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Apple Said to Be Entering E-Music Fray With Pay Service
In a move that thrusts it into the contentious area of digital commerce, Apple Computer plans to introduce an online music service. [New York Times: NYT HomePage]
Take your protein pills and put your helmet on. (let the news begin!)
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Let’s just say I’ve been a bit pre-occupied…
Please don’t screw me with something that will instantly make me regret this tomorrow, Apple.
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Though Apple declined to comment before the announcement, those who have used the new service say it’s as easy as buying a book on Amazon.com. Recommendations based on listeners’ preferences are plentiful; the system seamlessly interplays with Apple’s free iTunes jukebox software and with the iPod.
Downloads of single tunes are available at sites such as [...]

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On the same sidewalk, a woman dressed for the business day was bent down and picking up after a dog so small that he deserved to be crushed and the woman, after making such a sight of herself, should have been shunned.

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Whether you like PocketPC or not (not…) this is a very good looking phone…

Legend, one of the biggest PC manufacturers in China, has a new Pocket PC Phone coming out next month that has a real keypad that folds out rather than the virtual keypad that’s found on models from T-Mobile, Siemens, and [...]

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In recent months, growing numbers of investors and analysts have concluded that satellite radio companies just might succeed. [New York Times: Business]
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Since I am now way past the 15,000 track usable limit of iTunes my options for managing and listening to music day to day have had to change. For streaming music to my stereo, at work or on my laptop, I work with SliMP3 which allows me to use my browser or the IR [...]

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I can’t say that we saw anything quite like this….. I doubt that our two cats would be even remotely as tolerant as the cats on this page. It’s so ridiculous, it must me shared…
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This is one of those internet moments…

Someone on eBay is selling what looks like to be the Tungsten C, a new handheld from Palm that hasn’t even been announced yet and that’s supposed to come with built-in WiFi. Looks like it’s the real deal (or an incredibly elaborate fake), and the bidding is already up [...]

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I risked an arrest by airport security to bring you this photo… hope you enjoy!
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This looks very cool… gives you an iPhoto view of your footage (from all your source tapes) and allows you to then pull directly into iMovie.

T-Squared Software has released FootTrack 1.0, a new application that allows you to import, organize and search your digital video tape footage. The software also lets you compress your footage, [...]

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Home entertainment company D&M Holdings says it won a bankruptcy court auction for the ReplayTV digital video recorder and Rio MP3 business units. The winning bid: $36.2 million. [CNET News.com Personal Technology]
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The company is unveiling a new branding approach for its server-software products to synch up with next week’s launch of Windows Server 2003 and to clarify the muddled .Net label. [

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This tip works from all apps… Just set the Safari pref and you are good to go. Seems silly that Apple would not have noted this functionality within the pref itself. The way things are worded would lead you to believe that the page you are on would be replaced with the [...]

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Doug Rushkoff has created an “Open Source Hagaddah” — a Passover Seder prayer-book that anyone can contribute to and annotate.
Link [Boing Boing]
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sounds good… if we ever move to a space too large for my Airport this would be the way to expand the network.

Dave “Technorati” Sifry and Sputnik have released their first Linux-based, commodity hardware WiFi access point. The Sputnik AP is self-configuring, secure, and open to hacking — based on Seth Schoen’s Bootable Business [...]

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I’ve noticed that the autofill function in Safari seems to prefer that you press return or enter rather than click submit. I guess this makes some sense as the buttons could be programmed differently. When you hit return, you should see a dialog box asking whether you want to have the login info [...]

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CBS Marketwatch is reporting that media giant News Corp. has bought 19.9 percent of Hughes Electronics for 6.6 billion dollars in order to gain control of DirecTV and its 11,000,000 subscribers. GM will retain a minority share in Hughes. (via AudioRevolution)
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Are you a geek? Do you travel often? Don’t you wish there was a way to find out whether a hotel in your travel area offers broadband? It’s Geektel, a listing of hotels that offer… [Mr. Barrett]
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While on Vacation I did a complete shutdown (the reason there were not any posts) followed by an excessive amount of travel for business… In that time I saw many differences between what hotels offer the traveler for access.
In Cancun Mexico, you can get a wireless net connection at the Ritz Carlton hotel for [...]

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