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8:50 AM ET, April 9, 2006

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Robert X. Cringely / pbs.org:
A Whole New Ball Game:  —  Blame Dell for Window Vista's Latest Delay, but Blame Microsoft for Apple's Boot Camp  —  Twenty-five years ago, my Thursday nights were mainly spent playing poker with a group that included legendary sportswriter Leonard Koppett from the New York Times and The Sporting News.
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Loren Heiny / Inkineer:
Running the Tablet PC OS on an iMac  —  Yep, this post is being written on an iMac.  —  I successfully installed the Tablet PC OS this morning using Apple's Boot Camp and the Tablet PC OS from my MSDN subscription.  I'm using a Wacom Graphire3 Tablet for the digitizer.
Barb Bowman / Barb's Connected World:
Here's How I did it - Mac MCE  —  Ingredients - MCE 2005 CD's from MSDN (or NewEgg or other source), Nero 6, DVD+R, DVD Burner  —  With thanks to Doug Knox - this was a collaborative effort!  —  1) Create a Directory on your hard drive named macmce  —  2) Copy both CD's to this directory
Steve Lohr / New York Times:
This Boring Headline Is Written for Google  —  JOURNALISTS over the years have assumed they were writing their headlines and articles for two audiences — fickle readers and nitpicking editors.  Today, there is a third important arbiter of their work: the software programs that scour the Web …
Ryan Bilsborrow-Koo / DV Guru:
Ten video sharing services compared  —  The number of video-sharing sites has shot through the roof recently, as dozens of companies try to become the Flickr of the online video world.  To this end, many video services have started offering new features like editing and remixability in an attempt …
Lisa Belkin / New York Times:
Overly Wired?  There's a Word for It  —  WAS there gridlock before there were automobiles?  Was there jet lag before there were airplanes?  Who was the first person to say "I Googled it" or "he's cyberstalking me"?  At what moment did a "web log" turn into a "blog"?  —  Language makes things official.
Discussion: IP Democracy
Riva Richmond / Miami Herald:
EarthLink, Google discuss bid for second muni network  —  NEW YORK - EarthLink Inc. and Google Inc., which were tapped Wednesday by San Francisco to provide hybrid free and paid Wi-Fi Internet services, plan to bid for a second U.S. city together under a proposal that would offer more limited free services …
Holovaty.com:
How I'm using Amazon S3 to serve media files  —  As traffic to chicagocrime.org has steadily increased, I've been looking for ways to tweak the site's performance.  The site runs on a rented dedicated server with Apache/mod_python, PostgreSQL and Django.  (I'd love to bite the bullet and buy proper servers but haven't done so yet.
Ryan Katz / Think Secret:
MacBook to land at last by May  —  April 7, 2006 - Apple has begun manufacturing its new MacBook and should have the laptop in consumer hands in the next 30-60 days, sources report.  The MacBook—and it will indeed be called the MacBook, sources have confirmed, as Apple will be dropping the iBook moniker …
Discussion: AppleInsider and macosXrumors.com
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Hadley Stern / Apple Matters:
Take the No Windows-Booting Pledge  —  Mac users have a lot of strange habits.  We are known to have rituals when we unpack our latest machines.  We will argue passionatelyabout the virtue of one menu bar item (over whether even using menu bar items is mac like) over another for hours on end.
Frank Gruber / TechCrunch:
Let's Buy Some Music: Part 1  —  We've analyzed the services that sell digital music (iTunes and its competitors).  This Part 1 focuses on the pay-per-download services.  In Part 2 we'll compare the all-you-can-eat subscription services.  —  While compact disc sales have declined 19 percent since 2001 …
Discussion: CrunchNotes and Somewhat Frank
Dave Winer / Dave's Wordpress Blog:
The Internet as "idea processor"  —  I followed the thread about how bad a term "user generated content," is and I fully agree.  It misses the point completely, so completely that it betrays a perspective bug.  —  The value of writing publicly on the Internet is that you can solve problems quickly …
Tricia Duryee / Seattle Times:
Cingular, MySpace, InfoSpace join as ringtone providers  —  The hottest trends on the Internet and in wireless collided on Thursday when Cingular Wireless, InfoSpace and MySpace.com announced a new partnership that allows undiscovered talents to create and sell their own ringtones.
Discussion: ringtonia.com and Engadget Mobile
Mbmccall / VC Confidential:
Eric Schmidt Unplugged  —  Eric Schmidt spoke tonight to a packed crowd at the Economic Club.  He talked about how Google views the world and what they hope to do in the coming years.  Overall, it was a fairly interesting speech.  Key points included:  — We live in a world of continuous distraction and multi-tasking.
Inside AdSense Team / Inside AdSense:
Meet Ivan the optimiser — but please, no paparazzi  —  We caught up with Ivan Heneghan, a Dublin-based AdSense optimisation specialist, to learn how 'optimisation' differs from 'optimization'.  —  Why did you agree to let us profile you?  —  A brilliant story!
Patrick Mannion / EE Times:
Freescale, Motorola pull out of UWB Forum  —  MANHASSET, N.Y. — Freescale Semiconductor is pulling out of the UWB Forum which it co-founded with Motorola and Pulse-Link.  —  A spokesperson at Freescale also confirmed for EE Times that Motorola is also pulling out.
Marc Perton / Engadget:
HP provides deets on gesture keyboard  —  HP just let loose with some more info on that gesture keyboard the company showed off in India a couple of weeks ago.  According to HP, the keypad, which was developed by the company's Bangalore-based research team, can reproduce the script used …
Discussion: michael parekh on IT
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Nicole C. Wong / Mercury News:
Going beyond the alphabet  —  KEYBOARD PAD FREES USER FROM WESTERN MODEL
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