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Shipments of LCD displays have more than doubled in the past year to 2.9 million units in the second quarter, according to Display Search (as noted by Macworld UK).

Adobe will be exhibiting at MacExpo 2001, the UK Mac show taking place November 22-24, reports Macworld UK. With the cancellation of Apple Expo, MacExpo is shaping up to be a very significant show. It will also mark Apple’s return to a UK Mac show after skipping out for four years.

A new copy protection technique for CDs could be a major boon for Microsoft in its attempts to replace the MP3 format with its own Windows Media Audio format. The technique works by placing two copies of an album on a CD; one for playing from a CD player, and another in Windows Media Audio format for copying to a listener’s hard drive. The WMA files would have built-in restrictions, however, including being unable to be copied from one computer to another.

Slashdot.org notes that an individual’s work at creating an Aqua theme for Netscape 6 has been shut down by Apple. Eric Yang intended to create the theme only so that Netscape 6 would match the rest of Mac OS X’s interface, and in the process actually found and fixed an interface bug for Apple. “I only hope that Apple would write cocoa UI for Mozilla, then I will not need this project,” writes Yang on his site.

Henry Knorr, of The San Francisco Gate, is the latest columnist to offer praise for Mac OS X 10.1. His column also gives a general overview of Mac OS X and the improvements that the update, which will be released tomorrow, offer.