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Month: May 2005 (Page 1 of 2)

Google Desktop Search Beta

If you’re in love with Google and want to extend its all-seeing gaze to the intimate recesses of your hard drive, Google Desktop Search is the way to go. Google Desktop runs on your PC, but you access it via your web browser, submitting queries exactly as you would to www.google.com.… Read the rest

Konica Minolta Maxxum 7D

Maxxum 7DIf you’re a bit more serious about your digital photography, you probably want something that puts all of your camera’s manual controls right at your fingertips, like the Konica Minolta Maxxum 7D. This impressively large, traditional-looking digital SLR lays it all out, with a profusion of dials, knobs, and buttons for controlling shooting modes, white balance, flash and exposure compensation, and more.… Read the rest

Olympus Evolt E-300

Olympus Evolt E-300Some things a man just can’t explain: What drives him to drink. Why he can’t stop a-cussin’ and a-brawlin’. And why he lugs around a big, beefy digital SLR when there are pocketable cameras aplenty.

But when you start taking pictures with an SLR, you’ll understand.… Read the rest

Revenge of the Sith.

I’ve sat through Wagner operas that moved the plot forward faster.

Sure, the computer generated imagery is amazing–but overwhelming. It quickly become so ubiquitous that it’s no longer all that impressive (Coruscant looks a bit like Las Vegas at night, oh and look, here comes another floating droid), and without a really strong storyline, the story gets boring fast.… Read the rest

Everything Bad’s Not Bad

Wired News reviews Steven Johnson’s book Everything Bad Is Good For You and wonders: If video games are making us smarter, why can’t we solve problems like Iraq and Social Security?

The answer’s easy: Make a killer first person shooter called Iraq: The Game and a gripping multiplayer online game called Social Security: Quest for Power.… Read the rest

Writing in the age of piracy.

John Scalzi is not worried about the state of book publishing in an age of easily made, widely-distributed digital copies:

I write books, but you know what? I’m not a book writer, any more than a musician is an LP musician or an MP3 musician.

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