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The old Napster, circa 1999, was a vast

jukebox with no controls over the illegal

copying of music files. The new Napster,

which sells legal downloads, is also a vast

jukebox, but it was clear last week that the

company still has less-than-perfect controls

over illegal copying.

Word spread across the Web recently that

a few tweaks of WinAmp, a popular music-

playing program, and a small plug-in

available on the WinAmp Web site would

allow users to take a music file protected

with Microsoft technology and produce an

unprotected copy.

This method can convert files from other

music services but it is a particular threat to

Napster because of its "all you can eat"

subscription model: customers pay as little

as $9.95 a month for borrowing privileges

at Napster's library of a million songs. The

ability to create unprotected files would

Napster of Old Is Just a Few Tweaks Away

By David F. Gallagher

enable users to download as much music as

possible, then cancel the subscription and

walk away.

Glenn Shannon, a programmer in Tucson,

first publicized the technique several weeks

ago on the Web site CDFreaks.com. From

there, the method moved to blogs and news

sites. Napster responded on Wednesday by

posting a message from its chief technical

officer, Bill Pence, that played down the

problem, saying the method "can be likened

to the way people used to record songs

from the radio onto cassette tapes."

If so, these were some fancy tape

recorders. In online comments, people said

they were downloading around the clock

and converting dozens of songs at a time by

running multiple copies of WinAmp on one

computer.

"We offer a service for people who believe

artists should be paid for their work," said

Dana M. Harris, a spokeswoman for

Napster. "If people disagree with that, they're

going to find ways to get around it."

Meanwhile, AOL, which owns the

company that makes WinAmp, removed the

problematic plug-in from the WinAmp site

(copies soon appeared elsewhere) and said

it was rushing to fix the glitch in WinAmp.

Mr. Shannon said his intention was not to

cause trouble for Napster. Indeed, he said

he was a satisfied Napster customer who

was just frustrated that the protection on the

files prevented him from playing them on

his older portable music players.

"After people see the convenience that

the Napster premium services offer, they're

not really going to sit there and pirate all

this stuff," he said.

But on the CDFreaks board, there was

talk of new conversion methods that had

nothing to do with WinAmp.

any or all of the 30+ functions to it.

You can change fonts, colours,

spellchecker etc. The formatting features

go beyond standard text processing. You

can discover links as well as remove them,

sort lines, remove styles and even discover

smileys.

One neat feature is called Wiki-Links.

This feature allows you to select text that is

an “Entry Topic” and link to that Entry

Topic of the same name within that journal.

This could be handy for example when

referring to a topic like Gadgets 2005 and

clicking it will link to the Gadgets 2005

entry.

Individual Journals can be locked,

password protected and encrypted. You can

even set a background and choose its

opacity.

MJ3 allows you to export your journals

to rtf text or html file formats. If you are

into blogging, MJE supports LiveJournal,

Blogger, Movable Type and WordPress.

You can publish your journal directly to

these services.

MacJounal 3 is a clutter-free and excellent

work environment for the creative mind.

MJ3 retails for US$30. It’s a shareware

product that’s gone commercial. For

previous registered owners of V2.6, an

upgrade is available. Requires Mac OS 10.2.

Mariner Software

<www.marinersoftware.com> offers free

support and for $49.95US, you will get

upgrades free for the life of that product.

PocketMac’s Safari Scrapbook

1.0

This last item on my hit list that’s

definitely worth looking into is a new

application called Safari Scrapbook 1.0

(US$17.95) by Information Appliance

Associates (www.pocketmac.net). Like the

name indicates, it’s a utility that keeps a

scrapbook or a database- really, of all the

places you’ve been complete with the text

found on those pages, even after you’ve

long since emptied Safari’s cache.

You can control whether or not you want

to exclude certain domains or file types.

You can also select when your database

gets updated or indexed, nightly, upon restart

or on demand.

The search window looks like standard

fare. Three sortable and expandable

columns. It stores the title of the web page

visited, location and last used as well as the

raw text contained on that page. Click on an

entry and the text will show in the scrollable

view window below.

When searching the database, you can

opt to search titles and locations or the text

in the files themselves. Data can be exported

in 3 formats: text, stickies or iPod notes

folder, although sadly, you can only export

one record at a time.

It works well and fast, especially for

someone who does a lot of research. Note

that the database file can get big very quickly

– there is no provision to delete entries, or

archive to a secondary database. I admit,

it’s much easier to use than navigating

through thousands of history entries or let

alone, outdated bookmarks.

With a few adjustments, Safari Scrapbook

is what the Safari’s find function should be.

Apple should buy this and integrate it as

part of the application. Until then, I guess I

can use QuicKeys for that. Requires: Mac

OS 10.3

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