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  You may ask yourself, “Where is the Talking Heads boxed set?” And you may say to yourself, “It’s right here, in a listening party from Rhino Records.” Enjoy 17 of the 50 tracks from “Talking Heads: Once in a Lifetime,” the first-ever “best of” collection from one of the most eclectically creative and influential bands of the late 20th century. Same as it ever was. Visit the iTunes Music Store to discover 10 albums spanning the Talking Heads’ entire career.   Pop singer/songwriter Michelle Branch hits the beach to perform her top-40 hit “Breathe” from her latest album, “Hotel Paper.” If you love this song as much as the rest of the world, you can find it remixed seven different danceable ways at the iTunes Music Store.  Ask Justin Timberlake about the fifth single just released from his 2002 album, “Justified” (available at the iTunes Music Store), and he’d likely say, “I’m Lovin’ It.” Watch the new video for the song here, and look for Timberlake’s new DVD, “Live From London,” in mid-December.  Her kiss with Madonna at MTV’s Video Music Awards was just a prelude. To launch her fourth album, “In the Zone,” Britney Spears reconnects with her legendary mentor to sing, dance, and flirt in the provocative video for “Me against the Music,” the debut single from Britney’s newly-released CD. Can’t get enough of Britney? Visit the iTunes Music Store.  “At Last,” Cyndi Lauper is back with a collection of her unique interpretations of well-known standards, including “Stay,” “Walk on By,” “Makin’ Whoopee” (with Tony Bennett), and the title track, “At Last.” Find out what Cyndi thinks about her new album in an exclusive interview. "At Last" is available at the iTunes Music Store, along with seven other albums by Cyndi Lauper. America’s favorite newlywed, Jessica Simpson demonstrates her housekeeping skills in “With You,” followed by a romantic waterfall encounter with hunky hubby Nick Lachey in “Sweetest Sin.” The videos are singles from Simpson’s latest album, “In This Skin.” For more Jessica Simpson, visit the iTunes Music Store.  The all-girl Canadian rock quartet Lillix wakes up, puts on some makeup, and shows off its spunky side in the rock anthem “Tomorrow,” from the band’s debut album, “Falling Uphill.” Like to purchase the album? Visit the iTunes Music Store. Shacklegrind calls herself a “sonic mistress to the underworld.” Surrender to the sweet, dark, and hypnotic world of her new album, “Shacklegrind I,” in a special listening party featuring all six tracks from the CD.  Just for you, Three Days Grace presents the second single, “Just Like You,” from its self-titled debut album.  The vocal versatility of Canadian rapper K-OS is featured in the latest single from The Chemical Brothers, “Get Yourself High.” Find out how well the song works in a hilarious martial arts “musical.” The scrappy San Diego pop-punk trio blink-182 is “Feeling This.” It’s the new single from the band’s new untitled album. CKY’s new music video is “Attached at the Hip.” Watch it here, then find it (along with tons of other CKY multimedia content) on the band’s new DVD, “Infiltrate-Destroy-Rebuild: The Video Album (The Deluxe Edition).” |
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  Great news for video pros. Now optimized for Power Mac G5 and Mac OS X v10.3 “Panther,” Final Cut Pro and DVD Studio Pro deliver greater performance than ever. Version 4.1 of the Emmy Award-winning Final Cut Pro lets you review up to seven simultaneous streams of fully uncompressed standard definition (SD) video on a Power Mac G5 — giving broadcast professionals industry-leading SD performance at a fraction of the cost of systems requiring dedicated hardware. For DVD authors, DVD Studio Pro 2.0.2 with the Compressor 1.1 update now offers a significant performance leap for encoding video from Final Cut Pro 4.1 into MPEG-2 — up to 55 percent faster on a Power Mac G5 when compared to a Power Mac G4. And since Compressor is an integrated part of both Final Cut Pro 4 and DVD Studio Pro 2, you can encode your projects into MPEG-2 for DVD, MPEG-4 for media streaming, or any supported QuickTime format with maximum efficiency and no generational loss. Visit the Apple website to download and learn more about the new versions of Final Cut Pro and DVD Studio Pro.   
Film critic Richard Roeper calls it the best movie he’s seen so far
this year.
“In America” is the story of an Irish family who moves to New York City to make a fresh start after the death of one of their children. Told through the eyes (and words) of the ten-year-old daughter, the story traces the family’s journey from grief to the discovery of hope and wonder in America and their downtrodden tenement home. “In America” opens in select cities on November 26, but you can enjoy the first six minutes of the movie now — exclusively in QuickTime.  
Here’s a chance to go back in time. Or at least feel like you have.
The dramatic and fascinating world of late-19th-century Japan was meticulously recreated for the upcoming film “The Last Samurai,” starring Tom Cruise. These breathtaking locations and sets were captured as QuickTime VR panoramas that you can explore in depth. As you move around the ancient village, boat dock, or ship’s cabin, listen to production designer Lilly Kilvert explain the challenges and delights of creating each set. Afterwards, you can watch scenes from the film that take place in each location accompanied by music from the movie. (And don’t worry, there are no spoilers here.) Want more? View panoramas of five additional sets from the film on the website of the American Museum of the Moving Image. “The Last Samurai” opens on December 5.  
They murdered her husband in cold blood. And now they’ve returned
for her daughter.
After a brutal band of outlaws kidnap Maggie Gilkeson’s teenaged daughter, the distraught woman reluctantly turns to her estranged father for help — an unlikely partnership, since he only recently returned home after having abandoned his family years before to live with the Apaches. Set in late-19th-century New Mexico, “The Missing” stars Cate Blanchett and Tommy Lee Jones, and is directed by Ron Howard. It opens on November 26.  
It’s the perfect introduction to animation. Using clay, toys, or
other objects, just about anyone can create time-lapse or
stop-motion animated movies using a DVD camcorder and an application
called iStopMotion.
It’s such a terrific application that the developer, Boinx Software, won first place in O’Reilly’s 2003 Mac OS X Innovator’s Contest in the International category. Want some inspiration? Visit the Examples page to view sample stop-motion movies made by both professional and amateur animators. Boinx has just released version 1.1.1 of iStopMotion, so if you’d like to try it, download the latest version from the istopmotion.com website.  
Did you know that the prestigious Berklee College of Music offers
courses in DJing? In a series of free instructional videos on the
Berklee Shares website, faculty member Stephen Webber teaches
aspiring DJs the techniques of crabbing, cueing, and doing drags and
transformers.
Browse the site for video instruction on several other instruments, as well.  
Discreet has released an update to cleaner 6 for Mac that addresses
an issue with QuickTime 6.4 and AAC encoding. Visit the Discreet
website to learn more and to download the cleaner 6.0.2b1 update.
If you’ve ever fantasized about racing fast cars or indulging in a
little guilt-free road rage, check out “Total Immersion Racing.”
This action-packed simulation game lets you command one of 18
real-world race cars and compete on a dozen tracks filled with tough
competitors — either real people over a network, or AI-based drivers.
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