tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52932792024-03-12T23:08:32.534-04:00Review & 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 featuresUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2100125tag: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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