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Loren Heiny / Inkineer:
Running the Tablet PC OS on an iMac — Yep, this post is being written on an iMac. — I successfully installed the Tablet PC OS this morning using Apple's Boot Camp and the Tablet PC OS from my MSDN subscription. I'm using a Wacom Graphire3 Tablet for the digitizer.
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Robert X. Cringely / pbs.org:
A Whole New Ball Game: — Blame Dell for Window Vista's Latest Delay, but Blame Microsoft for Apple's Boot Camp — Twenty-five years ago, my Thursday nights were mainly spent playing poker with a group that included legendary sportswriter Leonard Koppett from the New York Times and The Sporting News.
Ed Bott / Ed Bott's Windows Expertise:
Robert X. Clueless — Mark Stephens, the PBS pundit who goes by the pseudonym Robert X. Cringely, is modestly famous for his bomb-throwing anti-Microsoft screeds. He's also famous for being flat-out wrong, often, even when it comes to his own professional credentials.
Dennis Rice / GottaBeMobile.com:
Oh how the Tablet faithful have fallen ....! — Loren, oh Loren (Heiny). It is a sad day when the Tablet faithful fall away. Especially when it is one of the members of the First Family of Tablet! Loren Heiny is in serious danger of being lured to the Dark Side (Macintosh of course).
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Life On the Wicked Stage
Paul Thurrott / winsupersite.com:
Apple Boot Camp Review — Apple's decision to move its Macintosh computing platform to Intel processors has opened up a world of possibilities, none more obvious than the release this week of a beta software wizard called Boot Camp. This elegant little application allows Intel-based Mac users …
Frank Boosman / pseudorandom:
Cringely on OS X for PCs — Mark Stephens, AKA Robert X. Cringely, is a smart guy who has good ideas and interesting predictions. Every so often, though, he writes something that makes me wonder, "Is he just saying that to see if we're paying attention?" In 2003, he proposed …
San Francisco Chronicle:
Wi-Fi plan stirs Big Brother concerns — Log-on rule would allow Google to track users' whereabouts in S.F. — Privacy advocates are raising concerns about Google Inc.'s plans to cover San Francisco with free wireless Internet access, calling the company's proposal to track users' locations …
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Will GoogleNET Go National? — GoogleNET will soon be expanding into different cities - that is if you believe Earthlink CEO Garry Betty. — Despite repeated and strong denials by the search giant, anecdotal evident suggests that Google has national ambitions for its WiFi network, aka GoogleNET.
Steve Lohr / New York Times:
This Boring Headline Is Written for Google — JOURNALISTS over the years have assumed they were writing their headlines and articles for two audiences — fickle readers and nitpicking editors. Today, there is a third important arbiter of their work: the software programs that scour the Web …
Lisa Belkin / New York Times:
Overly Wired? There's a Word for It — WAS there gridlock before there were automobiles? Was there jet lag before there were airplanes? Who was the first person to say "I Googled it" or "he's cyberstalking me"? At what moment did a "web log" turn into a "blog"? — Language makes things official.
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IP Democracy
Ryan Katz / Think Secret:
MacBook to land at last by May — April 7, 2006 - Apple has begun manufacturing its new MacBook and should have the laptop in consumer hands in the next 30-60 days, sources report. The MacBook—and it will indeed be called the MacBook, sources have confirmed, as Apple will be dropping the iBook moniker …
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macosXrumors.com
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TDavid / Things That:
Inking in Second Life, sort of — I haven't been very good about Tablet PC updates lately. Guess I'm in what you'd call the second year Tablet PC owner hardware blues mode. I can just see and hear somebody inking virtual violins in the distance. — However, this mode hasn't prevented …
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VTOR
Oded Yaron / Haaretz:
Google buys search algorithm invented by Israeli student — Search engine giant Google recently acquired an advanced text search algorithm invented by Ori Alon, an Israeli student. Sources believe Yahoo and Microsoft were also negotiating with the University of New South Wales in Australia …
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Googling Google
Holovaty.com:
How I'm using Amazon S3 to serve media files — As traffic to chicagocrime.org has steadily increased, I've been looking for ways to tweak the site's performance. The site runs on a rented dedicated server with Apache/mod_python, PostgreSQL and Django. (I'd love to bite the bullet and buy proper servers but haven't done so yet.
Lem / ROBOTS DREAMS:
One Sexy Robot — Takahashi-san, of Kyoto's Robot Garage, is already famous worldwide as the creator of a series of high performance, and beautifully styled male robots including Chroino and Manoi. So what could he do to top that? Simple. How about a female robot that not only looks great …
Ryan Bilsborrow-Koo / DV Guru:
Ten video sharing services compared — The number of video-sharing sites has shot through the roof recently, as dozens of companies try to become the Flickr of the online video world. To this end, many video services have started offering new features like editing and remixability in an attempt …
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