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The Norwegian govenment has said that iTunes is illegal and that the company must open acess to its music downloads by October of face legal action. Other European countries are also expected to make a similar ruling. Consumer groups in various European countries are saying that the digital rights management software on iTunes makes it impossible for purchasers of the music to transfer it to other devices that they own. Read the full story at: www.timesonline.co.uk
Recent concerns and news has included names like Google, Firefox and Microsoft all gung ho on anti-phishing. But has it gotten so bad -- is the cure worse than the disease? See: www.ugnn.com
Last week, there was much discussion in the press about Apple charging $1.99 for a download that updates a MacBook's Airport card to be compatiable with IEEE 802.11n devices. Apparently, the press got them to change their mind as you can now download it for FREE! You can update using Software update or download at: www.apple.com/downloads/
Red Herring is speculating that the iPhone may take on the Playstation Portable as a mobile game machine. According to the article, game manufactures are wanting to produce games for it. Read the article at: www.redherring.com
According to Apple, some people are reporting an iTunes error mesage stating "Attempting to copy the disk "Customer's iPod" failed. An unknown error occurred (-48)".
They say that this affects iTunes 7.0.x for Mac and Fifth Generation iPods and second generation nanos.
The solution given is to change the Time Zone setting in Mac OS X to Pacific Standard Time, open the latest version of iTunes and restore your iPod. After a successful restore, change the Time Zone back to normal.
See the complete note at: docs.info.apple.com
iPodHacks has shown us a lot of hacks involving the iPod. Now they have an article showing how you can convert the Nintendo GameBoy so that it will play audio files. See it here.
Read the brief article at: http://tinyurl.com/38ygpr www.ipodhacks.com
This came from a listing on an iMac mailing list. There is a web site called Zamzar. It coverts files of documents, video, and audio. It goes from a bunch of different formats to and from different formats. No charge that I can see, but I would suspect that changing video would take awhile counting the up/downloads. Check it out at: www.zamzar.com/
A new version of the Amiga OS has been released. It is to run on the PowerPC machines that were sold under the Amiga brand. Unfortunately, there isn't anyone selling Amiga hardware at this time. Amiga was way ahead of its time. Guess they really need to unify the production. If you are an Amiga fan, check out the story at: arstechnica.com
This droplet allows you to add other then plain QuickTime movies to iTunes. It is a drag'n'drop user interface. It accepts mov, mpg, mpeg, mp4, avi, wmv, swf files.
Here's how it works:
A file reference in the QuickTime media link format is created (about 2 KB per movie) and the reference file is then added to the iTunes library. The original movie files will not be moved or altered in any way.
They also recommend downloading Perian as a plug-in for QuickTime. It enables Divx, XviD, FLV, AVI, MS-MPEG4 v1, MS-MPEG4 v2, MS-MPEG4 v3, DivX 3.11 alpha, 3ivX, Sorenson H.263, Flash Screen Video and Truemotion VP6 formats when they are inside an AVI: h.264, mpeg4, AAC, AC3 Audio, and VBR MP3 file.
They provide the link for Perian as well. See it at: dettmer.maclab.org
Rather than putting all of the new posts in this newsletter, it's easier to just send you to our blog. More and more content will be posted to the blog as we begin the UGN migration to a new content management system. This shift will allow more of you to comment on stories, and exchange ideas with other users. So, to keep up, you'll need to frequent the InfoManager blog at: www.ugnn.com
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