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Technology high and low recently had to 66 out a questionnaire that asked rne to name my "favourite low-tech thing." I wasn't sure what that meant, but already overdue in responding, I typed in something about good magazines. I was able to cross the questionnaire off my to-do list, but that question lingered in the Form of wanting to know what qualiftas as

later downloaded from the portable PC (prior to the wireless features being incorporated) and sent over the Internet. The new device is currently in use in in a few theme parks in the U.S. The photographer scans the subjects bar-coded ticket, then takes their photo. At the end of the day, visitors can check out the photos they' ve

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clearly low tech because the 6nal product doesn't need to be plugged in or booted up, but they require a wide range of advanced and sophisticated technologies to get them kom the idea stage to the point that they roll O6' the presses. For t h e R e dundant T echnology In i tiative (www.iowtech.ofg), a group of artists based in Shel6eld. England, low tech is old tech — the older the better. The gmup says its artists and technologists can 6nd creative uses for any machine, however low its speci6cation: 3665, 486s, Amigas, 660xO Macs, 75 MHR Pentiums... as long as they still work While the equipment is far 6um cutting edge —and the Web site sports a deliberately low-tech interfacemembers of the initiative and its Access Space media lab are using it to create quite sophisticated visual. audio, and video art. The equipment is also used to create and host Web sites for community organizations and local startup companies. At the other end of the technology spectrum sits Gravitas (www.gfavitas.biz) a nd Xybe r naut (wwwxybemauLcom). The companies have integrated Vancouver-based Gravitas's digital photography appli-

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the images emailed home or printed out. The Gravitas/Xybernaut setup very clearly belongs in the high-tech camp, but categorizing the RTI's use of technology is less clear. The old systems are luring a community into using computers and have spawned creative projects and new commercial ventures. Instead of high or low, maybe another adjective, like slow, should be used to describe technologies that refuse to die. Twenty years kom now, when we' re tossing our old wearable computers on the scrap heap for the latest chip implants, I'm sure the folks in Shel6eld will be tickled pink to get their hands on a portable photo studio. let us know what you think, Megan johnston

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Tablet PC This summer, Microsoft and Windows notebook manufacturing partners, such as Acer, Viewsonic, and Toshiba. began previewing pmtotypes of the new Tablet PC (www.miaosoftcom/windowszp/lsblelpr/), a Microsoft-defined standard for ultralight notebooks with an LCD tablet screen for pen input, and a special version of Microsoft's Windows Xp operating sys-

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need right into it, nor would you want to: digital cameras. MP3 players, printers, and more are all things you' ll need to plug in. In the past, these external devices usually hooked up to your PC via its serial or parallel connectors, but those two trusty ports are giving way to newer, much faster interfaces like USB and FireWire. This month we look at the newest cards available for adding FireWire and USB 2.0 interfaces to your PC.

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of internalportmeansonlytwoexternal pons can beused). • Compatible with Windows 98SLMe, 2000,XP, and Mac05 8.6 andhigher. • Bundled with MGI VideoWave81SEvideoediting softwareanda six4ofour9ln FireWire cable. • Five. year warranty. The three-and-one design on I(eyspan's desktop FireWire card is a nice touch if you have any internal devices that make use of FireWire (they' re few and far between, but they do exist). Because FireVcrrre controllers tend to only handle three ports at a time, using the internal port means one of the three ports on the rear of the card will be disablerL As with the other cards, it was fully functional on our Windows XP box as soon as the machine fired up, and we were able to use the hard drive and DY cern within seconds. The card recently had a price

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As aveteran handheid computer user and a recent convertto the Compaq iPaq, I have found this machine isequipped to do agreat deal of everyday note taking,

Gelling readyfor USB2.0, IIML, LSM Cantiauerftmmftogef/0 Bs")that have smaller connectors. In order to convince your computer to play nice with USB 2.0, you' ll either need to geta USB 2.0 PCI card,ora new motherboard with USB 2.0 built-in. For more details about the wonders of USB 2.0,and how to make use of it in Linux, point your Web browser to www.gnux-usb,org/usbzhtml.

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emailmanagement, address book maintenance, and spreadsheet updating work. But, when I really need to get a lot of information into an iPaq quickly and accurately —doing things such as writing this story— Ihave found thatit'spretty slow if I have to use the on-screen keyboard or the Transcriber handwriting-recognition software,as good as it is. Enterthe Targus Stowaway keyboard for the iPaq. We've written about the Stowaway before —it's also available for HewlettPackard's 3ornada and various Palm handhelds. It' s one of those convenient, fold-out keyboardsthat attaches to the iPaq and givesme the chance to type as quickly as Icould on a desktop ornotebook computer keyboard. When folded up, it is almost the same

size as the iPaq. Wali, almost. Because the interface at

companies probably aren't desperate enough yet to use disks largerthan 2 TB (yes, that's terabytes!). Two of the "big" additions will be UserMode Linux (UML) and the Linux Security

Module (LSM). The fogieswho'll love UML (user-mode-linux.sourceiorge.net/ and usermodeknux.org/) are beta testers. folks too curiousabout the operating system'sinternals for their own good, and anyone who might want to set up a virtual Linux machineso they can play to theirheart's content without later finding that their main Linux box no longer functions properly. Other people who' ll love UML are those who worry about their network servers being broken into and altered. With UML, virtuai hosts can be kept in their own little sandboxes, barred from doing anything

thebottom oftheiPaq 3800 seri esisa little different from that of other iPaq systems —you have to clip a small connection converter into the Stowaway to allow the iPaq to fit properly. While this seemed to work well, my concernwas that this connector is small enoughto be easily lost,plus you have to keep it with the keyboard or the iPaq at all times.(I suspect, however, that this is

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more a retooling issue for Targus than anythingelse,and that the next batch of Stowaway keyboards for the iPaq 3000 series will not require a converter.) The otherquibble I had with the keyboard was that it took a while for the letter"H" key on the keyboard to loosen up enough so that I could rely on it being

and Transcriber software will do the job. But then again, the keyboard was good enough to let me write this entire story on it,something that would have taken a lot longer otherwise. And that has to be worth something. — Geof lrheelwright

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much greater variety than analogue radio, with spedalty channels for electmnica, Latino, jazz, comedy, world beat, and other formats that do not usually generatean audience large enough fora broadcast licence. Subscription radio service is a new broadcasting model, one that experts say

goes against a century of radio being free and local. "If I want to listen to jazz in my car I'm going to play CDs. I'm not going to pay 10bucks a month fora jazz service that's just going to give me what I can already pack in the car and bring with me." says Cavanagh. "In terms of alterna-

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It remains to be seen if DAB will be used to escape the limitations of analogue broadcasting, instead of just replacing it. In recent years. broadcast services on the internet, like Iceberg and Spinner, and satellite radio services, like XM and Sirius, as well as Shaw cable have experimented with delivering music, talk, and news through spedalized channels with limited commercials. This provides a

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Gecko—is shared by Netscape Navigator 6.0 and the forthcoming version 7.0. The interesting thing about these extensions is that many of them are a "heads up" as to what you can expect to see in the forthcoming CSS3 speci6cation, so these Mozilla extensions make for a great excuse to go taking a look at some interesting interface-related properties you can expect to utilize — hopefully — in all browsers in the future. If you plan to try these out. keep in mind there is no guarantee they' ll work But they are there, and pmvide a glimpse of future CSS3 properties.

Pitying wfih uler-input One of the properties to be introduced

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For example,say you have a form where you are seeking the user's address —if the user lives in a city, you might want to disable a rural mute setting. If the user lives in a house, you might want to disable a post ofiice box 6eld or an apartment box Beld selectively — the user-input property will enable you to do these things. The user-input property can take one of four values: none, enabled, disabled, and inhe/iL The nonevalue ensures that an element is not available for user input, and the inherit value sets whatever inheritable value may be present. The enabled value allows for user input on an element, and disabled does the opposite.

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systyle> The idea would be to add programming code that could selectively enable and disable individual input elements on

the page using these lines of CSS3code. This is how t hings should work according to the latest draft of the CSS3 specification. If you wanted to give this code a try in Mozilla, all you have to do is tack on "suez/0 to user-input to be able to give it a try.

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filled" programmatically and can be seen by the user but not changed. This dilfers fiom a setting like user-input disabled in that the user can select a form element and copy its contents if necessary. Thisproperty takesoneoffourvalues: readonly, readwdte, wrileoniy and the ubiquitous inherit. The leadenly value allows the user to see but not change anything, readwrite (which would be the default) gives the user full control over adding or changing input. The wltecaly value is an incongruous setting, which only allows the user to select and edit the contents, but not see what they are or copy them out. So this ought to behave in much the same way as current password 6elds do (each character typed in is displayed as an asterisk or an equivalent character). though one has to wonder how a person could effectively "edit" such a held, save by removing its contents and re-writing them. The following code snippet shows how this property could be put to use:

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their mouse, and userqecus -pointer determines what happens to a given element when a user"tabs" over to it The userfocusproperty acts as a shortcut property, incorporating all of the fimctions of user-

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inherit takes on whatever parent value may be present. The narnul value means that when an element acquires focus, it does nothing else. When selea-Bll is used, the whole of an element's contents are seleaed (this could be text within a text field. for example). When an element is selected that uses select-before, the cursor appears at the beginning of the contents of that element, and when an element uses selectaft er,thecursor appears attheend ofthe content of that element (again, think in

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you perceive as an internal person as the most powerful features of your product. And what do youlike leasr about it? The travel can get a little bit tedious. I'm probably out ofthe offi ce an average of anywhere fmm five to 10 days a montlz Do you go back ro the same cities every month or so, or are you going rodifferent places all the time? Currently, it's a pretty wide variety of locations, mostly in Europe, sometimes in the States. Typically in one trip I' ll have meetings in three or four or five different countries, so France. Spain. Germany, U.K., (and} Holland. The meetings themselves originally I found were very tiring... but once you get the hang of that, that becomesa little less tiring. But the travel itself between cities —the long fiights — can be somewhat tiresome.

How did you end up inrhisposinon? Originally, it certainly wasn't my plan or intention to end up in the sort of business development/sales/marketing field. But generally, in the organizations I' ve been involved with, there's been a very strong need for people who understand the technology side of things and who can communicate them to an outside party. So,probably because ofthe languages training or education I' ve had, I was able to do that, and to convey ow message so people on the outside can understandit. And simply because there was such a strong need, I always got pulled in those areas. People asked me to sit in [on} meetings with customers to help them explain what our products diIL What do you hkebest about your j ob? Probably the challenge of stepping outside our own organization and trying to look at things &om a customer or partner' sperspective.It'sverydiffi cultto sort of fall out of love with your own products. [For} a lot of technical people or engineers... it's difficult to basically look at something you' ve been involved in the development }of} with a critical eye, and to determine not only what' s great about it, but also potentially what

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Qassroomtraining There are also a lot of options for those who want to send their employees on dedicated courses outside the office. While these can be more expensive and are obviously less gexible than on-thejob training or online training, they do havetheadvantage ofencouraging focus by employees. If employees know that they are solely supposed to focus on training for the period of the course, they may absorb a great deal more than if they try to fft in training around fleeting moments of "downtime" at work and at home. As anemployer,you need to make sure that the training you are going to pay for wig yield a benefft for your small business —unless the training is an employee reward for having achieved some predefined target or goaL Ideally, it should be a mix of the two. Outside training can be s strong statement of your belief in an

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