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… on a community blog that gathers state level political news from around the country, the mellifluously named “Political State Report.” Greg is covering Georgia with all the skill, thoroughness and wit that he customarily brings to the Green[e]house Effect. Suggestion to Greg: ain’t nothing wrong with reposting your stuff from Polstate over to the [...]

Call it “How to bury an important announcement, Part II.” Without any fanfare, Apple released a public beta of an X11 environment for Mac OS X. Unlike third party efforts, the X11 for Mac OS X public beta provides true Aqua window management and graphics acceleration courtesy of Quartz. (A curious thing: the pointer to [...]

SF Chronicle: CD settlement money going begging so far. According to the article, if you bought a CD, cassette tape, or vinyl record between 1995 and 2000 at a retail store, you are eligible for a piece of the settlement that BMG, EMI, Warner, Sony, and Universal paid for price fixing. Also according to the [...]

All the links for the new products announced during the keynote are now live. I started wondering about the claim that the 12″ PowerBook is the “smallest PowerBook ever.” Surely it’s not smaller than an iBook? or a Duo? Here are the dimensions as they stack up. Steve wasn’t idly boasting, but it depends on [...]

Continuing with the live blog of the live bloggers: Eric says Steve is talking hardware, including laptops: 17 inch Powerbooks, only 1 inch thick: 1440×900 resolution, 16:10 ratio. Fiber-optic backlit keyboard. 6.8 pounds. Aircraft-grade aluminum. 1 GHz G4 and FireWire 800. Will all bloggers lust after the new AlBook like they did the TiBook? Have [...]

Dave points to Matthew Langham, who is blogging the keynote real time. First big announcement: “FinalCut Express. Looks really neat (from the demo). How much will it cost? 299$ Wow!” Matthew also notes that watching Steve demo iMovie 3 (announced along with iPhoto 2) is “boring.” Sounds familiar. Additional announcements: iLife, an integrated suite of [...]

I still may not be able to get through to the keynote stream, but some smart readers on MacSlash noted that .Mac has been updated to provide an online address book that iSyncs with your offline one; Mac to Mac synchronizations; checking outside POP mail with webmail.mac.com; and other mail features.

Courtesy Indiana University: 10061 : Connection Failed Error Some users may experience a “10061 – Connection Failed” error. This is usually due to an incorrect streaming transport setting on the player and is easy to fix. From the desktop, double-click on the QuickTime Player icon to open the application (or from the Windows Start menu: [...]

Last year at this time I was live-blogging the MacWorld SF 2002 Apple keynote from the Apple Store in McLean, Virginia. I don’t think I’ll be repeating that feat this year; for one thing I’m working today, and for another I very much doubt I’ll actually get access to a good feed of the keynote, [...]