Alex Ostrovsky from West Bloomfield, Michigan purchased the 1 billionth song when he bought Speed of Sound by Coldplay. As the grand prize winner he will receive a 20-inch iMac, 10 fifth generation 60GB iPods and a $10,000 gift card good for any item on the iTunes Music Store. In addition, Apple will establish a [...]

Shortly after reports of the first virus for Mac OS X, a new security flaw has surfaced. The culprit is the option “Open ’safe’ files after downloading” in Apple’s Safari web browser. This feature is activated by default. Its function is to automatically display images and movies after they are transmitted to the user’s computer, [...]

ThinkSecret is reporting on a completely new video iPod that will have a 3.5″ touchscreen instead of the current click wheel. Supposedly the click wheel will appear and disappear when the screen is touched.
Of note is the supposed release date of April 1st, which happens to be Apple’s 30th birthday.
Might this new iPod integrate PortalPlayer’s [...]

The owner of this Mazda Protege sedan decided that he needed to get some MP3 playback in their vehicle, stat! Instead of purchasing your run-of-the-mill MP3 playing headunit they decided to take their Mac Mini and mod an iTrip FM transmitter directly to the Mini.
This is a really cool hack so check out their full [...]

As I saw on Digg there is a sweet video floating around with 15 minutes of footage on the new MacBook Pro at Macworld. Just by comparing the application load times and overall application speed to my 1.33Ghz Powerbook G4 I can tell this thing is FAST. The rep is a bit [...]