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...aspects of the independent comix press. Not only have many of the field's top creators contributed works, but their grassroots collectivizing towards a greater good are as much in opposition to the hateful events of that morning as any military action. They give a much-needed way to connect to the enormity of this tragedy while offering a way to help in its healing...
...reuniting with friends from their youth, they're like lots of folks their age. "As people approach 60," psychologist Walsh notes, "they want to connect with people who were important to them in early life. I just had a five-day weekend where I saw both my college roommates and also had dinner with an old boyfriend and his wife. I feel as if I'm knitting together fragments of my life...
...lives. And what better way to do that than with the smartest-looking, easiest-to-use, best-engineered computer there is? The time is right, he says. We are wallowing in digital cameras and camcorders and MP3 players that get harder to use, not easier. The thing that will connect us to our gadgets needs to be a digital hub, a computer designed to simplify our lives. This, Jobs says, is what Apple was meant to do--and it's what no one else in the PC world is doing...
...instance, iPhoto, a program for handling those digital pictures, is superior to anything else out there for the amateur. How? When you connect your camera to the iMac, archiving pictures happens automatically--the pictures are uploaded and organized by "roll" and archived together as thumbnail images laid out on one endlessly scrolling digital contact sheet. A slider on the side of the contact sheet lets you instantly enlarge and examine hundreds of pictures at a glance, the better to find the one you're hunting for. This works far better than the PC alternative, which would have you manually labeling...
...increase in sales. More e-mail ads now contain songs or video clips, such as the messages, with a 30-sec. trailer, promoting the Kevin Costner film Thirteen Days. If you have a microphone and speakers on your computer, clicking on links in some e-mail messages will connect you to a call center where sales reps can answer your questions live...