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...crazy kids and their "flavor crystals." The latest twist in this saga of college kids ignoring their elders, not to mention copyright law, is the emergence of file-sharing software that makes it easy to swap with fellow pirateers music stored on computer hard drives--generically known as MP3 files...
...Fanning, 19, wrote the original code for Napster while he was a freshman computer-science major at Boston's Northeastern University. An admittedly lousy guitar player, Fanning began writing the code so he could distribute his own six-string doodlings and squelch his roomie's constant whining about unreliable MP3 search engines. Back in the MP3 stone age--you know, eight months ago--too many links to too many tunes were outdated or invalid, frustrating many a prospective pirate...
...course, as much as I like Google, I know other sites have some handy features that Google doesn't offer. If you want to search specifically for MP3 or image files, Altavista and Lycos are the places to go. Altavista also lets you search in 25 languages and has a handy translation feature. Hotbot is great for advanced users who want to fine-tune their searches by everything from date ranges to file types. And for broad searches of, say, exotic birds, Yahoo's orderly directories help focus your thinking into manageable subtopics. But for everyday queries, make your life...
Snap-on GPS device? Yes, indeed. The Palm is growing appendages faster than a walking catfish. Add-ons like a Kodak digital PalmPix camera module, clip-on MP3 player and printer are on the way, along with a dozen other peripherals. Why all the extra limbs? Because competition is intense in the digital jungle, and the Palm is being forced to evolve quickly. Visor, Handspring's handheld computer, runs Palm's operating system--but costs only $149--and features a special slot that allows it to morph into anything from a wireless telephone to a universal remote. It's such...
...music to whatever portable playback device you might be using. If you're in your car and want to hear (Sittin' on) The Dock of the Bay by Otis Redding, you'll be able to call it up instantaneously on a playback device that will make today's MP3 player look clunky. And if you want to hear only the intro, then you'll hear only the intro. If you want to hear the intro looped 300 times, then you'll be able to hear that too--virtually any permutation or variation you want...