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...company instead of a comedy talk show. Still, his eclectic personal taste is revealed in the decor: there are several Woody Allen posters on the walls, including one for Take the Money and Run, a small table with a couple of Jean-Michel Basquiat art books on top, a CD rack with a few old Prince albums. The Chris Rock Show starts its fourth season next Friday, and rows of index cards on a board next to Rock's desk chart out the show's upcoming guests. It's a varied list, featuring such not-so-celebrated celebrities...
...minute. And the program adapts its lessons to tackle weak spots--in my case anything not on the home row. For a break, kids can play games like Far-off Adventure, in which typing in rhythm with accompanying music keeps a hot-air balloon afloat on the screen. The CD-ROM even has charts and graphs to track students' progress. A flexible program, it adapts the complexity of its language to the age of the budding typist, beginning at age eight. Someday I hope to become good enough to tap out a sonnet, one of the advanced options...
SOFTWARE WARS Sun Microsystems is giving away an entire suite of Microsoft-compatible office software, from word processing, spreadsheet and presentation programs to calendars and e-mail. Download the free 65-MB StarOffice at www.sun.com (this may take a while) or pay $10 for a CD. Mac users must wait for the universally compatible Web-based version, Star-Portal, to offer the same applications and store their data online, creating truly portable desktops...
...number of TIME readers after my July 5 column about PictureCD, a Kodak service that converts 35-mm and APS film to images that come on a CD-ROM, complete with easy-to-use editing software. I got mail from lots of people who want to know whether PictureCD also does slides. Not yet, I'm told. For now, Kodak fans can try PhotoCD, a more expensive service that requires the user to supply his or her own editing software...
Finally, in the Oh-Bonehead-Me Department: in a column about "burning" your own CDs, I said you could compress CDs to the MP3 format (roughly a tenth the original size), then record the songs to a CD-R disc. But how would you play it? Answer: only on your computer. If you want to play MP3s in your CD player, you need to convert the tunes to .wav files--MusicMatch and Real.com's software will do that--then burn them. The files, of course, will expand tenfold. So forget about squeezing 10 albums onto one CD...