= > Cee ee Windows, Networks, Security, PAW me CMC nC) ey bat cy Years From Now: | Moments That We Can't Do se) Peet] Without p.se Beyond p.109 Buys emCDW can help you upgrade your technology. Your wardrobe is entirely up to you. Perr ad ee C oc) ee eatecnoes rr ectolegy ae et ‘o ear tiie i] atc td i Pen eerer y ny Errener eee rede see ete ‘aX ee Pieper praieypenr eran yas Be pene aia acter fasemny Pe eRe ere coe ermine Pires ctor)PLL | Torcag eda co et neh des ae Pere carer bag oh ects Or ea rece ere) x eed ete Sorter ayers coro eee = oe, Piel Pero CU Ea eee ece Tony Cee ony ae Koki) We're there with the technology solutions you need. ‘Music and vintage clothing still have a place in the world today. Old technology? een ee Ru ae enc me eu re Se uO A ae sce Cnn nai Mek RR a cd Cee recut A eae a Fe Ee ge ede eau sacs Bottom line —we'll make sure you get what you want, when you want ito call COW today and upgrade to where you need to be. Technologically speaking, of course. W.com | 800.399.4CDW Sea c MLLUsp Sti eS 56K USB MODEM (oesteay + USB convenience and ease of usc, with simple Plug and Play installation + Hot-swappable (installs and uninstalls automatically) * Bus-powered so it doesn’t require an external power supply abil + Excellent works with Windows, Linus, and Macs + UsRoborics Modem on Hold applicacion kets you screen calls and take ealls without droppin + Send and receive faves through your computer, supports group faxing and timed faxing *# Quick Connect reduces the time it takes o establish your dial-up Internet connection and V.92 lets you end email Lup to 50M faster + Home users with no broadband access and/or those who desire the additional security of dial-up Internet * Business travelers with laptops and no intemal modem for office access (when broadband isnt available) + Laptop and desktop users that desire “back-up” access the Internet in case of broadband failure + Home and business users that need fax eapabilicy wo andGoodSync Synchronize Your Life! Award Winning Backup and Synchronization Solution Automatic backup and synchronization made easy... Now you can automatically compare, synchronize, and back up your emails, precious family photos, contacts, MP3s, financial documents, and other important files between desktops, laptops, servers, and external drives. GoodSyne will: ¥ Automatically synchronize and backup all your data. ¥ Prevent file deletion and data loss. ¥ Organize/transfer files between multiple devices. Y Eliminate information clutter, remove duplicates. ¥ Let you enjoy complete peace of mind. GoodSync’s powerful technology is years ahead of the pack. Excellent reviews by industry experts and customers alike solidify GoodSync as a leader in file backup and synchronization. PC World Readers Download GoodSync Today It's FREE! (@ GoodSync www.GoodSync.com/PCWATEN wwwaaten.com Pentre” 2-Port Cable KVM Series Hybrid Series Supports PS/2 keyboards & USB mice 32 so 2 CE ’ F Gf, GY a \ @ SN & PSi2Interace ——-«USBnterface ‘Supports Audio Supports DVI monitor @) fF am Compact devon wih, Rete prt secon sichand inating SEL Ones potcan wt, _Independet nchig ofthe KM Dullenallinone cables LED dlapay for easy snitching for USB Hub and USB priporal Sa Rud (COMPLE: DIRECTRON.COM|ViI-AUDIO | Make music with your computer uUsB USB Micropone “chided in Session Music Producer system) Oses. Be oorelcs Rose) aS oreo tie auc ‘Available at:Plan A means more time waiting for color documents. Plan b means more time being productive. ions ator Laser Printers calor Laser Olga Copler/Prinirs Cor Laser l-n-Ones ‘Starting ot 399° Starting at 599° Starteg 05699" You coud sate for Plan Aand ess offic Or, you can choose Plan B from Brother" Our fll line a colar laser printers and all-in-ones delier fast 2lpem! maximum color printing speeds, So yeu spend mare time working and less time waiting Of course, the also have the same quality, affordably and value that Brother cor lacer printing, th ninknon, brother. ie known for So when Alaa at cs Dap, Pes Mag, Staple Fy Eactrerica, BotBurcom, Ceten com, Brardemart, Mereentr,JBR Computer PC Cemectan PC Malt Zor Qui PC Nien Tose roan razon cr, Buycom Neneus comand ote tne reselers, eines soe tree maya pe pein © mot harman Capran gen NS ‘ror nares Oe Nop anig) Bthanniversary Issue » FEATURES 86 25 Questions, 25 Answers ‘We answer 25 key tech questions: how to defang UAL, how to.ex tend a Wi-Fi range, how to 4 strong passwords, and more, 16 25 Products We Can't Do Without ‘The gadgets and services that our staffers and contuibutors love best include some real surprises The Next 25 Years Optical computers? Brain chip implants? Here comes the futuue. 15 25 Days That Changed Everything From a clone’s debut to iPhone insanity, we examine defining moments in high-tech history. DEPARTMENTS. Techlog 5 PCW Forum Full Disclosure » FORWARD ‘Tomorrow's Cell Phones More customization, more apps. Plugged In 24 Beta Watch GeekTech 32 Gadget Freak » CONSUMER WATCH 1 The Most Annoying Web Ads Some can be dangerous, too. Skeptical Shopper 4 On Your Side » BUSINESS CENTER Software License Safety Steer clear of copyright trouble. Net Work » SECURITY ALERT 3 Hackers Rig Google Results CClickinga link could run malware Bugs and Fixes 56 Privacy Watch MARCH 2008 Volume 25 Number nw pewerld.com » REVIEWS AND RANKINGS Penryn, Phenom PCs Tested “The latest CPUs from Intel and AMD are fast but not phenomenal sovron OSW_ Top 10 Laptops 4 Top 10 PDA Phones Online Finance Services Top 10 Color Inkjet MFPs 84 Download This » HERE’S HOW 2 Multimedia on Any Device Rip DVDs to an iPod, take ad-free ‘TiVo on the road with you, and record music from Intemet radio. Answer Line teve Bass's Hassle-Free PCPCW EGselires Shopping Made Easier With Your Windows Mobile Phone.. Have you ever found yourset in a store, completely overwhelmed by the many tech produet choices. with no help in Sight? For alimited time only, PC World, together with Microsoft is offering @ downloadable application — exclusively on your Windows \Mosile® ohone—that wil allow you access to PC Worlds How to Buy’ guides and reviows forthe most popular tech products, withthe touch ofa finger. Visit rrtosngoevo.serra o downoad Your roe apliaten seu! {ART BIREETOR Barbar Azomecn Baurive eost0R Alen Site EDITORIAL hr Moytian trou dboprapde Butera Can Corsrey Beery Alea Rar ation Seen oer, trey. Sise43.000 Deru nr orecrons Brn ‘seaneen estou Os sa ace Asn, Se ops ara PMieucst Scie Soo sta Eisele roo Lun ear See es ae Errtot tne evn eran Sana sereamencoaeorston ove: Secxten, ea = REPRINTS ANO PERMISSIONS Vette PE ots eparts ne Reriwere 6 Scr, an meee Pew CoMMUNECATIONS INTERNATIONAL DATA GROUP peewee eens ack rssuEs dr ved acne mony tbr Boe (2nd Carlee nularedslGr conEDITORS’ CHOICE Noro 204 ‘sysop Sit ins Webroot stoner wobeis oft hacked by rdride oF dedcaed tpveat enp/ts Coomated Aetpry oe ee ork wth iim 00 CERTIFIED Webroot AntiVirus Z with AntiSpyware & Firewall Thebes protectin agaist uss. spare ata tet and rater sate ole) too Clearly, experts like our technology. We designed Webroot AntiVirus with AntiSpyware & Firewall with what our customers want — nothing but award-winning technology. So ce is designed to protect you from ruders, without getting in the way. And it all works toxether to deliver better security and better protection To top it off, you get free US-based jelephone support, just in case you need it. So, it you want better security, better support, and better peace of mind, call Webroot at 1.866.865.3302 or visit n/way today. Webroot security products are also available at leading retailers nationwide. The Best Socurty Jn en Unssoured World” © 2007 Webco Sewers re. Maat is orate trader of Woot Softwar in thr res tadama athe ight of respecte le Tin S icon etal Webrotonpliye rt an actor or medal Pc Magee Eto Ce Award Loge inaregietinedtademark cf if Dav Pblcking Hodge re Used ud cose« Tryitat Today | Your team will all sing from the same song sheet.hit newsstands a quarter century ago, the odds weren't exactly stacked in its favor. The mortality rate for new mi zines has always been extremely high. And in he technology cealm, even the most successful of brands rarely have infinite shel lives. Early issues of PCW Featured products such as VisiCale, Word Star, and the Hayes Smartmodem—all ominant in that era all long dead. PCWorld, however, didn't just sur vive, it thrived—and continues to do s0. Much of what has mide us success ful is visible in those cay issues, in- cluding an unblinking willingness to serve readers with honest reviews and reporting even when doing so tended to tick off the industry we covered. ‘But if there's been a secret to our suc ‘cess it's that we—like the technology ‘we cover—have never stopped evole- ing, A publication founded to help peo: ple use a desktop box that was bought almost exclusively by businesses now covers an array of produets and services for work, home, and everywhere in be tween, And while plenty of readers still look forward to receiving PCW in dead- tree form, voday PCWorld com serves We tied co keep the selF-congratubuo scuff in this special issue to a minimum. But would you mind ifT took a couple ‘of pages to look back at some of the ments that made us...ell, us? January 1982: San Francisco entiepre~ ‘eur David Bunnell starts a magazine to cover the new computer known as the IBM PC. That publication is an instant hit..butit’s not PC World. Bua nell’s brainchild is PC Magazine, and ‘multiple publishers soonangle to buy it. PEWORLD Techlog S. 25 Moments From Our First 25 Years WHEN A MAGAZINE called PC World We at PC World have seen technology history—lots and lots of it ‘And maybe even made a little of it ourselves. One bieder is Patcick McGovern, founder of Comparer and other max jor tech publications, But after agreeing to sell to McGovern, investor Tony Gold, who owns a majority stake in the fledgling magazine, instead arranges a sale to New York publisher Ziff Davis, the company that continucs to publish PCMagazine to this éay. Unfaced, McGovern contacts Bunnell and is business partner, Cheryl Wood ard, Ate they interested in starting ‘val publication? They are—and all but four of PC Magazine's 52 staffers join them (see photo above), PC World is formally announced on November 29, 1982, at the Comdex trade show; che frst issue appears in early 1983, the fate test debut in magazine history upto that time, Our first editors Andrew Flucgelman, whose popular PC-Talk program had recently introduced the shareware concept (see page 144). ‘September 1963: We publish our first World Class Avwardls, a roundup of the year's op products, The judging system and the name changed over time—we now call the winners the 100 Best Products ofthe Year—but the tradition continues, (Check out the most recent Version at find aoe. com/50055,) November 1883: PC-Welr, our German edition, debuts, I's the first of dozens of international ver World” most fing. February1994; We launch a section called PCr Ward, de voted to IBM's new hhome PC and declare that we expect the J. to revolutionize the way we learn and live,” and that PGjr World will soon morph into a stan¢-alone maga- zine. Wrong, weong, weong, June 1997: We introduce Conzumer Wareh, a section dedicated to helping ceaders avoid shopping and eustomer- service pitfalls. I's still with us (see page 41) and stil a PCW flagship. ‘July1987: For zeasons lost to time, we decide to publish our first center- fold. 's of glamour boy Bill Gates— fully clothed, thank heavens. MayI998: Steve Bass, president ofa user group in Southern California, con- tributes a guest column bemoaning the state of IBM's service. Today, he’s still writing up a storm for us—in Steve Bas's Hassle-Free PC (see page 134) and in his Ts and Taxaks blog and newslewer. October 188: Faitor in Chief Rich Lan- dryannounces a PCW sibling devoted toan emerging breed of PC that in- cludes a CD-ROM driveand a sound card. MPC World (later redubbed Mali- ‘media World) appeats in February 1992, Soon it’s clear that every PC will bean MPC; Multimedia Worlds folded back into PCW in 1996, ‘September 1992: The PCW Test Center ‘opens its doors. For the frst time, we test PCs, printers, monitors, and other hardware ina consistent manner and Wwithia a controlled environment. Junel99%: Under Editor in Chief 29 NAaoW 2008 www pcwoRLo.com | 11Techlog Phil Lemmons and Editor Cathryn Bas- kin, PCW redoubles its commicment to consumer journalism. Exhibit A: We publish a report on our firs reader sur vey on the state of PC reliability and service. Winners include AST, Compag, and NCR; Ambra, Ares, and Comtrade are at the bottom ofthe baste. March 898: We win thie Jesse HT. Neal Awards—the “Pulitzers of the business press." The «ens of trophies we'll pick up for print and online excellence Aprl1885: Stephen Manes's Fal Dis closure debuts. The frst installment sill con the much-hyped, famously bad Mi cxosoft Bob by discussing an imaginary sequel: Miczosof Sex. June905: We add to ovr burgeoning online efforts, which include presences ‘on AOL and CompuServe, withan “Inteznet site” called PCWorld.com. August 1995: Microsoft releases Win dows 95; we respond with 4 cornucopia of coverage in our September issue including a review by Senior Editor Steve Fox, Incer to become PCW's editor. It becomes our bestselling issue ever. November 895: In che Sinprons epi sode “Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming,” Channel 6 an- chorman Kent Brockman ve- among the frst of doz bt signs on. announces he'll be writing a cok umn for PC World, We revel in the moment of pop-culture glory. Marchi996: After 15 months of work, ‘our Test Center rolls out PC World Bench, a Windows 95 spved benchmark, We sill run its descendant, [femminaor] — WorldBench 6, on every system we test Apritt908: We publish “PC Repair Rip (Off!”—an investigative report revealing shoddy service at CompUSA. In anodd coincidence, the chain stops selling 12 | wm PCW. clacer reverses that decision.) ‘August2000: Once again we conduct an investigation into repair practices at PC retailers, and once again the resus are disturbing. This time we collaborate with Dateline NBC, which airsa seg- ment based on our fineings. ‘October 2000: Feitorial Director Kevin McKean and Creative Dizector Robert Kanes unveil a redesign of PCWorld com that's by far d popular version yet. Its also the fist ‘one produced by a unified editorial tcam thats responsible for content in both print and online forms, October 2002: Our cover for “How to Fixthe Biggest PC Annoyances,” a Steve Bass how-to extravaganza, shows aman trashing his PC. Inan era of ram- pant Windows slitehes and security hassles, the image resonates: The ssue Jost ambitious, becomes one of our all-time bestsellers. December 2003: We notice that high- efinition television is alot ike the PC ‘once was: an appealing bigeticket tech product that involves lots of unfamiliar ‘buzzwords. So we publish a big-screen buying guide, Soon, HDTV is among, the most popular topics we cover. uy 2008: Twenty-three years after our first interna onal expansion, PC Worlds sul entecing new markers. With the launch of PC World Tadia, we’ce in 69 countries. August2006: We unveil a ma jor redesign of PCWorld.com that introduces user reviews, forums, and other features designed to ler the tullions of people who use our site share their expertise and opinions. blog at loos newark. June 2007: Our coverage of the somtechlog @ launch of Apple’s iPhone PCWorld includes a video in which Se- nior Associate Editor Erie But terficld first ties to scratch the phone’s case with keys and then hurls it onto the pave ‘ment outside our office. The aa) iPhone survives. And the iPhoneabuse video receives gazillions of views. ‘August 2007; Our journalistic peers flatcer us with the Ameciean Society of Business Publication Edi tors’ aware as Web Site of the Year In addition, its just one of several major prizes that we took home last year; others include Folio and Eddie awards as best consumer computer magazine. “The truth is, we had quite an aéven: ture getting here,” said PCW founder Bunnell in our fst issue. “Ie’s been ‘much more than.a rocket ride.” In the same pages, founding editor Fluegelman \wrote that “we have a worthy ship and a dedicated crew, and we hope you will join us in our explorations. Forall that’s changed about PCs and PCW, those sentiments ring a6 true in 2608 as they did in 1983. For 2 ‘our mission of providing unbiased, authoritative coverage ofthe eve: changing world of technology every day an adventure, We look for- ward to continuing it fora long time to come=and we hope that you'll be along for the ride. Contact Eltorin Chief Harry MeCrocken at harry mecrocken@peworldcen read hisPT) imagine a monitor that gives you more face time averting you need built right ne Samsung 225UW 6 a 22-inch widescreen thal comes wih ine s nusibe, I's the only LCI 2.0 megapuel webcam. A dual-aray mere ofthe box jerosot Which means ontor might ° agin. Get the whole picture at yaw samsung.com/225UW. ‘on poco, Wath, eASUS Recommends Windows™ Vista® Ultimate Rock Solid . Heart Touching Introducing the ASUS U6S Fashion Notebook > Windows Vista Centringi i PCW Forum We created quite a stir with our site's “15 Big- gest Tech Disappoint- ments of 2007." Some readers agreed with our choices; others thought we were off our rockers. Did the iPhone and Word 2007 deserve to be on the list? Share your biggest tech disappointment of last year at find.peworld.com/59841. 2007's Tech Disappointments I just read that your Web sive doesn't like the iPhone [inc pewortecoriS6834). ‘What d you ike? You are stating to sound like a bunch of old ladies who complain about everything, [think the {Phone isthe bes cell phone I've ever ‘owned. For people who carry an Pod and a cell phone i's perfect. Appaent- ly there are aot of ws. JactKubial, West Pal Beach, Florida Not liking the user interface change in Word 2007 is just another example of Luddite nostalgia. he sibbon visually and elliciently delivers accessibility and increased functionality to Word. Aaid of the ribbon? Then you must restrit most of what you write co unadomed ‘or minimally formatted text. Hint: Use Notepad. You'll really love it. Crescendo, fromthe PC World foruns Wow, this article takes some shots at some big releases. No holds barred! Given we waited five years for Vista, that was a pretty big disappointment. ‘Mactarkas, fiom the PC World foranes Zune a disappointment, and you go on to say it's only because of sales? Give ‘mea break. The Zune 2's new features being back-ported to the old Zunes has been heralded as one of the best moves that Microsoft has ever made. Colenor, omshe PC World forames Why, as yourarticle implies, is Google always seen as the savior of municipal Wi-Fi? The muni Wi-Fi project in San Francisco was a jovat venture between Google and Earthlink. It died because EarthLink balked a¢ paying to build Google a network. And Gaogle appar- cently cin’ fee like putting any ofits, ‘own eash down. Somebody has to pay focall chat pesky hardware. ‘fin, fromthe PCWorld fara ‘The failure of the industry to decide on anaccepted format for high-def DVD will hinder both further development of the equipment and more reductions in consumes prices. An overpeiced for- ‘ma will always be left by the wayside. Choice is nice, but compasbility must be the first consideration, Mid#20n0ca fromthe PC World franes ES Here’s my #1 disappointment of 2007: Vista continues its existence. TechyGuy, from the PC World forums W's €isingenuous to report that Leop- ard ships wich the firewall red off (as did Tiger) without mentioning that Leopard ships with all ports closed (as did Tiger) If none of the ports are ‘open, what purpose docs afiewall serve? If Leopard was a disappoint meat, what OS is satishactory? Tiger was excellent, Leopard is better astaMon, fon the PC World foruans I'd like to take this opportunity to thank Microsoft for making me look like some kind of freaking genius for taking up Linux a few years back. Ifyou guys [at Microsoft] didn’t already have ‘most of the money in the world, I'd probably send youa tip or something. Yoursersnight mare, frome he BC Work fortune VoIP Switching In his excellent piece ["How to Switch to VolP Phone Service,” November 2007], Matk Sullivan did not discuss VolP's lack ofa feacue that ssmpor- {ant co many potential VoIP customers: serious speed dialing. While it would be easy to include, no VoIP service pro- vides anything bur a rudimentary abil- ty wo speeddial eight or so numbers. I VolP could offer this ona sophisticated level, switch ina heartbeat S.J. cs, New York What Your IT Department Wants You to Know man IT administrator and loyal sub- seriber to PCW. I greatly enjoy the re- views, tips, and info on new technolo ay. ove the magazine. Then I read Michael Lasky’s Herc's How article in the January issue (“What Your Company's {ers Wish You Didn't Know," Janu- ary]. Cmon, guys it's hard enough to lock down workstations so users can't chat, download music and movies, and install apps on their own, and here this articles circumventing hours of 2Secure your organization— and your career ern ao Pil Beye Rrige can) ae i Bee Peer mere} Ora ee Ee ene eee Peta eT Rae Pe ene} Caretia Untversity caren Prreneat sae cre PCW Forum frustrating testing. The article assumes sure nothing malicious happens while they follow its tips, but that’s not the ase most of the time, I found a couple of users on our network running a P-to-P average 2 hours a workday. When asked how they circumvented our restrictions, they referenced your aiticle. Needless to say, I was very disappointed that it was published. Please show a lide respect to the IT professionals trying t protect their networks and their jobs Microsoft and Copy Protection Once again, another page of letters W Forum, January) complains about Microsoft and copy prote: der how many of the whiners out there have any intellectual property of thei ‘own. Microsoft has expended five years FD and megs-man-hours on Vista to bring it to the point of release Microsoft is in business to make money, not to expend its resources parry Parkman, Chesterfield, Misour Rating Tech Brands Regan satisfied customers will exist [“Tech of the preduct or brand, dis: nology's Most (and Least) Reliable Brands,” January]. The cause of dissatis: faction may be « oc imaginary, de pending on the sicuacion. The stace- ment that *I will never buy a computer again” can be completed by filing in che blank with any name Josip Carr, Atascadero, Califorua Inyour January issue, Hewlett-Packard presents itselfas a concerned and ear ing company with the customer's inter cts at heart, Really? Why, then, docs HP refuse to make available print driv crs that run under Vista for its older printers and scanners? Docs a that relly cares about the customer make such decisions? | think not. Rob Spear New London, Wisconsin 16 | www.rew Warner Blu-ray Endorsement Boosts the Buzz at CES Am I the only person who has a prob. lem with Warner waiting until after the holiday season to make this announce ment ffiatacwaid x a}? Ladi hac I'm in the HD DVD camp, and so nosily because of the ming Tipe, fromthe PC World to be on the winnin: with Blu-ray, I'm sur ax is still a bitte memory AZMac from the PC World The timing of Warner's announcement 3. Did VD play i bank on thousands of H gifts, opened and enjoyed forall of one week, before sending a message to le that they made the wrong decision and must buy those movies again in Blu-ray when their current, obsolete phyer craps out? (Glennscoupron, fray the PC World foram remember format wars of the past So far, Ihave resisted buying anyching elated to high-cef until things shake fut. Pl just cool my heels and w Coasse65, fom the BC Wo World wetcomes your feedbock. We serve the rightto ett fr length anc clarity Forums Sende alto letters Tae Daancecol tate ta pee eet Ree ean or Soaeeecrierc PennYour Employees Caught in the web? vity lay the average employer loses 81 minutes of productivity peremployee to Web-base dlstractions, Most empl don’t realize how quickly the tole minutes add up. But research shows some 13% of workers habitually log iyo oF more hours of interne off-task activity per day whe BeAware helps identify problem areas, off employees. reduce company lost productivity ders and frequency so you ean couch and help teams re monitoring all PC and Intemet activity it Work? uecks all employee PC activity through live, real-time monitoring of Is, Web-surfing, Chats and pro (reconting screen shots “Beware showed me exactly what ‘my team was doing so | could coach & motivate them toward ‘our goals.” BeAware can be remotely deployed on any networked company PC (local or remote) to monitor specific individuals, departments or an © 10,000 emp! Administrators can view reports of on-line activity from anywhere, and receive automatic notification when select keywords, websites or specific applicatio Once problem are can resolve them with better policies, ind motivation for improved focus and control, employee eoachin; ‘Ask about BeAware Home Edition ¢ Bscentive > er yur PC om ck~ Gi Turn Any Computer Into Your Computer With GoToMyPC, you can work on your office PC from any computer. It's like taking your office with you wherever you go. coremrecomrcwora — GOTOMyPCIntroducing the NEW Bose® Computer MusicMonitor.” We strive to always introduce new products testing phase. When this happens we gener- that provide real benefits to users over what ally contain our enthusiasm, talk in ads about exists. Once in a while, a product comes the new technology that made the product, from our research laboratories possible, and leave it to others that exceeds all our expectations to comment on the performance and genuinely excites the peo- This time we are bursting with ple in our other departments a a enthusiasm and we decided to who are exposed to it during the share it. So here we go! BEWARE THIS IS THE MANUFACTURER TALKING! 1. WE BELIEVE that, with respect to the accuracy of music reproduction, the ‘Computer MusicMtonitor” establishes for us a new threshold for two-piece computer sound systems. 2. WE BELIEVE that the Computer MusicMonitor™ also comes the dlosest to our goal that sound is meant to be heard and not seen. It is the first time we have been able to produce sound quality lke this with only two such small enclosures containing all the electronics and speakers. And we think that you will appreciate the appearance of the lttle that you do see. 3. WE BELIEVE itis truly a simple system to install It should take you about as long to connect it as it takes to remove it from the box. 4. WE BELIEVE that it is what YOU BELIEVE that counts. THUS OUR RECOMMENDATION Is: Drop into any one of our Bose Stores for a five-minute demonstration and join in our enthusiasm! We think that your eyes may not believe your ears! For your nearest Bose Store, contact 1-800-407-2673, ext. CH145. or visit www.Bose.com/CMM. FOS Ee Better sound through researchs (200 te Craton wet re a ck reaAastlantivirys EDITION avast! antivirus with EXTRA protection built-in With almost 50 milion users worldwide, avast! antivius is one of the most trusted brands in antimahware technology. With version 4.8, avast! provides ANTI-SPYWARE protection too. But we've not stopped there. Now including ANTI-ROOTKIT technology. Our competitors would have you pay extra for such protection. Why? It’s all in one download fram Visit to discover how we can protect your irreplaceable data and programs and help us celebrate 50 milion users with a special DISCOUNT. From US8/L3 devices, PDA, desktop, laptop, Windows Home Server, Serve nfastructure and necwork boundary devices on Windows, Linus, Soiris and Mac. avast! artis protecting you inthe virus labyrinth ee eee okt: alwiiREDEFINING YOUR STANDARDS INTRODUCING THE ALL NEW AREA-51°® m15x Extreme aura AREA-51” 7500 PN tS uless With the l-rew Area-S1® mix Alienware equipped unprecedented levels of performance into a converiently portable case, creating Bre eras Mean rar iets ter ae ee eet here metre Thr a Pertti errs true mobility at work. For those staying closer to the office PN Scie nese geese a rs ee eC eae ae ace Ca ee on Dee ea:Forward More Options With Tomorrow's Cell Phones BY GLENNFLEISHMAN, IF YOU DON'T like the way the e-mail program on your PC works, you can replace it with one you like better. ‘And when you need to adda new capability to Firefox, you can simply install an ‘extension. But such lexibili: ty doesn't apply to most cell phones, since cellular pro- viders restrict how you use a vice that’s in your faco— ‘or pressed to your face—for sometimes hours a day. That's about to change. In the coming year cell phones will start opening up, allow- ing users to customize their handsets’ interfaces, run any program, and, most impor- tant, gain access to underly- ing hardware for finding directions, making calls over Wii, and taking pictures. Eventually, experts say, you'll ako see devices such as cameras, cameorders, and other gadgets gain access to cellular data networks, even hough they'll never be used to make a phone call Google Leads the Way Sparking the move vowasd cell phone openness is Google, flexing its billion- dollar muscles. Googles pri- ‘mary motivation, not sur~ Install the software and services you want— plus, enjoy cameras, por table game consoles, and more with access to wireless net prisingly, appears to be putting more advertise- ‘ments in front of more eye= balls. Ina closed cellular work, wireless carvers can control what their subscrib- crs see. Open up the system, and Google and other par- ties can dive in and begin to compete for your attention By mid-2067 Google and other Internet giants had works. convinced the Federal Com- ‘munications Commission co require that any company that won a January auction fora set of national cellular wireless licenses must allow ‘consumers to use any device and any legal application on that company’s network. Furthermore, late in the year Google, along with three dozen partners, unveiled plans to construct an open- source cellular phone plat- form known as Android. ‘Atleast initially, Andoid is probably what you'll hear ‘most about when the topic of cell-phone openness aris ¢s, Beeause Android is open source, and because the (Open Handset Aliance that is behind the platform has agreed to permit remarkably dep access to the OS, any two Android-based devices could be quite dissimilar. ‘Simple Android applica- tions and the standard inter face will be common among such devices. But Android developers can produce unique approaches to navi- gating through menus and options, or they can allow you to choose from, or acer install, dramatically different graphical user interfaces ‘The approach is deeper than the “skins” often used co paca thin interface over lay overa piece of software. Instead, the experience will beas if you could boot up Windows Vista and replace ‘Acro with an iPhone inter face while till accessing the same programs and data. ‘Android will also allow application developers easy access toall ofthe harewace that may be installed ona © Uneven geographical coverage, crowded communications channels, and the low quality of most networks plague customers trying to make the cellular leap.? In Angast 1991, 2 pot ou te drawbacks ofthe si-necs ce alan leone; 17 years later, such kinks are lag gome..or are they?phone, including GPS chips, Bluetooth, WiFi, and cell radios, cameras, and other less common options. Open to the Outside World Another advantage of an ‘open phone platform: It en- ables easier interaction w remote services that store or provide information, Con sidera phione with a GPS chip, a camera, and a persis tent ell or WiFi network connection. Flickr, for exam ple, could release simple program that would stamp your photos with geographic coordinates stored in the picture's metadata, and automatically upload photos asthey're taken, Certain eam: cerasand hacks have similae functionality today, but no cell phone supports such a rnashup out ofthe box. But that sore of applica- tion won't come first. The initial wave of new softwace will likely te together basic components—fexuces lke contacts, calendars, notes, to-do lists, alarms, ring tones, and other media. The Andeoid sofware develop- ment hit (SDK), fr instance, includes standard, accessible formats for basic contacts, calendar fanetions, and me dia. Contrast that to many current phones, in which the data sits in separate and ‘often incompatible databas- 8 or proprietary Formats. Hate the prog! ship with your Android model? You can probably install new ones while mak ing no other data changes The iPhone SDK may allow such access, given thac the iPhone runs a version of ms that Apple's Unix-based ce ‘mapping and search, 8 X operating sys brent sites will compete teen that's much like the desktop release, whieh les program developers work with similar types of underlying user in- formation, databas- «and file storage. for your dollars Having decent Head rorthwest toward Alrport Nd cameras on cell phones becomes possible, 00, Carti- crs generally include only relatively low: resolution AsChavles Golvin, THISNAVIGATION APPLICATIONwas bultwith anand then downgrade ‘wireless analyst early erslonf the Androld motile platform, che quality of images with Forvester Re- search, observes, integrating tasks with today’s phones is practically impossible. “You're listening to your voice mail, fand] you'd like to use the note-taking appli- cation on your phone to write notes to yourself, alin one standacd workdlow [as] i you were sitting at your desk,” he says, "But nobody, bar none, has done an imple- ‘mentation of that werkllow thavan average person could figure out and use.” New Services ‘The next offerings will be new paid services. In most ceases now, only your service provider—or its partners— can offer you paid cell phone services suchas directions n open platform allows any company to do so, which should lead to lower rates Location-based services, including navigation help, are controlled almost entire- Iyby cell earirs. All eel phones are required to pro- Vide coordinates for E911 ‘operators, but each carrier has chosen a ciflerent ap proach. Verizon built GPS chips into many of its han¢- sets: however, only subscrib ers to its VZ Navigator ser vice can access that data With an Android or other sent over their data ‘opeaphone runningaGPS networks. To get a fullzes chip, celtower-based loca image, you must connect the tion mapping, or Wi-Fi, you camera via USB to your PC could choose among several or swap out a memory card. services that provide cus ‘With an opea platform, omized information. And handset makers will be moti Google, Yahoo, and other vated to include better >> PLUGGED IN covanon. none WAENERDUNPS HO DAE Sr we [Ores sees \WIIDOESN'T MAKE YOUFIT: If play- {ng Wintando’s console wert make ime a champ, FU just do it the ola fashiones way-with sterolds and HGH To APTOP TEMES WLLOOAE 1 DROS HETCAPESUPORT ca OUSPEL LAUT Te PB oir (tpt eto and werd dois wal? Gp) Ue AS RETRAIN ney Spears and Lindsey Lohan are NAaoW 2008 www pcwoRLo.con | 18Forward cameras, and to allow the user to choose the image tcansfer method. k's slightly ridiculous that even a phone with WHF installed must usea USB connection to movea pictare to acomput- erona local newwork. Finally, an open phone phaform will give users ac- cess to such VolP applic tions as Skype or The Gizmo Program operating natively and with few or no restric tions over cither the WiFi ‘or cell data connection, Heavy ellers could then avoid paying for expensive cell-alling minutes Many Wi-Fiequipped phones, including a hege ‘number of Nokia models, can already make VoIP calls over Wisi. Few, though, can yet use the cellular data net- ‘work to make VoIP call. pictur New Hardware Ahead Such new software options sound great, but what about hardware? The “elevator pitch” on openness promises that any device will be able to access networks. That means ‘you won't be stuck with your secvice provider’s phones; if phone doesn’t harma net work, you can use it. Inthe short term, handsets from outside the United States will likely see a grow- ing presence on U.S. vwaves. The Nokia-dominated Symbian smmact-phone plat- form, for example, owns the market worldwide but is installed on just a small per centage of U.S. cell phones. Handsets won't be the ‘only beneficiary. We will see gaming consoles, can ‘music players, and other consumer electronics being ‘equipped with cel chips and cell access—even if they never make a phone call ‘Tae Amazon Kindle is the It's slightly ridiculous that even a phone with Wi-Fi must use a USB connection to move a a.computer on a local network. first major example of sucha device. The e-book reader Includes a cell data modem that works only with Sprint's network, and its ie service bundles in the cost ‘of network access as part of ‘each item purchased. “The folks from the con- sumer electronics side have been pretty vocal” about the benefits of such connecti The iPhone's Not-So-Thrilling Jailbreak (CURRENTLY THE IPHONE is themost famously Locked cat platform, allowing no thire-party pro- ‘rams tobe installed That should change by the time you read ths, upon the release of Apple's IPhone software development kit (SOK). TrveptiProneusers are enjoying software ‘released by crackers to “atbreak” the phone— that i. instat| non-Apple-approved applications. Most early jailbreak apps are free or fee-based and easy toinstall under Windows Mobile or ona BlackBerry. One moce-sophisticated offering. the Navizon service. uses WiFi eccess-pointinfor- ‘mation and cell-tower information uploaded by users who carry GPS units to prove rough tri- angulation for others. I's closer to anext-aen, ‘pen phone app, since't uses athicd-perty apni cation with access to location data both onthe jbhone and from the Navizon servers. What wil become of jailoreaks once the SOK ‘|appeers? Hard totoll. Apple hesn’tdetated how itwill allow programs tobe installed or to which featuresit wll permit access. mn “, 47,6490081747184,-122349743... GB) im | Benes, coe ~ INSTALL NAVIZON ON an Phone through jlt- break, andi tell you roughly where you sre. ty, says Forrester’s Gohvin Device manufacturers haven't bothered to inte= grate cell chips so far be- cause if they did so they would have to work out complicated deals with a service provider and proba- bly have to shate their prof its, But in an openaccess work, Microsofi could build cell data access into a Zune, forinstance, and sim ply prepay a carter for air time rather than make the cacrcra fll partner. With the higher band- widths to come from WiMax and the 700-Mlz band, the Inclusion of a cell radio in a camcorder or digital camera makes perfect sense. Instead of your having to offload pictures oF video later, your files would transfer while or alter you eaptuce them. “You'd never have to worry about the storage on your device,” Golin notes, and you could ako become a live beoadeaster “any time you ele bike it.” Of course ifyou have five or ten devices with cell phone chips, you won't want to pay $40 to $80 per ‘mont in access fees for every one of them. Necwork providers will have to be ‘more flexible about the way they charge consumers. The transition toa more ‘pen cell phone world will takea while—it'll be hate 2008, even into 2010, before most ofthe benefits become fully available. Sul, the device in your pocket cer- tainly won't be like the aver- age clamshell phone sold cody. And ifehat phone doesn't do exaetly what you want, youcan change it, @Now I'm infused with g) Hafnium technology. It's a whole new mobile me. NEW HAFNIUM-INFUSED INTEL’ CENTRINO® PROCESSOR TECHNOLOGY. (intel) It's helping set new benchmarks for next-generation notebook performance and amazing battery life. Find out more about the power of hafnium at intel.com/greatcomputing ( GREAT COMPUTING STARTS WITH INTEL INSIDE. petty ra} Pas PpeDie lca A hs ested el tla Cea Cente tadenats of eCaporaForward The End of the High-Def DVD Format War? ‘THE ONGOING BATTLE 10 be the next-generation DVD format took a defining turn With another huge movie studio throwing its { support to Blu-ray, HD DVD may be dying atthe start ofthe year.On Media Research. Moreover the eve of theannual Con- the Blu-ray editions of titles sumer Electronics Show, Warner Bros. announced that the studio, Hollywood's largest seller of DVDs (with 20 percent of the U.S. video market), would back Blu-ray Disc exclusively—meaning that 70 to 89 percent of Hol: Iywood content will now be released inthe Blu-ray for mat. The announcement may signal the beginning of the end for its rival, HD DYD. ‘Numerous consumer elee- {conics companies, includ ing Panasonic, Pioneer, and Sony, support Blu-ray; in addition, most of the movie studios are committed to re- leasing content in the new format, among them Disney. Lionsgate, MGM, Sony Pic ‘ures, and Twentieth Century Fox. Far fewer entties— primarily DreamWorks Ani- mation SKG, Microsoft, Par- amount Pictures, Toshiba, and Universal Suudios—are currently loyal to HD DVD. Until che announcement. Warner was the last studio releasing movies in both high-definition formats Behind Warner's Decision Last fall, Warner said it was reassessing whether its dual Format strategy made sense By the end of 2007, the sales ‘numbers lad spoken. Movies on Blu-ray outsold those on HD DVD in the United States by nearly two to one last year, according to sales figures from Home 22) ww released on both formats consistently, and often sig- nificantly, outsold their HD DVD counterparts. But high-def dise sales don't tell the whoke story. Warner, lke other studios, ssaw the writing on the wall for traditional DVD. According to preliminary ‘numbers from Home Media Research, last year’s boxe office receipts for the 20 {op-grossingtheat rial re- leases were up by 18 percent over 2096, By comparison, however, domestic DYD sales in the fousth quarter— when most of these movies came out on DVD—were down about 2 percent Tha drop may seem mar ginal, but given the inexease in box-office revenue, Home Media Research and indus tay insiders expected som ger holiday DVD sales Those sales may not have lived up to expectations be- ‘cause, at leas in part, com: sumers were holding off buying dises unl the high+ ef format war was resolve. * [Warner] wants to make up for the declining market for DVD with high-def disc revenues, and that market ‘wasn’t materializing a the same rate as DVD [because ofthe two formats},” notes 1DC research analyst Wolf gang Schlichting The End Game Waenes's announcement clearly dflased HD DVD supporters. Toshiba re sponded by slashing phyer prices; the cheapest one, the Toshiba HD-A3, now costs $150, While the cost of Bluray Dise players will continue to fll, it won't do 50 3 precipitously as that of HD DVD phayers. Non theless, says Schlichting, Blu-ray needls o continue its aggressive pricing ‘Beyond price, connectivity and online interactivity (in the form of the forthcoming BD Live, which provides Internetconnected Features similar to what HD DYD already offers) will play a big role in Blu-ray’ future. With Wamer joining its camp, Blu-zay clearly holds the content advantage. But that doesn't mean lights-out for HD DVD. The companies supporting HD DVD appear set to persist in the short tezm, and even Waraee will continue to produce HD DVD dises through mi Player manufseturers LG and Samsung both plan cocontinue offering dual- format machines through the end ofthis year. And in addition to cutting pices, Toshiba has demonstrated new HD DVD features. Regaedless, notes analyst Toomas Coughlin of Cough- lin Associates, Warner's ‘move to support Blusray “imay be the pivotal event chat resolves the format war. It certainly changes the rules and the playing field.” IDC’s Schlichting believes HD DVD hasa future, albeit musky one: “The logical way for HD DVD to survive is in duaMformat products.” But the price of those play- crs, which sel from LG and Samsung for about $800, ‘would have to fall quickly “If price doesnt get there,” hae explains, “the future is bleak for HD DVD.” Melissa). PerearonPNA Teter a ea tela CEA OptiColor™ Technology: ViewSonic fos See the difference*Forward Third Major Music Studio Set to Go DRM-Free THREE DOWN AND one to go: Wamer Music Group has joined EMI and Universal in agreeing to drop DRM (digi tal eights management) on the MP3 files it sells cheough Amazon.com. Sony BMG is still holding out for DRM, for now, but is expected to join ts fellow Amazon par- ticipants sometime this year Industry executives hope that initiatives such as Tunes Plus and Amazon MP3— which omit the DRM locks placed on audio files by an earlier generation of musie services—will encourage con- sumers to buy more music. Warnerbelieves that giving consumers the assurance that the music they buy ean play onany device will spur sales. It may also prompt buyers to look at other dig tal musie player branes, end= ing Apple's dominance of that market segment Amazon launched its susie download service last September, and now offers 2.9 million songs without copy protection from War ne, EMI, and Universal (as well as from 33,000 indepen dent record labels). By comparison, Apple has persuaded only EMI and a Ee eee Fancast: Funky Video Stew Comes’ rae sites a strange but rewarcing molange of al things viceo. Ithas straams of fll episodes of currant and old tolevsion shows from Brava, CBS, ox, NBC, and other networks. Tr has personalized TV listings based on your location andincer- ests. It has blogs about TV. movies. and oetebriies, And it has ‘marketing for firsi-run movies, DVDs. and downloads. The stew is ‘bit confusing, but haw ean T complain about a sie that streams ‘Atrested Development and The Bob Newhort Show? lancast.com WeGame: YouTube for Gamers “Taint sayin’ she a god farmer, but she an’ passin’ en ro blue ‘aro raps someone who's clearty not Kanye West ina witty ‘mashup video produced in the World of Worcraft environment ‘That's robably the best thing sofarin WeGame, which gives gam- ers the tools to create in-game videos and post them to the site for all to see. The eary results are pretty unever—lots of inside jokes funny only to veterans ofthase specific eames, But, hey. the hit ‘ard-miss nature of YouTube content hasn't exactly held thet site ‘beck, and it's been around for three years. weaame.com AOL Finance: In-Depth Company Intelligence 1 you really want to dig into the finances and prospects of acom- pany you're considering investing in (or applying for ajob at), AOL WAGGLGGTEth [WARNER'S LARGE CATALOG, which nciudes suchartists as Br (onthe Atlant Records label), will now be sans ORM. handful of independent music labels to let it offer their tracks in the DRM eee iTunes Plus Format that it launched back in May of last year. The remainder of the songs availible through iTunes come with various digital hmitations. “Taeve formats—MP3 and AAG, which are both open formats, and WMA, a propri ctary format owned by Microsoft—dominace the auarket for online music sales, leaving some consum: ers confused about what will play where. Now, with the locks off Warner's music, the MP3 format gets a boost— ‘and music downloading moves one step closer to being entirely DRM-free. —PererSayer Fancast a ee a eee ‘COMGAST'S NEW FANCAST site streams fll epsodes of dozens of ‘new andold TY serkes, including the original Stor Trek. beta refresh a its finance siteis 8 good place to start. ADL pro: vides charts galore thet allow you tolookat differen time frames and compare a frm withits rivals. The ste also features news about the ecmpeny you're researching froman impressive array of sources, Andif you want advice fror your peers, you can it the site's message boards. betafinanceaolecmFight off PC Invaders and enter to up to Tim yay) OS OE a a Yt MYL ae ce Cee) SC ee le CR De ee ee er a Ce eee provides multiple levels of protection for your network, programs and operating system. And PE eu Ree AE ee We ua RUC coe Game Over, PC INVADERS! Pz. SAFE AND SECURE SWEEPSTAKES ’) Prizes include: Grand Prize: $3,000 Visa® Gift Card 1st Prize: Xbox® & $600 Visa® Gift Card (25) Runner up prizes: $50 Visa® Gift Cards Go to www.zonealarm.com/sweeps and ENTER TO WIN! insand Conditions and regulations apy Z: ZoneALaRM by Check PointIntel: New Mobile Chips Run Faster and Longer EVERYONE WANTS lap- top that’s faster and lasts longer on a charge, and Intel may have the chip ¢ ive it. The company's line of mobile Pearya pa ccessors, a follow-up to hast year's series of Penyn desk top processors, promises both increased speed and endurance, based on the improved efficiency of a new, thinner microproces sorarchitecture and a new instruction set for software. The Penryn processors mark refresh ofthe fourth- generation Centrino laptop platform (previously code. ppamed Santa Rosa), which ‘encompasses a laptop's pro tueme brand and the ether hardware support forWin- nanometer microprocessor dows Vista's DirectX 19 architecture, which is more graphics lte this quarter, energy-elficient than the and the fifth-generation no platform (code sd Montevina) will ‘come later this year. The five new Penryn ‘mobile processors—one released under the high performance Core 2 Ex- TOSHIBA'S Penryn based G45- AVEO claims enargyetfclonoy. previous 6Snm architecture The increased density of transistors produced with chip or smaller mobile process clock speeds ranging from 21 GHz to 2.8 GH; though the speeds aren’t consider ably greater than those of [n- tel’s current laptop proces sors (code-named Merora), the company has raised the L2 cache size in three of ts five Penryn processors to OMB (up from 2MB. and 4MB), which should help im prove pecformance. SS... ryn’s new SSE Do budgets. Do e-mail. Do lunch.(Streaming Single instruc lon, Multiple Data Ext sions 4) instruetion set can _reatly boost some applica tion tasks. Adobe, for exam- ple, is updating its Premiere Pro video editing application with SSE4 suppoct. Only applications that are opti- mized for SSE4 will see big speed jumps, however. “If you look at caw power from Merom to Penryn, the per~ formance gaia isn’t going to bbe huge,” says Intel spokes person Connie Brown. “If it’s something that relies on the SSE4 instruction set, it’s in the double digits. In addition to speedier performance, the mobile Pencyn chips also offer envi ronmental benefits, such a¢ ‘more power-down states, including an energy-effcie “Deep Power Down” mode. Plus, the uses no le climinate halogen fiom th process later this year. : Intel will also Leading notebook manufac FUJITSU'S E8410 business lap- turers such as Fujitsu and Toshiba began releasing n mobile Penryr-based p= tops in January. ‘wp now offers Penryn. inga 2.1-GH2 T8100 oF 2.5 GHz T9300 processor, starts Fujitsu's rst three Penryn at $1399, The entertainment laptop models are the 15.4- focused N6+ inch AG120, the 15.4-inch E8410, and the 17-inch 'N6470. The all-purpose 6120, with a 2.1-GHe T8100 or 24-GHz T8300 processor, starts at $1249. starts at $1499, Paul Moore, senior disector of mobile product, marketing for Fujitsu Com- puter Systems, says that enyn’s Inger cache will result in faster peeformance, ‘The corporate E8410, carry- Toshiba's Qosmio GAs. AV690, the company’s flag- ship entertainment laptop, includes a 2.5-GHz Core 2 Duo T9300 CPU, Whe Fujitsu's Moore cites speed, Toshiba produet marketing ‘manager Mark Lackey says, Increased energy elliciency is Penuya’s biggest boon. Our ceview of Pen: based desktop PC (ind poneri.com/58945; see also page 62) showed a perfor ‘mance boost ever systems ‘with Intel's previous high end processor, but less than ‘what Intel had chimed, Penzyn-based Inptops were not avalableat press time forlab testing. Keepan eye (on PCWerld.com for test results as we get them. Nanas Rebbapragada ce 3 ree ue Niece ee ae Se Maal 7Forward Companies Collaborate for Cheaper, Better LCDs WHEN TECHNOLOGY be- comes too pricey to make, rivals team up. Wieness events in the highly competitive flat-panel display industry. Given that the market for LCD TVs grew from 161 mil lion units in 2093 to an est sated 192 million in 2097— and given that anew LCD plant can cost upward of $1 billion—companies increas ingly are collaborating. In recent months, five compa: ‘nies announced such plans, while a sixth announced a ‘huge new investment Hitachi, Canon, and Pana sonic have forged a wide rangiag agreement to share the cost, Burden, and bene fits of developing and pro- ducing flat-panel displays ‘This quarter, Canon and Panasonic will each buy a 2499 percent stake in Hitachi Displays, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi that already makes small and mediumsize LCD panels. Meanwhile, starting in Apel, Sharp and Toshiba will buy screens and semiconductor chips from each other to cep their supplies steadiex Only Samsung Electronics scems to be bucking the col- laboration trend. The compa ry plans to invest $2.2 billion ina new LCD production line at a factory it opened ‘with Sony—but Sony will not be investing in the new line, —Mareya Wiliams «aud Dan Nystedt Build a PC So Small It'll Fitin a Drive Bay LTVEBUILTMY share of smal-form-factor POs ‘over the years, but Va's new Artig kt fs by far thetiniest—and mestinteresting—T'e laid hands on. The $300 bare-bones kit provides the starter hardware for a fully functional PC that’s smallenough to fit ina desktop PC's ‘25-inch drive bay Ar opening una worldof the cred geeky possibilities. he Artigas based on Via's Pico TTX matherboard form factor. Via has been pushing this mobo format-which is lightly larger than a credit card—as an alter native to bioger products that use AMD's and Intel's notably faster processors. The Epia PX ‘branded motherboard included here uses Via's \VX700 chip cat and UniChrame Pro IK graphios chip. The Artign kit also includes a preinstalled |L.GH2 Va C7 NanoBGA2 processor and fen. The EpiaPX is a marvel of miniaturization Within its 10em-by-7-2em confines Via manag {eto cram in everything trom SODIMM sock- 16t underneath) to an ethernet contrelier with ‘an RUGS jack inthe back) and support for four USB ports (up front). Oh, and you also get PATA, ‘and SATA connectors as well 3s auto jacks for speakers and a meraprone, For the Artigo kit oot find peworiccom/s9e6e, Piecing It All Together ‘Yau drt so much ul the Artigas serew together its various iliputian pieces according tothe deta instructions. You needa stick 536-MHie SODIMM DOR? memory f bought a 168 sick for out $25) anda 25-inch rote- ook hard ive (mny 12068, $600-rpm unt was an sale for $89) The build was teffortless— ny ards felt downright oversize Istrug led topiece together the parts and handle the extremely small serews—butin less than an hove Tes plusoing inthe power brick and pining up the unit forthe fis Sine the Artigo lacks an optical civ, you'l need o connect one through USB ta instal the 08.1 loaded Windows XP without abitch, and found the unt tobe a reazonobly capable per former for bes tasks suchas Web suring e-mail, ané werd processing, Unfortunate the Hands on with Vi igo DLY PC ki it-card-size Pico-ITX motherboard form factor graphics chip struggled to play browser-based Flash videos and linited my screen resolution toapaliry 1024 by 788. The chip also supports, ‘only DirectX 7. meaning—among other things — ‘no Windows Vista which needs atleast DX9), Other negatives include atoo-oud CPU fan, a smadge-prone lack case finish, and the integration of a VOA portinstead of a DVI connection (the box includes a DVT accessory, but youcan'tuseit with the Artigo chassis), OverLooking the Artigo’s limitations is ele tively easy when you consider the possibities could mosine using it as 0 secondary PCin the kitchen, attached to the underside of acab- inot (along with a small LCD monitor) and Using a wiceless keyboard and mouse. Or you could useit for sofware testing, pairing it wi s new based on as $200 aRrico: small-term-factor, bare- bones computer kt a VMswitch ta effectively replace the virtual ‘machines Te discussed inthe past with real- Ute naroware. Orit could serve as the Linax {esktop you'velong thought about bulleing ‘The most intriguing use for meis the poten= til to pair the Artigo with Microsof's excellent Windows Home Server 0S. Alas. at press time Via was stil working on a BIOS fix forthe two products to work together. The Artigo would make a fantastic low-poner server (as.a desk top, it pulled fewer than 20 watts under normal ‘sage during my tests) Pus. in that capecity its graphics weaknesses woudn'tbe anissue, though I might need a larger hard drive. Tt would be extremely cool~and practical tohave my home server ivng inside my desk top PC. And fit’ onthe inside, TU avoid those fingerprints on the shiny black cae.THE NEXT GENERATION NETWORK SECURITY APPLIANCE SERIES NOW WITH MULTI-CORE PROCESSING AND APPLICATION FIREWALL PROTECT YOUR NETWORK FROM a ee R AE Sai a UES) fo a WITHOUT SACRIFICING PERFORMANCE. eel TAKE A DEEPER LOOK. Ce ae a Ree eed Ce ee ed pen enter ce at ener anne ee reer fee er eet Neen Pern ae er tee eet err hit an neers Re ee huang eee eee Pee ent ae ee eee et in meer Ln tence Ce ee ce ee Pease een ne er ee ee ae eee erate ee te eee contol, seamlessly integrating application level bandwith management, and preventing data leakage. Want to laam about the new Pore Ace ee eee ect Ree eee eee SONICWALL. 8 a Dea Rn oaForward Is Apple’s Slim Laptop Too Light on Features? WHEN STEVE JOBS inteo uced the MacBook Airat Macworld Expo in January, he said chat manufacturers of other thin-aneighe lap Lops compromised too much in making theie sleck, But nobody else in the industry would dream of achines raking the compromises that the Air does. Some of the omissions on the $1799 Air, which should start shipping by the time you read this, are only mild ly annoying: It has just one USB port and no optical tive, for example. But some of the other AWOL items Reece could drive you nuts. The Rae Air offers no ethernet port, ane the biggest hard drive aval: eet able is only 82GB, and— potentially crippling for road warriors—you can't remove the battery ‘THE MAGSAFE CORD i recessed Despite (or pechaps be- Into the underside, and the adapter cause of) what's missing, the snuggles up againetthe side Ai feels and looks great. I wasn't immediately available when Jobs announced it, though; check PCWorld.com — < (ON THE SIDE: aheaephone jock, one for our hands-on tests, {USB 2.0 port, anda Miero-DMI port. Hany McCracken | esos eam i THE KEYBOARD IS full-size and bachtit, with anambient-tight [ANNOUNCED AT THE semetime asthe MacBook Air, Time Capsule ‘erin nora edinseiitentbcheferd_etacupate enteral be stesacenortetwdpeniporsmtechgues, sot Tin seas 88 sped youtcn sel with two fagrsos wll as pinch tate se, 50000 veslonvill sl for $200, while w1TB mode wit be $400. © ‘double -tap, and drag to your heart's content. Given the MacBook Air's smallish 8068 harddrive, you'llneedit. SPa limtersolu aaa RAMA Coe RL oo Eee Cia ISTERSONAL 5 AGAIN. MRC Tei. cic ticiweo Meee eae do et ene ees ee And with AMD’s HyperTranspori™ technology, your people vena Janae i Eeoreamen on say productive while sil on the move. With mere to eee Soa choose from, is easier to know who to choose from. af Renee eee eed a od Ran ee ene eee es pnemaNtiS KD Seles eet a Cyr 1-888-491-8371 | hp.com/go/toad2 | Find a reseller: hp.com/go/reseller ee Oe tee en eee Bea rae tee eae ciere Steere pes eahisien ohmic Aico conte! cies praabementae reat ‘ Fie nates eas = ems a Fed haeForward Is Your TV Still Analog? No Fear, Help Ison the Way DO YOU STILL get your TV reception via rabbit ears ora roofiop antenna? If'so, you hrave alte overa year to procure a digitahto-analog converter box and prepare your television forthe impending digital evolu- tion. As mandated by federal laws, on February 17, 2009, over-theairtelevision broadeasts will switch from analog to digital. LG and Philips showed off some ofthe first converter boxes at this year’s Consum. ce Electronics Show in Janu- ary, and the devices will go ‘on sale for $59 0 $69 in the first quarter ofthe year. To help ease the transition, the federal government wil issue $49 coupon subsidy for the purchase ofa box, upon your Fequest (visi wir «tv2008.g0) or call 888/DTV-2009). you've already upgraded toa high-def TY, you won't be affected. Nor will you feel an immediate impact if you area cable or satellite TV subscriber: The FOC re- ‘quires cable and satelite providers to continue send ingan analog signal unc 2012. Just don't let Grand sma's TV go dark nest year Métis. Pacoen ‘ZENITH'SDTT900, one of the first converter boxes te ship. 32 | uw. nowoi GADGET FREAK Auto Technology: Same Gear, New Services ‘YOU MAY DRIVE a sporty new car with the lat- lestin glamotronics, but to your kids (aed randki) it wil look tke a Stanley Steamer. Atlast November's Las Angeles Car Showy, ight major carmakers rolled out tet visions of how vehicles wil look in 50 years Trust me, these 2057 modets realy look nothing tke your old'57 Chery For example: The Nissan OneOne will pick up your dry cleaning or drop the children off at ssohool-ne driver roquirod. GM. OnStar’ ANT will, feature an onbeord quantum computer, se .car-to-car com ‘munications to avoid traffic jams, and fol Lp ike 3 piace of origami wien parkos. Even it ane these wild seenarios come to ass, our cars cortainty will get smarter and better connected—they/re already on thelr way. ‘But the biggest changes o car tech for 2008 willbe near your seat. with better Web connec- tivity and access to mere data serviees. navigation and GPS Plus Instead of new auto gear, well see more ser- vies delivered tothe gear we aready have. says Erie Larsen, director of marketing for Mio Technclogy. For example Mia's Dginatker (0720t GPS ($599. miv-tech com) device can ‘now deliver real-time traffic updates from (Clear Channel. Ford's 2009 Lincain MKS sedan will soon offer Sirus Travel Link, which serves up traffic, weather, fuel prices, and movie tis ings tthe car's bult navigation system. Every GPS device Te ever tested has had thessare flaw. Its database of local barks, restourants, and ges stations is way out-of date, Dash Navigation’s Express GPSS fixes that ‘by maintaining apermanent Internet connec: tion using either acellular network or Wi-Fi For this year's cars, personal will be in the driver's seat. ‘access points, Tel the Express to find the near est pizza joint. andit willrun a Yahoo Local search, then display the freshest possible info ‘Ttean also pul weather, news, movie listings, and custom RSS feeds straigh: ofthe Net. Even groovier the Express tums your car arch services _intoa sensorforreal- time traffic data. Sof yourunintoa slowdown on T-40, say, the Ex press transmits your sudden loss of velocity to the Dash servers, which atert other Dash livers to prepare for delays or solect alter nate routes. Ifo othor Dach users are on your stretch of highway the dovice employs histor: cal traffic patterns to predict celays, says Gina Bencer, drector of communications for Oash(ashet). The Dash Express should be avaiable by the tmo you 029 this for $600 plus a monthiy service plan. Deals on Wheels ‘That's only the beginning. Over the next few years, GPS services will evolve from previdlng simple location data to supplying personalized recommendations an things happening around town, says Mios Larsen, Instead of merely finding the closest pizza place, yout be alerted when your favorite bandis playing nearby and hhave the chance to buy tickets en route Of course, allthis stuf isr't free. Real-time traffic and news costs $5 to $15 a month now, depending onthe service provider and your plan. Concierge services wil Likely cost mare. IDCestimates that location based services will generate more than $3 bilion in revenues bby 2010, and advertising is tikey to account for 2 sizable chunk. For exemele. you micht receive offers fore reelatte when nearing a Starbucks, says Larsen The only question is, Whether such services will dive you toward better decisions or merely ive you crazy. 5 ijacer e ~ aN February/March 2008 Turion! PoBLEeCINOLOCT| Unique Innovation Ferrari 1100-5457 $1,999 Gasnsevarn * AMD Turion” 64 X2 Dual-Core * ATI Radeon” Xpress 1270 graphics Mobile Technology TL-66 * Integrated Acer OrbiCam camera * Genuine Windows Vista® Ultimate * Dolby® Home Theater * 4GB DDR2 667 SDRAM. * 802.11n WLAN, gigabit LAN, V92 modem, © 250GB" hard drive Bluetooth®, Bluetooth? VoIP phone * Integrated slotloaded Super-Multi drive * Wireless optical mouse (OVD+R, DVD-R, DVD-RAM) * Fingerprint reader + 5-in-1 card reader * One-year limited warranty’ * 12.1" WXGA (1280 x 800) TFT display Acer CrystalBrite Technology ‘eta airtime oo rote orn.Acer® Aspire® 5520 — @mpowering technology ‘Acer Empowering Technology ‘One touch of the Empowering Key and you can easily take contol of your notebook's security, performance, settngs andl communications + AMD Athlon" 64 X2 Dual-Core Processor TK-55 * Genuine Windows Vista® Home Premium, + 1GB DDR2 667 SDRAM + 120GB" hard drive * Integrated Super-Multi drive (DVD+R, DVD-R, DVD-RAM) © 5.in-1 card reader © 15.4" WXGA (1280 x 800) TFT display, Acer® CrystalBrite Technology * NVIDIA® GeForce® 7000M graphics * 802.11b/g WLAN, gigabit LAN, V.92 modem * One-year limited warranty’ as es ‘Acer Aspire 5520-5908 AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 Dual-Core Motile Technology TK-55 ‘Genuine Windows Vista® Home Premium, (XAN70X.027)AMDZ Acer® Aspire® 7520 * AMD Turion™ 64 X2 Dual-Core Mobile Technology TL-58 * Genuine Windows Vista® Home Premium * 2GB DDR2 667 SDRAM + 250GB" hard drive * Integrated SuperMulti drive (DVD+R, DVD-R, DVD-RAM) + S.in-t card reader + 17.0" WXGA+ (1440 x 900) TFT display, Acer? CrystalBrite Technology * NVIDIA® GeForce® 8400M graphics * 802.1 1b/g WLAN, Bluetooth®, gigabit LAN, V.92 modem, integrated webcam * One-year limited warranty? Turion! MOBILE TECHNOLOGY Acer Signalup This technology strategically postions two PIFA antennas on the ratebooks top pene to generate leant {an omni-directional signal sphere for superar witless reception. Acer GridViste Easy-to-use software dasignad to automaticaly split the sercen in upto four separate windows ard make the ‘most of avaiable scien space Acer Crystaléye Enjoy al tho potonal of vido conferencing withthe integrated Acer CstlEye, simple to we and compatible With inteme- based video and voice communication Acer BioProtection Gain an extra layer of security wile eliminating the need to remeber passwords and PINs with he ‘eer Bio Protection Sngepin eade. eter ar wale pes mayenAcer? LCDs Acer AL2216Weed #22" widescreen TUCO +1680 1050 native resolution #70021 conuast ratio #170 horzonal viewing ange #160" vera vewing angle VGA, OVI (OCP signal connectors #300 ci’ bighness Sie reponse time + Inemal power adapter $239 (e722168.000) Acer ALIONT China, 19° LO + 12801024 native resolution + 7001 contrast ratio + 150° horigomal viewing angle + 135° vertical viewing angle ‘Two 1.0W integrated speakers + VGA, DVI signal comecors + 300 ci rightness + 5s esponse time + Internal power acepter $229 (€119178.000) ‘Acer AL2016WBbd 1220" widescreen TFT LCD 1680 «1050 native resolution + 8001 contast rato 1160" hoon viewing angle 160° vertical viewing ange '= VGA. OV signal connects = 300 edi baghtnass ‘5s response time ‘ince poner adaper $219 (ELDISWRBO4), Aer ALIST7W Abd (919° wide srean TFT LCD = 1440 990 native resolution 70021 contrast ratio + 150° horizontal viewing anole 135 vertical viewing angle To 1.0Wintegated speakers VGA, DVI signalcormecters, +300 cdi bghtness ‘5s response tine *Imeral power adapter $199 (EL-CI7WRAOA) ‘Acer ALIS16W Ab 119" widescreen TFT LCD “1440 x900 native eslution #7001 centas ratio “150° horizontal viewing angie 135° vertical viewing angle + VGA signal crmectee +300. brightness ‘5s response time *internl poner edaoter $195 €719168,009)|AMDZ| Acer® Aspire® 7520 Turi OBLE TECHNOLOGY + AMD Turion™ 64 X2 Dual-Core Mobile Technology TL-52 * Genuine Windows Vista? Home Premium. + 2GB DDR2 667 SDRAM + 160GB' hard drive * Integrated Super-Multi drive (DVD+R, DVD-R, DVD-RAM) *5.in-1 card reader ‘cer Quikcharge # 17.0" WXGAs (1440 x 900) TFT display, } | Fundon soma cw dtc tein Acer® CrystalBrite Technology ikea * NVIDIA® GeForce® 7000M graphics * 802.11b/g WLAN, Bluetooth®, 10/100 LAN, \V.92 modem, integrated webcam * One-year limited warranty® vce base Dekh Shock tection ia teil ht fe 2 e owt a terd ek ptibecs ee pores aeae ratchet poecten Acer Cptalbrite AT Atecincloa that delves ehanced video pevlomance fr ant inages aking : Tied for sopisiated ppt suchas HDTV ard digital games eter ar male pes mayenAcer® Veriton® L410 ays ape @mpovering technology E + AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 dual-core processor * Genuine Windows Vista® Business or - Genuine Windows® XP Professional + 1GB DDR2 SODIMM * 160GB’ SATA hard drive * SuperMulti drive (DVD+R, DVD-R, DVD-RAM) * AT| Radeon” X1250 graphics solution * 802.11b/g WLAN, gigabit LAN * USB keyboard and mouse 2.4" Wx98" Dx7.9" H * One-year limited warranty? Acer Veriton L410 $499 AMD Athlon” 64 2 dual-core processor 4200+ ‘Genuine Windows Vista® Business (viaT0-uD42010) Microsoft® Office Ready (60-day tial and (CD mith Genuine Windovrs® XP Professional or ‘Genuine Windows* XP Professional (vLai0-uDa201F)Acer® Veriton® M410 * AMD Phenom” quad-core processor * Genuine Windows® XP Professional * DVD-Dual drive (DVD+/-RW) * ATI Radeon™ X1200 graphics solution * Gigabit LAN + Keyboard and mouse * One-year limited warranty? Acer Veriton M410 $799 AMD Phenom quact-core processor 9600 Genuine Windows® XP Professional (vIa10-UFS600P) 3GB DDR SORAM and 32068" SATA hard drive Acer Veriton M410 $699 AMD Phenom” quad-core processor 9500 Genuine Windows® XP Frofessional (vtna10-UF9500P) 2GB DOR SDRAM and 25068" SATA hard drive ‘Acer elock Management ‘Acer eLock Management locks and unlocks storage media with passwd protection for acdtonal secu ‘Acer ePerformance Management ‘Acer Performance Menagernet optimizes performance tw male the most of your computer's powet. ‘Acer eRecovery Management. ‘Acer eRecovery Management isan easy-to-use utility tw ceate backups restore from your archives ‘Acer eSettings Management ‘eer eSettngs Management provides easy acess to boot options security ox general system information. ‘Acer eDataSocurity Management Convener incerated into the Windows” environment, Acer eDataSecurity Management provides one-dick ecyption and decryption of your fils.|AMD7Z Acer? TravelMate® 5520 Turi rion! MOBILE TECHNOLOGY * AMD Turion” 64 X2 Dual-Core i Mobile Technology TL-58 * Genuine Windows Vista® Business + 1GB DDR2 667 SDRAM + 120GB" hard drive * Integrated Super-Multi drive (DVD+R, DVD-R, DVD-RAM) * 5:in-1 card reader * 15.4" WXGA (1280 x 800) TFT display * Integrated ATI Radeon” Xpress 1250 graphics * 802.11b/g WLAN, gigabit LAN, V.92 modem * Fingerprint reader * One-year limited warranty? wes Acer TravelMate 5520-5678 $699 AMD Turion” 64 X2 Dual-Core Mobile Technology TL-58 Genuine Windows Vista® Business (Uxr«u0Z.003) @mpo wering technology Protect Your Investment with an Acer Notebook Service Upgrade eats thr ry oneness ad Sch ct th aan oid 1 tug wed ar ai ined rar ier cpa Sa pees a tg 2:¥ear extension of une waranty (46.8880) are comeatnnaeng ne oat recon upaace apa tight om Rep pat $199 ‘xaut orem ctntoraonl Hane aan repos ight tan rom kent oa depo ee ance eh eee cae " at edn ele where Ar prs sldor wt teria With Gene Windows Ve Bins on nt wih Genuine Windows XP Profesional lace ofrnecn adton to, Gerune Windovn Vir Burne. es nt ote Ping effec tom etry. 2008 hough Mc 3, ramet ope eee na roe myo ae ate eo Baan orm, Op and the double abel ae vader of bly atest. NVA, te WACIR los, GeFae wre ‘adem andl esate toderara of VIDA Corpreten Nghei i Consumer Watch The 10 Most Annoying Types of Online Ads BY TOM SPRING TODAY'S ANNOYING WEB ads are a mix of Big Brother and Madison Avenue, and range from old-fashioned in-your-face marketing to tactics that are downright mean. Many of them probably have you longing forthe days when the peskiest ads simply promoted an X-10 wireless camera, (But remember that, without advertising, we'd all have to pay a nickel every time ‘we wanted to watch a YouTube video of people riding down escalators in shopping carts.) 1.Old-School Attention Grabbing ‘Ads | recently had trouble focus- ing ona CNN.com story, andl re alized that a LowerMyBills ad blinking, jiggling, and éancing beside the article was distracting ime. Although experts say such obtrusive ads are giving way to subtler types tailored to the interests of individual Web users, CNN.com doesn’t seem to be in on the trend, 2NolsyAds: Ofnaviou isn't {quite strong enough an adjee- tive to deseribe ads that play audio on my PC without warn- ing, Ble both the advertiser and the Web site (sits set poli types of ads they accept). Such ads may just sent to be ubiquitous: The onlinc-advertising company EyeWonder says that about one out of ten video advertisement it erates will initiate audio when you roll your pointer over the ad. 3.Floating Ads: You sometimes need the deaterity of video game pro to chase down the Close button on ads as they float across your display. An advertising insider (who spoke on -ntied) confirmed what you probably already suspected: Advertisers deliberately make it deliver malware to ge cies forthe condition that he not bei ‘Over 24 Billion Served.’ Th They're well beyond bells and whistles Ads now flash, slithe difficult to close these Flash-based animated floating ads oF “page takeovers” (including some that run on PCWorld.com) “These advertisers know they are getting away with something. ‘And that ‘something’ is not about making your life easier.” 4.Trile Threat—The Floating Video Sates Pitch: In one online ‘Toyota ad, a pintsize pitchman waltzed out from the lower Jefe comer of my screen and started yakking, Talk about an annoying car salesperson. 5.Mouse OverLand-Mine Ads: Sometimes mousing over the content ona Web page can be like a game of Minesweeper ‘One wrong move, and—peo!— ads start springing up out of rnowhere. You ean thank a com- pany called Vibrant Media; its IntellTXT contentual advertis ing technology lets sites display as many as eight keyword pop- ‘overs linked t0 text content and sametimes et your attention. ‘And while you can kill radition- al pop-upads pretty easily by pressing >Looking for a Microsoft-based VoIP Phone Call or Visit Us Online Fora Free Demo ALTIGEN COMMUNICATIONS www.altigen.com 1-888-AltiGen Consumer Watch Co cele SS? 2) err WHEN MY 250GB Western Digital EIDE internal hard drive died on mo. while still uncer warranty, I applied for an RMA (return merchandise authorization) on the company's Web site in order to have it replaced. However, after I entered the drive's serial number and my country of res- idence (Canada), Western Digital said that the drive was “out of region” because I had purchased it white on vacation in Florida ast winter. The ‘company has refused to honor the warranty because of this circum: stance, although I have written to Western Digital four or five times. I bought the drive in good faith—do you have any suggestions about what Lean do to change this policy? — —Manrice Ledoux, St. Paul de oli, Quebec ‘OVS Responds: Companies such as West com Digital that sll worldwide often strike deals tohave third porties distr te and service their products in other ‘countries, ut those third parties are not responsible for servicing the same prod: ucts bought elsenhere-—“ut of region. When Ledoux entered a Canadian ad dross slong with the serial number ofa dre that he had purchased in the United ‘States, Western Digtal’s Web site essen tally identtied his dive as a so-called gFay-market product—thatis, produ purchased outside the country or market not exactly how he had dene £0. I do not forwhich twas ntondod,usuallyat a lieve I violated any terms of service, lscount (even though this was not true but if did, [shouts keto know which in Ledous case) one; Nott wrote After wecontacted Western Digital, the After we contacted Yahoo, Nott heard company sant Ledous a refurbhed drive from a Yahoo customer service represen: asa replacement, witha new are-year tative who affored tohela restore the warranty for Canada message board under a new user TO— Toavoid prablems|ike Lecoux’s, we but the rep could not shed any ight on sérongly recommend buying productsin why his acccunts had been deleted, or heccurtry where youll beusing them, help him rettioveany of his e-mail mes aswartanties for many tech products are sages. Nolthas since migrated to Grail good only in their intencied market ‘and Google Groups. ‘Meanaile, Yahco spokesperson Ter: Yahoo's Catch-22 rell Karsten respond to our e-mail Reader Jim Noltof Lancaster, Pemsyiva~ queries by saying that she could not eis nia, wrote us saying that.inautumntast cuss details of Nol’ case and adding year Yahoo had—without notice—deleted only that Yahoo encouragesits users to both thee-mal account hehed used for readits terms of service carefully, "so sixyears ande Yahoo Groups message they fully understand what activity i and boardhhe had maintained forfour years is net permitted! thatwas devotedte thelate actor George Bottom line: Ifyou trust your e-mail Reeves, star ofthe 1950s TV series The and messagebcards to Yahoo, and they ‘Adventures of Superman. suddenly disapoeer, there seems to bene When Nettasked Yahoo whyhewas guarantee the company wil enlighten ‘cutoff, the compery told him only that you (or anyone else) on what's that you hhehad violated the terms of servce-but are supposed to have done wrong. 46 | mwExtra Lithium Batteries: Carry, Don't Pack Ir ansportation Hazmat Safety Rules that took effect in January, you may pack such batteri nly f they are installed in a device you must place them in a in the cargo hold ofa United Ji to Philadelphia, acn 2008 nww.pcwonse.com | 45 Wina From PC World Ever dreamed of building your own PC from Renee eas deers build the biggest, baddest, best PC. Well, that's Pe Sue nee ie eC aC ae) Peete PC World's editors are picking their favorite com- Pere ome Ce ue eae computer, and you could win it! Cee eee seh Chui a Pee a a ced ore helt $16,000): Just sign up for PCWorld.com and click Oy eae neg sera eee rereYour old notebook can still be put to use. Anew one from CDW can be put to work. Sony® VAIO® $7650 with Windows Vista™ Business Edition Brgy eee Ea) ER el as See een coterie iran Daa 00 eee eer ay Se rend Lee cre het co) Remeeenrs een CeO Sur, outdated technology can serve your needs. But unfortunately not your work needs. When you uparade Seen ture eet Catenin eet te te ce ener countlss wireless options Need to upgrade to @ new operating system? No problem. Of course ve ao offer a personal account manager who knows the needs of your business as well as host of configuration De ee ees ee kek as CDW.com | 800.399.4CDW ee ee ee en eee! | oa eyo NEC Ce ee aa) eens eet eee ead Dent acBusiness Center How to Play It Safe With Software Licenses FL DECREE Software industry associations often focus antipiracy efforts on TCONEON Game ant smail businesses, but you can do a Lot to protect yourself, Software Piracy Now, Upto $1 milion everythingon the PCs it owns. Hereare to detenmine where any shortfalls Reward!" Aferdlicking the button, an somesofeware-license management tips Getlegalwithautgoingbroke: I the gap informant can fil outa confidential on foravoiding unwanted visits fromthe between sofware copies that your line report rating out an employer or BSAand the Software & Information business is entitled to use and unau- competitor, without fear of ex posure. Though $1 milion pay- outs ae reserved for blockbust creases, the Business Software Association (BSA) claims that a typical informant nets around $5¢00—not a bad pay you're on the receiving end of the BSA’s antipiracy com paiga, however, the experience ‘ean be painful. The organization took in $13 milion in piracy settlements last year, of which neatly 90 percent eame from small businesses. In one in- stance, the BSA senta letter demanding $67,009 from an architectural design firm that employed 1 people; the firm thorized software copies isn't toe wide, youcan get up to date simply by purchasing the add tional licenses you need and removing any duplicate or ilicit ‘copies from the workplace. If the gap exceeds your budget, re ‘consider who in your company needs any version ofthe soft ware, and who needs the latest versions. You can save alot of rmoney by skipping a version o ‘wo, and by upgrading only ‘when a new feature or hardware change clearly requires it Consider alternative software: ‘Another possibilty isto work with open-source software lke OpenOice (wn opencttice cra), agreed to pay $40,000 rather than fight Industry Association (SIA) and for which can coavert documents to and the association in court. Burt's Bees, digging your business out of any copy- from Microsoft Office formats. Also natural-products company, had to pony right holes ic may already have fallen in, many software vendors offer volume up $110,000 toseule out of cour. discounts and ste licenses, s well as Their crime? Having too few lkenses Get Out of Trouble petks such as special suppor lies chat tocorerallof the Microsof, Adobe, and Performasoftwareaual: The first thing aren't avalabe to retal buyers Apple sofiware on their systems offense for which the maxim In —_-you need todo is figure out where you penalty stand. Jenny Blank, seniordirectorof Stay Out of Trouble under law is $150,099 per pirated copy. legal services for the BSA, recommends After leaning up your ac, you need to $ —Imtentis irrelevant, Most small busi-inventoryingall applications installed stay legal. Many small businesses lack nesses inthis situation gotthere through on company computers, including lap- the dedicated IT staf and centralized 4 Jmple neglect venlfemployecsinnall toys in the fed, Beaurevlcalac ver axonltonng that lyger companies enoy illicit software without the business's sion numbers and serial numbers. Com- but they can keep on top of software l= consent, the business is responsible for pare this list o your purchase receipts _censes by taking four key steps. 2 e © Copy protection approaches include encryption schemes that render a program unusable until the owner registers, and format- ting techniques that make it difficult to copy the original floppies. In 1995.26 reported on the tactics sone rfirarevewdors had adopted oop piracy, like shipping sf derructing dks Naaow 2008 www pewer.o.com| 47Business Center Instat softwaremonitoring tots: Fven ‘pomTT people can use Spiceworks (wi, spiceworkscom) to monitora newwork for new software installs. This free pro~ ram creates lists of ll PCs and software ‘on your necwork, and tracks licenses, warranties, and serial numbers. You ‘can manually add laptops and other remote assets, and determine whether systems need patches. Apps like Tivoli, Unicenter, and Total Network Invento- ‘ty work similarly, but they arent free (indsewerld con/58770).. Postanemployee software policy: To dis: courage employees from installing illegal software, post a policy that explicitly prohibits installing non-management- approved software and spells out how to request and acquire legal software. ‘The BSA displays a sample policy and a ‘number of other helpful resources on its site (ine powori.comy5777). Don't buy software from questionable sources: Carefully vet eBay and other on line sellers to make sure you buy from authorized dealers. The software may have been registered previously; it may be anomU.S. or nonretal version, an academic version, oFan outright fake, Koopbulletproofrecords: Be prepared to prove your software's legality. Ifthe BSA challenges you, you'll need sales receipts, with dates and serial numbers Balance the Playing Field Ifthe BSA comes afer you despite your best efforts, hire a lawyer who has dealt with the group and understands is tae- tics. When the BSA suspects company of sofware piraey, it may ak the busi- ness to perform an internal audit and inform the BSA of the results—but this is tantamount to selfconviction. Anex- petienced lawyer ean help you respond without abandoning you legal rights, and, ifneed be, can negotiate a setle- rent on better terms than the BSA right offer otherwise. Seott & Scott, a Dallas law fim that specializes in cis area of copyright and intellectual prop- erty la, has some excellent informa- tion and advice on the subject atts ‘Web sie (Ln ceworid.coms9785), 48 | ww pcwonte.com mAxch 2008 Sa elt tere Put Pay-per-Click Yahoo Ads in Your PDFs ‘ADOBE'S POF (Portable Document Format) lets people distribute printed Information etecironical- |y.But until now, content owners haven't shad an easy way toearn money from their POF materials. A new Web-based service ‘Ads for Adobe PDF, powered by Yahoo (ind cord. con3985), attaches pay- ‘er-cick (PPO) ads to your POF: you earn ‘money whenever readers click on ana. The free service aug: ‘ments Yahoo's online PPC ad pregrem. in which Yehoo-provided code places ads on Wie sites, Google's Aé- ‘Senco PPC network (find power. cony 59723) similar. After you sign up wit Ads for Adobe PDF and submit aPDF fle or processing, ‘the service puts upto five ads (all of them ‘suppl by Yahoo) on a panel tothe right ‘of your document; the ads do not cbscure ‘the contantof the POF in any respect. Anew Wel and Yahoo Using Ads for Adobe PDF ‘Yahoo has sais that itwill restrict the ‘number of US. POF publishersin is beta ‘rogram. To apply. you have to provide a {air amount information ivan online application, including some details about the number of PDF files you'd like to sub- mit to the progrern and the type of cor tent youintend to publish, found the service breeze to use. I Logged in to Adobe's sit, clicked the Reo- ister PDF button, and uploaded a POF from my PC. After just a few minutes, 1 ‘received the POF, modified to accept acs from Yahoo, as an e-mailattachment. ‘The service determines how many ads to.ispley based on the level ofadvertiser demand, Fouror five text ads appearedin my test POFs about business software, Initially, none ofthe ads were particularly relevant for example, the POF all ran b-based service from Adobe could help you make money from content you publish in PDF form. the same ad for natural cosmetics. Within ‘an hour, however, Yahoo had replaced the first setof ads with more-relevant ones. Each POF fit that you register with the ‘service will continve to receive ads for 160 cays [the service notifies you ve e-mail. ‘when a POF's reaistrationis about to comire), after which you may re-egister your file, You can cancel your registration and getrid of treads at any time, Youcan aacess roparts on the perfor- mance of your POF at the Yahoo Publisher Network sto The service won't ‘accopt fs that exceed 5 megabytes or ‘that contain controversial content such ‘as references to crugs or adult mater ‘You can't change the ad tayout or panel format, nor do you have any say over the keywords Adobe uses toplace ads, Whena reader who isn't ontine apens ‘an ad-enabled POF file, 8 pop-upasks to ‘connect to Adabe's Web site ta display sponsored content Tf the reader doesn't approve the request, ads wor't display. ‘Adobe intends to integrate the a> insertion technology into some content= Creation software—TnDesign or Acrobat, ‘perhaps~so publishers won't have to use ‘the ontine portal to ad-enable POFS, ‘Adobe. Yaho, end the publisher (you) ‘split the earrings from the ads. Youdon't ‘cet paid until your ad eamings reach ‘$100—unless you opt tobe pai via Pay- Pal. which crops the minimum to $50. ‘Ads for Adobe powered by Yahoo is an ‘eesy-to-ise service that may hetp people ‘ho publish a lot of PDFs recoup some of their production casts, I nothing else, it coffers clear evidence that Ceogleisn't the ‘nly innovator in online advertising,SSRN eee Get the World’s First Open Storage System with Legendary ZFS The Sun Fire” X4500 Storage Server (aka “Thumper”) delivers twice the performance, half the size and one-third the price of the competition. With common storage pools, provable data integrity and near-zero administration, ZFS overturns everything you thought you knew about file systems. And with four-core X64 performance, the highest storage density and the power of Solaris; the Sun Fire X4500 Server blows away everything else in price, performance, and capacity. For a free 60 day trial, go to sun.com/openstorage solarisBusiness Center Web Services Make Quick Work of Payroll EVER-CHANGING TAXES AND other eductions make payroll preparation a headache for many employers. But wo ‘new Web-based payroll preparation servicesIntuit’s Online Payroll and PayCyck’s PayCycle Payroll Phas—offer relief. All you need isa Web browser and a broadband Internet connection. Both secvices allow you to print paper paychecks and pay stubs and to deposit ret pay eketronically into employees’ bank accounts. They also maintain cur rent tax tables, calculate gross pay and > Product catalogs >» Software releases ees ina vi the Bravo Disc > Training videos > Tradeshow handouts cee >> Press kits >» Event videos >> Original musi agiDar ruse Software comes FREE with product registration. Call 1-800-797-2772 (USA or Canada) or 763-475-6676 for more information and a FREE sample disc. Email to sales@primera.com or visit us on the intemet at www.primera.com, PRI A A ERA ec Ust Price in the USA. Reseller pric TECHNOLOGY, INC.Ua ty Your Em “4 te a > STEALS COMPANY SECRETS SURFS INAPPRO! Spector 360 is the world’s first monitoring solution that makes it easy to detect inappropriate employee behavior. At the touch of a button, you will see ALL PC & Internet activity for your entire company and pick problem employees right ‘out of the crowd. Find out which employees are harming your business and destroying your bottom line with Spector 360. Spector 360 records every detail of employee computer & Internet activity, including: Spector 360 produces more than 50 charts and reports that allow you to quickly and easily identify your top achievers productivity wasters, and anyone engaging in inappropriate Cr potentially damaging conduct, Spector 360 Company-Wide Employee Monitoring Software € BialiNct poli RB) Teo)! 373 Which employees spend the most time working and which spend the most time goofing off. D Who is leaking company confidential information via chat, web mail or removable media (such as Flash/USB drives, DVDs, CDs.) Which employees spend the most time surfing web sites and see EXACTLY what they do on them, What employees search for on Google, MSN, Yahoo and more, Which employees are posting resumes on Monster. With Spector 360, youll have no doubt about whether your employees are working, playing, doing their job efficiently or putting your business at risk by engaging in illicit or illegal behavior. The typical Spector 360 ‘customer sees a full return on their software investment within 90 days or less. Get Started Today! it Spector360.com een er)Security Aler When Searches Attack: Hackers Rig Google BY ERIK LARKIN IF LAST NOVEMBER you googled one of thousands of in- ‘pocuous and common search terms, sul to access” of “how to teach your dogs to fetch,” you were in line Foran intemet attack that infects PCs with spam senders, password stcalers, and other kinds of nasty malwace Beginning on November 24 and continuing for less than a ‘week, bad guys loaded up more than 40,000 Web pages with imlicious software and thousands of ‘common search terms. They then [ “Microsofe excel ‘employed an automated network of malware infected computers— known as. botnet—to link to those sites in blog-comment spam and other places. The mentions elevated the position of the poisoned sites in search results, often to the fest page. Sy Click Here for Free Attack MU ‘The malicious sites had 0 useful information. Instead, a simple click ‘ona link to such ase in the search results was enough to launch attacks against your PC. ifthe atack found any of'a number of vulnerabilities in 2 range of programs, ie would load. “This was a massive wave,” says Alex Eckelbecry, president and CEO of security firm Sunbelt Sofware. The attack marks a new kevel of sophistication, using multiple tech- niques to raise site visibility in search results and deliver malware toa mass audience. Sunbelt researcher Adam Thomas happened upon the attack when he ran a search of “netgear ProSafe DD-WRT” for rout cx firmseace. His wained eye su a suspicious looking result con the first page. More research and digging on other phases turned up the vast aray of atack sites (ind wort cor 595), cof the sites from chis wave, ora smaller follow-up The latest malware trend should prompt you to think twice about the links you click next time you search group, appear now on Google, and Eekelherty and other ‘experts believe the search giant has blocked those specific domains, But Google isn’t saying what it did to stop this attack, of whether measures ate in place to halt a recurrence Game On: Google Bombed ‘This massive attack had three notable features that point to the sophistication and planning behind it. The frst is the eul- prits’ use of botnets to push a dark form of SEO (seareh- engine optimization), called a “Google bomb,” to boost their sites’ Google rankings. “They did an extraordinary job ‘optimizing the search results using the bots,” Eckelberry says. Second, the poisoned sites carried JavaScript code on their pages designed to stop visitors coming via other search engines from being attacked—only visitors who came through a Google search were hit. [hs trick was a] way of fipping the finger at Google,” says Eckelber- ry. Experts don't know the motive bbchind directing the aetacks at Google users, but online crooks have targeted specie sites and com panies in the past when they felt threatened (Ind pewort cami88512). Google recently launched an online Foxm (find genor'con59515) for reporting a site that Web users believe might contain malware. Third, the manipulated pages carried code that kept the attack sites from appearing in results ifthe entered search term included cercain expressions that security researchers com monly use. For example, Eckelberry had recently written about using “inuel” and “site,” avo of the singled-out terms. Despite Google’s steps to climinate the impact of comment spam on ts search result rankings, the use of SEO tech- 9 6 Viruses do exist. There were more than 6900 at last count, and experts say that three to five new ones are created every day, 9 A December 1995 antiirnssofizoarerevea had o make the cave thas viruses area genuine problem. In 2007, more than 5.5 million malesare samples, ncluding variants, ere inthe wil. (Sonrce: Secure Comp ating) NARoH 2008 ww. PewoRLo.coM | 53Security Alert niques is growing in the online criminal underground. And bad guys de ploy the tiek just to infect people's PCs, WhiteHfat Security chief Jeremiah Grossman says that whoever hacked Al Gore's Web site recently (finkasncrid. ccan/5ls) added a ink that could be seen only inthe site’s source code. The link, which pointed to an online pharmacy site, was designed to give the iru ste more relevance. Grossman says ‘hat, according to underground con- tacts, the top cesult for “buy Viagra on line” is worth about $50,000 a month. How to Search Safely ‘Though this attack was crafty and effec- tive, security experts say there's no need to stop using Google, as longas you take some precautions. Most impor tant: Keep your software patched and upto-date. The attack sites used.a pro- ‘gramming kit called the "404 exploit framework,” which hits known soft- ‘ware vulnerabilities, says Roger Thomp: son, president of security software maker Exploit Prevention Labs. You can close most of the targeted holes by ‘enabling the automaticupdate features for Microsoft Windows, Mozilla Firefox, Apple QuickTime, and other critical software, but you should also update to the latest version of WinZip, ‘a tangeted program that doesn’t have an auto-update feature Keep a close eye on what you click ‘on, 100, and you'll keep search para nnoiaat bay, as Eckelberry has,“ Google fanatic,” he says. “Thaven't stopped using Google because of this.” ‘THE CAREFULEYE of Sunbelt researcher ‘Adem Thomas spotted the attack, which tar- ‘geted common searchterms (as ighilghted). 54) nw rowor LOC ait 9.4 =e Hackers Set Their Sights on Windows Vista ly switching to Windows Vista the operating system 's fast becoming a target for security researchers and—surprise!—hackers. Though Vista is generally more secure than earlier versions of Windows, hack cers are increasinay fining ways through, or around, ts defenses. Indeed this is the frst time since the operating system debuted last year that virtually every hole discussed inthiscolumn affects Vista in one way or ancther. Exhibit A: Microsoft released three “tical” patches in December tofix security holes that affect earlier versions of Windows, netuding XP ‘Seevioe Pack 2, but they can alzo bite it youire running Veta One patch addresses four holes in internet Explorer 6 and 7. (This “cumulative update" incorpo- ‘ates all previous patches, jsstincase youve slipped behind hn your patching duties) One of the flaws, in the way TE handles Dynamie HTML, was under attack when Microsoft shipped the patch, ‘Theother two patches correct prob- {ems in Windows’ processing of certain ‘nultmecia fies. Onefixes a wlnerablity In DirectX white the other closes a hole that the operating system has nits treat= ‘ment of some auc ard video files. Whenever Microsoft labels a tug “ei ‘al’ the vulnerability has the potential io Leave yout eriminals' merey. If, ike me, you choose to forgo automatic updates. browse to nd aid com/59502 to download the paces. WITH MORE PEOPLE final [Pei Get Office 2007 SP1 HP ‘Quick Launch’ Threat ‘More than 80 models of HP latops have ‘a security altch inthe included HP soft ware fr letting you configure quick launch buttons. The fleweould allow an attacker to take complete control of your HP Laptop disas! avoid an ash. ind upgrade FI PC, if you are tricked int visting the bad guy's Web site frst. With proo'-of-concept ‘code auton the Web, HP released an Update that dsables the quick-launch software, called Info Center. Until the ‘company issuesa more complete fix you ‘cent use the buttons, but t east yout be protected. You must manually down- load and instal the upcateifyourtaptop has HP Tafo Center, goto fire powold corm!59806 for the download Office 2007 Service Pack The frst sorvco pack for Office 2007 tout, and ‘tineludes previous securty patches, por: formance updates, and most hotfixes for Otice 2007, as wol 2s spectic fixes for other annoyances. For instance, SPL includes a patch meant to Improve the portormance of Outlook when you're working with arge message folders. You should 500 tower unex: plained crashes as well. Grab Office 2007 SPL at find pcworl.com/59507. Adobe Patches Flash Adobe patched a passe of holes nits Flash Player. Allof the players support ed platforms—Mac, Linux, Windows yes, ‘Vista too)—are vulnerable. Getting stung is es easy as visting asite with a booby- trapoed banner ad or clicking on an SWF (Ghockwave Flash) fil. Adobeis urging ‘upgrades to the newest (patched) version, 9.0.1150 Visit find powortdcom/S9688, Fou etyprotect your digital worlds Imagine what you could do if you could predict the future We did security solu and applai Now there's a security option that's right for you For a free 30-day trial, visit wwweeset.com/imagineSecurity Alert Orkut Worm a Harbinger of Trouble for OpenSocial? AWORM THAT hit Google's Orkut social networking site in December was écemed relatively harmless, but still served to highlight Web apps’ vulnerability Ac one point, the worm, which arrived in an e-mail telling users that they had bbeen sent a message on their profile from another (Orkut user, automatically added new members to the ercator's Orkut community ata rate of 100 per ‘minute and reached a few hundred thousand people, wrote blogger Kee Hinckley (ine pevoriécor59705), who first reported the attack. Those users ‘who received the message had only to aie ALOR ee —— My scrapbook (0) ORKUT'S SCRAPBOOKS where the worm surfaced, as an Imite. view their Orkut profile to be added. ‘The name of the community, in Por- tuaguese, roughly translates to “infected by the Orkut virus.” Orkut is popular in Brazil, but notin the United States. ‘The community's description reveals the wormm’s motive: “This just to show hhow orkut may be dangerous, you came up here without clicking absolutely no link malicious, everything was done reading scraps.” Hinekley wrote: ably there's a bug somewhere in the HTML fier, which is allowing malicious Javascript to get through.” He noted lates, however, that disabling Flash stops the worm. With Google developing its OpenSo cial platform, should this attack ring alarm bells? OpenSocial gives “develop: rs more control and should make attacks harder...but we are working to hhelp mitigate security issues,” a Googe representative says. —Jeremy’Kirk Ask.com Rises to the Top of the Pack in Search Privacy ) \ Turning it on is just actick away, La AskEraser puts you in control of your search data, giving Ask.com a leg up on rivals. Privacy policies (Ask cfdn't spond to my quories about the top) The ether major search engines are taking pastive steps Last summer. Google, Mierasoft, and Yahoo all announced that they ‘would anonymize ther saved search data ater a period of time so that those searches coulda't be ties toa particular person Starting in January, Google wil anonymize search logs after 18 ‘months by pulling out the cookie-based unique TDs and clearing the firal part of stored IP adresses. The action sil allows for

You might also like

• New Jersey Special Education

  

  Document54 pages

  New Jersey Special Education

  Adam Glassner

  No ratings yet
• Abbreviations - International Education Codes - Us Education Codes - Canadian Education Codes

  

  Document114 pages

  Abbreviations - International Education Codes - Us Education Codes - Canadian Education Codes

  Adam Glassner

  No ratings yet
• Washington State Higher Ed Residency Affidavit

  

  Document2 pages

  Washington State Higher Ed Residency Affidavit

  Adam Glassner

  No ratings yet
• • Magazines
  • Podcasts
  • Sheet music
• Course Syllabus Warrior Seminar

  

  Document7 pages

  Course Syllabus Warrior Seminar

  Adam Glassner

  No ratings yet
• Form 4868 Taxes

  

  Document4 pages

  Form 4868 Taxes

  Adam Glassner

  No ratings yet
• Female Fertility and Education

  

  Document10 pages

  Female Fertility and Education

  Adam Glassner

  No ratings yet
• What Is Survivors' and Dependents' Educational Assistance?

  

  Document3 pages

  What Is Survivors' and Dependents' Educational Assistance?

  Adam Glassner

  No ratings yet
• Chrome Education Upgrade Unlocks Learning Potential

  

  Document2 pages

  Chrome Education Upgrade Unlocks Learning Potential

  Adam Glassner

  No ratings yet
• Publication 119 Taxes

  

  Document4 pages

  Publication 119 Taxes

  Adam Glassner

  No ratings yet
• Educational Transfer

  

  Document13 pages

  Educational Transfer

  Adam Glassner

  No ratings yet
• LM258, LM358, LM358A, LM358E, LM2904, LM2904A, LM2904E, LM2904V, NCV2904 Single Supply Dual Operational Amplifiers

  

  Document16 pages

  LM258, LM358, LM358A, LM358E, LM2904, LM2904A, LM2904E, LM2904V, NCV2904 Single Supply Dual Operational Amplifiers

  Mahtab Hassanzadeh

  No ratings yet
• Course Syllabus Waldorf 1

  

  Document5 pages

  Course Syllabus Waldorf 1

  Adam Glassner

  No ratings yet
• Simple fat denied worthy use

  

  Document2 pages

  Simple fat denied worthy use

  Adam Glassner

  No ratings yet
• Doom PC User Manual

  

  Document4 pages

  Doom PC User Manual

  Adam Glassner

  No ratings yet
• 80 Days New

  

  Document1 page

  80 Days New

  Adam Glassner

  No ratings yet
• Nintendo Power 009

  

  Document103 pages

  Nintendo Power 009

  Adam Glassner

  100% (2)
• Thundercats New

  

  Document1 page

  Thundercats New

  Adam Glassner

  No ratings yet
• English Random 3

  

  Document2 pages

  English Random 3

  Adam Glassner

  No ratings yet
• PC World October 2008 - PC World

  

  Document175 pages

  PC World October 2008 - PC World

  Adam Glassner

  No ratings yet
• Random Doc 2

  

  Document2 pages

  Random Doc 2

  Adam Glassner

  No ratings yet
• Xbox 360 Hard Drive

  

  Document2 pages

  Xbox 360 Hard Drive

  Adam Glassner

  No ratings yet
• Chinese Random

  

  Document1 page

  Chinese Random

  Adam Glassner

  No ratings yet
• Operation of The Wavebird Controller

  

  Document2 pages

  Operation of The Wavebird Controller

  Adam Glassner

  100% (1)
• Nintendo Power 010

  

  Document103 pages

  Nintendo Power 010

  Adam Glassner

  100% (1)
• Open Source Yearbook 2015

  

  Document12 pages

  Open Source Yearbook 2015

  Adam Glassner

  No ratings yet
• Nintendo Power 008

  

  Document104 pages

  Nintendo Power 008

  Adam Glassner

  67% (3)
• 2015 Open Source Yearbook

  

  Document64 pages

  2015 Open Source Yearbook

  Alaa Tarif Alhorani

  No ratings yet
• Nintendo Power 007

  

  Document85 pages

  Nintendo Power 007

  Adam Glassner

  100% (2)
• Nintendo Power 006

  

  Document113 pages

  Nintendo Power 006

  Adam Glassner

  100% (1)
• The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life

  

  From Everand

  The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life

  Mark Manson

  Rating: 4 out of 5 stars

  4/5 (5783)
• The Yellow House: A Memoir (2019 National Book Award Winner)

  

  From Everand

  The Yellow House: A Memoir (2019 National Book Award Winner)

  Sarah M. Broom

  Rating: 4 out of 5 stars

  4/5 (98)
• Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It

  

  From Everand

  Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It

  Chris Voss

  Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars

  4.5/5 (838)
• Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike

  

  From Everand

  Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike

  Phil Knight

  Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars

  4.5/5 (537)
• The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

  

  From Everand

  The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

  Siddhartha Mukherjee

  Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars

  4.5/5 (271)
• Fear: Trump in the White House

  

  From Everand

  Fear: Trump in the White House

  Bob Woodward

  Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars

  3.5/5 (738)
• Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race

  

  From Everand

  Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race

  Margot Lee Shetterly

  Rating: 4 out of 5 stars

  4/5 (890)
• The Little Book of Hygge: Danish Secrets to Happy Living

  

  From Everand

  The Little Book of Hygge: Danish Secrets to Happy Living

  Meik Wiking

  Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars

  3.5/5 (399)
• Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

  

  From Everand

  Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

  Doris Kearns Goodwin

  Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars

  4.5/5 (234)
• Yes Please

  

  From Everand

  Yes Please

  Amy Poehler

  Rating: 4 out of 5 stars

  4/5 (1888)
• Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance

  

  From Everand

  Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance

  Angela Duckworth

  Rating: 4 out of 5 stars

  4/5 (587)
• Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America

  

  From Everand

  Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America

  Gilbert King

  Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars

  4.5/5 (265)
• A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius: A Memoir Based on a True Story

  

  From Everand

  A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius: A Memoir Based on a True Story

  Dave Eggers

  Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars

  3.5/5 (231)
• On Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal

  

  From Everand

  On Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal

  Naomi Klein

  Rating: 4 out of 5 stars

  4/5 (72)
• Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future

  

  From Everand

  Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future

  Ashlee Vance

  Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars

  4.5/5 (474)
• Principles: Life and Work

  

  From Everand

  Principles: Life and Work

  Ray Dalio

  Rating: 4 out of 5 stars

  4/5 (599)
• Rise of ISIS: A Threat We Can't Ignore

  

  From Everand

  Rise of ISIS: A Threat We Can't Ignore

  Jay Sekulow

  Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars

  3.5/5 (137)
• The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers

  

  From Everand

  The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers

  Ben Horowitz

  Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars

  4.5/5 (344)
• The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America

  

  From Everand

  The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America

  George Packer

  Rating: 4 out of 5 stars

  4/5 (45)
• Steve Jobs

  

  From Everand

  Steve Jobs

  Walter Isaacson

  Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars

  4.5/5 (806)
• The World Is Flat 3.0: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century

  

  From Everand

  The World Is Flat 3.0: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century

  Thomas L. Friedman

  Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars

  3.5/5 (2219)
• Angela's Ashes: A Memoir

  

  From Everand

  Angela's Ashes: A Memoir

  Frank McCourt

  Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars

  4.5/5 (440)
• The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are

  

  From Everand

  The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are

  Brené Brown

  Rating: 4 out of 5 stars

  4/5 (1090)
• John Adams

  

  From Everand

  John Adams

  David McCullough

  Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars

  4.5/5 (2409)
• Bad Feminist: Essays

  

  From Everand

  Bad Feminist: Essays

  Roxane Gay

  Rating: 4 out of 5 stars

  4/5 (1015)
• The Glass Castle: A Memoir

  

  From Everand

  The Glass Castle: A Memoir

  Jeannette Walls

  Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars

  4.5/5 (1711)
• The Outsider: A Novel

  

  From Everand

  The Outsider: A Novel

  Stephen King

  Rating: 4 out of 5 stars

  4/5 (1800)
• The Woman in Cabin 10

  

  From Everand

  The Woman in Cabin 10

  Ruth Ware

  Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars

  3.5/5 (2322)
• A Man Called Ove: A Novel

  

  From Everand

  A Man Called Ove: A Novel

  Fredrik Backman

  Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars

  4.5/5 (4609)
• The Sympathizer: A Novel (Pulitzer Prize for Fiction)

  

  From Everand

  The Sympathizer: A Novel (Pulitzer Prize for Fiction)

  Viet Thanh Nguyen

  Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars

  4.5/5 (119)
• The Light Between Oceans: A Novel

  

  From Everand

  The Light Between Oceans: A Novel

  M.L. Stedman

  Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars

  4.5/5 (789)
• Brooklyn: A Novel

  

  From Everand

  Brooklyn: A Novel

  Colm Tóibín

  Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars

  3.5/5 (1937)
• Wolf Hall: A Novel

  

  From Everand

  Wolf Hall: A Novel

  Hilary Mantel

  Rating: 4 out of 5 stars

  4/5 (3811)
• Manhattan Beach: A Novel

  

  From Everand

  Manhattan Beach: A Novel

  Jennifer Egan

  Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars

  3.5/5 (791)
• Little Women

  

  From Everand

  Little Women

  Louisa May Alcott

  Rating: 4 out of 5 stars

  4/5 (104)
• The Perks of Being a Wallflower

  

  From Everand

  The Perks of Being a Wallflower

  Stephen Chbosky

  Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars

  4.5/5 (2099)
• The Art of Racing in the Rain: A Novel

  

  From Everand

  The Art of Racing in the Rain: A Novel

  Garth Stein

  Rating: 4 out of 5 stars

  4/5 (4193)
• A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

  

  From Everand

  A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

  Betty Smith

  Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars

  4.5/5 (1929)
• Her Body and Other Parties: Stories

  

  From Everand

  Her Body and Other Parties: Stories

  Carmen Maria Machado

  Rating: 4 out of 5 stars

  4/5 (821)
• Sing, Unburied, Sing: A Novel

  

  From Everand

  Sing, Unburied, Sing: A Novel

  Jesmyn Ward

  Rating: 4 out of 5 stars

  4/5 (1103)
• The Constant Gardener: A Novel

  

  From Everand

  The Constant Gardener: A Novel

  John le Carré

  Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars

  3.5/5 (104)
• The T.Racks: Digital Speaker Processor Model Ds2/4

  

  Document11 pages

  The T.Racks: Digital Speaker Processor Model Ds2/4

  Maxime Sorel

  No ratings yet
• On Netnography: Initial Reflections On Consumer Research Investigations of Cyberculture

  

  Document21 pages

  On Netnography: Initial Reflections On Consumer Research Investigations of Cyberculture

  Ino Moxo

  No ratings yet
• Cryptography & Information Security

  

  Document7 pages

  Cryptography & Information Security

  ragunathrev

  No ratings yet
• Flowmon Solution: Supported Technologies in A Nutshell

  

  Document3 pages

  Flowmon Solution: Supported Technologies in A Nutshell

  jakub_zen

  No ratings yet
• SR2018 Impact On Alliance Products Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

  

  Document15 pages

  SR2018 Impact On Alliance Products Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

  Wai

  No ratings yet
• HANA Row Store Reorganization

  

  Document8 pages

  HANA Row Store Reorganization

  arunqw

  No ratings yet
• LAB 2: Build database tables

  

  Document13 pages

  LAB 2: Build database tables

  NUR FATIN ALIA BINTI ABDUL RAUH

  No ratings yet
• Docker Network

  

  Document5 pages

  Docker Network

  frmindmaze@gmail.com

  No ratings yet
• Intoxicación Aguda Por Opioides en Adultos - UpToDate

  

  Document26 pages

  Intoxicación Aguda Por Opioides en Adultos - UpToDate

  Karina Parra

  No ratings yet
• IATF CARA NC Tool Instructions

  

  Document10 pages

  IATF CARA NC Tool Instructions

  John Oo

  No ratings yet
• Holter Test Setup Guide

  

  Document8 pages

  Holter Test Setup Guide

  k

  No ratings yet
• Atm 5 Plus Ways

  

  Document3 pages

  Atm 5 Plus Ways

  Neill Andrews

  100% (1)
• Terms and Conditions On The Use of Mylpu E-Learning - 1st Sem Ay2021-2022

  

  Document9 pages

  Terms and Conditions On The Use of Mylpu E-Learning - 1st Sem Ay2021-2022

  Mazforeal

  No ratings yet
• 3 Queen Caroline Street Hammersmith London W6 9PE United Kingdom

  

  Document2 pages

  3 Queen Caroline Street Hammersmith London W6 9PE United Kingdom

  divya4ece

  No ratings yet
• Hanna Thermocouple

  

  Document9 pages

  Hanna Thermocouple

  Anametri Learning Center

  No ratings yet
• 10574-Oracle Support Council - Understanding and Troubleshooting GST - Functionality and New Diagnostic Tools-Presentation - 788

  

  Document28 pages

  10574-Oracle Support Council - Understanding and Troubleshooting GST - Functionality and New Diagnostic Tools-Presentation - 788

  moin786mirza

  100% (1)
• RSS DataSheet V3

  

  Document10 pages

  RSS DataSheet V3

  Birinder Singh

  No ratings yet
• File: /Home/Abel/Pgm2/Obregona - Ospgm2.Java Page 1 of 3: Import Import Import Import Import Import

  

  Document3 pages

  File: /Home/Abel/Pgm2/Obregona - Ospgm2.Java Page 1 of 3: Import Import Import Import Import Import

  Abel Obregon

  No ratings yet
• College of Engineering, Malegaon (BK), Tal. Baramati - Dist. Pune Pin-413115

  

  Document13 pages

  College of Engineering, Malegaon (BK), Tal. Baramati - Dist. Pune Pin-413115

  mainjail

  No ratings yet
• Distributed Operating System

  

  Document5 pages

  Distributed Operating System

  Varun

  No ratings yet
• AI Agent Types

  

  Document27 pages

  AI Agent Types

  Hassan Raza

  No ratings yet
• DSA - Stacks and Queues PDF

  

  Document75 pages

  DSA - Stacks and Queues PDF

  Arun Kumar

  No ratings yet
• Math 10 - Module Week 1

  

  Document9 pages

  Math 10 - Module Week 1

  Keithly Ann Lao Talisic

  No ratings yet
• ABAP Unit Test For Odata Services - SAP Blogs

  

  Document16 pages

  ABAP Unit Test For Odata Services - SAP Blogs

  Alex MaS

  No ratings yet
• Thales Luna Network HSM

  

  Document3 pages

  Thales Luna Network HSM

  anlemaco

  No ratings yet
• MCQ QUESTION BANK FOR INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS

  

  Document17 pages

  MCQ QUESTION BANK FOR INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS

  Anand Hingmire

  No ratings yet
• Heizka Catalogue Cat6 24awg Utp 2

  

  Document2 pages

  Heizka Catalogue Cat6 24awg Utp 2

  votinh20687

  No ratings yet
• L1 Course Introduction

  

  Document16 pages

  L1 Course Introduction

  chinazasomto02

  No ratings yet
• सुनहरा हिरन Sunahra Hiran Exotic India Art

  

  Document1 page

  सुनहरा हिरन Sunahra Hiran Exotic India Art

  Sakshi Sharma

  No ratings yet
• GitHub - Glyphack - Pytse-Client - Work With Tehran Stock Exchange Data in Python

  

  Document5 pages

  GitHub - Glyphack - Pytse-Client - Work With Tehran Stock Exchange Data in Python

  Jalil Toosi

  No ratings yet