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 Tuesday, 11 June 2002
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Launchbar 3.2.1: system uti for OS X updated [The Macintosh News Network]
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URL Manager Pro 3.0 final now available [The Macintosh News Network]
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Airplane loses control and crashes into traffic
A small airplane crashed into traffic at a busy intersection in
Winnipeg's north end Tuesday morning, injuring seven people on board.
F U L L S T O R Y
[CBC News]
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A news aggregator is a "piece of software that periodically reads a set of news sources, in one of several XML-based formats, finds the new bits, and displays them in reverse-chronological order on a single page."  [Scripting News]
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Report Flays Open-Source Licenses. The Microsoft-funded report on possible threats to national security posed by open-source software critiques the General Public License. Its authors later yanked it off the website, saying it wasn't ready to be posted. By Farhad Manjoo. [Wired News]
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News.Com: IBM labs unveil super-dense storage. Like punch cards in the computers of old, the pattern of the indentations essentially is the digitized version of the data meant to be stored. The minute size of the indentations, though, means that Millipede chips are 20 times more densely packed with information than current hard drives. [Tomalak's Realm]
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New iMovie 2 plugins for OS X users [The Macintosh News Network]
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A Visual Collaborator and His Accompanists. Bill Frisell doesn't belong to any particular idiom, but his vaulting, ambient sound reflects an imagination haunted by musical forms and styles outside his own head. By Ben Ratliff. [New York Times: Arts]
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Final Written Arguments Are Filed in Microsoft Case. Microsoft and the group of states that are suing it each filed their final and most exhaustive written arguments, outlining why the landmark antitrust case should be resolved in its favor. By Amy Harmon. [New York Times: Technology]
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MS-funded think tank propagates open-source lies [The Register]
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Ed Cone reviews Radio: "I would recommend Radio to both the power blogger and the hobbyist. And I would recommend it to business users looking for ways to reach their customers, partners, etc. I would also recommend that UserLand continue to make the product simpler and more intuitive, and the help files easier to use for the mass-market audience." [Scripting News]
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Surround Professional Item of the Day
Rolling Stones Catalog Remastered for SACD Release
New York, NY (June 11, 2001)--Twenty-two classic Rolling Stones albums are set to be released in the SACD format on August 20th. It is the entire Rolling Stones catalog that was released in the '60s and early '70s on ABKCO/London Records (known as ABKCO/Decca in the rest of the world). Some of the albums included in the reissues are Let It Bleed, Out of Our Heads, December's Children, Beggars Banquet, 12x5, and The Rolling Stones, Now!. The discs will be double-layered, with both standard and high-resolution versions available on each release. [ProSound News] Bob Ludwig directed the remastering. Huge project.
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Avoiding Trouble in the Move to Mac OS X, Part 1 (10-Jun-2002; 12.4K) [TidBITS]
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Partial Eclipse. There's a partial solar eclipse today starting at about 5:00PM PST, that will be visible over most of North America, except the East Coast and Hawaii. [Jake's Radio 'Blog]
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Keyboard shortcuts for sound and displays [Mac OS X Hints]
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Indirectly access Novell networks [Mac OS X Hints]
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