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In Praise of Wires

Friday, October 2, 2009

“It would have been more logical if silent pictures had grown out of the talkies instead of the other way around.” America’s sweetheart, Mary Pickford, said that. I’m not completely sure I understand what she meant–but I think of the quote often. And lately, I’ve been thinking that it would have more logical if wired [...]

New Tech Still on Tap for 2009

Tuesday, August 25, 2009

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[A NOTE FROM HARRY: Here's a post by Mari Silbey, one of Dave Zatz's Zatz Not Funny colleagues. We'll be borrowing some of her ZNF items along with Dave's--welcome Mari!] We have yet to hit the holiday shopping season, so you know there will still be plenty of gadget goodness before the year ends. However, there’s [...]

USB 3.0: Faster! Faster!

Monday, November 17, 2008

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My iPhone 3G euphoria faded the moment I took my phone home and plugged it into my PC to synchronize with iTunes–it took way too long to transfer my music and videos. Cue the USB 3.0 specification: What took minutes could conceivably now take seconds. The USB 3.0 Promoter Group, the body that oversees USB 3.0, [...]

A Partial Cure for the No-MacBook-FireWire Blues

Saturday, October 18, 2008

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I’m thinking this is my final post on the lack of FireWire on Apple’s new MacBook, but it might help some of the folks who are in mourning. If what you’re sad about losing is Apple’s FireWire Target Disk Mode–which lets you copy files back and forth between two Macs via a FireWire cable–you can [...]