Current Articles

• Show: PMA 2003 - hot picks from the annual photo show.

• Software: Adobe Album - software that does more than edit your pictures...first it finds them for you.

• Preview: ToughTablet: Panasonic's Tablet PC - it's one tough, well connected tablet.

• Tech Culture: Hot-Modding - Is case customizing the hot rod scene of the wired generation?

• What I'd like to See: An open faced laptop? - Tablets aren't for everyone, but laptops need touchscreens, and there's a way to make  (almost) everyone happy.

  Other Stories On The Web:

• Science / Culture From Einstein to Heinlein: Popular Science: The Quotable Einstein "Concern for man himself and his fate must form the chief interest for all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations." said Albert Einstein. It's one of the quotations from the Einstein Scrapbook by Ze'ev Rosenkranz (Johns Hopkins Press). Einstein watchers should also visit the Einstein exhibit at the American Museum of Natural History in New York (through August in NYC, moving to LA in Sept). MSNBC Cosmic Log: Revisit a sci-fi master - MSNBC's Cosmic Log Used Book Club falls down on its promise not to plug Heinlein. Not that they didn't like him, but they figured that everybody had  already read The Moon is a Harsh Mistress. Now overcome by popular demand and a sense of Heinlein induced deja vu brought on by the war on terrorism, they've put together a RAH Retrospective.
• Computers PCWorld: Internet Tips: Protect Your PC and Data With the Security Checklist Columnist Scott Spanbauer takes all his security suggestions and puts them together in one place so you can Gt your act together. InfoWorld:  Untethering the enterprise business may not trust wireless connectivity, but they're coming to realize that the benefits outweigh the risks, and the reasons for implementing it are too compelling to ignore. 
• Mil-Tech Washington Post: The Military's Silicon Revolution - The Post's Cynthia Webb put together an excellent overview of the high tech face of warfare in last week's online Post. She even tells you where to buy your newly reformulated MREs. Newsweek: Sci-fi war uniforms? MIT researchers apply nanotech to uniforms to make them reactive to the combat environment. Coming someday to a t-shirt near you.
• Photography - Digital Photography Review -  Olympus E System - Digital Camera got some pretty decent shots of the new "4/3" ccd camera system from Olympus at PMA.
• Space - Nasa's New Website - after being derailed by the Columbia disaster, NASA has rolled out its new website, which had been scheduled to go online the Monday after the crash.-
• Transportation New Scientist: Jojoba oil could fuel cars and trucks - with no sulphur and lower carbon content than diesel, the oil from the jojoba nut could be a useful addition to the world's fuel supply. Personal Transport: Wired: Segway's Breakdown - Will Dean Kamen's secretive superscooter dreams fall down...we can hope. Washington Post: Lobbying To Put the Segway on Profit Path Scooter's Inventor Seeks Federal Aid