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New & Noteworthy: StickyBrain; New Apple stores; Steve Jobs in Virginia; more

New & Noteworthy: StickyBrain; New Apple stores; Steve Jobs in Virginia; more

CNET staff
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StickyBrain 1.3.1 The most visible change is the "spokesmodel" for the software who appears in everything from the program icon to dialog boxes. Gone is the bald, blue, futuristic-looking cyberchick of previous versions. She has been replaced with an intelligent, attractive blond woman who, according to Robert McCullough at Chronos, "shouldn't creep anyone out." The Mac OS X version of StickyBrain now comes as a true OS X package, complete with a scalable program icon for the OS X Dock. Other improvements include commands for inserting calendars into sticky notes and the ability to display any type of picture as the background of a sticky note. (Also see our previous coverage one and two on StickyBrain.)

New Apple Store in Peabody MA Over the weekend Apple opened its latest store. This one is located in the Northshore Mall, which is at the intersection of Routes 128 and 114 in Peabody Massachusetts. Location details, a Photo gallery, and our MacFixIt Extra.

New Apple Store for Federal Government Apple has also opened a new store for the Federal Government. John MacKinnon, director of federal government sales for Apple told Federal Computer Week that "the online store, which opened Aug. 17, had been in the works for the past 90 to 180 days and is part of Apple's aggressive growth in the federal space during the past 18 months."

Steve Jobs Shows Up With Henrico iBooks From the Richmond Times-Dispatch: "The Henrico County school system's $18 million investment in Apple Computer Inc. technology brought the company's iconic chief executive to the county's school year convocation today. The motivation behind Steve Jobs' appearance here is not difficult to identify." More.

Apple Australia boss puts health, family first From I.T.: "Diana Ryall, managing director of Apple Computer Australia, one of the longest-serving Apple staff members in this part of the world, has retired." More.

Fry's Electronics, Inc. to Acquire Cyberian Outpost From the press release: "The Boards of Cyberian Outpost and Fry's have unanimously approved the transaction and expect it to close in the fourth quarter of 2001. Fry's Electronics has agreed to loan Cyberian Outpost up to $13 million to repay PC Connection, pay off Cyberian Outpost's secured debt and provide funds for working capital."

Rallying cry in open-source war From ZDNet: "The desire of entrenched commercial interests to control information is crushing the spirit of innovation that allowed the Internet to blossom, Stanford Law School professor and technology pundit Lawrence Lessig said Wednesday." More.

Regulating Minors' Access to the Internet Can Backfire From SFGate: "While blocking programs are supposed to serve as filters against child pornography and content that might be harmful to minors, in reality this software tends to block sites in a way ACLU representative Emily Whitfield describes as "capricious." More.

Copywrong? From Salon: "A government report giving the Digital Millennium Copyright Act a passing grade is a disaster for the general public, say critics." More.

Satellite satisfaction? "Beyond the reach of DSL or cable? New bidirectional services offer high-speed hope," writes Mike Avery in Network World. More.

HP buys Compaq The combined company will be roughly the same size as IBM. The company will still be known as Hewlett-Packard, with headquarters in Palo Alto. More.

Today's funny: Microsoft ports XP to Mac? Not exactly. The Register points out a photo from the promotional material on Windows XP that shows a user staring at a Mac, presumably wondering where his Windows XP is. Take a look! (Thanks, Tony Curtis.)