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Steve Jacobs on April 10th, 2008
Many people have observed that drawing with a mouse is like drawing with a bar of soap. In conventional computer use, you slide your mouse around until you get the cursor where you want it to go, regardless of where the mouse is on the table (or on your thigh,
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Steve Jacobs on February 8th, 2008
VUDU is an exceptionally easy-to-use alternative to cable or dish video on-demand services and DVD rental and purchase outlets like Netflix, Blockbuster, or Hollywood. For $399 you get the hardware that has a 250GB storage capacity for your downloaded content and the service that vends the movies. The VUDU service
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Steve Jacobs on January 28th, 2008
The inexpensive XO laptop was created for children in underprivileged environments, but for the past few weeks I've been using it as a travel PC, leaving the 17-inch MacBook at home. The XO beats the MacBook hands down in portability. But could I get my work done on a laptop
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Steve Jacobs on January 11th, 2008
The annual Consumer Electronics Show - CES, as it as best known - is a festival of all things electronic: the place where the industry shows retail buyers, distributors, and journalists all things new for the coming year. Trade associations from Europe and the Pacific Rim show off the talents
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Steve Jacobs on December 6th, 2007
Six months ago Monroe Community College and Finger Lakes Community College kicked off a SUNY-wide experiment in the use of virtual worlds in college education.They established a beachhead in Second Life, held a one-day conference, and offered plots of land for educators to play with. More than 30 SUNY institutions
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Steve Jacobs on November 9th, 2007
For the next three weeks you'll have the opportunity to buy two laptop computers developed by some of the greatest minds in the digital era, encompassing ground-breaking advances in screen and battery technology, for a mere $399.What's the catch? There are two, really. One is that you'll have to give
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Steve Jacobs on October 19th, 2007
In just a few short weeks, the iPhone development community created some fantastic software for the iPhone, from the sublime to the ridiculous. Some of the innovations fill holes in the iPhone's functionality. They add tools like the ability to connect wireless GPS to the excellent Google maps on the
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Steve Jacobs on September 15th, 2007
Ok, it's not really the iPhone minus, it's more of an iPod Plus. Apple's recent announcement of the iPod Touch amounted to the company offering an iPhone without phone or camera capabilities. So what do you get, and for how much?You get a WiFi-enabled video, photo, and music player with
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Steve Jacobs on August 10th, 2007
Where can you find a school bus full of digital kids' art and video? Turtle robots that follow projected roads? Musical instruments that play sounds from physical textures?Computer displays made from film as thin as cellophane?And the One Laptop Per Child's XO laptop initiative's "$100 Laptop" for k-12 students in
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Steve Jacobs on July 20th, 2007
Since Apple announced its "Intel Macs," (Macintosh computers with an Intel CPU that would let you run both Windows and Mac operating systems), whole new markets have opened up for the Macintosh. And many people from all walks of life have been excited by the prospect of running two operating
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Steve Jacobs on March 26th, 2008
One of the ways Macintosh has lagged (and this is coming from a fan boy) is in providing decent backup solutions. Apple took a stab at fixing the software side of the problem when it released its latest major OSX upgrade, Leopard, by including a simple-to-use, powerful backup application called
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