Amazon.com on Thursday announced the launch of “Search Inside the Book,” a new feature that helps customers find books by searching the full text inside them — not just matches to author or title keywords.
Read MoreSpiny Updates Comictastic to 2.1
Sparta, WI – October 23, 2003 — Spiny, developers of applications for
Apple Mac OS X, is proud to announce the update of their shareware
comic-strip viewer Comictastic to version 2.1. The job of Comictastic is to
make finding and viewing your favorite comic-strips a quick and convenient
process. Supporting 18 strips out-of-the-box, all you have to do is choose
your favorites, and Comictastic does the rest.
In today’s New York Times, David Pogue previews Mac OS X 10.3 Panther, which will hit store shelves Friday evening. “That decimal-point increase (from version 10.2 to 10.3) doesn’t give the upgrade’s 150 new features enough credit,” Pogue writes.
Read MoreThe Iconfactory and Panic today released CandyBar 1.6, a free update to the popular Mac OS X system icon customization software. Version 1.6 offers Mac OS X 10.3 “Panther” support and a number of other improvements. In addition, when used with v10.3, CandyBar no longer requires a hard restart of the computer, only a log-out and back in to complete its changes. CandyBar sells for US$12.95.
Read MoreThe Wall Street Journal’s Walt Mossberg writes: “After growing easier to use for several years, Windows PCs have taken a giant step backward because they are so insecure. Windows is riddled with security flaws, and new ones turn up regularly. It is increasingly susceptible to all kinds of viruses, malicious Trojan horse programs and spyware. As a result, Windows users have been forced to spend more of their time and money supporting their computers…
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