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Thursday December 22nd, 2005
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[Column] Just a Thought - Cracked Carols: PC User's Lament

Vern Seward composed a Christmas carol dedicated to those slaving away over their Windows PC.

[4:50 PM EST] DealsOnTheWeb.com - Canon Powershot A410 3.2MP Digital Camera Drops to $135.94 Delivered

Our DealsOnTheWeb.com site found a deal on the PowerShot A410 3.2MP Digital Camera for US$135.94, including free shipping.

[2:40 PM EST] iPodObserver - Analyst: Video Downloads 'Perfect Test Bed For Full-Length TV Shows'

Vamsi Sistla, an analyst with ABI Research, on Thursday issued a report in which he explained that the burgeoning market for video downloads to portable players such as iPods "will be a perfect test bed for full-length television shows.".

[MacOS News] Security-Protocols Details OS X Denial of Service Threat

Security-Protocols has released information about a denial of service vulnerability in the KHTMLParser in Mac OS X v10.4.3, as well as earlier versions of the operating system.

[1:10 PM EST] Sony Snags Former Apple Media VP

Sony announced on Thursday that it has hired former Apple VP of Interactive Media, Tim Schaaff, to fill its Senior Vice President of Software Development position.

[11:40 AM EST] Tunatic: Identify Songs By Sound

Wildbits announced the immediate availability of Tunatic on Thursday. The application can identify a song on the radio, or from another sound source, based on how it sounds.

[11:05 AM EST] New ScriptPak For GarageBand 2

MacSpeech announced the immediate availability of its ScriptPak for GarageBand 2.

[10:55 AM EST] CipherWorks 4.0 Encrypts Files, Disks

SubRosaSoft announced the immediate availability of CipherWorks 4 on Wednesday.

[10:20 AM EST] iPodObserver - iPod, iTunes Makes Google Top Lists

The iPod and iTunes were both on Google's lists of popular searches for 2005. The lists are a part of Google's annual Zeitgeist report, which analyzes the trends in search queries for the past year.

[Podcast] TMO To Go Podcast - Weekly Roundup: Dec. 22nd, 2005

The Roundup comes a little early this week, in an attempt to steer clear of holiday madness, but the news is just as juicy as ever.

[Stock Watch] Piper Jaffray: Holiday Sales Keep Apple at Outperform

Holiday sales are higher this year than they were in 2004 at Apple specialist stores, according to a Piper Jaffray report issued on Thursday. Retailers showed stronger sales for both Macs and iPods.

[7:45 AM EST] Apple Releases Aperture 1.0.1 Update

Aperture 1.0.1, Apple's pro-level photographic management and manipulation application, was released on Tuesday.

[12:00 AM EST] CopyCatX 3.0 Creates Disk Images From Damaged Media, More

SubRosaSoft has released version 3.0 of its drive duplication software CopyCatX. The upgrade uses fault tolerant algorithms that enable it to create disk images even when media is damaged, such as scratched CDs or damaged hard drives.

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