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    <description>Independent Tech from former head of CNET.com and longtime Computer Shopper Columnists, Alice Hill and Bill O'Brien, authors of the popular Hard Edge column. Originally named AliceandBill.com</description>
    <dc:date>2005-03-05T00:12:23Z</dc:date>
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    <title>Microsoft Beware: Open Office 2.0 Goes Beta</title>
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    <dc:creator>Alice Hill</dc:creator>
    <dc:date>2005-03-04T20:30:00Z</dc:date>
    <content:encoded><![CDATA[By David Johnston

Openoffice.org has released the beta of OpenOffice 2.0. The new version includes many enhancements to the user interface and speed as well as additional features and tweaks.  I've...<br/>
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    <title>EvolutionTV: PVR for the Mac</title>
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    <dc:creator>Alice Hill</dc:creator>
    <dc:date>2005-03-04T16:10:00Z</dc:date>
    <content:encoded><![CDATA[By Alice Hill
Ok, I'll admit that I am still secretly interested in the Mac Mini. Here's an interesting external box  called EvolutionTV that turns a Mac into a PVR via a USB connection. (again -...<br/>
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    <title>New High-End Microphone for Podcasting or Other Audio Recording With a PC</title>
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    <dc:creator>Alice Hill</dc:creator>
    <dc:date>2005-03-04T15:39:00Z</dc:date>
    <content:encoded><![CDATA[Now that Podcasting is taking off, here's a new $150 semi-professional microphone that plugs directly to your laptop or desktop and includes a built-in condenser that avoids the need for external...<br/>
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    <title>Canon's Powershot S500 Scores a Perfect 10</title>
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    <dc:creator>Alice Hill</dc:creator>
    <dc:date>2005-03-04T15:17:00Z</dc:date>
    <content:encoded><![CDATA[Product Review
By David Johnston

This is Canon's top-end compact point-and-shoot camera. It is very comparable to the SD-20, but comes with a 3x optical zoom and uses compact flash instead of secure...<br/>
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    <title>AMD Sky-Writes Over Intel's Developer Forum</title>
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    <dc:creator>Alice Hill</dc:creator>
    <dc:date>2005-03-03T12:52:00Z</dc:date>
    <content:encoded><![CDATA[Look up in the Sky Dept: 
By David Johnston
At this year's Intel Developer Forum, planes were spotted overhead. Flying together in a straight line, they released well-timed puffs of smoke that...<br/>
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    <title>Is the "Slashdot Effect" Fading?</title>
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    <dc:creator>Alice Hill</dc:creator>
    <dc:date>2005-03-03T12:40:00Z</dc:date>
    <content:encoded><![CDATA[The day that /. pointed to us was like someone lighting a rocket engine under this website. Tragically, PayPal had its legendary outage that day so we missed out on donations (ouch!), but it did...<br/>
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    <title>New Gel Shields for the iPod Shuffle</title>
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    <dc:creator>Alice Hill</dc:creator>
    <dc:date>2005-03-03T12:36:00Z</dc:date>
    <content:encoded><![CDATA[Here We Go Again Dept: Whatever it is about Apple products that causes a flurry of accessories, the new ipod Shuffle is not immune. Sure enough, new Gel Shields are popping up all over the place, but...<br/>
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    <title>Sennheiser PC150 Stereo Headset Rocks and Cancels Noise for $40</title>
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    <dc:creator>Alice Hill</dc:creator>
    <dc:date>2005-03-03T12:31:00Z</dc:date>
    <content:encoded><![CDATA[Product Review
By David Johnston (Also goes by the user name GotAMD)

The Sennheiser PC150 headset which includes a slightly-adjustable boom-style microphone (noise-cancelling, of course) is geared...<br/>
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    <title>Interesting New Cell Phone Technology: Push-To-View</title>
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    <dc:creator>Alice Hill</dc:creator>
    <dc:date>2005-03-02T15:09:00Z</dc:date>
    <content:encoded><![CDATA[By Alice Hill
Walkie talkies are soooooo last century, don't you think? Even though they enjoyed a brief comeback in push-to-talk cell phones from Nextel and others, and even though pushing to talk...<br/>
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    <title>Sir Bill? Bill Gates Receives Honorary Knighthood From Queen at Palace</title>
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    <dc:creator>Alice Hill</dc:creator>
    <dc:date>2005-03-02T15:01:00Z</dc:date>
    <content:encoded><![CDATA[(Bloomberg) Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates today received an British honorary knighthood from Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace for his charity's program to help improve health and reduce...<br/>
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    <title>Product Review: Princeton Senergy17  Super-Inexpensive 17-inch LCD Monitor</title>
    <link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/aliceandbill/CEWX/~3/D65XJBMqihw/product-review-princeton-senergy17.html</link>
    
    <dc:creator>Alice Hill</dc:creator>
    <dc:date>2005-03-02T14:20:00Z</dc:date>
    <content:encoded><![CDATA[Here's an interesting review submitted by a RealtechNews reader who goes by the screen name: "Kingrat." Goofy name aside, his quest was simple: To find a good quality LCD display with DVI input....<br/>
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    <title>Book-Shaped Media Player</title>
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    <dc:creator>Alice Hill</dc:creator>
    <dc:date>2005-03-02T14:13:00Z</dc:date>
    <content:encoded><![CDATA[I must be out of it, because when I saw pictures of this book-shpaed media player, I thought it was cute in a geeky sort of retro old-fashioned way. Like for those wealthy older people who buy...<br/>
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    <title>Product Review: Western Digital 120GB FireWire/USB 2.0 Combo Hard Drive</title>
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    <dc:creator>Alice Hill</dc:creator>
    <dc:date>2005-03-02T13:17:00Z</dc:date>
    <content:encoded><![CDATA[Storage is cheap, but it’s also not something you take lightly. We’ve gotten many RealTechNews user reports on Maxtor hard drive failures, and as more and more people move their photos, music and...<br/>
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    <title>Bizarre New Ergonomic Chair Offers "Reclined Standing"</title>
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    <dc:creator>Alice Hill</dc:creator>
    <dc:date>2005-03-01T15:37:00Z</dc:date>
    <content:encoded><![CDATA[The Aeron chair is so dot-com, last-century, don't you think? That's why all the cool kids have moved to the Stance Chair.

OK, not really. For starters, the site that sells it won't even tell you...<br/>
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    <title>&lt;em&gt;RealTech Quickies&lt;/em&gt;: The Latest Offerings From Google</title>
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    <dc:creator>Alice Hill</dc:creator>
    <dc:date>2005-03-01T15:02:00Z</dc:date>
    <content:encoded><![CDATA[Announcing our new "Quickies" series. Just the links and facts without a lot of fuss or muss. Today's Featured Quickie comes from Google.

Google Cheat Sheet
Google Movie Search (and how to use...<br/>
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