Michael Jones
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Today's keynote address at Apple's Worldwide Developer's Conference featured plenty of new goodies to excite Mac, iPad and iPhone users.

But there was one feature in Apple's new iCloud development that was unspoken: Apple have found a way for the record companies and music publishers (and Apple themselves) to make money from pirated music.

iTunes In The Cloud is one of the

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From 1979 through the 1980s the imaginative album cover artwork of Peter Saville dressed the albums of Joy Division and New Order.

The iconic white-on-black wave form cover for Joy Division's Unknown Pleasure. The tomb photo on the plain white background of Closer. The painting of flowers on New Order's Power, Corruption and Lies. The giant floppy disc of New Order's twelve-inch single,

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A wonderful YouTube video featuring some "interesting" hi-fi products. How many do you have?

Thanks to higherfi.com for putting this together.

A few weeks on from the Christchurch earthquake and it was time for a get-together of friends to catch up and celebrate that we were all still alive and well.

And what better for such an occasion than a custom-built iTunes playlist full of quake party music, put together by my flatmate and myself. In the playlist we have:

• songs where the title reflected the quake (Shaky Ground;

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Four weeks on from the second Christchurch earthquake and the hi-fi news is good. All but one of the hi-fi specialists are fully operational and all Christchurch-based wholesalers are up and running. Best of all, no one in the industry was killed or injured.

When this writer explored the state of Christchurch hi-fi he found a lot of positive thoughts about the recovery and the future.

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