Year: 2002

Hewlett-Packard today became the first company to announce plans to incorporate 4800-dpi technology into many of its future inkjet printers. The improved resolution will significantly boost the quality of printed high-resolution images and is just one of many innovations HP plans to introduce to its line of printers this year, the company said.

SanDisk has introduced several new products for the retail market inEurope, including three dual-slot memory card USB readers. The readers areavailable in the following configurations: CompactFlash and SmartMedia,CompactFlash and Memory Stick, and CompactFlash and MultiMediaCard/SD.

Nathan Gebhard and Mike Marriner, two seniors at Pepperdine University, areprofiled in an Applearticle on their cross-country trek to interview business gurus aroundthe country. The pair first met with Monster.com CEO Jeff Taylor, who agreedto give US$38,000 to sponsor them and another $150,000 to build a Web siteto publish the interviews. A Power Mac G4, two iBooks, and iMovie were usedto edit the video while driving down the freeway in an RV.

Buena Software has released Effect Essentials, a set of ten video effect plug-ins for Adobe After Effects 5.0 and later for Mac OS 9 and Mac OS X. The plug-ins include Super RGB Curves, Frame Manipulator, Pixel Manipulator, Camera Flash, and Radial Glow. Effect Essentials sells for US$349. A fully functional, 25 day demo is also available.

Your Mac Life, an Internet-basedMac radio show, has announced their lineup for tonight’s broadcast (21:00 -23:00 ET), which features Steven Levy, author of “Insanely Great:The Life and Times of Macintosh…” and senior editor at Newsweek; JulioOjeda-Zapata, a reporter for the St. Paul Pioneer Press; and Wendy Seltzer,founder of ChillingEffects.org, who will talk about digital and onlinerights and responsibilities. As always, Your Mac Life will be giving awayseveral prizes throughout the show.