Briefly: MacNN review; FastIcon; MacSpeech

In Brief: MacNN has reviewed Talking Panda's iBar and iRocker, both using the Notes feature installed on Apple's iPod to deliver information to the user.... FastIcon's freeware icon set, "LineFree", are inspired "in the cartoon look, with strokeless drawings and simple forms that give to the desktop a fun and dynamic feeling."... Macintosh speech developer MacSpeech announced today that the UK version of its iListen program is now bundled with the TalkPro Xpress headset from VXi Corp.... iPodNN noted that Pacific Rim Marketing introduced Opticover for iPod Nano -- the thinnest case available for the Nano, according to the manufacturer.... iPodNN also noted that ESS Data Recovery has announced its new iRetrieval data recovery service for iPods, customers can send their iPods to one of ESS Data Recovery's locations where the drive's information is recovered and returned.

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