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TidBITS#679/05-May-03

We continue to focus on the iTunes Music Store this week with a detailed analysis of how it works, who stands to benefit, and its impressive results so far. We also explain why you might have seen old issues of TidBITS appearing in your mail, pass on news of Rick Smolan’s latest collaborative photography project, and ask your opinion of listing TidBITS Talk discussions in TidBITS. Interesting releases this week include Watson 1.7 and Palm Desktop 4.1.

Geoff Duncan No comments

The Case of the Tardy TidBITS

The Case of the Tardy TidBITS -- During the last week, some of you have been receiving old issues of TidBITS via email, some dating back as far as mid-March.We had received a significant number of reports of missing issues during the last several weeks, but weren't able to pinpoint a problem: from our end of things, everything looked normal

Jeff Carlson No comments

Palm Desktop 4.1 Released

Palm Desktop 4.1 Released -- Palm has released Palm Desktop 4.1 for Macintosh. New in this version is a Send to Handheld application that enables you to add image or MP3 music files to a Palm OS device by dropping them onto the application's icon

Adam Engst No comments

TidBITS Poll: Exposing TidBITS Talk

TidBITS Poll: Exposing TidBITS Talk -- In the last few issues, we have included a short article listing the main threads in TidBITS Talk as a way of making the majority of our readers more aware of the useful content in TidBITS Talk

Adam Engst No comments

Apple Changes the Face of Digital Music

We've now had a week to play with the new iTunes Music Store, to analyze how well it is implemented, and to think about the effect it could have on Apple, the recording industry, artists, the peer-to-peer file sharing networks, and even physical music stores

TidBITS Staff No comments

Hot Topics in TidBITS Talk/05-May-03

Not surprisingly, TidBITS Talk exploded last week with discussion of Apple's new iTunes Music Store, iTunes 4, and the new iPods. The lack of support for Mac OS 9 users was a sore spot, as was the lack of international availability, given Apple's poor record with iPhoto books and prints