As a Mac user I’m overly familiar with the eye candy depicted in this video, but not as much with the musical artist, Bird and the Bee. The song “Again and Again” is decent as well, if a bit repetitive. The video was made by Dennis Liu.

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For obvious reasons, I’ve been keeping tabs on all the movies available for rent via iTunes. It’s actually not super straight-forward to get a comprehensive list, so I’ve documented some methods that use iTunes and a few website resources.

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A bit bored on my day off, so I recorded a podcast or “Webomaticast” as I prefer. Perhaps I’ll revive this idea as a once a week thing.

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Apple just announced the availability of more movies in the Apple iTunes Store, many on the same day as the DVD release. It shows the studios may finally be loosening their grip on digital downloads. But despite this great news, I won’t be handing Apple any more money than before.

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Several iPhone 3G rumors floated past me in recent days, lending evidence that the new iPhone is nearly upon us.

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Screen shots are easy to do on the Mac using Apple’s Grab utility. Unfortunately, Grab is disabled when watching a DVD with Apple’s DVD Player application. That makes it hard to use if you want to save an screen shot image of a DVD for say, a movie review or something.

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Apple Released another Apple TV update, 2.0.2, which took me a while to get around to because I wanted to watch Bulletproof Monk (thumbs down) before installing the update.

Anyhow, since installing the one bug that was bothering me since the “Take 2″ update is finally resolved. Basically, the Apple TV’s WiFi connection would randomly drop out, usually after a few days. Each time that would happen meant either re-entering the network’s password or restarting the Apple TV by pulling out the power plug (there isn’t a power button). So I am glad to report that 2.0.2 finally fixed that bug along with a generally snappier interface.

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Tonight, Apple released an Apple TV Take 2 update. I’m downloading it right now.

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Seems there are some iPhone 3G rumors floating around:

Wired’s Gadget Lab reports iPhone sold out in New York stores, leading some to speculate that the new iPhone is “imminent.”

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I’ve grown slightly less obsessed with podcasts over the past year. In 2006 I was listening to TWiT, Diggnation, and a whole bunch of others daily, during my commute. More recently - not so much.

This has changed in the past month however, as the Apple TV has made podcasts more accessible. I’ve reinstated my former diet of audio podcasts, and video podcasts are much more satisfying on a large screen. Many podcasts play instantly via the Apple TV, rather than waiting for a download.

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