Resetting iPod if it appears frozen or doesn’t respond
In the words of Strong Bad, “You dodged a bullet there man.” I’ve heard of several people sending their iPods back because they simply stopped working. That happened to me today. I was listening to a podcast and paused it to run an errand. When I came back, my iPod wouldn’t turn on. Thankfully it had just frozen. If this has happened to you, try the link above before making that call to Apple.
Techtree.com India > News > Hardware > IBM Develops Xbox 360 CPU
According to this report, IBM designed the CPU for the XBox 360. I’m thinking if IBM could come up with a tri-core PPC variant able to be clocked over 3ghz in 2 years, surely they could apply that experience to the G5. Obviously some of that experience has already been applied to producing multiple-core G5s. I’m thinking Apple may have jumped ship too soon.
Microsoft to Pay RealNetworks $761M in Settlement (Update4)
Microsoft finally settled their last big antitrust case with RealNetworks. Whether or not this is a good thing is yet to be seen.