New & Noteworthy: Switching to a Mac; Palladium; more

Transferring Windows Stuff When You Switch to a Mac Last week, Walter Mossberg of the Wall Street Journal discussed whether or not PC users should switch to Macs (as Apple's latest ad campaign encourages). This week, for those who answered yes, Walter explains how to make the switch. More.

MS's Palladium Newsweek's Steven Levy's looks at Palladium "Microsoft’s ambitious-and risky-plan to remake the personal computer to ensure security, privacy and intellectual property rights." The Register takes a more critical look.

The Register on Microsoft's non-support for Hebrew et al Recently, the Register ran an article about Microsoft's lack of support of Hebrew, Arabic, and Korean languages in Macintosh versions of its Office suite, or its Internet Explorer browser. Kevin Browne, of Microsoft's MacBU, sent a reply.

Puncturing Web Ads Before They Pop Up David Pogue, writing in the New York Times, looks at the increasing use of pop-up ads on the Web, and what you may be able to do about them. More.

Spam: An Escalating Attack of the Clones Another New York Times article examines the increase in spam messages. More.

DVDBurnerII Panasonic has unveiled its DVDBurnerII. In addition to reading and writing DVD-R, DVD-RAM, DVD-RW, CD-R and CD-RW discs, the DVDBurnerII can also play DVD-ROM, DVD-Video, DVD-Audio and CD-ROM discs. Retail cost is less than $500.

The Rise of Digital Cinema In an article dubbed "Digital Cinema: Promising Future, Dicey Debut," Michael S. Katz explores the world of creating movies on the desktop - a phenomenon Apple has been attempting to exploit over the past two years. More.