Keith Shaw’s Cool Tools Alert
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Noise-cancelling headphones
Keith and special-guest Jason Meserve show off a couple of noise-canceling headphones from Targus and Able Planet that may help make your next flight more enjoyable.
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The latest BlackBerry
BlackBerry 8800, from AT&T (Cingular), about $300 (with two-year agreement plus $50 monthly e-mail service and additional voice contract).
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Networkiest movies: the A/V edition
I was thinking about the Network World article that highlighted our picks of the “networkiest movies of all time,” and I kept thinking, “What if people wanted to see some of the trailers for the movie?” So, thanks to the Internet, I’ve compiled such a slide show for your entertainment. Take a look and let us know what you think.
Catch up on last 5 Cool Tools videos
Missed any of our last five Cool Tools videos? You can watch all of them in a row with this new video player from our friends at SplashCast:
Is an all-in-one media player a good idea?
Another portable media player came out today, and as I was reading the specs I convinced myself that I’d probably never get this, because it seems like the company is packing in a ton of features into an inexpensive device, and all of them would probably be sub-par compared to a device that only focused on a few things. Heck, even Apple took its time with the iPod before it added video player functions.
College goes “All-Mac” across campus
This should make the Macheads scream with glee. Wilkes University in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., instituted a university-wide switch from Windows PCs to Apple’s new Intel-based Macintoshes. Over the next three years, the college will become an “all-Mac” campus, giving faculty and students access to iLife and Mac OS applications (as well as Windows applications through the Intel-based systems).
