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Posted Thursday, Jan. 12, 2006 Though last week's launch of Google Video grabbed the headlines, the simultaneously announced Google Pack collection of software may be of more immediate value to computer users. Windows XP users, that is. Google Pack is intended to supplement the software that ships with a PC, providing it with a bit more security and ease of use. If that sounds like a slap in Microsoft's face, well then, maybe...
...story behind Google Pack, as told to me by Google's VP of Search Products and User Experience, Marissa Mayer, is that the company's two founders recently bought Windows PCs for family members, and were appalled at their out-of-box experiences. Once the computer was turned on, they had to spend time downloading the many applications necessary to actually use the thing. Fix it, they said. Mayer's team responded...
...When we go back to our game plan of pounding it inside, the opposing team has to pack it in so much that it opens up so many [outside] looks,” Cusworth said. “[Goffredo] did an amazing job of capitalizing...
...Year's resolutions? I'm giving up smoking. I had a terrible incident in a Mommy and Me class. Sam, my son, had got a pack of Marlboro Lights out of my handbag and was carrying them through the class. Had he been carrying a small shotgun, it would have been less shocking...
...magician of stop-motion animation brought fantasy to terrifying life. This pack of three 1950s monster films shows his no-budget brilliance: to save money, he gave the giant octopus in It Came from Beneath the Sea just six arms. He destroyed D.C. in Earth vs. the Flying Saucers and created the Ymir, a sulfurous Venusian, in 20 Million Miles to Earth. All his beasties, hand-crafted and photographed one frame at a time, had the power and grandeur of the original Kong...