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| | PCWorld.com - Be Bounces Back With the 'FreeBe' |
 | | Those include the useful Recent Documents and Recent Applications items for the Deskbar (similar to the Documents item in Windows), and "spring-loaded" folders (hold a desktop object over a folder, and a menu of the folder contents will pop up, allowing you to easily navigate the folder without opening multiple subfolder windows). |
 | | With BeOS Personal Edition, Be bundles a CD-burning application, various multimedia players, and Internet apps such as the PoorMan Web server, a Telnet server, the NetPositive Browser, and an e-mail client. |
 | | For example, the NetPositive browser does an acceptable job of rendering basic HTML pages, but it fails to offer Java support (no Java Virtual Machine is yet available for BeOS), and it chokes on JavaScript forms. |
| www.pcworld.com /reviews/article/0,aid,16225,pg,2,00.asp (874 words) |
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