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E d i t o r i a l Ever feel like you’re the last one to the table? Ever worry that in
being the last one to the table, you’re missing out on all the tastiest food and will be left with gristle or perhaps aneck bone to suck on? When Ifirst heard about Google’s ad-driven free email service when
it was in early beta-of-a-beta stage, Isearched far and wide for an in. Ikeep seeing mail from soandso@gmail.com arriving in my inbox, so it can’t be that hard right? Granted the service offers at least equal benefit to the Google as it does to consumers looking for alarger email inbox. Given, emails are
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be said for snagging andrew@gmail.com as opposed to amoore-
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assuming there are some good monikers still to be had. Of course, that’s not entirely true. Any of the gadgets and gear written up in the pages that follow for our December Gift Guide issue will suffice, please and thanks. Happy holidays to all HUB readers.
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Nick Booker writes: The image bank that Inow have has taken on new life from that of just amere photo image gallery. Itend to pick through these from time to time and construct elaborate "themed" slide shows with music that Isend to my parents and other relatives. The lowly photo has now taken on anew role as astar in my own per¬
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sonalized multimedia presentations.
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Gail Penneway writes: My husband and Ihave just returned from atrip to Italy. As we usually have alittle competi¬ tion on who takes the best photos, we each took our own digital camera. We also went equipped with numerous memory cards and aproduct called RoadStor that burns your photos to CD. We are presently sorting over 200 photos and editing them using Paint Shop Pro. Cropping photos and stitching together panoramic series of Tuscany's’ beautiful vistas has provided many enjoyable moments.
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Paul Sturmey writes: Since Ihave the capability to print my photos, Ichange my framed pictures 2or 3times a year to add variety to my walls and top of bookcases and dressers. That comes in handy when different family members come over to visit, or for seasonal celebrations like Christmas time.
Martin Plant writes: Being afine artist and illustrator, Ifrequently send artwork samples to publishers and maga¬ zines. Going digital and using email, Ican send my pics with no postal cost. I'll often get an answer sooner and
replies take only afew minutes. The original pics stay in my possession. No handling damage is involved. Send out pics through snail mail? You've got to be kidding. For my pics it's digital all the way. Naren Bhavnani writes: It's just abit of creative fun, letting loose with the old imagination and no chemicals to mess with. We couldn't have dreamed about doing this at home with conventional film photography, just five short
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years ago. Of course, if you are really good, you may even end up with images to offer to stock agencies for com¬
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mercial use. So don't shoot 'em and forget 'em -print 'em and/or manipulate 'em!. Li Jia Ou (James) writes: As anew immigrant, Ithink digital photography is very valuable. Iarrived Canada alone in
Circulation Manager Debbie Johnston
March 2003 and since then Ihave taken more 15,000 digital pictures!
AR Manager
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The Letter of the Month was written by Andy Currie who writes: Pictures are my main forum of artistic expres¬ sion and creativity these days, something I'm now able to indulge and cultivate more. And so the absolute best thing Ido with my pictures is to tell everyone about their role in my happiness, because my digital camera was, after all, asweet gift from someone sweet. [Thanks, Hon!] For his letter, Andy wins aKonica Minolta 3.2 megapixel Dimage E323 digital camera. Please don't call us "Hon”
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piece of technology are you hoping for this holiday season? Give us your
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Phones for Food: The cause goes national The Phones-for-Food project is one of those concepts you instantly recog¬ nize as agood idea the first time you hear about it -arecycling effort that also provides money to food banks. Now that good idea has gone national, allowing Canadians across the country to dispose of their cell phones safe¬ ly and in an environmentally friendly way while help¬
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will be able to participate in the project's efforts. He adds that local food banks often have astrong attachment to their communities, so he expects that the project will be strongly supported at the local level. The majority of the 230 food banks that the CAFB represents will be involved in the project. In 2003, the CAFB moved almost nine million pounds of food industry donations to their members. For every dollar raised the CAFB says it can move $25.00 worth of food.
Paul Denton, Director of Operations for thINK FOOD, along with Tamara Eberle, the project's National Development Director have been involved from the beginning. As Denton explains it, the project Phones-for-Food: stemmed from aconcern over how to recycle cell phones, and soon developed as they realized it as an Just the facts opportunity for charitable giving as well. Denton Established: 2001 says the feedback has been “huge” and is pleased that the program has attracted the attention not only Mission; to alleviate hunger and of large organizations but of small local groups as divert waste from landfill sites by raising funds for local food banks well that have helped out at the grassroots level across Canada. through the process of recycling used printer cartridges and cell phones. Total phones collected (as of October Sponsors impressed 2004): over 30, 000
Rob Bruce, Chief Marketing Officer for Rogers Wireless says his company was impressed by the 230,000 work that the Phones for Food project had already sponsor Purolator. Total pounds of food raised; 750,000 done, and wanted to put their support behind an In order to participate in the program, you can drop How to help: Drop off your old phones organization that promoted environmental responsi¬ your old phone off at any Rogers Wireless distributor at one of 1400 Rogers locations, or bility. He emphasizes that the availability of 1400 or Purolator outlet or set up acollection at awork¬ start your own drop off site at your drop boxes at Rogers locations across Canada pro¬ place or school. When the collection box is full, workplace or school. vides the public with awide range of locations for Purolator picks it up at no cost. At the Phones-forFood depot, donated phones are sorted and their useable parts are then recycling. "That’s 75 locations in Calgary alone,” he says by way of example. Already, the Phones-For-Food/thINK FOOD Project has won the Canadian sold to the remanufacturing industry with the proceeds going to the Canadian Association of Food Banks [CAFB] and community food banks Centre for Philanthropy’s 2003 Imagine New Spirit of Community across the country. The Phones for Food program then recycles all remain¬ Partnership Award, and the Recycling Council of Ontario’s 2002/2003 Waste Minimization Award. Besides winning awards, the project’s numbers are ing phones or unusable parts. Total ink cartridges collected:
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Community ties Charles Seiden, Executive Director of The Canadian Association of Food Banks, echoes Sue Cox, Executive Director of the Toronto Daily Bread Food
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tridges had been collected, equalling about 250,000 pounds of food. So with the holidays just around the corner, if you’re thinking of buying a new cell phone, you might also consider giving one back.
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Building the Ultimate Gaming PC: Part TWo Having tackled the first stage of Building the Ultimate Gaming PC, Iam thinking of renaming this series "Lessons in Humility." The reason: even though Iam aregular guy -not an engineering guru -taking on achal¬
the other. Thankfully, the open side of the case allowed me to slip my hand in to provide support. Ifirst finger-tightened all four Phillips screws to get The Reactor lined up properly, then finished the job with my screw¬
lenging project, Iam still amazed by some of the bone-headed mistakes I
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have made (and corrected] to date.
Ihad to guess where to put the power supply, since the Reactor's instructions didn't have this information. Instead, they simply said,
Step One: Building the acrylic mid tower ATX case The Mutant Mods case came totally unassembled. The good news is that the instructions were quite clear, the parts list detailed and each of the
parts bags is clearly labeled. My first word of advice: check the contents of the box against the parts list, to ensure that you’ve got everything you
“Remove the existing power supply from your computer case and replace it with the new power supply", which didn't help me at all. The Mutant Mods case manual didn't explain how to install the power supply and nei¬ ther did Maximum PC’s “Guide to Building aDream PC" handbook.
need. As well, checking the parts list -I'm talking about reading it; not just
Step Three: Adding the Fans and Covers
giving it the once-over as Iinitially did -will prevent you from doing dumb things like attaching the fans with the wrong screws. More on that later. In general, the Mutant Mods case was relatively easy to assemble. Since the screws Iwas using were being tightened against acrylic, Iwas careful
MymissionwastoinstallthreeMutantModLED-litfansanddecorative fanguardsbehindventholescutintothecase'sfront,top,andsidepanel. Again,therewerenoinstructionstogoby.Makingmattersworsewasthe
not to over crank them to prevent the plastic from cracking. As well, Iwore
that Mutant Mods had supplied 12 special “fan screws.”
the supplied white gloves to keep body oils off the plastic, and was very diligent when using ascrewdriver on the screw’s slot heads, to prevent the blade from sliding off and scratching the case. [Note to Mutant Mods:
cut-out clear acrylic. Designed to be lit by built-in LEDs -one to illuminate a“Scream” style ghost face; the other to highlight asideview of asoldier -
Phillips’X-shapedheadswouldmakemoresense!)Ithenscrewedthe motherboard mounting posts into one side of the case by hand, and put the bottom-mounted speaker in place as well. Ihad some problems fitting the plastic side panels to the comer connec¬ tor cubes, because some of the holes wouldn’t line up properly. In these
cases, Irotated my small slot-head screwdriver in the hole to widen it. In general, however, the Mutant Mods case went together pretty easily, although the screeching sound that occurred when turning screws into acrylic was nerve-wracking at times.
Step Two: Adding the power supply For this project. Mutant Mods provided a480 watt power supply known as “The Reactor.” It came with two blue LED-lit fans, aheavy duty heat
sink, and lots of power connectors. Time will tell if the Reactor has enough connectors to power all of the extra lights planned for this unit; at first blush, it looks sufficient.
InstallingTheReactorinthebackofthecasewastricky.Theproblemis thatthepowersupplysitssuspendedfromitsfourscrewmounts:this meant Ihad to prop it up with one hand while putting in the screws with
fact that Ihadn't read the case parts list fully; if Ihad, Iwould have noticed
AddingtothefunisthattwooftheMutantModfanguardsweremadeof thesefanguardsapparentlyhadtobemountedbetweenthefansandthe inside walls of the case.
Thisposedtwoproblems.First,thepowercordforeachfanguardlight w a s
routed through acorner of the plastic square: to make room for it,
Mutant Mods had cut off one of the four screw holes. Second, since Iwas
usingthescrewswhichcamewiththeMutantModsparts-whichweren’t fullycompatiblewiththecase-drivingtheminwasslowanddifficult.Did Imention that some of the holes also didn’t line up?
Eventually,myeffortstomountthesoldierfanguardandLEDfanledto my snapping the LED power cord off. No problem; Iremoved it, then shaved the corner to let me mount the fan with four screws. (By this
point,Iwasusingtheonessuppliedwiththecase,havingatlastreadthe partslistinfull.)IdidmanagetogettheScreamfanguardcoverandfanin placewithoutproblems.I’llhavetowaittoseeifmountingitusingonly three screws is sufficient.
Lessons Learned
Clearly,oneshouldalwaysreadthepartslistfullybeforeproceeding! Next,mywife/photographer’sinsistenceonkeepingmyworkspaceclean andorganized-withallnecessarytoolsandpartsathand-wasgood advice. As well, it makes sense to have ajar handy to store all loose parts.
Allthingsconsidered,thispartofthejobwasharderandtookmoretime than Iexpected. Especially when you’re working around cats.
Next Time: Mounting the Motherboard With the case, power supply, and fans in place, the next step is to mount the Intel D925XCV motherboard and the Intel 3.6 GHz Pentium 4Extreme
EditionCPU.chip.BasedontheinstructionssuppliedbyIntel,thisstep lookssimple.However,we’llseehoweasyitisinreallife.
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per cent last year and only 23 per cent in 2002. “Of the Canadians planning to buy gifts online this year, 98 per cent believe online shopping saves time, and 23 per cent always look for the best deals before buying," says the report.
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Step 4Printing: this is straightforward. This particular
the top (tent style). Here’s astep-by-step guide using Jasc Paint Shop Pro. In this example, we’ll make 11.5 x12.5 cm book-style cards but you can plug in your own dimensions.
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Wouldn’t it be great to have ateam of pro photogra¬ phers around to give you tips on how to take better photos? The Blue Pixel Personal Photo Coach attempts to provide that kind of advice, and largely succeeds. (Blue Pixel is agroup of pros dedicated to sharing their knowledge.) It’s packed with tips and strategies, and is the kind of book you could flip open to any page and read something useful or become inspired by adynamic photo.
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much like an analogue control stick on ahome console system. Motion is
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series of frenetic “micro games.” Ademo of Metroid Prime Hunters locked gamers In fourplayer death matches where the lower screen displayed afirst-person view. To look, gamers dragged astylus across the screen and shooting was accomplished by tapping same. Metroid Prime Hunters specifically was an interesting concept at that stage but lacked somewhat in usability. The first DS units on retail shelves are
bundled with athree single-player level and three multiplayer map demo of Metroid Prime Hunters subtitled Eirst Hunt. Users can now choose from avari¬
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