It has emerged that certain models of Motorola mobile phones are already syncing with iTunes âo[base "] enabling those phones to be loaded with iTunes tracks. When Apple posted the iTunes 4.9 update earlier this week the company focused on its Podcasting facilities, however, the update also included an instruction set entitled: iPod Phone Prefs.

Now it appears that certain Motorola phones are recognised by iTunes. An AppleInsider source revealed that when he connected his Motorola phone to his PowerBook iTunes 4.9 automatically launched and prompted him to transfer tracks to the phone.

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Several artists from Pixar are joining forces to create comic book titles as E-Ville Press (short for Emeryville, where Pixar headquarters are located). Their work debuts at Comic Con in San Diego, July 13-17. Several titles will have corresponding blogs. Most of the artwork was digitally generated.

Titles include:

"Colossus" by Mark Andrews - A knight's soul is trapped in a war machine's metal body, and faces a kingdom's evil paladin.

"Rose and Isabel" by Ted Mathot - A story of two sisters who join the American Civil War to save their three brothers.

"Afterworks" - an anthology of short stories by Simon Dunsdon, Robert Kondo, Nate Stanton, Max Brace, Kevin O'Brien, Sanjay Patel, Louis Gonzales and Jay Shuster. Story previews here.

Several other Pixar artists will be attending Comic Con, with their own booths. They include Ronnie Del Carmen with "Paper Biscuit 2.5 - Froggy's Lament"; Enrico Casarosa with "SketchCrawling"; and Jamie Baker with "Rocket Rabbit"

(Thanks, The Moth!) [Boing Boing]
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