Good news! The iPod still reigns as the most popular MP3/digital audio player out there. It romps home with a 75.6% market share. Some interesting stats for the minnows there, like Sony being walloped by SanDisk and Creative.

A good article on how to use CSS to optimise the loading times of your site. Hopefully it's some use for you web developers out there.

Someone asked Adam at Mac Geekery how to get the sleep light on their laptop to stop "breathing". The answer is what you'd expect, trust me.

This podcast has been around a while now, but for some reason I've never noticed it, so I thought I'd mention it here. MacVoices is a podcast that interviews Mac users and finds out what makes them tick and what makes them use Macs. Some notable podcasts include Paul Kafasis of Rogue Amoeba, Elgato's Adam Steinberg and Owen Linzmayer - the author of Apple Confidential. There's 668 episodes, so check them out!

Avid has announced more Mac support. Does anyone care? Everyone is using Final Cut Studio on their Mac by now aren't they?

HD-DVD Porn! We new it was coming eventually and the Japanese got in first. They called the first movie "Slave Room". The link is safe for work, but I still don't know if viewing a web-page to an article about HD-DVD porn is something you want your co-workers knowing about.

David Pogue has been busy, writing two great articles. One about how your IT department doesn't hate Macs. Pogue goes on to quote readers feedback about how they would love less time on desktop support and down-time to actually implement new services and the like, but that won't happen due to a few reasons out of the IT departments control. Pogue's other article that caught my eye is about the Microsoft vs. Apple "war" and how it's embarrassing for Apple to act so childish.

While we're on opinion pieces, Hadley Stern over at Apple Matters thinks .Mac needs urgent retooling. Here, here! Sure, .Mac is handy, but so much more can be done to it. Check out the article for his insightful recommendations.

Apple has filed three interesting patents: One for managing internet transactions, another for managing as well as searching metadata, and a third for a display actuator. Secret technologies in Leopard. Could they not show it because it wasn't patented yet?

On the application front, I've discovered Sidenote. It just sits unobtrusively on the side of your desktop, ready for your cursor to hover over it and take notes. Very simple, very elegant and very useful app.

It's David Pogue... P - O - G - U - E

Love the news, keep them coming!
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I'm a big fan of this too, decryption. Good work and keep it up!

Yes the iPod reigns supreme, but at what cost:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/5263514.stm

Have to respectfully disagree with you, d - for editing, at the very least, Avid is far superior to FCS. Great to see them finally moving to Universal binaries, means I can stop using Xpress Pro under Boot Camp.

Is this just a thing with you, or are there many people that think the same way?
I thought the industry thinks FCP is it. Maybe I am just too far removed from the pro's and have drunk too much of Steve's Kool-Aid

I wouldn't presume to speak for the 'industry', but personally I prefer Avid. I'd guess a lot of people might be using FCP in certain scenarios, but I'd be surprised if many people thought that FCP was 'it'.

I know others here may differ in their experience, but that's mine. FCP's not bad, in fact I still use it a fair bit for rushes and rough assemblies, but I always use Avid for the proper stuff that's going to progress down a post-production pathway.

Do the current MBP's and MB's "breath"? Just out of interest, because it freaks out my better half in the middle of the night.

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Yeah, the laptops still do the glowing light thing.