mStation has announced an iPhone battery pack add-on device called the mophie juice pack that will be sold pre-charged and ready for use. The mophie uses rechargeable lithium polymer battery providing up to 250 additional hours of standby time, eight house of talk time, six hours of internet use, seven hours of video playback, and 24 extra hours of audio playback time.

The morphie features an ergonomic comfort-grip case with a soft non-slip finish, four integrated LED charge status indicators accompany a 30-pin dock connector for simple recharging via most iPhone accessories including the cable that ships with the device.

The mophie juice pack is due to ship in mid-December for $100, while an iPod-touch version will surface in January of next year.

Holiday time is here and there are deals a plenty in the Mac software realm. If you are looking for some deals for some software for your Mac try some of these sites: MacZOT, MacSanta, Macheist (coming soon), Give Good Food to your Mac, and MacUpdatePromo. Some of these sites feature popular Mac software at 10 to 20 percent off or more.

Panic has released Coda 1.1 which adds quite a few enhancements as well as being better compatible with Leopard. Coda is one of my favorite web development tools. Gone is the in-house developed, toolbar updated to the default Leopard GUI, meaning it’s now customizable!

Coda is $79 for a limited time, $69 for owners of Transmit 3. Coda includes a Text editor + Transmit + CSS editor + Terminal + Books + More.

As expected NBC has removed their content from iTunes including shows from Bravo, mun2, NBC, NBC News, CNBC, NBC Sports, Sci Fi, Sleuth, Telemundo or USA Network. Not a peacock feather in sight. This is due to NBC’s contract expiring with iTunes. NBC greedily wanted to raise prices, Apple said no and that was that.

Do not fret, if you want to continue to watch NBC shows there is always the TV, since most all of these come into your home for free via broadcast. That is what makes NBC argument with Apple so ridiculous. They apparently were not happy with the millions that made selling the already aired content on iTunes, even though the promotional value actually helped viewership. Story has it iTunes may have saved The Office from being cancelled. I will outline other solutions for your iPod.

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Apple has quietly released a bunch of iPod updates. The 3G iPod nano and the iPod classic go to version 1.03 and the iPod video 5G and 5.5G go to version 1.2.3. Apple very descriptively tells us that the new software contains “bug fixes.” No updates for the 2G iPod shuffle or the 2G iPod nano. iPhone and iPod touch version 1.1.2 arrived last month. So what’s in the latest updates?

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Google launches “My Location” service for many mobile phones. iPhone and Treo users will have to wait. This free service, now in more than twenty countries and lets you in on real-time traffic conditions, detailed directions, integrated searches, satellite images and interactive maps. Even for mobile devices without a GPS chip (although not as accurate). My Location will work on most web-enabled phones, including Java, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, and the latest Nokia/Symbian.

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Proceed at your own risk! This will violate your warranty and there’s a risk of damaging the iPhone. Worth watching if you are interested in what your iPhone looks like inside.

The free open source, swiss army knife VLC media player from VideoLAN has ben updated to version 0.8.6d with improved support for OS 10.5 Leopard. Some of the enhancements are:

• Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
• Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
• Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
• Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of two different movies
• Support for current Ogg file formats
• Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X

Visit the full changelog. VLC media player requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher. Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.