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At the Apple store yesterday, I was there to get my iPhone Earbuds replaced, and, also to submit my brother in laws iPod nano for diagnosis. While waiting on their bench, I spoke to the girl beside me, after telling me that her current iPod nano with video is ‘not syncing’, after going to the bar she came over and showed me the brand new replacement model they’d given her. Just like that. My turn came, and though my brother in laws iPod Nano is thirteen days out of warranty, they diagnosed it as dead,  and still offered to replace it!Over and over again I’m impressed with the high level of customer service Apple provides.  

Using the new Podcast Producer feature in Mac OS X Leopard is one of the most impressive publishing platforms I’ve seen in a long time.Using Podcast Producer, an organization can record brief or long podcasts in Audio, Video, Screencast form and have the Leopard server take care of all rendering, storage, processing and publication. Thats not all, Podcast Producer will automagically fill in neccessary fields, add overlay effects as well as prepend and appending movies (Think “A Brad Bird Production”, of a “Pixar Podcast” with motion graphics and swooosh sound effects etc) to your podcasts, this cuts podcast production time not in half but into a tenth, absolutely essential for any organization with PR in their minds, and who doesn’t?Check it out here: Learn moreAnd Order it here: Apple OS X Server Leopard at Amazon

Just got an email from a great client of mine, Peter, makes impressive video documentaries and Film at his company, 313 Video, here in san Francisco.  Peter was using up disk space like gangbusters with all his video captures, especially now with HD video, so I recommended the 750GB Seagate FreeAgent that I’ve been evangelising since it first came on the market, It’s sleek black aluminum and completely fanless, with three interfaces, USB2, eSATA and the king of connections, FireWire.  Peters comments after receiving his drive are below as well as my reply, if you’re in need of some extra space or a drive to use with Time Machine, head over to Amazon and grab one of these Seagates, they have Five Year Warranties and Amazon gives thirty day moneyback refunds too, so the risk is minimal!

Brendan

finally got my seagate 750. Been copying like mad. Excellent drive very cool design. Thanks for the recommendation. I may order another. These video files take up lots of space.

After I formatted the drive(mac OS journaled) it showed 698 GB available. Is that what you get after formatting?

I’m super happy you like the drive. It’s true you lose about a tenth of the drive in formatting, it’s really noticeable on the newer Macs that ship with 1TB drives, you only have 900GB to play with after formatting. We never used to notice when our drives were 250GB, but we were losing about 20gb on those drives.