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...uMusic did a good job of learning my tastes. But it offers too few options for customization and costs too much compared with computer-based solutions, which are free except for the price of your computer. The most obvious problem is the clumsy interface, which appears on your TV screen and makes it impossible to see a list of songs you have marked as favorites or to quickly find a specific song you want to hear. Anyone who has created playlists on a computer will be disappointed to see that uMusic lets you make only one fixed playlist...
...addicted to TV that you feel withdrawal pangs when you're outdoors, Microsoft wants to help. Its new Portable Media Centers, which come in three versions--built by Creative, Samsung and iRiver, respectively--are due out in a few weeks. Each device has a color screen and a hard drive that can store music, pictures and video. It may prove difficult to enjoy a full-length movie on a 3.5-in. screen, but you will have other media from which to choose: Microsoft has partnered with content providers like CinemaNow and Major League Baseball (just in time for the World...
...every aspect of the parts design and don't have to buy other companies' off-the-shelf components," Ishizuka says, "you can integrate the whole package much more tightly and elegantly and often at lower cost." The camera features an impressive 5.1megapixel resolution and a 2.5in. LCD screen packed into an amazingly small body...
...Weiss, whose firm searches for stock pairs that have diverged, says there are hundreds of pairs a day that present opportunity. To keep it simple, he says, stick with pairs of big stocks in the same industry and pairs with similar long-term trading histories. Put them on your screen and wait for them to get out of whack--either when they go in opposite directions or when one severely lags the other for at least three days in a row. Unwind the trade if the divergence persists and your losses reach 3% or after the stocks are back...
...school, or when you leave college, what do you do with your life? There is a sense of adventure there." It helps that the film never resorts to tub thumping. Salles doesn't explicitly lay blame for the social conditions they come across; instead he fills the screen with the real people that his actors, retracing Guevara's and Granado's steps, met and spoke with: dispossessed farmers, poor miners, homeless families and lepers. The stark black-and-white portraits show a population strong with pride. For just a moment, they become the icons. By peering behind the myth, Salles...