Adrift in the digital doldrums? We have just the ticket to return you to multimedia equilibrium.

It’s QuickTime Live!. The educational and networking event of the year for multimedia professionals, QuickTime Live! comes to Beverly Hills, California, in less than 60 days: October 8 to 11. So get out your calendar, circle those dates, and register today.

What can you expect? How about 6 day-long workshops, more than 40 conference sessions, tons of peer-to-peer mingling opportunities, and an up-to-the-minute product showcase, featuring the latest multimedia devices and technologies?

To find out more, check out our conference schedule. Don’t procrastinate, now. October’s right around the corner. Registration is limited, but you can still reserve your place if you act now.

Apple has become aware of a compatibility issue between QuickTime and Internet Explorer 5.5 SP2 and the Internet Explorer 6 Preview for Windows. To restore compatibility, those using these browsers need to install a small piece of software, called the ActiveX control, which is available on our website.

This issue affects ONLY those of you using one of the above versions of Internet Explorer on a Windows-based computer. It does not affect those using Internet Explorer on a Macintosh or those using Netscape Navigator, other versions of Internet Explorer, or other web browsers.

In short, the above versions of Internet Explorer no longer support Netscape-style plug-ins, such as the plug-in installed with QuickTime 5.0.2 and earlier versions of QuickTime. As a result of this issue, when you visit a site with QuickTime content, Internet Explorer will display the icon of a broken plug-in.

To resolve the issue, customers using Internet Explorer on Windows should visit our QuickTime site, where you will be prompted to download and install the ActiveX control (if you do not already have it). Note that if you have chosen to trust software from Apple during previous installations, you will not be prompted before the ActiveX control is installed.

It’s certainly a busy time for the King of Pop.

He just turned 43. He’s about to release a new album. And he’s in final preparations for his star-studded 30th anniversary concert. Scheduled to open September 10 in New York's Madison Square Garden, the event will reunite him with his brothers for the first time in 20 years.

His new “Invincible” album isn’t due out until later this fall, but—by special arrangement—you can listen to “You Rock My World,” its first single at michaeljackson.com.<sup>1


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Though we’ll be taking a short hiatus over Labor Day and won’t publish again until September 21, we don’t want you to miss any musical activities in the interim—especially exclusive events by such exciting artists as Canadian metal band Nickelback, singer/pianist Ben Folds (September 11) and soulful R&B artist Macy Gray (September 18).

Not all the notes have been written yet, but we’ll make sure our staff puts the entire score for these—and any other late-breaking—music events on the QuickTime Hot Picks page.

Check in early next month, and be sure to listen up for Nickleback, Ben Folds, and Macy Gray.

We thought you rabid college football fans would enjoy watching head coach Mack Brown of the University of Texas guide his squad (possibly the finest football team in the mighty state) through preseason practice before the Longhorns’ September 1 game against New Mexico.

And while you’re getting in the mood for some football, take a QuickTime VR tour of the Darrel K. Royal Texas Memorial Stadium in Austin. Stand on the 50-yard line, inspect Bevo the mascot and Old Smoky the cannon; visit the locker rooms, trophy rooms, and players’ lounge; and enjoy many other behind-the-bleachers hotspots.

Now for Something Completely Different
British comedian Robert Llewellyn invents improbable characters for short films on his website, BWebB. Llewellyn’s latest incarnation is The Happy Farmer, who offers his views on foot-and-mouth disease and the city folk who regularly invade his country land. Bother this farmer? Oi! No’ a bit!

On Christmas Day 2001, we’ll be treated to a remake of “The Time Machine,” based on the novel by the visionary author H.G. Wells, and directed by Simon Wells, great-grandson of H.G. himself.

Although the book and the 1960 version of the film both started in London, this remake opens at New York’s Columbia University in 1895, where professor Alexander Hartdegen (Guy Pearce) has built a time machine that propels him into the future. Hartdegen ultimately arrives in the year 802,701 to find that mankind is now made up of two races: the Eloi, who are fun-loving and peaceful; and the Morlocks, hideous monsters who live underground by day—and hunt the Eloi by night.

Unwrap an early Christmas gift by watching the teaser trailer today.

The dance-pop group Faithless consists of former record producer Rollo Armstrong, the U.K.’s DJ Sister Bliss, and vocalist Maxi Jazz. Watch the video of their funky tribute to the great boxer “Muhammad Ali” from their new CD, “Outrospective.”¹

Get Warped
In May 2001, Warp Records and the jazz-inspired electronica band Squarepusher challenged designers from around the world to create animations for tracks from the band’s new CD, “Go Plastic.” Watch the winning video and the four runners-up on the Warp Records website.

Ready to Mambo?
Compiled with the help of DJ Pete Gooding at Ibiza’s Café Mambo, the new “Mambo Album—Siesta II Sunset at Café Mambo” perfectly captures the chilled-out mood of this ultra-hot Spanish resort island. Have a listen.¹

Join the Chorus
Recorded at the Spitalfields Festival in London, the world-famous Cambridge Trinity College Choir delves into the enormous variety of choral music written throughout the ages—from Hildegard von Bingen and Monteverdi to Bach and a new work by Payne. Watch and listen through August 27.¹

As We Are Now
In a video documentary by one of the new bright lights of jazz, Canadian-born pianist Renee Rosnes reveals the process of making her recent CD, “As We Are Now.” Watch the video through August 30.¹

Samba Anyone?
Samba into a world of sultry, sophisticated South American swing. Malandro Records is the home of the finest Brazilian music, including jazz, bossa, samba, and choro. Listen to samples of songs from CDs in the Malandro’s collection, including their limited-edition compilation, “Brazil 500.”

Malandro’s website also includes a wonderfully unique QuickTime player that will help you get the most out of the music.¹

Follow Your Muse
The U.K.’s New Musical Express described the band Muse as “ballroom-dancing punk poets with fire in their eyes and grit in their veins.”

On August 20, Muse released their new single “Bliss,” the follow-up to two top-20 singles from their hit CD, “Origin Of Symmetry.” Watch the sci-fi inspired video for “Bliss” here.

Warm Embrace
They’re the band that Rolling Stone calls “The next big thing in Brit-pop.” And you’ll believe it when you check out the nine creative music videos from the critically acclaimed band Embrace, which formed ten years ago in Huddersfield, England.

New Music Mondays
This week on New Music Mondays, thrill to a new full-length video from Stone Gossard. Next month, Pearl Jam’s guitarist will release his first solo album, “Bayleaf.” This week listen to the first single from that album "Unhand Me."

As Stone Gossard vacates the stage, Jamiroquai is scheduled to treat us to "Little L," from Monday, August 27, to Sunday, September 2.

Aimee Mann‘s
Calling it Quits
No, she’s not quitting the business, but the singer-songwriter does bring her distinctive style and her ever-present guitar to the music video of “Calling it Quits.” You’ll find it on the V2music site.


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