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[ Mediacentric] …This is obviously a slip to the next upgrade to Airport Express, which will obviously contain a remote control — as this message didn’t pop up in the previous version of iTunes. Since nothing solid exists right now as an official Apple product (really, would Apple add this message in just for one kinda functioning third party remote?) — we know what’s coming shortly. In checking our connections on the sale’s floor, Airport Expresses have been in limited availability the last few weeks — meaning an upgrade is probably around the corner.

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[FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog] IPods BANNED: Banning fashion items is of course the school's historical duty, but you have to admit that Principal Murphy has a point. Apple's advertising for the iPod makes a virtue of people dancing on their own, locked up in a private world only they understand. And what can this lead to, but anti-social values later in life?

[Thought Flickr's] Code-named Asteroid: But whatever happened about the law suit that was filed against, Monish Bhatia, Jason O'Grady and another person who writes under the pseudonym Kasper Jade, who wrote for online publications Apple Insider and PowerPage ?? They were the ones who wrote about leaked specifications about a product code-named "Asteroid". Apple also sued 25 unnamed individuals, called "Does" and believed to be Apple employees .

[HDTV - hdtv.engadget.com] HOW-TO: Turn your Mac mini into a media center: For the HD enthusiasts, I’ve got some good news and some bad news. The good news is you can record in HD perfectly fine on your Mac mini at either 1.25 or 1.42Ghz, using the $349 EyeTV 500 from our favorite, and basically only, company providing PVR solutions for the Mac: Elgato. In fact, you only need a 500Mhz processor for recording, because it’s the breakout box itself that does the heavy lifting, and not your Mac. The bad news is, you’ll need either a digital TV with a DVI connector, or a serious horsepower Mac to play back your recorded MPEG-2 content over component HD cabling, because in the reverse process, the Mac’s CPU has to bear the burden.

[MageSpace] Palm Pilot inventor starts company to neocortex-style computer memory: Jeff Hawkins, creator of the Palm Pilot, has started a new company to model computer memory after the functions of the human brain. Here's 20-minute NPR interview with Hawkins in MP3 format. And here's an excerpt from a book he co-wrote with Sandra Blakeslee, called On Intelligence: How a New Understanding of the Brain Will Lead to the Creation of Truly Intelligent Machines.

WWJD - What Would (Steve) Jobs Do? Tell us what you think and win ...: Two weeks from today Apple is holding their Worldwide Developers Conference, where Mr. Jobs is expected to do the usual round of product announcements, just like he did at MacWorld this past January when he introduced the iPod mini. No one figured there’d be anything too massive announced this time around, that is, until Apple announced the new Power Mac G5s and the AirPort Express, which got us thinking: if they decided to announce something as major as the AirPort Express on a regular day, could it be that they’re secretly planning something absolutely massive for the Steve Jobs’ keynote at the Worldwide Developers Conference?

Cracking the AirPort Express - Engadget - www.engadget.com 11: Jon Johansen, aka DVD Jon, aka the wiseass who took on the MPAA and cracked the copy protections on the DVD, is back (not that he ever went away, except for the once having been on trial part) with his latest hack. This time he broke the encryption Apple uses to stream audio from iTunes to the AirPort Express, meaning that, at least in theory, you could set it up so that any application could stream to the AirPort Express. You think Apple will freak out over something that makes the AirPort Express only that much more valuable and useful to people? Yeah, probably.

Roku’s SoundBridge vs. Apple’s AirPort Express - Engadget - www ...: Om Malik kicked it with Roku Labs founder and CEO Anthony Wood to see if he was worried about Apple’s new AirPort Express and whether it posed a direct threat to their line of SoundBridge wireless audio adapters. You know he’s not gonna say anything other than that he thinks they’ll do just fine, but he does make the point that the SoundBridge has a few advantages over the AirPort Express, like a display and the ability to use it with a remote control. Unfortunately for him, Roku is also charging more money for the SoundBridge (which comes in $200 and $500 flavors) and doesn’t have anything close to Apple’s marketing muscle, so the best he can really hope for is that Apple “educates” the market to the wonders of wireless streaming.

AirPort Express review - Engadget - www.engadget.com: I'm having a horrible time trying to get the "wireless client" feature working. My purpose is to use my Vonage phone on a nearby wireless network (which I can access easily with my PowerBook & airport card) but it won't work. I can't even get my laptop to connect using the airport express as a wireless client, so the problem doesn't seem to be with using a non-Apple device. Has anyone gotten this working?

Slipstream lets you stream audio from any application to the ...: Rogue Amoeba Software is coming out with a new application called Slipstream that’ll let you kick AirTunes to the curb and stream audio from most any application, rather than just iTunes, to your AirPort Express. There was some noise a few months back that superhacker DVD Jon had supposedly broken the encryption Apple uses to send audio to the AirPort Express, but we’re guessing that Rogue Amoeba must have figured out some other way to stream audio to the AirPort Express that doesn’t involve any code cracking. At least not if they want to stay in business—though Apple shouldn’t fret, this’ll only help them move more of the AirPort Express.

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