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ABC’s hit show Dancing with the Stars returns for a new season on March 9th. And it’s been confirmed that joining singers Jewel and Belinda Carlisle, gymnast Shawn Johnson and rapper Lil’ Kim will be none other than Steve Wozniak, AKA “The Woz” and co-founder of Apple Computers.

I might have to check this out. Steve Wozniak has always seemed to be a pretty cool guy. He’s currently active with a Segway Polo team (though that might not help his footwork much on the dance floor).

Too bad Circus of the Stars is no longer on television: we could have probably seen Steve Ballmer throwing chairs on the high wire....

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This has gotta be one of the most innovative and clever uses for the iPod touch that I’ve ever seen…

The BulletFlight application software, available through the iTunes store, turns the iPod touch into a full-blown ballistics computer that helps hunters in the field plot their firing solution. Users can tap in the ammunition type, wind speed and conditions, and distance to target. Profiles for three weapons come loaded with BulletFlight, although more can also be added.

Maybe Apple should look into this concept further. I mean, wouldn’t it be nifty if we could own an iGun? 😛...

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A few weeks ago Apple hired Mark Papermaster to be its new head of development over the iPod and iPhone lines. All well and good… except that Papermaster was also previously the vice-president of the microprocessor and chip technology at IBM, and there was a “no-compete” clause in his contract with his former employer. Papermaster has countered that he’s going to be involved in entertainment devices: something that IBM has never pursued and thus, the clause is invalid in his case. It’s now wound up in the courts, where IBM is suing to keep Papermaster from working at Apple.

Now we know why IBM is really interested in locking Papermaster out of the Jobs Mob…

IBM has been developing something called “racetrack” memory and it’s afraid that the technology it developed will wind up in the iPod and iPhone. And it’s easy to see why Apple could conceivably be interested ...

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Gizmodo has the full rundown of what went on at Apple’s “Let’s Rock” keynote address by Steve Jobs in San Francisco today. In what has become an annual event – and perhaps the most-watched PowerPoint presentation in history – Jobs unveiled the coming year’s new iPod models and whatever features that die-hard Appleholics should be lusting after.

So what new ubercoolness has the Jobs Mob for us this time? Frankly: not much. Jobs officially unveiled the new iPod nano, but if you’ve been paying attention to the rumors over the past few weeks this wasn’t unexpected at all. The new iPod nano goes back to the “tall” design that existed before the “fat” one last year, and displaying a widescreen movie means watching it with the iPod nano sideways. It also features an accelerometer, which among other things lets you violently shake the iPod nano and it automatically goes into ...

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Mac Rumors has found a story about a very cool technical innovation that Apple is researching. It involves wireless streaming of the iTunes on your home computer to your iPhone or iPod Touch, wherever you happen to be! So, say you’re driving through Colorado and your home is in Atlanta, and you want to dial up a song (maybe even a video) on your Apple appliance that you don’t happen to have on the device itself. So long as you’re in a Wi-Fi or cellular hotspot, you’ll be able to tell the iPhone or iPod Touch to “phone home” and stream the song or other file to wherever you are.

Now, that is some seriously sweet innovation. I’m beginning to see why Apple devotees are so loyal to the House of Jobs 🙂

In related news, there’s been considerable buzz about a possible “iPhone nano” coming out later this year, ...

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Endgadget has a thorough and oftentimes witty review of the latest appliance that we are told everyone wants but it’s not clear if everyone really needs.

(I won’t be getting one, ‘cuz AT&T wireless service where we live is, well, crap.)

I do have one question though. The iPhone has been out for a year now, and this latest iteration adds 3G services and a GPS chip and now Apple has opened up the App Store that lets users add whatever nifty programs they want to deck their iPhones out with.

Okay well… does anybody actually talk to other people with their iPhone?

Like I said, it’s been out for a year. I’ve seen plenty of ’em since their rollout last summer. When I was going through the airports on the way to Texas last year, there was no telling how many people were walking around with ...

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Ever since this past holiday season I’ve been the proud owner of an 80 gigabyte iPod classic. It’s gone with me just about everywhere: why just tell people about things like Forcery and my famous school board campaign commercial when I can show it to them, too! In addition to those and thousands of songs I’ve also put a ton of movies (the entire Star Wars saga, The Lord of the Rings trilogy, Batman Begins, Sweeney Todd, Transformers, UHF just to name a few), not to mention every episode of Lost, along with several clips from Sesame Street and individual Garfield and Friends cartoons. And hundreds of photos, too.

So yeah, my iPod classic has become an indispensable part of my mobile persona. And I haven’t had to face the problem yet, but the eventual lessening of my iPod’s battery charge has been on my ...

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A few days before Christmas, Lisa and I were at Crabtree Valley Mall in Raleigh and we wound up going into the Apple Store there. That was the first time that I ever beheld the video capability of the iPod. The first thing that I thought about was that this would be a neat way to carry around my video work to show to people. It was enough to make me forget about my initial reluctance to get an iPod (which has mostly been based on how they don’t have user-replaceable batteries).

So last week, on our way back from Georgia, we stopped at a Best Buy and I used a gift card that was a Christmas present from Mom, and got me an 80 gigabyte iPod classic. And I have to admit: this is a very addictive little gadget to have! I’m finally starting to understand why so many ...

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