TECH TUESDAY

WHAT IS BLACK FRIDAY?
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The first rule of Black Friday is, you do not talk about Black Friday. At least that's the attitude of the retailers who put out last-minute killer deals the day after Thanksgiving. This website gives us a heads up on how to save a BOATLOAD of cash before and on the busiest shopping day of the year.

HOW TO OF THE DAY: RIP YOUR iPOD TO YOUR PC
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MACheads have been able to do this since "oh before you were born." Now, us PC folk can have all the fun too. Jobs is going to hate this.

RIP PW
(hat tip tom's hardware)

According to Bill Gates, the password is dead. Redmond's leader of the cyber world envisions a world where smart cards and 64-bit computing will replace the password in both the business and personal world.

Isn't this the same guy who said "we would never need anything more than 640K of memory?"

DOIN' THE LORD'S WORK
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Grid or distributed computing, first pioneered by SETI@HOME's use of home PCs to listen for ET, will now be used to solve world problems by helping to "unlock genetic codes that underlie diseases like AIDS and HIV, Alzheimer's or cancer, improve forecasting of natural disasters and aid studies to protect the world's food and water supply."

Interested users can download a program which will activate itself when PCs are idle and download data to analyze and report back to researchers.

Can anyone say Noble Prize?

THE COMPUTER - HOW IT WORKS (from 1971)
(hat tip geek press)

SEE THE COUNTRY - TRAVEL SEGWAY?
(hat tip the giz)

Coast-to-coast on a Segway. 2500 miles in 3 months. 10MPH. Man, this guy had patience.

GOODBYE PC, HELLO GADGETS
(hat tip neowin)

Although consumers are poised to purchase more than 54 million PCs this year, consumer groups see a trend away from PCs and towards gadgets like flat panel TV sets.


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