Word: plugs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...difference between them. Fortunately for us, third-party developers are changing that by making programs - usually free ones -- that live on top of your browser and give it new features, new functions, and even a whole new look and feel. There should be a name for them - call them plug...
...matters most is online, where operating systems matter least. "No website," says Jobs, "knows whether it's a Mac or Windows on the other end of the line." In fact, for the home user who spends most of his computer time reading e-mail and browsing the Web, the plug-and-surf iMac is clearly a superior product--a fact vividly evidenced by the rise of Apple's consumer market share from 5% to a startling 12% in less than a year. In a little-noted but surely deliberate statement of purpose, Jobs devoted the bulk of last week...
...simple pleasure she takes in campaigning--probing genuinely serious policy issues; meeting people who regard her with thunderstruck awe, as if she were Joan of Arc in a minivan--may seem banal, but it's crucial to the whole venture. If it weren't fun, she'd pull the plug, but right now that's about as likely as her switching to the G.O.P. She told a group of reporters last Thursday, "It is a different feeling to be the person who is in the spotlight voluntarily and speaking on my own behalf... You know, yesterday was the first time...
...went so well, one might have thought Rudy had pulled the plug himself. While Hillary has to play down the trappings of the White House to make it look as though she actually lives in the state she wants to represent, the mayor struts across the most famous stage in the world, starring in one campaign-ready event after another, with a stash of enviable props--search-and-rescue boats, choppers, fire engines and several championship sports teams to cheer for, including the Yankees, whose pinstripes he wore as a kid in Brooklyn. He can even light the lights...
...often happens with technical glitches, Earthmate mysteriously springs to life a few seconds after I get on the line with tech support. When Karyn pulls up in her blue Saturn, I fake a confident smile: "This will be really cool." She looks skeptical as I plug in the car adapter ($120 from Port, based in Norwalk, Conn.) that will power my Toshiba laptop from her cigarette lighter. But right on cue, a green dot pinpoints our starting location on a detailed map and then morphs into an arrow as we reach the West Side Highway...