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  “Who is it that never lets you down?” asks Björk. “Who is it that gave you back your crown?” The Icelandic crooner certainly doesn’t let her fans down with her newly-released video, “Who Is It,” which you can see in the über-cool MedÄlla Player. You can also discover more songs and videos from Björk’slatest album, “MedÄlla,” within the MedÄlla Player and at the iTunes Music Store.   S-N-double O-P, D-O-double G. Check out Snoop Dogg’s sizzling new video for “Drop It Like It’s Hot,” featuring Pharrell. You can find Snoop’s new album, “R&G (Rhythm & Gansta): The Masterpiece,” in stores November 23. Not only can you preview the single “Drop It Like It’s Hot” at the iTunes Music Store, you can also sample the radio edit, the extra clean radio edit and the instrumental version.  Hear LL Cool J like you’ve never heard him before in the listening party for “LL Cool J iTunes Originals.” The album contains 10 songs — including six newly recorded versions — and 11 interview tracks. Don’t miss exclusive versions of hits such as “Headsprung,” “Doin’ it,” “Hush,” “Love You Better” and more. Visit the iTunes Music Store to buy the album and preview more music from LL Cool J.  “Everybody’s talking all this stuff about me. Why don’t they just let me live?” Britney Spears knows how to pick a song to cover. Enjoy the video for her rendition of Bobby Brown’s 1988 hit “My Prerogative.” You can find the song and video on Britney’s “Greatest Hits” album and DVD, scheduled for release November 9. In the meantime, you can download all your Britney favorites at the iTunes Music Store.  Want some punk rock opera? Look no further than Green Day’s video “American Idiot,” the title track from the band’s new album available at the iTunes Music Store.  Massive Attack just recorded the original score for director Luc Besson’s martial arts thriller “Danny the Dog,” featuring Jet Li, Bob Hoskins and Morgan Freeman. Watch the full-length trailer of the movie and hear five songs from the album now. Preview more music from Massive Attack at the iTunes Music Store.  If you ever feel like you don’t belong, no one understands you or that you’re going to break down, connect with Simple Plan by watching the group’s video “Welcome to My Life.” You can find this single on the band’s newly-released album, “Still Not Getting Any...,” available at the iTunes Music Store.  Multi-instrumentalist and singer/songwriter John Ondrasik conjured ambitious compositional structures in Five for Fighting’s single, “Devil in the Wishing Well.” Enjoy the beautiful video for the single. For an exclusive remix of “The Devil in the Wishing Well,” as well as the original, visit the iTunes Music Store.  Check out Usher & Alicia Keyes’ stunning duet in the hot new video for “My Boo.” To download Usher’s “Confessions (Special Edition),” featuring “My Boo,” visit the iTunes Music Store.  Take a walk on the darkside with Three Days Grace’s “Home” video. Look in stores for the band’s new limited edition self-titled CD with bonus DVD, featuring (take a deep breath) previously unreleased music, all videos with behind the scenes action, live concert footage, acoustic performances and exclusive alternative versions of “Home” and “Just Like You” videos. Visit the iTunes Music Store to hear more music from 3DG’s self-titled album, plus the exclusive acoustic track “I Hate Everything About You.”  Solo piano covers of Radiohead’s “Paranoid Android,” Nick Drake’s “Things Behind the Sun” and Gershwin’s “Someone to Watch Over Me.” Sound interesting? Then don’t miss the Brad Mehldau “Live in Tokyo” listening party. For more music from Brad, visit the iTunes Music Store, too.  “Sincerely Hot” from Brazil-based Domenico + 2 incorporates everything from samba, bossa nova and Tropicalia to psychedelic rock and electronic fusion. Listen to the album now. If you like what you hear, you can buy it at the iTunes Music Store.   |
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Unveiled this week, iPod U2 Special Edition features a gorgeous jet
black enclosure and a red Click Wheel. On the backside you’ll discover
engraved autographs from each member of U2. No bigger than a deck of
cards and weighing just 5.6 ounces, this special edition iPod for Mac
and Windows holds 5,000 songs. With it, you get a $50 iTunes Music Store
coupon for the purchase of the soon-to-be-released “The Complete U2”
digitally boxed set featuring 400 U2 tracks. Watch the Apple Special
Event, featuring performances by Bono and the Edge, announcing
the new iPod U2 Special Edition.
Also introduced, iPod Photo holds up to 25,000 digital photos
alongside your music library, ready to show on its stunning
high-resolution color screen. iPod Photo features TV-out for sharing
your slideshows — with music — on big screen televisions and projectors.
iPod Photo comes in 40GB or 60GB models.In other music news, Apple launched a European Union version of the iTunes Music Store, giving music fans in Austria, Belgium, Finland, Greece, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Portugal and Spain a breakthrough price of €0.99 per song. 
Download the newly-released version of iTunes v4.7 to take advantage the
latest iTunes features, including support for moving photos to iPod
Photo, better handling of duplicate songs and a mini player in the
Windows task bar.
  
During the Equinox on September 18-22, 187 photographers around the
world created QuickTime VR panoramas of bridges — famous bridges,
historic bridges, railroad viaducts, pedestrian bridges, ornamental
bridges, natural bridges, swinging bridges, covered bridges, cultural
bridges and even the bridges of ships.
Sit back and take a virtual trip somewhere else in the world — Cairo, Shanghai, Sydney, Florence, Paris, Rio de Janeiro, San Francisco — with these VRs. Enjoy the engineering, materials, setting, history and purpose of the bridges that set them apart from the ones near you.  
From the creators of “Toy Story,” “Monsters, Inc.” and “Finding Nemo” comes the animated action-adventures of a family of undercover superheroes.
Meet the Incredibles: extremely flexible Elastigirl, amazingly strong Mr. Incredible, frequently invisible Violet, ultra speedy Dash and their friends — super cool Frozone and the fabulous superhero fashion designer Edna Mode. Mr. Incredible leaps into action when he’s mysteriously summoned for a top-secret assignment. But once he discovers super villain Syndrome plotting mischief, the whole Incredible crew joins him in trying to overthrow the evil genius. “The Incredibles” opens in theaters November 5. Get the exclusive “The Incredibles” EP remixes at the iTunes Music Store.  
If you’re in the mood for a little mystery solving, check out “Without a Trace: The Complete First Season” on DVD. Produced by Jerry Bruckheimer (”CSI,” “CSI: Miami”),
the Emmy Award-winning investigative series “Without a Trace” focuses on the missing persons division of the F.B.I.
By applying advanced psychological profiling techniques, this special task force traces the previous whereabouts of a missing person in order to quickly determine if the person committed suicide, ran away or fell victim to murder or abduction. This four-disc DVD set features all 22 episodes of the first season, a collection of unaired scenes, a making-of featurette and commentary from the cast and crew. Preview three clips from the DVD now.  
“Xena: Warrior Princess: Season Five” starts with the intriguing
storyline of the Warrior Princess’ shocking discovery that she’s
carrying a child of unknown orgins.
The mysterious pregnancy stirs a deadly clash between the mortal and immortal worlds. Will Xena uncover the truth in time? The DVD set includes all 22 action-packed episodes, including the “Lyre Lyre Hearts on Fire” musical, plus hours of interactive bonus material. Enjoy four highlights from the DVD set. More on DVD  
A unique webcasting studio application for creating QuickTime
broadcasts, Wirecast 1.1 offers support for QuickTime Streaming Server,
multiple cameras (including iSight), AppleScripts, multiple broadcasts,
Keynote integration and multiple layers.
The program also features 20+ built-in professional broadcast-quality titles themes, amazing 3D graphics, a simple interface, great video effects and broadcast-archiving capabilities. Learn more and try an evaluation version of Wirecast.  
If you think you have what it takes to build the perfect Ancient
Egyptian society, put yourself to the test with the massively
multiplayer online game (MMOG) “A Tale in the Desert II.” You and
thousands of players will work together on long-term planning to advance
civilization.
Your goals include creating great works of art and architecture, positioning yourself as a powerful leader and building wealth. Unravel the secrets of the Egyptians — check out the game trailer for “A Tale in the Desert II.” 
On the MacRadio show “Mac Night Owl Live,” best-selling Mac author and
columnist Gene Steinberg (the Owl himself) and his son Grayson voice
their thought-provoking views of the technology universe and interview
the movers and shakers of the technology industry.
Former guests include Walt Mossberg from the Wall Street Journal, Jason Snell and Christopher Breen from Macworld, author Jeff Tolbert, Eliot Van Buskirk of MP3.com and many more interesting people. You can hear replays of their interviews online. Find out what’s on this week’s “Mac Night Owl Live.”  
Lynda.com has just the tutorial to help you use LiveType to create
sophisticated, professional-quality titles for film, TV and video.
Learn how to create titles in minutes from existing templates or design your own titles from scratch. Find out the differences between system fonts and LiveType fonts and when to use each of them. Discover how to make your own custom effects which you can save for use on all your titles. Sample three segments from the movie-based tutorial “Learning Apple LiveType.”  
Where can you find “the soundtrack for your stylish, mysterious,
dangerous life”? At the “Secret Agent” radio station in iTunes, of
course, offering you “classic stylish lounge music and downtempo spy
electronica.”
Check out more than a thousand Internet radio stations in iTunes by clicking on “Radio” in the Source list. You can hear streaming music from the following categories: Top 40/Pop, Urban, Jazz, Blues, Electronica, Country, Hard Rock/Metal, International, Classic Rock, Reggae/Island, Public Radio, Talk/Spoken Word and more. Download the iTunes Music Store free Single of the Week — “Used to Love U” by John Legend. Check back every Tuesday for a new free download. If you haven’t already, download the new version of iTunes (v4.7) for Mac and Windows. It’s free. |
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