I’m in the market for a new car, and I’m struggling with what to buy. Currently, I have a 2003 Infiniti FX45, which I love, but it is starting to feel its age. I tried the new FX50, but it seems that, to get ahead of the technology curve, I should get a hybrid or electric car, and Infiniti doesn’t make one of those. In addition, the FX50 looks like they grafted a new nose and tail to my car, and the whole thing doesn’t look very attractive to me. It reminds me of bad plastic surgery.
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Multi-Touch on a PC: Love It , Hate It, or Clueless About It
I often get a kick out of the fact that people repeat the same mistakes over and over again. When Xerox executives first saw a Graphical UI and a mouse they thought it was a toy that no one would want. Yet today Microsoft and Apple are household names and besides, when was the last time you saw the Xerox brand on anything? When Windows came out, folks just couldn’t see the advantage of moving away from the perfectly good command line interface and that no one would ever want this thing, now 100s of millions of copies later, Windows (love it or hate it) is the current dominant product and the MacOS, which sports a similar Xerox based interface, is the fastest growing.
BitTorrent Coming to Routers, NAS Devices
File-sharing bad-boy BitTorrent has been making efforts to go legit in the last year, removing links to copyrighted material from its search engine and inking a distribution deal with Warner Bros. to legally distribute content to BitTorrent users—and while much of the traffic carried by BitTorrent still keeps the RIAA and MPAA up and night, a growing amount of material available is being distributed legally.
Now, BitTorrent has inked a deal to put client software in Internet-connected products like routers, network attached storage (NAS) devices, and other "digital home" media product. And BitTorrent already has partners lined up, with ASUS, Planex, and QNAP already announcing BitTorrent-enabled products.
Macworld Challenges Intel iMac Speed Claims
Apple Computer made a lot of press earlier this month by introducing Intel-powered iMacs and the new MacBook Pro notebook earlier this month at Macworld Expo, touting performance of the new iMac with the new Intel Core Duo CPU as being up to twice as fast as it PowerPC G5-based predecessor. However, in tests, Macworld Labs finds the speed gains in the Intel-based systems far less substantial, and, for software which hasn’t been recompiled for Intel systems, performance is more like one-half that of the previous model.
Apple’s Intel Macs: iMac and MacBook Pro
At his keynote at this week’s Macworld Expo in San Francisco, Apple CEO Steve Jobs introduced the first Macintosh computers based on Intel processors “a little ahead of schedule,” and
Installing Your Home Theater: The Plain English Guide to Installation Part 7
For several articles we have been discussing how to get the most out of your new home theater system. One of the most important tools you can use at home to really optimize your system is to invest in a calibration DVD. These are discs that provide standardized, industrial test signals that will help you set your TV and receiver for the best performance.
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