Podcast, WMP-only housing

In brief: MacNN has released the latest podcast, detailing a PowerBook dropped in four Brenthaven bags, and is holding a contest where users can submit a favorite broken laptop / bad laptop bag story for a chance to win a Brenthaven bag of choice.... A government site for Montgomery County, Maryland, is providing information about affordable housing, but requires Windows Media Player (WMP) 9 to play the file, leaving Mac users out in the cold.... Users on a Danish forum are reporting that an apparent defect is plaguing iBook owners, where letters on some notebooks are beginning to disappear after one month.... Quark has released its second public beta of QuarkXPress 7, a Universal Binary version that runs natively on Intel and PowerPC-based Macs.... Loyds TSB in a promotional effort is offering new students a free iPod shuffle when they open an account with the bank, hoping to lure new customers with Apple's low-end portable music player.

by MacNN Staff