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Error 404--Not Found

From RFC 2068 Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1:

10.4.5 404 Not Found

The server has not found anything matching the Request-URI. No indication is given of whether the condition is temporary or permanent.

If the server does not wish to make this information available to the client, the status code 403 (Forbidden) can be used instead. The 410 (Gone) status code SHOULD be used if the server knows, through some internally configurable mechanism, that an old resource is permanently unavailable and has no forwarding address.

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Cool Tools

High-tech gizmos

By Christine Burns and Keith Shaw, Network World, 02/23/04

Best of the tests
Cool Tools product update
Cool Tools finalists

Winning company: Apple
Winning product: iSight camera and iChat AV software

In 2002, Apple revolutionized the MP3 player market with its iPod music player. Apple wasn't the first company to produce an MP3 player, it just did it better.

The same can be said for the 2003 Cool Tools Best of the Tests Award winner, the iSight camera. Apple wasn't the first company to make a Webcam, it just made one that's better than others we've seen.

Apple is well known for style and design, but the technology behind the camera was equally impressive. A Web chat over a broadband connection (on both endpoints), looked and sounded like a real-time videoconference with equipment that costs thousands of dollars. The camera connected to our Macintosh laptops via FireWire, which helps improve picture quality when streaming. The camera also does auto-focus the right way - with other Webcams we spent a lot of time trying to adjust the focus manually to sharpen the picture.

The system is proprietary at the moment - to get the outstanding quality video you and the person with whom you're chatting have to be connected to Macintoshes. But you can use the camera with other software to do chats with people in the Windows world who have "regular" Webcams (see product update below). If Apple can take that technology and produce a Webcam that works on a Windows machine, then it could take over this market as well (see review).


At the time we tested the system, it was in beta, as was the iChat AV software. Both products are shipping now, and iChat AV (the software that works best with the camera) is included with Mac OS X (aka Panther), but you also can buy the software for $29.95 In addition, the new 2.1 public beta supports videoconferencing with the new AOL Instant Messenger 5.5 for Windows, giving access to users in the PC world as well.


IBM sent us the impressive ThinkCentre s50, the best desktop PC we saw last year. The s50 is a help desk technician’s dream — the desktop is a “tool-less” device that lets a user change components quickly and easily without the use of a screwdriver. In the handheld device space, we loved the Palm/Handspring Treo 600, the first “converged device” that truly looked and acted like a cell phone, but with PDA functionality that gave us serious thoughts about leaving our laptop behind on our next trip. The Palm Tungsten T3 PDA was the best PDA that didn’t have wireless LAN functionality in it. We loved the convergence of a cable modem and a wireless gateway, in the Netgear CG814.
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