REVIEW: Shareware bridges gap for OS X

Amongst the dozens of OS 9 features missing from OS X are two Mac stalwarts, the not-so-old Note Pad and the venerable Scrapbook. Shareware developers have therefore taken it upon themselves to provide an alternative and three products go a long way to achieving just that. iRecall is a simple variation on the Note Pad model. ...more

GeForce3: first tests

We get our hands on nVIDIA's next-generation card, the GeForce3. Over the past few years nVIDIA has been a key player in the graphics card market, and with the success of its GeForce chipsets, it's taken the market by the throat. So with the release of its next-generation card, the GeForce3, there’s a huge burden on nVIDIA to produce something special. ...more

Sony burns on the outside

Sony is to roll out two external DVD/CD-R/W combo drives. The CRX85A/A1 and CRX85U/A2 come with PC Card and USB 2.0 interfaces respectively. ...more

In space, no one can hear you say cheese

Kodak has announced plans for its Global Imaging department, which will sell highly detailed pictures taken of the planet Earth from space. The company has recently purchased the earth image processing, geographic information systems (GIS) and mapping systems from Groupe Hauts-Monts. Kodak believes that telecommunications companies will benefit most from this data, as three dimensional images of cities can be generated and aid the positioning of mobile phone masts. ...more

US law firm hunts down man for email trespassing

A San Francisco legal firm is using the power of the law to chase down someone for sending in a solitary email - on the pretext that it is trespassing on their systems. Law Firm Shearman & Sterling have subpoenaed a bulletin board for the identity of a member who posted a message, which was later sent as an email to the company and which it found offensive. It is that email which apparently trespassed the company's email system, and was in breach of a 'contract'. ...more