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Firefox offers a couple of features that are important to me, and are pretty much standard fare for modern Web browsers: Pop-up blocking and tabbed browsing. The overall interface, however, felt more and more clunky as the week went on. I'm a big fan of keyboard shortcuts because they let me keep my hands on my keyboard instead of pulling me away to my mouse/trackball/graphics tablet.

Can Firefox Out-Surf Safari on the Mac

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After this year's Macworld, the number of iPod accessories has probably doubled. That's good because there's one accessory that I would like to see more of: voice recorders. Several companies have released them recently, however, and one of the newer models is the Belkin TuneTalk Stereo Recorder. The TuneTalk Stereo unit is small, lightweight, and conveniently carried, a major plus in my book

TuneTalk iPod Recorder: Fantastic Sound, Flimsy Design

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The customers who visit the Apple Web site are younger than those who visit Microsoft's, according to an analysis published last week. Each company understands that, and it defines their messaging and marketing strategies accordingly. The majority of traffic to the Apple Web site is from people under age 45, while the majority of traffic to the Microsoft Web site is from people over 35.

Report: Apple Attracts Younger Crowd Than Microsoft

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Producing podcasts is not a typical assignment in college writing class, but it's what Heather Schell requires from her students at George Washington University. Schell, assistant professor in the school's University Writing Program, asked her freshman writing class last year to produce a weekly radio show, a series of podcasts they wrote, recorded, edited and posted on the Web.

Unleashing Creativity With Student Podcasts

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NAND flash memory is likely to move beyond the iPod nano and shuffle in Apple's product lineup and become the primary storage medium in other iPods and in a Mac-based subnotebook product, according to American Technology Research analyst Shaw Wu. He added that it is unlikely that Apple will release a true widescreen video capable iPod until after the iPhone ships in June.

Flash Memory May Drive Future Apple Products

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When Curtis Chan installed iTunes 7.1 on his Microsoft Windows Vista machine, he noticed that a screen pop-up window would inform him that he does not have permission to write to the library and that changes cannot be saved. However, this only seems to happen when there are a lot of updates made to the library, instead of a few, he told MacNewsWorld.

Vista Glitches Still Bugging iTunes Users

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Britain's BBC Worldwide announced plans to compete with the music and video download service iTunes, developed by Apple. The commercial arm of the BBC said its iPlayer will give British Web surfers a seven-day online opportunity to view BBC shows they may have missed, the Telegraph said Tuesday. The iPlayer is being reviewed by the BBC Trust, which regulates new BBC services.

BBC iPlayer to Challenge iTunes