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The Two Wrong Ways To Make a Tablet

Tablets today are thought to be made in one of two ways: Upsizing a smartphone or downsizing a laptop. Many of these new tablets are decent, but both methods render something less than the perfect tablet. These tablets —not the convertible laptops of the past decade, but real single-pane slate-like ones—are in various…

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77 iPad Updates That May or May Not Please the Critics

For this week’s Photoshop Contest , I asked you to make some improvements to Apple’s iPad. Some of these entries are definite improvements. Others? Uh, not so much. First Place —Ron Cassel Second Place —Jay Goebel Third Place —Ken Grey

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Cooking Sous Vide the DIY Way

Why buy a $500 countertop gadget when you can build your own?

Everyone’s talking about sous vide, the scientific cooking method that’s making its way from the lab to the home kitchen. The Sous Vide Supreme, which we reviewed earlier this week, is the first turnkey sous vide setup for home

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The Apple Tablet Interface Must Be Like This

Some people want the Apple Tablet to run Mac OS X’s user interface. Others think its UI will be something exotic. Both camps are wrong: The iPhone started a UI revolution, and the tablet is just step two. Here’s why.

If you are talking hardware, you can speculate about many different features. But when…

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What It Feels Like to Watch 3DTV: Viewing a Digital Diorama

I’ve written a lot about 3DTV and that I consider it occasionally incredible. But the entire concept is tough to explain because, let’s face it, I can’t just embed 3DTV example videos and you’ve probably never seen it. Allow me:

I stood on a crowded CES floor with an assignment I dreaded. I had…

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Shine On, You Crazy Gadgets

I spent this decade hunting for the perfect gadget. I never thought I would end up with tech as good as this. But it’s not the tech that interests me the most anymore.

In 2000, I was just another kid out of college in Boston escaping to the Golden State’s climate and opportunity. The…

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You Don’t Need to Regularly Reinstall Windows; Here’s Why

One of the most persistent myths about Windows is that you need to reinstall the operating system regularly to keep it running at top performance. Let’s take a look at the real problem and how to fix it.

Today we’re talking about the myth that Windows slows down over time, and how to solve…

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