat TiVo “Sling Media’s entertainment division, told B&C that through SlingCatcher, users will be able to…bring online video content to the TV.” [via Fimoculous] The idea of getting any internet-delivered video presented on a television is something I’ve talked about here and here. ELSEWHERE “the SlingCatcher is different from other digital media servers because it just relays whatever is on your