On Computers

The attraction of the Breeze is the price: $180 instead of Apple’s $500 for iPad.

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The subtitle on this book is: Seriously Geeky Stuff to Make With Your Kids.”

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McGraw Hill’s top 100 textbooks will be available on the iPad, using the “Inkling” app.

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Logitech’s “Couch Mouse” lets you use a pillow, your pants or just about anything for a mousepad when you’re surfing the web from your couch.

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Some E-Ink watches can cover twelve time zones and switch between them every few seconds.

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This sounds totally dangerous to us, but for $20 the “Spiderpodium” will attach a handheld gadget, like an iPhone, to your car dashboard, bicycle handlebars, car seat, or baby stroller.

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For most people, adding memory to an old computer is enough to make it like new again.

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New York Times columnist David Pogue swims with sharks, drives a humvee, goes invisible and climbs walls in the latest episode of “Making Stuff.”

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The Google Art Project, at GoogleArtProject.com, makes it possible to view 1,000 works online.

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TechCrunch.com is the number one tech blog and we look at it just about every day.  What drives us nuts, however, is their creative grammar. Here’s a particularly egregious sample from an article entitled “Redbox Prepping Movie Streaming Service.” “The company’s CEO stated that the service would do be subscription-based…” (As in “do-be-do-be do?”)

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