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 Tuesday, 29 April 2003
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Clutter by Sprote Rsrch. 'Think of Clutter as an alternate user interface to your music collection. When deciding what to play next, instead of searching through a huge alphabetical list, let your eye roam over the covers of your favorite CDs and those you've been listening to recently.'
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Get Rendezvous path to iTunes4 songs
In the new iTunes4, you can copy the path to a particular song that would appear over Rendezvous Song Sharing by selecting the song, and then control-clicking on it. In the contextual menu, choose "Copy Sharing URL." Then you... [macosxhints]
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JY Stervinou debugs the XML interface...
JY Stervinou debugs the XML interface for Apple's iTunes. [Scripting News] 'So, basicaly, iTunes uses a REST interface to get his contents from their Web servers: iTunes gets an XML file from the server and parses it to put the contents in macosX native UI controls.'
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Report: iTunes Notes
Readers offer excellent tips and notes about iTunes 4, the iTunes Music Store, and all the rest. [MacInTouch]
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Beta: iRoster 1.0b6
The Rendezvous services browser adds support for iTunes 4. [MacInTouch]
Look for Rendezvous services on your network.
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Notes and Tips: Apple KB iTunes Tips
Apple has posted a pile of Knowledge Base documents about the details and issues involved in the new music system. [MacInTouch]
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Apple Music Event Webcast now available via QuickTime
Monday's Apple Music Event at San Francisco's Moscone Center was covered live by MacCentral, but if you'd rather see for yourself what happened, you can now watch a Webcast of the event courtesy of Apple. Apple is hosting the MPEG-4 Webcast in QuickTime. [MacCentral]
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Beyond High C, High Technology 'Mr. Zucker, 55, has learned that the computer can be his friend. After Columbia University, the owner of WKCR-FM, dropped Mr. Zucker as the host of "Opera Fanatic" in 1994, he turned his efforts to preserving early opera recordings and films through his nonprofit Bel Canto Society. There, at www.belcantosociety.org, fellow fanatics can hear his old radio programs and purchase his remastered CD's, DVD's and videos.
As a result, Mr. Zucker ? a cheerful, shaggy-bearded heavyweight ? says that when he is not listening to music, he likes nothing more than to curl up with a current issue of the Journal of the Audio Engineering Society.'
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Apple Launches Paid Music Service
Apple's Steve Jobs unveils a new online music download system on Monday. Some industry officials are praising the service as breaking down barriers to the distribution of music on the Net. Leander Kahney reports from San Francisco. [Wired News] 'Colin Crawford, an executive at the publisher IDG and a long-time Apple watcher, said, "It looks very cool and easy to use. It's classic Apple. They've taken a complex environment and made it simple."'
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Web Sites Shut Down in Spam Fight
Hundreds of Web sites have been taken off the Internet in the escalating battle by activists to stop unwanted commercial e-mail. [New York Times: Technology]
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Chicks against the machine
The Dixie Chicks beat back Diane Sawyer on national TV, posed nude for Entertainment Weekly and stood up to the reactionary zeal of country radio. In a time of crisis for America, they're patriots we can be proud of. [Salon]
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Walking through Apple iTunes 4 and Music Store
I'm a relatively new Mac convert, but since I own a G4 desktop and an iPod, I thought I would check out Apple's new iTunes 4 with Apple Music Store. This is Apple's first foray into a paid digital media service; allowing users to download tracks for 99 cents without any monthly fees, required subscriptions or payments. I'll go through the new features, and see if it works as advertised. I don't really have an audio system to compare sound quality of AAC vs. MP3, and digital rights and fair use questions have been discussed adequately here and elsewhere, so I won't try to get too much into those topics. This is simply my personal view into using the software and service, what works and what doesn't, where Apple succeeds and fails. [Kuro5hin.org]
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Revealed: How the road to war was paved with lies '
Intelligence agencies accuse Bush and Blair of distorting and fabricating evidence in rush to war
The case for invading Iraq to remove its weapons of mass destruction was based on selective use of intelligence, exaggeration, use of sources known to be discredited and outright fabrication, The Independent on Sunday can reveal.
A high-level UK source said last night that intelligence agencies on both sides of the Atlantic were furious that briefings they gave political leaders were distorted in the rush to war with Iraq. "They ignored intelligence assessments which said Iraq was not a threat," the source said. Quoting an editorial in a Middle East newspaper which said, "Washington has to prove its case. If it does not, the world will for ever believe that it paved the road to war with lies", he added: "You can draw your own conclusions."'
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Fortune.com - Technology - Songs in the Key of Steve 'Steve had invited Dr. Dre up from Los Angeles for a private demonstration of Apple's latest product. After checking it out, Dre had this to say: "Man, somebody finally got it right."
The product that wowed him was the iTunes Music Store, a new digital service for Mac users offering songs from all five major music companies--Universal, Warner, EMI, Sony, and BMG. Though Apple had yet to sell a single song by the time FORTUNE went to press, Jobs is already causing a stir in the record business.'
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