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Overclockers Australia has put together a series of photographs detailing the cooling properties of Apple’s iBook and G3 iMac, as well as photos of the Power Mac G4 dual-1GHz and GeForce4 MX video card, as noted by MacMinute reader Steve Berry. While only the technically savvy may enjoy the photos, of note is this comment from the author, who has been using Macs for about 18 months: “When I started working, I was one of the most Anti-Apple guys you could find.

Wired‘s “Cult of Mac” has recently published a number of articles on some of Apple’s most ardent fans, including Isamu Sanada and others who make it a hobby of designing Apple-like products, as well as Marcus Conge, a professor of 3D design who has students design new Apple hardware.

As DVD recorders pick up steam, movie studios concerned with the piracy the format brings to the market are scrambling to develop a copy-protection solution, c|net reports. Applications have already emerged that crack the DVD format, allowing titles to be copied to a hard drive and later burned to a blank DVD or Video CD. Industry watchers, however, express concern that any copy protection initiative could jeopardize a user’s rights, while analysts such as P.J.

Internet usage among Americans surpassed 50 percent for the first time last year, according to a U.S. Commerce Department report set to be released Tuesday. The report found that 143 million Americans, or 54 percent of the country, were using the Internet as of September, up from 26 percent the previous year.

An Apple Hot News feature details Adobe’s current Mac OS X offerings: Acrobat 5.0.5, After Effects 5.5, Illustrator 10, InDesign 2.0, and LiveMotion 2.0. The article offers little detail on the highly anticipated Photoshop 7.0, other than to call the title “soon-to-be-released.” Another Hot News feature, meanwhile, profiles Above & Beyond, a trio of remixing masters who rely on Macs to produce their work.