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Stargazing on the iPad – a Window to Augmented Reality

ARTICLE: I've been a big fan of star gazing since I was very young. Living in places like Santa Barbara in the 1960s, and the "just built" Davis, California college town circa 1970, it was an amazing sight to sit outside at night and see the world spin against the...
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DiscWatcher – Watching Films at Home: New Movies on Disc August 2010

REVIEW: If you're like me, you might be one of the growing ranks of folks who have given up going to the "big screen" movie theatres in favor of stay-at-home movie watching, replete with a Blu-ray player, full surround sound and a large 1080p DLP or other TV. These days...
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Summer TV: Getting Swamped by The Glades

REVIEW: I'm usually not too excited by the Summer crop of new cable TV programs but since this past season of network TV was perhaps one of the worst ever (thank god for "Chuck" and the limping along - pun intended - "House"), I've been more than mildly surprised by...
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Waking up to the iPad Wi-Fi+3G – Part Two

ARTICLE: It's now day two as an iPad cult member and I'm enjoying it quite a bit. Today I managed to try out a lot of things, without delving too deeply in the nitty gritty of each. More of a whirlwind tour versus a museum excursion overseen by a docent....
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Waking up to the iPad Wi-Fi+3G – Part One

ARTICLE: I pre-ordered my new Apple iPad 64GB Wi-Fi + 3G, and so it arrived yesterday afternoon (Friday). But, being busy this morning was my first opportunity to connect and sync to my iTunes PC, explore some Apps, and setup the general capabilities of this nifty new gizmo. Wow, very...
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Apple Unveils the new iPad – the 21st Century Mac, iBook Reader, and Portable Playground

ARTICLE: Well, it's finally here. I can stop holding my breath, crossing my toes, and praying to the mighty Mr. Jobs that we've finally have something like an iPod, only, er, bigger. It's here, it's real, and now the Apple fan(atics) all over the Web can stop "guessing" as to...
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Entrepreneur Builds ‘Buy My Moms House’ Site to Keep Mom’s Missouri House from Foreclosure

PASADENA HILLS, Mo., Nov. 18, 2009 -- A California entrepreneur has put up a Web portal called "Buy My Mom's House" (www.BuyMyMomsHouse.com) to help sell his mom's house in Pasadena Hills (St. Louis) Missouri, which has been on the market for a year and, while sitting idle for open houses,...
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Why ABC’s remake of V ‘The Visitors’ lost me at hello

REVIEW: Well. I'm pretty much the target audience for any science fiction show, having been born and raised on SF films (my parents took me to see 2001: A Space Odyssey at the Cinerama dome at age 6), and TV. I enjoyed the original "V" series with the mall hair,...
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Review: Open Labs NeKo XXL Gen5 DAW Keyboard Workstation

REVIEW: I'm a big fan of Open Labs' music workstation instruments, so I was pretty excited when they announced the rebirth of their XXL model this spring, which was not available last October 2008 when I bought the NeKo TSE (previously reviewed for Music Industry Newswire). The XXL is not...
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The Verdana Monologues – When Ikea’s Designers go Kabookskik

ARTICLE: I got my Ikea catalog last week, and like many in the design field, thought something had changed but wasn't quite sure what. Due to the fact I have been working on the Web more than the printed design space the past five years, it actually took me a...
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