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In geekspeak, AIR is an application runtime - a small chunk of code you download for free that then becomes a platform upon which other applications can run. AIR is compatible with any Windows, Macintosh or Linux computer and has been downloaded 100 million times. "We're aiming for a consistent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Race for a Better Read | 2/5/2009 | See Source »

One of history's ironies is that hypertext - an embedded Web link that refers you to another page or site - had been invented by Ted Nelson in the early 1960s with the goal of enabling micropayments for content. He wanted to make sure that the people who created good stuff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Save Your Newspaper | 2/5/2009 | See Source »

Some Auto-Tuning is almost unavoidable. Most contemporary music is composed on Pro Tools, a program that lets musicians and engineers record into a computer and map out songs on a visual grid. You can cut at one point on the grid and paste at another, just as in word...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Auto-Tune: Why Pop Music Sounds Perfect | 2/5/2009 | See Source »

Despite such heartwarming stories, fantasy fishing does have detractors: the dozens of pros who would like to earn more than the few thousand bucks they've been reeling in. "Guys are struggling," says Ken Wick, an FLW pro. "If anything, can't the [fantasy] prizes be maybe $50,000 for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Want to Make $1 Million Fishing Online? | 2/5/2009 | See Source »

As with many works of great art, JSCUA was conceived when a website owned by the director of Airplane! gave me $2,000 for the right to computer-animate an old column of mine about going to a water-treatment facility in Orange County, California, to drink tap water filtered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Joel Stein Goes Campaigning in Sundance | 2/5/2009 | See Source »

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