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Gadgets on the piste Warning: The following is by no means an in-depth review or related to PC hardware. I used a recent ski trip as an opportunity to... Type: Blog post Tags: Miscellaneous |
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Have Internet, will travel To borrow the first line from The Streets' magnificent A Grand Don't Come for Free, it was supposed to be so easy. After a brutally... Type: Blog post Tags: Internet Personal tech |
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I bought a Kindle Touch, and it's pretty great Almost a year ago today, I waved goodbye to the world of print books and got myself an Amazon Kindle 3. You might recall I... Type: Blog post Tags: Personal tech |
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Six screens, one desk When I sit down at my desk in the Benchmarking Sweatshop, it feels like maybe I could tap into the Matrix. I've slowly added... Type: Blog post Tags: Miscellaneous Displays |
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Windows 8 and the marginalization of geeks On Tuesday, Microsoft made the Windows 8 Developer Preview available publicly without demanding so much as a Windows Live login name and password in return.... Type: Blog post Tags: Operating systems Windows |
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Technology way out in the wild Warning: the following is not, under any circumstances, to be considered an in-depth review or technical article. I've got a rather major one of... Type: Blog post Tags: Mobile computing |
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Clash of the Sumo Titan bean bag chair Here at TR, we generally can't be bothered with things that don't raise the electricity bill or contain copious amounts of caffeine. However, over... Type: Blog post Tags: Miscellaneous |
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Rediscovering reading with the Kindle Today, I finished my first book in a long, long time... probably years: On Writing by Stephen King. While King was one of my favorite... Type: Blog post Tags: Personal tech |
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Snooping Timbuk2's camera messenger bag For more than a decade, I lugged my notebook in a simple shoulder bag. I suppose you'd call it a messenger-style bag today, but... Type: Blog post Tags: Mobile computing Personal tech |
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Gloss begone There are few things that I despise more than the predominance of polished plastics in today's notebooks. Glossy finishes are the single worst... Type: Blog post Tags: Mobile computing Personal tech |
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Don't go to Vegas—tales of a journalist's first CES It's 10:35 PM on the second-to-last day of CES as I sit on the hotel bed nursing my blistered feet, throat aching from the desert... Type: Blog post Tags: Miscellaneous |
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My iPhone 4 is awesome Well, I finally did it. After misguidedly buying what turned out to be a sub-par iPhone clone in 2008, then waiting almost five months... Type: Blog post Tags: Mac Personal tech |
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Wading into the smartphone world with a Palm Pre I severed my last land line about a decade ago, so I probably count as a reasonably early cell-phone adopter. Was I driven by a... Type: Blog post Tags: Personal tech |
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A few months with Acer's Aspire 1810TZ budget ultraportable notebook About a year and a half ago, I bought an Eee PC 1000HA as an experiment of sorts. Both batteries for my aging 14"... Type: Blog post Tags: Mobile computing |
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Building the imperfect beast, part II: mobo risin' Hey hey, kids. In case you've forgotten or are too lazy to use a... |
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Trying out Windows 7's XP Mode Late last month, Microsoft revealed plans to offer a free Windows XP virtualization solution to users of Windows 7 Professional and Ultimate. In a... Type: Blog post Tags: Operating systems Windows |
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Clip surgery! No, I'm not talking about getting your dog or cat fixed. I'm talking about the Sansa Clip MP3 player, and my recent foray into... Type: Blog post Tags: Miscellaneous Personal tech |
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Fun with raytracing Traditional GPUs render a scene by taking the scene geometry (expressed as 3D meshes of triangles) and "pasting" 2D bitmap images (textures) onto those meshes.... Type: Blog post Tags: Miscellaneous |
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| I'm sorry but if there's enough market demand for 13.3" 3200x1800 screens, there's MORE than enough demand for 24" 2560x1600 screens. | +47 |