News 12.23.02-12.26.02

Pyrim Technologies has released a simple attachment for iPod which attaches to the back and stores your earphones when not in use. The Ear Buddy features wrap-around cable management and a pouch to store the earphones. You can take advantage of the “Early-bird Special” and get the Ear Buddy for $5.99.

“In response to demand for an easier way to carry, store and use earbuds, Pyrim Technologies has designed the Ear Buddy. The Ear Buddy can be
attached to the back of the iPod, attached to an iPod case or carried
stand-alone. “

“Pod Manager is a MacOS X application to extract music files stored on iPods. It is intuitive, easy to use and features a state of the art Aqua user interface. Being entirely MacOS X native, Pod Manager is also very fast and responsive.”

What’s new in v1.3:
• Better sorting for album and artist columns
• New help file accessible from the Help menu
• Improved ID3 tags detection
• Help is provided for special cases (iPod isn’t connected or recognized).

“The premiere iPod song copying utility for Mac OS X.
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What’s new in v1.1:
• PodWorks 1.1 combines bug fixes with a number of improvements prompted by user requests:
• Added proper Unicode support to enable the correct display of non-Latin characters (such as the Japanese character set).
• Added preferences to provide greater user control over file renaming.
• Reorganized menus to be more intuitive.
• Added convenience menu items to enable copies of all items or selected items without using drag-and-drop.

“The update is free to registered users, and can be downloaded from the PodWorks website.

Additionally, I am happy to announce that, by popular demand, the price of PodWorks has been lowered to $5.99.”