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New & Noteworthy: Acrobat for Palm;

New & Noteworthy: Acrobat for Palm;

CNET staff
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Photoshop pre-pre-order; DVD-R gets cheaper; more

Adobe Acrobat Reader for Palm OS Public Beta 2.0 is now available.

Adobe Photoshop 7.0 is now available for pre-order.

New Pioneer DVD-R drive is cheaper and faster Pioneer Electronics announced that it plans to replace its DVR-A03 with the next-generation DVR-A04 DVD-R (DVD-recordable) drive, which will cost $500--about $150 less than the AO3--and be slighter faster. [More.]

Update: Paul MacLeod notes: "According to Apple System Profiler, my new G4/933 already has a DVR-104, which is the OEM version of the DVR-A04 as far as I can tell. It seems Apple is ahead of the curve on this one."

Nigerian email hoax The email suggests you may be able to make as much as $6 million. But, according to the U.S. State Department, succumbing to such a plea could cost you everything you own, possibly even your life. [More.]

The rising tide of spam A sfgate article examines the trouble that spam can cause and what, if anything, you can do to stem the tide.

For making movies, you need a Mac From a zdnet article about iMovie: "I'd like to tell you how to do all this on a Windows XP machine, but I can't. Windows Movie Maker just doesn't do what iMovie does. Together, iMovie and iDVD allowed me to share my world in a way I'd never tried before. The various Windows systems I've seen were just too complex. Which is why I say, if you want to make home--or even simple business--movies, you need a Mac."