PLUGGED IN : NEWS BYTES.SCREEN SAVER A utility that was originally created to prevent a CRT from being etched by an unchanging image. After a specified duration of time without keyboard or mouse input, it blanks the screen or displays moving objects. Pressing a key or moving the mouse restores the screen. ENCORE: More help in your search for that perfect holiday gift: Berkeley Systems Berkeley Systems was a San Francisco Bay Area software company cofounded in 1987 by Wes Boyd and Joan Blades. It made money early on by doing contract work for the National Institutes of Health, specifically in making modifications to the Macintosh so that it could be usable by recently released the 4.0 version of its best-selling After Dark screen saver. An all-time favorite is Fish, which simulates an aquarium. With 4.0, Fish attains near-photographic quality. The fish swim aimlessly aim·less adj. Devoid of direction or purpose. aim  less·ly adv.aim with a fluid motion so realistic that you're tempted to tap on the glass. Stereo underwater audio provides the bubbling sounds, chimes and a whale song. CYb3r makes your computer look like it's doing something very high-tech when it's not really doing anything. It displays all sorts of bizarre binary numbers Numbers stored in pure binary form. Within one byte (8 bits), the values 0 to 255 can be held. Two contiguous bytes (16 bits) can hold values from 0 to 65,535. See numbers and binary values. , bar codes, scanning cross-hairs and geometric shapes This is a list of geometric shapes. Generally composed of straight line segments
Falling into the cute category are Flying Toasters, Hula hula, traditional Hawaiian dance usually performed standing with symbolically descriptive arm and hand movements and gracefully sensual undulations of the hips; it is also done in a sitting position. Twins, Bad Dog and Super Guy. In the game category, Rock Paper Scissors scissors Cutting instrument or tool consisting of a pair of opposed metal blades that meet and cut when the handles at their ends are brought together. Modern scissors are of two types: the more usual pivoted blades have a rivet or screw connection between the cutting ends plays like the real thing. Finally, After Dark 4.0 brings Internet functionality with After Dark Online, a collection of modules that bring news and information to your desktop. Sources include Sports Illustrated, USA Today and The Wall Street Journal. WEB LINKS DIG IT: Interested in sifting through the rubble? Then dig into the latest archeological discoveries, news briefs and links to other relevant Web sites at the WWWorld of Archaeology http://www.he.net/, which organizes related Web sites geographically. Or drop by ``My Guide to Classical Archeology'' http://orion.it.luc.edu/ by Sue Gerlach and Tom Minton of Loyola University of Chicago Loyola University of Chicago, at Chicago; Jesuit; coeducational; est. 1870 as St. Ignatius College, present name adopted 1909. It has a liberal arts college and a graduate school, as well as schools of medicine, dentistry, nursing, social work, law, business . The site is well organized and includes sections on museum links, academic classics departments and related newsgroups This is a list of newsgroups that are significant for their popularity or their position in Usenet history. As of October 2002, there are about 100,000 Usenet newsgroups, of which approximately a fifth are active. and e-mail lists. THAT'S THE SPIRIT: You're still full from Thanksgiving and already the Net is serving up another feast of holiday-oriented sites. There's Northpole.Com http://www.northpole.com and Claus.Com http://www.claus.com, both of which are being billed as the merriest place in cyberspace: Become an honorary elf, get recipes for holiday goodies and pen an e-note to the fat man himself. Santa's jumping on line for a series of live chats with CompuServe members from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. each Saturday this month. And for those celebrating Hanukkah, the New York-based firm up.stream unveils its Festival of Light http://festival.chabad.org on Wednesday. The site focuses on menorah-lighting ceremonies around the world and offers Web surfers a chance to play CyberDreidel, a computer version of the traditional holiday game. RANDOM ACCESS FULL CIRCLE: Prepaid phone cards often have pictures of cultural icons, including football and basketball players, race car drivers and Elvis. The Thomas Alva Edison Museum is issuing 1,000 cards to honor the inventor of the incandescent light bulb and pioneer in the use of electricity. The cards show a view of Edison's birthplace in Milan, Ohio, and have an image of the first bulb. It's perhaps fitting, considering the fact that phones - and phone cards - wouldn't even exist were it not for advances in electricity. |
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