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Apple Announces iTunes 6  —  iTunes 6, the next generation of the world's most popular music jukebox and online music store, lets fans purchase and download over 2,000 music videos and six short films from Academy Award-winning Pixar Animation Studios for just $1.99 each.
Dan Frakes / Macworld:
Mac mini needs a Front Row seat  —  As I sat in the audience of Apple's media event Wednesday, enjoying an incredible performance by Wynton Marsalis (who can make a trumpet do things I didn't think possible) and his talented quartet, two thoughts kept going through my mind.  —  The first was, "Man, I love my job."
Discussion: MacSlash and one digital life
Katy Duke / Guardian:
Paper view technology  —  Cheap, paper-thin TV screens that can be used in newspapers and magazines have been unveiled by German electronics giant Siemens.  —  The firm says the low production costs could see the magazine shelves in newsagents come alive with moving images vying …
Discussion: Things That … … and TeleRead
Mark Cuban / Blog Maverick:
How Bob Iger Saved Network TV … Content has been available for download for years and years.  That content could be played on any number of devices, from computers to DVD players to PDAs.  Being able to playback a video from the new Video Ipod just like you can play a song from a current IPod, certainly is not a technical marvel.
Discussion: Scripting News
Jeff / The Jeff Pulver Blog:
WARNING: The FCC Extends CALEA's reach to the Internet  —  If you recall, back on August 5th, the FCC adopted its First Report and Order on Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act and Broadband Access and Services.  We finally saw the text of the Order some 7 weeks later on September 23.
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Mick Stanic / The Podcast Network:
Media Release - MOTOROLA ANNOUNCES MARKETING AGREEMENT WITH THE PODCAST NETWORK  —  Motorola becomes first site-wide anchor tenant of The Podcast Network from October, 2005  —  Sydney, Australia - 14 October 2005 - Motorola Mobile Devices, a global leader in wireless communications …
Anil Dash:
What it's like at Web 2.0  —  A couple years ago, when I was on the other side of the continent from all the Silicon Valley/San Francisco events, I wanted to know what it was like to attend the West Coast conferences.  Now that I've been to a bunch, I figured it might be a good chance to fill everybody else in.
Matt Haughey / Lifehacker:
How to set up a home FTP server  —  If you've been following the the Lifehacker Home Server Series of articles, you know how to do things like reach your home computer from anywhere in the world thanks to dynamic DNS services.  Gina wrote about how to set up a personal home web server …
support.microsoft.com:
Update Rollup 2 for Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005  —  SUMMARY  —  Update Rollup 2 for Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 enhances the stability and performance of Media Center 2005.  This update fixes several known issues.  The update also adds the following new functionality to Media Center:
Peter Rojas / Engadget:
The Clicker: Apple's real plan for iPod video?  —  Every Thursday Stephen Speicher contributes The Clicker, a weekly opinion column on entertainment and technology:  —  You've got to love Apple.  Crazy like a fox they are.  Oh sure - some of their decisions regarding the new iPod might seem …
Ahmed ElAmin / foodnavigator.com:
Thin electronic labels could help brand positioning  —  12/10/2005 - Food packaging with eye-catching videos or changing information right on the label could soon be on the shelves with technology being developed by Siemens for commercial release.  —  In a display of new wafer thin electronic labelling …
Discussion: PaidContent.org
AVI / A Jolly, Socratic Science:
Storyboard Your Life  —  A storyboard is a sequence of images and words drawn together on a page to form a plausible narrative.  —  Storyboards are routinely used in the movie making business to 'preview' a movie before a single shot is taken.  Not only does a storyboard allow for a dress rehearsal …
Discussion: Fast Company Now and Lifehacker
Lifehacker:
Subscribe to free, del.icio.us video in iTunes  —  Two great tastes that taste great together: now that del.icio.us offers feeds by filetype and iTunes has full video support (including "vodcasts," or video podcasts), you can load up iTunes with free video files bookmarked and tagged in del.icio.us.

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