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This article on News.com says that it isn't that unusual for a seller to misspell the product that he is selling. Thus making it difficult for buyers to find it. So if you are buying you might try some odd ball spellings. Read more...
On Feb 3rd, I tried to win an iTunes via the 7-11 cup. The good news there is that I didn't actually have to drink a Pepsi, but could put Dr. Pepper into the cup. The bad news was I got one of the 2 in 3 that didn't win. Oh, well, I haven't purchased a drink at a 7-11 in a long time. So I guess the contest is working in one respect.
Then you've seen the TV commercial with "I fought the law" music, and a teen bragging that she got 'caught' file sharing, but now she can do it legally... "And, there's nothing anyone can do about it!" -- Pretty strong stuff, but impresses many viewers as being in 'bad taste.'
In the Taiwan News, a story about Apple pushing for cell phones to include QuickTime. It would make sense, after all a number of camera and video products use QT. (Unfortunately, this only applies to Asian telecos.) etaiwannews.com
Japan President As Next CEO The Nikkei Report is saying that McDonald's Holdings Company (Japan) has asked Apple Japan, Inc.'s President to be its CEO and representative director. Eiko Harada, 55 is expected to take the office late next month, which will give him about a month's vacation. Read more...
Down the road in Arlington Texas, the school district refurbished 100 Macs and gave them to the students. Isn't that a great idea! We have a member of Cowtown MUG who personally collected and donated over 50 Macs each of the last two years. What can your group be doing in this area. You can bid on other computers and monitors the school is selling by going to: http://www.aisd.net/ (You'll have to hurry as bidding ends sometime on Tuesday, 2/10/04) Here's the full story
In a move that really shouldn't be surprising, Steve Jobs announced last week that contract talks with Disney would be discontinued and Pixar would find another distributor for their films. It seems like the hang-up was the last two films under the current agreement. "The Incredibles" and "Cars" will be release roughly in the next year. Steve wanted those included in the new contract which would give Pixar a greater share of the profits and Disney wouldn't allow it. Personally I don't think that either of these will be the block buster that Nemo was, even though I think the idea of a paunchy retired superhero is good. It may be that Disney wouldn't have given up that much. To bad it had to end. But now some people want Steve to take over Disney. I think he has enough to do. One of the stories on this
The Mac vs. PC web site has been updated. There have bee over a hundred new reports, studies and articles added. So now there are over 500 items to study in this debate. The complete web site is available as a PF download from a link at the bottom of the first pages. Get your ammunition
For those who are on .mac, Apple has announce some new benefits. Included this time is a dozen free Super Jigsaw Puzzles from GameHouse. A .mac member only discount for $6 on GameHouse's "Pop & Drop" game, new Valentine themed greeting iCards, and Backup 2.0.1. So go to your .mac account and see what you can get. Apple.com
A number of web sites have provided an article about the purchase of silence as a track on the iTunes store. However As the Apple Turns, (AtAT) provides a list of 9 songs that can be purchased separately and a 16 minute one that can only be purchased as part of an album. All of them are silence. Some days I think it would be worth it. See the story appleturns.com
Recently Apple updated Safari to a version that will only run on Mac OS X 10.3 systems. That caused a lot of discussion on various web sites from people who felt that Apple was trying to pressure them to upgrade. Apple responded to a few of those web sites. The one I am quoting from is MacUser UK.
"Apple said, 'Safari v1.2...has been designed to leverage advances in Panther not present in the Jaguar release of Mac OS X. These Panther technologies are needed to deliver Safari v1.2's most significant improvements. For example, personal certificate support is made possible by Panther specific security technologies that are simply not available on Jaguar.'"It continued:
"Panther has been extremely well received by Mac users around the world and its success allows us to innovate aggressively with system applications like Safari by relying on state-of-the-art OS technology. ..."
So it appears that there was more going on with Panther than we realized. My beige G3 can't run Panther, but I understand why it would be best to upgrade otherwise. Full story at: pcpro.co.uk
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Here's a special Valentine's Edition of a favorite game, Swap -- get one free for Valentine's ... but hurry, it all ends on the 15th! (Cool game!)
Victoria Maciulski from CVMUG shares her overview of Mac OS X Maintenance -- to help prevent problems on your computer Just click here
Drip Drop is a game collection of 3 falling object puzzles: Wipe out your foe with FLOOD and cast him away with watery waves... fast, and slightly wet fun!
Victoria Maciulski from CVMUG takes a look at Adobe's latest InDesign cs -- with likes and a few dislikes.
securely store information, Internet banking data and software registration details in a secure central location across platforms on your network.
Creates complete screenshots of web pages even if the users screen isn't large enough to show the whole page content at once. Very cool.
After nearly a year off, the UGN Mug Bookshelf is now back open featuring book reviews from member UG newsletter editors...www.user-groups.net/books/
With iTunes, iPods, and designer iMacs, Apple Computer is once again revolutionizing the way we live with technology. To bring us all up to date you need "Apple Confidential".
CVMUG Newsletter Editor, Victoria Maciulski reviews The Glitterguru on Photoshop
Acclaimed for his approach to teaching by example, author McWade makes simple the complex process of good design for professional and occasional designers.
This is the official training workbook for Adobe Illustrator cs. Reviewed by Victoria Maciulski (CVMUG) Read more...
Louise Dawson from LWMug reviews "How To Do Everything With Your Digital Camera" a 5-star book for digital camera owners
Mac OS X has turned unsuspecting Mac users into Unix users suddenly faced with a command line interface -- you'll need this to get through the unfriendly territory Unix for Mac OS X Panther
This book, from the Apple Pro Training Series, is the official Apple Pro training course for DVD Studio Pro... reviewed by Victoria Maciulski (CVMUG)DVD Studio Pro 2
The threat of computer attack is real, constant, malicious, and unrelenting. Therefore, you need to secure your systems and data against assault... and become a Security Warrior
introducing you to the Regular Language Description for XML Core--New Generation, or RELAX NG (pronounced "relaxing") Read more...
The Template Toolkit allows programmers to embed Perl code and custom macros into HTML documents in order to create customized documents on the fly.
All PC users complain about three things: their computer is slower than it used to be, it crashes more often, and they get more spam than ever. How do you avoid these problems? Keep reading...
Here is another great book from Scott Kelby - step-by-step, how-to instructions, and lots of Quick Tips. Reviewed by Victoria Maciulski (CVMUG) Keep reading...
This book dives right in and explains how Panther works - you may not be a Mac guru yet, but get this to get started!
Have a great week...
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