Looking for a ladder? A foothold? A clue? Try dialing the numbers etched on the walls of the Phone Booth. Could be the launching pad for next year's biggest star. Or the last will and testament of yet another distraught "pier diver." No way to know who's at the other end. Until you pick up the phone. White Pages Adobe Systems Incorporated Monopolies are everything. Meet the people who all but own computer graphics, desktop publishing, SGML, and online document viewers. Connect the dots -- before they do. Apple Computer Find out how to beat a really good idea into the ground. Is Apple committed to open systems? Is Apple committed to developing the world's first hermetically sealed operating system? Is anybody home? Be Inc. Where the Apple brain drain leads. Will BeOS integrate radios, telephones, TVs, PCs, and the Internet? Will Be disintegrate of its own centrifical logic? Is Be a business? A cult? A existential part of speech? You decide. Then tell the rest of us what Be-ness is. Hewlett-Packard One of the best managed companies in the world produces some of the best printers in the world. All "coworkers" -- from CEO to janitor -- are housed in comradely cubicles. All products are thoroughly market- and road-tested. Which could explain why Wall Street doesn't return their calls. Macromedia Makers of the animation tools overplugged web developers use to develop animation toys other overplugged web developers play with when they should be working. What ever you do, don't tell Little Miss Shockwave that frightening fairytale about the underpaid underworld underlings shackled to 16-bit operating systems and 14.4 K modems. Motorola Computer Group Ridiculously powerful and expensive PowerPCs that support every special effect ever produced for an Arnold Schwarzenegger movie -- on your desktop. So how did you get such a cushy job, anyway? Power Computing Corporation Terrorist organization fighting for an independent MacOS. If their name doesn't scare you, try their corporate vision statement on for size: "You can take my Mac when you pry my cold dead fingers off the mouse!" Their Macintosh clones are designed to blow the chip off Apple's shoulder. With a howitzer. Apple sauce, anyone? UMAX Computer Corporation Yet another Mac Freedom Fighter that produces extremely powerful jet-fueled clones that make Power Computing look like a semi-retired middle-aged terrorist in an Armani suit. Xerox Photocopier company that snatched defeat from the jaws of victory. Marketing geniuses in Rochester still haven't figured out how to turn a buck on email, GUIs, and network computers -- 25 years after they ordered their labcoats at the Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) to give away the store to a 19-year-old entrepreneur named Steve Jobs. Instead, they're focusing on really important tasks, like spelling "The Document Company" with an "X". Yellow Pages MacUser Web Edition No-nonsense Macintosh magazine that tells consumers how to consume the most for the least. What it is. What it does. How how well it does it. How much it costs. Where to buy it. Macworld Online Excellent, in-depth performance reviews of prototypes that have impossibly long waiting lists months before megastores in major metropolitan areas even hear about them. Scanshop Complete A to Z consumer's guide to desktop scanners. What to look for. What to avoid. Good place to get your bearings.