Macworld articles from February 2004

Macworld archives from February 2004

Digital time machine: Nikon's new COOLSCAN film scanners breathe new life into old photos and break new ground in quality and efficiency.(Special Advertising Supplement)(Advertisement)
February 1, 2004... It would be a wish fulfilled if, as the saying goes, we could put time in a bottle, capturing and then preserving the most precious moments of our lives. But while physicists haven't yet figured out how to do so, Nikon has introduced three new...

Twenty-twenty vision.(From the Editor's Desk)
February 1, 2004... A LITTLE MORE THAN 20 YEARS AGO, WHEN THE MAC WAS just a glimmer in the eye of the original Macintosh production team, the computer world was a much less inviting place. To run a computer meant to enter a series of obscure commands on a...

Credit where it's due.(Feedback)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2004... The November issue of Macworld brought the debut of our new and improved Secrets section, as well as some changes to the overall look of the magazine. And our readers have been taking notice (thanks for your kind words). Readers also wrote to...

3-D resurrection.(Feedback)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2004... CHUCK MEDEIROS * In response to your article about the new Adobe Creative Suite ("Adobe Changes Everything," November 2003): Illustrator's "new" 3D Effect feature seems to incorporate something Adobe abandoned years ago--namely, Adobe...

iPod people.(Feedback)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2004... MARK CUMMINGS * I like your new Mobile Mac section and the November installment on iPod adapters. But I noticed that you didn't include a DLO Transpod. I use a Transpod for my scroll-wheel iPod, and it works great. My job has me...

Nothing more to Contribute.(Feedback)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2004... ROBERT MORRISSEY * I read your fine review of Contribute 2.0 (November 2003). I have attempted to use the trial offering of the program with my Apple .Mac account and have found Contribute 2.0 to be worthless, because it fails me in the...

Hey, good-lookin'.(Feedback)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2004... RYAN KLOS * Bravo on the recent changes to your magazine's Secrets section, including Help Desk. These are welcome and much-needed changes. The magazine now has a more reader-friendly approach--so goes the word around the office. I know I...

Safari, not so goodie.(Feedback)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2004... SANDY TATE * Safari is good, but it doesn't go far enough for me (Reviews, November 2003). I frequently print a page or two and find it exasperating that the URL and date do not print out as well. It's been suggested to me that I write...

There is another way.(Feedback)(Brief Article)(Letter to the Editor)
February 1, 2004... GRANT MUKAI * In the December 2003 Working Mac section, you stated in ".Mac Goodies" that Apple's iDisk Utility for Windows XP is "the only way to work with an iDisk from a computer running Windows." This is not true. I have successfully...

Teacher's pet.(Feedback)(Letter to the Editor)
February 1, 2004... CHARLES FINN * Your review of Orbis's Easy Grade Pro 3.6 grade-book software (November 2003), positive as it was, failed to mention some of its most useful features. Orbis makes a companion title for PDAs that lets teachers enter grades...

Corrections.(Correction Notice)
February 1, 2004... In "Easy Mac Maintenance", (Secrets, December 2003), step 2 of the "Schedule Repair Permissions" section instructed users to select Task: Run Now in CronniX to test a newly scheduled event. A bug in CronniX prevents this action from working for...

Macworld Lab tests improved connectivity technology: the USB 2.0 express.(Mac Beat)
February 1, 2004... Connecting peripherals to your computer doesn't have to be a complicated process. Apple proved that back in 1998, when it introduced us to Universal Serial Bus technology, with the debut of the original iMac personal computer. **********...

Web-updating tool takes on Macromedia Contribute: GoLive has a Co-Author.(Mac Beat)
February 1, 2004... Adobe GoLive CS and Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004 have similar strengths and weaknesses. Both are exceptionally powerful tools for professional Web designers, but they're also too complex for novices who want to make simple content changes--an...

AirPort 3.2 adds Wi-Fi Protected Access support: securing AirPort.(Mac Beat )(Brief Article)
February 1, 2004... Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP), the optional security feature in AirPort, could be said to have more holes than Swiss cheese--but that description might be unfair to the cheese. Security experts have found numerous flaws in the WEP security...

Updates keep OS X 10.3 safe and secure: quick fixes for Panther.(Mac Beat)
February 1, 2004... Mac users who have adopted Panther benefit from its new features. But in some cases, they've been troubled by bugs and flaws, a few of which lead to lost data or compromised system security. And that leads to a bevy of problem-solving updates,...

Game beat.(Mac Beat)(Mad Data Soft-ware, Feral Interactive )(Brief Article)
February 1, 2004... Baldur's Gate II: Throne of Bhaal, from MacPlay (www.macplay.com): Role-playing game is an OS X--compatible expansion pack for Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn ($30). Family Fun Pack, from Feral Interactive (www.feralinteractive.com): Game...

Multimedia beat.(Mac Beat)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2004... Boris FX 7, from Boris FX (www.borisfx.com): Effects-creation software features new OpenGL acceleration and faster renders for improved performance ($595; upgrade, $199). MacMP3CD 1.2, from Mireth Technology (www.mireth.com): MP3...

Looking ahead.(Mac Beat)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2004... CHRISTOPHER BREEN Contributing editor and Mac 911 answer man Breen is ever the good sport--he's been on our panel for the last four years. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] ADAM C. ENGST Contributing editor and TidBits publisher Engst...

Macworld's fourth annual look at the year ahead in Macs: future fortunes.(Mac Beat)
February 1, 2004... Who knows what tomorrow brings? Certainly not us. This is our fourth annual roundup of Mac-centric predictions, and with the exception of the occasional dead-on prognostication, our crystal ball routinely comes up foggy. So this year, in...

New technologies, designs keep input devices fresh: mice that roar.(Mac Beat)
February 1, 2004... Whenever Apple introduces new desktops or laptops, Mac users are abuzz with questions about whether to upgrade. But we can safely say that the same questions aren't asked when Mac mouse and trackball makers update their products. "People in...

Networking beat.(Mac Beat)(Lava Software)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2004... LANDesk Management Suite 8, from LANDesk Software (www.landesk.com): Updated network-management tool increases OS X support with software-license monitoring and application-policy management ($89). netOctopus Systems Manager 5.0, from...

Productivity beat.(Mac Beat)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2004... A Better Finder Rename 6.0, from Publicspace.net (www.publicspace.net): Contextual menu plug-in for renaming files features a new interface and new display capabilities ($20; upgrade, free). CipherDisk, from SubRosaSoft...

Photoshop CS: speedy, comprehensive new tools boost productivity and image quality.(Adobe Creative Suite)(Product/Service Evaluation)
February 1, 2004... At the core of Adobe's Creative Suite strategy is the unity, integration, and simultaneous release of its major design applications. Photoshop CS (version 8) is a broad and deep upgrade to the company's anchor image editor. Despite its low-key...

InDesign CS: with major new text-control features, publishing program is poised to topple QuarkXPress.(Adobe Creative Suite)(Product/Service Evaluation)
February 1, 2004... InDesign CS is a subtle yet very powerful update to Adobe's publishing flagship. The previous version, InDesign 2.0, introduced most of the key features that made the young program a publishing powerhouse: the word-processor-like table editor,...

Illustrator CS: new version focuses on typography, gets cool 3-D features.(Adobe Creative Suite)(Product/Service Evaluation)
February 1, 2004... If you're a type nerd, you're going to love the new version of Illustrator. Though Illustrator CS doesn't pack a lot of new drawing tools, Adobe's extensive reworking of the program's text tools makes this upgrade a typographic dream. Because...

GoLive CS: print-savvy Web-authoring tool stumbles with complex interface, flawed support.(Adobe Creative Suite)(Product/Service Evaluation)
February 1, 2004... Over the years, Adobe GoLive has matured into a feature-rich Web-site--development program that both provides advanced tools for Web gurus and caters to graphic designers who rely on palette-driven WYSIWYG tools. GoLive CS offers better...

Suitcase X1: font manager gains speed and better activation features.(Adobe Creative Suite)(Product/Service Evaluation)
February 1, 2004... Managing your fonts can be as painful as getting your teeth cleaned. You do it only when you have to, and it's no fun. Just as you hope for a dentist who works quickly, efficiently, and gently, you want a font-management application that helps...

Photo printers: strong contenders in latest batch score high on detail and color.(Adobe Creative Suite)(Product/Service Evaluation)
February 1, 2004... Lately, anyone who's paying attention has seen a stampede of multipage ads in national magazines, meant to brand the term digital photography in the mind of the average consumer. Indeed, the allure of taking photos with a digital camera and...

Canvas 9 Professional Edition: multifaceted illustration program has new technical features.(Adobe Creative Suite)(Product/Service Evaluation)
February 1, 2004... ACD Systems' Canvas 9 Professional Edition is primarily for technical illustrators who need to design precision graphics. It can also pinch-hit as an image editor or an illustration program--plus, it can serve as a page-layout, drawing,...

Revolution 2.1: development tool breathes new life into old card game.(Adobe Creative Suite)(Product/Service Evaluation)
February 1, 2004... HyperCard? That's dead, isn't it? Oh, sure, it was great back in the 1980s. So versatile it defies ready definition, HyperCard lets ordinary people create their own software without having to conform to the strict rules of a formal programming...

Canon Digital Rebel: the Digital SLR for the rest of us.(Adobe Creative Suite)(single lens reflex)(Product/Service Evaluation)
February 1, 2004... Canon has lowered the bar for digital SLR (D-SLR) cameras--the price bar, that is. The least-expensive digital SLRs cost $1,499 until last August, when Canon introduced the Digital Rebel, at $899 for only the body or $999 for the body plus an...

PhotoEdit 1.3: low-priced image editor is underpowered.(Adobe Creative Suite)(Product/Service Evaluation)
February 1, 2004... If you use iPhoto (VERY GOOD; April 2003) to organize your digital snapshots, you've probably reached the limits of that program's simple image-enhancing controls. The $30 PhotoEdit 1.3, from macXware, offers to extend your capabilities, but...

HP Scanjet 4670: stylish scanner marred by mediocre software.(Adobe Creative Suite)(Product/Service Evaluation)
February 1, 2004... If you consider Hewlett-Packard a dependable but somewhat stodgy hardware company, you should think again. The company's HP Scanjet 4670--a sleek, see-through USB scanner--is anything but boring. Regrettably, though the device is a vision of...

Yes, you can take it with you--and do it in style.(iPod Fever!)(Advertisement)
February 1, 2004... iPods -- they're sleek and cool, and they're the hottest personal entertainment gadget around. And no wonder: Although it's small enough to slip into a shirt pocket, an iPod holds up to 10,000 tunes on its internal hard drive. That's enough...

Halo arrives.(The Game Room)(Product/Service Evaluation)
February 1, 2004... FEW GAMES IN MAC HISTORY HAVE ENGENDERED AS MUCH fervent devotion and as many feelings of betrayal as Halo. Four years ago, at Macworld Expo New York, Mac users got a first glimpse of the next version of this monumental first-person shooter....

Be a player.(Mac Gems)
February 1, 2004... EVEN THOUGH MAC OS X IS A MULTIMEDIA POWERHOUSE, we've all encountered movies that just won't play correctly--or at all. The next time QuickTime balks at playing a movie, don't fret. Instead, try the free MPlayer OS X 2.0b6 (GOOD 1/2;...

20 years of the Mac.(Interview)(Cover Story)
February 1, 2004... TWENTY YEARS AGO, in the wake of a remarkable (and somewhat perplexing) Super Bowl commercial, Apple Computer introduced the Macintosh. Just as the company's Apple II had ignited a personal-computing revolution several years before, the...

The 19th annual Editors' Choice Awards.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2004... APPLE SET THE TONE FOR 2003 IN EARLY JANUARY, when it announced the Year of the Notebook. And the company certainly delivered, with releases of PowerBooks in multiple sizes to appeal to a wide array of Mac users. But 2003 also saw the launch of...

Best all-around photo printer.(Other Top Hardware Products)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2004... If you want a printer that can give you attractive, detailed photos without leaving you twiddling your thumbs, look no farther than Canon's i960 PHOTO PRINTER ($200; www.usa.canon.com). This six-color printer offers an unbeatable combination of...

Best consumer digital camera.(Other Top Hardware Products)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2004... Canon's POWERSHOT A80 ($499; www.usa.canon.com) is a crowd-pleasing 4-megapixel camera. The swiveling LCD viewfinder makes it easy to shoot from your hip--literally--and from most other angles, indoors and out. Point-and-shoot users will like...

Best display.(Other Top Hardware Products)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2004... Few monitors do a better job at retaining consistent color from any angle than NEC's MULTISYNC LCD2080UX ($1,700; www.necmitsubishi.com). The highly flexible 20-inch LCD monitor truly embodies the phrase "Editors' Choice": 15 MultiSync...

Best server.(Other Top Hardware Products)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2004... Anyone involved in data-intensive work such as capturing and editing high-definition video should turn to Apple's 2.52-terabyte XSERVE RAID ($10,999; www.apple.com). The impressive 2GB Fibre Channel server has awesome data-transfer rates and...

Best digital SLR camera.(Hardware)(single lens reflex)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2004... Digital SLR cameras offer top-notch performance, photo quality, and expandability. But they can also be very expensive. Until recently, the least-expensive digital SLR camera cost $1,499--out of reach for anyone but professional photographers....

Best Mac notebook.(Hardware)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2004... For a long time, Apple's PowerBook philosophy was simple: The company sold one size. But in 2003, it split the PowerBook line into three models, with amazing results. Although each of Apple's new aluminum-clad PowerBooks has its own strengths,...

Innovation of the year.(Hardware)(Apple's iTunes)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2004... It stands to reason that if you want to revolutionize online music, you turn to the company that pulled off the same feat with personal computers. And make no mistake--Apple's ITUNES MUSIC STORE (www.itunes.com) represents a revolution in how...

Best video editor.(Creative)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2004... Video pros have embraced Apple's Final Cut Pro, with FINAL CUT PRO 4 ($999; www.apple.com) providing further reason to rejoice. The new RT Extreme feature gives you access to more real-time effects. Users can now fully customize keyboard...

Best motion-graphics application.(Creative)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2004... It was easy to embrace AFTER EFFECTS PROFESSIONAL 6 ($999; www.adobe.com), thanks to a $500 price cut. But there's more to this updated animation and compositing tool than a lower price. Adobe added vector-based painting and a new text system...

Suite of the year.(Creative)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2004... The new versions of Acrobat and Photoshop are particularly noteworthy, but the sum of Adobe's CREATIVE SUITE PREMIUM EDITION ($1,229; www.adobe.com) is greater than its parts. Integration between the seven programs in the suite lets you edit...

Software of the year.(Creative)(Michael Tsai's SPAMSIEVE 2.0)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2004... When 125 of the 126 e-mail messages in your in-box are unwanted ads for products claiming to increase or reduce the size of various body parts, you may want to run screaming from your Mac. The best way to keep these obnoxious messages at bay is...

Best 3-D drawing software.(Other Top Creative Products)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2004... @Last Software's SKETCHUP 3.0 ($475; www.sketch3d.com) puts intuitive and easy-to-master sketching tools into the hands of anyone who wants to create and visualize a 3-D structure, whether it's an 80-story high-rise or a tree house. Version...

Best digital-audio and midi application.(Other Top Creative Products)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2004... DIGITAL PERFORMER 4.1, from Mark of the Unicorn ($795; www.motu.com), offers an attractive interface for creating music in an OS X world. Its new Freeze feature lets you mix multiple audio tracks down to two tracks to reduce processor load and...

Best little multimedia tool.(Other Top Creative Products)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2004... Granted Software's REVISION 1.1 ($30; www.grantedsw.com) is an easy-to-use tool for synchronizing music from Propellerhead Software's Reason or Ableton's Live with QuickTime movies--an otherwise expensive and complicated task. It offers full...

Best photoshop plug-in.(Other Top Creative Products)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2004... This simple but powerful PHOTOSHOP CAMERA RAW plug-in, from Adobe (www.adobe.com), won raves from professional and hobbyist digital photographers for giving them a simple but powerful way to tweak the raw image data captured by some high-end...

Best natural-media program.(Other Top Creative Products)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2004... Corel's PAINTER 8 ($299; www.corel.com) only gets better with age. The interface in this latest version is more intuitive, with palettes moved and replaced so it's easier to find tools.

Best Web-design tool.(Other Top Creative Products)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2004... Macromedia's CONTRIBUTE 2.0 ($99; www.macromedia.com) arrived for OS X this year, and Mac users with minimal Web-design skills couldn't be happier. The Web-page editor lets nondesigners easily maintain a Web site, no matter what program the...

Best game.(Other Top Consumer Products)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2004... MacSoft's DUNGEON SIEGE ($30; www.macsoftgames.com) offers a fresh take on an old genre by mixing the character-driven elements of role-playing games with heavy doses of action that requires squad-based strategy. The game's innovative graphics...

Best handheld.(Other Top Consumer Products)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2004... At a time when most new handhelds offer only minor updates, Palm's TUNGSTEN T3 ($399; www.palm.com) combines great new features such as an expandable, rotating display and excellent usability changes to Palm OS.

Best internet client.(Consumer)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2004... As 2002 ended, the Web-browser situation on the Mac remained static. Internet Explorer was functional, but it wasn't that far removed from its OS 9 days. What a difference a year makes. As 2003 ends, SAFARI 1.1 (free; www.apple.com) provides...

Best messaging client.(Productivity)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2004... Apple's iCHAT AV (free with OS X 10.3; www.apple.com) may look like a simple chat client, but combine it with a FireWire-enabled Web cam such as the $149 Apple iSight, and you get a top-notch videoconferencing tool. The sound and images you...

Best e-mail client.(Productivity)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2004... Sometimes what separates a great program from a good one is how well it plays with others. MAILSMITH 2.0, from Bare Bones Software ($99; www.barebones.com), offers plenty of features that appeal to power users--such as AppleScript-enabled...

Hardware of the year.(Productivity)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2004... Even the most fervent Mac partisan was having a hard time arguing that the Power Mac had kept pace with increasingly faster PCs--until Apple unveiled the DUAL-2GHZ POWER MAC G5 ($2,999; www.apple.com). The dual-processor G5 not only fares well...

Other Mac bests.
February 1, 2004... BEST SIMULATION OF TELEKINESIS If you've got a Bluetooth-enabled cell phone or Palm handheld, you've got all the hardware necessary to control your Mac remotely. Instead of adding a pricey remote-control gadget, just add Salling Software's...

Best development software.(Other Top Productivity Programs)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2004... HyperCard, with its stacks metaphor, has a new heir in Runtime Revolution's REVOLUTION STUDIO 2.1 ($299; www.runrev.com). It's the simplest write-once, deploy-everywhere solution, and it has enhanced support for OS X interface elements....

Best fax software.(Other Top Productivity Programs)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2004... We had almost lost hope while we waited for a Mac program that could send and receive faxes with a minimum of fuss. With its intuitive interface and reliability, SmileOnMyMac's PAGE SENDER 3.0 ($30; www.smileonmymac.com) put an end to years of...

Best organizational software.(Other Top Productivity Programs)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2004... OMNIGRAFFLE 3.0 PROFESSIONAL, from The Omni Group ($120; www.omnigroup.com), provides nearly every tool you need in order to create a chart or diagram, including some that rival those found in illustration programs. An improved Help menu and...

Best synchronization utility.(Other Top Productivity Programs)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2004... For synchronizing files or doing a simple backup, Weber Ventures' EXECUTIVESYNC 1.3 (single user, $20; www.jasonweber.com) edges out the competition with its ease of use, clear interface, and Time And State synchronization method, for an...

Working Mac: corral your contacts.(Secrets)
February 1, 2004... IF YOU MANAGE A BANDOLIER OF GEAR--A MACINTOSH, A mobile phone, a Palm device, and an iPod--you know how difficult it can be to bring order to the information you've stored on them. The following tips will help you synthesize and synchronize...

Digital Hub: animate your world.(Secrets)
February 1, 2004... SHOOTING DRAMATIC AND ENTERTAINING MOVIES DOES not always require actors. With some inexpensive software and a FireWire camcorder or Web cam, you can use the world around you to create beautiful and unique movies. Imagine capturing time-lapse...

Create: playing live.(Secrets)
February 1, 2004... ABLETON'S LOOP-BASED SEQUENCER, THE $399 LIVE 3.0 (www.ableton.com), is a remarkably flexible tool that musicians, DJs, and video editors use to easily create dynamic musical scores. But as can happen with any tool, you may have become...

Mobile Mac: the two-Mac e-mail shuffle.(Secrets)
February 1, 2004... YOU'RE IN A HOTEL ROOM IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE, using a PowerBook to catch up on your work e-mail. You see a message from your manager asking about something you discussed in last week's project meeting. The nitty-gritty details you need are...

Geek Factor: Terminal's new twist.(Secrets)
February 1, 2004... PANTHER BRINGS PLENTY OF CHANGES TO KEEP USERS ON their toes. And command-line users found a major one: Apple switched the default shell used with Mac OS X from tcsh to bash. This change affects new accounts created in Panther. (If you upgrade...

Help desk: Mac OS X Hints.(Secrets)
February 1, 2004... THIS MONTH, FIND OUT HOW TO CHANGE THE LENGTH OF time that Apple's Mail keeps your sent messages, tweak Safari with the debug menu, discover hidden keyboard shortcuts, banish the Dock, and more. Learn Keyboard Shortcuts Do you ever...

Help desk: Mac 911.(Secrets)
February 1, 2004... SURE, APPLE'S MARKETING AND GRAPHICS DEPARTMENTS break out in spots when they're faced with the prospect of a "Mac OS Eleven." ("Roman numerals? Arabic numbers? Time to switch from felines to a member of the family Mustelidae?") But...

SubEthaEdit.(The Month's Coolest Developments)
February 1, 2004... Full of the spirit of creativity, this text editor lets you and all your iChat buddies edit a document simultaneously. Sound like fun? That's because it is (free; www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/). FROM THE EDITORS OF MACWORLD

AvantGo USB sync.(The Month's Coolest Developments)
February 1, 2004... This little utility lets you sync your Palm handheld with AvantGo in OS X, a heretofore impossible task if you have a USB cradle (free; http://homepage.mac.com/s_d/malsyncx/malsyncx_en.html).

Desktop printers in panther.(The Month's Coolest Developments)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2004... Drag anything you want to print onto a printer icon on your desktop, and blammo! Out it comes. Plus, this feature makes it much easier to cancel jobs. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]

VNC.(The Month's Coolest Developments)
February 1, 2004... With programs like Chicken of the VNC (http://sourceforge.net/projects/cotvnc/), you can connect to remote Macs and control them--for free.

Ice-link.(The Month's Coolest Developments)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2004... This ingenious setup from Dension connects an iPod to a stereo through your car's CD-changer interface. And if your car has on-steering-wheel stereo controls, you can control your iPod without having to take your hands off the wheel ($149-199;...

Phlink.(The Month's Coolest Developments)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2004... Ovolab's Phlink does everything your voicemail can do. Then it does more--like send your voicemail to your Mac via e-mail, let you dictate to your Mac from your cell phone, or run an AppleScript from a phone ($151; www.ovolab.com/phlink/). ...

Alton Brown.(The Month's Coolest Developments)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2004... Food Network's (www.foodtv.com) Alton Brown, the host of Good Eats, is not just the host of the most entertaining cooking show in existence. He's an unabashed Mac fan--as evidenced by the 12-inch PowerBook G4 that's popped up in numerous recent...

Top-rated products.(The Month's Coolest Developments)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2004... Nov. 2003-Jan. 2004 OUTSTANDING After Effects 6.0 Professional (December 2003) OUTSTANDING iSeek 1.0 (January 2004) VERY GOOD 1/2 Apple 17-inch PowerBook G4/1.33GHz (December 2003) [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] VERY GOOD 1/2...