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The Second Golden Age of Software
Today's coolest apps live online And some even work when you're disconnected
IF YOU CAN judge a technological epoch by old issues of PC World— and Like to think you can—the early 1990s were a pulse-pounding time for desktop software Rifling through the vintage copies on my bookshelf, I'm struck by how many articles spotlight productivity apps We did a breathless
RTM isn’t the only Web app capable of doing smart things that old-line desktop rivals can’t, The photo editor known as Picnik (www.picnik.com), for example, is
cover story on 1-2-3 for Windows (which
we called “The World’s Easiest Upgrade”),
for instance Ditto for Excel 4.0 (“The First
Smart Spreadsheet”) and Quattro Pro (“The Ultimate 3-D Spreadsheet”)
‘Then software got predictable Mi- crosoft Office blew away whole cate-
gories where competition once thrived
Major applications went through so
many upgrades that they eventually added all the features you wanted— and then larded themselves up with
ones you didn't Also, at bottom, ma programs remained beasts of the
connected era that predated the Web In 2007, though, software is back, bris- ting with a creativity and competitive ness reminiscent of the old days 1' happily gorging on innovative apps that have one thing in common: They are really services that live on the Net,
not programs that sit on my hard drive (Actually, they have another thing in common: They're all free.)
‘The obvious virtue of Web services
is how they let you get to their tools and to your documents from any PC Butthe best of them bring fresh think: ing to every aspect of productivity
Lately, for instance, I've been wrangling projects in Remember the Milk (ww
rmilk.com), a task manager with a near-
perfect balance of simplicity and power Its Tags are much more efficient than Out- ook’s clunky Categories: the whole ser- vice is available in a mobile version that works on my Treo, no syncing required
‘THREE INNOVATIVE WEB applications: (top) Remember the Milk, a task manager; (center)
Picnik, aphoto editor; and Zoho Notebook, an online collaboration program
nowhere near as fancy as Adobe's Photo- shop Elements 5.0, But itcan talk to the Flickr photo-sharing site seamlessly, let- ting you store photos in Flickr and tweak
them in Picnik, And a third app, Zoho Notebook (notebook.zoho.com), outdoes Microsoft OneNote with better features for sharing and publishing brainstorms
Until recently, though, even the best Web services had a doozy of an Achilles’ heel: They depended on the Net to func tion That put them completely out of commission if you were ona plane—or if your connection or that of the service
purveyor was on the fritz,
Which is why several companies are developing technologies that let providers make online services func- tion offline, As I write this, Google's Gears browser add-on is a week old, and the clever Australians at Re- member the Milk have already used it to let you manage tasks when you're disconnected Yank- ing out my ethernet cable and confirming that RTM still worked ‘was a huge “aha!” momer
‘Oh, and consider this: The RTM team consists of two people (and, the service's site says, one stuffed monkey) 1 don’t know how many programmers Microsoft has work- ing on Outlook, but it’s aheck ofa lot
more than that And with Outlook 2007 only months old, it may be years
before there's a big upgrade In other words, 2 couple of enter prising folks have built a better, faster- evolving solution than the world’s largest software company has That's still more evidence that this is an amazing ‘ime for software—and for those of us who depend on itto get stuff done at work, at home, and everywhere in between
‘Harry McCracken is editor in chief of PC World
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What's new and what's next in technology: INSIDE ⁄
TRENDS
EDITED BY EDWARD
WITH ITS EMPIRE EXPANDING, THE SEARCH GIANT CAN HAVE AN UNPRECEDENTED BREADTH OF KNOWLEDGE ABOUT YOU CAN WE TRUST IT WITH SO MUCH DATA? 5
FROM SEARCH TO e-mail, from calendars to spread sheets and text documents,
man, companies face many risks when they use online sofiware services suchas Goo- gle’s, namely loss of privacy, lack of physical data security and lack of control over data retention Who can access your Google-hosted data, and when, and under what cir
Google itself has full access to your files,
more and more of what PC
users read and create flows through one firm: Google
Google's pending purchase of online advertising giant
DoubleClick (the deal awaited Federal Trade Commission
cumstance:
approval as we went to press)
will give it access to yet more which are unencrypted In fact, searching and indexing stored data are essential if Google is to continue serving
its contextual advertising,
information: the Web brows-
ing histories collected by mil-
lions of DoubleClick cookies Combine that data with what
Google already knows through its homegrown services
Google Apps, Gmail, Google on page 20) The question is, nesses, tonamea few? Privacy SHOULD GOOGLE RECEIVE Calendar, Google Maps, can you trust Google with all and security experts say that approval for its acquisition of
Google Desktop, and many that information about you? the risk is significant, even if DoubleClick, it could become
others—and the company has And even if you trust Google, Google sticks to its famous the single largest custodian
the potential to know more — what about other groups that “Don’t Be Evil” motto of Internet user search and about you than any one entity may try toaccessall that infor- According to Harvard Busi- browsing histories, with few everhas (See the chart, “What mation—government agen- ness School assistant profes- legal restrictions on using that Google Knows About You,” cies, hackers, and rival busi- sor and researcher Ben Edel- data or sharing it with third
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Information Center filed a
complaint with the FTC, which must approve the deal, asking it to investigate the
ability of Google to record and profile the activities of Inter- net users, whether they are personally identifiable or not
(find peworld.com/57487)
‘The FTC appears to be tak-
ing the matter serioush questing additional informa- tion from both Google and DoubleClick The European Union’s privacy agency and
the New York State Consumer Protection Board are also con-
cemed about the purchase’s effect on browsing privacy
A Google FAQ page,
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“You're accepting dramati cally increased {file manage- ment] complexity—maybe for good reason—in order to get
the benefit of having Google engineers keep everything running for you,” observes
Edelman He says that busi- nesses need to consider not
only the benefits of outsoure- ing server management but
also the drawbacks of having to keep local versions of docu- ments synchronized with the Google-hosted versions
Despite the uncertainty of
Google’s plans for your per sonal data, the company itself
is probably the least of your
worries Instead, warns Edel-
Google must comply with search warrants and subpoe- nas in civil or criminal cases that target your data, just as you would if you stored your data on your own servers The difference, however, is that Google has no obligation to nform you that it has received sucha warrant and has turned over your files to the authori ties, “You lose both factual and legal control over your documents if you use an on- line service like Google,” says former Department of Justice computer crime unit head Mark Rasch, current manag ing director of technology for forensic consulting firm FTL
in Washington, D.C
however, insists that “You loge both factual “Gavel Appsmakes the acquisition, far
from endangering pri- vacy, will improve it
and that the company and legal control over [the situation] even worse,” Rasch adds, explaining: “Thisis not just communications, remains commited YOUT documents if wsalmydeeumens to respecting users’ privacy preferences
(see the FAQ at find you use an online and spreadsheets that are subject to subpoe-
na, search warrant, or
peworld.com/57485) service like G oogle.’ civil discovery The
Another danger in switching to hosted services like Google Docs and Spread- sheets and Google Calendar is that of losing access to your data What happens when the
office DSL connection goes down? And how would you make last minute changes to, say, a critical spreadsheet while you're flying coast-to-
coast? The recent launch of
Google Gears (find, peworld
com/57479), which will let you use online apps from
Google and other companies
without an Internet connec-
ion, promises to overcome this limitation, but the service likely won't become widely available for several months Until then, your data is off limits when you're offline
man, hackers or your busi- ness’s competitors could try to infiltrate your Google ac counts via forged documents or other illegal methods
WARRANT SEARCH
THE GOVERNMENT, TOO,
might like to see what's in
your Gmail inbox and your Docs and Spreadsheets files, including when you created, accessed, or deleted the data Since you identify yourself whenever you sign in to your account, Google could use
logs for the originating IP address of account activity,
combined with ISP logs, to help confirm that it really was you who updated that spread: sheet or wrote that e-mail
hard partis that Goo- gle is under no legal obliga- tion to notify me, and in par-
they're going to be prohibited from notifying me.”
Being left in the dark about these types of searches can
also result in serious liabi ties should your files contain
sensitive client data and com- munications “Let's say I'm a lawyer, and I've got privileged nformation that I store using
a Gmail account,” Rasch con-
tinues “The government
seizes that Gmail account and reads my files Under the law,
I must assert the attorney- client privilege, or 1 have waived i” he explains
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searches, you have waived ucts, including Microsoft Ex- Sofar,SEBay hashadapos that privilege Only strong changeand other systemsthat itive experience with Google encryption—a technology he would have to install and Apps, which it uses for such Google currently does not maintain in-house He select: tools as a shared phone-call support—offers real privacy ed Google Apps Premier Edi- log that receptionists, nurses, protection for documents kept tion (the ad-free commercial and physicians can view and online, according to Rasch version of Google Apps) be- update Though core features Harvard’s Edelman recom- cause of Google’s good repu- are still being rolled out, John
mends using Google services
iustfor specie businssdox You've got to try to keep other
uments in which collabora tion among geographically
dispersed teams is unusually people from doing evil with
important “I wouldn't move
my whole business onto your magic And that’s a
Google Apps,” he counsels ;
Google Apps and similar harder step to take
Web services certainly have
appeal for many small and tation and his staff's familiar- son has configured SFBay’:
medium-size businesses ity with Gmail Also, the Google Apps account to com
‘When San Francisco's SFBay Google services free the prac- ply with the priv y rules of
Pediatrics, a midsize practice, tice from setting up a signifi- the Department of Health and went looking for an interof- cant IT structure “We don’t Human Services’s Health fice communications, sched- want to spend the time track- Insurance Portability and
uling, and calendaring sys- ing downserverissues, main- Accountability (HIPAA) regu- tem, CIO Andrew Johnson taining servers, and paying lations, “We're taking it in lit considered “a slew” of prod- up-front costs,” Johnson says tle baby steps,” Johnson adds
PRIVACY
WHAT GOOGLE KNOWS ABOUT YOU
RELYING ON GOOGLE'S free services can boost your productivity, but they may also put your privacy on the line, your business at risk, and your data out of reach
Privacy: Tin Your searchhistoy to your browsing acts via the DoubleCick advertising network gies
Geogle Search the company a much more detailed view of your onlin activities,
‘Privacy The outing information ae content of our nạ-induẩng an ttachments-reside unencrypted Gmail ‘on Google servers Legal abit: Los of or unauthorized acceso, business correspondence increases your company’s ga exposure,
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Spreadsheets tions supporting Googie Gears arrive, you lose acces to your files when your Internet connection fis
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Privay: gf your product searches coud be associated with your browsing story va he pending Google Product Search | Srinetiexseeusten, 20 www worto.com / august 2007
SECRET LIFE OF FILES
GOOGLE’S ONLINE TROVE of
sensitive personal and busi-
ness data is proving attractive
to law enforcement agencies,
a fact not loston the company: Last year it successfully ward
ed offa Department of Justice
subpoena demanding mil ns of search queries (This
request, the company coun:
tered, was excessive and an
invasion of user privacy.)
“The search giantalso recent ly announced that it would begin deleting 1P address information—which can be
used to identify users—from its logs after 18 months How: ever, these steps may not be
enough to reassure the most security-conscious users of
Google applications
“Even if you trust the ser- Vice to do the right thing with the data, which I tend to do in the case of Google,” says
Lauren Weinstein, cofounder
of People for Internet Respon-
sibility, “it doesn’t mean that
someone won't come along and make demands for access to that data that wouldn't oc cur if the data was on your own machine.”
Weinstein worries that if companies such as Google don't take a stronger role in protecting user privacy, less: savvy groups, including legis- lators, judges, and federal government agencies, may feel obliged to step in with solutions that could hamper all online services “Not being exil is good, but it’s not good enouigh,” Weinstein says
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Net Criminals Will Evade Vista's Defenses
THE NEW VERSION OF WINDOWS IS MORE SECURE, BUT IT WON'T END WEB ATTACKS
WINDOWS VISTA PROMISES better security—and Micro soft has indeed built stronger protections into its newest 8 But the thriving throngs of online criminals already
have plans to keep their mal- ware alive and kicking
‘Some malware can already do its nefarious work under Vista, owing partly to Micro- softs efforts to let legacy XP programs run on Vista Vlad Gorelik, chief technology officer of Sana Security, says
that out of a few hundred
malware samples his com- pany regularly works with on XP, about 30 percent ran un- der Vista without any modifi- cations Other nasties will need only minor changes, say security experts Fake alerts asking to confirm Win- dows activation (as pictured) or seeking credit card or bank details, and other familiar social-engineering tricks, will become more sophisticated and more common so as to evade Vista’s defenses And you'll see more Web-based threats that can steal data
SECURITY TIPS
Activation of Windows
passing through any browser Vista does make it harder for malicious software to sur- reptitiously install itself on your computer, Where mal- ware might be blocked by Vista's User Access Control, for instance, you can expect social engineering to play an
ever greater rol
and Joe Stewart, a senior secu- rity researcher with Secure- Works UAC tries to limit mal- ware's reach by denying it automatic permission to alter important system files If a user ora program attempts to make such changes, a pop-up that requires the user to ap: prove the action appears
to block a program entirely or to give it free rein on Peete) your computer—which ee many experts considera
DR design flaw So if hack-
AIMPM — ers can trick you into
EESLUNGi [TNEI ARECENT ATTACK used a convincing Windows Activation pop-up to trick users into giving sensitive data Expect more of such tactics
Problem is, malware writers know that if they can get a user to click ‘OK’ just once, they can circumvent UAC Gorelik is surprised he hasn't yet seen attack programs that force a UAC prompt in order to run amok on your PC, counting on u
say Gorelik be
ng past the pop-ups
Stewart agrees that UAC ‘won't be much ofa barrier, be- cause people “have to make the right decision about what they're going to nun every time It just takes one thing to get through and disable UAC.”
Worse, UAC allows only two options for installation— ers’ having sustomed to brush- mea
3 WAYS TO PROTECT YOURSELF
1 Stay sharp to counter social engineering More than ever, you should distrust any unex- pected e-mail attachment, even if it appears to come from someone you know The same goes for e-mail links-always use a bookmark or type in the URL to access your accounts
2 Use a strong, unique password for each important site Multiple passwords reduce the risk of giving thieves easy access to all
22 www.rcworo.com / aucust 2007
your accounts and services And excellent free tools such as Stanford's Password Hash (find peworld.com/57417) can take care of
remembering them all for you
3 Test downloaded programs you're unsure ‘of Upload the suspect file (if t's 10MB or less) to Virustotal.com, which scans submissions using multiple antivirus engines to catch mal- ware that any one antivirus app may miss
forming the installation,
either with a convincing pop- up or by burying their mal ware in screen savers or other normally benign downloads,
for example, they can set up
shop on your system—and
UAC no longer matters
BROWSER THREATS
SECURITY EXPERTS ALSO war that you can expect to see more Web-based threats that work despite Vista's Pro- tected Mode for Internet Ex plorer 7 Protected Mode is a smart approach that limits the ability of IE—or an exploit that takes over the brow: to expand into the rest of the operating system, even be- yond the limitations that UAC imposes But many Web based attacks can work even in Protected Mode, using malicious JavaScript to try to steal data from online ac-
=
counts (as in a recent fake auction that started on eBay but sent people to a phishing
site) These attacks don’t need
to access system files—they
just need to steal the data that passes through the browser
Such attacks are both more
limited and more powerful
than malware that installs a
file on a computer because
they can hit a range of brows- ers and OSs, but disappear when you close your browser
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Phone Services Tame Voice Mail
YOU HAVE NEW WAYS 2scripts were quite good,
‘meeting the company’s claim TO HEAR-OR READ- 06 90 t0 95 percent or better THE MESSAGES THAT ®t" The transcripts ar
rive via e-mail (along with a
MATTER AND SKIP digital audio fie ofthe mes- GoTVo1Ce ts ONE ot several services that elpyou manage vice
THOSE THAT DON'T sage) within moments; you mail, presenting messages as digital audio files in a Web interface
can also access your messages
TIRED OF WADING through and audio files over the Web ing to call your voice-mail 5 minutes' worth of voice SimulScribe forwards your number; but you must sub: mail to hear a vital message unanswered calls toa phone scribe to SimulScribe to re
from your boss? A gaggle of number that it assigns toyou ceive text transcripts as wel
new services, including Got You can still access and man- United Kingdom-based
Voice, SimulScribe,and Spin- age your voice mail via cell SpinVox (spinvox.com), a Vox, address the problem by phone (but not through your speech-to-text service that turning voice recordings into carrier's usual voice-mail key) hasn’t fully launched in the
digital audio or even text files You may not be able to use —_ United States, claims to tran-
youcanaccess viathe Web or SimulScribe with carriers for scribe not just voice mail but e-mail Using caller ID to which call forwarding is prob- also memos, blogentties, and identify the source, they let lematic, and you may be stuck SMS text messages that you you process the most impor- with long-distance or call- dictate into your cell phone tant messages first and the forwarding fees In addition, However, it offers no Web rest when it's convenient, because your voice mail is no interface—you get transcripts
I tried some services and longer integrated with your via e-mail or text message—
found that they can be useful cell phone service, you may and you don’t getan audio file for business peoplewho typi- not realize that you have new (you must access your voice cally wade through at least messages unless you opt to mail as usual to hear it) We halfa dozen messages sever- receive SMS notifications, _ were unable to test the ser altimesa day But there area which also could be costly vice’s voice-mail capabilities few drawbacks, and casual Most of these problems go GotVoice (gotvoice.com) voice-mail users will probably away, though, if your carrier takes a simpler approach that
find the most robust, fee- partners with SimulScribe; has universal inbox appeal: It based offerings too pric Vonage, for example, now of: calls your usual voice-mail
The latest wrinkle in this fersitasa premium service _ numbers, records the mes- area is the use of speech-to- sages, and presents them to text technology to convert, DIGITAL AUDIO FILES ous using caller ID toidentify voice mail into text messages SIMULSCRIBE RECENTLY the senders) as digital audio
SimulScribe (simulscribe rolled out the free beta of a _ files in a Web interface The com) leads the pack with @ variant called SimulSays for service automatically checks
$10-per-month service that BlackBerry Pearl and Black- for voice mail three times a transcribes up to 40 messag- Berry 8800 devices; a Win- day on up to two phones and
es amonth, after which you — dows Mobile version should _notifies you through e-mail
pay 25 cents per call be available by the time you when messages are waiting, That can get expensive if read this SimulSays allows You can also initiate up to 12 you have enough messages you to manage digital audio voice-mail checks daily to benefit from the service recordings of your voice mail On top of that, GotVoice lets In my tests, however, call on your handset without hav- you send up to 15 voice-mail 24 www worto.com / avcust 2007 messages a month to groups of up to five phones—useful for quickly notifying family of
a schedule change, say
FREE OPTIONS
THE FREE GOTVOICE service is supported by Google-like ads that appear when you play voice-mail files A $10-a-month premium service eliminates ads, supports three phones, and ups usage limits
Another free service, Call Wave (callwave.com) also generates digital audio files from voice mail But like Si- mulScribe, CallWave works only if you can forward your unanswered calls, and it sup: ports only one phone num ber (The company recently announced a speech-to-text service called Vist that prom: ises to transcribe only enough of a message to help you de- cide whether it’s important)
Services like these that de- pend on voice input are just getting into high gear; they can be pricey, and you may find that they take longer to tell you about new messages than the traditional system does But if your voice-mail in- bos is chronically overstuffed, one of these services might help you dig through it
—Yardena Arar
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NEWS & TRENDS / USER INTERFACE
Microsoft's Multitouch Table Computer
THE SURFACE PC WILL SHOW UP IN HOTELS, CASINOS, AND T-MOBILE STORES IN NOVEMBER
ware project intriguingly YOU PROBABLY WON'T use Surface to mixes elements of the futur build your next spreadsheet But it's a istic interface from Minority 00d way for agroup tolook at phates, Report, the iPhone touch sys plana trip on a huge map, or just order tem, and the exterior design drinks ata restaurant
of old Pac-Man gam ing tables Surface as Microsoft is call in a Windows Vista PC, a short-throw DLP projector ind five camer
‘SURFACE WILL RECOGNIZE up to '52 points of touch at any one time,
‘thanks to five cameras within the table that are trained on over-
3s, all built in:
to a cocktail lapping sections of the top As with Apple's iPhone, you can use two fingers to stretch or shrink a photo You can also rotate ashot, toss It to the side, or stack it with others table witha
translucent top
You can forget about a keyboard and mouse when you interactwith Surface In- stead, you use your fingers- and your friends use theirs,
too—to handle images and data Mark Bolger, director of marketing for Microsoft's consumer productivity expe riences group, says, “This is 2 NUI—a natural user inter face It’s a natural way for people to interact with digital
content using their hands Users can control informa tion with the flick of a hand Surface will also interact with objects placed on top of it
The first-generation Sur- face will be too expensive for
homes, Microsoft says In
stead, you'll see the units in casinos, hotels, and stores run by the company’s partners Harrah’s Entertainment International Game Tech:
nologies, Starwood Hotels,
and T-Mobile To see a slide
show about Surface, visit WHEN YOU PLACE objects on Surface that it recognizes, it will supply information about them Another 575 trick: Place a camera on the tabletop, and its images will automatically transfer to Surface
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COVERING OS SECURITY
1'VE NoTICED A disturbing trend in cov-
erage of operating system security In your June issue, Ryan Naraine’s “Vista Security” [News and Trends] is a prime
example—an article pointing out security “holes.” But what | am not seeing is how these exploits are being used
For example, Naraine talks about the Microsoft problem with animated cursor files Yet he does not say who is being attacked, and what Web sites (or e-mail
attachments) are creating the problem
I see this all the time in technology re- porting Are we reading articles that are
HOT TOPICS IN FORUMS
LETTERS
LETTERS@PCWORLD.CoM
TURN OFF THOSE NOT-SO-RELIABLE VISTA V$ LINUX- AUTO GADGETS! HARD DISKS DEBATE CONTINUES
there for the pure excitement of say ing “Vista has a security hole,” or
are we reading about a real-world problem? If the latter, you should
give usall the gory details In shor, has it just become fun to take shots at Microsoft when a hole is found in its millions of nes of code, or are you trying to make people understand that PCs require tune-ups (patches) and oil changes (anti- virus software), just like the family car?
Larry R Flowers, Buford, Georgia Editor's reply: Our print articles tend not to cover particular attacks-the details would be old by the time the story appeared In- stead, they focus on trends and what to look out for “Vista Security,” for example, noted that the new OS will likely be safer than XP, but that attacks can and will con- tinue, so people shouldn't let their guard down Online, in blog postings and news alerts, we often report specific attacks on a day-to-day basis Erik Larkin
Vista Advice; Can the Net Be Saved?
PARTICIPATE IN OUR community dis cussions on these and other topics by heading to find.pcworld.com/S5I65 ‘Transferring files to a Vista PC from an XP PC: Go to www.xdrive.com, You can set up online storage accounts with 56B {for free Upload your files from your XP laptop, and then download them to your Vista laptop mphenterprises
‘Connecting a Vista laptop to unsecured Wireless networks: it says ‘limited con- nectivity’, you could go to Start, Con- trol Panel, Network and Sharing Center (on Classic view), Manage Network Con-
nections, right-click the wireless net- work connection and disable, then right- click and enable, then try connecting Your firewall and antivirus software ‘may pop up telling you to create a pro file for this network or to choose your status-home, away, office Select home; the firewall must think the network is not a threat ~abercoreyinfitch
‘Shut down the Internet? Despite all ef- forts to stop attacks by using antima ware programs, maybe the best course is to shut down the Net Drastic, yes, but it no longer seems that the Net's good outweighs the bad ~backpack
DRIVING AND BROWSING
REGARDING YOUR ARTICLE on cars
being equipped with Internet access and MP3 players [*Cruising the Internet at 70
MPH,” Gadget Freak, May} If | am driv- ing acar, the only thing I should be doing is driving my car—nothing else Why do cars of the future need all these gadgets?
We don't need better cars or better roads
what we need are better drivers—people
who realize that driving a car on tod:
roads is a tough job all on its own, a job
that demands 100 percent concentration,
with 0 percent distraction,
T'l be sure to stay off the roads in the near future—especially if all the other drivers are surfing the highway to hell
Jim Papastamos, Hamilton, Ontario SEARCH ENGINES
IN YOUR JUNE issue's “Search Engine
Shoot-Out,” Jeff Bertolucci overlooked
Copemic Agent Basic [find peworld.com/ 57461], free search engine that I've used exclusively for the past four years In my experience itis better than any of the oth- cers you reviewed It has no pop-upads or
banners It is easy to use and combines the resources of 12 search engines, includ: ing AlltheWeb, AltaVista, AOL Search, Ask.com, Lycos, MSN Web Search, and
Yahoo Copernic is quick, and it provides more relevant results than any other search tool that I've ever tried
David Ferrera, Baltimore
HARD-DISK FAILURES
YOUR ARTICLE “HARD-DRIVE Failures Surprisingly Frequent” [News and Trends, June] may have uncovered something As a physician and IT manager for several practices, I have had experience with hard disks dating back to the 1980s Until recently, hard-disk failures seemed >ˆ
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LETTERS ⁄
among the least likely of all causes for
mputer crashes Then, to my amaze- ment, a 320GB hard drive, six months old, failed 1t was accessed only once a
week, for 15 to 20 minutes, and kept in
its own case, so ventilation was not an is-
sue, Disk manufacturers, in their search for more data storage, may have run into a new limiting factor: As mechanical parts get smaller, they get weaker
More than ever, we must implement redundant backups: some to disk, some
to optical storage, and some to the Web
Paul DeLeeuw, M.D, Fort Myers, Florida
VISTA VS LINUX
TWO POINTS IN the May issue need clar- ification Contrary to a Microsoft execu- tive’s claims in “Real Obstacles for the Virtual PC” [Techlog], it is Vista, not CPU level virtualization, that is insecure Linux does not have these problems And Vista is such a resource hog that you must de- vote half'a dual processor to holding Vista’s
hand while the other half does the work
“Real-World Vista” [News and Trends in the same issue, dedicates three pages
to documenting a less-than-mediocre op- erating system Linux, on the other hand,
is an awesome OS: secure, fast, stable,
configurable, easy to install and use, and customizable fora minimalist user inter: face or the ultimate in glitz
Eric Skalwold, Ithaca, New York
Mosr OF THE letters you publish seem
to bash Vista In early February we pur
chased a new economy-priced PC with
the Vista Home Premium OS tt installed most sofiware without problems; a few (chiefly older) programs would not install at all, but I soon found alternates The
upshot: We like our PC with Vista very
much: it cost less than a Mac, and it does
not have the idiosyncrasies of Linux What surprises me most, though, is all the whining about Vista’s User Account
Control For years, writers have criticized
Microsoft for having poor security Now that UACis there to help prevent unwant- ced system changes, some people want to disable it They say that it pops up all the time and is so annoying Ifthat were the most annoying thing I had to deal with, that would be a good day!
Eldon Witmer, Manheim, Pennsylvania
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* ATl Mobility Radeon™ X1600 graphics
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Trang 37AMDFI TurionS MOBILE TECHNOLOGY * AMD Turion” 64 X2 Dual-Core Mobile Technology TL-56 * Genuine Windows Vista® Ultimate s 2GB DDR2 667 SDRAM * 160GB hard drive ® External Super-Multi drive (DVD+R, DVD-R, DVD-RAM) * 5-in-1 card reader © 12.1" WXGA (1280 x 800) TFT display, Acer CrystalBrite Technology
Trang 38Acer® LCDs Acer AL2616Wd +255" wide-screen TFT LCD + 1920 x 1200 native resolution + 800:1 contrast ratio
+ 1600:1 dynamic contrast ratio + 178° horizontal viewing angle + 178° vertical viewing angle
+ VGA, DVED (HDCP) signal connectors + 500 cdi brightness
* Sms gray-to-gray response time + Internal power adapter + Silver color $699 (ETG16WP001) ‘Acer AL2216Wbd' * 22" widescreenTFT LCD * 1680 x 1050 native resolution, + 700:1 contrast ratio
+ 170° horizontal viewing angle + 160° vertical viewing angle
VGA, DVI-D (HDCP) signal connectors + 300 cdi? brightness + Sms response time * Internal power adapter + Black color $259 (ET2216B.0D0) Acer AL1916W Abd + 19” wiđe-screen TFT LCD + 1440x900 nate resolulon + 70011 contrastrato + 150° horizomtalviewing angle * 135° vertial vieuing angle + VGA,DVLD sigal connectors * 300 cứfm brightness ‘+ Sms response time + Internal power adapter + Black color $189 (ET.19168.WDA) Acer AL2416WBsd 8 24 wide-screen TFT LOD + 1920 x 1200 native resolution + 1000:1 contrast ratio + 160° horizontal viewing angle + 160° vertical viewing angle * VGA,DVLD (HDCP) signal connectors 1 * 400 cdi brightness 25m ray to gray response + Internal power adapter time ‘© Silver color Ee 3 (ETF16WPB02) ‘Acer AL1917 Cbmd * 19" TFT LCD * 1280 x 1024 native resolution * 700:1 contrast ratio
* 150° horizontal viewing angle * 135° vertical viewing angle ‘Two 1.0W integrated speakers * VGA, DVL-D signal connectors + 300 cdi? brightness * Sms response time * Internal power adapter * Black color $205 (ET.1917B.0DC) ‘Acer ALI717 Fod I THLO ‘+1280 x 1024 native resolution ++ 800:1 contrast ratio
Trang 39Prices show are ertinuted steak prces and mot cle’ Uk o shipping Rataller reel price! may sàn, Acer® Aspire® 3100 ‘Acer Signalup
This technology strategically positions two PIFA antennas on the notebook’s top panel to generate an omni-directional signal sphere for superior Wireless reception
* Mobile AMD Sempron™ Processor 3500+
* Genuine Windows Vista® Home Basic Easy-to-use software designed to automatically spit the s 512MB DDR2 SDRAM screen in up to four separate windows and make the © 80GB? hard drive ‘most of available screen space
© Integrated Super-Multi drive (DVD+R, DVD-R, DVD-RAM) ® 5-in-1 card reader
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+ 15.4" WXGA (1280 x 800) TFT display, Acer CrystalBrite Technology DiskAnt-Shock Protection isa techology that safe quar the hard disk against knocks and provides an
* Integrated ATI Radeon™ Xpress 1100 graphics mre ee im coieh s 802.11b/g WLAN, 10/100 LAN, V.92 modem
* One-year limited warranty’
= Acer QuickCharge
> & Ss @ Found on select models, Acer QuickCharge technology
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Acer Aspire 3100-1405
$599
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Dual-Core Processor
* Genuine Windows Vista® Home Premium or
- Genuine Windows Vista® Home Basic
* DVD-Dual drive (DVD+/-RW)
* 9-in-1 card reader
*® Integrated NVIDIA® GeForce° 6100 and NVIDIA® nForce® 430 graphics
* Gigabit LAN, V.92 modem
â PS/2đ-style keyboard and mouse â One-year limited warranty*
Display sold separately,
Acer Aspire T180-UD381A Acer Aspire AST180-UA380A
‘AMD Athlon" 64 X2 Dual-Core Processor 3800+ AMD Athlon” 64 Processor 3800+ Genuine Windows Vista® Home Premium Genuine Windows Vista® Home Premium 11GB DDR2 SDRAM and 250GB” SATA hard drive 1GB DDR2 SDRAM and 160GB? SATA hard drive
Acer Aspire AST180-US340B
$359
AMD Sempron” Processor 3400+ Genuine Windows Vista® Home Basic
‘Prices shown are estimated street prices and do not incude tax or sipping Retailer of reseller pices may vay 512MB DDR2 SDRAM and 160GB” SATA hard drive