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Book Reviews

Tuesday, December 3, 2002

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Apple's Wireless LAN Problem: "Apple's top-of-the-line laptop, the Titanium PowerBook, or "TiBook," has received widespread critical and user acclaim. But despite its striking industrial design, speed and versatility, the TiBook has an apparent Achilles' heel that has gained increasing attention of late: Its wireless LAN capability has been reported to be very limited." [osOpinion]

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MediaBlog log analysis: "We share the statistics for the first two months from our weblog. We think it might be interesting to share the statistics so that others in Blogosphere might benefit from the knowledge. It would great if others would do the same." [Hypergene MediaBlog]

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Web typography: "The eminent Speaking Aardvark points out a right brilliant article on typography for the web, suitable for everyone. Short on specific how-tos, but long on understandable explanations of why-tos..." [Caveat Lector]

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Ricoh's new waterproof Caplio 300G: "Ricoh Japan has announced a new waterproof digital camera, the Caplio 300G. This new model has a 3.34 megapixel CCD (2048 x 1536 max image size) and a three times optical zoom..." [Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)]

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Scientists Discover New Adaptation to Oxygen-Poor Air at High Altitudes: "Visitors to high-elevation locales often experience difficulty breathing because the amount of oxygen available in the atmosphere decreases with increasing altitude. In extreme situations, altitude sickness can be fatal. But people born and raised at high altitudes function well despite the reduced availability of oxygen. New findings published online this week by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, suggest that residents of a high-altitude village in Ethiopia have a unique way of adapting to the lower levels of oxygen at high elevations." [Scientific American]

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[Mercury News] Fee-based online music services sing the blues: "In the 12 months since MusicNet and the other subscription music services were launched to counter the file-swapping frenzy that Napster ignited, none has managed to attract more than 100,000 paying subscribers." [The End of Free]

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InDesign Vs. Quark: The Battle For Domination: "2003 will see the real battle of page layout applications." (MacCentral via MyAppleMenu) [MyAppleMenu]

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Canon PowerShot S45 reaching US in December?: "Canon USA hasn't even officially announced the PowerShot S45 however Amazon.Com are listing the camera and have the interesting tagline below it 'This item will be released on December 10, 2002.'" [Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)]

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XML and verbosity: "One of the most common criticisms of XML is that it's too verbose. Implicit in this is that using it will waste storage and bandwidth, add bloat and inefficiency. We will show with a few simple arguments and examples that this is not true in practice." [kuro5hin.org]

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Mac Loyalists: Don't Tread on Us: "Mac users are famously loyal. No matter how much Apple upsets users, they stick with it. But why? Experts in psychology, marketing and cults provide answers. Part one in series by Leander Kahney." [Wired News]