Music Program Notes Has Moved

I am proud to announce that Music Program Notes has been accepted by Wikia, which brings our cost of operations down to zero and exposes our database to Wikia's large user community! Because of this, I have decided to re-title the database as simply Program Notes, to accommodate …

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Presenting: Music Program Notes!

I am proud to present Music Program Notes, an exciting new resource for ensemble directors, music educators, students, and anyone else with a general interest in music history!

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Pearls Before Breakfast

Can one of the nation's greatest musicians cut through the fog of a D.C. rush hour? Gene Weingarten set out to discover if violinist Joshua Bell - and his Stradivarius - could stop busy commuters in their tracks.

California Polytechnic State University, Pomona, to destroy books for Starbucks

California Polytechnic State University, Pomona, is persecuting its own librarian for trying to save 300,000 library books from destruction, threatening to have him brought up on criminal charges for simply trying to tell people that the university is planning to destroy the book …

Librarian Warned to 'Cease and Desist'

In his effort to save the printed books, journals and periodicals in the library, Bruce Emerton, tenured librarian, has alienated the library administration, his colleagues and the CSU's Office of the Chancellor.

Quark alters licensing for previous versions

Quark has relented. Your license for QuarkXPress 6 is now expected to survive when upgrading to QuarkXPress 7. Quark has announced today that customers who upgrade to QuarkXPress 7 will automatically be able to use QuarkXPress 6 on the same machine.

Adobe announces availability of Acrobat 8 and Acrobat Connect

Adobe today announced the immediate availability of Adobe Acrobat 8 software. The new Acrobat 8 provides business professionals with innovative tools for communicating and collaborating with confidence across the boundaries of operating systems, applications and firewalls.

iLounge debuts The 2007 iPod Buyers' Guide

The 2007 iPod Buyers' Guide is here! Weighing in at 180 pages, the world's most popular iPod and accessory buyers' guide has returned for its third year, bigger and better than ever! ... Download it now - it's 100% free and in PDF format. Enjoy!

Call for entries to 2007 Adobe Design Achievement Awards

Adobe today announced its call for entries to the seventh annual Adobe Design Achievement Awards (ADAA).

WordPress 2.0.5 "Ronan" Released

It's new release time. The latest in our venerable 2.0 series, which now counts over 1.2 million downloads, is available for download immediately, and we suggest everyone upgrade as this includes security fixes.

Greenpeace's love for Macs not reciprocated. Get's thrown out of Mac Expo.

Greenpeace's high profile "Green my Apple" stall was shut-down today at the start of the Mac Expo. Organisers of the Mac Expo claimed they had received complaints from unnamed sources.

Adobe Soundbooth Beta available for download

Adobe Soundbooth is a brand new audio application in the spirit of Sound Edit 16 and Cool Edit 2000. It gives users the tools they need to quickly clean up, customize, or create new sounds and to create customized music soundtracks for their projects.

Apple gives 1G iPod shuffle owners a Reset Utility

Apple has posted a handly little tool: the iPod shuffle Reset Utility 1.0. Use the iPod shuffle Reset Utility to fix the following issues:

Adobe Announces Fireworks Beta

Adobe is inviting existing and prospective members of the Fireworks community to participate in a private beta for the upcoming release of Adobe Fireworks.

Adobe Creative Suite 2.3 Announced

Adobe today announced that Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional software will be integrated into Adobe Creative Suite 2.3 Premium.

Apple drops prices of LCD Cinema Displays

Apple's award-winning widescreen flat panel Cinema Displays offer the perfect match for the Mac Pro and are now more affordable than ever.

New Mac Pros featuring Quad 64-bit Xeon processors

Apple today unveiled the new Mac Pro, a quad Xeon, 64-bit desktop workstation featuring two new Dual-Core Intel Xeon processors running up to 3.0 GHz and a new system architecture that delivers up to twice the performance of the Power Mac G5 Quad.

Verizon Wireless ships ExpressCard style EV-DO card

Verizon Wireless has started to ship the Novatel Wireless V640 ExpressCard/34. Previously the company only sold data cards in the older PCMCIA format and owners of notebooks with the new ExpressCard slot were out of luck.

Friends, Babylon 5, MADtv and the lost Aquaman Pilot now on iTunes

Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group and Apple today announced that classic programming from Warner Bros.' vast television library is now available for purchase and download on the iTunes Music Store.

Apple updates Boot Camp

Apple has posted an update to Boot Camp bringing its dual boot enabling software to version 1.0.2 Beta. Details are sketchy as to what has actually changed in this update.

Adobe announces MAX 2006 Conference and Fourth Annual MAX Awards in Las Vagas

Adobe today announced the Adobe MAX 2006 Conference, to be held Oct. 23-26 in Las Vegas.

Google releases SketchUp for Mac OS X

Today Google released the Mac OS X 10.4 version of SketchUp, an easy-to-learn 3D modeling program that enables you to explore the world in 3D. The program allows you to create 3D models of houses, sheds, decks, home additions, woodworking projects -- even space ships.

Verizon Wireless preps Chaperone child locator service

Verizon Wireless will formally introduce a child locator service called Chaperone on Monday. The location based service ties in with the LG Migo handset which went on sale in December 2005.

Google Releases Browser Sync for Firefox

Google Browser Sync unifies your bookmarks, history, saved passwords, and persistent cookies across all the computers where you install it. It also remembers which tabs and windows you had open when you last closed any of your browsers and gives you a chance to reopen them.

Google Spreadsheets Feature Overview

Google Spreadsheets provides an online collaborative spreadsheet alternative to the popular Microsoft Excel. This is an overview of the features offered by Google Spreadsheets.

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