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The
Ultra-Portable Alternative
You Can now get full-function Windows XP notebooks
weighing less than three pounds, and some really tiny
ones the size of a PDA. See what's available!
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Top
10 Software Selections
Without software your fancy PDA, notebook, smartphone
or multi-function gizmo is just a bunch of circuits.
Have no fear, help is right here, at Handheld Computing!
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Smartphone
Roundup
They are leaner, faster and cheaper than ever before.
Is it time to dump your PDA and hook up? Read our reviews
of the hottest, smartest ones and then decide!
Quietly,
while no one was looking, the PDA became the smartphone.
Next year, theyāll probably become your everyday camera,
too, with one-megapixel models with built-in flash modules
already on the market and three- to five-megapixel models
on the near horizon.
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iPod
Photo: A Media Revolution
Apple has done it again. The new iPod Photo is more
than stunning, it is the next major step in a personal
media revolution. Hereās all you ever wanted to know
about it.
From
the day I was handed my first iPod at the press launch
event in Cupertino in 2001, I suspected this device
was about more than digital music. Why? Itās the intentionally
ambiguous name. Whatās an iPod? Itās whatever Apple
says it is ÷ nothing more, nothing less.
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Mobile
Projectors
Theyāre not just for professional presenters anymore.
Mobile projectors have come way down in price, and they
can do double duty in home entertainment.
LCD
projectors have been around for years, but their high
prices made them unfeasible for most people. Those projectors
cost quite a bit less now, and they can do quite a bit
more than they used to, like double up as mobile (or
even home) entertainment devices.
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Location
Based Services
It sounds like such a great idea. Hereās what they
are and why they may yet live up to their potential.
Industry
experts continue to grapple for reasons why the Location
Based Services market hasnāt lived up to early predictions.
Were those initial expectations simply wildly optimistic?
Are concerns over privacy issues chilling the drive
toward deployment? Is the value chain too fragmented
and limiting? Is the lack of standards slowing things
down? Are consumers merely not interested?
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Holiday
Gifts!
Our top PDA and digital camera picks, plus lots of
great gift ideas that will endear you to that special
person.
If
you plan on giving a loved one a PDA as a holiday gift,
youāll find something pretty much for every budget.
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Mobile
Media Revolution
Itās here, itās now. All-digital entertainment is
on the move. We tell you whatās available now, what
will be available soon, and how it all fits together.
The
arrival of new technologies that enable us to easily
digitize audiovisual media have transformed the entertainment
business and forever changed the way we enjoy media.
In the world of computer technology, both Microsoft
and Apple are scrambling as fast as they can to position
their products as the preferred media hub for the home.
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100
Tips From the Experts
Not quite happy with the pics you get from your digital
camera? Five renowned digital imaging experts share
their tips and tricks and secrets with you.
To
light small objects without producing harsh shadows
or overly-bright highlights, build a small tabletop
tent using part of an old bed sheet with an opening
cut for the camera lens. Then place the object inside
it and aim your light through the side of the tent.
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Handhelds
@ Work
Teacher evaluation with Pocket
PCs÷how a school administrator uses Visual CE to improve
education.
As
a school principal for 19 years, Rex Tift knows the
importance of tracking teacher performance ö for ongoing
feedback, for formal evaluation, and to make sure teachers
are performing to official standards.
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I
Gotta Have It
The most desirable inanimate
objects we're seen this year.
Leica
Digilux 2, Apple PowerMac G5, Sony Ericsson P910 communicator,
LaCie Bigger Disk Extreme, HP hX4700 Pocket PC and many
more.
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Music
to Go
All the digital music players
that matter, cool accessories, and a detailed guide
to encoding your music right.
A
couple of decades ago, Sony shipped the original Walkman
portable cassette player and music went from a shared
experience to a private one. Walkman players, and their
many knockoffs, sold many millions of units because
people like to carry their own personal soundtrack and
enjoy it when and where they choose. For most people,
music can be an intensely personal experience but the
public world is a harsh place full of annoying sounds
and even more annoying people.
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Digital
Camera Roundup
All the facts on 115 digital
cameras, with indepth reviews of several tempting new
compact models.
Okay,
so what is a digital camera roundup doing in Handheld
Computing Magazine? Good question. But our answer has
been plain to see in the last several issues of HHC:
handheld computing isnāt just about PDAs anymore.
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Convergent
Devices: New iPAQ's
HP's stunningly innovative,
completely restyled line of best-selling PDA's is sure
to raise some eyebrows.
Ever
since the original iPAQ dazzled and baffled a roomful
of carefully selected journalists at a Microsoft Pocket
PC workshop up in Seattle a few years ago, the iPAQ
has ruled the Pocket PC market. Never mind that to their
everlasting shame, the majority of that august assembly
didnāt show the least appreciation for the sheer brilliance
and innovation manifested in that ground breaking product.
Instead, they whined about a lack of expandability,
the internal battery and any number of other inane Chicken-Little
nitpicks.
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WiFi
Everywhere
Your guide to a wirelessly
connect world.
These days you can get wirelessly connected just about
anywhere. It can be easy and not so easy. We tell you
what to look out for and where you can get the best
deals.
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Mobile
Entertainment
All work and no play makes
Jack a dull boy.
And not only Jack. You too! We give you the low-down
on today's mobile entertainment scene, from games to
video to mechanical pets. Interested in a real PC in
your car to sync your handheld with? We got you covered:
you need a CarCPU.
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Portable
Storage
Carry it, store it, and back
it up.
Who'd have thought you could carry around the Library
of Congress on your keychain. You can with USB keys
and other assorted cards and storage devices the bad
guys would have killed forjust a few years ago.
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Digital
Home Recording
An amateurās guide to making
professional-sounding music.
Creating great-sounding music in a computer-equipped
home studio has been possible for almost two decades,
but the recent release of Appleās GarageBand application
for Mac OS X has cranked up the buzz from a whisper
to a scream. Windows users have access to some similarly
powerful music composition and recording tools, such
as Digidesignās Pro Tools Free, and Sonyās Acid and
Sound Forge. Regardless of your chosen personal computing
platform, you can now create music with astonishing
ease, even if you canāt play an instrument or carry
a tune in a bucket.
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Find
Yourself
New to GPS? Hereās how the
technology can keep you from getting lost ever again.
Itās the same old story: youāre running through the
woods, hot on Bigfootās trail, when suddenly you realize
you havenāt got a clue how to get back to the campsite.
A few days later the rescuers airlift you out of the
forest, only thereās a blinding snowstorm and the pilot
canāt find his way back to base. Finally you make it
home, just in time to use the Mamma Mia! tickets you
bought two months ago, only you miss the show because
you get lost on the way to the theater.
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Mobile, Stay Cool
How to take it all with you
and not to look like a tool.
I know something about you. I know that you love miniature
personal technology gadgets more than most people. Why
else would you be reading this magazine instead of Road
& Track or Cosmo or the latest softcore from Victoriaās
Secret?
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Mobile, Stay Cool
How to take it all with you
and not to look like a tool.
I know something about you. I know that you love miniature
personal technology gadgets more than most people. Why
else would you be reading this magazine instead of Road
& Track or Cosmo or the latest softcore from Victoriaās
Secret?
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