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**Macworld Boston Cancelled** -- Our friends at MacCentral
  reported news that comes as no surprise: IDG World Expo has
  cancelled Macworld Expo Boston and will be concentrating efforts
  on Macworld Expo San Francisco in January. As we've noted in our
  coverage of recent Macworld Expo events in both Boston and New
  York, the attendance simply wasn't there to qualify the show as
  a Macworld Expo. The demise of the Boston show was the result of
  a domino effect starting with IDG World Expo's decision several
  years back to move Macworld Expo from New York City back to
  Boston. That decision caused a highly publicized spat with Apple,
  which then refused to attend Macworld Boston and also pulled out
  of the quickly cancelled Macworld Expo Tokyo. To this day, it's
  unknown if Apple would have continued to exhibit had Macworld Expo
  remained in New York, since the company prefers to schedule and
  control its own product announcements, rather than have them set
  in stone a year in advance. Without Apple and expected product
  announcements, both individuals and members of the media chose
  not to attend, which in turn caused many exhibitors to rethink
  the value of a booth, given the still-high costs of exhibiting.
  Despite IDG World Expo's efforts to keep the show relevant with
  plenty of conference sessions and special booths, the feedback
  loop of an ever-shrinking show put the final nail in Macworld
  Boston's coffin. At least we still have San Francisco.

<http://www.macworld.com/news/2005/09/16/boston/>
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  That's not to say that small trade shows don't still have a
  place. On 01-Oct-05, the North Coast Macintosh Users Group will
  be hosting the one-day Macintosh Computer Expo 2005, complete
  with 24 exhibitors, a slate of talks by the same experts who speak
  at other industry events, and an anticipated attendance of more
  than 1,000. It runs from 9:30 AM through 3:30 PM at the Santa
  Rosa Junior College in Santa Rosa, CA, and although it's free,
  you'll have to pay $3 to park. Not bad for a day of Macintosh
  fun and education. And then there's the Central Valley MacFair
  on 22-Oct-05 in Fresno, CA, put on by the Fresno Macintosh Users
  Group. It's likely to be smaller, but with many of the same
  kinds of events and classes. Small shows like these are of course
  primarily of interest to local Mac users (which is why we don't
  usually publicize them in TidBITS, given that almost none of our
  readers would be unable to attend), but they serve a useful role
  for those people who can make it so I hope we see additional
  regional shows appearing around the world. We're always happy
  to help support such user group-oriented shows with copies of
  the full Take Control Library to raffle off, as we're doing
  for these two events. [ACE]

<http://www.ncmug.org/mce.html>
<http://www.fresnomug.com/macfair.html>


**Exclusive Coldplay EP at iTMS to Benefit Hurricane Katrina
  Victims** -- In "Net Responds to Hurricane Katrina Aftermath"
  in TidBITS-796_, Jeff Carlson reported on how the Internet
  community has come together in countless ways to help the
  victims displaced or otherwise affected by Hurricane Katrina,
  which struck the Gulf Coast of the southern United States a
  little over two weeks ago. To raise funds for the relief effort,
  Apple announced last week the release of a new EP by alternative
  rock band Coldplay, available exclusively at the iTunes Music
  Store. Apple, Coldplay, BMG Publishing, and Capitol Records/EMI
  will donate 100 percent of their shares of the proceeds from
  U.S. sales.

<http://db.tidbits.com/getbits.acgi?tbart=08235>
<http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2005/sep/14coldplay.html>

  The "Fix You" EP (longer than a single, but shorter than an album)
  includes two songs previously unreleased in the U.S. ("Pour Me"
  and "The World Turned Upside Down") and two versions of "Fix You,"
  the band's new single from their double platinum album X&Y. The
  four-song EP costs $3 and is available immediately. [MHA]

<http://www.apple.com/itunes/>


**XPostFacto 4.0 Adds Tiger to More Legacy Macs** -- Other World
  Computing has released its latest version of XPostFacto, a tool
  designed to help owners of Macintosh models not supported by Apple
  for specific Mac OS X releases to install and use those operating
  system versions. The latest version adds support for Mac OS X
  10.4 Tiger. XPostFacto 4.0 enables the installation of the
  stripped-down Darwin Unix base of Mac OS X, as well as Mac OS X
  (client version) and Mac OS X Server. It can install Mac OS X
  10.2 through 10.4. The operating system must be purchased
  separately.

<http://eshop.macsales.com/NewsRoom/Framework.cfm?page=PR/
owc_xpost_facto4.html>
<http://eshop.macsales.com/OSXCenter/XPostFacto/Framework.cfm?
page=XPostFacto.html>

  The company noted in a press release that this version handles
  computers as old as the Power Mac 7300, which shipped in 1997.
  Many computers that lost Apple's support with the Tiger release
  can accept a Tiger upgrade, although without Apple's testing,
  it's entirely possible that additional quirks and problems
  may appear. The software, developed by Ryan Rempel, is free
  for use, but the company suggests a $25 donation to help
  continue supporting the software's development. [GF]



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