Year: 2003

PayPal announces new fee for digital music services

Posted by | Dec 9, 2003 | |

PayPal on Monday announced it would offer reduced payment processing fees for online digital music companies. “Looking to lure online music services into offering the PayPal platform as a payment option for music downloads, PayPal announced the new payment processing rate of 2.5 percent plus 9 cents per transaction — well below the average of 2.2 percent to 2.9 percent plus 30 cents per transaction now available for existing PayPal merchants,” reports InternetNews.

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O’Reilly releases ‘Mac OS X Unwired’

Posted by | Dec 9, 2003 | |

O’Reilly has announced the release of “Mac OS X Unwired” (US$24.95), a new book co-authored by Tom Negrino and Dori Smith that shows Mac users how to make use of OS X’s support for going wireless. “Mac OS X Unwired introduces readers to the basics of wireless computing, from the reasons why they’d want to go wireless in the first place, to setting up a wireless network or accessing wireless services on the road.

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Kano ships 8x dual-format DVD+RW/R DVD-RW/R drive

Posted by | Dec 8, 2003 | |

Kano Technologies today introduced a new 8x dual-format DVD+RW/R and DVD-RW/R drive. The K8Xtreme has an 8x write speed for both DVD+R and -R media, and can record an entire DVD in less than 15 minutes. In addition, the K8Xtreme can write to and read CD media at 32x16x40x speeds, and can read DVD-ROM at a speed of 12x. The new drive is available in three versions: an internal model for PCs, and external models for PCs and Macs.

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Jumsoft releases Keynote Themes 3.0

Posted by | Dec 8, 2003 | |

Jumsoft has released Keynote Themes 3.0, which includes 19 high-quality themes for Apple’s Keynote presentation software. New professional themes (“Developer Pro,” “Network Pro,” “Yellow Pro,” and “Business Pro”) and old themes (“Elegant Pro,” “PorTable,” “Black,” “GridWay,” “RedWine,” “Black Table,” “Grass,” “Geography,” “Old Paper,” “Photo Artist,” “Network,” “Wood,” “Developer,” “Valentine,” and “Simple”) are available in both 1024×768 and 800×600 sizes. Keynote Themes 3.0 sells for US$25.

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iTunes Catalog gains numerous options

Posted by | Dec 8, 2003 | |

KavaSoft has released iTunes Catalog 1.5, the latest version of its software that creates Web catalogs of your iTunes music library. This update brings the ability to create catalogs with separate pages for each letter of the alphabet or genre of music. Version 1.5 also adds several built-in links to music Web sites, so you can link your catalogs directly to All Music Guide, CDDB, Daily Tunes, MTV, Rolling Stone, and many more.

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