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Want to try it at home? All you need is an up-to-date PC--the kind with a built-in 3-D graphics card--and a piece of software called Earthviewer from Keyhole Inc. of Mountain View, Calif. A trial version is available for download at Earthviewer.com the service costs $79 a year unless your PC's graphics card was made by Nvidia, an investor in Keyhole, in which case it's free. A broadband connection is highly recommended...
DIED. ADAM OSBORNE, 64, computer executive who in 1981 introduced the first portable PC; after a series of strokes; in Kodiakanal, India. With its 5-in. screen, his 24-lb. Osborne 1 elicited a frenzy of orders before manufacturing glitches derailed the machine. Osborne Computer declared bankruptcy...
...these musical shotgun marriages are known, are the real road to success for today's harmonically challenged pop wannabes. The expertise required would make Beethoven blush. If you have ever listened to a mash-up and thought, I could do that, you're absolutely right. The necessary equipment: a PC, your CD collection and a pair of ears. No cash required, at least not until you're ready to unleash your motley mix upon an unsuspecting world...
When Mom wants her Celine Dion, Dad wants Placido and Johnny demands Ja Rule, it used to take three stereos to satisfy all. Now comes the Yamaha MusicCast, a wireless, digital home music system, out in June. MusicCast is based on the same Wi-Fi technology that powers many PC networks, using a server, CD player/recorder and hard drive to store hundreds of hours of music. Once downloaded from your CDs, music is sent to as many as seven small receivers, or clients. Five can be wireless, and each can power a pair of wired speakers. MusicCast can simultaneously transmit...
...well. I admit I had my doubts at first. The cheap, plastic stylus and the miniature virtual keyboard that pops up onscreen do not immediately inspire confidence. But with a little practice, anyone with good eyesight and a steady hand can get used to writing with it. The PC software that Sony Ericsson includes for loading MP3s onto the phone never did work for me (despite hours of tech support), and the screen is too narrow for Web browsing. But snapping photos with the 640x480-pixel camera and e-mailing them to friends was a lot of fun. An ample...