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Some 3 million people have downloaded MP3 players from such sites as www.winamp.com (The player is the software program that allows you to listen to MP3-encoded music, and a dozen different flavors are available, free, for PCs, Macs and UNIX machines.) Countless search engines like mp3search.com are devoted to finding the vast archives of MP3 music that exist online. A lot of the music, from the Beatles to Beethoven, is on underground "pirate" sites, which specialize in the illegal practice of giving away copyrighted music. The recording industry employs an army whose job it is to root out pirate...
...recommended that anyone worried about the status of his or her computer visit the Web site www.uis.harvard.edu/year2000 to determine whether the computer is year 2000-compiant. All Macintoshes are compliant, Bradner said, but PCs more than five years old may not be. Faculty and staff are encouraged to address question to the Year 2000 project coordinator in charge of their school, department or central administration unit, Bradner said. He added that employees at the Science Center's computer help desk are being trained to "understand the problems and resources" available to undergraduates and will be sending an e-mail...
...Marantz will begin selling similar recorders this summer. Sony and Sharp are spearheading an effort to revive the MiniDisc format, which records digital music onto tiny discs inside cartridges smaller than a Post-it note. Then there's the wild card in the audio deck: computers. CD recorders for PCs cost as little as $300, and the Internet, to which more and more PCs are attached, is emerging as a hothouse for new music...
Computer makers and webmasters aren't waiting for the music industry to sort things out. With the price of CD-R drives for PCs falling and CD-R blank computer discs (unburdened by copyright flags or royalties) selling for as little as a buck apiece, many computers are better equipped than home stereos to enter the digital-recording era. Even better recording technology is on its way: DVD-RAM and DVD-RW are erasable discs that can hold up to eight times as much data (or music) as CD-R discs. All this is not lost on the tech-wary...
...tell you when you're approaching the birthplace of the inventor of the mechanized reaper), even as AAA membership has increased. A spokesman attributed the dip to competition from the Web, and to the association's Map 'n Go software, a $60 navigation package that can be installed on PCs. If you want to get fancy, you can buy one of the car-based global-positioning devices, like StreetPilot GPS, by Garmin of Olathe, Kans., for under $550. Using signals from satellites, these devices tell you where you are and plot your course...