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The Free iPod + iPhone Book 4 posted

freebook 20080602 203703 The Free iPod + iPhone Book 4 postedFrom our friends at iLounge comes The Free iPod + iPhone Book 4.

Over 20 world exclusive Sneak Peeks. Complete tutorials to all things iPod, iPhone, iTunes, and Apple TV. Beautiful reader-submitted art and photos. And big announcements from iLounge’s publisher and editors. It’s The Free iPod + iPhone Book 4–the latest edition of our multi-million-downloaded Book!

The book is available for download in 3 versions geared specifically for print, laptop or iPhone.

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What got the Software Update icon jumping this week, and what does it mean?

Apple issued a handful of updates via the Software Update conduit this week. Here is a brief rundown on what we got:

Garage Band 4.1.1: improves overall stability and addresses issues with file export to iPhone. Issues with file export to iPhone? Oh, you mean we can create custom ringtones in Garage Band now? The iLounge’s Jeremy Horwitz is all over that!

quicktime 20071105 202251 What got the Software Update icon jumping this week, and what does it mean?Quicktime 7.3.1 for Leopard, Tiger and Panther: addresses security issues. It addresses some pretty nasty security issues.

Quicktime Broadcaster 1.5.2:

  • H.264 (MPEG-4 Part 10 video) live broadcasting

  • 3G streaming support for sending live broadcasts to multimedia enabled cell phones
  • Dramatically improved performance for streaming 640×480 30fps video
  • Increased standards support including 3GPP and ISMA (Internet Streaming Media Alliance)

Java for Mac OS X 10.4, Release 6: delivers improved reliability and compatibility for Java 2 Platform Standard Edition 5.0 and Java 1.4 on Mac OS X 10.4.10 and later. This release updates J2SE 5.0 to version 1.5.0_13 and Java 1.4 to version 1.4.2_16. More on this here.

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iLounge.com updates its Free iPod Book

ipodbook33 20070817 212418 iLounge.com updates its Free iPod BookThe editors of iLounge have remedied the omission of the actual Apple iPhone from the previous version of The Free iPod Book with the release of 3.3, an updated, iPhone-friendly 244-page edition in Adobe PDF format. Available immediately for download in versions viewable on any PC or Macintosh computer, The Free iPod Book 3.3 is packed with hands-on iPhone and accessory information, and can be downloaded as a special version optimized for reading on the iPhone itself.

iLounge’s popular 2007 iPod Buyers’ Guide and past editions of The Free iPod Book can also be downloaded at no charge.

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