Friday, 26 April 2002
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Apple's Cinema Tools wins 2002 Vidy Award [MacNN]
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As we noted last weekend, PowerBooks have disappeared from wholesale distribution, portending a change, and rumors are circulating around the web now of new models with faster clock speeds and a digital video interface. Announcements are expected within a week or two. [Macintouch]
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Zoe: "Do for email what Google did for the Web." [Scripting News]
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Did you read Andrew Orlowski's analysis of Bill Gates' testimony? If not, stop everything, and read it now. Then read the latest soundbites from The Mind of Microsoft. "Christopher Jones, in charge of development of the Windows operating system for desktop computers, said proposals to let computer makers and rival software developers tinker with parts of Windows would create chaos for consumers and hurt the computer industry." [Scripting News]
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Introducing: SharedOutlines
Testing the first beta of SharedOutlines, the next cool tool from evectors. [Paolo Valdemarin: Paolo's Weblog] Potentially very cool. The problem is that I don't communicate with anyone geeky enough to use this tool.
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If you have not downloaded Zoë yet, do it now! I have installed it as the last thing of the day, before going to sleep, and now I don't know if I'll go to sleep at all... [Paolo Valdemarin: Paolo's Weblog]Uh oh!
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Finding the Bach Beneath Beethoven. Murray Perahia was finely in control of the alternations and contrasts in Beethoven's C minor Variations at Carnegie Hall on Sunday, and also of its perpetual recycling. By Paul Griffiths. [New York Times: Arts]
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Campuses Echo With the Sound of a Cappella. From the Ivy League to Berkeley, a cappella groups are multiplying, even on campuses that have football teams and fraternities. By Karen W. Arenson. [New York Times: Arts]
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Tucked Into Your Billfold, a Card That Captures Memories. Basic digital cameras are becoming small enough and almost cheap enough to be labeled as disposable. Logitech has introduced a credit-card-size digital camera with a list price of $129.95. By Stephen C. Miller. [New York Times: Technology]Nope. That's not 'almost disposible'.
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Gates Ends Testimony, Again Invoking Sanctity of Windows. Bill Gates acknowledged that the modular version of his company's Windows operating system that he has said would be impossible to produce is already being sold to some customers. By Amy Harmon. [New York Times: Technology]
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Chief Quits at Phone Giant in Canada, and Stock Soars. Jean C. Monty resigned as chairman and chief executive of BCE after telling investors that the company was backing away from its beleaguered Teleglobe unit. By Bernard Simon. [New York Times: Technology]
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