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  With their first new studio album in six years already heating up the charts, Earth, Wind and Fire continue to deliver the lush arrangements and tight performances you’d expect from these classic Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Famers. Pop open their custom QuickTime Player, and, behind the planets, discover three singles from their new album “The Promise,” including “All in the Way,” “She Waits,” and “Wonderland.” You can also view live concert footage of the band performing the classics “September” and “Shining Star.” Like to own your favorite Earth, Wind and Fire songs in pristine digital form? Find them at the iTunes Music Store.   The Dandy Warhols call themselves “groovy cats with nothing to prove.” Check them out in their new music video, “We Used to Be Friends,” from their new album, “Welcome to the Monkeyhouse.” The Warhols also invite you to enjoy a video retrospective from previous albums, including “Urban Bohemia,” “Come Down,” and “Dandys Rule OK.”  One of Nashville’s hottest country stars, John Michael Montgomery already sports notches for 17 Top 5 country singles and six Top 5 albums on his belt. Enjoy “The Very Best of John Michael Montgomery” in its entirety before its official release (August 26). Browse the iTunes Music Store to find 10 other albums and partial albums by Montgomery.  Boca Raton’s Dashboard Confessional provides an ideal showcase for frontman singer/songwriter Chris Carrabba’s love of simple acoustics and emotive wordplay. Watch as RollingStone.com presents a live acoustic performance of the band’s latest single, “Hands Down” (available at the iTunes Music Store).  With so many hit songs to his credit, Rod Stewart needed a follow-up to his first “best of” album. Presenting “Encore: The Very Best of Rod Stewart, Volume 2,” featuring 18 of the raspy rocker’s finest songs recorded between 1975 and 2001. Rod is “Having a Party,” so come on over and hear the new album in its entirety before it hits the stores on August 26. Want to put together your own playlist of your favorite Rod Stewart tunes? You’ll find 24 albums and partial albums by Stewart at the iTunes Music Store.  Denmark’s dance-pop duo Junior Senior invite you to “Move Your Feet” in their animated music video starring singing and dancing hot dogs, pineapples, slices of toast — and a demented squirrel. It’s from the pair’s latest album, “D-D-Don’t Don’t Stop The Beat.” If you’re a Mac user with iTunes 4, enjoy Junior Senior’s featured artist page at the iTunes Music Store.  Let hip-hop’s Nappy Roots take you “Roun’ the Globe” in the first single and video from their new album, “Wooden Leather,” due for release on August 26. Can’t wait till then to own the new single? Download it now from the iTunes Music Store. |
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  Watching a pro hockey game from a skybox seat is a thrill, no doubt about it. But it’s hard to see all the action of this fast-moving game from a distance. Working with his collegues, Bradley Walker and Dan Castagnoli, Chris Monicatti created a QuickTime-based system to deliver high-definition video and still images to guests in the executive suites of St. Paul’s Xcel Energy Center as they watch their beloved Minnesota Wild compete in the rink. “QuickTime provides us with the most robust and extensible architecture for our environment,” says Castagnoli. “We’re able to capture what’s happening on the ice in a way that most people never see,” adds Monicatti — capturing, in fact, details as amazing as a team’s logo on a puck, frozen in mid-air.   
In the late 1990s, Michael Lee moved to the U.S. from his native
Australia, hoping to become a rock star, and it looks like he’s
gotten his wish. In 2001 he formed The Rising, and the band’s debut
CD, “Future Unknown,” hits stores on September 9.
On July 11, The Rising performed live at the new Apple Store in Santa Monica, California, to help celebrate its grand opening. Experience Lee’s powerful vocals in footage shot at this event, featuring four songs from the band’s upcoming album. And don’t miss the music video for “Cradle,” The Rising’s first single.  Want to go to the beach? Seriously, you can go right now. Los Angeles County has set up webcams to monitor the Golden State’s prime coastal locations, including Hermosa Beach, Zuma Beach, Marina Del Rey, and Manhattan Beach. Find out about local conditions, and use QuickTime VR to scope out the surfers, vollyeballers and beachcombers while you’re sitting at your desk wishing you were there. Images are refreshed every 30 minutes. If you’re curious about how beaches erode, watch a video compiled of time-lapse images shot over a recent six month period at Will Rogers Creek.  
A neurotic Cleveland file clerk makes an unlikely comic book
hero. But for 25 years, Harvey Pekar has immortalized his life as an
ordinary, self-absorbed curmudgeonly schlub in his popular
underground comic book, “American Splendor.” The eccentric Pekar is
the subject of a witty and offbeat biopic that captured the Grand
Jury prize at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. “American
Splendor” stars Paul Giamatti and Hope Davis, and is currently
playing in select theaters.
It can be agonizing to turn 13 in Los Angeles, especially when the
pressure to grow up is set on fast-forward by a wild and
self-destructive new best friend. “Thirteen” is the story of Tracy,
who soon finds herself in over her head and at loggerheads with her
single-parent mom in an age-old struggle for identity and
independence.
Winner of the Director’s Award for Dramatic Film at Sundance 2003, “Thirteen” stars Evan Rachel Wood and Holly Hunter. Find it today in select theaters.  
It seems that everybody’s authoring DVDs these days. It’s a great
way to organize and deliver digital content, whether your projects
are for clients or just for you. Now shipping, DVD Studio Pro 2
makes it easy to create DVDs by letting you encode any
QuickTime-supported file using Compressor, a powerful video encoding
tool found in the application. After encoding your source files with Compressor, you
get high-quality optimized MPEG-2 files, formatted and ready for
DVD.
Take a Quick Tour of DVD Studio Pro 2 to see just how easy it is to create professional-quality DVDs. Ever need to grab a frame from a QuickTime or DV movie to use on the web? Save a step or two by using Quick-Snap, a free tool that lets Mac OS X users save movie frames or images as web-friendly JPEGs. It also lets you convert PDF, GIF, or other image formats to JPEGs with just a single click. If you’d like to tweak your JPEGs by resizing or compressing them, all you’ll need is Quick-Snap’s Pro version — a snappy deal at just $15. Want the lowdown on creating stellar QuickTime VR? Attend the annual International QuickTime VR Summit, October 1-3, in Herndon, Virginia. You’ll get hands-on instruction and learn about the latest QuickTime VR-related software and hardware. Register before September 15 and save $50.  
Have you heard? Apple is giving away an iPod every day between
August 20 and September 20, 2003. If you're a Mac user, just create
a new iTunes Music Store account during this time and you'll be
automatically entered into the daily drawing for a new 10GB iPod.
Terms and conditions apply, so visit the Apple website for details.
And here's yet another reason to visit the iTunes Music Store today.
“Wanting Out” — a previously unreleased track from the recording
sessions of Michelle Branch's latest album, “Hotel Paper“ — is now
available exclusively at the iTunes Music
Store.
Watch hoop dreams come true for the San Antonio Spurs in highlights
from the new DVD “San Antonino Spurs: 2002-2003 NBA Champions.”
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