Nov 24
Which game console should you buy?
Posted in: Today's ChiliLet CNET help you decide which home video-game console is best for you.
Nov 24
This article was written on January 26, 2008 by CyberNet.
This election year more than ever, the Internet is playing a crucial role in helping voters become informed on each of the candidates, and candidates are using it as a method for campaigning. There are all kinds of web sites that have popped up to help the cause, and one of them that I came across recently that will be helpful to you as a voter is Glassbooth.org. If you live in the United States and you still haven’t decided who you’ll be voting for come November, check it out! It serves as a great resource for finding out about the 2008 presidential candidates and even gives you an idea of which candidate your views are most similar to.
Glassbooth makes the process pretty quick and easy, yet it’s really informative. First you’ll start out by assigning 20 points to a list of issues that you find the most important. For example, I assigned 4 points to education and 4 points to health care, two issues which are important to me. Once your points are given out, you’ll move on to some questions in which you’ll answer on a scale of strongly agree to strongly oppose. When you’re done with that portion, it will tell you how you compare to the different candidates and why.
The fact that it explains why your views line up with a particular candidate is nice. And they back it up with quotes and figures from the candidates mouths which is helpful as well. As you can see, my views are most similar to Barack Obama (84%), Mike Gravel (82%), and Hillary Clinton (80%). Before you run off to take the quiz yourself (and of course come back to let us know your results), here’s som info about Glassbooth. It’s a nonprofit organization that is “creating innovative ways to access political information. An informed and interested democracy is a powerful thing. As an organization in the public’s interest, we are very serious about our core principles,” their site says. Then they go on to list that their core principles are integrity, nonbias, nonpartisan, transparency, and insight.
Thanks to Pieter in the forum for pointing out Glassbooth to us!
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Nov 24
You’re a grown-up now. Do something more grown-up during parties than turning the volume to 11 to create whole house audio. The Sonos Multi-Room Music System can grab music off a PC or home file server and stream it, wired or wirelessly, to as many rooms as you have devices. The ease of operation and elegant interface makes you think this is an Apple spinoff; actually, the Sonos people are brilliant in their own right. Start with the S5 ($400 direct), an all-in-one device you easily carry from room to room. Add a ZonePlayer 120 ($500) if you already have speakers, or a ZonePlayer 90 ($350) to connect to an existing stereo or to amplified speakers. You can control it from your iPhone, iPad, PC or Mac, or with a Sonos controller. This is one wireless (or wired Ethernet) system where the music plays in sync in every room, all the time. Or you can have different music in each room. Or you can dock your iPod and control and play that music through the house.
Nov 24
Carry an iPod-size rechargeable external battery to double or triple your phone’s talk time or your MP3 player’s playback time. They all have a USB jack; plug your device’s cord into that and you’re up and running again. The cheapest, smallest units provide a half-charge to a cellphone or MP3 player battery and take up little space in a purse or shoulder bag until needed; the largest provide 2-3 charges of a phone or music player. Recharge them by plugging into a laptop/PC’s USB jack, or into a USB wall transformer. Prices run $15-$50. The powerpack is good for 500 charges. One of the more sophisticated is the Energizer XP2000 Universal Rechargeable Power Pack, $30 street, with its own car and wall recharging transformers, four power tips, and carry case. There are many, many other choices.
Nov 24
Whether you spent $199 or $1,199 for your latest PC, are you really happy with the keyboard? I added an Apple wired keyboard ($49 in Apple stores) on my PC for a year (it installs automatically), liked the key feel, and disliked that Apple keyboards don’t have a print-screen key, something I use a lot, and the occasional static shock touching the keyboard deck on winter days. I switched to the Lenovo ThinkPad USB Keyboard with TrackPoint with its equally wonderful key feel, a Trackpoint pointing device (you can disable it if you don’t like it), and that print-screen key. Understand that the Thinkpad keys are full size but the keyboard is compact, so there’s no separate numeric keypad. Do your fingers a favor and get a real keyboard.
Nov 24
It sounds like a geeky gift – compared to jewelry, it certainly is – but almost everyone needs a backup server. Online backup is nice but only if you have a couple gigabytes of data to protect; I’ve got 2 terabytes (2,000 gigabytes) each of photos and videos, a lot of music, and several hundred gigabytes of data including scans of every document of significance since college. (Hey, I’m a Type A.) That calls for a home backup server, personal file server, or NAS (network attached storage) device. Three names, same thing: One device automatically backs up (and shares files among) every PC, Mac, notebook and netbook in the house. A long-running pcmag.com favorite has been the HP MediaSmart EX series (see pcmag.com review) and you can’t go wrong, especially for sharing photos online. (About $515 direct with one 1.5TB drive and three bays empty.) I’ve thrown my lot with the Synology DiskStation four bay series that isn’t quite as idiotproof on setup and remote access as the HP, but the prices are sensational, as low as $375 for a diskless box, then shop for the best deal on hard drives. Add four 2-TB drives at $100 apiece and with the magic of Synology’s RAID 5 controller, your 8GB of drive space effectively gives you 6 TB of redundant storage that survives the loss of a hard disk (which happens sooner or later). With HP’s technology, you get redundancy by using a second drive.
Nov 24
Someday you’ll have a paperless office and home. In the meantime, get a sheetfed scanner to organize your bills and receipts. (Flatbed scanners are cheaper but life is too short to open the lid, place a document face down, press scan, open the lid …) The NeatDesk scanner, $350 direct, looks great on your desk and has slots for business cards, receipts, and documents. It comes with NeatWorks software that does a fine job organizing and understanding receipts for your expenses and business accounting. For highest quality scanning of general documents, including forms printed on colored paper, add Kofax Desktop software, $49 direct. Finally you’ll be able to read a blue-ink-on-pink-paper receipt.
For road warriors, the NeatReceipts mobile scanner is cheaper at $150 direct, but overall the NeatDesk solution does more and takes less time.
Nov 24
Richard Branson launching ‘Project’ magazine for iPad next week
Posted in: Apple, ipad, Today's Chili
Is there something in the air? Hot on the heels of Rupert Murdoch’s impending The Daily newspaper for the iPad, we’re getting word of a Richard Branson-funded, iPad-specific magazine dubbed Project. The magazine will cover entertainment, travel, business, design, and international culture. It’s hard to tell if these two announcements are somehow related to each other, or if they imply some sort of shift in Apple’s treatment of publications, but either way they do indeed seem to be happening. The full announcement of Project is due for Tuesday next week.
Richard Branson launching ‘Project’ magazine for iPad next week originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 24 Nov 2010 14:37:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Nov 24
George the Robot, one of the first humanoid robots ever made, has emerged from storage to take his place at a British computing museum.
Nov 24
Sony Ericsson faults ‘especially rigorous’ firmware testing in US for X10’s Eclair update delay on AT&T
Posted in: Android, att, Google, sony, Sony Ericsson, SonyEricsson, Today's Chili, update, upgrade
We think this is a veiled way of passing the buck to AT&T — but whatever it is, Sony Ericsson USA has extended an old, crusty, TimeScape-enabled olive branch to Xperia X10 owners in the States by attempting to explain what’s going on with the Eclair update ’round these parts. Basically, the company says that getting an update out in the US is way harder than it is elsewhere because of “the technical requirements that must be met” over which Sony Ericsson has “no control.” The blame is levied on an “especially rigorous” testing cycle that can (and presumably, often does) take several months, which is why they’ve thus far refused to offer guidance on when the update will be released. Honestly, is there any way we can trade in our warranty card to get on the fast track with this stuff? And more importantly, would us bleeding-edge types be willing to take that risk on a wide scale?
Sony Ericsson faults ‘especially rigorous’ firmware testing in US for X10’s Eclair update delay on AT&T originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 24 Nov 2010 14:23:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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