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Dave ParryThere are a few surprises on your August cover CD which we hope you'll enjoy. Once you've read Chris Stevens' exposÄ of the digital music industry and our hands-on review of Apple's wonderful new iPod, we're sure you're going to want to investigate some of the artists that are contributing to the online music scene.

Thanks to Dotmusic, we've bundled together two Windows Media interview/music video files for you to check out, featuring top artists Badly Drawn Boy and Tom McRae. You'll also find the brand spanking new version 8.0 of the Musicmatch player, the Replay Radio streaming broadcast sampler, plus a full demo of the amazing Reason music studio software.

Continuing the multimedia theme, we've also included four video tutorials to help you continue site building with Macromedia Homesite 5, the featured file from last month's CD, also included here in case you missed it.

But our featured file this month is a huge tryout of Adobe GoLive 6. The full version of the software has just been revised, adding a few bells and whistles, so we thought it was time you gave this superb dynamic Web site development suite a test drive yourself. For a taster of what it can do, check out our step by step project on p70. If you own and enjoy using other Adobe products such as Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign or Acrobat, you're going to love the tight integration GoLive offers with all these other Adobe toys.

Other major highlights from the CD include XenoMail, Cookie Pal, iCab, Opera 7.11, IncrediMail, ACDSee, plus Oxygen, WebDesign and Sawmill log analyser for the Mac. As always, we've also included updated versions of the most popular and downright essential Web tools and apps available to ensure your files are the freshest available with no need to waste time downloading them all.

We're already hard at it searching for content for next month's CD, so keep mailing us and visiting our forums with more ideas for the disk. We love reading all your feedback.

David Parry
Cover CD Editor
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