Quote: Originally posted by crooner: I was all set to place an order for a new 6GB mini. Now I have to rethink things. Oh well, only 3,999,999 iPods sold this qua…

Quote: Originally posted by Eriamjh: Wait a minute. I have a 3G iPod and I bought the USB2/FW combo cable from apple because I wanted to see if I could use the iPod's H…

Comp Geeks has all sorts of generic-brand iPod cables for cheap: http://www.geeks.com/products.asp?ca...PodAccessories Those retractable ones look cool.

I don't have any numbers right here, but I recall that Firewire is 400Mb/s stream, and USB2 is 480 Mb/s burst, giving Firewire the edge for file transferring. I also recall that ev…

Mistake or not, you CANNOT buy a firewire power adapter in the german & dutch applestore anymore!

Quote: Originally posted by TailsToo: Simple! As I said in the last post, most iPod buyers are PC users who probably do not have FireWire. It's less expensive for Appl…

Quote: Originally posted by Mithras: Well yes, but this means that Apple is just another PC peripheral company screwing Mac users. It's rather ironic. Apple is not …

Anyone use DC++? Supposedly Shakespeer will be the OSX port of DC++. Anyone pooping their pants from excitement? http://shakespeer.sourceforge.net/

I'd say no. But do you know what would be cool? If that web page actually told us what the heck DCC++ is.

What it is? http://dcplusplus.sourceforge.net/

Very good news.

I've been using it for a while. Not bad.

Quote: Originally posted by memento: I've been using it for a while. Not bad. Quote: No pre-built binary is available at this moment as it is too early …

wow. It's been so long I don't remember where I got it, but obviously not from the officila page! I have compiled dcgui (now valknut) but I did not compile this. I guess you could …

I tried the DC++ version that was out there but it wouldn't go anywhere. http://macdcpp.sourceforge.net/

I'm excited!

I know I started this thread but how exactly does dcpp work? Napster style?

Bump. There's a GUI pre-release out now. http://shakespeer.sourceforge.net/

Hey tooki, shouldn't this be in Software?

pics plz k thx by cheers W-Y

Too bad out campus DC++ network gets shut down so much. Whatever, I am living off campus next year anyway.

sweet. It's a relief to see good progress.

Yay, Apple hit the nail on the head with this firmware update. Having "Shuffle Songs" on my main menu makes me very happy and was a feature from the 4th gen iPods that I really wa…

Did they change "Browse" to "Music"?

"Browse" is indeed now "Music" for me (40gig 3G iPod - the 2.2 -> 2.3 update). But I don't see shuffle songs in the main menu. Anyone else? Stupidity edit: Aha, you have to …