Year: 2003

Coke to launch music download service in UK

Posted by | Dec 8, 2003 | |

Yet another firm is entering fray in the online music download service. The UK’s Guardian reports that Coca-Cola will launch its own online music service in the UK next month. This will not be simply a marketing agreement, however, as Coca-Cola Great Britain plans on running its MyCokeMusic.com site in association with OD2, which was founded by Peter Gabriel and provides download services to BT’s Dotmusic, HMV, Ministry of Sound, Freeserve and MSN.

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Dennis Sellers joins MacMinute editorial team

Posted by | Dec 8, 2003 | |

It is with great pleasure we announce today the addition of Dennis Sellers to MacMinute’s editorial team. Sellers, who wrote for MacCentral.com for the past eight years, was a newspaper editor/reporter for seven years and teacher for seven years. During his varied communications career, he has had over 3,000 magazine and newspaper articles published. Sellers has written about comics, fitness, photography, education, and a wide range of other subjects in numerous publications.

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SiK accepting pre-orders for new iPod accessories

Posted by | Dec 8, 2003 | |

SiK today announced that it is accepting pre-orders for imp and FireJuice for iPods with a dock connector. imp is an iPod car charger with line level audio output — a standard 6-pin FireWire connector is included for owners of previous generation iPods (with FireWire port on top). FireJuice is SiK’s “patented multi-mode FireWire power injector that makes it possible to use bus-powered devices on computers with un-powered FireWire ports.

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Cyberduck 2.1 enhances SFTP/FTP browser

Posted by | Dec 8, 2003 | |

David Kocher has released Cyberduck 2.1, the latest version of his open source SFTP (SSH Secure File Transfer) and FTP browser licensed under the GPL. This update offers numerous feature changes/additions, interface enhancements, and bug fixes, all of which are documented at the site. Cyberduck is distributed as freeware.

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