An Apple press release today confirmed that they have moved about 2 million songs so far (about half of them as parts of albums). The rate is slightly slowed from the first week (2 million in 16 days vs. 1 million in 7), but is still a very strong showing …

A bug that affects users of Apple's Safari browser has been discovered. The bug results in sophisticated sites being able to masquerade as other sites even when SSL is being used. Although the bug is considered moderately severe, and should be fixed immediately, it is unclear that the risk …

Sound of stop watch clicking Almost two weeks. I can't believe it took that long. A little less than two weeks into the new era of Apple's iTunes, the first service to act as a clearing house for iTunes 4 servers is now up and running on SpyMac site …

An interesting article this morning on MacCentral details the rather complex set up for using an iPod as the backup for an FM radio station that has intermittent problems with its satellite feed. The basics are that they installed the 5GB iPod as an on-site backup at the transmitter so …

Apple has updated the eMac computers (the only models with CRTs) today. The new machines run from $799 (800MHz G4/128MB/40GB/CD) to $1299 (1GHz G4/256MB/80GB/DVDR) for the standard configurations with up to 1GB RAM available in build to order. The new machines are also Airport …

Those with Macs that don't have SuperDrives may be interested in the review from MacWorld of a variety of external (FireWire) DVD recorders. All drives are between $350 and $399, but there are some significant differences, especially to the Macintosh user, who will need to find appropriate DVD content creation …

Continuing a successful launch, Apple announced that their new Music Store has shipped over 1 million songs. They have also sold about 20,000 iPods at Apple Stores and taken 110,000 orders online. The press release on Apple's site provides additional info, including the following interesting stats: over half …

If you are using an Apple iPod and have taken the time to update your entire library with album covers, don't be surprised if you get a long download the next time you plug in your iPod. The pictures are stored in each individual song, and therefore each song has …

A document on Apple's site details how to set up notes on an iPod, otherwise known as "museum mode". Creators of notes can make an iPod "Notes Only", which provides the user with access only to the iPod's notes (and whatever soundtrack the author of the notes has prescribed …

Got an iPod? Lusting after a new one? MacCentral reports that PowerMax is offering a trade-in program for existing iPod users who want to upgrade.

For the programmers out there who care about such things, an article on MacOS X Hints shows how to watch an application's Apple Event stream from the console. % setenv AEDebug 1 % setenv AEDebugSend 1 % setenv AEDebugReceives 1 and then open the application from the command line.

An article in Wired captures some of what the industry is saying about Apple's new service. Here are the highlights: Inside sources claim 200,000 purchases in the first day (close to Billboard's 250,000 in 18 hours claim) If true, that would be half of the annual downloads …

An article on Billboard Magazine's site states that Apple sold 275,000 tracks in the first 18 hours of operation of its new music service. Based on the Forbes article last week, Apple is supposedly making about 35 cents per track. It's not going to make them the biggest …

NOTE: this information is out of date and is left here for historical purposes There is a nice hint1 discussion on MacOS X Hints that describes the formats and shortcuts for building URLs that link either to songs served from people's shared music or for searches/albums in Apple's …

An article in Mac Daily News cites a Fortune article in quoting an AOL/Warner executive as saying that they are courting Apple to provide the new iTunes service on the AOL service. Seems like a lot of indirection to get to the point, but it might be interesting as …

Nomad, Creative Lab's attempt to compete with the iPod has just gotten larger. One day after Apple announced their new, redesigned iPod with up to 30GB (for $499), Creative announced that their 60GB Zen will be available for $399. Exact specs on the 60GB version aren't available right now …

I couldn't resist this BusinessWeek article's title. This is part of BusinessWeek's "Byte of the Apple" column, that appears every couple of weeks. The author believes this may mark the beginning of the end for the big labels. I'm not so certain, but I do think it has the …

There is a great article (followed by some nice follow-ups) on MacRumors detailing the particulars about Apple's DRM for the Music Store feature in iTunes. The summary is that you are allowed to (as Jobs said in his speech on Monday): Play a purchased song on up to 3 …

No announcements yet, but a quote from Mr. Jobs in Time from an interview with Apple's CEO has the following exchange: TIME: What about independent labels? Will they follow suit? Jobs: Yes. They've already been calling us like crazy. We've had to put most of them off until after …

One of the new features in Apple's Safari browser is the availability of the various auto-fill capabilities. These have been done before in many browsers, but there are some very unique implementations to the version that the folks at Apple have brought us. My favorite, by far, is the …