This is a rolling news page which shows all stories run over the last 7 days...one year ago. It's a great way to find reviews, software releases, or the elusive hack that you might otherwise have missed. Keep an eye on this page to catch all the "should not be forgot" items as they rotate through.

Mobile iPhone-Friendly Quicken Coming In January
posted Wednesday, December 26, 2007 - 06:54 PM EST

Beginning January 8th, Intuit will be offering an iPhone-friendly web-based version of Quicken for $3 per month. It hopes the product, which launches on January 8, will vastly expand Quicken's 14 million users and boost the market penetration of a brand that already generates about 1.7 million new copies of software a year, Intuit senior vice president Rick Jensen told Reuters in an interview on Tuesday. Intuit has designed the product to appeal to younger consumers, people who may have used online banking for most of their adult lives, but do not use software to track those transactions. While the iPhone is the initial mobile device to be targeted by this mobile version, it appears that Intuit will eventually roll it out to other mobile platforms. (2666 reads) ( read more / comments? |   | )

DVD to iPhone Converter For Mac Released
posted Wednesday, December 26, 2007 - 06:46 PM EST

Aimersoft Studio has released an update to their DVD to iPhone Converter for Mac which, according to the company, is the first Mac DVD ripping software that fully supports Apple's latest operating system. Aimersoft DVD to iPod Converter for Mac can rip DVD to various video formats (including MP4, AVI, M4V, MOV, 3GP, MPG, FLV) and audio formats (MP3, M4A, AAC, WAV, OGG, APE, etc.) so you can easily put DVD movie on iPod/iPhone/Apple TV and other devices you like on Mac OS X. Aimersoft DVD to iPod Converter for Mac also provides a series of powerful functions. With this to DVD to iPod Converter for Mac, you can copy all of your DVD movies to computer by 1:1 perfect Video & Audio quality. You can also select the chapter/subtitle and audio track you want, trim any subtitle, cut off the black edge of the movie and join multiple DVD chapters into one file. Key features: Fully supports Power PC and Intel Processors. Support all sorts of mobile players including iPod touch/Nano/Classic/Video, iPhone, Apple TV. Convert DVD movie to MP4, MPEG, AVI, M4V, MOV, 3GP, MPG, FLV, etc for iPod on Mac OS X Easily extract audio from DVD to MP3, M4A, AAC, WAV, OGG and APE. Powerful video editing functions. You can trim excrescent or special parts of movies, cut off the black edges, adjust brightness, contrast, audio, etc. Allows you to select target chapter and audio track. The app retails for $39 with a free trial version available for download. (5122 reads) ( read more / comments? |   | )

iPod Is The Lone Media Player Not In a Slump
posted Wednesday, December 26, 2007 - 06:38 PM EST

As Electronista reports, handheld media players have seen a slump in sales over the holiday season unlike virtually every other type of consumer electronics device on the market. The one exception? Apple's iPod. Tracking sales between November 18th and December 9th -- typically regarded the first half of the holiday shopping period -- the research firm noted that the portable media market declined on average by 16 percent compared to the same period a year earlier. The lone exception is the iPod line, NPD says. Though growth is not as strong as for past years, the Apple device is believed to be countering the downward trend. The NDP Group, who published the report, attribute the decline to market saturation: most people out there who want players already have them. (1399 reads) ( read more / comments? |   | )

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!
posted Tuesday, December 25, 2007 - 05:18 PM EST

All of us here at iPod Hacks want to wish you and yours a merry Christmas and happy holidays! We certainly hope that every one of our readers found an iPod (be it a first, second, or third unit!) or related goodies under the Christmas tree or next to the Festivus pole, whichever the case may be. And to all new iPodders out there, welcome! (1375 reads) ( read more / comments? |   | )

iPod Access Photo 1.3 Released
posted Tuesday, December 25, 2007 - 07:26 AM EST

From Findley Design, the folks who brought you iPod Access, comes iPod Access Photo v1.3 for Mac OS X and Windows. Need to get photos off your iPod and back onto your Mac? If so you have probably realized that the iPod stores photos in ithmb files. These files contain all the photo data for your iPod to display but can not be read by regular photo programs. iPod Access Photo solves this problem by allowing you to select individual photos and albums to be moved back onto your computer or an external hard drive. iPod Access Photo is the perfect companion to iPod Access. With both programs installed on your computer you have complete control over all the media on your iPod that is important to you. New in this release: Support for iPhone and iPod touch Updated support for iPod Classic and Nano 3G Override photo names option (4999 reads) ( read more / comments? |   | )

Apple To Sell 5 Million iPhones By January
posted Sunday, December 23, 2007 - 08:13 AM EST

As 9to5mac reports, Apple will have sold approximately 5 million iPhone by the upcoming Macworld Expo San Francisco in January 2008, taking them to the half-way point of their stated goal to sell 10 million units by the end of 2008. Sources indicate that around 1 million of these sales are European and that the iPhone has actually surpassed the Windows mobile marketshare, grabbing 27% of the smartphone market for this past quarter. (1470 reads) ( read more / comments? |   | )