New and Noteworthy: MacFixIt Editor on Tech Night Owl; Beatles music one step closer to iTunes; more

MacFixIt Editor on Tech Night Owl MacFixIt Chief Editor Ben Wilson will be appearing on Gene Steinberg's The Tech Night Owl Live, along with Macworld Editorial Director Jason Snell and Adam Engst of TidBITS. You can tune into the broadcast Thursday night from 6:00 to 8:00 PM Pacific, 9:00 to 11:00 PM Eastern. More.

Beatles music one step closer to iTunes PC Advisor reports that The Beatles' record label Apple Corps has now settled its royalties dispute with music giant EMI "removing the last barrier to the Fab Four's legendary music catalogue becoming available for legal digital download via services such as iTunes. Macca, Ringo and the widows of John Lennon and George Harrison had claimed that EMI owed them £30m in missing royalties from album sales. Apple Corps was forced to climb down on its claim that Apple Computer had broken a deal that it wouldn't enter the music business using its logo." More.

Impressive Mac collection The Associated Press reports on Jeremy Mehrle's staggering collection of Macs. 'His bar is made out of 30 Mac Classics arranged next to and on top of each other. Guests can drink at the bar, "but no one ever does,' he noted. (Just imagine how much technology could be destroyed with just one spilled drink.) The basement is wired with 20-amp circuits. He doesn't just display his computers, he runs them when guests come over. Classic screen savers, like flying toasters with wings, flutter across screens. When friends stop by, they can play old-school games like 'StarCraft' on machines networked together." More.

Creating good looking Apple TV and iPod-compatible video content TechCrunch reports on an Apple e-mail specifying instructions for creating the best looking video that is compatible with both the Apple TV and iPod, including "Encode at 640×480 or 640×360. This will look much better than 320×240 on HDTV, and will still port to the iPod. While 720p looks great, they say, it won?t work on an iPod." More.

Previously on MacFixIt:

• Margin note: A publishing dilemma
• Apple AirPort Extreme Base Station 802.11n firmware 7.1 (#2): Double NAT errors; VPN issues largely resolved
• Mac OS X 10.4.9 (#14): Display does not wake up alongside system (cont.) -- workarounds
• Mac Pro (8-core) [#2]: Some quad-core Mac Pro memory will work with 8-core system
• AirPort Extreme Base Station 802.11n (#4): Problems with HP printers (cont.), potential fixes
• Blurry/fuzzy projector output (#2): Try changing refresh rate

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