Tech Clinic: How To Record Satellite Radio
Optical image stabilization (IS) in digital cameras generally involves the imaging sensor or the lens moving in the opposite direction from your hand's accidental movement, so that the operative part remains still even while the camera body is in ... [... more]
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Plus: Install A New Hard Drive The Right Way
To make your new drive work like your old drive, you'll need a disk "cloner." There are a myriad of options, from commercial solutions such as the old favorite Ghost from Symantec ($70; symantec.com) and Copy Commander from VCom ($35; v-com.com) ... [... more]
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Secure Sockets Layer Explained: Tech Clinic
Major certificate authorities store a copy of their keys with your browser, so that the process of verifying the transaction happens automatically. Sometimes your browser will prompt you with a pop-up warning that it cannot verify the validity of ... [... more]
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Rfid Credit Cards And Theft: Tech Clinic
However, a team of researchers at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, was recently able to construct scanners capable of skimming both the cardholder name and card number from a variety of first-generation RFID credit cards. Then they found ... [... more]
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Physics Card Not Worth The Trouble: Tech Clinic
Enhanced physics are, at best, a sort of visual chrome. If game designers let those bouncing chunks of polygons affect game play, they'd have to build two versions of the game: one that balanced the effect of all those extra physics calculations ... [... more]
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Hard-Drive Capacity Math: Tech Clinic
Your hard drive is advertised as having a 60GB capacity, but your computer shows only 55.8GB. What gives? The discrepancy is the result of having two methods of measuring memory. Computers are binary, or "base two," mathematical systems, and in ... [... more]
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Understanding Rss
Now that many of us have gone to the trouble of ripping all of our CDs onto our computers, it's fascinating to see how much time, effort and expense can be involved in getting that music back to our stereos. Over the past few years, a number of ... [... more]
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Inside And Out
And 127 devices isn't even the theoretical maximum. It is the limit "per host adapter," which includes all the requisite chips and hardware that makes your USB ports work in the first place. Windows doesn't limit you to just one host adapter, ... [... more]
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Need To Know:
Will it catch on? A British company called Splashpower has plans to release an inductive charging system called the SplashPad in Europe later this year. An American release may come later. The system will work with adapters that plug into ... [... more]
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Need To Know: Text Utilities
While you're in there upgrading, you might consider purchasing one of the combo cards that provides both USB 2.0 and FireWire (aka IEEE 1394). While USB 2.0 is much more common than FireWire in consumer gadgetry, FireWire is a better solution for ... [... more]
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Tale Of The Tape
The devil's bargain of multichannel surround sound is that multiple speakers generally require lots of ugly speaker wire. If you'd rather not purchase wireless speakers (most of which I wouldn't recommend anyway) or cut into your drywall to hide ... [... more]
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Photos Finished?Q:
But what if those missing files were on the internal flash memory of the camera itself? Most of the time, the same software used on the memory cards works just fine on internal memory. If not, professional data recovery shops can often physically ... [... more]
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