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  Thursday, 29 April 2004

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Canada-U.S. differences won't divide us: Martin...

Canada-U.S. differences won't divide us: Martin
Canada was right to stay out of the war in Iraq, but wants to help rebuild the country, Prime Minister Paul Martin said on Thursday. F U L L S T O R Y
[CBC News]

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iTunes 4.5 has a lot of ways to get to people to the iTunes Music Store so Apple can get their 99 cents. [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service: O'Reilly Network Weblogs: Mac]

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Making the difficult seem easy is one of Apple's strengths. Take iTunes, the iTunes Music Store, and the iPod. Their intuitive interfaces let us organize, buy, and play music effortlessly. Yet each of these products has hidden powers. We'll reveal some of those powers and show you how to use them to your advantage. We'll also take you through the tricky process of replacing an iPod battery when it loses its powers. And we'll review the newest iPod -- the iPod mini. [MacCentral]

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Learn how different accounts on an single computer, with Mac OS X and iTunes 4, can share music. [Apple Computer Knowledge Base Changes for 2004-01-30]

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Rome dispatch: The war in Iraq has defied myths about the Spanish and Italian national character, writes John Hooper. [Guardian Unlimited] 'Almost, it would seem, as an antibody to their cruel past, Spaniards have generated an unusually strong streak of pacifism that was as obvious in the first Gulf war as it was in the second.'

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US troops are to turn the city over to local Iraqis, says a top commander, but this is denied by the Pentagon. [BBC News | World | UK Edition]

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Eight soldiers are killed by a car bomb south of Baghdad, taking the day's toll of US dead to 10. [BBC News | World | UK Edition]

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Officials say a US general faces disciplinary action after TV showed Iraqi prisoners allegedly being maltreated. [BBC News | World | UK Edition]

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If you use Apple's Mail.app for your email, putting the junk filter back in training mode for a couple of days will significantly improve its performance.[Paolo Valdemarin: Paolo's Weblog]

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We took off on parallel runways and flew in formation throughout the flight. While the planes were next to each other, we set up an in-flight wireless network and did a videoconferencing session from plane-to-plane. WiFi in the sky! Additionally, we performed a wireless network survey during the flight and found about 4000 access points. link [Boing Boing]

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In a rather startling move, several dozen ex-Foreign & Commonwealth Office ambassadors, high commissioners, governors and senior international officials, have written Tony Blair a rather blunt letter [Kuro5hin.org]

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Want to enjoy HDTV, but haven't forked over the $21,999 for that 82'' LCOS Rear Projection HDTV yet? (Or even know what the heck that is!). Fear not, because with just about any Panther-capable Macintosh, you can enter t... [macosxhints]

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In conjunction with Wednesday's release of iTunes 4.5, Apple has also posted an update to QuickTime, the company's core audio and video media handling technology for both Mac OS and Windows. The new release, QuickTime 6.5.1, adds the QuickTime Lossless Encoder and improves AAC encoding. It's available for download from the Web site now. [MacCentral]

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Apple on Wednesday released iMovie 4.0.1, an updated version of the digital video editing application the company includes as part of its iLife 04 software suite. The new version improves performance when working with large projects, increases reliability when opened, when titles are added to the timeline and when third-party plug-ins are removed, and more. The 1.2MB update can be downloaded from Apple's Web site. [MacCentral]

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Apple Computer Inc. CEO Steve Jobs on Wednesday briefed industry analysts and media on the third generation iTunes Music Store, details of which were first revealed on MacCentral earlier this morning. Industry analysts feel the new release will not only increase the pressure on Microsoft Corp., but also safeguard Apple's lead in the competitive online music download market. [MacCentral]

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Pepsico Inc.'s promotion of Apple's iTunes Music Store fell well short of Apple's expectations, according to the company's Vice President of Worldwide Corporate Communications, Katie Cotton. Cotton told Cnet that five million songs have been redeemed thus far. According to the terms of the promotion, which expires Friday, up to 100 million songs could have been given away. [MacCentral]

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Actually we'd like better than CD quality! But seriously, I think it's fantastic that Apple is offering this option.

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La Scena Musicale April 2004 Issue PDF
Download the PDF file (7.2 Meg) [LaScena-Features]

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Americans are increasingly critical of the way President Bush is handling the conflict, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News Poll. [New York Times: NYT HomePage]

A little slow on the uptake, I'd say.

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U.S. soldiers at a prison outside Baghdad have been accused of forcing Iraqi prisoners into acts of sexual humiliation and other abuses in order to make them talk. [New York Times: International]

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Judging from interviews, most Iraqis seem to be waiting, uncertain and with less tolerance than before the violence of the last weeks. [New York Times: International]