@richbeales: mac filtering is a useless feature. it's extremely trivial to find and spoof other macs.

dang. lifehacker is going full throttle posting beginners gdb cracking tutorial :)

@ghettoride81: or you make the most profit on those brands..

@duck: interesting but doesn't look like that app was ever released?

@twodumbdogs: well, if my contacts won't respect me enough to understand this, then their calls will always go to voicemail.

What we really need is an interactive application in the phone that handles calls for you. you put your phone in a silent mode, somebody calls you, that application answers the call and gives caller a prompt: "this phone is in a silent mode, press 1 to leave a message, press 2 if this is an emergency."

@Oneiros42: if you live in an "ipod-only" world, then there is no point in mp3s. theoretically aac is supposed to have a better quality at the same bitrates as mp3. take a look at [en.wikipedia.org]

@Kandralla: well MP3 can not use more than 320kbit no matter if it's CBR or VBR or ABR. However both V0 VBR or 320bkit CBR can still be shrunk.

@vm.kalbskopf: depending on the settings you select, yes, it can do both of those things.

@tobylane: MP3Packer does not do transcoding! read their site to understand what it's doing. it's not transcoding, it's not re-encoding. audio data of your files remains completely untouched.

@raShMan: MP3Packer does not do transcoding! read their site to understand what it's doing. it's not transcoding, it's not re-encoding. audio data of your files remains completely untouched.

@roher4: here you go [writenothing.com]

@ihityouinthenose: for some reason some files take much longer to resize..something about their structure or maybe mp3 encoder used..other files resize as fast as my hdd can read/write them.

@fauxtronic: you are not "re-encoding". you are rewriting mp3 "frames" to be more space efficient. you are not modifying the audio data of a file, just how that data is laid out in the file. aurally file remains 100.000000% identical.

@FuzzysFriedChicken: you are not "re-encoding". you rewriting mp3 "frames" to be more space efficient. you are not modifying the audio data of a file, just how that data is laid out in the file.

@Whitson Gordon: as long as you use the correct setting, yes, it'll keep all metadata.

@eytanbiala: mac version is here [writenothing.com]

um, didn't you notice that this post is from Aug 27 2009 for iTunes v8.2.1.6

@jchen1: not really. vmware, eucalyptus or kvm are all better for server virtualization than xen.

@zupobafono001: for desktop virtualization it's all kinda similar. for server virtualization, yes, vmware is above everybody else.