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With GoToMeeting you can hold unlimited ‘online meetings with anyone, anywhere ~ right from ‘your computer. So you can do more and travel less. ‘Try GoToMeeting FREE for 30 days. GoToMeeting gotomeeting.com/peworld Ooh, my ports are sore... .since the big project started I’ve been on every desk in this office and no one hos the same i Yesterday the me with tive Services crammed me with 30GB of RAW a couple gigs of forecasts vio USB 2.0 and had 1 my way fo see the Big Cheese for some FireWire 400 time. Financial reports. Woo hoo. If they product phot @ editing real-time video on the fly with FireWire 800. Now I’m on fins out my shoricut button can automatically back up everything on their computers with one push, | con kiss my 1.5Gb/s eSATA* sarver backup gig good LaCie d2 Quadra Hard Drive Cp Quadruple interlace |320G8 - 18 wwuwilacie.com HACKER.” IT'S A word that's been with us since the dawa of personal ‘computing, but one whose connote tions keep changing. At first it was pos er was itively complimentary: A ho someone who was really good at com ing up with inventive, unexpected solu tions to computing problems. Then it ‘turned ugly, suggesting thatthe person in question was engaging in practices that were dubious or downright ilega Lately, though, hacking has swung ack 10 a m ning closer to its original sense—and | couldn’t be ha it. Today it des pier about trick ribes any cl that gives a product functions other than those specifically intended by its creator. Hackers, 16 the hacks they come up with, have gone mainstream betcer yet, you don't need to be a hare- core geek to join the fun. ‘Witness this issue's lead Hews Hz feature, Scott Spanbauer’s “Eight seat, Simple Ways to Hack the Web” (page 132). Scott, aPC World scalwact since before there was a Web to hack, shows how to perform cool Google Maps ticks, create your own RSS feeds ers Toe se er aero Cees fever: eee nes ee eee eee The 43-year-old ASBPE gi pen reres enna ee cn ene) fee ee et pened ete Techlog 9. What's Hackable Today? Almost Every iiing) ke products better in unexpected li be the hackers who create them—ar ‘compan that mit them. All these feats are possible because however, both companies sell chips the Web is the most inherently hack able piece of technology ever invented, And increasingly, smact Web companies are figuring out that the more hackable their sites and services are, the more successful they ean be In May, for instance, the Facebook social-networking site opened up its platform, allowing the skills a ny developer with 1d interest to build new fea tures. That gave millions of people who hhad been doing their networking else where a big reason to switch theit alle giances to Facebook. Se exphins how to customize your Face book profile using add-ons from the vast assortment that has already emerged Hacker-Friendly Hardware 5 not just Web sites and services that are more hackable than ever. Time was when Intel and AMD were at odes with PC enthusiasts who overclocked the chip makers’ CPUs to push them o a higher level of performance. Today ree Peeters oe eth mega el reer ea designed with overclocking in mind. Even hardware companies that doa’t build explicitly hacker-fricndly features into their products often help out hack +s in other ways. Opening up a TVo DVR box, for example, voids its war ven so, the company’s support forums are full of open discussion topics such as how to perform hard its customers on do-it-yourself drive upgrades. In an earlier era, you might have expected TiVo to censor such valuable chatter off its site. In shout, tech companies have be come surprisingly tolerant of hacks (at ones that don't involve elzoum venting copy protection or compromis ng security). So it was startling wher Apple announced back in January chat it intended the iPhone to run only client applications that the comp designed itself, decidedly hacker hostile move, “You don't want you phone to bean open platform,” Steve Jobs told Ne Speak for yourself, Steve. The mo- cceR’s Steven Levy ‘ment that the iPhone hit the street on hackers went to work on it, determining how to add useful features that Apple had left out, such as aca bility to use the phone as a modem for ing at its best. And imagine what hackers could do if App decided to help, rather than hobble, the folks who seck to make the iPhone better forall of us. a laptop. That's had Have favorite hacks of your own for the products you rely on? Drop mea line at harry_meceacken@pewor and shaze them—I'm all eas Read Editor in Chief Horry MoO nitechiog, @ worldex Toshiba recommends Windows Vista® Business. World's thinnest widescreen 12.1" notebook with an optical drive" World’s lightest widescreen 12.1" notebook at 1.72 Ibs. with solid state drive and no optical drive” | World's longest battery life in a widescreen 12.1" notebook? World's first indoor/outdoor widescreen 12.1" transreflective LED backlit display Introducing the Portégé® R500 Notebook PC Series. The world’s thinnest widescreen 12.1" notebook with an optical drive' or the world’s lightest widescreen 12.1" notebook with 64GB" solid state drive” featuring Intel® Centrino® Duo processor technology and the Windows Vista® Business operating system — and everything you need to be more productive no matter where business takes you. Learn more at toshiba.com/R500. TOSHIBA Leading Innovation >>> Sas a ae aaa ces te ran {yes usps ot Seanad Dr iy gn ome imbea iam Press psne ann ers Ares rata he ar aa is char nemo ate ieee tee cam woud caaev bel uae hn 2.61 Fee ten retort ie ere Love it or hate it, the iPhone was on every- one’s mind this month. Is it innovative and amazing, or overpriced and pointless? Should do more for the price? PCW it Should you wait for the next generation? What about Apple's battery replacement policy? Tell us what you think at find.pcworld.com/58261, iPhone T'm sory, but don't people who bought [the iPhone] for $600 deserve a pafier prodiuet? For 600 bucke expect this thing to cead my mind and order flow- cers for my gulfriend (and pose i to Apple's account) iguidasace22, fromthe PC Workd forums The iPhone looks amazing, and it prob- ably feels amazing in the palm of your hhand, too. t's sleek, curvy, shiny, and sexy, with on-screen icons and buttons thac just ooze and drip clas, candersouoscat5, fromthe PC World forums Farand away, [the virwal keyboard] was my biggest eonceen about the ‘Phone. Having played with one for

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