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Contents January 2 0 0 5

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Letter from the Editor First Glance

DW Living Building the Ultimate Gaming

PC ..........................10

Part Three

I nt h e H o u s e Video editing

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Latest editors simplify Without sacrificing features

Preserving yesterday with today's technology

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‘Analog-to~digital' devices help back-up aging footage

On the Move

DV cameras with a twist ..................................12 Of the Mind

Digital Photography Tutorial:

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New Year's resolution: Get organized

Contests Letter the Month

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Domestic robots From manufacturingto personal butler?

Photobiogs Public pictorials for people of all skill levels

Press play Toshiba's "portable" multimedia media laptop

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For the annual Consumer Electronics Show [CES] held in January in the Las Vegas Convention Center, the bulk of the tech industry [includingthose whose job it isto report on it) descend on"Sin City' to get the lay of the tech landscape for the year and beyond.

It's like a debutant ball where tech companies present their assets in an attempt to woo journalists and analysts to their way of think‑ ing. The analogy ends there however asindustry types on the whole don't wear Iacey dresses or talk with a charming Southern drawl.

More than a few dollars no doubt change hands in the casinos too, though the exchange is almost entirely one way.

Sowhat dowe expect to see on the no doubt colossal but still crowd‑ ed show floor? Those with a keen eye and enough time to properly walk the floor will see emerging trends and some technologies we've been hearing about for some time coming into their own.

Weexpect multi~megapixel camera phones to have a presence, though largely as a concept and something to watch out for in the future. Some industry analysts predict more than 70 per cent of phones will have an embedded multi-megapixei camera by 2009. Megapixel camera phones, already available from some manufac‑ turers, will likely be hawked too. Wedon't expect anyone to be actively discussing camera phone lens optics however, which is what's needed for megapixel plus camera phones if they're to have any chance of unseating or even properly coexisting with standard digital cameras.

Display technology is expected to be big news. Every consumer technology manufacturer and, more important‑ ly, user is searching for a high resolution. low cost, bright, colourful and low-drain display, especially for portable devices.

DLED [organic light emitting diode] technology, notable for its low power consumption, scalability, brightness and potential low cost, will likely be seen in abundance on the floor in a variety of applications, from DLED watch faces to FDA screens, computer monitors and conceptual 40" plus televisions. . , and a few places we aren’t actively expecting, no doubt.

Judging from the sheer number of pre-EES meeting requests and heads-up emails piling up in the inboxes of journalists around the world, BLED technology will be trying to seat itself as the technology to beat in home theatre and computer projectors. BIu-Ray disc technology will make its presence felt, computer manufacturers and software providers will continue their attempts to make their way into the living room. LCD panels will get flatter and wider, all manner of PCperipherals will shrink to fit among the clutter of gadgets [not to mention unfiled papers, CDs. bills, books and potted plants] gracing the desks of North American computer users. . . or maybe that's just my desk. Ohwell, I‘m leaving it behind for a week anyway.

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Doyou have any idea how hard they have been to come by? Actually, if i can get two, I could auction one off at a grossly inflated price and plunk down the heavy cash required for an import PSP [PlayStation Portable] too.

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For his letter, Geoffwins a Konica Minolta 3.2 megapixel Dimage 5323 digital camera.

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F i r s t Glance Suunto, one ofthe first to market with MSN Direct smart watches [or wristops, as the company likes to call them], recently unveiled the lat‑ est in its Direct line.

The n3i is similar in ability and overall appearance to its older brother the n3 but with a slimmer and more svelte case, the company says.

With a subscription to MSN Direct [about $80 per year], users can have weather, news, sports updates, stock tickers and a host of other info beamed to a compatible watch in major city cen‑ tres in North America over the FMband, Factor in the cost ofthe watch, approximately $360 [from 055299] and it's clear that the technol‑

Straight outta Compton [where Belkin is headquartered], the SnapNType is among the first accessories for lJeIl‘s powerful yet Well priced handheld X3 line of personal digital assstants [PDAs], .

Asthe name suggests, the product allows users to snap the mini QWERTY keyboard into the bottom ofa compatible PDA and, you guessed it, type.

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The unit draws the little power it uses from the handheld itself, elimi. hating the need for extra batteries. Thumb keyboards are handy fOr PDA use beyond quick notes or for jotting down appointments; for

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While not exactly a new product so much as it is an old product re‑ released to drum up interest in a new one [Grand Theft Auto: San

Andreas], Rockstar Games’ Grand Theft Auto II has been offered up for free to any‑ one who wishes to download it . H and give upa little

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The 353MB file can bedownloaded from htth/wwwrock‑ stargames.com/classics/index.html, along with the game that start‑ ed the series and Wild Metal, a 30 strategy vehicular combat game originally released in 1999. The games are offered up as part ofthe Rockstar Classics series and are optimized for current PC[only] hardware. For those unfamiliar with the early days ofthe series how‑ ever, don't expect a 3Dfree-roaming game as with GTA: 3, Wm City and San Andreas. The original titles were top-down perspective games with less freedom than characterizes the more recent itera‑ tions.

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Victorinox lhttpz/lwwwivictorinoxicom], makers ofthe official Swiss Army knife, have given the famously durable pocket utility tool a digital twist. Now, in addition to having a fold-out knife, key ring, screwdriver, scissors. and nail file, the SwissMemory model also comes with a detachable USB flash drive and red LED light housed in a chic translucent red casing.

The flash drive is attached to the rest of the tool via a hook, and an be unattached completely ifthe need arises ‐ while going through airport security, for example, where knives and scissors are gener‑ ally frowned upon.

The drive comes in 64, 128. 255 and 512MB sizes, and the tool ranges in price accordingly from approximately $?0 to $190 [from US$59 to $159].

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P r e s splay Toshiba's "portable" multimedia media laptop There was a time when a TV was a TV and a computer was a computer. but those days are gone l suppose I should have realized it the day my satele lite terminal froze up and I realized I was essentially rebooting my televi‑ smo.

The final proof rs the Media Center PC, a concept I sort oflike and yet couldn't quite get into. Sure. I like the Idea that I can watch and record TV, listen to music and play movies on a computer with an operating system optimized for those particular tasks. But I've never liked the idea of park‑ ing $2500 worth of computer in my living room, o r ‐ here we go again ‑ booting up my stereo or DVD player And now there's Toshiba‘s Uosmio line of Media Center laptOps, which elim‑ inates both at my complaints. Actually, "laptop' is a bit of a misnomer ‐ at 40.8 cm by 28.5 cm, and weighing in at 4.4 kg. I would probably need t w o laps to support the Uosmio GIO-GPZ I received to review. Maybe that's why Toshiba refers to it on the box as a portable computer instead ofa laptop.

That's fair, because it is quite portable, though sometimes a bit awkward.

For a week, I set up the Uosmio in different parts of the house, watching cable TVand DVDs and listeningto music wherever it struck my fancy. “Set up,“ by the way, generally means “open and turn on,’ as the Dosmio is self-contained (though you'll have to remember to bring the adapter to connect a TVs coaxial cable) You'll note that I said ‘turn on" and not “boot up." Knocking down my other pet peeve. the entire Oosmio line includes the UosmioPlayer ‐ a trade‑ marked way of saying you don't have to bother to start Windows to watch or listen to DVDs, TVor (205. Just push the appropriate button above the

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keyboard and you immediately start up a dedicated player. In a head-to‑ head test between the Ocsmio and my DVD player. the time between pow‑ ering up and the DVD menu appearing was almost the same. The Oosmio's TVtuner actually took less time to give mean image than my TV. The GIG-GFZ is the flagship of the Dosmio line. and it shows. Ordinary computing tasks hummed along nicely With its LB GHz Pentium Mproces~ sor. 512MB of DDR RAM, and combined 10068 of hard disk space (for storv ing all those recorded Lost episodes]. It includes a (ID/DVD writer that han‑ dles every format you can throw at it (including DVD-RAM].

Harmom’lt’ardon speakers. and a bevy olconnectors including 4 USB 2.0

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Bluetooth connectivity Most noticeable, though. is the bright, clear 17" [diagonal] widescreen LCD, sporting a resolution of 1440x980, It was so bright and clear that a defect became startlingly obvious: watching from about four feet away. I could clearly see upscaling and MPEG artefacts on my Firefly DVD, This only plagued OosmroPlayer; watchingthe same DVD from within Windows didn't produce the same quirks. Sitting a bit further back largely eliminated the problem, but it seems odd that With everything else going for the Cosmic. something so noticeable should slip through. But then, my mother always did say I sat too close to the TV. Emru Townsend

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The UN's World Robotic Survey, released in October, says there were more than 600,000 domestic robots in use around the world at the end of 2003. Nearly all of those were lawn mowing and vacuum cleaning

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'I don't want to diminish what‘s been done. but these [vacuum cleaners and lawnmowers) are still not great leaps forward,‘ says Goldenberg. who predicts it'll beanother 10to 25 years before we build multi-tasking robots.

'People may ask. ‘Why so long? Things are moving much faster.’ My answer is that resources all over the world ‐ humans and money ‐ are allocated elsewhere. Biomedical applications are priorities. it's more important to find a cure for cancer orAIzheimer's.’

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Torontobased business strategist and futurist J.P. Wade worries about the implications for low‑ wage workers.

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I dug up a mini~DV tape with 39 minutes oft-aw footage of a week in my son Max's life from 2002. Asan experiment. I fed CineMagic the captured footage, selected a four~minute clip of ambient music, selected ”Highlight“ as the editing style. and let it goto work.

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But all a computer sees is a collection of ones and zeroes describ~ ing 345,600 pixels per frame. It sees that the collection of ones and zeroes from the previous frame is arranged differently and, through some mechanism l'm not privy to. it decides that there should be a new scene there. And by sorting through 39 minutes of raw footage to create a four-minute video, that same mechanism has effectively decided which 35 minutes of memory aren't quite soimportant.

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Three useful features that the Canon. HPand Lexmark models have are PictBridge support, a built-in colour screen and memory card readers.

PictBridge is one of those rare instances of industry cooperation. It allows cameras from one manufacturer to control printers from anoth‑ er manufacturer for computerless printing. 0ur Fujifilm FinePix 53100 test camera sent print commands to all the printers without incident.

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Asa four megapixel Still camera the unit offers the features comparable to The controls are n o t diffi‑ other higher-end digicams, including aperture priority. shutter priority and cult to use but they are manual mode. The camera offers three levels of JPEG and we were quite small. There is a rubber‑ impressed with image quality in our test shots. domed directional control Movie recording ISvery camcorder-like.A single button starts and stops called a jog ball, which was recording. There is a bit of autoiocus lag when you zoom I n . The MX4 saves overly sensitive and jumpy movies in MOV format, which can beviewed directly in aOuicltTlme player on our unit [but note that review units often take or imported into a video editing package. Clips can be viewed directly on a a beating].

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The sequel to the critically-acclaimed Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time is a bold departure from the original in a few ways. the most obvious being the edgier tone. The story picks up several years afterthe first game's events, with the Prince facing death at the hands ofthe Dahaka beast as punish‑ ment fortam‑ pering with the Sands othme.

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Fortunately the Prince is still a master of acrobatics, and uses his considerable athletic prowess to navi‑ gate the Empress‘s giant fortress in both the past and present using a combination of wall-running. pole-swinging. beam~ba|ancing. and daring leaps.

Aesthetic changes aside, the environmental puzzles are as intriguing and challenging as ever.

The second big departure is a greater emphasrs on fighting with an expanded move list and the ability to wield secondary weapons like axes and daggers.

Regrettably, puzzles start to lose their lustre as the player is forced to backtrack around the castle.

Another drag is the intermittent Dahaka real-time chase sequences. where performing one wrong move means having to restart the entire scenario again.

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Sith Lords isn‘t as impressive as its parent game owing to the fact that we've seen it [and been blown away] before. However, a complete ground-up rebuild isn't always necessary for a worthy sequel.

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The almighty DVD player has taken over the living room. so chances are your dusty Video tape collection is lying in a closet somewhere, perhaps beside your old H i p or VHS~C camcorder footage.

Let’s face it - tape is out and discs are in.

Why back it all up? lt‘s no surprise many are looking to conven old

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slot. Some external models can be plugged into acomputer's USB port. A CDis included in the box with software to back up the taped footage.

Pinnacle's Dazzle DVC 80 Digital Video Creator is our pick ‐ it includes a handy connection box that sits on your desk and fancy video editing and CD/DVD burning software. Similar to option 1.a CDor DVD burner is need‑ edto create a disc to watch on a DVD player.

Some products, such as the HPMovie Writer and the Sony DVDirect. let users connect a camcorder directly to an external DVD burner.

Option 3: Stnlgh‘ to DVD, without the PC Starting at $200, TV-based DVD player/recorder units cost more than reg‑ ular DVD players since they can record television programming onto blank DVDs. Many users aren't aware they can also back up old tapes. The rear of the unit contains audio and video input jacks, so you can connect a camcorder or VCR to convert tapes to DVD. Note: this is a straight ‘dub' of the tape, therefore editing isn't possible. A decent pick is the Panasonic DMR-ESSS {$449}, a DVD recorder with plenty of bells and whistles.

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Optlon 2: Dedicated Video captur' cards

Regardless ofthe method you've chosen. the actual process of backing up tapes onto DVD is more or less the same.

Users will first need their old camcorder or VCR, and all the taped footage they want to convert. The abovementioned RCA cords (red, yellow and white] oran S-video cable (circular. with little "teeth" lining the inside] are required to connect the camcorder to the PCor DVD recorder. lfthese cables are not included in the box, they can be purchased at most elec~ tronics stores.

Simply connect the cords from the output jacks of the camcorder or VCR to the input jacks of the PC's video card/video capture card. or the DVD recorder. if this is ona computer, the software, once installed. will prompt users to press "play" on the source [camcorder or VCR] and ‘record' or “capture" on the computer at the same time in order to copy it to the hard drive [or DVD].

Copying footage from a camcorder or VCR onto a computer can really eat up hard drive space ‐ depending on the chosen quality. between 3.5 and 4 Gigabytes for every hour you record. Once it is copied to a DVD [about two hours worth], it can be deleted.

Lastly, for computer users it is now possible to edit the transferred footage if desired. A number of clever software packages are on the mar‑ ket that can be used to cut the footage or add fun special effects such as captions, music and Hollywood-style transition sequences. Windows XP has a built-in utility, Windows Movie Maker, that can perform some of these . k functions. Once completed, it can now becopied onto aCDorDVD for playback

Instead of replacingthe entire video card, a "Video capture card' may be

in a DVD player.

Though analog-to-digital conversion services are available in most major .. . . _ , , cuties, dorng it at home can be far less expensive over time. Ustng a PC I makes 4“ ossibleto edit the foota dd . I ff ( d ‘t a so . p . ge, a specra e cc 5 an COP” I to dlSC for friends and family.

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PCusers may already own a video card that comes with audio and video input jacks, such as many of the All “All-in~Wonder' cards. Tocheck, look at the back ofthe PCwhere the monitor cable is plugged in. If you see multi-coloured input jacks, you're in luck. All that ISrequired is an“RCA" (aka. composite] cord [or if your camcorder supports it, an S-video cord for better-looking results] sold at your local electronics retailer to connect the old camcorder or VCR to the computer [more on this in a moment]. A recommended video card is the ATI All-in~Wonder 9500 XT[approx 5360].

Ratherthan the inputjacks being onthe card itself, a small dongle plugs into the video card that is used to connect to the camcorder or VCR. Because the footage is copied to a computer’s hard drive, a CDor DVD recorder (“burner'] is required to transfer this convened video onto a disc to play in a DVD player.

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Step Seven: Mounting the CPU Cooling Fan With the Intel chip in place, the next step was to mount the CPU cooling fan on top. First, I put some ofthe specially supplied grease on top ofthe CPU. This helps ensure that heat is efficiently transferred from the chip to the cooling fins. Tosmooth it out, I took advice from the MaximumPC Guide to Building a Dream PChandbook, and used a plastic-cov‑ ered business card to spread it evenly.

Once the CPU was "greased" I put the CPU fan in place, taking care to ensure that its wires traveled through the fins to its base. The fan comes with four plastic mounting posts. I pressed them down until each one clicked into place, then turned each head 90 degrees to lock them.

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Step Eight: Inserting the Memory Modules Acomputer is nothing without memory. Our Ultimate Gaming PCis for‑ tunately blessed with a pair of matched Corsair XM52 Pro Series DDR2 1GBmemory modules, which are designed for gaming. While installing them, I was very careful to line the modules up the right way, using the offset notches on each one. Note that the Abit board comes with four memory slots: two orange and t w o greeni For these modules to work properly, I had to insert them either in the orange DRgreen mounts ‑ not a combination of the two.

Step Nine: Connecting the Power Supply Then the Abit mobo instructions said it was time to start connecting the power supply. The mobo apparently comes with t w o power connectors built in: one With 24 pins and the other with four.

Well, the Reactor power supply had the right four pin female connector for the mobo, but the other one only had 20. According to the Abit man‑ ual this was okay. but the instructions it offered asto which pins to connect (and which not to] made nosense to me. Eventually, I moved the 20 pin female connector around until I was sure it only fit one way on the mobo. and pushed it into piace.

Next, I connected the plugs forthe front panel buttons and LEDs. You may notice that these haven't been mentioned in this series before.

The reason is that although this front panel mini-board was included with the Mutant Mods case, it wasn't covered in its instructions. No matter. I mounted it in place and then carefully plugged the wires in place, usingthe names clearly marked on them and the mobo manual to guide me. My only concern is whetherl put them the right way around. We'll see if i didn't later on, when i push the Power button and nothing happens.

Next Time: The Finishing Touches In Part Four I expect to finish building the Ultimate Gaming Machine, Part five is the fun part where l load on the software and then spend hours correcting everything I did wrong!

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The camera also takes snapshots at resolutions upto two megapi‘xdls. and saves them to the SecureDigital card. There's an 8 MBcard included. but don‘t worry about a larger SDcard unless you're really stuck for a still camera, because the image quality is only 50-50. For still photos, the cam‑ era has a built-in flash, and an accessory shoe on the top also fiCCeP‘s Canon attachments A remote control is included.

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DVD Cameras If you're used to regular MiniDV cameras, get ready for a bit of re-Iearning.

DVD cameras don‘t use tapes for recording, they use ~ surprise! ‐ small recordable DVD discs. While these mini 80mm discs top out at 30 minutes per side, you can "finalize" the discs right on the camcorder, and immedi‑ ately pop them into a DVD player.

There are t w o different ways to get discs into DVD camcorders: Some of the camcorders feature a central spindle, like those found in portable CDor DVD players. and you snap the disc right in. Others force you to place the disc into a cartridge first ‐ a bit of a throwback to the early days of DVD‑ RAM. lt‘s not a huge problem to get discs in and out, but if you break or lose the cartridge, you won't be able to shoot video.

Because these cams use DVD media, they typically don’t have a FireWire connector to your PC. You can transfer video over USB 2.0, orjust move the video on the DVD media. The good news is that if you're using rewriteable media. you can also do some limited editing right on the camera, including splitting scenes, fades/wipes, and deleting. In many cases, you can even use them as external DVD burners when hooked to the PC.

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way. and keywords allow this flexibility. The benefit of this becomes clear when it comes time to finding an image. For example, a single family photo could be assigned the words vacation, Banff, elk and Grandpa, and could later be found by searching on any ofthose words.

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Unique interfaces These packages have a core of functions that are similar. but the way they accomplish tasks is often quite different. ACDSee's interface will be immediate‑ ly familiar to many because it is similarto the multi‑ paned Windows Explorer. The navigation pane defaults to folder V i e w, so you can quickly navigate the directory tree of wherever you've stored your images. You can also navigate by date, keyword or a number of other variables.

Photo Organizer is accessed as a sub-task within Elements 3 [in the previous version you could launch it asa separate application]. and has a clean, modem interface that looks like it used Mac DSX for inspira‑ tion. The ribbon gauge alongthe top has become a signature feature of Photo Organizer: a timeline organizer. Move the slider to any date and the win~ dow is refreshed to display all the images taken on that date.

Paint Shop Photo Album Sis somewhere in between.

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Photoshop CSis pricey. but you‘ll find at least a dozen new books at any given time devot~ ed to it. For other image odi‑ tors. the resources are not nearly asbountiful. so it's good to see The Photoshop Elements 3 Book for Digital Photographers hit the Dude

Elements 3 is affordable. and this book will help photogra‑ phers get the most from it.

Unlike many books that essen‑ tially rewrite the user manual. this book takes a task-based approach. It also uses plain language: what could be sim‑ pler than Straightening Crooked Photos“ or “Fixing Areas that are Too Bright."

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