Year: 2005

France expected to cut iPod tax levy

Posted by | Nov 28, 2005 | |

According to a report from IDG News Service, French authorities are expect to reduce a copyright levy on flash memory-based music players. “The move will reduce the levy on a 4GB iPod nano from over €50 (US$59) to about €8 ($9.38),” a source said in the story. “Last week, the French Commission on Private Copying adopted a proposal to reduce the levy on flash memory devices, aligning it with the levy on hard disk drives, the source familiar with the plans said. The decision is widely expected to be published Dec.

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November 26th Inside Mac Radio show posted

Posted by | Nov 28, 2005 | |

The November 26th broadcast of the Inside Mac Radio Show is now available as a podcast download. The show featured Andrew Darlow, Editorial Director for Digital Imaging Techniques; Mike Ginsberg from Mac EVDO; Lorene Romero, coordinator for the Inside Mac Macworld Extravaganza; DPBuzz with Philip Hodgetts; and Sam Levin’s Cool Mac Picks segment. Inside Mac can be heard live on Saturdays from 1:00 – 3:00 p.m. PT.

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Storynory, iPod-ready stories for kids announced

Posted by | Nov 28, 2005 | |

A new Web site called Storynory where iPod-ready children’s stories can be download for free has been announced. Users can download the company’s growing library of classic and original children’s stories to an iPod, any other MP-3 player, or burn them onto a CD from a computer. In its first week, Storynory features such classic fairy tales as Little Red Riding Hood, The Snow Queen, The Frog, or a new Christmas story.

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TextWrangler 2.1.1

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Bare Bones Software Ships TextWrangler 2.1.1

BEDFORD, Mass. – Nov. 28, 2005 – Bare Bones Software, Inc., developer of
leading-edge power tools for Mac OS X, today announced the immediate
availability of TextWrangler 2.1.1, their award-winning text editor. The
updated version of this popular, general-purpose text processing tool
includes maintenance fixes to reported issues and a few minor interface
refinements.

TextWrangler 2.1.1 is available free of charge.

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IconPeople Announce Icon Plus and Icon Professional Sets

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IconPeople Announce Icon Plus and Icon Professional Sets

NEW LARGE SET ICON SETS ENHANCE OPTIONS FOR WEB AND APPLICATION USER INTERFACES

November 28, 2005. Beaverton, Oregon-based IconPeople, a label of Meshbox
Design, announce Icon Plus and Icon Professional versions of their cost
effective, best selling icon sets for application developers and website
designers.

IconPeople icon sets now come in the following configurations:

Standard editions which include 8×8, 16×16, 24×24 and 32×32 pixel sized
icons in BMP, JPEG, GIF and PNG formats.

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