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ALICE GETS EVEN Lewis Carroll may have skewed his Wonderland writings for preteens, but the most recent trip through the looking glass is pitched for more mature audiences. American McGee's Alice for the PC (EA Games; $50) uses the popular Quake game engine to pay tribute to the classic with spellbinding visuals, witty mind games and gore enough for even the Red Queen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Brief: Dec. 18, 2000 | 12/18/2000 | See Source »

...lock on the best deals. That's why my favorite sites aren't the ones where you directly place orders but rather those that let you quickly compare prices on as many as 20 different sites at once: qixo.com (for both Macs and PCs) and farechase.com (for PC users only). These sites work like search engines by scouring dozens of other sites, then presenting the best prices in one handy list. To book a flight, just click; a link takes you back to the site offering the deal that you like. Just remember: neither Qixo nor FareChase is comprehensive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sleuthing Fares | 12/11/2000 | See Source »

...THAT TUNE If you're tired of all the digital-music mumbo-jumbo and wonder whatever became of radio, we're happy to report that it's alive and well--and ready to be plugged into your PC. A free program called SongCatcher www.songcatcher.com records your favorite broadcasts to your hard drive. Overnight the program separates the music and chatter into tracks you can load to an MP3 player or burn onto a CD. Next from the SongCatcher folks: a talk-radio version, so you can take Dr. Laura in tolerable doses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Brief: Dec. 11, 2000 | 12/11/2000 | See Source »

Beane bought a technology company that made components for motherboards and other PC hardware for the burgeoning computer industry. By the mid-1980s, his company was flourishing, and he had begun making the kind of silicon-driven millions so many other high-tech entrepreneurs were piling up. All the while, though, what really fascinated Beane was reinventing not just products and components but the factory itself--creating a digital manufacturing system for the New Economy. One thing that caught his attention was the problem of the powder press. He wondered if it was possible to update the Industrial Age brute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A New Factory For A New Age | 12/4/2000 | See Source »

...PARC has a pretty good track record when it comes to radical new visions, even if its record of holding onto them has been spotty at best. The mouse, the GUI (graphical user interface, like Windows) and arguably the PC itself were all born in this hothouse of Silicon Valley R. and D.; they ended up making a lot of money for Apple and Microsoft. Xerox has got a lot of prestige but little cash out of the PARC, which is why the beleaguered copier giant intimated in October that it would put its crown jewel up for sale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Team Xerox | 12/4/2000 | See Source »

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