SONY MOVING TO WINDOWS MEDIA!!!…

I edited this message I received for brevity…

— CONNECT Music wrote:
> To: SLICK
> From: “CONNECT Music”
> Subject: Future of CONNECT Music Service
> Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 05:19:04 CDT
>
> ***************************************
> CONNECT Music Downloads Powered by Sony
> ***************************************
>
> August 30, 2007
>
> Subject: Future of CONNECT Music Service
>
> Today Sony announced its intent to move to a Windows
> Media Technology platform for Walkman® products in
> the United States, Canada and Europe…
>
> …We recommend that
> you use any outstanding promotional codes, account
> credits or gift certificates available in your music
> account prior to March 2008, but even after the
> store closes you will continue to be able to play,
> manage, and transfer the music in your SonicStage
> library and on your existing ATRAC devices. If you
> obtain a new device, all of Sony’s new Walkman music
> and video players will support MP3 or Windows Media
> Audio format.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Sony CONNECT Music Team
>
> ***************************************
>
> Sony CONNECT Inc.
> c/o CONNECT Music (U.S.)
> Attn: Privacy Information Management Office
> 6080 Center Drive, 10th Floor
> Los Angeles, California 90045

Rhapsody America

…Rhapsody will be fully integrated with VCAST Music…

Starting today, URGE customers can use their existing usernames and passwords to log in to Rhapsody and enjoy access to both services. In addition, Rhapsody customers can get their first taste of MTV Networks’ programming from MTV, VH1 and CMT. Verizon Wireless customers can already download music instantly to their V CAST-enabled phones at any time and from anywhere in the V CAST service area and transfer digital music to their phones from their PC.

password manager

Wayne called and suggested KeePass (http://keepass.info/): “…a free/open-source password manager or safe which helps you to manage your passwords…You can put all your passwords in one database, which is locked with one master key or a key-disk. So you only have to remember one single master password or insert the key-disk to unlock the whole database…”

A lover of portable software (that which will run from a USB drive), I found KeePass Password Safe Portable (http://portableapps.com/apps/utilities/keepass_portable)