The Apple Store is open again, and Apple announced some new products. The first news : Apple unveiled its new iBook line, all featuring PowerPC G4 processors. The new iBook generation contains three models, all shiping with a combo drive) :

- iBook 12" with 00MHz PowerPC G4 for $1,099.00
- iBook 14" with 933MHz PowerPC G4 for $1,299.00
- iBook 14" with 1GHz PowerPC G4 for $1,499.00

And regarding the eMac : the two models Combo and Super drive now ship with a 1 Ghz G4 processor, and Apple lowered prices for the eMac line : $799.00 for the combo drive and $1,099.00 for the SuperDrive .

In a CDR-info article, Michael Golacinski, Memorex' CEO, says that supply shortages, rising costs from overseas disc manufacturers and stringent enforcement of patent royalties will increase CD-R and CD-RW media prices 10 to 15 percent beginning january 2004.

Note that costs have increased 35 percent this year ...So, as you have done for the cigarettes, just stock.

Our Active Member Celmo had a little talk with the guys up at Geethree and they are working on a serial port adapter again on the modem port. they couldn't tell the release date but watch out!

Manyetas software announce the Panther's upgrade of his "Ritmo" plugin with these features in the 1.1 version :

- fixed a crash during startup when QuickTime 6.4 was installed, or
when run on Mac OS X 10.3 (Panther)
- fixed some issues related to the initialisation and cleanup cycle
- several new sample drum kits are included
- including Logic 5.5 presets

Ritmo only costs $25.

Rogue Amoeba has today released Detour 1.2, with support for OS X 10.3 (Panther) and Unsanity's Xounds 2.1 (Coming Soon!).This update to Detour also includes new French and Italian localizations.

In addition, all of Rogue Amoeba's products have been updated over the
past week for 10.3 support. Both audio recording and enhancing tools, the original Audio Hijack and Audio Hijack Pro received minor updates., and are now available for free download on the :