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Clicker Heaven: Tunes, Films and, Now, XP
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Snapstream Media has just released a new PC-based clicker to add to your blooming bouquets of remote controls. The name of this new must-have device, the Firefly PC Remote.
The FireFly package comes with a standard-size remote control and a transceiver that plugs into a U.S.B. port on your computer. Once set up, with the click of a button the FireFly can play, pause and manoeuvre through tracks in your computer’s digital audio collection, play CD’s and videos, and zip through photo slide shows on your PC’s monitor.
The Firefly PC Remote works seamlessly with more than 80 existing multimedia programmes, including RealPlayer, QuickTime, MusicMatch Jukebox, Windows Media Player, WinAmp, InterVideo WinDVR and iTunes.
Tune Up Your Windows XP Machine (for Free)
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In the June issue of PC World, contributing Editor Stan Miastkowski publishes a step-by-step computer guide that will help boost your XP-based computer’s system performance, and make upgrading easier than ever.
It’s a Plane, It’s a Cell Phone, It’s a Car
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How Stuff Works publishes a provocative look into the future, with a front-page story about Toyota’s ‘concept car’, the PM. In addition to seating only one person and having its hubless wheels driven by electric motors, the PM incorporates wireless networking so that drivers can surrender control to another human-driven PM and relax as someone else drives them to work. And it reclines!
Something Is Stirring At Apple
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According to high tech gadfly Robert X. Cringely, Apple may be in the throes of making the decision to get out of the hardware business. This would mean not only the end of Macintosh hardware but a transformation of Apple into “a software company (not unlike Microsoft) that also sells little hardware devices,” producing devices such as the iPod. Thought-provoking.
