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amazing 145,000 attendees for the 2005 show to over
The Consumer Electronics 150,000. The Las Vegas Convention Center i s a 3.2
Show in sometimes fabulous million sq f t facility and CES uses more than half of
Las Vegas. Where New Year's the available exhibiting space. While the show has D I G I TA L LIVING

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resolutions a r e q u i c k l y traditionally spilled over into the halls of the adjacent
EDITORIAL
forgotten a n d Christmas Hilton hotel, this year is sprawled further with an entirely
Edit° hin-Chle f A n d r e w Moore-Crispin
bonus cheques are cashed new portion of the show occupying the exhibition space andrew@ppublishing.
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and summarily liquidated at the Sands hotel ... alongside the Adult Entertainment etin@ppublishingea

in t h e various flashing Expo, which itself attracts 25,000 attendees. Contributing Editors S e a n Carruthers
diversions. If indeed a trade show is the best way to judge the over- Ray Richards, Lee Rickwood
Marc Saltzman, David Tanaka
Star Wars video slot machine, you are spawn of the Dark all health of the industries it represents, 2006 is a good
Art Director S t e v e n Stoner
Side. With your promises of Death Star bonus spins and year for tech ... and pretty good one for the adult
Darth Vader / Obi Wan Kenobi battles made all the more industry too, I'm guessing. Advertising Sales
interesting as there's money riding on the outcome. While CES was a little anemic where exciting new product
Every year, various denizens of the consumer tech world announcements a r e concerned, t h e Consumer ONTARIO/TORONTO
Electronics Association, the member organization that Corporate Account R a l p h Ventriglia
descend on Sin City to check out the latest and greatest
Managers r a l p h @ p p u b l i s h i n g c a
innovations. Big business is conducted behind closed puts the show together every year — announced that it
Ad Soles K a r i m Rizk
doors off the show floor and deals are discussed in the expects the consumer tech sector to grow in the order of karim@ppublishing.ca

smaller halls where exhibitors are packed into veal fat- eight per cent in 2006 to $135.4 billion wholesale. Heather Knight
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tening pens, reminiscent o f the cubicles that some Add that to the 11 per cent the organization says the
among us toil inside in order to make rent every month. industry swelled this year and it's a good time to be a MONTREAL Karim Sahninc
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While the booth design is not as elaborate as at some tech head.
other tech-related shows, companies still drop hundreds WESTERN CANADA A n i o n Jin
of thousands and millions of dollars in their attempts to Enjoy the issue, vivian@ppublishing.ca
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C a n y o u r digicam do t h i s ?
CES packed with impressive point-and-shoot cameras and cam-
corders
Consumers looking for a reason t o upgrade their digital camera o r
camcorder this year won't have a shortage of options. If what was unveiled
at the 2006 Consumer Electronics Show is any indication, the latest still and
video cameras offer higher resolution, better zoom and a host of other bells
and whistles.
In 2006, the question won't be whether or not to upgrade, but rather which
camera to choose? Here's a look at some of the more interesting point-and-
shoot digital cameras and camcorders found on the show floor at CES.
Wide open possibilities
Two days before the show opened, Kodak announced it had developed the
world's first dual-lens digital camera. That is, the Kodak EasyShare V570
combines an optical zoom lens (39. 117 mm) and an ultra-wide angle lens
(23 mm) into a sleek camera that's less than an inch thin. So, say you're at
a party snapping shots o f your friends and then someone yells out
"Ok, everyone get in this one!"; now you press a button to switch to the
wide-angle lens, which offers roughly 70 per cent more coverage area. The
5.0-megapixel camera features a total of 5x optical zoom and extras such
as in-camera panorama stitching (180-degree photo in just three clicks)
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and video at 30 frames per second. The Kodak EasyShare Photo Frame
Dock 2 will also be bundled with the camera when i t debuts i n late
February for $499.
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If one of your New Year's resolutions was to shed a few pounds, you may be
happy to know that a new HP digital camera can help you achieve the effect.
The HP Photosmart R927 i s not only the company's first /3.2-Megapixel
digital camera but it has a number of photo effects built right in ranging from
auto red-eye removal to fancy frames and borders to filters that can turn
your photos into water-colour paintings, vintage photographs, cartoons or
Picasso-inspired art. But one that raised the most eyebrows at CES among
the more self-conscious attendees was the "trimming" feature; select this
option from the back of the camera and you automatically shed a few
pounds in the photo! Can you say "perfect for online dating?" Other camera
features include a huge 3-inch LCD display, 3x optical zoom and a durable
metallic body.
Video in a Flash
The award-winning Sanyo Xacti H01 wowed CES attendees fora number of
reasons: This slim and lightweight camcorder can shoot high-definition
MPEG-4 video (720p; 16:9 widescreen aspect ratio) to
a SecureDigital (SD) card, which yields roughly 41
minutes of HD video to a 2GB card. It also fares well as
a s t i l l c a m e r a w i t h 5.1-megapixel resolution.
Also packed into this unit is a 10x optical zoom lens,
continuous still shooting, digital image stabilizer,
self-timer, voice recorder and flash w i t h red-eye
reduction. The 2.2-inch display uses OLEDs (organic
light-emitting diodes) for a clear and bright picture,
while a talking navigation feature will walk through
first-time users. Due out in March for about US$800
(no Canadian pricing has been confirmed), the HD1 will
also include a docking station for PC or TV connection.
"Tubular" to the max
Ok, so it resembles a thermos more than anything
else, b u t t h e Sony Handycam DCR-SR100 i s t h e
company's f i r s t h a r d d r i v e -based c a m c o r d e r
[following last year's JVC and Panasonic models) and
offers a few added extras not found in the competition.
For one, the impressive 3-megapixel CCD camcorder
(with 3-megapixel stills, too) includes a built-in shock-
absorber and data buffering feature to protect image
integrity i f the camera i s accidentally jolted. I t can
record in Dolby 5.1 surround sound, offers an optional
Bluetooth mic for a center channel, and sports an
attractive 2.7-inch TFT LCD screen.
This distinctively tubular 30GB hard drive unit —which
translates to more than seven hours of high-quality
video — should be available by the spring, though no
price has been announced.
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inch plasma television. Spitting distance away is Panasonic's 103-inch
One of the hottest categories of products at the Consumer Electronics
plasma TV, which can be accurately stated as "world's largest." But who
Show this year was tech for the home. From enormous televisions and new
cares? None of the three are actually in production, you'd have to take out
personal video recorders (PVRs) to PCs with quad-graphics chips and fancy
amortgage on your home to buy one and where would you put a television
stereos designed for your iPod, you bet these high-tech manufacturers are
feeding into our so-called "cocooning" lifestyle (bring it on!). screen the size of a garage door? Sure, these monstrous screens drew
Here's a look at what made waves on the show floor: crowds, which is what they wanted, but it would've been better to see
something, well, groundbreaking. Like MTV. Or VRTV. Or Smell-o-vision.
Blu-Ray vs. HD-DVD Whatever.
Not unlike the home video format wars in the early 80's between Betamax Anumber of TVs did impress, however, such as Sony's stunning KDS-
and VHS, two technologies are competing to replace your DVD player: R6OXBR1,a 60-inch rear-projection LCD with the company's newSXRD light
Blu-Ray Disc and HD-DVD. engine, resulting in incredibly detailed 1080p high-definition images. Its
Both offer high-definition video content, multi-channel surround sound 50-inch brother, the KDS-R5OXBR1, took home Sound & Vision magazine's
and handy extras such as the ability to pull up a movie menu on top of Product of the Year and Best Video Product for 2005.
the flick you're watching, instead of taking you out of the film to tweak AnotherCES award-winner is the Samsung HI,S5679W, the world's first
the settings. LEDlight sourced OLPrear-projection HDTV.This 56-inch television replaces
While the same size as your 12 cm DVDs [which hold up to 8.5GB on the colour wheel and lamp-based image engine with a LED light sourced
dual-layer discs), Blu-Ray and HD-DVD discs can store up to 30GB or 50GB single chip that offers a host of advantages including a brighter picture,
per side, respectively, and are therefore capable of delivering more than increased colour gamut reproduction, shorter turn-on time (seven
one thousand lines of resolution for your spanking new HDTV set. Both seconds) and improved longevity. But few of the gawkers at the Samsung
technologies are backward-compatible, therefore they'll still play your booth likely cared about the technical reasons for the sharper picture as
existing DVDs. they stared at the stunning video loop of nature footage. Due out in April
More of Hollywood's big studios are rallying behind Blu-Ray than HD-DVD,for US$4,199 (no Canadian pricing confirmed as of yet), this true
but the advantage of the latter is that they're cheaper and faster to manu- high-definition set (1920 x 1080p) offers two 1080p HDMI inputs and an
facturer. Example: the Pioneer Blu-Ray player (BDP-HD1) will cost roughly integratedATSCandNTSC tuner.
US$1,800 when it comes out this spring [ouch), while the Toshiba HD-DVD
player (HD-A1) will cost US$499 Other goodies
Pricing aside, I can tell you the Blu-Ray demo at CESblew away those who Logitech showed off its latest universal remote, the Harmony 890
sat in, whether it was movie footage from Tarantino's Kill Bill, Vol. 1 (in true (designed in Toronto). In case you haven't seen these sleek remotes before,
HDand 7.1 surround sound) or the high-def video game footage from EA they connect to the Internet via your PC'sUSB port to import codes for your
Sports' Fight Night Round 3 [Sony PlayStation 3 will be a Blu-Ray player). components; macro commands (such as Play a DVD) are also easily
Stay tuned to HUB for more on this heated battle for living room dominance. programmable. The new Harmony 890, though, is the first retail model in
Logitech's award-winning family of remotes to use both radio frequency
TVs, TVs and more TVs (RF) and infrared (IR) wireless signals to control not just your home
Pardon my French, but CES has become the proverbial pissing contest theatre but also lighting and security systems using the Z-Wave wireless
between some of the majorTVmanufacturers who believe size matters [ahem). technology standard. No price or launch date has been announced.
In one corner there's Samsung with "the world's first 102-inch plasma TV" Imagine being able to watch your favourite TV shows wherever you are in
(which was at CES last year, too), then we've got LG's "world's largest" 102- the world via any Windows XP-based or Macintosh computer. So even if
you're in Italy at a wireless café, you can simply open up your laptop and
watch your local television listings in, say, Vancouver. Introduced last year,
the Slingbox ($250 U.S.) is a small silver machine that "placeshifts" the TV
signal from any cable box, satellite receiver or personal video recorder to
your desktop or laptop PC.At CES, the company demonstrated the ability to
watch TVon smartphones such as the Treo 700w.
TheDenonAVR-2807 is a $1500 audio-video receiver that can pass 1080p
high-definition signals via HOMIcable, and can up-convert analog signals to
480p (a feature usually found in pricier receivers). TheAVR-2807, which
delivers 110 watts per channel (and offers 5.1 to 7.1 configurations), offers
numerous input and output options, supports XM Satellite Radio, and will be
compatible with Denon's iPod dock due out this April. Also of note is its
unique room calibration technology (dubbed MultEOXT); it provides an
audio "sweet spot° for multiple listeners regardless of the speaker layout.
The unit will ship in either black or silver.
By Marc Saltzman

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Searching for the perfect search

Most of us have built up such large collections of documents, emails, pic- that is regularly updated whenever the application is running. However,
the detail and quantity of data indexed for each file is superior to that of
tures, and other files that simply finding the one we happen to be looking for
can be a serious pain in the caboose. many other utilities and includes such handy information as MP3 metadata,
In the past we were stuck with the agonizingly slow and inaccurate search text in PDFs, and even the contents of email attachments and documents
functionality provided by Windows. But in recent years a host of free, pow- inside ZIP files.
erful search utilities has sprung up that allow us to index virtually every file Once created, the index provides almost instantaneous access to all
on our systems and then find them in seconds by conducting simple and catalogued files through the Yahoo! Desktop Search application, which is
intuitive queries. broken into two panes: one for searching, and another for previewing
The ostensible trifecta o f these utilities i s Google Desktop 2, Yahoo! found files. You can search by file type, such as email, MS Word document,
Desktop Search, and MSN Search Toolbar with Windows Desktop Search. and image, or search the entire index at once. Results are refined with each
These tools perform many of the same basic functions, but each provides letter typed, and the currently selected file within your search is displayed
subtle differences in their search capabilities and graphical user interfaces in the preview pane, saving you from opening the file to check its contents.
that may or may not appeal to your particular needs or taste. Yahoo! Desktop Search also boasts a media player for previewing media
files and adds a toolbar within Outlook to facilitate more efficient searches
MSN Search Toolbar with Windows Desktop Search within your email.
Available for download at: http://toolbar.msn.com Downsides include a lack of support for email applications other than
Microsoft is apparently toiling away to deliver a robust desktop search tool Outlook and a failure to effectively integrate with Yahoo!'s online search
for its next generation of Windows, but in the interim they have provided us functionality to show both local and Web-based results on the same page.
with MSN Search Toolbar with Windows Desktop Search.
The most obvious advantage of Microsoft's search tool is that it has been Google Desktop 2
seamlessly integrated within several other popular Microsoft products, Available for download at: http://desktop.google.com
adding instantaneous querying functionality to Windows Explorer, Internet Google Desktop 2 uses an interface you are probably already quite familiar
Explorer, and the desktop taskbar, as well as Outlook and Outlook Express. with: the Google search engine running in a Web browser. You can choose to
More advanced searches can be initiated through an application interface search locally, over the Web, or both — in which case the results returned
that allows users to search by file type and includes a viewing pane to are identified as either residing on your machine or on a Web page.
preview search results. Unfortunately, the search functionality doesn't provide a viewing pane for
Windows Desktop Search provides support for a broad spectrum of files. By previewing selected files, and you can't conduct searches by file category.
installing add-ons, users can search more than 200 file types, including However, Google Desktop 2 offers something its competition doesn't: an
Eudora, Mozilla, and Thunderbird email documents. optional desktop sidebar that provides quick access to a variety of frequent-
Another differentiator is speed. The application uses an indexing system ly used local and Web-based resources.
that involves the creation of a large group of smaller indexes for each docu- Composed of a panel of boxes on the right side of the desktop, the sidebar
ment type. Microsoft says this multi-index system results in much faster delivers personalized information such as news stories, RSS feeds, weather,
search results. and local maps as well as links to recently viewed mail, pictures, and Web
Notable drawbacks are minor; it's incompatible with non-Windows pages. Below is a Google search box that will scan your PC's local index, nar-
operating systems and has the potential to gum up the works on older rowing the list of returned results with each letter you type in.
machines with minimal RAM. Both of these shortcomings are common to Google's sidebar is an attempt to anticipate what the user plans to look for,
many desktop search utilities. thus eliminating the need to conduct searches. How successful it is in its
delivery will depend on the needs of individual users.
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Organizing with Outlook

Most of us can use a little bit of help organising our lives whether it be view the Note even when Outlook is closed. You can also email a Note by
keeping track of appointments, making reminder notes or cleaning up an right clicking it, click Forward and complete the email before sending it.
overly full email inbox. If you think of Outlook as simply an email program,
you're missing out on harnessing much of its power. In fact, Outlook has all Organize your calendar
the tools you need to organize your business and personal life. Let's look at Outlook's Calendar is a great tool for managing your schedule. You can
some of the tools that you can put to work right away. create recurring appointments that happen on a regular basis such as a
regular Friday meeting. To do this, open the Calendar and choose New.
Sorting the mail Configure the appointment description and time and click Recurrence to
Outlook's Rules feature helps you tame an unruly inbox. You can write rules identify its frequency. In future, i f a meeting changes from Friday t o
to divert email to different folders according to what email address they Thursday because o f a holiday, for example, you can adjust the one
were sent to, who sent them, or some other criteria that makes sense to you. occurrence without disturbing the remainder.
To make a rule, click the Mail option and choose Tools, Rules and Alerts, You can also see dates of your choice in the Calendar view if you click 1-Day
E-mail Rules. Click New Rule, select "Start from a blank rule" and click "Check view then Control + click on various dates in the mini calendars. The dates
messages when they arrive". Click Next and check an option that identifies display side by side letting you compare, say, Monday and Thursday next
the emails you want to divert. If an underlined link appears in the Step 2 week or the next four Fridays.
window, click it to configure that option. For example, choose "Through the
specified account" and then set the email account for the emails to divert. Track your work
Continue through the Wizard to determine what to do with the emails (place Outlook Journal is an often overlooked tool. The Journal can record every
in a different folder) and define any exclusions to the rule. Finally, give the Office document you work on including the filename, where it is stored and
rule a name, turn it on and, if desired, run it on your inbox to start the clean up. the time you spent working on it. Use this information to find files or track
When an email requires follow up, flag it so you don't forget to do this. Right your work. You must enable this feature to use it so choose Tools, Options,
click the e-mail and choose Follow Up and then, if you're using Outlook 2003, Preferences, Journal Options and tick the checkboxes for all the Office
choose Add Reminder. Choose an action such as Follow Up, Forward or Reply programs you use. Now the Journal will record and list all the work you've
from the Flag to list and, from the "Due by" list choose the date to do this. done and you can click a file listed there to open it automatically in the
Outlook flags the item and ensures you're reminded that it requires attention. program you created it in.

Managing digital notes Hands-free dialling

While paper sticky notes are handy, digital sticky notes are better still. To Finally, if you have your computer attached to the telephone line and the
create one, click the Notes option, click New and type your note, ensuring phone linked to the computer, Outlook will dial the phone for you. Choose the
that the first line is descriptive o f its contents for easy reference. You Contacts category then choose Actions, Call Contact anch call a contact or
can use Notes to store choose New Call, type the number to call and click Start Call. You'll be
sri—s — reminders, to jot down prompted when to pick up the phone to talk. To track and time the calls you
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Amid a sea of iPod accessories - speaker docks, charging cradles, DJs, belt
buckles among them - it gets difficult to spot any true innovations among
the sea of knock-offs and "me too" products. Creative Zen Vision:M
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storage are the orders of the day. and the more niche Zen Vision PVP.
Hardware is only a part of the digital audio player (DAP) and personal video The CNET Best o f CES 2006 award-winning player offers up a bright
player (PVP) story, however. The overriding message at this year's CES is 2.5-inch TFT screen, and 30GB hard drive for storing up to 15,000 songs or
that hardware is only as good as the services available to support it. 120 hours of video.
Though noticeably thicker (at 74 x 124 x 20 mm) than the fifth-generation
Google Video video-capable iPod with similar storage, the Vision:M offers up extended
Video.google.com battery life: four hours for video playback and upwards of 14 hours for audio
Google co-founder Larry Page used his CES keynote address to unveil many with moderate LCD usage. The player supports MP3, WMA with digital rights
of the initiatives the company has been working on. Topping off the list is management and WAV audio up to 320kbps along with various video formats
Google Video, a pay-per-down- including MPEG-4, WMV, Motion JPEG, DivX and XviD.
load video service with a large THe Zen Vision:M will be available in Canada in February $429.99, Creative says.
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from ABC, N B C a n d CBS inexpensive and widely available Sansa line. At CES, the company unveiled
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Amazing Race and CSI sell for The e200 series comes in three flavours, the e250, e260 and e270 with
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day-after game downloads for capabilities and a scratch-resistant titanium alloy casing.
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Digital Rights Management MicroSD standard for further expansion up to 1GB.
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videos - CBS shows for exam- with record capabilities and carry suggested retail prices of US$119.99 and
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