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The old adage "an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of
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said adage uses the antiquated imperial system of
measurement. Perhaps we should update the cliche for today
so that 28.35 grams of prevention is worth .4535 kg of cure.
Doesn't have quite the same ring but the point remains; a small
preventative measure is infinitely more valuable before disaster
strikes than a large and involving (and likely expensive) fix after
the fact.
Take, for example, a friend and associate of mine. No names.
He spilled what he claimed was coffee all over his laptop
keyboard. Everyone knew the truth and he did finally confess
that it was in fact wine that spilled and fried his computer. His
older model Dell laptop wasn't particularly valuable but the data
it contained was. And it, along with the laptop, was gone. A
couple of weeks, more than $1,000 worth of data recovery
service and a new laptop later, he was back up and running. All
his important work files, personal pictures, his music collection,
abunch of files that were sitting on his desktop and more were
recovered and arrived via courier on DVDs. An expensive class,
but an important lesson nonetheless.
In this scenario, my associate had no backup routine for his
laptop. He had no contingency plan for what he'd do if disaster
struck which, as any long-time computer user will tell you, it
eventually will. Had he opted to backup his computer even once
a week say on a Friday, before leaving the office for the
weekend, he would have been able to simply restore his files
upon receiving his replacement laptop. At most, he would have
lost a week's worth of work. Since this incident happened on a
weekend (as wine spilling accidents are wont to do) he wouldn't
have lost anything save the couple of hours required to take
data from the backup source to his new laptop, and,
presumably, his glass of wine.
We're all apt to feel the "won't happen to me" syndrome. But
whether through coffee (or wine) on the keyboard or the laptop
being dropped, lost, left behind or stolen, it has to happen to
someone. The law of averages suggests that one day it will be
your turn.
Ihave had no fewer than three laptops lost (once) or stolen
(twice). It's always upsetting but since I do all my work from a
USB key and keep my data in the cloud, it's never too disruptive
to my work. Personal pictures, videos, documents and files are
kept on my desktop at home. Connected to a NAS drive
(network attached storage), my backup routine is simple,
predictable and reliable. Every evening before shutting down or
at 3 a.m. if it's left on over night, the computer does a scan
and backs up any new data. Since this happens every day, it
takes no time at all.
Should I loose my USB key along with my laptop, that would be
a bit of a killer. However, I'd only lose as much data as I created
since the last time the USB key was plugged in to either my
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that it hasn't seen before. That includes files that have been
modified since the last time it was plugged in. It does the same
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key, it backs up again. So, unless I were to lose my laptop, lose
myUSE key, and have my office and home computers stolen all
in the span of a day (I suppose stranger things have
happened...) I feel pretty secure with my backup routine. And
even if 1:he above scenario did play out, I'd still have all my e-
mail, ccmplete with attachments. All of the copy that makes up
HUB:The Computer Paper would be safe too with edited copy
sitting in my Google Docs folders online and on the content
management system we use to organize the magazine process
called, (appropriately enough) Magazine Manager, and raw copy
still safely in my Gmail inbox.
As we turn our thoughts to securing our work and personal
files from prying eyes and securing our documents and
personal property against sticky fingers, we need to think also
about how to make sure we have at the very least one safe,
current and usable backup of our data should the worst case
scenario arise.
Did you know that October is "cyber security month?" Me
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month or what the impetus might be (or whether they're truly
qualified to go messing with the calendars like that) but hey, the
timing couldn't be better for us, given that this is our IT security
issue. And cyber security month is as good a reason to
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I have a Lite-On brand internal DVD burner in my
computer I've had for a year now. The problem I am
having is that when I put a DVD inside, the drive does
not read it. After I put a DVD inside it makes four or
five clicking sounds and then it stops. Do you think I
need a new DVD burner or is there some other
solution?
Paul B.
Hi Paul,
It sounds like either the motor or the tracking guide for
the laser on your DVD burner is having problems. While
it may be possible to have the drive repaired, it
probably isn't worth going to the effort or expense as
you can purchase a new one for $30 at most
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If you aren't comfortable installing the drive yourself,
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If you are going to replace the drive yourself check to
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or IDE cable and get the a drive with the same
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My ISP is Bell Sympatico and whenever I launch my
Explorer browser it starts up and then disappears
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times before it finally stays on. What could be causing
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P.S. This situation does not happen on my other
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Thanks,
Nevstar
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•Dear Doc,
Microsoft XP Home Edition system which ran quite
satisfactorily until now.
After establishing a connection and opening Internet
Explorer instead of my home page popping up, the
window remains blank and after a while the words "not
responding" appear. The window also freezes. After
hitting Ctrl+Alt+Delete and getting through several End
Task dialogue boxes, the second try to open Internet
Explorer with the favourite is successful. I have
downloaded all Microsoft Updates without
improvement.
I would much appreciate receiving your advice with
regard to this. malfunction.
Yours truly,
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From your description of the problem you are
experiencing it sounds like Internet Explorer is trying to
detect proxy settings, or contact a proxy server, and
failing.
Microsoft has a knowledge base article that has
instructions you can follow to hopefully resolve this
issue. It is available here:
supportmicrosoft.comAb/220902
if that fails to resolve your issue you can try disabling
third party add-ons for Internet Explorer by following
the instructions here:
support-microsoft.com/kb/298931
Presently I recommend using Firefox for browsing
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It sounds like the printer drivers are installed, but your
default printer is set to Microsoft Office Document
Image Writer, or something similar. The Document
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unmodifiable image file, providing you with a soft copy
of your document.
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1. Click on the Windows Start menu, then click on
Printers and Faxes
2. A window will appear listing all the printers that are
currently installed on your system. Right-click on the
icon for the printer you want to set as the default
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The company has been in existence since 1998, although at
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The cheapest of the packages offered at Boomeranglt starts
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A free open source program for tracking and returning laptops, Adeona was
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The program is a fairly low-level example of laptop tracking software, software that
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It does this by tracking data when logged on to the Internet and storing certain
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computer once it is connected and file this with all of the other information.
All of that data can be retrieved remotely through another computer by using
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This program is unique in that it doesn't rely on any third party or central service —
which, while good, can also be a bad thing. On the one hand, the program is open
source so the security functions can be openly analyzed, and no third party has the
goods on where your computer is or what you are doing.
On the other hand, the software is easy to remove, as stated in Adeona's FAQs. The
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can also not be formatted without the same information.
This may pose a bit of a conundrum as it would show that there is a program
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Boomeranglt, Adeona and GadgetTrak are just a few examples of laptop recovery
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Arecent trend saw biometric fingerprint readers being inserted into the bezels of
just about every mid-range and high-end notebook that was released from about
2005 on. If you made a recent purchase, there's a good chance you have one of
these fingerprint reading strips sitting somewhere on your notebook. '
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webcams mounted in the upper bezel of the notebook screen that, along with
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no finger swiping and no hassle.
With either a fingerprint- or face-reading security solution, its easy for authorized
people to access your portable PC but difficult for other unauthorized would-be users.
But what about the desktop?
The broad acceptance of biometrics in laptop PCs has brought similar desktop PC-
based solutions back to the forefront. While there are few manufacturers making
desktop biometric solutions, they are still readily available at retail. That said, the
manufacturers, with a couple of exceptions, target business and enterprise markets
where the need for good security is more poignant and more readily understood than
it is with the general computer-using public. Consumer-only solutions like Microsoft's
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Asecurity solution, like a chain, is only as strong as its weakest link. It's important to
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the password users set for the thing. Biometric security solutions can be bypassed
with a password, by registering an otherwise unauthorized fingerprint or by simply
disabling the software. Using best practices for creating strong and difficult to crack
passwords is among the easiest and most important steps when setting up your new
biometric security solution.
Microsoft Fingerprint Reader
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Pros: Cons:
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Attractive Less secure than some
Available integrated into a keyboard
Microsoft's Fingerprint Reader is available as a small pod that sits beside your
existing keyboard and mouse setup and connects to your PC via USB or integrated
into a regular-sized USB keyboard from Microsoft Hardware. As the overall quality of
Microsoft keyboards is generally excellent and given that it means one less USB
cord snaking to the PC tower, we'd opt for this solution if we didn't already have a
keyboard we were particularly attached to.
The Fingerprint Reader consists of an oval of glass ringed with a slight red light a
bit larger than your thumb. Once fingerprints are registered, all you need to do is
slap down a pre-indexed finger (index or otherwise) and the pod does the rest. When
logging in to Windows, that's all there is to it. If you're looking to log in to a website
that's been registered with the DigitalPersona Password Manager 2.0 software, the
same procedure will populate both the user name and password sections of the site.
The included software prompts for a fingerprint whenever you navigate to a
password-protected web site that is registered with the software.
Microsoft's Fingerprint Reader does not make any lofty security claims. In fact, it's
best viewed as a convenience on your desktop for one-swipe access to your
Windows account and less sensitive password protected websites with which you
have an account. The documentation that comes with the Fingerprint Reader and the
Microsoft Hardware website both explicitly state that it's not designed for use with
online banking client numbers and passwords or other such highly-sensitive
information: "Should not be used as the only means to protect sensitive data like
Microsoft Fingerprint Reader
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intranets than on personal convenience.
That said, if you keep private, personal and sensitive data on your home machine,
this might be just what you've been looking for. Should your PC go missing, anyone
but the most sophisticated data thief is going to give up trying to gain access before
too long.
Opting for a 1 by 1-inch scanning sensor, the Zvetco Biometrics solution scans
below the surface of the fingerprint, as compared with the Microsoft Fingerprint
Reader which uses imaging to grant access. It can also apparently tell the difference
between a finger attached to a living, breathing human being using electrical current
feedback; a dead or dummy finger would not be able to conduct the small electrical
charge and so would be dismissed out of hand, as it were.
In addition to the Windows PC security management software that ships with the
VP3400, the fingerprint scanning pod is also available for enterprise purchase with
user-specified software. Further evidence that, while there is a retail version
APC Touch Biometric Pod Password Manager
available, Zvetco's attention is focused on bigger business applications where data
security is paramount.

Roundup
These are just a few of the options for fingerprint-reading biometric security
financial information or accessing corporate networks," in Microsoft's words. solutions.
An online test by several Washington & Jefferson College students in Washington, The previously mentioned face-scanning biometric solutions that are currently in
PA, (tinyurl.com/67982z) suggests that the Fingerprint Reader was the more easily vogue for webcam-sporting laptops have also made their way to the desktop.
fooled of the two USB biometric devices they tested. For what it's worth though, After-market software solutions like FaceCode as well as proprietary software
our own similar tests conducted in 2006 — though not as exhaustive — bundled along with some brand name desktop PCs are also available. With just about
consistently failed. These students were also apparently able to fool the APC Pod any USB webcam and a $30 piece of software, you could quite easily set up a
device that follows. similar solution at home.
While we have had hands-on time with each of the biometric fingerprint readers
APC Touch Biometric Pod Password Manager mentioned previously, we've yet to try out any of the webcam biometric scanning
$10 - $50 www.apc.com solutions mentioned and so can't vouch for them.
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carry laptops for example, your data is at risk if the turned up on eBay or which have been donated to
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Ultimate and Vista Enterprise.
Until recently, using BitLocker required you to re-
partition the hard drive to install it, but the new
Windows Ultimate Extra release from Microsoft
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require repartitioning — the downside is that this tool
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when the disk is reformatted.
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them or storing them online. A handy encryption tool is choose Tools > Options > Security tab and type a
the open source 7-Zip utility that not only archives and password to prevent the document being opened.
compresses your files but can also encrypt them using Make sure to use a password which is a good length
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common derivatives, the harder your new password protected and you will need to provide the password in
program does this multiple times to remove all traces will be to crack. future to open it.
of the original data. While a license for a program If you send an encrypted 7z format file to someone, When assessing your security needs, determine what
like this costs —$30, the cost to your business of not you need to also give them the password to use to you need to secure and then work out the best tools
using it or similar disk wiping software could be decrypt the file. They will need either 7-Zip or a for doing the job. It's important to not only secure your
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contains sensitive information but is no longer needed. Use program options your business.
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wiper program but does its work one file at a time. encrypt files to store them securely on your own
Onerecommended program is Mutilate File Wiper computer, make sure that once the files are
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 How Low Dare You Go?
The scoop on five of the least expensive portable PCs you'll find anywhere

supports only the aging 802.11g standard. It has a nice big 15.4-inch 1280-by-800
display, but it's powered by a meagre 4-cell battery, so don't expect too much
operating time.
The rest of the hardware — 1 GB of RAM, a CD burner/DVD player, and an 80 GB
hard drive — runs along the lines of other bargain laptops, and you can choose from
a wide selection of case colours and patterns.
Still, it's among the lowest-power laptop you can buy. Unless you really need the
optical drive and larger screen, best invest $150 more and upgrade to one of Dell's
dual-core Inspirons (or save yourself a little cash — and weight — and just go with
a netbook).

HP Compaq Presario CQ50-100CA ($550, www.hp.ca)

Fifty bucks more buys you this Compaq Presario from HP, which offers plenty of
worthwhile perks, beginning with a dual-core AMD Athlon X2 processor that runs at
Dell Inspiron 1525 1.9 GHz, which ought to make running multiple applications simultaneously a little
less of a hair-pulling experience. Plus, 2 GB of RAM and discrete graphics in the form
of an nVidia GeForce 8200M card let the QC50-100CA function as a (very) modest
Laptops, once considered a computing luxury, are now the norm, outselling their gaming machine (think Civilization III, not IV).
bulkier desktop counterparts for the last two years. And as notebooks have What's more, a boost from Windows Vista Home Basic to Home Premium adds
increased in popularity they have steadily decreased in price. As recently as a few features such as the operating system's ballyhooed Aero interface, as well as handy
years ago, the average cost of a portable PC still hovered around $1,500. multimedia apps such as Movie Maker and DVD Maker. You'll also get a 160 GB hard
Nowadays, drop by any big electronics store and you'll be hard pressed to find more drive, a webcam and an optical drive that burns DVDs. In other words, $50 buys
than a handful of laptops with price tags in excess of $1,000. plenty. There's no choice in case styles, but that's a negligible complaint. If your
Indeed, the question for most budget conscious laptop shoppers these days isn't so budget is capped at five-and-a-half bills, you're not likely to do much better.
much whether a notebook PC is affordable, but rather how inexpensive dare a
person go?
Excluding the relatively new genus of the "netbook" — incredibly inexpensive ($300
to $500) sub-notebooks that eschew features once considered indispensable, such HPCompaq Presario CQ50-100CA
as optical drives, full-sized keyboards, and hard disks — there are plenty of
traditional, full-featured notebooks available in the $500 to $700 range. But are
these machines so technologically eviscerated that they won't be able to meet your
basic productivity requirements?
To help find the answer we've put together a little comparison of five bargain
notebooks currently available from mainstream manufacturers.

Dell Inspiron 1525 ($499, wwvv.dell.ca)

The cheapest traditional notebook we could find, the Dell Inspiron 1525 starts at just
$500 less a buck. Why so inexpensive? Rest assured that it's not because Dell is
simply undercutting the competition. It's the only laptop in this group to feature a
single-core processor — Intel's 2.0 GHz Celeron 550. In the current computing
climate this is sort of like a dodo sighting as mono-core CPUs are pretty much
extinct these days. It's not an ideal processing solution for the 1525's pre-installed
operating system, Windows Vista Home Basic, nor is it recommended if you need to
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Lenovo ThinkPad SL400 ($623, www.lenovo.com/ca/en) The white, pink, and brown models in Sony's entry-level NR series are priced at
Beijing-based Lenovo, which took over IBM's workplace-oriented ThinkPad laptop $699 and they come with respectable specs to boot. A low-cost but practical 1.86
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reliable, no-nonsense machines, and perhaps none more so than the utilitarian 14.1- horsepower to perform ordinary productivity tasks and basic photo and music
inch SL400, which was selling for $623 at the time of writing. It's a workstation, editing chores.
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Its modest spec sheet — which lists 1 GB of RAM, a CD burner with DVD playback display to make this laptop suitable for casual movie viewing.
capability, an 80 GB hard disk, 802.11 b/g wireless, and an Intel Core 2 Duo Bonus: speedy Wireless-N networking is built in. Simply put, unless you plan to use
processor running at 1.8 GHz — makes it sound like a mid-tier notebook your laptop to play 3D games, make movies or record an album, the NR-series VAIO
manufactured circa 2006, though, of course, it likely would have cost twice as much ought to satisfy your computing needs.
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It's not a new weight loss scheme, and it's already all around you
Few emerging technologies have had such widespread
implications or spurred such debate as biometrics.
That's not too surprising actually, given that biometrics
is so pertinent to an issue that's important to all of us
in this digital age — security. But what exactly is it?
Generally speaking, biometrics is the science of
determining the identity of a living person by analyzing
one or more of his or her physiological characteristics.
Given that so much of your physiology is completely
unique to you, and assuming there is a 100 per cent
accurate, quantifiable method of measuring or gauging
one or more of your attributes, biometrics is
theoretically the most convenient, most foolproof
security technology available.
One of the oldest and most common forms of
biometrics, digital fingerprinting, works thusly: You
scan your print under a light source — either a laser
or, much more commonly, an LED — and the
information generated by that scan is then stored in a
CCD(Charged Couple Device, the same thing found in
digital cameras) or the less expensive CMOS
(Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor).
When a finger isn't a finger
For security reasons, the process does not save a
photo or graphic image of the print itself. It instead
utilizes a complex and closely guarded series of
algorithms to convert the location, size, and shape of
all your print's ridges and valleys and other particulars
into digital (ones and zeroes) format. The resulting
template is then compared with the templates
generated in future scans to make a positive or
negative identification. This is a routine common to
most forms of biometrics.
But digital fingerprinting, like virtually all forms of
biometrics to date, isn't completely failsafe.
Fingerprints can be altered, either deliberately or
accidentally. They tend to get dirty and sometimes
worn, thereby impacting the appearance of the print.
And the image of the print
can change from instance to instance, depending on
the level of pressure being exerted by the user when
being measured.
Afar more serious problem is that of "spoofing."
Spoofing is the practice of deliberately deceiving
biometrics devices by utilizing counterfeit samples. In
fingerprint scanning, reports of scanner-tricking lake
fingers" made of pliable substances such as
gelatin, wax or silicone have been rampant for quite
some time.
Indeed, one of the most worrisome reports hails from
a 2005 US Department of Defense-funded Clarkson
University study that proved how easily some optical
camera-based fingerprint scanning technologies are
defeated. Researchers collected several fingers from
cadavers and fashioned casts from live fingers using
dental materials and Play-Doh. They tested in excess
of sixty faked samples, and were ultimately rewarded
with a 90 per cent false verification rate.
Accolades for saccades
Yet it's these very issues — spoofing and erroneous
results — that in many ways fuel the industry and keep
biometrics researchers as busy as they are. One of the
most topical "unspoofable" biometrics concepts in
recent months is currently in development by Japanese
researchers Masakatsu Nishigaki and Daisuke Arai at
Shizuoka University, Japan. It's based on something
called "saccades," the rapid, involuntary reflex
movements of the human eyeball, and it may be just
the ticket if the research team can unearth a pattern
that consistently differentiates one person's saccades
from another's.
Spoofable or unspoofable, biometrics is already
commonplace in today's society, and the technology
will be even more prevalent in the future. Facial scans,
hand geometry scans, and voice authentication
routines are just some of the methods currently in use.

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Apply for a driver's license in some parts of the
world and you may need to submit to an eye or
fingerprint scan.
Passport Canada wants to introduce biometrics into
passports, as do most credit card companies. Indeed,
you may soon pay for retail purchases and conduct
much of your interactive life with quick analysis of
some portion of your physiology.
Biometrics comes home
Biometrics is already well entrenched on the personal
computing front, whdre so much of your personal data
lies waiting to be stolen. But "well established" doesn't
necessarily mean "perfected."
Adecade ago, when biometrics first appeared on the
personal computing scene, it did so in the form of add-
on devices. But there were problems. These add-on
devices were often big and clumsy, and the scanning
process, and results weren't nearly as sophisticated as
they are now.
Today, the level of sophistication has noticeably
improved. Fujitsu's soon to be released PalmSecure
Mouse, for example, scans not the fingerprint but the
veins that lie under the skin in the palm of one's hand. It
therefore cannot be spoofed by "dead" or fake hands.
That this technology is making its way to PC end
users is good news all around, particularly when you
consider it had previously been available only for
commercial applications such as ATM machines — and
was priced accordingly.
Notebook manufacturers have recently moved toward
better built-in biometric solutions than the
comparatively primitive fingerprint readers of times'
past. Lenovo's IdeaPad laptops feature integrated
cameras and facial recognition software dubbed
"VeriFace."
Once the camera scans your face the first time, you
need merely to sit in front of said camera again in
order to log back on. Granted, facial recognition
capabilities are not new to Lenovo notebooks, yet
there's little doubt that the 1.3 megapixel camera in
current models will do a much better job than the 0.3
megapixel camera of earlier units.
Biometrics versus passwords
That said, many biometrics-equipped notebooks still rely
on fingerprint readers built upon technology that's
already several years old. That's not a good thing
according to many studies that show old school
fingerprint readers to be a less effective and more easily
defeated data safeguard than traditional passwords.
But soon, even the tiny fingerprint readers on laptops
may be capable of more than merely verifying ridges
and valleys. More sophisticated fingerprint readers such
as those from Zvetco Biometrics already feature
"liveness detection," a process that effectively
distinguishes a living finger from an inanimate imitation.
Looking ahead
Future laptop fingerprint scanners may also
incorporate some form of perspiration and possibly
spectral (hemoglobin, collagen, skin layer structure)
measurement utilities and subsurface analysis
capabilities.
Likewise, future consumer facial scanners may
introduce tools for detecting and analyzing movement,
and future consumer iris scanners may combat photo
spoofs with built-in measures to identify dot matrices
and dyes used in printing techniques. Future consumer
voice authentication systems will counter pre-recorded
blurbs by asking the user to repeat randomly
generated words and phrases.
Biometrics is most definitely here to stay. We just may
need to wait a bit for consumer-level biometrics to
reach the point where our data is truly safe from the
criminal element.
By Gord Goble

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New Products:
Brother Announces New Printer Models for SMBs
By Dorian Nicholson
Recently Brother International Corp. of Canada revealed its latest line of printers
aimed at small business users, with the first of the models now available and two
less expensive models due out this month. The top of the line flagship model, the ,
MFC-6490CW, leads Brother's new Professional Series of printers with more features
and solutions for SOHO users like the ability to print and scan ledger-sized paper...
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By Matt Smith
Dell Canada has officially launched the new Inspiron Mini 9, Dell's own version of the
miniature notebooks that are growing in popularity. With a starting weight of 2.28
pounds, Dells Inspiron Mini 9 is equipped with a sealed keyboard and a solid state
drive (SSD) of up to 16 GB for data storage.
For additional memory, the Inspiron Mini 9 has a remote storage space of 2 GB
which is expandable to 25GB...
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- Kodak Debuts Pocket Video Camera
By Dorian Nicholson
Video sharing has grown a lot in the past several years what with the exponentially
expanding popularity of the social net and sites like Facebook and YouTube working
in tandem to spread4ideos across the world.
With recent product releases such as the Flip! And Creative's Vado, small one-
function camcorders have hit the mainstream and Kodak is entering the fray with its
HD-shooting (720p) Zi6 pocket video camera at S180...
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Apparently not content to simply deliver your search results, email, appointments,
news and documents, Google prematurely announced its Chrome browser after a
mail room gaffe.
At the heart of Chrome is an interesting concept that's being called "sandboxing."
The idea here is that if an individual browser tab starts acting up or performs an
illegal operation, just that tab can be closed down. In concept at least, this could
mean an end to one rogue tab or hung Java script crashing the whole browser...
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Olympus Cameras Evolve
By Matt Smith
Trying to out-perform their competitors with the release of a new breed of digital
cameras, Olympus is taking a leap forward in digital photography with the release of
the Stylus 1050 SW and the new SP565 UZ this coming fall.
The 1050 SW gives the user a 10.1 megapixel resolution with a "tap control"
interface that lets you turn on the flash along with other settings just by tapping the
top, sides, and back of the camera. The Stylus 1050 also offers a 3x optical zoom
and is expected to be for sale in October for a price at $300...
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Epson's Artisan Helps Professionals Print
By Dorian Nicholson
In New York this summer, Epson unveiled its new line of printers for the home and
home office to be released in the Fall to members of the media. The printers, some
showcasing touch screens, Wi-Fi and speedy print times, were recently released to
market.
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with the flagship 800 being more impressive for a somewhat larger price tag...
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 The Protected Home Office
Physical security for the digital times
Back. in the day, we all had a reasonable worry about security. Physical security. You
know, guarding against theft and crooks and accidents and fires. As well as lions and
tigers and bears, oh my. But somewhere along the line, we became obsessed with
digital crimes such as identity theft. Justifiable concerns to be sure, but hey, all that
other stuff never went away. Bad things still happen outside your computer.
Truth is, if you have a home office you have even more reason to safeguard your
belongings. Let's look at some of the ways you can
do that.
One of the very best things you can do to protect your home office is to make it as
inconspicuous as possible when viewed from the exterior. Keep the blinds or the
curtains closed, particularly at night when it's so easy to see the contents of a
well-lit room.
If you can, position your home office somewhere above street level where it won't
be nearly as visible. It'll be a far less appealing target for window break-ins too.
Speaking of windows, are you thinking of replacing them? If so, consider shatter-
resistant laminated glass.
Join a neighbourhood watch program if there's one available in your area, and grab
an indelible felt pen to mark valuables with your name, phone number, and e-mail
address. Outside, make an effort to remove any visual barriers that might conceal
the movements of an opportunistic burglar.
Thieves like to work under the cover of darkness, so it's only logical that they'll think
twice about a home that lights up with the fire of a thousand suns when they walk by.
Simple flood lamps with motion-detecting sensors are inexpensive, and setting up a
number of them along the perimeter of your home is always a good idea. And
always make sure your insurance coverage includes a home office. Many policies
require separate riders.
Once you've followed a few basic common-sense rules and established some
good habits, it's time to crank it up a notch with the latest in home and home
office security.
Logitech WiLife-Video Security System
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Logitech WiLife Video Securily System
www.logitech.com Prices vary depending on configuration
It's been our experience that Logitech makes damn good stuff, and we don't know
why its brand new PC-based video security system would be any different. Dubbed
the WiLife,., it's a complete house surveillance and security solution composed of
indoor and outdoor cameras, a USB receiver, and Logitech's Command Center
PC software.
At $360 for the Master System alone, which includes the receiver, the software,
and just a single camera, the WiLife is a pricey proposition. The unit operates
cordlessly over existing electrical wires, and according to Logitech, takes just fifteen
minutes to set up. It'll call or e-mail you if and when it detects motion, and it allows
you to view live video over the Internet via a WiLife account. Each component looks
sleek and upscale, as does the software interface.
Something to remember: Although there's no shortage of standalone security
systems available in today's marketplace, we prefer computer-based systems. Why?
Because they can generally be upgraded how and when you want to do so, and
because a computer display screen makes for a superb — and very convenient —
visual monitoring device.
ioSafe S2
www.iosafe.com US$6,875
The only thing worse than a fire at your residence (or a flood or an earthquake or the
proverbial plague of locusts) would be losing years of accumulated data in the
process. California-based ioSafe has a variety of preventative measures for just such
situations.
Welike the ioSafe S2 because with its one-hour, 1,700 degree F fire rating, thirty-
day flood rating (at a depth of thirty feet, in freshwater or saltwater), and three-year
disaster recovery service, it would seem to be a failsafe solution.
It's important to note, however, that the ioSafe S2 is intended only to safeguard two
external hard cliives (dual 500 GB models included). It's even more important to note
that high-end security such as this comes at a price. And what a price it is.
Fortunately for those who don't expect their next fire to last that long or get that
hot, and are certain a flood won't submerge their data for more than 24 hours,
ioSafe also provides disaster-resistant internal hard drives that cost a whole lot less
(—$330 to —$460).
TeleSpy Intrusion Notification System
www.telespy.biz —$130
It looks like one of those slimline phones from a couple of decades ago, but the
TeleSpy is also part motion detector. Set it up in your home office and key in a
telephone number where you can be reached when you leave the premises. The
TeleSpy will call you automatically if it senses movement and allow you to listen to
what's going on in your room for a full 30 seconds before disconnecting. The next
step is up to you. As a bonus, the TeleSpy is available Net-wide for substantially less
than its MSRP.
Dorgem 2.1
dorgem.sourceforge.net Free
Wespotted this no-charge software utility in our travels around the Internet. Dorgem
is an open-source webcam capture application for Windows 9x and up that's officially
been discontinued but is still available for download. It'll turn your PC and webcam
into a motion detection and recording security system that's garnered a lot of praise
from those who have downloaded it.
Word of advice: Turn to the following link for an awesome tutorial on setting up your
Dorgem system: tinyurl.com/HomeOfficeSecurity
ActiveWebCam 11.2
www.pysoft.com —$30
Like Dorgem but more capable and not free, Active WebCam has been a monster
performer over at CNET's download.com site for a long time now, dwarfing the
competition with more than three million downloads. It's easy to set up, and captures
an impressive thirty frames per second from any video device including USB
cameras, analog cameras, TV-boards, camcorders and network IP cameras. It will
broadcast and add time stamps, support multiple cameras and send an e-mail when
motion is detected.
Lenovo IdeaPad
www.lenovo.com Various prices depending on model
Elsewhere in this issue we discussed Lenovo's IdeaPad notebooks for their facial
recognition biometrics capabilities. But we thought we'd mention the IdeaPad here
too because the very same 1.3 megapixel camera and VeriFace software that
identifies you as the rightful owner and operator of your laptop also snaps a series
of quick pics of anyone who tries to access the unit while you're away. Gotcha!
First Alert Dual Sensor Smoke Alarm
www.firstalert.com $35 street price
Smoking isn't healthy, particularly when it's your house that's doing the smoking.
Fortunately, you don't have to cough up a lung for a quality smoke alarm. The First
Alert Dual Sensor Smoke Alarm scores highly in most every user survey going.
Equipped with ionization and photoelectric sensors, it covers all the bases of smoke
detection, includes a test function and an 85-decibel alarm, and uniquely, can be
silenced with any standard TV/DVD/audio remote control. How cool is that?
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 Security Tips to Protect Your Sensitive Information
Keeping safe and secure online
Identity theft — a type of fraud where someone pretends to be someone else for
financial gain — can happen in many ways, be it pick-pocketing a credit card,
rummaging through letters from a mailbox or phone scams that trick victims into
giving out personal information.
Increasingly, identity theft begins on computers with "phishing scams" on fake
websites that look like the real thing but are in fact just designed to trick users in to
giving up usernames and passwords. There's another level of personal information
capture that uses high-tech means to retrieve information you type on a public
computer's keyboard.
According to PhoneBusters (www.phonebuste?s.com), a Canadian anti-fraud agency
jointly managed by the RCMP, Competition Bureau Canada and Ontario Provincial
Police, identity theft is on the rise in this country. In 2007, the organization received
10,279 complaints, of which 9,970 were victims, totalling a loss of $6,438,123. In
2008, however, by the end of August alone PhoneBusters received 8,233
complaints (7,649 victims), with a valued loss of $6,573,335.
So, what can you do to protect your identity in an increasingly online world? The
following are a few tips for computer users.
• For websites that require a password — such as your banking institution, company
site or social networking home — pick one that's at least seven characters and use
acombination of letters, numbers and symbols. Don't use your child's name, first
dog or phone number or anything else that could be easily guessed.
• If you receive an e-mail from your bank or credit card institution asking you to act
fast to confirm your information, it's probably a phishing attempt that will take you to
aphony website (look at the URL, not the hyperlinked text, and you should be able to
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tell). Do not click on the link in the e-mail to take you to the spoofed site, but if you
do, never type in any info they're requesting. When in doubt, contact your bank
directly. Computer users should never follow an e-mail link to sign in to what-should
be a secure site. If there really is an issue with your account, log in to your online
banking site by inputting the URL directly in to your browser's address bar. Also
consider that reputable sites that deal with sensitive personal information — such as
your bank, PayPal, eBay or others — will generally have a policy in place that states
they never ask for personal information via e-mail.
• Peer-to-peer file sharing programs, such as LimeWire, may be used by malicious
types to steal your private information — so if you use these services, be sure to
configure them not to expose personal folders (disable the sharing feature in the
Options menu).
• For Windows users, Microsoft releases software fixes on a regular basis. Choose
"automatic updates" in your operating system's security settings, therefore you won't
forget to manually update them. These fixes plug holes that hackers know how to
exploit to gain access to your files. Don't initiate any Windows updates from anyone
but Microsoft itself.
• Don't purchase anything online with your credit card unless the website is secured
with SSL (Secure Sockets Layer), as indicated by an icon of a padlock in your web
browser. On a related note, if you shop on online marketplaces, such as eBay.ca,
use a secure payment method — like PayPal or a credit card — to protect your
purchases in case of a dispute.
• Symantec, the makers of the popular Norton Antivirus software, say
never save your logon information with a website. Always log out by
clicking "log out" on the site. It's not enough to simply close the browser
window or type in another address. It might be convenient when sites and
some programs have an automatic login feature that saves your user
name and password, but disable this option so no one can resume a
session that you initiated.
• If you set up a wireless network in your home, make sure to use the
security features to prevent people from joining (note: WPA security is
better than WEP). If a neighbour joins your network, they not only will get
free Internet access but could possibly read your computer's files. This
is more important today now that 802.11n Wi-Fi routers are offering
twice the range of older 802.11g devices. Some routers will allow you to
limit the range of your router's broadcast. If it's practical to do so,
consider limiting the range to cover the places you use your computers
but not beyond.
• Try to avoid entering confidential information on public computers such
as in a hotel, library, airport lounge or school. These systems may contain
"keylogger" software that records everything you type. Symantec also
suggests deleting your browsing history after surfing on a public
computer (including your cookies, form data, history and temporary
Internet files). Finally, when you're finished using a public computer, do a
hard reboot which will not only clear the page file if you've enabled that
option, but it will also clear out everything you did from the physical
memory (RAM).
• While it might be tempting to sniff for unlocked — i.e. free — Wi-Fi
networks at a café or hotel, it could be a nearby hacker baiting in order to
get access to files on your PC. Be sure to ask what the establishment's
wireless network name is to ensure you're logging on to the correct one.
• Finally, also watch out for low-tech over-the-shoulder snoops at cafes,
school or on the airplane. While you might not need those special screens
you can buy that obscure the text for onlookers, try to turn down the
brightness of your laptop screen and be aware of where and what you're
typing while in public.
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 Portable Data Storage
The ins and outs of where to keep your precious files when you 're taking them on the road
Whether you're a lawyer, banker, broker or a student
studying to be one, chances are you've got digital data
that you want to store. What method you use to store
and back it up is entirely up to you, but one thing is
certain: you're going to want to store it someplace.
Generally speaking, that place will be on your
computer's internal hard drive. It's quick, it's easy, and
it's readily accessible.
But maybe that someplace shouldn't be the computer,
either because yours is getting close to capacity, or
because it's a file you're going to be taking on the go
with you. Or, because as everyone knows (or should
know by now) you need to make sure you have a
backup (or two) of any and all important files.
Whatever the reason, there are plenty of devices to
choose from that all do a great job of retaining
information. And for the students out there — of all
disciplines and studies — there are storage spaces of
all shapes and sizes depending on the size of file you
intend to store.
Room to decide
Where options were few in the past, in the days of
limited hard drive space and floppy discs, now we have
plenty of portable storage media to choose from. For
a lot of smaller files like documents, spreadsheets,
low-quality images and multimedia content that may
require revision, there are USB keys and even SD and
microSD cards. For straight archiving and read-only
backup of files and folders there are discs, ranging
from CD-Rs.and CD-RWs to DVDs and Blu-Ray discs.
And for large files and heavy multimedia requiring read
/ write access, there are portable hard drives and
enclosures which' can range from about 100 GB up to
2 TB (-2,000 GB).
We're going to go through all of those storage
devices as well as what type of student each would be
best suited for.
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SD or MicroSD:
The majority of recent laptops and "netboOks" feature
an SD card slot. Desktop PCs often have a card reader
slot and when no card reader is present, an external
card reader can be purchased for $20 or less.
However now that most people have a digital camera
which stores pictures to SD (or microSD) and many
people have a smartphone or palm pilot with one of
these types of cards as well, storing small files onto
these devices can be a good way to move files
between platforms.
As was previously mentioned, a backup routine with
redundancies should be considered a requirement for
important files. MicroSD and miniSD cards are most
commonly found in the range of 1 GB to 4 GB with
standard SD cards appearing in about the same range
with larger storage capacities coming down the pike.
SDHC(secure digital high'capacity) cards are
becoming more common with potential to have up to
32 GB on a card.
Ideal for any student who is working with small files
such as text documents, PDFs, or even modest
quantities of pictures and music, SD cards are actually
an ideal way of keeping a backup of files. The only
problem is that not every computer has a card reader.
That means that if yours doesn't, you'll either have to
carry a card reader on you, or simply carry the USB
cable that connects your device to the computer so
you can access your card.
Of course, if you are a netbook user (see last issue's
In the Lab: Computing in the Clouds) SD and SDHC
cards are your best bet for small-scale portable
storage. Some netbooks feature more than one SD
slot, allowing you to keep a card of up to 32 GB
attached at all times for boosting your limited hard
drive space, yet still be portable for when you need to
move to a different machine.
External hard drives:
On the other side of the size spectrum are external
hard drives. These things can carry a tremendous
amount of data, be it a 250 GB hard drive or a 1 TB
(1,000 GB) drive. The drives are portable and connect
either via USB, Firewire or the much faster but not yet
ubiquitous eSATA standard, to connect to your PC or
laptop. .
With that much data storage space, external hard
drives are ideal for students who are working with files
that demand a great deal of drive space, frequent .
back-ups, or saving multiple versions of the same file.
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This would make the external hard drive the back up
data storage device of choice for the average
multimedia student.
Whether someone is working on their next album
remix with four or five different variations of each track
or working on editing a half-hour video with different
files saved after every hour of work, they will still have
ample space on one of these. The only problem of
course is the physical size of the hard drive for those
who don't want to carry too much extra baggage.
Discs / burners:
As for discs, CD burners and even DVD burners
practically come standard with laptops nowadays, so it
seems logical to keep a couple of blank discs of one
kind or another on you at all times. Also, with dual-
layer DVDs being able to carry over 8 GB of data,
keeping discs close at hand make it possible-to do a
system or file backup anywhere.
CDs can typically carry up to 700 MB of data. While
most music albums come on CD and would only fit
about 80 minutes of audio, that's not to say that a CD
wouldn't be able to hold many more songs in MP3
format, or many, many Word documents or other files.
DVDs can carry about 4.7 GB of data if they are
single-layer discs and roughly 8.54 GB if they are dual-
layer. That's more than 10 times the capacity of a
compact disc, and should be enough for all but the
most complicated video editing files.
With CD and DVD readers being in 95 per cent of the
computers out there (the MacBook Air and netbooks
primarily making up that other five per cent) discs are
undoubtedly the most versatile, if not the most
compact means of backing up and transporting data.
The only devices that are more portable would be the
USB keys...
USB keys:
USB keys can go all the way up to 64 GB, although the
higher capacity models might clock in at quite a bit
more than one is willing to pay for such a small — and
easily lost — product. USB keys are tiny enough to fit
into a watch pocket and most come with a strap that
you can use to wear around your neck so that you
always know where it is.
Naturally, USB keys are used by plugging into a USB
port, standard on any computer post-2001 Once
plugged in, they can run applications directly off the
key, act as a separate hard drive, or can be used for
such tasks as calling long distance through Skype or
speeding up your computer (similar to RAM) by
activating ReadyBoost within Windows Vista.
USB keys are also affordable and reliable. Guaranteed
for thousands of rewrites and costing about $20 for a
1GB stick, these keys are great for transporting
moderate amounts of data or for using as a primary or
secondary backup. They're more durable than CDs,
DVDs, standard hard drives or SD cards, and are much
more portable than hard drives if you want to haul your
files around.
By Dorian Nicholson
 An Xbox for Xmas
X'08 showcases Xbox 360 holiday lineup
Garners in Canada often find themselves quite far from
the centre of gaming events and news of upcoming
titles when compared to our southern neighbours, the
hosts of the annual gaming spectacle, E3. Once a year
though, leading up to the holiday season, the big three
gamingcompanies put on their ownshows. Most
recently it was Microsoft's Xbox 360's time to shine.
Thepreview event took place at Circa in downtown
Torontoand transformed the hip nightclub into a haven
for garners, reporters, gamer-reporters and, of course,
developers, PR pros, company big shots and acolytes.
WhileXbox 360 was the only platform at the event,
that's not to say that the range of games was limited.
Present were games from more than a dozen third-
party developers, including LucasArts, Bethesda,
Activision, EA, Square Enix and Konami. Naturally,
there were also a number of games from Microsoft
GameStudio as well, including Gears of War 2 and
Fable 2.
TheGears 2 section was set on the second level,
above the action on the main floor. There, plugged in
o-Kazoole, Nutt. and BEitts
Spiderman.1,Vel.) or Shadows
andready to play, were twelve units all networked and
ready for multiplayer mayhem.
Yourfriends here at HUBmanaged to play a few
rounds of a new match type called "Guardian," in which
each team gets unlimited respawns until the team
leader is finished off, then the game switches gears
andbecomes a last man standing battle. The game
promises to be every bit as intense and impressive as
the first, with a new story, campaign, new weapons,
andnew features. (For example, the editor-in-chief and
Ihad a little battle of wills with chainsaw bayonets — I
won.)
WhileGears was easily the largest exhibit, it was by
nomeans the only attention grabber. Down on the
floor were a collection of eagerly-anticipated titles such
as Guitar Hero: World Tour complete with the new
drum kit with the cymbals above — and Call of Duty:
World at War.
Thenew CoD is graphically impressive, with lighting
andparticle effects all aglow and the battlefields
looking more realistic as well. The gunplay feels
considerably more true to life this time out. While
somegarners following news of the CoD sequel may
havealready heard about the developers taking a more
gritty approach, seeing the game in action is the only
way to really understand what they were talking about.
Adouble-barrelled shotgun really hurts people like we
canonly assume a double-barrelled shotgun would. An
incendiary grenade lights people on fire, and it actually
looks pretty painful. It is an impressive graphical feat
that can seem almost too grisly.
It's a logical step in the Call of Duty series though
where realism was traditionally eschewed in order to
receive a Teen rating from the Entertainment Software
RatingsBoard (ESRB). The Call of Duty: World at War
development team decided not to compromise and
just accept a MatureESRB rating, resulting in a more
believable but altogether more gory game.
Fallout 3 and more...
Anotherhighly-anticipated and rather gory title, Fallout
3 marks a milestone for the series by being the first
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game in the series to test the waters of three-
dimensional gameplay, an understandable move
considering it has been a decade since the release of
Fallout 2.
Thisone starts you off inside a vault (Vault 101,
"Jewel of the Wastes") with the player having to take
the first steps into the outside world armed only with a
pistol. The effect of seeing natural light for the first
time once stepping outside is quite dazzling, a very
nicetouch that shows great attention to detail. Of
course, this is Bethesda we're talking about, the same
company that brought us The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion.
Fallout 3 also uses the Oblivion engine. With this
engine, players can put almost anything into their
inventory, or at least drag or move most small to
medium-sized objects.
Walkingforward through some ruined town with the
capitol buildings way off in the distance, you will come
across a couple of wanderers. When I played, I tried to
talk with them or even barter some of the pop caps I
hadpicked off the ground, but they immediately
opened fire. Turns out there was a raider behind me
that they picked off quite cleanly. A nice effort, but it
still dissuaded me from further conversation.
Thenext raider I saw I experimented with the
targeting system, born of the original Fallout and still
present even in the real-time FPS third instalment.
Players can target anything from an enemy's head to
the weapon they're holding. Alas, shots to the groin or
eyes are now out; Bethesda's attempt at making for a
clean fight.
After prying myself away from the Fallout 3 booth, I
checked out a few of the other booths, some of which
were slightly more appropriate for younger garners.
Banjo-Kazooie, a Rare developed game that debuted
onthe N64, is back with its first Xbox 360 instalment.
Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts and Bolts has players directing
their favourite bear-bird duo through a new adventure
as they try to outrace the evil witch Gruntilda using
fully-customizable vehicles provided by Mumbo the
witch doctor. With hundreds of components to choose
from, vehicles can range from four-wheel drive
monster trucks to flying saucers with egg cannons
attached.
Spiderman:Web of Shadows looks like another killer
Spiderman game, this one allowing players to hook up
with other Marvel characters in game and choose
between being a friendly wall-crawler or a masked
menacerunning around in the Venom suit. Players can
also customize abilities and skill sets, allowing them to
excel in aerial attacks or ground-based destruction,
specializing in wearing the red suit or the black.
Other games of note included Square Enix's upcoming
action-RPGInfinite Undiscovery, developed by TrAce of
Star Ocean fame; Fable 2, sequel to the blockbuster
XboxRPG; Silent Hill Homecoming, the first Silent Hill
game to appear on next-gen platforms; Sonic
Unleashed, a fast-paced platformer that promises to
deliver excitement fast; and Star Wars: The Force
Unleashed, in which you play as Darth Vader's
apprentice and get to customize your force powers.
All of these titles and more will be released in the
months to come.
By Dorian Nicholson
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 On Online HD Deliverance
High-def and the demise of physical media... maybe
Let's talk high definition (HD) video. In particular, lets
discuss where we're going to get our HD video in the
future, especially for our leisure, TV-watching hours.
We'll preface our discussion by defining what HD
video is, and what it isn't. It isn't what you see on
standard TV. It isn't what you see on a VHS tape. And it
isn't even what you see when you watch a standard
DVD.All of these sources top out at 480 vertical lines
of resolution or lower.
HD, conversely, currently comes in two flavors, 720
or 1080 lines of vertical resolution -further broken
down by the "p" and "i" suffixes, meaning progressive
and interlaced, respectively — and is noticeably
cleaner and more detailed. Colors are more vivid,
object edges are crisp, and of course the 16:9 aspect
ratio of HD delivers the same panoramic image we see
at the theatre.
This is the stuff of HDTV and Blu-ray players, and
most people who see it have a tough time going back
to less sophisticated fare.
And soon, no one will have to. HD video is the future,
and it won't be long until prior technologies go the way
of the 8-track. One needs look no further than the big
box electronics stores and the latest trends in
television sets to see how true this is. In keeping with
the Canadian government's mandate that all broadcast
signals in this country move from analog to digital as
of August 31, 2011 (2009 in the USA), virtually every
set features a digital tuner.
Yet even though HDTV technology hasn't been likewise
mandated, the vast majority of these sets also feature
HDTV compatibility. Why? Because HDTV looks that
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good and because TV manufacturers know HD is an
unstoppable force.
But broadcast TV is one thing. Movies and videos that
you can view when your schedule says you have the
time to do so are something else altogether. One
might assume that we'll just keep on traipsing down to
the local Blockbuster to rent or purchase Blu-ray HD
movies, just like we did for VHS and DVD.
The Internet killed the rental store
While there's a certain allure to owning hard copies of
the flicks we particularly enjoy, who among us can
honestly say we enjoy movie availability hassles and
late fees? Never mind paying for the time and gas
used to drive there and back, twice.
Apotential alternative — one that's already on its way
to becoming reality — is downloadable HD Internet
content. Granted, that's a relatively general term that
can mean a lot of different things to a lot of different
people. Indeed, it's even been bandied about —
incorrectly — to describe YouTube's "HD" videos,
which are definitely a grade higher than standard
Internet video fare but are most definitely not true HD.
For our purposes, HD Internet video is true HD: 720
or 1080 lines of vertical resolution with sophisticated
multi-channel sound that looks and sounds just as
good on your big screen living room TV as the latest
Blu-ray disc.
If the concept sounds intriguing, that's because it is.
Imagine sitting in your easy chair, selecting an HD
movie or video from a near-endless menu, watching
said movie/video when you want to — without the
Ratatouille
From Academy Award©-winning director Brad Bird (The Incredibles) and the amazing
storytellers at Maar Animation Studios comes Ratatouille, the original corn dy about
one of the most unlikely friendships imaginable. The film's protagonist is a t named
Remy (Patton Oswalt) who dares to dream the impossible dream of becomin
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need for a disc player of any sort — then switching off
your TV and going to bed. No returns in the morning,
no careful handling of a disc, no extraneous concerns
whatsoever.
The question is how that HD content arrives at your
TV.And, sadly, there are no easy answers. About the
only certainty is that video rental stores are on weaker
footing now than they were a few years back. And the
primary reason for that isn't the threat of online video
downloads, but the appearance of online DVD rental
firms such as Zip (www.zip.ca), Starflix
(www.starflix.com), and Cinemail.ca (www.cinemail.ca),
all of which stick to the "rent a disc, return a disc"
philosophy,but do away with late fees and much of
the hassle of old school brick and mortar rental
businesses.
But to those who believe in HD video and the Internet
as the delivery medium of that video, online disc
rentals are merely a stop-gap.
Straining the infrastructure
The big hurdle is size. We won't get into the
excruciating technological minutiae, but suffice to say
afull-length HD movie is a very big clump of data. It
must therefore be compressed to a manageable size
that won't take hours (literally) to download and won't
put undo pressure on already-pressurized Internet
pipelines. Which form of compression is the best is still
in question.
Bandwidth (the measurement of how quickly
information can be moved from one point to another)
is another key factor. You'll obviously see better results
with a faster connection, but the bigger issue is the quality and composition of the
cables that form the gridwork of the web (I thought it was a series of tubes... -ed.).
Thankfully, that gridwork is being continually updated — more so now than ever
because of technologies such as downloadable HD content.
Still, the truth is that results can't be guaranteed in an environment where standards
are as yet undecided and where the framework of that environment is in a state of
flux. And remember — what might work very well for one person in a particular area
or building may not work so well for another in another area with less capable
Internet delivery.
A is for Apple • simply do not do Canada at this time. Nor does America's leading online DVD rental
But despite the questions and the unresolved standards, downloadable HD content
•providers are already here. Arguably the foremost of these is Apple, with its Apple
TV. The Apple TV concept revolves around its sleek set-top Apple TV box ($249 or
$349, depending on the size of the hard drive), which in itself does away with the
need for a full-blown computer to get digital content from the Internet to TV set.
The service offers a ton of content aside from HD movies, including non-HD flicks,
YouTube videos, television programs, music and music videos, and much more.
Rental rates are currently equivalent to that of a movie rental store, and Apple claims
that you can begin watching your show within just a minute of beginning the
download process if you have a fast Internet connection.
The reviews, however, have not always been kind. Some complain of digital artifacts
(caused by faulty compression), and others say movie download times are
surprisingly long. Still others bemoan the fact that when Apple initially rolled out the
device in Canada, it offered virtually no movie content. In the USA, meanwhile, users
were able to choose from a massive library of mainstream movies. That situation has
thankfully since changed, though the selection continues to be more limited than that
of a brick and mortar store.
Bravo Bravia?
Electronics giant Sony is approaching the whole idea from a slightly different angle.
This fall, Sony will offer the recent Will Smith flick Hancock as a worldwide Internet
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download to owners of its Bravia TVs and Bravia Internet Video Link box: It's
uncertain at this point if Hancock will be available in HD, but the truly interesting bit
of information is that Bravia owners will get to see the movie before it hits traditional
rental stores and the DVD/Blu-ray market. Granted, Sony has made it clear that it
considers the move an "experiment," but experiments like this may be a sign of
things to come.
Other, American-based services — such as Vudu (www.vudu.com), which currently
offers its own set-top box and more than 6,000 HD movies, and Amazon's Unbox,
which doesn't yet support HD content but provides oodles of non-HD content and
apparently works well with the long-established TiVo (personal video recorder) unit —
service Netflix, with its Netflix Player by Roku (www.roku.com/netflixplayer). The little
device allows users to instantly watch more than 12,000 non-HD movies in the
Netflix library where HD titles are apparently on their way, but it won't be seen north
of the border.
Perhaps that's a blessing in disguise. As discussed earlier, there are several
reasons downloadable HD content hasn't yet come of age. But aside from video
compression and Internet speed questions, there's one very important factor we
haven't even touched upon — digital rights management (DRM).
Until the major movie studios can come to an agreement as to how they'll deal with
piracy and other unauthorized uses of their precious properties, and until Bravia
owners can have access to the same content as Apple TV owners and Vudu
disciples, consumers will be faced yet again with a question of which technology to
back. And as anyone who has monitored the recent and oh-so-painful HDDVD versus
Blu-ray bathes can attest, uncertainty severely
impedes adoption.
One thing is certain: the selection of HD movies is currently better and more stable
offline than on. One can only speculate if that will be the case by the time we say
goodbye to 2008.
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 Power Pellets: Fan Ire
Diablo III comes under fire
The long-awaited second sequel to Diablo, Blizzard Entertainment's massively
popular series of dungeon-crawling role-playing games, was announced this summer
at a special event in Paris. The California-based developer revealed only the barest of
details about the game, mentioning a few familiar locations and characters (including
the series' perennial guru and guide Deckard Cain) and that it will support both solo
and multiplayer campaigning. They didn't even provide a projected release date, even
though the game has been under development in secret for some three years.
Despite the scarcity of information, the announcement of a new chapter in the
Diablo saga resulted in a collective cheer from franchise fans that was heard echoed
over forums, blogs, and gaming news sites across the interweb. This was
predictable; the series' acolytes have been pining for a new installment in their
favourite dungeon crawler for nearly a decade. What wasn't expected was the
massive backlash that came from some of these same people.
After poring over the few images and videos that Blizzard had made available (all
viewable at www.blizzard.com), fervent fans began questioning Diablo III's look and
feel, suggesting that it didn't jibe with the series' established aesthetic. They said
that its visual design seemed more inspired by the colourful fantasy environments of
World of Warcraft, another of Blizzard's most successful brands, than previous Diablo
games, which, they claimed, were far darker and more dramatic. Some of the more
ambitious complainers even went so far as to modify some of the Diablo III
screenshots Blizzard had released to the public to make them appear more in line
with what they thought the game should look like.
Taking it to the Net
These criticisms culminated in a lobbying document posted at
www.petitiononline.com dubbed-"Renewed Artistic Direction for Diablo 3." An
astounding 56,500 people had signed it at the time of this writing. To put that
number in perspective, it's roughly equivalent to the famous RuinediPhone petition
signed by Canadian consumers this summer that helped force Rogers into offering
discounted data plans for Apple's web browsing handset. Could the Diablo III petition
spur Blizzard to action as well?
Not likely.
For starters, Diablo III lead producer Keith Lee has gone on record with many game
publications stating that his team approached the design of the game with the firm
belief that "colour was our friend," adding that much of Diablo III takes place
outdoors and in daylight, which necessitates brighter environments.
And, as more than one observer has pointed out, 55,000 angry fans may seem like
a lot, but in the grand scheme of things it represents only around 0.3 per cent of the
18 million people who have purchased Diablo games to date. What's more, the
zealot-like nature of game fans makes it probable that these plaintiffs will purchase
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the latest game regardlesS of whether Blizzard acquiesces to their demands.
The most interesting commentary on the Diablo III art debacle so far has come in
the form of a droll article with the headline "The Internet Hates Diablo III," published
on the comedy web site SomethingAwful. The author, using Stephen Colbert-style
sarcasm, cleverly reminds us that some of the villains and environments in the first
two Diablo games were, in fact, far more colourful and cartoon-ish than anything yet
revealed in Diablo III.
And, indeed, it does appear as though time has tainted some players' memories. In
viewing the few screens we have of Diablo III beside images taken from its
predecessors, it becomes plainly obvious that comparing the new Diablo to those of
years past is rather like comparing Ralph Bakshi's decades-old Lord of the Rings
animated film with the more recent live- action movies made by Peter Jackson. The
third game in the series has a gritty and darkly beautiful three-dimensional aesthetic
that the earlier entries in the series simply cannot match. It is folly to languish in
the past.
However, I doubt that even side-by-side screenshots will quell the dissatisfaction of
those who disapprove of Diablo III's artistic direction. Interactive entertainment has
become art. And, for better or worse, beauty is now in the eyes of the gamer.
Spore
Reviewed on: A 17-inch HP Pavilion DV7-1038CA notebook with 4 GB of memory, an
Intel Core 2 Duo processor running at 2.0 GHz, and nVidia's GeForce 9600M GT
graphics chipset.
Score: 3/5
In retrospect, Spore, Will Wright's long anticipated evolution simulator, was destined
to disappoint. It had been the subject of so much media attention over the last half
decade that there really wasn't any way that it could live up to what fans had come
to hope it would be. The finished product is an undeniably creative and original piece
of interactive entertainment, as most suspected it would be. It just doesn't deliver a
particularly compelling gaming experience.
Spore's aim is to give players the power to create and develop their very own
sentient species over the course of five separate stages of evolution. And, thanks to
some truly powerful and accessible 3D modeling software, it succeeds wildly in
giving players godlike powers to mould their creatures into almost any form
imaginable.
What's more, this power expands beyond creatures to include buildings, clothing,
military hardware, and even space ships. Virtually everything we see and interact
with on screen can be shaped and customized however the player sees fit. There is
nothing else like it in the world of games — especially once you factor in how
More colourful carnage in Diablo III
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everyone's creations are downloaded to EA's servers, where they are randomly
distributed as wildlife and structures in other players' games. It's a brilliant idea.
Expect to see it pilfered by other developers.
However, creating and sharing critters and architecture does not a video game
make. You also need interesting objectives, rewards, and strategies, and this is
where Spore falls down.
The five stages of evolution are, in fact, five discrete games. Spore begins with an
arcade-like challenge that has players trying to keep their simple, cellular organisms
alive in a vast primordial soup, then progresses through several other games and
activities of escalating complexity before ending with an epic quest to conquer the
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galaxy by travelling from one star system to the next.
While the idea of binding several unique gaming experiences
to the evolution of a single species is fascinating, Wright's
team has botched the execution, delivering rudimentary and
repetitive challenges that get tiresome in short order. The
tribal stage, for example, which has as its goal the
conquering of five rival villages, involves little more than
collecting food, making babies, outfitting warriors, and
attacking buildings. It gets wearisome about halfway through
the 90 or so minutes it takes to complete. •
What's worse, some stages feel like inferior rip-offs of other
games. Case in point: The civilization stage, the objective of
which is to conquer the globe through military, religious or
economic means. If it sounds familiar, that's because it is
essentially a simpler, second-rate version of Sid Meier's much-
loved Civilization games.
Still, some of the stages can be quite entertaining. The
creature phase sees players' species emerging from the •
oceans and struggling to earn the right to exist on land as
they encounter dozens of other fledgling animals and collect
various bits of DNA that can be used to their advantage. And
the space age stage is wonderfully empowering, giving
players the ability to explore virtually any planet in the galaxy where they can set up
terraforming projects and meet other races. Unfortunately, you have to wade through
hours of mediocre play to get to it.
Wright has proven that he's a master of creating massive sandboxes in which we
can tinker and experiment to our hearts' content. Now he just has to show us that he
can turn this player-powered creativity into something more than just an interactive
toy; something that feels like a real game. Spore was supposed to be that game, but
it seems we'll have to wait at least a few more years for him to give it another go.
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 Geeks and Pocket Projectors
The birth of the truly portable projector
The first video projector I set my eyes on back in the early '90s was a 100 pound,
three-tube affair made by Barco which threw out all of 600 lumens. The resolution
was regular video (640 x 480) and just renting it for one day back then cost as
much as buying a new one today.
But that was then and this is now.
Yes, projectors are poised to be part of your cell phone within the next year or two.
That's right, not as big as a cell phone but part of a cell phone or about a
thousandth the size of the aforementioned tube projector. Imagine, you will finally be
able to project "Kick Me!" on your boss's back without the cumbersome evidence of
tape, paper, a slap on the back and your uniquely identifiable handwriting.
Not only is workplace bullying going to be revolutionized, you'll also be able to play
games of a reasonable size with your cell phone too. Pico projection may really
make a difference in one of the most limiting factors of portable electronics to date
— screen size. Just think of surfing the Net and reading your e-mail without
awkwardly scrolling through pages to do it. Also, you will be able to watch The Blair
Witch Project or episodes of Lost while out camping instead of staring at those
boring stars and relaxing.
Texas Instruments has been demonstrating a hollowed out BlackBerry running as a
projector using their Digital Light Processor (DLP) technology being driven by LED
backlights. Because LEDs run bright and cool using very little power, you can stick
them into a really small space without melting everything in sight or causing a fire.
The difference between that and a standard projector is that with a regular projector
you have a single lamp which must have its white light split into red, green and blue
colours. Each colour is masked via some sort of imager and then the primary
colours are recombined to make a full colour image. In a DLP projector, recombining
is done using a colour wheel. The wheel spins around really fast and has a red,
green and blue gel covered hole that shows the colours sequentially. This happens
so fast that your eyes add them together and you have your image.
Well, this whole wheel assembly can be dumped in a DLP pico projector as you can
just have three differently coloured LEDs turning off and on very quickly. This.saves
space and power.
Texas Instruments isn't the only midget cowboy in Tiny Town either. Microvision is a
lesser known company who has created a system that has been demonstrated and
is scheduled to hit the shelves... at least, eventually. Instead of using a DLP chip with
thousands of tiny mirrors reflecting regular old light at various strengths, this system
uses three coloured lasers that scan the picture, much like your old CRT used to, but
with an electron beam. It uses just one light-deflecting mirror instead of the
thousands used in a DLP.
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The potential of this system for further miniaturization is likely to be greater than
DLPdue to a simpler construction of the mirroring chip and the lasers not requiring
a lens to be focused. The lasers are always in focus as the beam doesn't spread out
like regular light. However, a potential limiting factor of this system is the speed of
the mirror bouncing the lasers onto the projection surface, which determines
resolution. The faster the mirror scans the lasers across the screen, the more lines
of resolution it can present in a single pass.
Another issue specific to using lasers is something called speckle. When laser light
hits a surface, it has light and dark spots appearing all over it. It is "speckled"
looking. This interference pattern is caused by the single wave nature of lasers and
isn't very helpful when you're trying to represent an image other than, well, laser
speckle. Very distracting.
One company directly addressing this issue is Light Blue Optics which has a system
that uses lasers bouncing off an LCOS (Liquid Crystal On Silicon) chip. This works .
much like a DLP imager in that it reflects light but instead, it's reflecting a laser
beam with a slight twist. They call it Holographic Laser Projection as the LCOS chip
is actually using a diffraction pattern which in effect steers the light as opposed to
just blocking it. It's essentially an electronically controllable hologram. That ability to
steer light allows the chip to put light at different places on the screen which
facilitates error compensation for dead pixels, non-flat projection surfaces, dust in
the light path and speckle reduction. Reflecting from a different part of the chip to fill
in a same given pixel helps stagger the light from a laser so that it starts acting like
regular light, losing that weird lasery look as the light waves are offset.
Whichever technology gets adopted, it will be a nifty and useful feature for a cell
phone to have, although expect stand alone units to come out first.
Unfortunately, there are a couple of things that are going to be problems no matter
what. At present, the lifespan of a typical battery while using a pico-projector is
about 1.5 hours, which almost finishes a movie and most certainly would finish your
cell phone. It's still in the early days but, no matter what, pico projectors will have
you running to the recharger sooner rather than later. Also, you need to find a white
surface in a dark room. Ambient light washes out projected images like there's no
tomorrow so there will be some restrictions as to where you can use it.
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What we can learn from iPhone girl

I read about iPhone girl in the Globe and Mail at the end of
August, as her story was flashing around the world. The
HUBCanada website also carried a story about her, as did
anumber of other online news sources including PC World,
Yahoo!News, CNet and USAToday. When you read this
column at least a month will have passed since it was
news, and you will probably have forgotten all about it.
To recap, a guy in the UK purchased a new iPhone and
found a photo on it of a young Asian female smiling into
the camera and flashing the peace sign. What looked like a factory assembly line
was in the background. He posted the photo online and wondered if anyone else
had the photo on their iPhone. Apparently no one else did but the message board
soon became populated with speculations about the iPhone girl — who she was
and whether these apparent assembly line antics would get her fired, etc..
According to the AP/AFP story carried by the Globe and Mail, further investigation
discovered that the female was in fact an employee of Foxconn, the Taiwan-based
company Apple contracted to make the Phones. Foxconn's explanation: the photo
was taken during product testing and someone simply forgot to delete it before the
phone was packaged.
Astory from NewsFactor Network, which was carried by HUB Canada, put a more
conniving spin on the incident. NewsFactor writer, Patricia Resende, raises the idea
that the whole thing might have been a publicity stunt to show happy workers and
good working conditions. Resende goes on to explain that a Britjh newspaper
reported appalling working conditions at the plant in 2006, which prompted Apple
to investigate conditions for itself. What it discovered was a factory in violation of
Apple's supplier code of conduct. The company agreed to improve working
conditions, hours of work, etc..
Fast forward to the present and the charmingly happy iPhone girl communicating
the subtext "everything is groovy here."
Maybe someone could make a case for the iPhOne girl being a brilliant piece of
viral marketing but I think there are too many uncontrolled variables or dubious
motivations for that, starting with the guy who found and posted the image in the
first place. If I had found that on my new iPhone, I would have immediately deleted
it without much thought to its source or purpose. I would have dismissed it as just
another useless sample of the kind tech companies like to include with their
products — just in case we've never seen a digital image or an MP3 music file
before. But maybe he was a Foxconn operative. Maybe...
One thing iPhone girl gives us is a progress report of our march towards a global
village. That journey started in ancient times with oral reports of exotic and exciting
places far away, gained a wider audience with books and broke through time
barriers with the immediacy of radio and television. The Internet adds the next
piece to the global village: global dialogue in real time.
Have we arrived at that global village so many media theorists have predicted for
so many years? In some respects, it seems so. Those who cared about iPhone girl
formed a community that shared something mutually interesting to them just as two
suburban neighbours might talk up their passion for whatever over the back yard
fence. Pick any topic you care to and you find both serious and casual discussion
popping up on the Net. That's one of the hallmarks of Web 2.0, the social Internet.
The iPhone girl is our version of the mysterious stranger that passes through a
village — and becomes an immediate but short-lived topic of idle conversation.
But the technology also allows geographically diverse individuals to come together
on more serious issues. One of the things you may have noticed during our current
federal election campaign (and also the presidential election happening south of us)
is the increasingly important role the social Internet is playing in political debate. I'm
writing this just a few days after the election was called, but I note that one of
CBC's reporters will be following the election process as it plays out on the web.
This isn't a new phenomenon, but is an increasingly signifiCant force in determining
the outcome — at least as important as the stumping, baby hugging and
"debates."
Until next time,
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