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This Much I Know – » 5.1 surround sound playback on Mac (and maybe Apple TV)
QuickTime doesn’t come with an [tag]AC-3[/tag] codec by default. There is an open-source QuickTime component available, called A52Codec, which enables QuickTime to open, import and export AC-3 audio. (It does this using a free AC-3 library called liba52.) A52Codec provides [...]

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Ten million sales secured, is iPhone an iCannibal? | 9 to 5 Mac
Apple’s iPhone sales are breaking expectations, with the latest guess-timates indicating eight million sales of the iPhone this year alone – meaning the company’s well on course to achieve its stated ten million sales target.AppleInsider | RBC says sub-$100 “iPod phone” market up [...]

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Mac Rumors: Apple Mac Rumors and News You Care About
Digg.com’s Kevin Rose has posted a new blog entry and YouTube video claiming to have knowledge of upcoming iPod updates with a significant number of details: – Revamp of entire iPod line. – Small cosmetic changes to Touch, Nano to see significant redesign (see above) – [...]

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Mac Rumors: Apple Mac Rumors and News You Care About
Apple plans to build 40 million to 45 million iPhone 3Gs in the 12 months through August 2009, according to a person familiar with the company’s plans.
The article goes on to say that daily production of the iPhone 3G is now at 150,000 units per day
Apple [...]

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9 to 5 Mac | Apple Intelligence
We think this looks really useful, it’s a new and free service to help you get your laptop back if it is lost or stolen. Free and private solution, Adeona launched today, put together by researchers at Washington and California (San Diego) univerisites.
This is the first Open Source system [...]

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Mac Rumors: Apple Mac Rumors and News You Care About
While Montevina’s speed upgrades are also said to be modest, it has also been rumored that Apple will be revamping the physical design of their next notebooks to bring them in line with the current iMac and MacBook Air. Recently leaked photos depicting a more tapered [...]

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Mac Rumors: Apple Mac Rumors and News You Care About
Turnout appears to be heaviest at Apple’s retail locations, however many AT&T locations still be managing to sell out in under an hour. At stores where stock has run out AT&T is accepting orders that will arrive within the next few days. Alleyinsider surveyed 10 AT&T [...]

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Now I just wish I could actually find my iPhone. I can’t figure out where it went
9 to 5 Mac | Apple Intelligence
Cupertino “sources” report that it’s “highly probable” the iPhone 2.0 Gold Master will ship this Friday, two weeks before the iPhone 3G ships and just close enough to the end of June [...]

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The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)
If you switched to Firefox from another browser like Safari that supports in-line PDF viewing (that’s the ablity to look at a PDF in the browser instead of downloading it), then you might have been disheartened to learn that Firefox does not support this feature natively. However, you will find Firefox-Mac-PDF [...]

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Mac Rumors: Apple Mac Rumors and News You Care About
eWeek first reported on an interesting breakdown of Apple’s retail marketshare. According to numbers from the NPD Group, Apple’s Q1 2008 retail (brick and mortar) reached 14%. Note that by limiting it to retail, they’ve excluded online sales and institutional/enterprise sales.

Chart from eWeek
More surprising, however, is [...]

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