Thursday, July 12, 2007

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  • Apple buys CUPS

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    Big UNIX news this morning. Apple has bought out CUPS, the common UNIX printing system. The name may not sound familiar, but it's part of every Mac OS X installation. CUPS implements a cross-platform printing system based on the Internet Printing Protocol and is, according to its web page, the defacto standard printing system for Linux. Until now, CUPS has been distributed by Easy Software Products under the GNU general public license. Although the purchase was announced today, it seems the actual deal went down this past February. In addition to acquiring the CUPS source code ownership, Apple has also hired Michael R. Sweet, its creator. CUPS will retain its GNU GPL2/LGPL2 licensing terms and Sweet intends to continue maintaining and supporting the product. FAQs about the change of ownership can be found here.

    As our own Mike Rose points out, the license exceptions seem to allow third party plug-in developers to keep their source code private. Developers (including Apple) can distribute derivative work and be exempt from the mandatory source code release clauses of the GNU GPL so long as the exception is limited to Mac OS X and not for use on other operating systems. Just remember: we are not lawyers, and the exception language is convoluted.

    Thanks, Daniel.

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  • iTunes Japan: Thursday Update

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    Every week, the Japanese iTunes store updates later than the stores for the rest of the world. Because of this, the iTunes Single of the Week for Japan lags behind other countries. Here is this week's offering for you to download and enjoy. Be aware that it's having a few problems today--I've been getting iTunes Music Store errors when I try to go from the main page to the single description page.

    And remember, if you don't have an iTunes Japan account, you can buy a gift card online and set one up.

    Japan 今週のシングル: Rebel Soul Music by Martin Luther
    次世代の音楽ムーブメントの立役者と今や噂されるようになったマーティンo.ルーサー。少年合唱隊からロックシンガーへとドラマチックな成長を遂げた彼の音楽はロック、ブルース、ファンクそしてR&Bがブレンドされたタイムレスなクオリティを持つサウンド世界だ。ジルo.スコット、ザo.ルーツ、ディガブルo.プラネッツなどとツアーし、ジャンルを超えて波紋を広げている期待大の巨人だ。待望のアルバム「Rebel Soul Music」から、表題曲を今週のフリーダウンロードで!

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  • SimplifyMedia extends iTunes sharing to buddies

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    Way back in 2003, there was a brief window (between iTunes 4.0 and 4.0.1) where iTunes music could be streamed willy-nilly over the Internet; as long as you had the IP address of the source machine, you could play tracks from all across the globe with no difficulty, rather than being limited to the other iTunes users on your local network. That bucolic interlude (also known to Apple's legal team as "the great unpleasantness") was shortlived, and subsequent attempts to broaden the local-subnet limitation on iTunes sharing have been equally transient or otherwise undesirable (Windows only, costly, over-social or too tricky for casual use). [For clarity, what iTunes calls 'sharing' is technically streaming; the remote tracks are only accessible while the source machine is online, and you cannot copy shared music to your local library, at least not easily/legally.]

    Now, Simplify Media has released a free beta of its namesake music buddy tool, designed to expand the Shared list in iTunes to include up to 30 of your friends' music libraries, regardless of physical proximity. Using the SM app is as simple as advertised: download for Mac or XP, sign up to create your sharing name, and invite friends to become your buddies. After the SM app scans your music folder (took a while for me), just leave it running; your buddies' music libraries show up in your iTunes shared list, and yours shows up in theirs. Playback and browsing was quick and stutter-free on my DSL connection, and likewise for the remote users browsing my library.

    There are a few caveats with this beta: other music player apps are unsupported, as is iTunes on Windows Vista; there is a 'Buy Music' ad window which pops up annoyingly and can't be closed (although you can minimize it to the Dock); and of course there aren't that many people using it yet, so who to share with? Other than that, my quick evaluation is that Simplify Media does the job: it gives you access to your friends' music while staying (mostly) out of your way.

    Thanks, Paul.
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  • NewsLife out of beta

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    ThinkMac has announced that their RSS newsreader, NewsLife, has hit 1.0 and come out of beta (and as you can see above, they couldn't have chosen a better site to show it off with, if I may say so myself).

    David did a quick rundown on the app last week, and found it to be "a simple, streamlined app for reading your favorite news sites and blogs." There is a cool feature called the News Bin, which seems like an easy drag-and-drop clipping interface. The obvious comparison to NewsLife is NetNewsWire, of course, but NewsLIfe appears to be filling the role of the simpler, cheaper (€12, or about $16 US) alternative to that old favorite. You can pick the 1.0 release up right now from ThinkMac.

    Thanks to everyone who sent this in.
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