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Apple’s PowerBook G4 is one of five laptops Forbes.com has selected for its “Executive Gifts” list. “Apple Computer may constitute only a small piece of the worldwide PC market, but it’s still turning out machines that often point the way that the rest of the industry follows down the road.” The article incorrectly says the DVD drive is optional—the DVD drive is standard, a CD-RW drive in place of the DVD is optional.

Adobe today announced that it has licensed Sonic’s DVD authoring technology, which it will use as the basis for a new DVD authoring title. “With products like Adobe Premiere, After Effects, and Photoshop, Adobe is already a leader in the digital video and digital imaging markets,” said Bryan Lamkin, senior vice president of Adobe Systems’ Graphics Business Unit in a statement.

The American Institute of Architects’ Louis B. Smith, writing for the >Architectural Record, has published an in-depth, six-page article on the continuing presence of Macs in architectural firms around the U.S.

ScanSoft is currently developing OmniPage Pro X, a Mac OS X version of its optical character recognition (OCR) software and the first Mac product from the company in nearly three years. MacCentral offers a rather lengthy look at the product, which allows users to scan a document and convert it to editable text, and its history in today’s edition.

Intego has released DiskGuard 2.1, a new version of its software for securing hard disks, and FileGuard 4.1, a more robust version of DiskGuard that adds file- and folder-specific access privileges. Both updates add Mac OS 9.2.2 compatibility, CD volume protection, compatibility between Mac OS X and specific disk drivers on protected disks and several important bug fixes.