iPod2iTunes is the only utility which provides real synchronization of tracks and playlists from your iPod(s) to your Mac(s). The synchronization ensures that no duplicates are produced as it is easily possible if files are copied from the iPod via other blind methods. iPod2iTunes can be used to:

– keep music and playlists on different Mac’s up to date
– do a full restore of tracks and playlists after a hard disk failure
– revert accident deletion of tracks/playlists
– clone an iPod
– transfer a music library from one Mac to another

iPod2iTunes

from a recent article in Michigan:

AT&T Broadband users can expect a sizable rate hike on their February bill, but only if they don’t already subscribe to AT&T Cable.

That has customers who only want AT&T’s high speed internet service upset. The company claims it’s just trying to give consumers more service for less. Around the water cooler at Sagestone Consulting, the talk is about this AT&T Broadband rate increase. “It doesn’t sound fair. It sounds like extortion, it sounds like an armtwist,” voices Mark Jordan who is not affected by the change. He has both AT&T Broadband and AT&T Cable services.

The “price adjustment” as AT&T Broadband refers to it is a roughly a 25% price increase, from $42.95 to $57.95 a month. But there’s a catch. If you add basic cable, Broadband subscribers can keep the old $42.95 rate.

Acquisition. The gnutella client for the mac that has taken the file swapping world by storm. The interface written solely in Cocoa runs circles around Limewire’s lame Java interface, and the speed is totally on line with KaZaa. The interface is totally intuitive and the speed at which you can execute a search is nice. The major drawback is missing features. KaZaa still has the premium on restarting a download, finding more hosts, and searching by host. All in all for a mac user though this is the holy grail!

http://www.xlife.org/acquisition/

I was so impressed with the TransPod earlier this month…and then I saw the iTrip. The iTrip makes so much more sense:

1) doesn’t advertise you have an iPod in your parked car
2) works anywhere, not just in the car
3) looks much cooler than any other device for the iPod
4) uses the power from the iPod (not sure if this is a good thing yet)

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Okay so Apple once again surprised everyone and was able to keep a browser under wraps until MacWorld. I have not been this excited about the future of Apple software since OpenDoc (CyberDog lives again). There are several very important points that surround Safari, probably the most important is the embrace Apple is giving to the OpenSource Community. This is a community that has permanently locked Microsoft out, and the very thing that could be the ace in the hole that Apple needs to become the preferred platform of developers.

Safari offers everything any other KHTML based browser does, but is hooked into several key features of OS X. The OS hooks become a positive for the user and not a negative because of the open development being done on the platform’s many browsers. There will never be an issue of Apple pushing out other browsers, Safari only gets better as other developers push the envelope.

Anyway, if you are running OS 10.2 and don’t have Safari, what are you waiting for!