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• Query on Cyberdog
• Speech recognition
• clamAV conflict
• HTML in Mail
• Thunderbird RC
• New Dossier released
• EarthBrowser 2.5

• November's Top-Ranked CEOs - Steve Jobs Agaon
• iTunes Not Ready To Sing 'O Canada'
• iTunes Music Store Nowhere In Sight
• Mini-Tutorial: Reverting To An Earlier Version Of Mac OS X
• Ohio Legislation Would Send Spammers To Jail
• How and Why I Use an eMac, iBook, and Power Mac G3
• MacLink Plus 15: Still Capable after All These Years, But...
• ThinkFree Office: Slow, Unpolished, Yet Useful
• Merrill Lynch Looks To 'Killer' Apple Home Media Server
• New Apple Macintosh-Based Consulting Group in Pittsburgh
• Lycos Antispam Screensaver Draws Fire
• New Netscape Browser Includes IE Engine
• eWeek: The Year in Review: Apple Thrives in Surprising Ways
• Voice Speech Recognition Is No Substitute For Mouse And Keyboard
• Digital Video Expo West to Debut New Special Events and Panels
• Don't Let Data Loss Ruin Your Holidays: Critical Digital Photo Housekeeping Pointers from Ontrack Data Recovery
• Gene & Grayson Steinberg meet "The Cult of Mac" author Leander Kahney, Craig Crossman and enter the "David Biedny Zone" this week on The Mac Night Owl LIVE
• Mac Night Owl: The Case For a Flash iPod
• ExtremeTech: Radeon X850 Platinum Edition Review

• Radical Breeze Releases Updates To DiscBlaze, RadicalSafe, DeskDoodle [OS 10.2.6 up]
• PatchBurn 3.0b7 Enables Unsupported Drives In iTunes, Disc Burner [OS 10.2 up]
• EarthBrowser 2.5.0 Dynamic Earth; Weather, Quakes, Volcanoes, Icebergs [OS X 10.1 up]
• BookLightning 1.4 Creates And Prints Booklets From PDF files [OS 10.2 up]
• Namely 1.5 Opens Apps By Typing Part Of Name [OS 10.2 up]
• You Control 1.0b1: Desktops Custom Menu Utility Allows You To Create Multiple Virtual Desktops [OS X 10.3 up]
• iSwipe 1.7b4 Multi-Protocol Search And Download Tool [OS X]

• Ultra-portable DynaMO 1300 Pocket Drive
• PDF2Office Converts PDF To Editable Word, Appleworks, RTF
• Studio Network Solutions Creates iSCSI Initiator to Produce Complete Storage Solutions for Mac and Windows
• Dossier Information Management System
• Sharper Image Launches Premier Sound Soother System for iPod and MP3 with 50 Sound Soother Selections

Except for the rare exceptions—NBA Jam, NFL Blitz, Tony Hawk's Pro Skater—sports games are games, not Art with a capital A like Battlefield 1942 or Metal Gear Solid, and they're not really intended to be. MTX Mototrax feels like less of a game as it does a $19.99 toy for people who like that kind of thing. It's meant for the people who already like it and doesn't really try all that hard to persuade you to if you currently don't. It is, much like this review, aimed at paying the bills, not at the history books...

As if 5 million monkeys weren't enough, Freeverse has released even more. An iPod mini was awarded to the lucky school teacher who played the 5 millionth ranked game of Burning Monkey Solitaire, but the rest of us have been rewarded with the release of Burning Monkey Solitaire 2005 Edition, with more jokes, more animations and more games.

Ambrosia Software's early game, Apeiron, has finally arrived on OS X. Shinier than a dilithium crystal, it packs plenty of new goodies to enhance the enthralling, energetic gameplay of the original.

Toon Boom Animation is offering a fairly amazing deal on their starter animation program, Toon Boom Studio Express. Until December 24th, you can buy the program online for only $29.95 USD...a savings of nearly $115.00.

Blizzard Entertainment today confirmed that World of Warcraft has broken day-one sales records in North America, making it the most successful PC game launch ever. World of Warcraft, the company's subscription-based massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG), sold through to over 240,000 customers at retailers in North America on Tuesday, November 23, selling more in its first 24 hours than any other PC game in history*.

Specials from MacZone, Office Depot, Publishing Perfection, and MacConnection

Speed is today's theme

• ViaVoice for Mac OSX and iPod
• File syncing
• Security solution
• Weird looking keyboard
• Adaptec USBXchange VS Adaptec USB2Xchange
• A one-man band

• Unprotected PCs Can Be Hijacked In Minutes
• IBM And Chip Partners Take Aim At Intel
• New Music Downloads Player
• iMac's G5 Top Choice Of Year
• The Mac Attack: No Sympathy Here For Teachers Polishing Apples
• The American-Speaker's Guide To Proper English
• Sony To Ship True MP3 HDD Music Player Next Month
• Dashboard: Mac OS X 10.4
• Lycos Offers Program to Attack Spammers
• Outsourced Netscape Merges Firefox, IE
• Mercurial Communications Listed Again As One Of Canada’s Fastest Growing Companies
• FPT Becomes Official Distributor Of Apple Computers In VietNam
• Sony vs. Big Apple
• Envision Web Show of the Week for 11/29/2004
• Baseline: The New Face of Surveillance

MirrorMask, written by Neil Gaiman and directed by Dave McKean, will have its first U.S. showing at the Sundance Film Festival next year. The film's weird and fantastic sets (and some of its characters) were created with the help of Macs by McKean.

• iListen 1.6.6 Speech Recognition Dictation, Command & Control, Transcription
• DEVONthink Personal Edition 1.9 Released
• FirmTek Announces and Ships Full Featured Dual-Bay Hot-Swappable Serial ATA External Enclosure
• FirmTek Ships Innovative External Serial ATA Adapter for Macintosh and Windows Computers
• Creative Manager Pro Adds New Features and Support for Safari 1.2.4 and iCal 1.5.4
• Olympus Introduces Stylus 500 All-Weather 5-Megapixel Digital Camera
• Hollywood Veterans Bring Next Generation Websites To a Computer Screen Near You
• Aspyr Media Inc. Ships Call of Duty: United Offensive for the Mac
• Toshiba Introduces Multimedia Center Hub to Enhance Notebook Computer Experience at Home
• Agilent Technologies Introduces High-Performance, LED-Based Optical Mouse Sensor

• GraphicConverter X 5.4 To View, Edit, Convert Most Image Formats [OS X 10.1.3 up]
• DEVONnote 1.6 Note Pad, Bookmark Manager And Webcam Browser [OS 10.2.7 up]
• ScrapX 1.3.5 Released [OS 10.2 up]
• Konfabulator 1.8.1 JavaScript Runtime Engine To Run Widget Files [OS 10.2 up]
• Pinch ol' Santa Perennial Favorite Game For The Christmas Season [OS X 10.1 up]
• MacGhostView 3.1 General Purpose PostScript & PDF Previewer [OS 8.6 up]
• SnapNDrag 1.5.1 Effortless Screen Capture [OS 10.2 up]
• iCash X 2.2 Personal Finances And Money Manager

Those who wanted to try the OS X emulator have gotten an unpleasant surprise, and those who accuse CherryOS of being vaporware are not surprised at all.

The popular online music store is still unavailable in Canada, despite Apple's announcement that it would be up in November.

DEVONtechnologies Ltd. has updated its freeform database and information manager DEVONthink Personal Edition to version 1.9 and has released DEVONnote 1.6.