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...when networks unveil their fall schedules, you rate the big names, raise a critical eyebrow at the showmanship and secretly wish for stumbles. Last year, in the midst of Millionaire hype, Disney launched a PC game version of its hit network game show and trotted out Regis to promote it. But he was way out of his element. Rather than stop the show, he was swallowed up in it, obscured by all the sturm und drang of post-televisual entertainment...
...make up for that potential lost revenue, Kodak has to persuade people to turn pixels into paper. Last month it rolled out a new digital camera-and-software system, dubbed EasyShare, that is intended to eliminate the hassle and confusion of uploading photos to a PC and the Internet. Meanwhile, the company is busy partnering with hardware makers like Lexmark to offer Kodak-brand printers and scanners for the home, where most digital prints are now made...
...been locked in a spiraling love-hate relationship with Real Networks. Specifically with Real Jukebox, the company's oh-so-promising yet oh-so-frustrating MP3 management software. Nine months have passed since I declared that henceforth all my music would be in digital form, would reside on my PC, and that it was therefore worth coughing up $29.95 for the paid version, Real Jukebox Plus. Little did I know what I was letting myself...
...Granted, the average PC owner probably has significantly less music on his hard drive, for now. But it has become axiomatic that MP3s are the future of music. It's been drilled into us that we're all going to dump our CDs given time, and that constant digital downloads, paid for on a song by song basis, will eventually take the place of trips to Tower Records. Given an easy-to-use system of micropayments, will it really take that long for Joe Consumer to pack his hard drive with the musical equivalent of a small European country...
...BROWSING" Homer Simpson may not have mastered those pesky dials and levers at the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant, but he's got your PC figured out. The animatronic Homer from Playmates Toys ($50) responds to whatever you're doing with the appropriate bons mots: "D'oh!" for spelling errors, "Whoo-hoo!" for new e-mail. He plugs into the USB port, and you can quiet him down if necessary--handy when Mr. Burns is lurking down the hall...