iTunes 9 download just spotted in iTunes 8 right before the big Apple iPod keynote.  Here are some screenshots.

I was searching Ebay for some items and I ran across this auction for a new in box 8GB iPod Nano (chromatic). The price is currently at a whopping $14,100.00 dollars. This is just insane, the auction has to be rigged. I don’t see any other explanation. Check out the screen shot below.

Auction Link

Let me be quite frank here. The Marker Felt font is an eyesore, just like its cousin Comic Sans. Apple has chosen to use Marker Felt for the Notes application, both in OS X and on the iPhone / Touch. While I understand the initial intent of using the font for the Notes application, they would like to make it appear more hand written like an actual note. Whilst this is a nice gesture, I often times find it rather annoying. I would like to be able to change the fonts to fit my liking. I am sure there are other people out there that feel the same way. I don’t feel like jailbreaking my device either. So what’s a guy to do?

Simple, turn on the international keyboard. I found this little feature that could possibly be a little bug in the Notes application. What does this all mean? Let me walk you through it.

This is what Marker Felt looks like in the Notes application.

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Today (Sep 29th 2005) I took an old, busted 15 gig ipod hard drive and thought, “what am i going to do with this useless hunk of junk?” I didn’t want to throw it away because I am a pack rat, I keep all kinds of things, even if they’re broken. I got to thinking, “I could make this bad boy a belt buckle”, so that is what I did.