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...personal computer with the entertainment value of television, allowing people to surf the Internet and watch Seinfeld on the same monitor. Like a lot of doomed info-age ideas, it had its own buzzword: convergence, a concept that predicted the blurring of boundaries between smart boxes (the PC) and dumb ones (the TV). Problem was, people loved their idiot box just the way it was, idiotic. So the PC stayed in the living room, a disappointed Microsoft renamed WebTV as msn TV in 2001, and convergence was relegated to the Internet-boom graveyard, next to Pets.com and retiring before...
...would perhaps sympathize with their views if Lowell Open were a sacred, rigidly moderated space. But on any given day, the Lowell Open list is flooded with some 30 e-mails, featuring one-line banter between two people, furious debates over the merits of Macs vs. PC, announcements for various student groups, mice spottings and other such gems. The Black History month e-mails constitute 6 percent of the total e-mails sent over Lowell open in the month of February. It is hard to fathom why Black History month e-mails, and not anything else, would be considered...
...tried Stealth Signal stealthsignal.com) a service that costs $45 a year and works with both Macs and PCs. There is also ZTrace ztrace.com $49 a year) for the PC only; Mac OS X users can try LapCop homepage.mac.com/sweetcocoa/lapcop.html for $15. Once Stealth Signal was installed on my laptop, I reported it "stolen." Early the next morning I was astonished to receive an e-mail from Stealth Signal, which had tracked the laptop to my home address and phone, even though my number is blocked. The company says it has a 63% recovery rate, a figure that climbs...
...laugh: post-9/11, there are more and more reports of frazzled business travelers leaving their laptops at the X-ray machine.) And since more than 40% of laptop thefts happen at work, it's worth locking yours down during your lunch break. Try the Notebook Guardian from PC Guardian ($59.99). There are two models; be sure to get the one with the extra-thick cable. Why give the corporate kleptomaniac any more temptation...
...want something to brighten your day, the multicolored, $15 LightTro bulbs from Color Kinetics are a lot of fun. Each bulb contains 11 LED lights, controlled by a PC circuit board, that produce a variety of effects, including strobe. Push a button near the base of the bulb and watch the bulb fade from blue to purple, orange to red, or cycle through a rainbow of colors...