Technological Torture

Our expensive, European, state-of-the-art clothes dryer has an interesting button labeled Extra Dry. I’m confused. Why do we need this setting when the assumption is the clothes DRYER will dry our clothes until all the moisture is removed ? The dryer demands we use the extra dry setting to ensure the clothes are completely dry […]

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The Death of Digital Discs

I sold my large vinyl record collection in 2002 after lugging boxes of records from home to home, maintaining each with brushes and special liquid cleaners and praying I or someone else wouldn’t scratch one of my beloved records. I held on to my vinyl records for 14 years after abandoning them for the smaller […]

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The next wave?

Apple computers is reportedly close to launching a new tablet computer that may replace the Kindle, the Sony Reader and a number of other portable devices. The picture above is a design concept for their reader and, according to rumors, will be available in two sizes (a 6″ screen for gaming, videos and ebooks and […]

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