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Apple will be hosting Final Cut Pro and DVD Studio Pro seminars at the Portobello Film Festival in London, July 14-28. As reported by Macworld UK, the frees seminars run from 7 PM to 9 PM throughout the festival at Screen West.

“The days of hiding lousy report cards may soon come to an end for underachievers everywhere” — or so says a report from the Associated Press. Parents in a number of school districts — and that number is growing — can now view their child’s report card online using several different systems. Apple Computer owns one of the most popular –PowerSchool — and they say that about 2,700 schools use it.

A column by JON FORTT of the Mercury News looks under the hood of Apple’s sexy new iBook — helping readers to decide whether or not they should buy one. While not entirely gushing, the article does give Apple high marks in many areas.

TechTool Lite 3.0.1 is a free Mac utility that helps you to solve all kinds of little problems you may encounter with your Mac, including analyzing your system and finder for damage, zapping the PRAM, deleting the desktop file, and loads more. Version 3.0.1 adds a File Tab, more tests, and support for US versions of Mac OS 9.1

24U Paste without Style 1.0.1 is a new update of the XTensions software for QuarkXPress. The XTensions software 24U Paste without Style enables you to move text to another location by a simple keyboard shortcut, while retaining all of the text attributes (type, size, color, etc.) of the selected place where the text is being inserted.