tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52932792011-04-21T14:07:18.146-04:00Review & Evangelisation of All That is Digital For The Mac Enthousiast. Read all about it with a Free Subscription to The [Digital][Dispatch] Mag published every month email me: info.digtaldispatch@sympatico.ca visit our web site for more rich featuresDigital Dispatch Editornoreply@blogger.comBlogger21001100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293279.post-1171380966059847902007-02-13T10:34:00.000-05:002007-02-13T10:36:06.063-05:00

The Canadian Private Copying Collective—an association of composers, recording artists, publishers, and record labels—is asking the Copyright Board of Canada to re-introduce the controversial “iPod Tax” fee into the sale price of MP3 players in Canada. They are talking about and depending on the size of the mp3 palyers, anywhere between $7.00 and $75.00 CDN.

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Bill Gates to Newsweek: “Nowadays, security guys break the Mac every single day. Every single day, they come out with a total exploit, your machine can be taken over totally.”Oh, really?Prouve it I Dare you...

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Apple may launch a range of iPhone games titles in collaboration with EA, others. Speculation continues at games on the Apple TV also.

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A Fox News report nixes the notion that Apple has secured exclusive online seller status for tracks from The Beatles, and speculates on a royalty as part of the Apple v Apple settlement.

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Chaotic Software today announced the release of Media Rage 3.0, a major upgrade of the company's collection of tools for media enthusiasts using Mac OS X. Great App.

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iSkin now offers iSkin mPrints enabling businesses, charities, artists and organizations of any kind to order an iSkin product inscribed with their corporate logo, website address, tagline or other branding information. The imprinted iPod cases or Apple keyboard covers can be used as corporate gifts, promotional handouts, event marketing tools, cause reminders, and for other branding and

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SubRosaSoft is pleased to announce DasBoot--a new addition to their line of freeware utilities for Mac OS X computers. Do you have a shiny new iPod in your pocket? Or perhaps a flash drive or small portable hard drive? Now you can turn it into a Mac OS X diagnostic, repair, and maintenance tool. DasBoot allows you to take any third party boot CD (such as those shipped by SubRosaSoft.com Inc,

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DiscoApp.com today announced the release of Disco 1.0 for Mac OS 10.4. Disco is disc burning app that allows users to accomplish more complex burning tasks with minimal effort. Following an immensely successful initial beta period, the final release of Disco introduces new improvements, features, and fixes such as a redesigned disc naming system, fully rewritten Discography database engine,

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MP3tunes.com now offers free unlimited online music storage through Oboe Locker, its online repository of your music.

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Video will be included in the next version of Adobe Flash Lite software for mobile phones.

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ImpactGames has released PeaceMaker, a new game that puts you in the role of Palestinian and Israeli leaders, trying to find a peaceful and lasting resolution to their conflict.

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TUNEWEAR(tm) announces the new Red color case series of high qualitynappa leather cases "PRIE TUNEWALLET micro RED", "PRIE Ambassador foriPod nano RED". PRIE TUNEWALLET micro RED and PRIE Ambassador foriPod nano RED will be available in March 2007.[RED series]The RED series adds a new color variation on our already popularPRIE TUNEWALLET micro and PRIE Ambassador for iPod nano. As withthe

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After the success of its first two contests, Filmaka has launched its third contest ‘Mistaken Identity’. Submissions are accepted till 27th February 2007.www.filmaka.com Filmaka.com Announces the Start of Contest #3!February's topic is "Mistaken Identity," and all 1-3 minute films must be uploaded bymidnight PST, February 27, 2007. The annual grand prize is a feature film contract.Filmaka.com is

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Apple today announced that movies from Lionsgate Entertainment will be available for purchase and download from the iTunes Store starting today. iTunes can now purchase films, such as "Terminator 2," "LA Story," "Basic Instinct," "The Blair Witch Project" and "Dirty Dancing". The companies said that more than 150 titles are expected to available soon.

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ThinkSecret posts a brief blurb that the Apple TV's ship date has been pushed back to the beginning of March.

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The most interesting Mac news today is from no less than Steve Jobs himself, author of an extraordinary short essay about the state of DRM in the music industry. It’s extraordinary not just because of what he says, but also the mere fact that he’s saying it this way. He must really have wanted to get this off his chest.In the essay, Steve reveals some surprising details:However, a key provision

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Samsung has unveiled a new phone designed to take on Apple's iPhone, due to be released in June of this year.Samsung's new Ultra Smart F700, will sport a touch screen interface as well as be able to play audio and video files. The unit will support a 2.78" screen with a maximum resolution of 440 x 240 pixels and measure approximately 4" in length by 2" inches in width and about 0.66" in depth..In

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Apple Inc. has plans for expanding its retail presence into Australia with one store in Sydney, and possibly a second in Melbourne.

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Development of Mac OS X 10.5 is wrapping up faster than many at Apple even anticipated, and at present, a release can be expected as early as late March same goes for iLife and iWork '07.

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The AirPort Extreme Base Station with 802.11n is now shipping. The software enabler required to update existing Macs that have 802.11n technology built in is included with the base station, and can now also be purchased from the Apple Store for $2 (see "Two Bucks for 100 Mbps 802.11n Enabler," 2007-01-22). All Macs with Intel Core 2 Duo processors (except the 17-inch 1.83 GHz iMac) or Xeon

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Rumors are flying that Apple may have secured the first direct-download rights to the Beatles' music catalog, and that Apple Corps. will launch the music on Valentine's day via the iTunes Music Store with three months of exclusive access iTunes-only access.

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AppleInsider claims to have nailed down the specs of the recently-announced Apple TV. Along with previously known specifications, the Apple TV is said to include the following hardware assortment:- 1 GHz Pentium M, 2 MB L2 CacheFurther more we have been following a open exchange of ideas on a "board" as to weather the new Apple TV will be running Quick Time, so far the answer is NO !

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Apple will be broadcasting their Q1 2007 Financial Results on Wednesday, January 17, 2007 at 2pm PST (5pm EST). Apple's 1Q 2007 ran from October to December 2006, and there are some indications that Apple's iPod and MacBook products did extremely well....

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Where are the games...?Maybe it's because rumours wnats that the V. of OSX that will run the iPhone is under 500 MbIt clearly a case of Wait and See!

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The folks over at The Unofficial Apple Weblog have posted a quick gallery of screenshots for Microsoft's upcoming Office 2008 programs. The gallery features images of the new look, updated core art graphics and shows improvements in Excel as well.

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Blizzard Entertainment released Tuesday the long-awaited Burning Crusade expansion for World of Warcraft, the company's amazingly successful MMORPG (Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game). The expansion officially hit stores shelves Tuesday morning, with many retail stores holding midnight sales for those who couldn't wait. Add a few more days if you are in Canada...Freeverse today

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Yes it's all true Adobe will release it's new flag ship application Illustrator CS3 very soon, stay tuned for more....

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Apple's launch of iWork '07 next week is expected to be touted as one of the company's more significant product launches of the year, most notably due to the addition of a new spreadsheet application.

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Microsoft last week released Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac 11.3.3. The update improves security throughout the suite; improves compatibility with Rich Text Format (RTF) documents created with Office Word 2003 for Windows; corrects calculation of standard deviation in PivotTable reports within Excel 2004; fixes an issue in Entourage 2004 that caused events after 11-Mar-07 to be displayed.

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Bare Bones Software released updates to three of its applications. The company's flagship text editor BBEdit 8.6 improves Java and TeX handling, and adds support for the Markdown structured text format (which we use to produce TidBITS), including text coloring, folding of document structural elements, and previewing the results within BBEdit. Great Stuff!

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Yeah we where amoung the many that went "ho the iPhone is so great " when presented by Steve Jobs, now that the dust has settle here is a few pluses and minus about the proverbial product:Pluse- Ahead of it's time- Slick design make it to look nothing like a phone- Running OSX- Sensors, sensors, sensors- The after market will soar with cases and accessories- Every major will publish a book e. i.

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Universal Binary update adds Python scripting, Nucleus moduleby Dave Nagel Autodesk today releases Maya 8.5, the long-awaited Universal Binary update to the high-end 3D suite. The new version also adds in some workflow, performance, scripting and creative enhancements. It ships today, with a Personal Learning Edition set to follow in the spring.

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PRIE TUNEWALLET micro is a smart and stylish leather carrying casedesigned to keep your iPod nano together with the cash and cards youneed for an active life. As with all TUNEWEAR cases, this case hashigh-quality stitching and the soft nappa leather will become evensofter with age. It matches both casual and formal styles. PRIETUNEWALLET micro is designed for use with both iPod nano 1G and 2G.The

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PRIE TUNEWALLET micro is a smart and stylish leather carrying casedesigned to keep your iPod nano together with the cash and cards youneed for an active life. As with all TUNEWEAR cases, this case hashigh-quality stitching and the soft nappa leather will become evensofter with age. It matches both casual and formal styles. PRIETUNEWALLET micro is designed for use with both iPod nano 1G and 2G.The

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TUNEWEAR(tm) announces the "TUNEWAVE FM" complete FM transmitter setfor the iPod series for use in the car, outdoors and at home.TUNEWAVE FM will be available in February 2007 TUNEWAVE FM is the complete FM transmitter set for the iPod. Includedare a FM transmitter, 12V car charger adapter and USB charging andsyncing cable.The high quality FM transmitter lets you play an iPod wirelessly ona car

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MyTVPal.com is ready to launch a new video on demand service for TV starting with “North America’s Best Independent Animated Shorts”. The 84 minute animated short compilation feature film will be made available free for a limited time via user paid targeted advertising has started on January 1st. MyTVPAL.com delivers DVD and HD quality streaming movies instantly on demand via a high definition

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We all love Safari that is a given but how about a few modifier keys to help you love it even more....Here we go:-To force a Bookmarks entry into a new window (or tab), hold down the Command key prior to selecting the Bookmarks menu. The Command key need only be held down while you click the Bookmarks menu; once the menu is onscreen, you can release the Command key. Now when you select a

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Sonnet Technologie release a whole new line of products. Highlight include, Tempo™ SATA E2P Serial ATA Host Adapter;2-Port PCI Express Card Supports Up to 10 Drives, FireWire and USB Adapter Cards for PCI Express, and Fusion™ R400Q Rack Mount SATA Drive Enclosure; 4-Bay, 1U Enclosure Features Quad Interface and SATA Port Multiplier.Find all the info. at : www.sonnettech.com

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The Sonnet Tempo E4P provides a cool running, energy efficient, high performance SATA PM host adapter that passes SMART data to Mac OS X so that users can monitor hard drive temperatures and check the SMART status of their hard drives. No other 4-port SATA PM host adapter for the Apple Mac Pro currently provides all of these features. The capability of the Sonnet Tempo E4P to connect up to four

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RadTech™, makers of iPod® and mobile computing accessories and more, today announces a significantly improved fabric composition for its industry-leading ScreenSavrz for Notebooks line of portable computer LCD display protection, cleaning and restoration solutions - now available in six vibrant new hues. These products are a must for all Lap Top owners, they are functional and great looking plus

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Econ as just release up-date to it's fine line of products.chronoSync, Imagecaster Daychasser and Portraits & Prints all get the Universal Binary treatments.They are all available at : http://www.econtechnologies.comDo yourself a favor and discover Econ fine line of products.

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Intuit's decision to release a major update to Quicken that doesn't run natively on Intel-based Macs is a puzzling move -- and one that will have more than a few Mac users questioning the company's interest in this platform. What a Joke!

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If you were wondering a year ago why Apple picked Intel as its processor supplier, Monday's release of the Mac Pro provided the answer. Yes it's a great time to be a Mac owner.

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Apple has posted a sneak peak at Mac OS X 10.5 "Leopard" following the keynote demonstration at their WWDC. A few of the new features include Time Machine, Spaces and Dashcode along with updates to the current applications. Have a look.

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Boinx has added Apple Remote support to its iStopMotion application, which lets users capture time lapse photography or do stop motion animation the Mac. This is a great exemple of a great software made even better.

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Yahoo launched a new video search and sharing site, in hopes of capitalizing on the growing popularity of online video.

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Apple yesterday reduced the prices of its Cinema Display line by at least $100.

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Apple has released a security update for its new professional Mac Pro systems, which debuted on August 7th at the World Wide Developers Conference in San Francisco. Security Update 2006-004 for Mac Pro.

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MacSoft on Wednesday announced that it will publish the best-selling Windows game Age of Empires III for Mac OS X. Shipping at the end of September, the game will be a Universal Binary that runs on PowerPC- or Intel-based Macs. Yeah!

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Adobe has updated InDesign CS2 to version 4.0.4, fixing indexing, transparency, shortcuts, text, fonts, scripting, inline graphics and other problems, as well as launch issues. It can be downloaded from the company's web site.

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Clunk Click announced the immediate availability of OnLine Pro for Macintosh OS X, an online data backup service, on Wednesday.

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Apple quietly updated its Xcode application development tool suite to version 2.4 during the World Wide Developer Conference in San Francisco. How cool is that? Very cool!

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Cell phone maker Nokia will launch its own online music store next year. Will it be call, iNokia ? Tunes Nikia? Good Luck!

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Parallels on Tuesday issued the Beta version of an update to Parallels Desktop for Mac, which enables Intel Mac users to run Windows within a window in Mac OS X. This is getting sick!

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Potion Factory announced the immediate availability of Voice Candy 1.1 on Tuesday. Voice Candy applies special audio effects to the recordings on your Mac. Got to love that one.

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Apple and Columbia Records have teamed up to offer Bob Dylan's new album, Modern Times, as an exclusive pre-order through the iTunes Music Store; So I guess (and you can sign along) That the Time They are changing...

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Insider Software announced FontAgent Pro 3.3 and FontAgent Pro Server 1.2 on Tuesday. The updates add native support for PowerPC and Intel-based Macs to the font management tools.

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MacFun introduced a new Web site for casual Mac gamers called MacFun.com on Monday. The site features family-friendly puzzle, strategy, word, arcade, and card games for Mac users at all skill levels. Great Concept.

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SmartDisk Corp. on Monday introduced a two-by-two-inch external USB 2.0 hard drive that comes in 6GB and 8GB capacities.

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Warner Music Group plans to bundle albums with videos, song remixes, ring tones, photos, and other media on DVDs, and is working with Apple to apply digital rights management (DRM) to the music, according to the Wall Street Journal.

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Microsoft's Macintosh Business Unit (MBU) on Monday said in a statement provided that it "has made the decision not to move forward with a Universal version of Virtual PC at this time." In addition, it said that Microsoft Messenger for Mac 6.0, shipping "later this year," will be its first Universal Binary application.

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In addition to Time Machine, Mac OS X v10.5 "Leopard" promises a slew of other new features, according to Apple CEO Steve Jobs, who outlined some of them during his WWDC keynote Monday morning. They include Boot Camp, better Spotlight searching, virtual desktops, CoreAnimation, Universal Access improvements, and Mail, iChat, and Dashboard improvement.

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Apple is adding a powerful new file backup and restoration feature to Mac OS X 10.5 called Time Machine.

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Apple announced the Intel-based replacement for the Xserve during Steve Jobs' WWDC keynote presentation on Monday.

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Apple on Monday unveiled the G5 Power Mac successor, the Intel-powered Mac Pro, during CEO Steve Jobs' keynote to kick off this week's Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC)

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Apple last week posted Security Update 2006-004, which patches a number of potential vulnerabilities. Some updated components include AFP (Apple Filing Protocol) Server, Bluetooth Setup Assistant, Bom (which handles archive files), fetchmail, and gunzip. A number of image-related problems have been addressed as well that could enable malformed images to crash the computer or execute code. Also,

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Flying Meat today announced the release of VoodooPad 3.0, the latest version of its desktop wiki and note taking application. New features in this release include: tabs, full screen editing, palettes, search improvements, support for super big documents, Linkback, embedding PDFs and other files, script plugins, custom shortcuts, merging and splitting documents, custom text styles, and more. In

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Aspyr Media today announced Sid Meier's Civilization IV for Mac has arrived in retail stores. The title was developed for the Mac by Aspyr Studios, Aspyr's internal development team, under license from 2K Games. "Sid Meier's Civilization IV comes-to-life like never before in a beautifully detailed, living 3D world that expands the gameplay experience. This latest installment takes the franchise

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Extensis today released a free update to Suitcase Fusion, the company's next-generation, single-user font manager. This update adds native support for Intel-based Macs and PowerPC systems. It also adds support for Apple's Migration Assistant and enhanced AppleScript support for Suitcase Fusion. Additionally, Suitcase Fusion now includes a Competitive Products Manager feature for eliminating

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Announced in a press release this morning, Steve Jobs will headline a group of Apple's top brass to preview OS X 10.5 "Leopard" at the Worldwide Developer's Conference beginning at 10:00 a.m. PDT on August 7.

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Intel has begun shipping Core Duo T2700 series (2.33 GHz), the company's latest and greatest "Yonah" derived CPU (via DailyTech). It is currently expected that this will be the last Core Duo release before the mobile Core 2 Duo. Still no sign of a 3 GHz Core Duo....

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According to AppleInsider, iChat 4.0 (to be included with Mac OS 10.5 "Leopard") will include the capability to call traditional phone lines, much like existing VoIP top-dog Skype and betas from Microsoft and Google.

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This new imaging advance packs 100 million pixels into a picture.

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Apple recently launched a special repair program for eMacs that are suffering from video and power-related problems.

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Microsoft plans to extend its reach into the business telephone market as early as June 2007.Imagine; "Your call could not be completed since you need to up date your software to Service Pack 2" Just a joke!With Bill staying at home now, he needs more than ever to call the "Office" Again just a joke!

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Aspyr Media, Inc. announced that it has started shipping the strategy game Civilization IV.

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Marware announced the immediate availability the Protection Pack for Apple's new MacBook on Tuesday. A smart package for smart MacBook owners.

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A French court has found Virgin guilty of selling a song online without permission of the copyright holder. Here we go again, it's seems that it's the story of Virgin since it's creation...

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SmileOnMyMac, Econ Technologies, and Nova Media on Wednesday updated their PDFpen, ChronoSync, and iSync plug-in applications.

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The update notes say simply that QuickTime 7.1.2 addresses an issue previewing iDVD projects.Apple is still, however, recommending the update for all QuickTime 7 users. The update is 51.4MB, and can be found through the Software Update control panel.

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Apple released Mac OS X 10.4.7 Tuesday evening, delivering numerous improvements and fixes to the operating system. Meanwhile, Apple's first Intel-based Xserve may be announced in the very near future.

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Apple will staff Best Buy locations selling its computers with its own employees in a similar fashion as the company has done with its displays at many CompUSA stores.

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FileMaker, Inc. is currently wrapping up development of FileMaker Pro 8.5 Advanced, sources familiar with the application's plans have disclosed. The upgrade will mark the first Universal Binary of the database application, a feature the Apple subsidiary originally planned for version 9.

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AppleInsiderStainBook problem we reported a few weeks back. Report about one MacBook owner took complaints about his notebook's discoloration and "odd fan noises" directly to an employee at the company's Brea, Calif. retail store and was pleasantly surprised with the response. "He didn't even look at the MacBook to see the discolorations, he just gave me a new one," the customer wrote in a post

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Apple today released numerous updates to its Pro Applications via its Software Update Utility, and on the Web.

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GarageGames today announced the release of Torque Game Builder and Torque Game Builder Pro for Windows and Mac OS X platforms. "Built upon the definitive technology of the popular 3D Torque Game Engine, Torque Game Builder features animated sprites, flexible tiles, special effects system, state-of-the-art collision, real world physics, and hardware-accelerated 2D rendering. Combined with these

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Apple has posted iPhoto 6.0.4 via its Software Update utility and on the Web. This update to iPhoto contains a variety of new Greeting Card and Postcard themes for use with Apple print services, including invite and thank you card designs for summer parties, weddings, birthdays, etc.

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Avid Technology today announced that it expects to ship the new family of Media Composer products on Wednesday, June 21. Introduced in April at NAB 2006, the new Media Composer family is now available to editors in a range of configurations, including a software-only application, which offers portability and the option to add hardware acceleration as required. All products in the Media Composer

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Aspyr Media today announced that Sid Meier’s Civilization IV for Mac (US$49.99) will begin shipping on June 26.

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Opera Software today announced the release of Opera 9, the latest version of its free Web browser.

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Apple today announced the release of Shake 4.1, the first Universal version of its compositing software, and cut its price substantialy.

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According to a story in Daily Variety yesterday, Apple is in talks with most of Hollywood's studios to offer movie downloads on iTunes, notes Reuters. "Citing unnamed sources, Variety said iTunes might begin offering film downloads by the end of 2006, but currently a price on iTunes is a sticking point in negotiations. Apple's Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs is said to want one flat price of

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iListen goeas Universal Mac Binary with the release of Version 1.7 of this Speech Recognition, and it still comes bundle with a noise canceling microphone.

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Parallels Inc. has released virtualization software for Intel-based Macs. The product, called Parallels Desktop, is designed to enable newer Macs to run Windows and other operating systems concurrently with Mac OS X.

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Hon Hai exec spills beans about new "none-touch" iPodAn article in the China Post quotes Terry Gou, Chairman of Hon Hai (one of Apple's major manufacturing partners), as saying that Apple is about to release a new iPod line which will make use of a "none-touch" concept. This was not clarified but sounds like it could possibly be referring to a new iPod . Again it's a wait and see situation.

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Here is an interesting read on CNN about how the Colorado Rockies baseball team uses the Video iPod to help them win games. Check it out here: http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/06/16/ipod.homework.ap/index.html

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The Omni Group have introduced OmniDazzle, a collection of mouse pointer plug-ins that enable users to illuminate a section of their display with a virtual flashlight, leave pixie dust trails behind them as they work, and more. A demo is available.

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MacSpeech announced the immediate availability of iListen 1.7 on Monday.

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