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...five months after the College delivered on its long-time promise to let students plug their computers into almost any Ethernet jack on campus, most agree that the new system isn't getting much...
...Jackson Pollock mural, the ShowStopper was surprisingly quick and easy to set up. If your TV doesn't have those red-white-yellow AV inputs (mine doesn't), you'll have to route it through something that does, like a VCR. Once your DVR is up and running, you plug it into a phone jack, so that it can download the week's program listings. (ReplayTV automatically makes a short phone call every morning at around 2; it's like having a weird nocturnal robot roommate...
Every summer while I was growing up, my parents took me to the Jersey shore, where I'd plug quarter after quarter into pinball machines. As a teenager attempting to evade Mom and Dad's sometimes overbearing attention, I'd bike to the local arcade and slam the same games. Even into my 30s, whenever I'd visit my folks, I'd drive to a nearby juke joint and shoot a few pins for old times' sake. But when I became an orphan this year at age 42, I also became an adult. I stopped playing pinball for good...
Palm users will appreciate the ability to synch their schedules with Audrey's built-in family calendar, while anyone with high-speed access can buy an optional adapter for $59 that will plug into an Ethernet connection for zippy Web surfing...
...pluses, Audrey also has its flaws. The touch screen can be flaky and unresponsive; there's no spelling checker in e-mail; and Web browsing is diminished without such popular plug-ins as Windows Media Player, QuickTime and Shockwave. Call me cheap, but the $499 price tag seems about twice what Audrey is worth. The device works with such popular ISPs as Earthlink, Prodigy and AT&T but not with the biggest: America Online. That may be because AOL (which still plans to merge with TIME's parent company, Time Warner) is releasing its own appliance, built by Gateway, before...