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Editorial The move to tfigital has

changed the way we view pictures.

Literally speaking. we tend to view them more on-screen than as prints now. whether at home on the Pl: or out with an impromptu FDA. laptop or camera slide show for any‑ one polite enough to feign interest in our family or vacation snaps. figuratively. we seem to view captured frames as hav‑ ing less intrinsic value; it doesn't matter if you shoot a dozen pictures ofthe same landscapeor if you burn off six frames capturing what may turn out later to be a failed panoramic photo. Digital allows us to experiment without thought for the cost associated with each click of the shutter. ironic then, if you agree thus far. that digital has also added value to photographs. With numerous online photo sharing sites. pictures sent back and forth via email and with a series of user-driven fine art and stock photography sites online. we‘re able to see pictures that we might not otherwise have been exposed to, Gallery style photos are available online and on many sites. a strong and dedicated community of amateur photographers solicit and receive comments and criti‑ cism of their work.

Diehard amateur photographers would have had to per‑ haps take a second job to afford the consumables required for film photography or learn to roll and devel~ up their own. Now. with digital single lens reflex [SLR]

cameras coming in at just under the $1,000 mark and with the price of in-camera storage dropping into a more affordable range. more people than ever an per‑ haps scratch the photography itch.

There are those who get caught up in the gadget lust pan of digital photography, endlessly debating the ins and outs ofcameras. storage media, printers and soon while flaming anyone that dares to disagree.

While pre~purchase research is always important, whether you use a low-end digital point and shoot. pro‑ fessional level digital SLR or any variation In between, the important thing is just to take pictures.

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Last month we asked: What digital camera features are most important to you?

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Mr. Rsnvlwritss: What will sway meis a camera offer‑ ing short shutter lag and quick image processing.2Xor 3X zoom. support for inexpensive CFmemory cards. 4 to 6 megapixel sensor. and great firmware. Finally. I think hard about the form factor suiting my needs.

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I think that one of the biggest factors that camera man‑ from you. Send yourthoughts to: ufacturers are missing out on is the fact that a lot of Isomsppubllshlngn. people will simply never print their pictures out. it is reasonable to say that most people have one portable The letter chosen as Letter of the Month will win a copy gadget capable ofdisplaying photos, and at home they of McAfee's Internet Security Suite 2005 [ver. 20] for protection from malicious sites and email. viruses. pop‑ have a computer.

The implication ofthis is that megapixels are not nearly up ads. auto-install programs. identity theft. hacking as important as people seem to think. Ona typical PE. attempts and viruses. With a full suite of online securi‑ diSplaying a 1500x1200 JPEG is slow and u n n e c e s ‘ ty software and 24-? live tech support. Internet sary, What would be appreciated are cameras that are Security Suite 2005 is a comprehensive package fl “ extremely portable. have last shot-to-shot times and protecting your PConline. warm-up times. good flash. and well thought-out pre‑ set modes that make taking good pictures easy and quick.

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EompactFlash II storage media, the 05 uses physically smaller Image processing is slower than the other dSLRs tested and users can only realistically shoot off five frames in RAW before the camera needs SecureDigital cards.

Users can substitute the two 3Vcells for four rechargeableAAbatteries. to take an estimated 35 second break between shots. and since the 3Vcells are lithium, they won't lose their charge and can The actual camera start upt i m e seems unaffected by the sluggishness however, and it's ready to shoot within a fraction of a second (Pentax be kept on hand asa spare Pentax is trying to fill in the small and light space for dSLR cameras and suggests .2 seconds] of turning it on. succeeds. The ‘ist DS clocks in at a mere 805 g with batteries and The auto focus seems confused at times relative to the other cameras memory card installed and is physically the smallest of the four cam‑ tested, tending to second-guess itself.

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Most image editors have several tools that you can use to make these changes and often there is more than one way to perform a correction, so feel free to experiment. Before you start, you should make a copy of your original file, so that you can always go back to it if necessary. As an overall strategy. work with adjustment layers where possible, as they have a few advantages.

A good tool to start with is levels or a levels adjustment layer. The levels panel shows adistribution of values from 0 [no value, black] to 255 [maximum value, white). Below the histogram is a thin bar that goes from black to white, and below the bar are three triangular mark‑ ers, which are actually sliders that can be moved to the left or right.

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Two DVcameras were used, and about four hours of footage was shot.

I bring all this up because it happened to me recently. I was commis- Wecovered wreath-laying ceremonies, marches and parades, a special sioned to provide video coverage ofcommemorative ceremonies mark- flag-raising, and a social and ceremonial cruise on Lake Ontario, ing the end ofWWIl, and to document the activities ofthose gathered to One camera was on a tripod, and as a result it was mostly fixed in posi‑ ' tion. with little or no relocating. It was supposed to 1 gEt the bird's eye view, the big wide establishing shots. giving viewers a general sense of what was going on, where and when. The other, smaller cam‑ era was used onamonopod,to be more mobile and flexible. It got close-up shots. the faces and the medals, the extra detail that adds depth to a video production On this shoot, the camera operators could not communicate with each other, other than the occa‑ sional eye contact or hand gesture. lthink we did a good job with the coverage, but as with almost any live event video, things happen that are not expected. Sometimes, you have to "swish-pan” the camera [a very fast and ratherjar‑ ring camera move from side to side] to capture a certain scene or action, but you daren't stop the camera lest some invaluable audio be missed.

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Shooting on Mini DVmeans the footage has to be transferred [not many people have DVtape machines at home] so the opportunity to manipulate the video while getting it to DVD or VHS usually presents itself no matter what.

Sure, it's easy to edit digital video today [and we will explore several ways to dosoin upcoming columns]. but when neither time nor budg~ et is available to clean up the footage or edit it down a bit, what do you do? Show the raw, unedited footage, warts and all? Try and explain why all the extraneous imagery is included? Pull an all-nighter and edit the darn thing anyway?

From the rather basic. often built-in video editing tools that come with the major operating systems [like Windows Movie Maker or Apple's iMovie] to more sophisticated high end video finishing packages like Sony Vegas or Avid‘s Express Pro. there are a wealth of digital video editing tools. techniques and technologies out there.

We'll talk about some ofthose choices in future columns; in the mean‑ time, we're happy to keep receiving your comments and questions ‑ whether raw or edited.

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Epeon PIctureMete Deluxe Viewer Edition Price: $319.99 Type: Inkjet Weight: 2.5 kg Dimensions (cm, HxWxD]:15i3x25i?x15r5 Mex resolution: 5?60x1440 optimized dpi Cards eupported: CompactFlash Type I and II, MagicGate Memory Stick, Memory Stick, Memory Stick PRO. Microdrive, MultiMedia Card. Secure Digital, SmartMedia.xDPicture Card, xDPicture Card Type M Approx. cost per print: 406 Average time per print as tested: 1:31 The PictureMate is one of the most truly "portable" photo printers on the market, given that its built-in colour LCD screen and extensive onboard image manipulation features make it able to function hand‑ somely independently of a TVor PC. A sturdy handle further enforces the “take anywhere” vibe [anywhere that happens to be in the vicinity rr

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Users can also perform rudimentary photo editing lunctions straight from the printer, including adjusting the brightness. saturation and sharpness of a photo, rotating and cropping, and zooming in or out.

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The device uses something called “Intelligent Illumination'to display will the keys that are necessary for the device you are controlling, eliminating key clutter and extending its battery life. Similarly. a built-in tilt switch means the buttons will begin to light UP only once you pick up the remote. It then shuts itsell off automatically when not in use. This remote is quite the conversation piece because of its

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The fact is, the DMCA’s raison d'etre seems to be to shelter big media corporations by enabling the criminalization of defeating by any means the copy protection or encryption technologies they may implement in either their distributed media [including (305 and DVDs] or the devices designed to play them. This technology is known as Digital Rights Management or'DRM.‘ I suppose the best way to illustrate how DRM affects the average technology user would be to draw a couple of examples from my own personal experience.

meto buy a standard set of PING golf clubs to play a round at the Bangkok Airport [you have to see it to believe it] and subsequently return home only to find they are disallowed at Pebble Beach?! I don't think so. But as men‑ tioned last month, you aren't really buying anything save the plastic; you license the content.

My next encounter with warm and snuggly DRM came at the combined hands of PureTracks.com and Microsoft.

With over 400 CDs in mycollection. lam not acasual consumer of music.

There have however overthe years been occasions where my desire to own a single track did not in my view warrant the purchase of an entire CD. as the rest of its content did not appeal. Until recently. I would simply forego that purchase. but with the advent of legal digital music downloads in Canada, l decided to give it a try.

Finding a song I was interested in on PureTracks.com was a relatively sim‑ ple matter ‐ downloadingit and getting it to play was not. First off. the site would not allow me to download the tune until I had installed Microsoft Windows Media Player 9 of course they didn't tell me this until I had pur‑ chased. The reason? The track was encoded in such a manner as to pre‑ clude its playback on any software save Media Player 9,which has strong support for DRM. Of course. at the time. this software wasn‘t exactly stable and I soon discovered after downloading and installing it that my computer was now completely sound free ‐ and not in aliberating way.

No amount of tweaking over the course of an entire week could get my sound back. So, havingno way to play the song on my main PC. I moved it over to asecondary o n e only to now realize that the file was encoded to play solely on the machine to which it had originally been downloaded, Since my primary motivation for acquiring this song in the first place was so that I could listen to it on a n.

A few years ago. l was due to return home from a trip to Thailand and faced with the prospect of watching Air Canada-selected enter‑ tainment overthe course of the 25 hourexcursion, decided it would be a good idea to buy a DVD from a record store to watch on my notebook computer instead. Well it turned out that Air Canada sur‑ prised me on this trip and I never did crack open my computer. A few days after my arrival home, however, I remembered the DVD and decided to give it a spin. I fired up my [at that time] top of the line Sony DVD player and slid in the movie' expecting to be enter‑ tained. Instead I was annoyed. The machine wouldn't play my DVD at all as it was region coded 3 [Asia Pacific] instead of 1

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tal recording,or the degradation ofHD content to standard TVresolution should recording be permitted. Additionally, restrictions on making more than one recorded copy and the ability to disallow skipping of commercials were included in the spec.

Fortunately, the FCC lost the first battle on this one as the United States government stated that the passing ofthis bill did not fall under the FEC’s jurisdiction. Obviously, this doesn't mean that the Broadcast Flag is going away ‐just that it'll have to gothrough different channels to become law. In fact, electronics manufacturers [many of whom, like Sony, are content distributors aswell] have for some time now been so certain of its enaction that they have long been producing hardware that conforms with the specification ‐ go figure.

It seems the digital wild west is rapidly coming to end, resulting in ~lair use” being heavily trodden underfoot. Weare now shackled wrth even more restrictive content consumption limitations than we had before the digital revolution, while at the same time these technologies are nonetheless being touted as"liberating“ by the media companies Iob~ byingto deploy them. Frankly, even George Orwell would be impressed by this latest incarnation of newspeak,

music twice in so doing, I decided to burn it to a rewritable CDand then rip that to an MP3 instead.

Sonow I had a doubly compressed tune that I could play on any device and a week ofmy free time had been shot. And though I had indeed paid for this song in terms of the original purchase and my acquisition of a rewritable CD, my music was now illegal And the music industry won‑ ders why people forego the preceding steps and simply download a pirated copy in the first place.

DRM is becoming more ubiquitous daily, with its latest incarnation

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Afew things I really llka about the Mac: 1) When you boot up your Mac for the first time after bringingit home, it asks you if you have another Mac and if you'd like to import your set‑ tings and applications over to the new one using FireWire. This is such a simple thing, but it's a brilliant thing to include in setup, because it means that the upgrade process from an old machine tothe new one is mostly automated, instead of forcing you to figure out how to doit after the fact. And once you've gone through the process, the new Mac boots upjust as if it were your old one, only with new hardware.

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4] The fact that you have to use your password to install or upgrade any software on the machine, even upgrades from Apple. Sounds annoying. right? Well, it's what's keeping the system more secure than a Windows machine. By forcing you to type your password any time something is installed,it makes you think about the process. if an alert pops up for a software installation that you didn't ask for, how likely are you to type in your password?

And a couple ofthlngs I don't like: 1) The fact that you have to use the eject icon before removing a USB flash drive or other removable storage. Theoretically, you have to per‑ form a similar process with Windows before removing external storage to prevent data loss, but Windows is far more forgiving. Just yanking an external drive on Mac can equal loads of corrupted data on that drive, and the consequent premature graying. At least you don't have tothrow CDs or external drives into the trash can any more to eject them.

Throwing the icon for a removable drive into the trash still ejects it, but at least the Finder now includes an eject symbol beside any rcmov~ able drives.

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Maybe you want a warm. expressive acoustic guitar sound but the General MIDI guitar on your cheap keyboard just isn't cutting it. Maybe you've written some lyrics to go with your latest song, and want to record a vocal track. Or maybe your band is all set to create its break‑ through single and you need to record several different live instru‑ ments at once. in these cases, your most important recording tool [besides the PC itself, ofcourse] is the microphone, The function of a microphone is to convert sound waves [acoustic energy] into an electrical audio signal that the computer can under‑ stand. All microphones contain a component called the “diaphragm," which is a thin membrane that vibrates when struck by sound waves.

These vibrations are what convert the signal into electrical energy.

Microphones come in a variety of different shapes, sizes and types, and which variety you buy depends of course on what type of instru‑ ments and sounds you intend to record. Here are the most common microphones you'll see in a basic studio:

Microphone Types Dynamic microphone: The workhorses of the home recording studio, the dynamic micro‑ phone has a heavy diaphragm and is quite durable. It has a lower sensi‑ tivity relative to other microphone types. and as such is recommended for recording loud instruments like drums and powerful vocals [like rock or hip hop], or for other "close-up" recording situations where the microphone is positioned very close to the sound source.

Lower sensitivity means dynamic microphones are less susceptible to hum and radio frequency interference [RFI], but the trade-off is that they're less adept at capturing delicate instruments and subtleties.

Condenser microphones Also known as capacitor microphones, these mics require a separate DCto power the electronics and supply voltage to the diaphragm. This is known as "phantom power," and is either supplied by batteries or by the mixer that the microphone is plugged into.

Because of the extra electricity running through the condenser microphone, it may be slightly noisierthan the dynamic mic [since all electricity produces a certain amount of noise]. Condenser mics are also more suscep‑ tible to hum and RH.

Condensers are good for record‑ ing softer voice [though the microphone can distort if the voice gets too loud], piano, acoustic guitar. and other light instruments like flute.

Ribbon microphones These mics are thin, lightweight [thanks to a lighter diaphragm], and extremely sensitive. They're good at picking up bass frequen‑ cies, and have a reputation for delivering a warm sound while retaining the sensitivity of the

capacitor microphones.

Microphone Shapes Just as the various types of

microphones are each suited for a particular recording situation, the shape of the microphone should also be considered.

Although there are many varia‑ tions on microphone shapes, they can be boiled down to sev‑ eral broad categories based on sensitivity. [The area where the microphone is most "sensitive" is the area where it picks up the most sound]

Uni-directional microphones, for example, are most sensitive at the front, and will most readily pick up sound from a source that is posi‑ tioned straight in front of it, while picking up less of the sound from the back and sides. The cardioid microphone is a heart-shaped variation that, again, is most sensitive towards the front of the heart.

A variety of uni-directional microphone called the hypercardioid [so named for its ability to completely ignore sound from the sides and back with no bleed-through] is especially useful for recording drums, where you might want for example to focus on picking up just the snare sound with nobleed-through from the hi-hat.

Omni-directional microphones, on the other hand, will pick up sound in a 3SO-degree radius. The quickest and easiest [and cheapest] way to record agroup [especially agroup of a capella singers] is to plunk one of these microphones down and have them stand around it.

Finally, bi-directional microphones are sensitive at the front and back. but not the sides, and thus are aptly called 'figure eight" mics. Figure eights lend themselves well to recording a vocal duet, with each singer singing into one side of the microphone.

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Some facts about heldphones and hearing loss The Who's guitarist Pete Townsend is one ofthe most famous sufferers oftinnitus. a condition where the cells ofthe inner ear become so dam-

aged that they produce a non-stop "noise' resembling a loud, continuous buzzing in the ears.

While The Who's infamously loud concerts no doubt contributed to Townsend's condi‑ tion - speaker output regularly exceeded 120 decibels, according to reports ‑ Townsend in a 198? LA Times interview blamed his hearing loss on years of playing his guitar loudly through headphones.

Although listening to music through head‑ phones is just one of many factors that can contribute to hearing loss, health experts are treating it as a cause for concern for a few reasons.

One reason is that the ever-increasing stor‑ age capacities of MP3 players allow people to listen to music for hours at atime without the breaks previously afforded by having to switch out a CDor flip over a cassette tape The second concern is that as the world

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When these hairs are overstimulated by very loud or overly harsh noises, or if fatigued by being exposed to continuous noise at a moder‑ ate-to-Ioud volume, they begin to die off. Hair cells representing high frequencies are the most sensitive and therefore the first to be killed, which is why people often first report hearing loss as not being able to hear high frequencies [such as soft conversations in a crowded room].

When all the hairs representing a certain frequency band are killed. the person can no longer hear that frequency at all.

"When you really work those hair cells. for example by goingto a con‑ cert antl being exposed to very loud levels for three hours straight it's like trampling allover a lawn," says Tommy Choo, a senior audiologist at the Canadian Hearing Society. "it gets trampled on and recovers. but there's always a little bit that never recovers. 50 over time and over exposure. it adds up to hearing loss.”

Once the damage has been done, it's permanent and incurable. ihe solution to preventing hearing loss from using headphones obvi‑ ously isn't to stop listening to music altogether: Turning down the vol‑ ume on the music player would be a start, although that solution is impractical in inherently noisy urban environments where listeners often dojust the opposite.

“The subway is aperfect example of[people] turning upthe volume to drown out the nolse,’ says Choo. "You have to speak quite loudly to hold aconversation with someone, so I would say the noise levels are pretty high already. 50 to actually hear the music over the noise level. you have to turn the music up even louder than that.’

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for as little as USSB.33 per month. Rhapsody ToGogives users the ability to send as many of those songs as they w a n t to their r “a --ut....-.m portable player. Unfortunately, the service isn’t available in Canada : m m mint-19 M “ - ® . ten forthe time being. aunt‐me) ” m e .“ a m . ‑ Yahoo! Music Unlimited is even cheaper, with unlimited downloads nan- m 0 m y . n . a ‐ ® costing an even lower USSS per month, Users will have to download the Yahoo! Music Engine in order to take advantage of the service, m u m fi H u n t - O and must have a compatible player. Details are available at music.yahoo.com/unlimitod. but again, for the time beingthe serv‑ mac-v0 r i m - m 0 . . 11 ice appears to be available only to our friends in the US. l | flow-u, _ 7 Napster was originally the cause of all the downloadingwiII-kill‑ IlJJOEl'MOiN um the~industry kafullle, but the music download icon ‐ now reborn as apay-to-play service ‐ is one ofthe companies offering up unlimit‑ ed monthly downloads for a flat fee and unlike Rhapsody or Yahoo!, it's available on this side of the border too. As I write this, Napster's library is only about 700,000 songs deep, and the Napster ToGoservice runs about 515 Canadian. That seems like a lot, but when you consider that it's the same price as a single CD, it's not quite so bad. You'll need to download the Napster client. which will double asyour music library. Totransfer songs to your portable player, you'll need one of the players that's compatible with the client and the Napster To Go service, like the iRiver Hit), the Samsung YH-BZD or the Creative Zen Micro. [See www.napster.ca fora list of available artists and compatible players] What these services have done, at least south of the border, is redefine what it means to get music online. Rather than pay forthe High-resolufion digital aslrophotography from home? songs themselves, you're paying a monthly fee to listen to the Attatch the new Deep Sky lmager PRO from Meade to music. Feel free to download as much as you want. if you're only atelescope and take stunning dl‘L‘p'Sky photographs going to use it on your player or your computer. From that perspec‑ of galaxies, nebulae, star clusters and planets.V|s-|t the tive, it's a lot like a very personalized radio station. , Science 8.Astronomy SuperStore and experience The catch: When you want to burn the songs to CDs, orto download ( a n a d a ’ s biggest hands on telescope showroom, them in a format that's compatible with digital music players that or go to www.eS(ience.ca for great deals on thousands of scientific and observing products. aren't compatible with the unlimited services, you still have to pay You’ll be happy you saw us. a per-song fee, which is backto the old-school model.

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The game of golf can be traced backthe Netherlands or even further. to the Roman empire where a similar game was played with a bent stick used to hit a ball made of feathers. according the MSN’s Encarta online

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The technology of the game has evolved along the way, from feather stuffed balls and clubs made of wood to a full bag of irons and “woods" without a trace of wood in sight.

Beyond the game lies the industry, an industry that according to Blake Ponuick,VP of sales and marketing forGPS Industries, has seen its busi‑ ness model change drastically in the last decade.

'For years, all you had to dowas build a golf course and people would come and spend a tonne of money,“ he says, but with seemingly more courses than there are golfers. course owners have to compete for the lucrative golfing demographics attention.

"Club houses are becoming a lot more lavish. There are huge banquet facilities. they're catering to weddings, they're catering to corporate retreats, they're trying to get business functions there with a major push on tournaments,“ Ponuick says.

It's asentiment confirmed by Dave Cowan, general manager of Mill Run Golf and Country Club [www.go|fmil|run.com) in Uxbridge, Ontario. "If

you're not actively marketing. you're actually falling behind,” he says.

“The consumer is too wise and has too many choices to put up with sec‑ ond best.”

Technology touches the game in many ways from highly engineered clubs and balls to virtual reality training aids like Canada's own Virtually Perfect Golf [www.virtuallyperfectgolfcom].

Onthe course however, players are freed from the technology of every day life fora few hours [six if you play anything like l do]. Cell phones mysteriously run out oljuice before the round even starts and while the laptop computer may have made the trip out of the office. that‘s only to lend credibility to the business legitimacy of hitting the links.

GPS industries is a company attempting to change this scenario for the better with its lnforemer, a hand-held or cart~mountcd device that offers up all kinds of useful golf information using the global positioning sys‑ tem [GPS] and WiFi [802.11b] Internet connection.

Think of it as a highly interactive videogame. The front~end customer experience is similar to a golf videogame with course and hole overviews, distance to the pin and other info with which to make a shot.

Users can also order food and beverage service, request equipment and in tournament settings. see where others are on the course. keep scam and compare their game with other players.

Meanwhile in the back-end, golf course management are running a kind of Tycoon game. keeping people moving through the course. gath~ ering usage data and sending out the beer cart to thirsty patrons, among other things. The faster they move through the course and the more they spend, the better.

Grant Gray. head professional at Mayfair Lakes Golf Club

(www.golfbc.com/courses/mayfair_Iakes] in Richmond. British Columbia says that installing the Inforemer system has allowed the course to further its relationships with golfers "We send little messages to our members all the time because we can see where everybody's at on the golf course I can say 'don't hit it In the water’ just before they‘re about to tee-off you can have fun with the customers.“ Ponuick explains that lnforemer is more than a distance judgment tool for golfers. While players can see the position of other golfers on the course, deciding whether to tee off or wait for the people ahead to play through, they can also order food and beverage service orequipment on the course. Ponuick describes a complete course management system where everything from tee times and tournaments to the kitchen and pro shop are all linked using the various software and hardware C'fm' ponents of the system. .

“We've got a GPS food runner now. You can actually order burgers and . beers right to yourtee. The order prints up right into our kitchen andthe food is cooked and brought to you,‘ says Gray.

The tie that binds it all together isn't a tie at all; it's wireless.

Toinstall the system,the first step isto send out one of GPS Industries’ r ' own surveyors to plot the location for Wii-‘r repeaters and access points. i‘ The wireless network extends to the banquet and meeting militias i as well as to surrounding houses and parks in some golf course ' communities. _E TDEE

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The installation ofa full back-end management sgstem costs the course about $230,00, with leasing options through the same companies that lease golf carts in some cases, Ponuick sags. The idea beingthat this siz‑ able investment pags dividends with increased food and beverage sales, faster and better organized plag time and on-screen advertising.

There are a fair few companies offering GPS systems to golf courses alrearlgr Ponuick 5.1le the Inforemer sets itself apart with its ruggedized

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P-ZOOO Multimedia Storage Viewer transitions and accompanying mu5ical score from the few pie-loaded More akin to a Portable Media Center than a photo wallet, the P-ZDUU is options. It can also print directly to compatible printers V i a USE The device supports playback of M P } and MC files but can only play a large-screen. bright and attractive device.

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Players have access to acompletely differ‑ ent set of Force moves [Light or Dark] depending on whether they play as Obi-wan or Anakin, making it worthwhile to play through the game multiple times.

It‘s a shame that the 05's extra buttons aren't put to good use; instead. executing special moves requires pressing two or even three buttons simultaneously.

However despite failing to fully exploit the potential of the review»)? US, this port isn't shabby. if given the choice, it's worth getting the slight‑ ly upgraded OSversion.

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versions. And it shows. The inter‑ face is clearly designed for use with a mouse.

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It's t i m e to goto work as an investigator at the Las Vegas crime lab fea‑ tured in one of TV's most popular shows, CSI. You'll be the rookie, but

every major character from the series will assist you, each voiced by the actual performer; William L. Petersen as Grissom, Jorja Fox as Sara Sidlo, and Marg Helgenberger as Catherine Willows, CSI for Xbox plays a lot like atypical adventure game, only you start with a lot olthe tools you need to use ‐ fingerprinting kits, UVlights, tweezers to pick up traces of evidence, and so on. Then you head back to the lab to get that evidence analyzed, and identify and compare DNA and finger‑ get to the various menus can sometimes be a chore. And don't expect it prints. The game certainly feels authentic, allowing you to doa lot ofwhat to bethe besr looking game you've played, either. The graphics do the job you see in the TVshow. You’ll even get to question suspects. and not much else.

CSI is actually two games in one: CSI, and CSI: Dark Motives, both PCcon‑ There are 10 cases, featuring crimes as gritty as anything you'll see on the show. You can replay any olthe cases, and the higher you score [out of 100 per cent], the more likely you will unlock concept art, trivia, and behind the scenes stuff.

CSI is priced lower than most Xbox releases ‐ another plus. If you're a fan ofthe show you'll be happy with this casual and very quick fix.

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phone's predictive text capability streamlines the process further. The 6820 also features voice dialing, Web browsing. instant messaging, backlit keys, and easy navigation via a single thumbwheel. The company advertises up to three hours oftalk time, or twelve days of standby time, With a three-year

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PlayStation 2. PlayStation Portable. Xbox and GameCubE. According to the site, the advantages of having no late lees are that there’s no rush, and customers can actually linishthe game before mailing it back using the included prepaid mailing enve‑ order to restrict rentals over a certain ESRB rating.

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marginally related content, it's a good place to go. However, the "buy rt new" links feel a bit like a trick and with more content than the casual browser may be able to wrap his or her head around, it's best to know what you want before arriving.

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Quest, Police Guest] and earliertitles in the infamous Leisure Suit Larry The fact that all content is searchable and then categorized by plat~ series and LucasAns' Maniac Mansion. forms is a nice touch. You can browse the RPG [role-playing game] cat‑ A few stinkers like the dismal Operation Body Count aside. the selec~ egory for example. then confine the results to display only games for tion is such that a person who spent any appreciable amount oftime in the PC, NES or SNES. Other categories include the Sega Master System, front of 3 [ISA or EGA screen will find something to smile about.

Game Gear and Neo Geo. Games can be browsed using easy navigation headings like Action, A nice touch is to give users a link on the game download page for the Adventure and Sports and are afforded an editor's score and a commu‑ software sometimes required to play, specifically in the case of emu‑ nity score out of five. The archive is fully keyword searchable, but the lated console games. best way to approach this site in this writer's opinion, is to browse around until something strikes your fancy. ,

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