src="http://www.tuaw.com/media/2006/04/apple-aperture-software.jpg" alt="" />Think Secret’s revelation Thursday
that a number of engineers on Apple’s Aperture team have left or been transferred to other projects href="http://www.tuaw.com/2006/04/28/is-apertures-future-in-question/">raised questions about the future of the
app.

Aperture lovers, take heart. Ex-PeopleSoft developer Blake
Seely happily posted today that he is joining the Aperture team as of Monday, stating that he hoped this news would
dispel the recent rumors about Aperture. Apparently the Aperture project is getting an injection of new blood. Best of
luck to Blake and to the team.

src="http://www.tuaw.com/media/2006/04/muffskull.jpg" alt="" />I don’t usually post about iPod holders (unless they are
DIY, interactive, or just plain silly), but the new designer series
from Muff caught my eye. Muff showed up on TUAW
back in October, but lacked this designer series. Despite their lack of a window or access to controls, I find them
stylish and graphically pleasing. I have a weakness for skulls like the design shown here by Aussie designer Drunk Park,
aka Seb Godfrey.

[via href="http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/ipod/review/muff-designer-series-for-ipod/">iLounge]

Event
Maker allows you to create iCal events and todos from Mail.app messages, or simply from scratch. It looks like it has a
more navigable UI, especially for keyboard junkies like myself, and a side drawer allows for adding alarms.
/>Event Maker is available right now from Mac
Update, where the author has posted a request for server space to enable an automatic update feature. Also, the
app’s author, Mike Abdullah, has requested help with drawing some toolbar icons, so head over to href="http://www.hawkwings.net/2006/04/29/event-maker-updated-alarms-improved-interface/">Hawk Wings for the
details and contact info if you can lend an illustrative hand.

/>Steve Jobs told shareholders this week that, in light of Disney’s acquisition of Pixar, he would actually be spending
more time at Apple, in part because he’ll be relinquishing his CEO position at Pixar in a couple of weeks once the
merger finishes. Many have been speculating that Mr. Jobs would be spending more time at Disney, but he publicly
responded “that couldn’t be further from the truth… It’ll require less of my time than Pixar did.”
/>This should be good news for anyone concerned about Mr. Jobs’ continued involvement with Apple.

[via href="http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,70766-0.html">Wired]

Reader
JP Dane-Castro wrote in to remind us that it was exactly one year ago today that Apple starting shipping the world’s
most advanced operating system, Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger.

Take stroll down memory lane by reading Apple’s href="http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2005/apr/12tiger.html">press release. Now, when is Leopard shipping?

src="http://www.tuaw.com/media/2006/04/3candles.jpg" />Join us in celebrating the third birthday of the iTunes Music
Store. That’s right — iTMS was launched three years ago today, April 28, 2003. iTMS may still be a toddler, but its
growth has been phenomenal. It’s gone in record time from a glint in Steve’s eye to the top of the heap among online
music stores.

Happy Birthday iTMS from TUAW! May there be many more.

[via href="http://ilounge.com/index.php/news/comments/itunes-music-store-turns-three/">iLounge]

src="http://photoshop.weblogsinc.com/media/2006/04/justice.jpg" />One of the few things I remember from law school is a
quote from a Charles Dickens story: “The law is an ass.” Well here’s a case in which someone in the legal
system is thinking with his head, rather than the other end.

Remember the href="http://www.tuaw.com/2005/10/21/ipod-owners-actually-sue-apple/">brouhaha about how easily iPod nanos scratch?
There are still a bunch of lawsuits pending against Apple in which disgruntled iPod nano owners complained that the
scratchability (is that a word?) of their nanos constitutes a product defect. Those suits were brought in different
courts from California to New Jersey to New York to Louisiana. Fortunately for Apple, six of the cases have have been
consolidated and
transferred to the Northern District of California court in San Jose, California so they can be heard all at once
and close to home.