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Hot Topics in TidBITS Talk/09-Apr-07
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  by TidBITS Staff <editors@tidbits.com>
  article link: <http://db.tidbits.com/article/8944>

**SpotDJ** -- Readers test out SpotDJ, a service for recording and
  sharing your own radio spots that Adam wrote about recently. (3
  messages)

<http://emperor.tidbits.com/TidBITS/Talk/1208/>


**Digital watermarks** -- How difficult is it to circumvent a digital
  watermark, such as those that could be embedded within digital music
  files? (1 message)

<http://emperor.tidbits.com/TidBITS/Talk/1210/>


**Apple and EMI Offer DRM-Free Music via iTunes** -- With DRM-free
  music coming to iTunes in May, why bother selling 128 Kbps songs
  with DRM? Why not just remove the DRM entirely? (11 messages)

<http://emperor.tidbits.com/TidBITS/Talk/1212/>


**Use iPods Cautiously While Driving** -- Adam's article this week
  prompts the tale of a teenager who died after being struck by an
  ambulance because she was listening to an iPod while driving. (6
  messages)

<http://emperor.tidbits.com/TidBITS/Talk/1213/>


**Google Desktop Comes to the Mac** -- Readers test-drive Google's new
  Mac desktop search application, relating their initial experiences
  and discussing Google's use of Input Managers in the program. (23
  messages)

<http://emperor.tidbits.com/TidBITS/Talk/1214/>


**Online Backup Options Expand** -- Joe Kissell's article brings up a
  few other services that offer online data backups. (1 message)

<http://emperor.tidbits.com/TidBITS/Talk/1215/>


**Emacs on the Mac** -- How does one use emacs, which is included as
  part of Mac OS X's Darwin Unix installation? (9 messages)

<http://emperor.tidbits.com/TidBITS/Talk/1216/>


**EU probe into Apple music pricing** -- The announcement of Apple and
  EMI selling DRM-free music tracks seemed to cool down opposition to
  iTunes and the iPod in the European Union, but the EU is also
  looking at whether Apple's pricing model for songs is legal. (3
  messages)

<http://emperor.tidbits.com/TidBITS/Talk/1218/>


**RedHat/CentOS under Parallels?** Readers share their experiences
  installing and running Linux variants using Parallels Desktop for
  Mac (5 messages)

<http://emperor.tidbits.com/TidBITS/Talk/1219/>


**Google Book Search** -- Is Google's book scanning and searching
  service a violation of copyright? (3 messages)

<http://emperor.tidbits.com/TidBITS/Talk/1222/>


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