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  • Interviewed by Matt Cooper of The last Word

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    I was interviewed this afternoon by Matt Cooper of Today FM’s The Last Word in a follow-up piece to the Irish Blog Awards. Matt raised the recent proposal in France to make it legal to crack DRM – this was reported by Reuters yesterday: France is pushing through a law that would force Apple Computer…

  • Flock crashing on G5

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    I recently treated myself to an Apple iMac G5 – I needed a new machine bcause of the increasing amount of podcasts I have been doing and my PowerBook’s sound board blew (replacing the sound board on a PowerBook costs over €600). I was using Flock from time to time on the PowerBook (the PowerBook…

  • Intel based Macs to run multiple OSs

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    I see where Apple has applied for a patent that allows the computer maker to protect the installation of Mac OS X so that it can only be used on Apple produced hardware. No real surprise there. However, the patent also describes a method whereby Apple hardware could be used to run other Operating Systems:…

  • Ripping DVDs for your iPod made easy!

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    Mark pilgrim has written a simple step-by-step guide to ripping DVDs so that they can be played on your shiny new video iPod. The guide is incredibly straightforward and has large screenshots to make it completely idiot-proof (even I could do it!). Obviously this will only be of interest to you if you want to…

  • Apple introduces new iMac

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    At the San Jose event today Steve jobs also announced a new iMac G5. See here for more The new iMac is thinner than its predecessors, it has a built-in iSight camera for video conferencing, and it has a new application called Front Row. Front Row is a program which allows imac owners to use…

  • Video iPod and new iTunes

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    Apple, after much anticipation, released the video iPod at their “one More Thing…” event in San Jose today. The new model is 30 percent thinner than previous models, has a larger 2.5-inch QVGA display with 324 x 240 resolution, at 30fps, 260,000 color 2.5-inch display, H.264 support, and either a 30 or 60GB hard drive…