Ready for a pop quiz? What holiday did former Wisconsin Senator Gaylord Nelson create in 1970? Don’t know? That’s okay, we’ll give you the answer. Earth Day—to be observed on April 22—has grown from a small, grassroots affair to a global celebration, leading to such significant legislation as the Clean Water Act and the Clean Air Act.

“Isn’t it great?” asks Kim Moon in her article, “The History of Earth Day.” “One person had an idea and kept working until everyone began working together to solve it. See what happens when people care about our world?”

To learn more about Earth Day, pay a visit to EdView—part of Apple’s “iTools for Education.” Among other KidSafe-approved educational websites, EdView offers an enchanting collection of holiday sites, giving parents, teachers, and kids a chance to share and learn together.

The Internet is truly amazing. Who’d have thought, just a few years ago, that one day soon, you could pay a casual visit to eBay and wind up buying a new table lamp from someone in Lyon.

Or—when your new transcontinental friend sends you email, exclaiming, “J’attends votre réglement!”—that you could turn to a handy but powerful resource like Sherlock to get an almost instantaneous translation of their heartfelt gratitude.

This new Sherlock service comes thanks to a recently added plug-in for Systran. Simply type in a phrase in English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, or Portuguese and Systran will translate the phrase into up to six languages, displaying the result in Sherlock.

But that’s not all. Joining Systran in Sherlock’s Reference channel are a slew of new searching resources from Bartelby.com, including the American Heritage Dictionary, Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, the Columbia Encyclopedia, Gray’s Anatomy, Roget’s Thesaurus, The Oxford Shakespeare, and World Factbook.

To use one or more of these new plug-ins, rouse Sherlock, click the Reference channel, make a selection, and search away.

You don’t have to be green with envy anymore when you see friends print beautiful color documents on their Epson ink jet printers. Take advantage of a new promo, and you can produce photo-quality color prints yourself.

Here’s how it works. From now until July 8, purchase one of six EPSON Stylus Color printers at the same time as you purchase an iMac computer, and you can get $69 back via a mail-in manufacturer’s rebate program. Buy the EPSON Stylus Color 580 printer, which sells for $69 at the Apple Store, and the printer is effectively free.*

Like more information about this offer and about the other qualifying printers?

*Sales tax applies. See qualifying terms and conditions.

Want to know how easy it is to host the ultimate wireless network gaming party for you and several of your gamiest friends?

With just an AirPort Base Station and an AirPort Card in each computer, you’ll be ready to play Quake III Arena, Diablo II, Cro-Mag Rally or any other network-capable game within minutes. Setting up your AirPort network’s a snap, and it’s even easier for your friends to get in on the action.

Best of all, players can sit anywhere they’d like (within 150 feet of the Base Station), and you won’t have to snake dozens of feet of cable through the house.

To learn more, read “Fun and Games with AirPort.” The new article even explains how you can host gaming parties over the Internet, open to players around the world.

Don’t you just love fonts?

Us too. Choose the right set of fonts for your documents, and your presentations can be easily seen, even from the back of a large conference room; your proposals mean business to the eyes reviewing them; your invitations convey the sense of warmth and cordiality you intended.

Yes, we really appreciate fonts at Apple, so when it came time to choose the fonts to include with Mac OS X, we chose a beautiful assortment of typefaces—both Roman and Japanese—that we think will serve your needs extremely well.

But, that’s not all. We also wanted to make it even easier for you to use and manage your collections of Mac OS X typefaces and to make certain that the fonts you choose look their absolute best—both on screen and on paper.

Did you know that there’s an easy way to conserve battery life on your iBook—and work more productively, as well?

You can do so by creating a RAM disk—that is, setting aside a portion of the memory available to your iBook (usually no more than 50%) to be used as a virtual hard drive, a volume that will appear on your desktop as if it were a physical storage device.* Since your computer retrieves data from RAM faster than it can from a hard drive, placing commonly used files in a RAM disk can help you get your work done more efficiently.

How does it help you preserve battery life? By retrieving files from a RAM disk, your system can spin the hard drive down more often, saving power. Want to learn how to create a RAM disk?

Creating a RAM Disk