Year: 2002

An Apple feature spotlights Alan Moulder, the twice grammy-nominated producer/engineer behind music from artists like The Jesus & Mary Chain (JAMC) and The Smashing Pumpkins. Moulder uses an array of Macs in his work, including a Power Mac in his studio and a PowerBook for remote editing. Meanwhile, Apple’s latest Education feature discusses the use of iMovie among fifth graders at Charles Lindbergh Elementary school in Little Falls, MN.

Apple has posted French and German versions of the NVIDIA Driver update 2.6 for Mac OS 9.2.2. The English version was released earlier this month; the update improves stability and compatibility with the Matrox RTMac Card.

Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNealey said Tuesday he believes the computer industry is still in its infancy and that everything in the home or office will eventually be connected to the Internet, according to Reuters. “There is a massive amount of stuff that is not being captured by the Net,” McNealey told the crowd at the JavaOne software developer conference.

MacPlay has announced that it is now shipping Icewind Dale for Mac OS 8/9 and Mac OS X, a fantasy role-playing game that follows the third edition Advanced Dungeons & Dragons rules, as noted by MacCentral. The game lets players control a party of up to six characters as they travel across a range of ice-covered mountains, collecting treasure, accomplishing quests and battling all forms of monsters.

A survey of 1,850 Internet-connected homes by InfoTrends Research found that 33 percent owned a digital camera in 2001, with that number expected to climb to 60 percent by the end of 2002, according to c|net. Among those that own a digital camera, a large majority now use it as their primary means of photography, and 19 percent have stopped using film cameras altogether.