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+In yesterday's coverage of iTune 7.0.2 I somehow overlooked the fact that Apple also added a Latino section to the iTunes Music store. In addition to a greatly improved catalog of Latino music, the new section features Spanish language movies and television shows from the popular Telemundo network.
+Like most of the iTunes Music Store, the focus is on mainstream artists and at the moment the selection is a bit wanting (particularly in Brazilan Jazz) but hopefully that will improve in the future.
+There is also a whole section of Spanish language podcasts, audio books and music videos. Unfortunately there does not seem to be any Spanish language movies at the moment.
+Many of the artists now in the iTunes Latino Store were formerly listed under the "world" genre, but there are also new artists as well. It's nice to see Apple at least partially abandon what I've always considered the most meaningless of genres, "world," in favor of something that makes sense.
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+<img alt="Any_key_3" title="Any_key_3" src="http://blog.wired.com/photos/uncategorized/any_key_2.jpg" border="0" style="float: right; margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px;" />Here's your morning reboot:
+*	[Gmail for mobile devices][1] launched this morning. Prior to today, you could only access Gmail via a mobile browser. Requires a java-enabled phone and data plan.
+*	[CNet reports that a denial-of-service bug has been found in Firefox 2.0][2]. According to the CNet report, "The vulnerability lies in the way the open-source browser handles JavaScript code."
+*	Microsoft's [Zune.net][3] is now up and running. 
+*	Utube, an American piping and tubes manufacturer, is [suing YouTube][4] seeking damages for bandwidth usage by millions of users seeking the video sharing network. See, the internet really is a bunch of tubes. [via [TechMeme][5]]
+[1]: http://www.google.com/mobile/ "Gmail for mobile"
+[2]: http://news.com.com/2100-1002_3-6131624.html?part=rss&tag=6131624&subj=news "CNet on a Firefox 2 bug"
+[3]: http://www.zune.net "Zune.net"
+[4]: http://news.com.com/2061-10812_3-6131594.html "UTube sue YouTube"
+[5]: http://www.techmeme.com/ "Techmeme"
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+A Microsoft spokesperson says the planned release date for Windows Vista and Microsoft Office 2007 is November 30.
+Of course that announcement only applies to business customers, consumers will have to wait until January 30 2007 for the consumer versions. November 30th will also see the release of Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 which works with the upgraded Outlook 2007.
+Vista is the first major new release of the Windows operating system in over five years.
+Vista has previously been announced and then pushed back a number of times, but with the beta release now in "release candidate" stage it seem likely that Microsoft will in fact deliver on their promise to ship Vista in 2006.
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+Yahoo launched new "lifestyle" site today called [Yahoo Food][1]. The new service offers recipes, videos, and how to lessons for what Yahoo refers to as "the everyday cook."
+In a former life I ran a restaurant kitchen for five years and I have something of a fetish for online recipe collections. [Epicurious][2] has always been my favorite food destination on the web, but Yahoo's new offering looks nice and in fact includes recipes from the the Epicurious database. 
+Yahoo Food has a sleek user interface with good search features to help you sift through thousands of recipes. You can search by ingredient, course, cuisine, dish, "taste," and more. I was intrigued by the taste search filter, I'm not aware any other recipe sites that let you search for recipes that "taste" "creamy" or "cheesy."
+Like many other sites, all of Yahoo's recipes are user rated and you can leave comments, tips and suggestions for other cooks. Recipes can be shared via email and IM. If you sign in to your Yahoo account, Yahoo Food will show a list of your recently viewed articles, recipes and searches.
+Yahoo Food is also integrated with Yahoo Answers, which will now highlight relevant questions about food, and Yahoo Local, which has dining guides, restaurant ratings and reviews from around the U.S.
+As with so many food websites Yahoo Food focuses heavily on celebrity chefs and their branded recipes and product plugs. While it may be my own snobbishness nothing turns me off to a food site quicker than seeing a recipe from Rachel Ray on the front page (today we'll be making learning how to make *toast* in 23 seconds). 
+But in spite of the inevitable celebrity chef emphasis, Yahoo Food is a very well done and comprehensive food site.
+That said, I'd really like to see a true "social" site for food that doesn't rely on over-hyped celebrity chefs, but instead allows users to post their own recipes, videos and advice. I want a site that doesn't just pay lip service to the concept of the "everyday cook," but actually draws it's content from everyday cooks.
+[1]: http://food.yahoo.com/ "Yahoo Food"
+[2]: http://www.epicurious.com/ "Epicurious"
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+[Yourminis][1], a new site from the folks that brought us [goowy.com][2], looks and behaves a whole lot like Apple's dashboard app. The chief difference being that yourminis is housed in your browser window.
+Yourminis is a Flash-based web app that creates a homepage with a number of little widgets that pull in whatever web services you'd like to track. The default set includes a Google search widget, quote of the day, RSS feed reader, weather, YouTube videos, Flickr images and more.
+I was always impressed with the UI of Goowy, which has to be one of the more impressive attempts to duplicate your desktop within a browser window, but the appeal of yourminis is kind of lost on me.
+Is it just me or does it seem like lately we're living in some revenge of the portal movie? I've been playing with yourminis off and on for most of the day and the more I look at it the more I have flashbacks to Lyco's "homepage portals" of yesteryear. Of course yourminis is better looking, infinitely more functional and easier to use, but the concept is essentially the same.
+Then again, I've never used Apple Dashboard app either. Maybe I'm just not a widget guy, if widgets and homepages are your thing, yourminis is certainly a very impressive rendering of the concept.
+[1]: http://www.yourminis.com/ "yourminis.com"
+[2]: http://www.goowy.com/ "goowy.com"
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+[Zamzar][1] is a new free online document converter service. Zamzar will convert your documents from one format to another through it's simple web-based interface. Currently Zamzar supports various formats in four categories, documents, images, video and audio. For complete details on what formats are supported [see Zamzar website][2].
+A quick glance at my applications folder revealed five small, one-off programs on my whose sole purpose is to convert various document formats. It makes so much more sense to have a web service to take care of this process. 
+Zamzar allows for multiple file conversions (provided all files are to and from the same formats) and will send and email with a link to your converted file(s).
+I frequently have to send .doc files to clients and since I don't have an office program, this has always been quite a pain for me. Zamzar easily converted my plain text file into .doc format, eliminating the one headache of not having an office program.
+Video and audio conversion will of course have some loss of quality when moving between compressed formats. I didn't tested those features, but Zamzar did successfully convert a cvs file to a MS Excel spreadsheet. 
+Currently Zamzar has a size limit of 100mb, but frankly even uploading that over http is masochistic, I don't imagine there's too great of demand for bigger files. 
+Thanks to [LifeHacker][3].
+[1]: http://www.zamzar.com/ "Zamzar.com"
+[2]: http://www.zamzar.com/conversionTypes.php "Zamzar conversion types"
+[3]: http://www.lifehacker.com/software/conversions/online-file-conversion-with-zamzar-211968.php "LifeHacker on Zamzar"
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