MagicScore Maestro is a music notation software application with extended editing capabilities and internal spell-checker. It features a variety of input methods, virtual keyboard, external MIDI devices, or an extended set of musical note symbols.

CREDANT Technologies has announced support for Windows Mobile 2003 Second Edition software for Smartphones and Pocket PCs on CREDANT Mobile Guardian, its security and management software platform.

Here’s an open question to our Linux gurus out there. I’d like to back up a full Linux file system (containing a / partition, a /boot partition, and a /var partition — our firewall box). I don’t have a second volume on that drive. Is there a way I can back up everything, while the server is running, to a remote destination in such a way that it could later be restored, if necessary? I know that open database files might be problematic, and I’ll try to stop those services. If it’s possible, what’s the best way to do it? Also, any easy way of telling the distro a machine’s running? If you’ve got some ideas, please pop a note off to me at david@ZATZ.com. And now, I return you to our regularly scheduled news, and news editor James Booth. — DG

Royal Consumer Information Products will ship its delayed Linux-powered handheld sometime this spring. The Linea LX will use a Motorola i.MX1 ARM-based processor running at 200 MHz, the same chip used in the Tapwave Zodiac.

For those of you who might have been curious about the general state of things here at ZATZ this week, rest assured: it is indeed possible to recover an Exchange server from backups. It’s not easy, but it is possible. Our Exchange server died a miserable, horrible death on Monday evening.

It was our oldest server, mostly because we’d been avoiding the challenge of upgrading it. But time caught up with the old beast, and it died hard. We installed a replacement box (with seven times the capacity and speed), and it took us most of the next day or so to recover the mailbox stores and Active Directory. It was fun. But it looks like we’re back, and OutlookPower Magazine will have a hell of a good article in a week or so, telling all the details (many of which were very obscure and a bitch to discover).

There may still be a few ups and downs over the next couple of days as we clean up all the residual gunk from the restore, but it looks like it’s back to business as usual!

PalmSource has sold the remainder of the WeSync software and technology to a company called Tanner Research. WeSync is a internet based group information-sharing service and software for Palm Powered handhelds.

PalmSource has sold the remainder of the WeSync software and technology to a company called Tanner Research. WeSync is a internet based group information-sharing service and software for Palm Powered handhelds.

SanDisk announced that it has expanded the availability of its miniSD flash memory cards by offering them through its retail channels worldwide. Originally offered for sale to OEM customers and through retail markets in Japan only, miniSD cards are now sold to consumers worldwide.

A story from CNET tells us that Microsoft will be releasing Windows Mobile 2003 Second Edition at the upcoming Microsoft Mobile Developer Conference 2004 next week.

Ed Hardy of Brighthand outlines some of the new handheld technology being shown off at CeBIT 2004 by Toshiba.