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Plenty of my countrymen do. Through necessity, I was entering a club more viewers are joining by choice: the posttelevision society. Some download TV to avoid ads. Some Netflix series so they can watch them in one big marathon. Some like the convenience, some the portability. Some are cutting their cable or satellite bills to save money in hard times. Millions of others use online video as a backup--Huluing dramas they missed live, watching March Madness on CBSSports.com or Wimbledon on ESPN360. (Preferably at work...
...text, images and photos. Amazon also claims the new Kindle's battery can hold a charge 25% longer than the 1.0 version, allowing it to putter along for two weeks with its wireless connection off. (That connection, to a high-speed cellular network called WhisperNet, allows users to download books and periodicals virtually anywhere, on demand, and was Kindle's crowning achievement.) Page-forward and page-backward nav buttons, which were too easy to accidentally hit on the old model, have been re-thought...
...year ago. The Kindle wasn't cooler than any of the other e?readers out there - the first-generation version doesn't even have a touchscreen - but it offered one advantage key to saving publishing: every device can connect to a high-speed data network, virtually anywhere, and download books and periodicals easily and cheaply. I've grabbed books on demand from my bed, bath and beyond, and that more than compensates for the gadget's awkward interface...
...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 experience across all devices," says Lynch, touching the screen to launch an International Herald Tribune app. It looks identical to but somehow better than the paper version of that newspaper. It feels alive. "You can do anything you want with AIR. It's totally expressive," he says, with a gentle...
...force behind both trends is an ingenious plug-in called Auto-Tune, a downloadable studio trick that can take a vocal and instantly nudge it onto the proper note or move it to the correct pitch. It's like Photoshop for the human voice. Auto-Tune doesn't make it possible for just anyone to sing like a pro, but used as its creator intended, it can transform a wavering performance into something technically flawless. "Right now, if you listen to pop, everything is in perfect pitch, perfect time and perfect tune," says producer Rick Rubin. "That's how ubiquitous...