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Review: Corsair 8GB “Survivor” GT thumb drive

October 12, 2007 / Dave Taylor / Articles, Tutorials, and Reviews / 5 Comments

It was less than a year ago that I bought a 256MB thumb drive and thought “man, lots of space, that’ll be handy”. In fact, I added my keys and made it my keychain. Then I decided it was too small and upgraded to a Lexar “Jump Drive” with an impressive 512MB of space coupled with some encryption software that would ensure that if I lost the drive, I wouldn’t be out of luck.
Problem is, unless you have incredible personal discipline, it becomes quickly obvious that it’s useful to have more space, not less, and just like modern housebuying, while it’s impossible to have too much space, it certainly is possible to have too little.

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Not a Review of the Philips HTS8100 Ambisound Bar

October 10, 2007 / Dave Taylor / Articles, Tutorials, and Reviews / 9 Comments

When I bought a new television (a splendid Sony Bravia KDL-40V3000 40″ LCD) I decided that it was time to update the sound system hooked up to the TV too, and after much research, I decided not to get a five speaker surround sound and clutter up the room with wires. Instead, I read lots of reviews and opted to buy the Philips Ambisound HTS8100 Home Theater Surround Bar.
The specs are awesome for this all-in-one stereo system, iPod dock, and DVD player that can upscale the movie being played to 1080p, the reference scanrate of high def video (1080 scan lines, progressive). Heck, the sound of the unit is terrific too.
Except for one problem: less than a month after I purchased it I have had to take it in for service, and it’s been there for ten days now, with no resolution in sight…

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How do you find people through LinkedIn?

August 3, 2007 / Dave Taylor / Articles, Tutorials, and Reviews / 2 Comments

It’s impossible not to have heard about the many different social networks online nowadays. Seems like a new one pops up every week and indeed the single most popular site on the Internet is a social network (MySpace). I know because I am part of at least a dozen different social networks, ranging from focused professional venues to chaotic amalgamations of various ideas without any rhyme or reason. You can figure out which is which. 🙂
One of my favorites has always remained LinkedIn and since I just this morning needed to track down one of the executives at web hosting company Dreamhost, I thought it would be useful to demonstrate exactly how I used LinkedIn for this task.

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Is the Apple iPhone going to be a business phone?

June 28, 2007 / Dave Taylor / Articles, Tutorials, and Reviews, iPhone & iOS Help / 7 Comments

I spent a fair amount of time on the phone with Leslie Brooks Suzukamo, Telecom, Technology and Energy Reporter for the St. Paul Pioneer Press earlier this week. Our topic of discussion? Whether the new Apple iPhone is going to be a good business phone or not. He quoted various industry sources and so-called pundits who predicted that it wouldn’t and that it’s designed exclusively for consumers. But he — and they — are so terribly wrong…

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Has Yahoo Groups become a haven for porn and spammers?

June 6, 2007 / Dave Taylor / Articles, Tutorials, and Reviews / 14 Comments

In the early days of the Internet, back when we called it a “dirt road” and were delighted when email bounced from UUCP connection to UUCP connection as is slowly wound its way from one end of the topological jungle to the other, email mailing lists were quite the cool thing.
Years have passed and we now have sophisticated web-based discussion boards, blogs and many other venues for interpersonal interaction, but email remains, to me, the killer application, and it’s on my mailing lists that I encounter the freshest thinking and most valuable information.
I can remember when there were two main places to find mailing lists too (other than the List of Lists and other short-lived directories), Topica and Yahoo Groups. Google’s added its own collection — of course — with Google Groups too, but in many ways, Yahoo Groups was always my favorite place to look for people with similar interests.
Which is why it’s so distressing to see that it’s become an absolute safe haven for porn and spammers in ways that were unanticipated when Web-based lists were first envisioned…

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Understanding HDTV Formats and Components

May 14, 2007 / Dave Taylor / Articles, Tutorials, and Reviews / 10 Comments

This is a user-contributed article.
TV has evolved in the last 5 years and can be difficult to understand. There are many technologies out there in the marketplace that are worth being conscious of as you go and buy an HDTV. Today’s HDTV’s also come with a variety of resolutions. You may see 720p, 1080p, 1080i etc. We are going through a changing of the guard, and it’s all gotten rather complicated when you want to purchase a replacement set!
The first generation of HDTV’s had maximum resolution or lines of 1080i/720p but today’s TVs have a maximum resolution of 1080p. When buying a TV you’ll find these 1080p sets to be more expensive than those that have a maximum resolution of 1080i/720p. This is because these ‘true’ HD TV sets are not only newer but they can accommodate optimal resolution on blu-ray and HD-DVD players without having to scale the image. The i/p behind the number indicates whether the resolution is interlaced (an older method of scaling images that results in the image having to be put back together and the signal to degrade) or progressive scan (a newer, superior method that results in no signal degradation).

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Review: Meditation with the game “Journey to Wild Divine”

May 10, 2007 / Dave Taylor / Articles, Tutorials, and Reviews / No Comments

The Wild Divine ProjectCan you learn how to relax, achieve a meditative state and control your own brain waves with a computer game? That was the premise of the biofeedback-based series of games from the Wild Divine Project, and when the company gave me a copy of their flagship title The Journey to Wild Divine: The Passage, I was eager to check it out.
And y’know what? It’s extraordinarily cool. It’s unlike any computer game you’ve ever played and even though I am not a fan of children playing computer games, I was happy to watch my children learn how to explore the lush interactive world of Wild Divine and overcome the various challenges and obstacles that are the heart of the game.

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What is a book agent supposed to do for me as an author?

May 5, 2007 / Dave Taylor / Articles, Tutorials, and Reviews, Writing and Publishing / 1 Comment

It’s one of the most common questions that I hear as a writer, and just about every group of writers endlessly debates the topic: what’s the purpose of an agent? Different agents have different views of what they do, and certainly authors vary in their ability to work with an agent or agency, but fundamentally, it can be a tricky business to pin down exactly how an agent should be helping a writer succeed.
This debate came up again on a popular writer’s mailing list and with the permission of all parties involved, I am reproducing the original question and the thoughtful and informative answers. The discussion took place on a list sponsored by an agency, but I believe that these are candid answers and comments, not influenced by the sponsor in any way. I have also deliberately not associated individual authors with their comments to protect their views.

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