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December 20 to 31, 2005
Are you a
pc
user who bought an iPod? With rumors of a sub-$500 Mac, many are thinking of switching...
April 18 to 24, 2005
If you're switching to a Mac, it's now cheaper to get your HP or Dell
pc
recycled...
March 21 to 27, 2005
Another great historical overview from Mobile
pc
magazine. This time, they examine the evolution of the notebook computer...
Macs are starting to make under-the-radar inroads into companies. This is exactly how the Web got started in the corporate world, and CTOs and IT staff are beginning to think about what it means...
March 14 to 20, 2005
Beautiful aquatic creatures made from hubcaps: http://www.hubca
pc
reatures.com...
February 28 to March 6, 2005
Fujitsu's 120GB notebook drive. Side note - a friend asked a major hard drive recovery specialist which drives they thought were the most reliable. The answer - Seagate for desktops, and Hitachi fo...
1,000 patients are getting iSights to enable at-home telemedicine. Hands down, the iSight provides the best
pc
video and audio conferencing quality I've ever experienced...
February 21 to 27, 2005
The Continuing iPod Phenomenon http://www.
pc
world.com/resource/article/0,aid,119799,pg,1,RSS,RSS,00.as...
February 14 to 20, 2005
This was deservedly popular this week - a great list of the top 100 gadgets of all time: http://www.mobile
pc
mag.com/features/2005_03/top100gadgets.htm...
January 24 to 30, 2005
Fujitsu announced the development of plant-based plastic in
pc
s...
The Search Engine Relationship Chart: http://www.bruceclay.com/searchenginerelationshi
pc
hart.ht...
January 10 to 16, 2005
In the
pc
world the average consumer seems to think that bigger is better. On the contrary, smaller computers by their nature require higher technology and more elegant design and engineering. Henc...
About two minutes after someone pointed out that the Mac mini was smaller than a standard car radio, companies started working on plans to offer in-car Macs to handle entertainment and car functions...
January 1 to 9, 2005
The top ten war profiteers of 2004: http://metronewsnet.homelinux.com:81/boards/showthread.php?
pc
...
"Extreme Homes of Exotic Islands" http://www.hgtv.com/hgtv/s
pc
l_prsntn/episode/0,1806,HGTV_3909_12484,00.htm...
November 29 to December 5, 2004
Big-time convergence - this new home entertainment
pc
looks like a Tivo on steroids...
A more in-depth mind-boggling article on how Google works - two
pc
s are expected to fail daily...
November 22 to 28, 2004
pc
, which can be run from solar panels, uses only 10 watts...
How the government uses laser printers to track documents. Since about 1995, color laser printers have microencoded the printer's serial number on every printed document. Use a blue LED light to se...
November 15 to 21, 2004
Pros and cons regarding the u
pc
oming Superferry - discuss them in public this week...
The silent
pc
power supply. Stop
pc
noise pollution...
November 8 to 14, 2004
The world's smallest
pc
/keyboard/mouse net connection combo...
The story behind the five-year development of Half-Life 2, which could be one of the greatest
pc
videogames of all time and make over $700 million in revenues worldwide...
November 1 to 7, 2004
Yes, those same Hart voting machines used in Hawaii caused a few problems in Texas. But here's what gets me... the article's last sentence reads "Election officials say eSlate machines are reliabl...
October 25 to 31, 2004
New 4GB flash SD cards: http://www.dpreview.com/news/0410/04102702sandisk_highca
pc
ards.as...
Spyware is on 80% of
pc
s, viruses on 20%. But 77% of people think they're safe. Is this the same 80% that think evoting is secure, despite expert evidence...
October 18 to 24, 2004
USB flash drives that can copy without a
pc
...
An HDTV
pc
MCIA card, with folding antenna...
A pro-evoting industry group blames humans for errors. Along these lines, it's your fault every time your
pc
crashes, too...
October 11 to 17, 2004
It's been a while since a Hawaii-based tech company made big news - CherryOS (based on Maui) touts a MacOSX emulator for
pc
s, and their Web site is getting slammed...
October 4 to 10, 2004
Most visitors to Hawaii come in twos and stay on one island. Why not provide an alternative to space-hogging rental cars in Waikiki? And you could fit a lot more of these things on the u
pc
omin...
"George W. Bush - Keeping America Scared": http://home.earthlink.net/~houval/go
pc
onstrm.mo...
September 27 to October 3, 2004
Hart Intercivic makes those evoting machines that people in Hawaii will be using in the u
pc
oming general election. Here's a recent article about a letter written by a former Hart technician wh...
An u
pc
oming documentary, "The End of Suburbia"...
September 20 to 26, 2004
pc
Magazine and Time give the new G5 iMac top ratings and reviews, named "Gadget of the Week"...
September 13 to 19, 2004
pc
s are getting hotter and hotter as their complexity and power consumption increases...
September 5 to 12, 2004
Has your
pc
been taken over by a spamming virus? Spammers are selling your "zombie
pc
" to others...
August 30 to September 5, 2004
Put your DNA signature on a T-shirt: http://www.catgee.com/catgee/control/home/~category_id=CP_1015/~
pc
ategory=CP_PRODUC...
August 22 to 29, 2004
Famous tech writer John C. Dvorak calls for the death of Microsoft Word: http://abcnews.go.com/sections/scitech/ZDM/MS_word_commentary_
pc
mag_040824.htm...
Even Windows' recent Service Pack 2 is insecure: http://www.
pc
mag.com/article2/0,1759,1639276,00.as...
August 15 to 22, 2004
Unpatched
pc
s are compromised in 20 minutes. Someone should make a tiny USB-powered firewall device for upgrading
pc
s...
August 2 to 8, 2004
If you think such an operation cannot be financially viable, think about the bigger, hidden economic net benefits for nearby restaurants, stores, galleries, and bars. And without attracting nightl...
July 26 to August 1, 2004
How to fully remove Internet Explorer from your
pc
...
This Land Is Apparently Not Your Land http://homepages.law.asu.edu/~dkarjala/OpposingCopyrightExtension/publicdomain/PhillipsCumAuthorshi
pc
hart.htm...
July 12 to 18, 2004
During the summer, Office Depot is allowing people to drop off and recycle one electronics product per day, for free: http://money.cnn.com/2004/07/13/news/fortune500/recycle_
pc
/index.ht...
July 5 to 11, 2004
Have you ditched Internet Explorer yet? It's lost 1% in popularity so far, its first recorded decline in five years. That's about 300,000 people...
June 21 to 27, 2004
The first HDTV tuner
pc
card is here - get HDTV signals for free and watch 'em on your computer...
A teacher fed up with the high cost of (Cisco Academy's computer training) textbooks makes his own equivalent textbooks and puts them online for free...
June 7 to 13, 2004
A tutorial on how to make your Windows
pc
look just like a modern Mac...
Most email spam (80%) is now caused by Windows
pc
s hijacked by virii...
May 17 to 23, 2004
Need a good, free antivirus app for Windows? Here's the 46 best freeware utilities for
pc
s...
May 3 to 9, 2004
The Sasser worm, developed by an 18 year-old in Germany who also made the ubiquitous "Netsky" email virus, infected an estimated million computers last week, 80% of which belonged to home users an...
A high-level report from the 2004 Flexible Displays & Electronics Conference: http://www.
pc
world.com/news/article/0,aid,115963,pg,1,RSS,RSS,00.as...
Don't forget about the new 400GB hard drives! http://www.
pc
world.com/news/article/0,aid,115839,00.as...
April 26 to May 2, 2004
A new open-source software kit turns batches of old, obsolete
pc
s into wireless community networks...
April 12 to 18, 2004
A study finds that the average (Windows)
pc
has 28 spyware programs on it, each of which may send your private information to other parties without your knowledge...
March 29 to April 5, 2004
The first key ring gadget that's also a camcorder, USB storage device, and 2-megapixel digital camera: http://www.
pc
mag.com/article2/0,4149,1559882,00.asp?kc=
pc
RSS02129TX1K000053...
Microsoft reports that 16 million
pc
s were affected by the recent MSBlast virus, ten times more than previously thought...
March 15 to 21, 2004
There is NO excuse not to buy a
pc
(non-laptop) larger than a shoebox any more. Anything larger is wasteful, ugly, energy and noise polluting. Here's the Nanode, the first Nano-ITX-based
pc
...
Somebody market this, quick! A professor creates a small cheap noise cancellation unit that decreases computer fan noise. Although this technology is available in many headphones, nobody to date ha...
March 8 to 14, 2004
A new DVD recorder from HP burns silkscreen-like labels on the entire side of the disc: http://www.
pc
world.com/news/article/0,aid,114592,tk,wb030804x,00.as...
March 1 to 7, 2004
Remember that photojournal on shipbreaking, one of the most toxic and dangerous jobs on earth? Here's a short summary of some new technologies (including a wash that neutralizes
pc
Bs) being used i...
Sparklines - a great way of compressing information, from Edward Tufte's u
pc
oming book Beautiful Evidence...
February 23 to 29, 2004
We don't support that "Ted, and those like him, have only one solution to their customers' problems. Erase everything on the computer's hard drive and start over from scratch." The latest in Salon'...
February 16 to 22, 2004
Got a Windows
pc
? Be afraid. Be very afraid. Thanks to the recent Windows code leak, this security vulnerability has been found - if you're running Explorer version 5, simply loading a certain imag...
February 2 to 8, 2004
Make an efficient, cheap camping stove out of aluminum cans: http://www.
pc
thiker.com/pages/gear/pepsiGstoveinstruct.shtm...
January 12 to 18, 2004
"This experience encapsulated so many benefits about technology that I don’t really know where to begin" http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/01/09/02O
pc
onnection_1.htm...
October 27, 2003
Sanyo is making corn-derived biodegradable CDs - they'll hit stores in December. Much better for landfills. They degrade after 50-100 years: http://www.
pc
world.com/news/article/0,aid,112979,00.as...
PDA screens are getting pretty high-resolution these days (picture)... http://www.pdafrance.com/img/testproduit_pocket
pc
/e800/DSCN4226.JP...
September 15, 2003
Of all people, the Chief Technical Officer of InfoWorld (long a Windows/UNIX-oriented publication) has moved to a Mac and wrote two articles about the experience... "It just works... an option that'...