USA Today reports that early BuyMusic.com customers have found they can’t transfer purchased tracks to their portable digital music players. “The Mac-only iTunes has won raves for ease of use, both in burning CDs and transferring songs to Apple’s iPod players. But BuyMusic’s tracks have started out as unplayable, even on portables lent to the press in a promotional blitz,” notes the publication.
Read MoreMozilla.org today posted the first milestone release of Mozilla Thunderbird, a standalone e-mail client built with the XUL user interface language. Version 0.1 is available now for Mac OS X, Windows and Linux (GTK 2). “Our intended customer is someone who uses Mozilla Firebird (or another standalone browser) as their primary browser and wants a mail client based on Mozilla that ‘plays nice’ with the browser,” notes the organization.
Read MoreHelios Software today announced the release of Helios Xtar, a new utility that can be used to clone a Mac OS X system disk, and backup and restore disks, files and folders — all with full HFS support. Helios Xtar is available as a free download from the company’s Web site.
Read MoreApple has updated its Hot Deals section with the latest offerings from MacConnection, O’Reilly, and the Apple Store. MacConnection has deals on the Shaun Jackson Designs Back Office bag, Kano SLIM-K2Xtreme 2x USB 2.0/FireWire DVD-RW drive, Formac 17.4″ Gallery 1740 LCD display, Canon EOS 100 digital SLR camera, and Power Mac G5 w/free Office v.X.
Read More4D, Inc. today announced the release of 4D WebSTAR V 5.3.1, an update to 4D WebSTAR Server Suite V, now with Norton AntiVirus email filtering support, spam filtering in 4D WebMail Pro, a new 4D Dynamic Data Indexer (4D DDI), and more. Version 5.3.1, which is a free update for all currently registered users, also includes CGI, FTP and several other reliability improvements and plugin enhancements.
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