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Apple’s QuickTime 6 Downloads Top 250 Million
G5 Liquid Cooling
Toshiba Announces 60GB 1.8-Inch Hard Drives - iPod-bound?
Internet Explorer Security Hole Discovered
Copy Protection To Extend To Multiple But Limited Burns
SCO's Unix Licensing Revenues Drop By 99% in Q2
Adobe brings PDF to Linux masses
Gene and Grayson Steinberg Meet Desktop Publishing Guru David Blatner and Michael Wray of Mariner Software this week on The Mac Night Owl LIVE
Mac Night Owl: The Mac System Migration Report: Maybe Apple Listens After All
eWeek: Apple Pumps Up G5 With Dual Processors
ExtremeTech: Future TiVos Will Download Content From The Net
eWeek: VoIP Still a Joke That's Not Funny[/url]


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Apple’s QuickTime 6 Downloads Top 250 Million

Apple yesterday announced that more than 250 million copies of QuickTime 6 have been downloaded in less than two years since its release. QuickTime is Apple’s industry-leading, standards-based software for developing, producing and delivering high-quality audio and video over IP, wireless and broadband networks.

“QuickTime 6 is by far the most popular version of QuickTime ever distributed, with over 250 million copies downloaded and counting,” said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing. “With QuickTime 6, Apple continues to be the industry leader in providing an end-to-end standards-based digital media delivery system.”

As the platform of choice for content creators worldwide, QuickTime delivers the full media experience for thousands of unique software titles and enhanced music CDs and over 225 digital camera models from over 50 camera manufacturers. QuickTime was chosen by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) as the base file format for MPEG-4 and is at the core of the 3GPP and 3GPP2 standards.

QuickTime 6.5 includes enhanced support for 3GPP and 3GPP2 mobile networks and is available as a free download for Mac and Windows users at:
http://www.apple.com/quicktime






G5 Liquid Cooling

An Apple Web page notes:

" The top-of-the-line Power Mac G5 with dual 2.5GHz processors squeezes outrageous performance into tight quarters. To cool down those steaming circuits, Apple designed a sophisticated liquid cooling system that takes off the heat without bumping up the noise. Mac OS X dynamically adjusts the flow of the fluid and the speed of the fans based on temperature.

"The dual 2.5GHz Power Mac G5 features an innovative liquid cooling system that’s more efficient than a traditional heat sink. This system provides a continuous flow of thermally conductive fluid that transfers heat from the processors as they work harder. The heated fluid then flows through a radiant grille, where air passing over cooling fins returns the fluid to its original temperature.

"It’s no secret that computers generate heat. So Apple divided the inside of the Power Mac G5 into four discrete thermal zones, compartmentalizing the primary heat-producing components — processor, PCI, storage and power supply. So the system can decrease the temperature of a single zone without affecting the others.

"Each of the four thermal zones is equipped with its own dedicated, low-speed fans. Apple engineered the nine fans to spin at very low speeds for minimum acoustic output. Using 21 different sensors, Mac OS X constantly monitors component temperatures in each zone, dynamically adjusting individual fan speeds to the appropriate levels for the quietest possible operation. As a result, the Power Mac G5 runs two times quieter than the previous Power Mac G4 enclosure."

For more information, visit:
http://www.apple.com/powermac/design.html






Toshiba Announces 60GB 1.8-Inch Hard Drives - iPod-bound?

Ars Technics's Eric Bangeman reports:

"In a move that was sure to infuriate Apple, Toshiba let it be known that they will be shipping 60GB models of their 1.8-inch hard drives in July and August, and that Apple is buying them up. Since the only product Apple uses the drives for is the iPod, one can easily connect the dots and see that new, larger-capacity iPods are on the horizon. The larger drive will contain two 30GB platters, an increase from the previous 20GB platter size."

For the full report, visit here:
http://arstechnica.com/news/posts/1086277640.html?lol=noyuo-2004






Internet Explorer Security Hole Discovered

Techworld.com Kieren McCarthy reports:

"Two new vulnerabilities have been discovered in Internet Explorer which allow a complete bypass of security and provide system access to a computer, including the installation of files on someone's hard disk without their knowledge, through a single click.

"Worse, the holes have been discovered from analysis of an existing link on the Internet and a fully functional demonstration of the exploit have been produced and been shown to affect even fully patched versions of Explorer.

"It has been rated "extremely critical" by security company Secunia, and the only advice is to disable Active Scripting support for all but trusted websites."

For the full report, visit here:
http://www.computerworld.com.au/nindex.php?id=117316298&eid=-255






Copy Protection To Extend To Multiple But Limited Burns

Faultline reports:

"The two most prominent suppliers of copy protection for music compact disks, are set to come back to the market with rethought offerings whereby CD copying is allowed, but limited to a set number. This strategy, dictated by the record labels as “where they are trying to get,” will emerge in new offerings from market leader Macrovision and SunnComm, during the course of 2004.

"So far, CD copy protection has been crude. It is either on, or it is off. You can either copy as many times as you like, or not copy at all, and the record companies have been terrified of implementing the “copy protection on” mode in sensitive markets. For sensitive markets read the US, primarily, and some parts of Europe.....

"Once they have brought some acceptable form of copy protection to the US, then they will try to bring the same concepts to the online music services of only allowing a set number of CD burns or other copies, for each downloaded track."

For the full report, visit here:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/06/10/copy_brotection_burn/






SCO's Unix Licensing Revenues Drop By 99% in Q2

COMPUTERWORLD's Todd R. Weiss reports:

"A spectacular 99% drop in Unix licensing revenue for the second quarter of 2004 led overall revenue for Unix vendor The SCO Group Inc. to plunge to $10.1 million for the quarter, which ended April 30. That's down 53% from $21.4 million one year earlier.

"In an announcement today, the Lindon, Utah-based company, which is embroiled in lawsuits with IBM and Novell Inc. over the rights to the Unix operating system and related issues, said the revenue drop was 'primarily the result of a lack of SCOsource licensing revenue' from its SCOsource division....

"After the financial announcement, the company's stock fell. Shortly before the market close today, it was off 10.85%, to $4.85 per share."

Good enough for the miserable $#@^%#$^$^^%#s!

For the full report, visit here.






Adobe brings PDF to Linux masses

Macworld UK reports:

"Adobe has released Adobe Acrobat Reader and its Adobe PDF format for a consumer electronics-focused version of Linux....

"Adobe hopes its release will be utilized in a plethora of new consumer electronic devices based on this version of Linux."

For the full report, visit here:
http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/index.cfm?NewsID=8884






Gene and Grayson Steinberg Meet Desktop Publishing Guru David Blatner and Michael Wray of Mariner Software this week on The Mac Night Owl LIVE

This week, Gene and Grayson will interview "Mr. QuarkXPress" himself, David Blatner, and explore desktop publishing in the 21st century and why he switched to Adobe InDesign. We'll also hear from Michael Wray, President of Mariner Software [ http://www.marinersoftware.com ], who will be on hand to tell us about the company's budget priced word processor, Mariner Write and also Mariner Calc.

As usual, Gene will be ably assisted by his irreverent son and co-host, Grayson Steinberg. When it comes to The Mac Night Owl, expect the unexpected.

Special Notice: We are now able to take your calls on the air toll-free from any location in the U.S. We'll announce the number during show time so stay tuned.

You can tune into the broadcast from 6:00 to 8:00 PM Pacific, 9:00 to 11:00 PM Eastern, at:
http://www.macradio.com/Friday






Mac Night Owl: The Mac System Migration Report: Maybe Apple Listens After All

Or maybe they don't.

Here's the URL for today's commentary:

http://www.macnightowl.com/index.htm#all







eWeek: Apple Pumps Up G5 With Dual Processors

"After a week of fevered speculation by Mac fans, Apple on Wednesday updated its Power Mac G5 series of desktop computers with three new dual-processor models.

The new lineup marks a return to Apple's "all-dual" strategy first introduced with the second generation of Power Mac G4s. The company's line now includes a machine featuring two 1.8GHz PowerPC G5 processors, priced at $1999; a mid-range model with two 2.0GHz processors, at $2499; and a high-end model with dual 2.5GHz chips for $2,999."

Read more at:
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,,1609256,00.asp






ExtremeTech: Future TiVos Will Download Content From The Net

"TiVo Inc. said Tuesday that it is taking steps toward allowing its PVRs to access content from the Web. The personal-video-recorder company will also allow subscribers access to certain multimedia options it once reserved for premium customers.

TiVo's representatives confirmed that they are working toward a future that will allow their personal-video-recorder devices to access music and movies downloaded from the Internet. Currently, the boxes only allow content to be recorded from television broadcasts, although a Home Media option also allows those recordings to be scheduled via the Internet. Users may also view pictures and listen to music stored on a PC."

Read more at:
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,,1609309,00.asp






eWeek: VoIP Still a Joke That's Not Funny

"The technology for doing VOIP is established, pretty stable and in use. According to Sonus, roughly 10 percent of the world's wired phone networks are switched by IP switches-and a lot of those are owned by Sonus, of course.

But watching people trying to do voice over WLAN in London, you'd never have guessed."

Read more at:
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,,1609349,00.asp


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