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Dates: during 2010-2019
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...feel about this. It might be genius. Maybe most users are more confused by Finders and File Explorers than I've realized. But I can't help thinking that if the iPad really wants to be a device that you might take on a business trip instead of the laptop, it's going to need a little more document-centrism. By a wide margin, the most disappointing element of the user interface, or UI, is the home screen, which is virtually unchanged from the original iPhone UI. (The iPad is far, far more than a blown-up iPod Touch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Questions (and Answers) on the iPad's Shortcomings | 2/2/2010 | See Source »

...Indeed, just last month, a white employee at an RV dealership in Texas posted a YouTube video showing a black co-worker trying to get the built-in webcam on an HP Pavilion laptop to detect his face and track his movements. The camera zoomed in on the white employee and panned to follow her, but whenever the black employee came into the frame, the webcam stopped dead in its tracks. "I think my blackness is interfering with the computer's ability to follow me," the black employee jokingly concludes in the video. "Hewlett-Packard computers are racist." (See pictures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Are Face-Detection Cameras Racist? | 1/22/2010 | See Source »

...work around the world," HP's lead social-media strategist Tony Welch wrote on a company blog within a week of the video's posting. "We are working with our partners to learn more." The post linked to instructions on adjusting the camera settings, something both Consumer Reports and Laptop Magazine tested successfully in Web videos they put online...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Are Face-Detection Cameras Racist? | 1/22/2010 | See Source »

...good deal? After all, you're still spending a little more than half of the purchase price of a new copy of Principles of Economics for one that you won't be able to resell (or for the right to look at a digital version on your tiny laptop screen for a year). Maybe, if you don't mind using an older edition, you should go with the old-fashioned used book route: we found a copy of the fourth edition on AbeBooks for about...

Author: By SANGHYEON PARK, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Rent a Mankiw (Book) for the Semester | 1/22/2010 | See Source »

Want to know what has your roommate glued to the DVD player on his laptop? The New York Times compiled a list of the most rented Netflix movies per neighborhood and created this nifty color-coded map. So if your roomie's taste matches that of most 02138 residents, he's probably watching one of the following...

Author: By Madeleine M. Schwartz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: And the Top Flicks in the 02138 Are... | 1/14/2010 | See Source »

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