Articles about Windows

Upgrade - 1-15-2006

For Your Convenience Sony’s PlayStation Portable is a great digital entertainment hub, but transferring videos, photos, and music onto the handheld has never been easy. Enter the company’s new Media Manager software for Windows PCs, which...

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...Apple’s user interface for Windows. Now, AOpen is copying the company’s...

...of ultra-tiny (think 15 cm by 15 cm by 5 cm) Windows- and Linux-based MiniPCs. The world’s...

...a thimble-size mouse. $399 (Linux model), $499 (Windows model). xc.aopen.com.tw — S.S. Looks...

Tech - Know - 7-15-2003

BOFFO BIZ TOOLS These days, techno-wizards toil round-the-clock for solutions to every conceivable problem — even those we didn’t know we had. Here’s a potpourri of their solutions. LOFGITECH'S IO PERSONAL DIGITAL PEN,

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... $40 ASSETS: Put your cursor over a word in any Windows program(person, place, company, etc.), hold down...

...answers pop up. LIABILITIES: It’s Windows only, so Mac and Linux users can’t...

Music To Our Ears - 11-1-2004

Ready for customized come-ons emitted by windows, shelves even store mannequins? Meet Whispering Windows from S3i, a hockey-puck-size device that turns almost any surface into a virtual speaker, so that mannequin in the window can coo a message abo...

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...even store mannequins? Meet Whispering Windows from S3i, a hockey-puck-size device that turns...

...over a three-week period using Whispering Windows. Paul Trostel of Chip’s restaurant in...

Classy Tablets - 9-15-2002

Laptops may fall into the pass pile this fall when early adopters hit class sporting notepad computers with write-on touch screens. Pushed hard by Microsoft, developer of the Tablet PC Windows operating system due out in early November, a slew of th...

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...hard by Microsoft, developer of the Tablet PC Windows operating system due out in early November, a...

A-ok Mp3s - 8-1-2003

To paraphrase Clint Eastwood, there are two kinds of MP3 PLAYERS in this world: Apples superb iPod (now available in a Windows version), and everything else. But some of the non-Apple players are well worth a listen.

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...superb iPod (now available in a Windows version), and everything else. But some of the...

Music To Our Ears - 1-15-2004

iTUNES FOR WINDOWS

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...LINE: iTunes makes elegant the Mac-to-Windows jump. It’s the best. MORE...

The Expert Speaks - 5-15-2006

Since he founded CI Host, a Dallas-based web-hosting and data-center management company, Christopher Faulkner has been a supersleuth for the latest high-tech trends. We recently asked him for the biggest and best developments on ...

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...for Linux, because it’s free, versus Windows, which requires a big up-front cost. To compete...

Reboot - 2-1-2002

HANDHELD COMBAT HAS PALM LOST ITS GRIP? For years Palm ruled the handheld sector, racking up 70 to 75 percent market share against rivals like Microsoft’s Windows CE devices. No more. Last year, Compaq’s CE-based iPAQ and Microso...

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...firm IDC predicts that by 2005, Palm and its Windows-based rivals will enjoy roughly equal market...

Cool Calling - 9-1-2002

With all those smart, sleek cell phones out there today, were all a bit green with phone envy. Walking through an airport, we cast a quick, sidelong glance at that elegant new unit cradled by some lucky user. Here are three new mobiles that will put...

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... than previous Siemens units, and the software is Windows only. BOTTOM LINE: Stylish, full-featured,...

Breakthrough - 7-15-2003

COOL TO THE CORE When Apple released ITUNES MUSIC STORE in May, one of the tech world’s icons called the online service “a turning point in the music industry” and “landmark stuff.” OK, the icon was Apple CEO Steve Jobs....

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...computer market. By the time Jobs releases a Windows version later this year, the Music Store buzz...

Keyed Up - Keyboards Reviewed - 3-1-2004

Today's keyboards light up, fold up, split up, and send up the old QWERTY layout. Wireless and optical or ergonomic and sloped, you'll never just hunt-and-peck again.

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...It’s only compatible with Windows. BOTTOM LINE: Cheap, easy to use, and sealed...

Scene And Be Seen - 7-15-2007

We searched for ways to fill up your day planner. So check out some of these events, have a great time, and send us a postcard.

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...music, and movies that India has to offer. Windows and Wonders: Tiffany from the Morse Vaults Now...

Tricks Of The Trade - 1-15-2007

To paraphrase philosopher Thomas Carlyle: Without tools, man is nothing. Therefore, dear road warriors, we present you with the following to help make your travels a...

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...While in transit to the hotel, guests with Windows-powered Mobile Smartphones or laptops can simply...

Improving Home Improvement(s) - 3-1-2008

THE PICTURETO THE LEFT IS BUT ONE EXAMPLE OF THE COOL ARCHITECTUREHELSINKI HAS TOOFFER.HOWDO YOU LIKEYOUR CACKLEBERRIES?OUR PREVIEWOF COOLREGIONAL WORDS WILLCLUE YOU IN. PLUS MUCH MORE.

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PILKINGTON ACTIV NEUTRAL SELF-CLEANING Windows > A nanotech film uses sunlight to break...

Success And Its Discontents - 2-1-2001

Former Secratary of Labor Robert Reich is rethinking what success really means, for Washington power elites and ordinary citizens alike. And he's trying to make room for new definitions. The fact that Robert Reich will even talk to you ...

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...countercultural chutzpah to recommend that Windows software be given away for free, as a public...

Ready, Set, Shop! - 11-15-2003

Yes, the holidays are here again, but relax! We’ve done some of the hard work for you. All you’ve got to do is take this magazine home and start matching these great gifts with the friends, family, and business contacts on your shopping list.

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...128MB ATI Mobility Radeon 9000 video card. From Windows to WarCraft, the system runs the most demanding...

Grape Expectations - 8-1-2004

Walk through rows of grapevines, barrel taste your latest vintage, gather around the harvest table— these are the things vineyard dreams are made of. Here are five couples who made such dreams reality.

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...corridor, including restaurants such as Windows on the World. Only just now recovering from the...

(west) Coasting Along - 12-1-2008

Safari schmafari. There’s a whole other side to South Africa that’s just waiting to be explored.

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... the peninsula. The area is loaded with baboons. (Windows rolled up and doors locked are musts on this...

Mighty, Mighty Mouse - 12-1-2005

Having reinvented portable music players, Apples setting its sights for its next extreme makeover a little closer to home. The so-called Mighty Mouse equipped with a 360-degree scrolling ball, touch-sensitive shell, and programmable top- and side-m...

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...multibutton functionality for Macs and for Windows-compatible PCs, units are housed within a...