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When Joel Kuwahara’s Internet-based employer closed its doors, he ventured halfway around the world to Dharamsala, India — the location of the Tibetan government in exile. His mission — to help train Buddhist monks to archive and preserve the teachings of the 14th Dalai Lama. He used a 733 MHz Power Mac G4 and a 15″ Apple Studio Display to start work on the task, reports Apple’s Hot News page.

PC World is carrying an article on USB 2.0, the next-generation of the USB interface that offers substantially faster transfer speeds. While the new technology has been slow in coming, vendors are getting onboard and say that we should see should see a wider rollout of products later this year.

id Software released a new patch for the Mac OS X version of Quake III Arena a couple of days ago — VersionTracker notes that the Mac OS Classic version is now available as well. Quake III Arena 1.29f Beta (Site not updated) contains a whole host of changes including new pro maps; new network code; a new auto-update system; new rail, rocket, plasma and lightning effects; and new cheating counter measures.

You are invited to join Dennis Biela, Apple Computer, Kaidan, Canon, Spheron, Realviz, VR ToolBox, Mastery Multimedia and others for a free seminar that will show you what it takes to create QTVR content for print or for the Web. The seminars take place July 10th and 11th at the St George Motor Boat Club in Sydney, Australia. Further details are available by emailing nuts@mastery.com.au.

Graphsim has released a 2.3 MB update for Baldur’s Gate, the company’s medieval fantasy game. The update will replace your current Baldur’s Gate application and includes support for GameRanger, TCP/IP and AppleTalk network games.