 |
 |
|
Navigation |
|
|
| NYT > Circuits | |
| Basics: Digital Music to Please Even the Snobs Thu, 25 Oct 2007 20:35:06 GMT Serious music lovers probably fancy digital music servers — a jukebox for digital music files, a hard drive to store the files and software to pump it through an existing stereo system. |
|
| Game Theory: In 1 Box, 3 New Games Filled With Puzzles and Fights Thu, 25 Oct 2007 19:29:11 GMT Orange Box actually consists of three separate new games developed by Valve Software, and it also comes with a couple of old games for good measure. |
|
| Off the Couch, Potato: The Programs You Crave, Relayed From Home to Your Handy Traveling Laptop Thu, 25 Oct 2007 03:41:11 GMT Slingbox Solo connects only to a single audio/video source, but with the current crop of digital HD/DVR set-top boxes, that’s all most consumers need. |
|
| To Point the Naked Eye, or Certain Telescopes, a Guide to the Stars Thu, 25 Oct 2007 03:47:24 GMT The Meade mySKY device gives you guided tours of the night sky, leading you to specific celestial objects and presenting facts and folklore about them. |
|
| Grab Those Free HDTV Signals and Feed Them to Your PC Thu, 25 Oct 2007 03:43:31 GMT The PCTV HD Ultimate Stick, which sells for $130, includes a telescoping antenna for broadcast television. |
|
| A Walkman With Flashy Features to Compete With Those ‘i’ Devices Thu, 25 Oct 2007 03:41:49 GMT Sony Ericsson W580i Walkman has many similar features for those who want a phone that offers music, the Internet, pictures, organizer functions and, oh yes, calls. |
|
| Copy Video From Your PC, and Then Watch It on Your TV Thu, 25 Oct 2007 03:47:08 GMT SanDisk’s Sansa TakeTV is aimed at people who want to take digital video from their computers and watch it on their TVs, without getting too high-tech about it. |
|
| State of the Art: Apple Offers New Goodies in Leopard System Thu, 25 Oct 2007 04:45:08 GMT Apple’s new version of Leopard lists 300 new features, including a Braille font and a Danish spelling checker. |
|
| Q & A: Getting Prognosis on Battery Life Thu, 25 Oct 2007 00:49:39 GMT Rechargeable batteries are given a certain number of “charge cycles” before they wear out, but what exactly is a charge cycle and how can I find out how long my battery will last? |
|
| Q & A: Face Detection Can Be Plural Thu, 25 Oct 2007 00:50:32 GMT Does the face-detection software on digital cameras work if there are a lot of people in the picture? |
|
| Q & A: Tip of the Week: Satellite Images Thu, 25 Oct 2007 00:54:31 GMT The latest version of the Google Earth features historic maps, information from National Geographic and Discovery Networks on geographical and historical sites around the world |
|
| Economic View: In Search of Wireless Wiggle Room Sun, 21 Oct 2007 03:02:22 GMT Will the F.C.C. open new doors to spectrum access? |
|
| Ping: When the Military Needs It Yesterday Sun, 21 Oct 2007 03:02:10 GMT Soldiers increasingly want their civilian technology partners to deliver solutions quickly, even if the devices are far from perfect. |
|
| Basics: Navigating With Feedback From Fellow Drivers Thu, 01 Nov 2007 01:07:23 GMT The Dash Express not only receives location data from the satellites of the Global Positioning System, but it also broadcasts information about its travels back to the Dash network. |
|
| Basics: PCs to Be Seen, Not Heard Wed, 17 Oct 2007 23:41:29 GMT Computer users who want silent offices and living rooms are starting to ask for quiet computers. Manufacturers are taking notice. |
|
| Basics: The Next Leap for Linux Wed, 17 Oct 2007 23:41:47 GMT Until recently, major PC makers shied away from Linux. Now the industry is watching as Dell is selling two Linux-equipped desktop models and a notebook PC. |
|
| Basics: What’s the Setting for a Snowy Beach at Dusk? Wed, 17 Oct 2007 23:42:11 GMT The computing power inside even the cheapest digital cameras allows a photographer to get even better pictures — if they can decipher the myriad shooting modes built into the devices. |
|
| Basics: The Hunt for Gotta-Have-It Gadgets Wed, 17 Oct 2007 23:42:32 GMT First adopters willing to pay a premium for the exotic notebook computers, cellphones and tech toys can turn to businesses that specialize in finding objects that are not sold in the United States. |
| Useful Links: |
| News Search Engine |
| Word of the day |
Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for May 17, 2012 is:
maffick • \MAF-ik\ • verb
: to celebrate with boisterous rejoicing and hilarious behavior
Examples:
Fans mafficked for hours outside the stadium, celebrating the team's dramatic victory in the division championship.
"In half an hour, after the mildest of mafficking, the last visitors of the exhibition's last day had gone out of the gates and the staff began their final acts of closing up shop." — From an article in The Guardian (London), October 1, 2011
Did you know?
"Maffick" is an alteration of Mafeking Night, the British celebration of the lifting of the siege of a British military outpost during the South African War at the town of Mafikeng (also spelled Mafeking) on May 17, 1900. The South African War was fought between the British and the Afrikaners, who were Dutch and Huguenot settlers originally called Boers, over the right to govern frontier territories. Though the war did not end until 1902, the lifting of the siege of Mafikeng was a significant victory for the British because they held out against a larger Afrikaner force for 217 days until reinforcements could arrive. The rejoicing in British cities on news of the rescue produced "maffick," a word that was popular for a while, especially in journalistic writing, but is now relatively uncommon.