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*** Featured Articles ***

iPod Notes: Above and Beyond
In this follow-up article to "Building Interactive iPod Experiences,"
Erica Sadun shows how to use iPod Notes to create a "notes-only" museum
mode, reuse already existing HTML source material, create custom menu
presentations, control navigation, and more.

http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2006/12/12/ipod-notes-above-and-beyond.html

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Building FTP Services Using .NET 2.0
.NET 2.0 provides two new managed classes for performing FTP accesses.
With them, you can incorporate FTP into your applications easily. Wei-Meng
Lee shows you how to perform the most common FTP functions using these two
new classes.

http://www.windowsdevcenter.com/pub/a/windows/2006/12/12/building-ftp-services-using-net-20.html

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O'Reilly Happenings at Macworld SF 2007
Macworld SF 2007 is shaping up to be a busy show for O'Reilly Media. We
have great specials, lots of books, a full speaker lineup, and a menu of
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http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2006/12/11/macworld.html

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Embedded SQL with Pro*C
Embedded SQL is a superset of Sybase's T-SQL or Oracle's PL/SQL that lets
you place SQL statements in application programs written in languages such
as C and COBOL. Pro*C allows the C programmer to write database access
code fast and with less of a learning curve. Sai Kiran Gummaraj explains
the basics.

http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/databases/2006/12/07/embedded-sql-with-pro-c.html

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Fun with X.org
X.org includes several useful utilities and features that almost no one
knows about. You can accelerate your display, nest one X server in
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