Articles in the Tech Category
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taH pagh taHbe’! Of course, Shakespeare is better in the original Klingon. For those of us not schooled in the language of Kronos, uncovering this beauty was difficult. However, that has changed now that Microsoft’s Bing Tranlate service implemented translation …
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As these things go in the US, my 15Mbps connection for $53 a month from Time Warner Cable (TWC) is a bit expensive, but the speed is twice the national average. However, VTel customers around the small, rural New England …
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Although USB 3 isn’t nearly as robust as Thunderbolt — daisy chaining, powered bus, high asynchronous performance — universal serial bus has the mass market edge. That said, Intel has raised the bar and expects to ship 20Gbps Thunderbolt tech …
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Whether you shop at Walmart and Best Buy or Nordstroms and the Apple Store, chances are majority of the labels and packaging on the products you buy say, “Made in China.” On the whole, that’s been good for US consumers, …
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The printed word is rapidly fading from the page. In fact, paper itself is a whole lot less common than it once was. And, we know these things not only from personal experience, but also office supply and printer industry …
Apple luv, Tech »
On June 1, 2010, Steve Jobs proclaimed the “Post PC” era. That desktop and notebook computers are trucks and that, sooner or later, people would all be driving cars (i.e. iPhones and iPads). The days since then have been riven …
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Whereas the Fairer Platform and others have publicly kvetched that driver and implementation (chip) cost issues have inhibited Thunderbolt adoption, it turns out that Intel, which created this I/O tech, is a major source of pain for Thunderbolt PC, cable …
Mac, Tech »
Still torrenting? Here is an interesting and, one suspects, convenient way to do it. Search for and download torrents directly from within Google Chrome using the BitTorrent Surf Extension (demo video below) — no stand alone client required, which is …
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We have seen this movie before. More than a decade ago, the battle was between USB and Apple’s FireWire. Now, the fight is on again, this time between SuperSpeed USB and Apple’s Thunderbolt. We know which is technically superior, but …
Music, movies, TV, Tech »
Every time the rumor that Apple plans to launch a streaming music service — call it iRadio or iTunes Radio — Pandora’s stock tumbles, hard. However, at least one industry expert thinks that focus is misguided and that Spotify has …

