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December 6, 1999, Etna, NH (http://www.atpm.com)--The holiday season is upon us, and as the staff of About This Particular Macintosh presents our December issue, we wish you the very best during this time of joy, and for the new year to come. Kicking things off in this month's Apple Cider, Tom Iovino awaits the upcoming year 2000, and looks back on 1999 with some Random Saved Thoughts regarding Apple, Microsoft, football and parade balloons. Publisher Michael Tsai examines the current state of Macintosh software from Microsoft, and as usual, doesn't pull any punches. David Ozab continues his Segments piece, this time with a look at "MIDI and the Mac" in this month's How To. Networking guru Matthew Glidden, of "Three Macs and a Printer", continues his 10-part series on networking your Macs with part 5, "Mixing Ethernet and LocalTalk Networks." For those of you with a mixture of older and newer Macs that need to communicate with one another, this column is for you. This month's Art Department is a bit different, as our graphics guru Jamal Ghandour takes on a different form of art--music. Jamal walks you through how to burn your own music compilation CDs, turning your personal music collection into your own work of art.