The phenomenal iTunes store is about to have its debut in Australia in approximately 10 minutes. Apple currently offers American users to electronically acquire music files for $0.99(US). It looks like Australians will be paying $1.80(AUD) according to The Age. Personally I’m a fond candidate of this service, but $1.80 is a little pricey.

I counted the number of tracks in 10 records that I own. The average track count per album was ((19+22+16+14+13+14+15+19+14+18)/10) 16.4 across 7 different genres. That means a 16 track album would cost roughly $28.80(AUD). A 20gb iPod claims to hold 5,000 songs (encoded at 128kps ACC), so technically it would cost an aussie $9,000(AUD) to fill their iPod. . That sucks, online should be way cheaper!

This Thursday also marks the second anniversary of the iTunes music store, which launched on April 28th 2003. Hopefully the Australian iTunes store will create happy customers.

Have you always been an exciting fan of Apple? Do you wish your IBM-Compatible PC were more akin to it’s macintosh counterpart. Well personally I love Apple, I just can’t afford one! This whole affair started when they released OS X based on a BSD core (FreeBSD in particular).

Anyway back to the point, I downloaded a Panther image (.dmg) off Suprnova and PearPC from the SourceForge download mirrors. PearPC allows one to emulate a MacOS system running on an IBM compatible architecture.

After following some heavy guides from PearPC itself and a couple of Google-found resources I was able to boot into a fully working Panther (OS X 10.3) system. I won’t write my own guide; there are plenty out there for that matter anyhow.

Screenshots
Please see the links below.

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