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...kitchen. Initially, the system didn't transfer well to the U.S. Most restaurants here offer many more choices, and prices change more often. San Diego software company Ameranth Technology may have solved the problem. Its wireless system allows communication between handhelds and fixed computers, so menus are instantly updated. Waiters can also process credit-card payments and print receipts right at the table--and even signal valet parking to fetch your car when you're ready to leave. Ameranth says the technology can be adapted to any service industry. It is launching a system to help hospitals dispense medicine...
...appearance of a sanitized upmarket eatery, mistakenly assuming that Thais are somehow more tolerant of badly washed food and dirty cutlery. The following places don't have air-conditioning to match global fast-food chains?but neither do they serve homogenized pap. Some have English-speaking staff and translated menus; when they don't, just smile and point. Prices are often as heavenly as the food...
...right-hand side of the screen gives you a list of things you may want to do, like open an existing document or use a premade template. There are similar windows for adding clip art, formatting a document and doing searches. In previous versions, these items were hidden under menus. Documents are still peppered with all sorts of new icons and old squiggly lines meant to help you along, but if they bug you, you can turn them off (although that involves some serious menu diving...
...down the quantities and your address for home delivery. If you're going out on the town, just circle the area you plan to visit on a map printed on digital paper, and your cell phone (or handheld computer) receives a list of restaurants in the neighborhood, complete with menus and phone numbers...
...have spent the last 20 years figuring out how to program the VCR clock are terrified by the idea of switching to a PVR and all the extra technological challenges that sounds like it might entail. In truth, nothing could be easier than navigating TiVo's menus. All you really need to know how to use are the buttons market up, down, left, right and select. But computers have gotten such a bad rap with the technophobic, as slowing PC sales suggest, that a computer even in the guise of an easy-to-use consumer electronics product just will...