HIGH TECH CORNER: OFFICE 2000 PRODUCT LAUNCH IN CREVE COEUR SET TODAY

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For those who use Netscape, you should download the new Communicator 4.6. With enhanced Smart Browsing, and Internet Music with RealPlayer G2, you will get a great product enhancement.

This is even more the case because the new add on RealPlayer G2 plays MP3 files, which are the second hottest search word compared to sex. RealPlayer G2 is not limited to audio but incorporates new compression methods allowing streaming video from sites like CNN.

An even nicer point is that the browser has additional product stability so you don't get those random hangs for any reason.

But with all this new improved code comes a feature that we'll all need in this slow Internet community. It runs quite a bit faster. Netscape is stating that the Communicator 4.6 runs nearly 15 percent faster than IE 5.0 on the most popular portals.

To download Communicator 4.6 simply go to the following URL http://home.netscape.com/computing/download/index.html?cp=dmg46bott

Today is the day for the long-awaited Office 2000 Product Launch. This is simply the best Application Suite that exists for Windows, and if you would like a free lunch on Microsoft, head to Creve Coeur today for lunch and watch the Microsoft live via satellite download from San Francisco -- Steve Ballmer, president of Microsoft. He will unveil Microsoft's latest version of Office.

The Microsoft technophiles will be at Creve Coeur to cover areas like Small Business Functionality, Corporate Deployment and Office 2000's bucket of new features.

If you use Word, Excel or Develop Web pages, then you better go. It will be held at the AMC Theatre -- West Olive 16 -- (exit I-270 and Olive in St. Louis) 12657 Olive St. in Creve Coeur from 1 to 5 this afternoon. You can call them at (800) 550-4300.

I have tried a new Internet product called MediaRing Talk(tm) 99 Version 5.9. This Next Generation Internet voice communication software lets you make free long distance and international calls from your PC. A whole suite of voice communication services is being developed around the software. This product is absolutely free as it is supported by advertisements.

In Cape on a 28.8 kbps connection it takes about 15 minutes to download. Unlike earlier Internet Voice software packages, this one has outstanding voice quality. You can even receive calls when you're not on the Net.

For you chat-room people, you can chat online in real-time and even save the entire session as a text file. If you're the business type, you can use the Integrated Voice Messaging feature, so your computer works like an answering machine, even when your computer is off! And if you are an AOL person, no problem, as it fully supports PC-to-PC calls through AOL. You can download it at the following URL.

http://www.mediaring.com/door/index.html

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