Year: 2002

Apple’s new iPods carry a one-year warranty, up from 90 days, as noted by a MacNN reader. Apple will only cover the shipping and handling charges for the first six months, however.

Buyolympia.com has introduced SwordfishExpress, a free Mac OS X application for generating United States Postal Service mailing labels with Delivery and Signature Confirmation barcodes, which can then be printed and used for mailing packages.

Industrial Light and Magic, the company responsible for the special effects in Star Wars, has switched from using RISC-Unix workstations from SGI to using Intel-based Dell systems running Linux for the bulk of its animation and special effects work, according to c|net. The switch included the purchase of 600 Pentium 4 workstations. “The Intel workstations that were deployed were probably 20 percent of the price of SGI workstations we bought a few years ago.

Adobe and CompUSA announced today that CompUSA will begin carrying InDesign 2.0 at all of its locations. Additionally, CompUSA has become a Certified Training Provider and will offer free introductory InDesign 2.0 training throughout its network of training centers in the U.S.