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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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How do I upgrade my Apple Boot Camp install to 1.2 beta?

March 29, 2007 / Dave Taylor / Articles, Tutorials, and Reviews, Mac & MacOS Help / 3 Comments

Already installed Apple’s slick Boot Camp system so you can dual boot your Intel-based Mac into Microsoft Windows in addition to Mac OS X? Perhaps you even used my popular tutorial on How to install Windows XP in Apple Boot Camp to get it all working? Either way, you should be aware that Apple just released an update to Boot Camp that, among other things, will let you install the new Windows Vista in the Boot Camp partition.
Other features of this new 1.2 beta release include:

  • Updated drivers, including the trackpad, AppleTime (sync), audio, graphics, modem, and the iSight camera
  • Support for the Apple Remote
  • Windows system tray icon for easy access to Boot Camp
  • Improved keyboard support for Korean, Chinese, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Finnish, Russian, and French Canadian
  • Improved Windows driver installation experience
  • Updated documentation and Boot Camp on-line help in Windows
  • Apple Software Update (for Windows XP and Vista)

Are ya ready to take the plunge and update your Boot Camp installation? Sure you are!

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Should I buy a Plasma, LCD, Projection or CRT TV?

March 20, 2007 / Dave Taylor / Articles, Tutorials, and Reviews / 5 Comments

Buying a television has never been more complicated than today, with four primary television technologies — plasma, projection, LCD or CRT — and a variety of different scan rates and resolutions, including HD, which has different meanings for different vendors.
More televised and DVD content is becoming available in High Definition (HD), digital broadcasting is becoming a requirement for terrestrial broadcasters, and more TVs are coming on the market to take advantage of these technologies. The result? It’s getting more difficult to stick with your old CRT TV, but hard to know which new technology will work best.

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Article: Running Yellow Dog Linux on a Sony Playstation-3

March 14, 2007 / Dave Taylor / Articles, Tutorials, and Reviews / 15 Comments

In which we get the hottest video game system from Christmas 2006 and turn it into a Linux box? You bet!
If you’re still thinking about video game systems as being just a wee bit more technologically advanced than an old Coleco or Atari 800, you’ve got quite a surprise coming the first time you crack open the proverbial hood. While the new Nintendo Wii (pronounced “wee”, oddly enough) has some slick hardware, as does the Microsoft Xbox 360 device, the real winner in the technology race is the rather amazing Sony Playstation 3 system.
Built around an IBM Cell Broadband Engine processor, the PS3 includes a high def Blu-ray drive, four USB 2.0 ports, an Nvidia graphics processor with 256MB of separate video RAM, support for Compact Flash, SD and Memory Stick devices, Ethernet, built-in 802.11b and g, Bluetooth, an HDMI port and support for all the video resolutions you can imagine, including 480i, 480p, 720p, 1080i and the holy grail, 1080p. Sounds like a computer, not a video game system, doesn’t it?

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Motorola IFH1000 & Treo 700p: Installation, Connection and Troubleshooting

March 13, 2007 / Dave Taylor / Articles, Tutorials, and Reviews / 2 Comments

[This is a reader-contributed article]
For the longest time my wife has wanted a hands free system in her car so that she did not have to use a headset or handle the phone while driving. Her description always included a cradle setup, but she did not know where to put the cradle in the car (a 2002 Audi A6).
For her birthday this year I finally took the initiative and did some research. I found that there are some very good bluetooth solutions out there. My wife’s Treo 700p is — mostly — bluetooth capable, but more on that later.
For various reasons, including good reviews, reputation (Motorola seems to know a thing or two about voice communications), features and price I went with the Motorola IHF1000 Car Kit.
There really didn’t seem to be much to the kit when it came in the mail, though: an interface (they call it a UIM for “User Interface Module”), a control module (a rectangular black box), a 5W speaker, a microphone and a wiring harness. I thought the speaker was redundant since I had planned to use the car’s audio system for receiving calls, but that plan changed as installation progressed…

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Review: Cellfire Cellphone Couponing System

March 12, 2007 / Dave Taylor / Articles, Tutorials, and Reviews / 4 Comments

Technology has changed dramatically in the last decade, but perhaps nowhere more than with cellular phone technology. From being a device for dialing numbers cellphones have evolved to where they’re a portable entertainment and media device, with music players, Web access, and even the ability to play videos and television content.
Some companies are pushing this set of capabilities further, and I was intriguied when Cellfire sent me a Sony-Ericsson phone with its coupon system pre-installed. I tested it out and was surprised by what I found…

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Review: Polk Audio’s I-Sonic XM Radio/HD stereo system

January 26, 2007 / Dave Taylor / Articles, Tutorials, and Reviews / 8 Comments

Just before Christmas, Polk Audio sent me one of their new I-Sonic all-in-one entertainment system to review, and it has been in my office ever since, giving me a chance to experience XM Radio and HD Radio, among other things. Does it sound nice? Most definitely. Is it worth $599? Well… let’s talk about the pro’s and con’s of the unit before I answer that question.

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