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announcements, gift card problem

questions and comments about yesterday's announcement

Palm Desktop; disc burning

Time Machine, Drobo and eSATA drives

system freezes, etc.

file transfer

iAd experience; iPod Touch 4; apps and jailbreaking

buzzing noise; 64-bit-compatible USB modem

HTML 5 video issue

Mobile Safari, parental restrictions and "back doors"

Parallels' virtualization software gets fixes for compatibility with new Mac Pros based on Intel Xeon Westmere processors.

Recent changes in HairerSoft's audio editor and processor include faster launching, an improved waveform display, better handling of MP3 settings, and better handling of the disconnection/reconnection of sound devices.

Cultured Code's task management application adds much improved sync speed (up to 10x faster, according to the developer), custom font sizes, arbitrary reordering of Projects from different Areas in the sidebar, and other improvements.

Smile's PDF utility adds a choice of notebook when saving to Evernote, support for submitting forms by HTTP or email, and some bug fixes.

Apple announces all-new iPods, including an iPod Touch with front and back cameras (lower in resolution than the iPhone 4 camera) and the "retina" display; plus new iOS versions with bug fixes and a "Ping" social network for "music discovery"; and a tiny new Apple TV that acts as a streaming client for Apple's new movie and TV rentals, as well as streaming content from your computer and from iDevices.

SeedCode's Zulu is a plug-in for FileMaker Server that makes it possible for iCal to see FileMaker data as iCal calendars.

Fake is a web browser designed for automation of repetitive tasks, "like a combination of Safari and Automator that allows you to run (and re-run) 'fake' interactions with the web," according to the developer.

Adobe's photo manager adds raw support for more cameras, publishing to Facebook and SmugMug, new lens profiles, and bug fixes.

Apple issues Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6 fixes for a number of security holes.