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...material out there sitting on people's hard drives," he says. "I mean, even if you were at [search-engine websites like] Lycos or Scour, you were still looking at people's hard drives. So that's the idea, that there's all this stuff sitting on people's PCs--and I had to figure...
...toys called Intel Play. The latest is the Computer Sound Morpher ($49), which looks a lot like a personal communicator from a '50s sci-fi flick. Armed with Intel's Morpher, kids can record voices and other sounds and then edit, distort, remix and generally transmogrify them on their PCs. Warning: parental commands may lose some authority when played back in "chipmunk" mode...
...tourism advice and entries on a huge range of subjects, from Homer Simpson to Homer's Iliad. The mobile guide www.h2g2.com/onthemove) which gives people a way to tap in while traveling, can be accessed through 22 mobile operators on four continents, including AT&T Wireless and Sprint's PCS networks in the U.S. Says Adams, who divides his time between a home in Santa Barbara, Calif., and h2g2's London headquarters: "Going wireless is a huge step toward where we want to go with this." And where is that? A quantum leap forward in the customization of personal services...
Truth be told, you don't need any of this stuff. While most consumer PCs will come with Windows Me preinstalled, there's little reason to upgrade an older PC. The browser and media player have been available as free downloads since July. And if your computer has anything less than a Pentium-150 with 32 MB of memory, the bloated Windows Me (which can gobble as much as 2 GB of disk space) won't work...
...works--like much else about Google. Page and Brin license the Google engine to other dotcoms, but they charge per search instead of the usual flat rate, which is why they expect to turn a profit soon. They built the site with parts from 6,000 off-the-shelf PCs--huge, unruly piles of spaghetti wiring and lasagna-layered motherboards that actually run cheaper and faster than mess-free, million-dollar servers. And they refuse to offer the top-heavy extras you'll find crammed onto every other major search engine (stock quotes, sports scores and e-mail). The whole...