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Editorial Gearing up to go back to school used to mean plaid pencil cases, Velcro binders, coloured subject dividers and various pens. pencils. protractors and the like. ‘u‘ Now, gearing up has as much to do with personal digital assistants [PDAS], PCs. cell phones and assorted other tech tools or toys, depending on your perspective.

Organization is often a sticking point for students. The year starts off with the best of intentions, but within a few weeks. some students are invariably searching around in cluttered book bags for a pen, asking more organized peers fora copy of yesterday's notes or what time the math exam is next week. At the post‑ secondary level, a host of new distracting factors are introduced, making organization that much more difficult.

Keeping track of due dates, class schedules, assignments and tests is easier than in days past thanks to technology. Students can keep appointments up to date on a home PCor mobile laptop, all the while syncing ‐ either directly or over the airwaves - using PDAs, online calendars, a smart phone or similar.

With a wealth of tech tools at a student's disposal, keeping organized is theoretically easier than ever. The one thing that hasn't changed from the days of pen and paper-based organization is that the tool is only as effective as its end user.

Technology has always been sold as a solution to make our lives easier, more productive and more enjoyable,

leaving more leisure time that generations past enjoyed. While it's almost universally understood that this utopian future vision from days past is a far cry from reality, personal technology can still be empowering.

And while many of the devices we have access to today are powerful tools, they are often also powerful entertainment devices. It's all about balance. as they say.

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Last month, we asked for your suggestions on the best gadget for back to school.

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Vi Phung writes: Most students don't even know about the existence of what is called a digital notepad. It is

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basically a notepad with embedded electronics to capture and store everything you write so you can transfer it to your computer or PDA. Ifound a $100 digital notepad such as the ACECAD DigiMemo 592 with 32MB of memory much more useful than my $500 iPAO when it comes to taking notes in lectures, After school, the day's notes can be downloaded to a PCand send it to everyone. If you are sick and missed a lecture, no problem, just ask your classmate to take notes on his digital notepad and email you the notes after school. Noneed to beg your classmate to let you borrow his/her lecture notes. No need to spend time lining up at the photocopy machine.

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I think PDAs, being quite small, and with their ability to store tonnes of reminders (versus the standard paper organizers] are quite ideal for students. Price shouldn't bea factor: the cheapest mainstream PDA is a Palm Zire 21, at $118.99. Students could go beyond that and get better ones equipped with a music player [sure, not as good as MP3 players or iPods, but oh well], photo organizers. even one with a 1-megapixel camera and of course there are the tons of free add on programs.

In short, it's a miniature PCsmall enough to fit in the hand. It beats the cell phones that everyone carries around, and it’s one of the few gadgets that can turn that mark of 60 into an 80.

For his letter. Denis wins a copy of McAfee's Internet Security Suite 2005.

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The p910a feels quite natural HP iP/‘tO hi3325 asa phone. With the flip closed.

HP's iPAU h8325 is the a slightly users have access to atraditional more expensive version of the cell phone dial pad. Upon hB320, and forthe extra expense, opening it, convening the device users get an incorporated into PDA mode, a tiny but still camera that takes decent shots usable removable QWERTY at 640x480. keypad useful for composing Leaning more toward the PDA emails.

SMS messages, side of the FDA/phone combo inputting appointments or equation, the h8325 includes a contacts and so on is revealed. tiny snap-on DWERTY thumb The tiny keypad with character board that works well for buttons that are longer than composing notes, emails. SMS they are wide takes some messages etc. but doesn't make getting used to but ts surprismgly usable, despite the fact that the dialing out particularly easy. To individual keys are about 6:35 mm [LxW] spaced 1 mm apart. dial, users either tap buttons on The organizer functions are well thought out and integrate wrtlt the touch screen or hold down existing PCcalendaring and organization programs like Outlook and ggr9599303003 A ‘l the blue secondary function iSync. Some end-users of both software suites have reported u ., . m key to access the number pad. synchronization problems. Weexperienced none using Microsoft‘s Outlook.

Relative to other phones with PDA functions tested here and Said number pad distinct 39 colour only, ustng a darker shade previously, the p910a feels a bit sluggish when opening programs or of grey than the rest of the changing functions. Thanks to its well thought out organization. email and web browsing functions, though, it’s by no means a terminal blow. thumb board Byincorporating WiFi in addition to the GSM/GPRS phone functions, the With onboard utilities for viewing common email attachments such as phone is able to connect to retrieve email, surf the Web or instant Microsoft Word and Excel files and Adobe PDF, the p910a is an excellent message anywhere there's a signal. The fact that it's a smart phone solution for mobile professionals. running Windows Mobile 2003 means native support for widely-used An incorporated VGA [840x480] still camera and 176x144 video office documents like Word and Excel and a wide variety of add-on recorder sweeten the deal.

While users can connect over the cell network (thus incurring data software applications, both free and otherwise.

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Where many smart and PDA phones include options for text entry ‐ touch screen block, handwriting recognition or keypad - Nokia's 6670 sticks with the alphanumeric pad found on any standard phone. Its T9 word completion / recognition makes things easier and, with a few exceptions. works very well to speed up text entry.

As a stand-alone organizer it's lacking [in this case a full‑ function PDA or PDA phone is a better way to go], but synced with a PCwhere appointments are logged and maintained, it works well.

The 6670 is also the smallest of our roundup and as such, and given that it‘s a “world phone [850/900/1800/1900]' it travels nicely.

For good or inthough, it's a phone first and everything else second.

A 1-megapixel camera takes excellent stills and video, and relatively large pictures are automatically scaled down when sent as a multimedia message [MMS].

The 6670 comes preloaded to view common attachment types like Microsoft Office, and PDF documents can be decoded and viewed on the screen‘

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The company has greatly improved the design from the bulky original, shrinking the device and cladding the back in black, tactile rubberized plastic that makes the unit easy and comfortable to hold.

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An MPEG-4 digital video camera, 2-megapixel digital camera, digital audio plagervoice recorder and [for the aforementioned add~ons] "high intensitg LED flashlight" and SD/MMC card reader, the DVx does a l o t But does it doit right?

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lfyou're an Apple fan, the bad news is that the newest iMac line is pret‑ (y pricey thanks to the inclusion of a large LCD screen. The good news isthat you can still get the CRT-based eMac, starting at around $1,000.

Even better news: if you already have a monitor, keyboard and mouse, the ultra-compact Mac Mini starts at just $629. Neither ofthese options will provide you with the highest-end equipment - you're looking at a GAprocessor between 1.33 and 1.4ZGHz. Ifyou need that extra boost of power, the GS-based flat-panel iMac starts at $1,599 for the 17-inch version.

The notebook option If you think that notebooks are only an option if you've got gobs of

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The same basic things apply when you‘re looking for a low-end note‑ book. As with value-oriented desktop machines, low~cost notebooks will have lower-end processors, like the mobile Celeron, and will feature pretty basic graphics components. Because ofthat, they'll be best suit‑ ed for tasks like writing, surfing or checking email.

Ifthat wasn’t bad enough, notebooks have even more limited potential for upgrade; you can increase the RAM in some cases, or swap out the hard drive, but you're stuck with the motherboard, graphics card and screen for as long as you have the notebook. For that reason, it's smart to get the best you can afford, and then borrow a bit more so you can get something even better.

Unfortunately,the cost tends to really add upquickly when you’re get‑ ting a notebook: for a machine that will double as your DVD player and play a few ofthe mid-level games. budget $1,500 to $2,000. Don't even think about buying a notebook that'll play the newest games unless you have cashola coming out of your you-know-what. As an example, the base~level Dell XPS game-friendly notebook is over $2,800, and you can pump it up well over 55,000.

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HUB: Colin, give us an idea ofsome ofthe new features you‘ve devel‑ oped for this version of Photoshop ‐ for example, the one-click red~eye HUB: What about Image Warp? correction, which instantly eliminates this persistent photography Colin: Oh, that's a tremendous feature. It's the same technique that we've had for warping text and we can now apply it to an image and it’s problem.

Colin: Definitely, that’s a beautiful feature. Weactually stole that from really powerful because we can use the typical things we have in Photoshop Elements and we created itjust because of the ease of use Photoshop [fortext] like make it wave like a flag, but then you can also that our customers have in that, our consumer level product. I just just manually move areas. Sofor instance, I extended a model's hair so showed it last night to a bunch of [Photoshop] users and they just that it was blowingin the wind a little bit more and Ijust grabbed it and flipped out, I mean that's something people want ‐ they want us to started warping it and in the past that would have been a difficult job to

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HUB: Another new feature l was really impressed with was the new Vanishing Point tool, which allows you to dynamically clone areas of a photo and paint them into another area while retaining perspective.

Colln: Customers have been using cloning and painting for years, and any time they encounter an image with some level of perspective~ lets say the side ofa building or a sidewalk ora wooden deck, that you can obviously see the change in image as it moves further away from the camera ‑ things get smaller, and trying to clone is difficult because your clone brush is one size.

move that clone brush further from the camera it will get now get small‑ er and if you bring it closer it gets bigger. In fact, I show a demo when I work with customers where I take a deck and l remove a couple of objects from its surface. I can do it with Vanishing Point in under two minutes where before asa professional that job would take me two to three hours to try to clean up.

HUBzAnother improvement that We been looking for a long time for in Photoshop that Adobe has finally addressed is the change to the font menu.

Colln: Yep, that's been a big request for a long time to make the font menu a WYSIWYG menu. I’ve heard that request over the years and the old adage used to be 'Iook, if you're adesigner, you know what font you want.” But most people now have so many fonts that we can't remem‑ ber what they all look like.

HUBt Colin. thanks for speaking with us today.

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Here's a quick overview: Apple Between the Shuffle and the iPod Mini, Apple’s MP3 players continue to be the hottest thing on the block. The Mini line now comes in two flavours: 468 [$249] and SGB [$319], which works out to about 1.000 or 1,500 songs. While there's speculation that an SSS model is right around the corner, there's been no announcement at press time.

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Puzzles, when they do arise, generally aren’t too obtuse either, save for a few really nasty ones that involve lockpicking and baking cookies.

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It's hard n o t to compare Fantastic 4 to the superb X-Men Legends. The two share the same four-character co-operative beat ‘em up gameplay, where the player can switch between each ofthe characters on the fly to access various special moves and combo attacks.

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Perhaps that’s the reason for a plot that seems flat and hurried, with bland levels that seem designed to push the characters through as quickly as possible.

Though uninspired and a tad buggy [the wonky camera especially], Fantastic 4 is hardly a train wreck. The gameplay is decent beat 'em up fare, and the four heroes do have one or two interesting moves. The game's environments are destructible to a degree, and there's a great deal of satisfaction to be had by rampaging around as The Thing reducing the sur‑ roundings to rubble and flinging enemies around like rag dolls.

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Bomberman‘s Nantendo DS debut. in essence. the gameplay of this most recent title remains preserved in amber from toe 1985 versron of Bomberman for the Nintendo Entertainment System“ Bomberman must bomb his way through a 9nd at obstacles ‐ some explodable and some not ‐ collecting powerups, destroy‑ ing enemies, and ultimately trying to lind his way to the end gate before time expires. an enemy touches him. or he accrdentally blows hlmSEll up a whichever comes first.

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Instead, characters travel from one “screen" to the next, with the option to “Move" to the next screen or “Look" at various objects in the sur‑ roundings which can be investigated further [i.e. opening atreasure chest or investigating a suspicious looking tangle ofvines on a wall] Battles, like dialogue, are scripted events that happen at set places throughout the adventure.

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Gone are the days when entire videogames were created by teams of two or three people doubling as programmer, artist, animator, writer, producer, level designer and audio engineer.

And gone too are the days when a bit of self-taught tech know-how and a whole lot ofenthusiasm would guarantee you a job in the industry.

Now, with many of today's games having the production values and technical sophistication of Hollywood movies, it's not surprising that the size of an average production team on an A-Iist title has swelled to the hundreds, with each person filling a highly specialized role.

“Considering the high quality of our games, we really consider a [college oruniversity] degree to bea necessary part of working here," says Frederick Brassard, talent network specialist at Ubisoft Montreal.

Another advantage of getting a degree or diploma in a game-related subject, according to Dave Warfield, program director of the Game Design program at the Vancouver Film School, is that it allows graduates to vault over the traditional game studio entry-level position for unqualified individuals: the demanding, repetitive role of the game tester.

“That's how the industry grew to where it is now, by friends recruiting friends, by starting off as a game tester and moving yourway up.” says Electronic Arts spokesperson Tammy Schachter. “But the industry is now at a crossroads where it has become mainstream entertainment and is on the verge of becoming very, very big business, and we can't continue to grow by trial and error.

“We need to have people entering the business who are already knowledgeable and n o t starting from ground zero.“ Edmonton-based BioWare prefers candidates for programming and tech design positions to have a computer science or software engineering degree as well as a few years of software experience, according to HRCoordinator Leanne Korotash.

For art positions, where creativity and artistic talent is as important as the training, companies may also admit people based onthe strength of a portfolio. But as Theresa Baxter, also an HRCoordinator at BioWare, points out, “a good portfolio will be best supported by receivingtraining from a reputable technical, film, or digital media program.’ For artists, she suggests a degree or diploma in fine ans that combines natural artistic skill with knowledge in digital techniques (modeling, texturing, animation] and popular programs such as Maya.

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Canada's largest game studios frequently trawl for new recruits at Canadian universities and colleges with strong programs in computer science and software engineering [such as the Universities of Victoria.

Alberta, Toronto, Calgary, Western Ontario, Waterloo, Simon Fraserand Dalhousie] and art and animation [such as the University of arms“ Columbia, Emily Carr Institute, Vancouver Film School, Sheridan College and Seneca College].

Several schools also offer specialized game-related courses. Through partnerships with Eegep de Matane and Université cle Sherbrooke.

Montreal‘s Ubisoft Campus [www.ubisoftcampus.com) offers courses in production, programming, 30 animation, 30 modeling and let/El design. Students can take a 45 week college program or PU’SU‘? a graduate degree in computer science or software engineering including courses in programming, digital imaging and electronics.

This April, McMaster‘s Faculty of Engineering introduced the fi'f5( software engineering program in Canada to focus on game lies'En [http://gamer.mcmaster.ca/index.html]. Students completing a bachelor’s degree in software engineering can opt to enter the game design specialization after first year and focus on game-related applications like creating physics and rendering engines and user interfaces to become qualified for the positions of project lead, user interface designer, and core programmer. _ The Vancouver Film School [www.vfs.com] offers a one-year diploma In Game Design. Headed by former Electronic Arts Senior Producer Dave Warfield,the program offers awell-rounded curriculum emphasizing the creative skills of game development, such as game theory, cinematics. art, animation, Storyboarding, creative writing, and

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Regardless of what school a student chooses, the companies we spoke to stressed that it's not necessarilyjust the school, but also what the student absorbs and learns from the education that's important.

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