Entries for April 2007
Macs for the Rest of Us
Word of Apple's record earnings got me thinking again about switching to a Macintosh. Like most employees, I live in a Windows-dominated world. Most of my employer's software runs on Windows, and even though I don't usually work at the office, it's easier to work alongside if I also run Windows.
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A Recorder With EverythingExcept Ease
Digital voice recorders are remarkable toolssmall enough to slip into a pocket because they record directly to memory chipsincluding an Olympus DS-30 ($150) that I've been playing with for a couple of months.
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Web Browsing With Keywords
For many Web surfers, the address bar in their browserthe box at the top where you would type a site's address like www.usnews.comgets little use. It's just too frustrating to remember Web addresses and too easy to mangle them. So we rely on bookmarks and search engines to take us where we want to go. An outfit called OpenDNS wants to breathe new life into the neglected address bar with shortcuts that you design.
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Try E-Books for Kids' Screen Time
We try to limit the screen time for our young boys, whether television or computer, in favor of toys and books. So how to view having a computer read them a book?
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Disks Will Catch Video Downloads
Amid the rush to enable the downloading of digital shows and movies, don't think for a moment that the disk is dead. It'll be a long time before downloading supplants the DVDs that we get at the local store or through the mail. Even then, our home networks will be too flaky to ship the shows to another room. For that, we'll walk a disk across an old-fashioned sneaker net.
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New BlackBerry Means Fun in the Office
Coming on the heels of their popular Pearl smartphone, the folks who make BlackBerry devices have another hit in their sleek, also black model 8800. The device packs the multimedia features and good looks of the Pearl, bringing them to a device aimed at BlackBerry's core office users.
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Nibbling on Internet Video
My household is a nightmare for cable and satellite systems, as we pay a la carte for our premium video entertainment, something most cable systems have resisted as they profit from selling bundles of channels. My family has enjoyed feeding on commercial programs served across the Internetpart of our experiment of cutting the cable.
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Changing Your Cellphone Identity
Getting a second or third phone number is simple these days, with services like Jajah and Skype that tap the Internet phoning craze using a PC. A new service called TalkPlus does the same for your cellphone, adding phone numbers to divide your mobile work from your dating scene, or your good customers from the cheapskates.
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Chomping Down for Dental Care
It's been awhile since I needed to read a user manual for a toothbrush, but I did with the HydraBrush Express ($100)an electric toothbrush with an approach that looks, and feels, different. The device sports not one but what looks like four pulsating brush heads that surround your top and bottom teeth in one swoop.
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The iTunes Store Boosts Audio Quality
Apple made a breakthrough this week with word it would sell songs from one record company, EMI Group, without copy protection, freeing them from the confinesadmittedly comfortable, but confines nonethelessof the iPod. But also intriguing was that the iTunes store would sell the music at twice the audio quality of its other offerings.
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Atomic Clocks Are Late in Leaping
Before Congress moved it up three weeks, daylight saving time was scheduled to kick in on April 1. I know because a pair of my clocks finally leapt forward an hour. They were my radio-controlled clocks, which promised to make the change on time, no matter when Congress decreed it would occur.
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Rescuing Old Hard Drives
It happens to almost everyone, even nongeeks who don't like to muck with the insides of a desktop computer: We end up with old hard drives sitting around. Maybe they're pulled from old computers, which is a good idea for protecting data when you send a PC off for recycling. Or maybe they're left from a hard-drive upgrade. And we keep them because we're not quite sure they're safe to pitch.
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