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	<title>Disconnect Effect: What to do if going offline prompts a panic</title>
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Tech: Relaxing on the beach in Rehoboth earlier this month&#44; Ben Thompson scooped up all of his things in a flash as an unexpectedly strong wave flooded the sand where his belongings sat&#46; As the wave made its return to the sea&#44; Thompson&#38;rsquo&#59;s iPhone slipped from his hand and tumbled in&#46; He dropped everything else to rescue his connection to the rest of the world &#45;&#45; including his boyfriend back home in D&#46;C&#46; But it was too late&#46; &#38;ldquo&#59;I tried to turn it off and it just continuously kept rebooting&#44;&#38;rdquo&#59; he says of the phone&#44; which had become more useful as a paperweight&#46; While his iPhone&#38;rsquo&#59;s drowning didn&#38;rsquo&#59;t ruin Thompson&#38;rsquo&#59;s trip&#44; he realized how dependent he was on instantaneous connection&#58; &#38;ldquo&#59;I had to go through sort of a proxy to reach my boyfriend&#46; Even if I wanted to contact my friends who weren&#38;rsquo&#59;t with me&#44; I had to ask another friend for a phone&#46;&#38;rdquo&#59; ... (more)]]></description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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	<title>Sentimental Screening: It&#39;s not just the tech that makes a great home theater &#150; it&#39;s the audience</title>
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Tech: In the country that gave the world Hollywood&#44; the home theater may be particularly at home&#46; Certainly it&#39;s a popular amenity at America&#39;s most famous home at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave&#46; According to the online WhiteHouseMuseum&#46;org&#44; Jimmy Carter even screened Midnight Cowboy in the White House &#34;Family Theater&#46;&#34; For the rest of us&#44; &#34;home theater&#34; may be a nebulous term that can range from a used TV and the speakers within&#44; to elaborate&#44; custom&#45;made arrangements of screens hidden in walls and audio systems that can rattle your bones&#46; With the Academy Awards &#45;&#45; aka the gay Super Bowl &#45;&#45; heading to a TV near you Feb&#46; 22&#44; it&#39;s a good time to take a closer look at what&#39;s important on the home&#45;viewing front&#46; &#34;I don&#39;t ever have a &#39;home theater&#44;&#39;&#34; admits Margaret Murray&#44; executive director of One In Ten&#44; the local group behind the annual Reel Affirmations gay film festival&#46; &#34;I don&#39;t know that it makes a difference anymore&#46; Now&#44; no matter what the event is&#44; people are logging into Google&#46; During every little red&#45;carpet moment&#44; people open their laptops&#46;&#34;  ... (more)]]></description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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	<title>Tube Talk: High&#45;quality&#44; high&#45;def might not come cheap&#44; but TV prices are falling</title>
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Tech: Let the games begin &#45;&#45; and not just football&#46; This weekend&#44; specifically this Friday&#44; is traditionally the kickoff to the best deals you&#39;ll find on televisions all year&#46; And wouldn&#39;t you rather scrimmage at home with the best TV your money can buy&#63; Prices at national retailers are already down a couple hundred dollars from just a few weeks ago&#44; according to HDGuru&#46;com&#46; Further&#44; many major stores offer &#39;&#39;price protection&#39;&#39; up to 30 days after purchase&#46; That means that even if prices continue to drop&#44; you may be able to score a refund on the difference&#46; Ten years into the high&#45;def revolution&#44; fewer and fewer people are buying old&#45;school TVs with clunky&#44; cathode&#45;ray tubes&#46; But while they&#39;re nearly obsolete&#44; it&#39;s still hard to find a high&#45;quality&#44; high&#45;definition TV for less than &#36;500 &#45;&#45; certainly not one with a screen larger than 32 inches&#46; Still&#44; you can do better than last year&#39;s threshold price of &#36;1&#44;000 for a good set&#46; Just a few days ago&#44; Best Buy offered a Samsung 32&#45;inch LCD TV for only &#36;499&#46; A Samsung 42&#45;inch plasma was retailing for less than &#36;900&#46;  ... (more)]]></description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 27 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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	<title>Vanquishing Viruses: Start the scholastic season with a freshly cleaned computer</title>
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Tech: There&#39;s no easy way to tell that while you were having cyber sex with DpntGayMsl&#44; your computer caught something nasty&#44; whether it&#39;s a virus or some nasty spyware lurking about your hard drive&#39;s innards&#46; You may not know what that means exactly&#44; but you can feel it in the click&#46; Your computer is slow&#46; Pop&#45;up windows overcrowd your monitor even when you&#39;re not connected to the Internet&#46; You can just tell there&#39;s something wrong&#46; &#39;&#39;There&#39;s a number of ways that viruses and spyware can get into your computer&#44;&#39;&#39; says William Cesarei&#44; owner of Arlington&#45;based Ask1expert&#44; explaining that spyware collects information&#44; usually without appropriate notice and consent&#46;  ... (more)]]></description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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