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The C&O Canal

I suppose I should call this “Trip to the C&O Canal - Part Three”, since it’s the third time I write about the C&O Canal (Chesapeake and Ohio Canal) on my site. Here is Part 1 and Part 2. But it’s certainly not our third trip, because we’ve been there numerous times, during various times [...]

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A look at noise cancelling headphones

I’ve recently had the chance to try out three noise-canceling headphones:

Bose QuietComfort 2
Creative Aurvana X-Fi
Philips SHN9500

I looked at these criteria as I used the headphones:

Effectiveness of noise-canceling technology
Quality of sound
Fit and comfort
Price

What may or may not surprise you is that all noise-canceling headphones block only low sounds, like the rumble of jet airplane engines. They [...]

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A glimpse at the new Snow Leopard from Apple

Snow Leopard, the new version of Mac OS X, was announced at the 2008 WWDC in San Francisco. It’s an important release for the following reasons:

Builds upon existing technologies and perfects them. It introduces few new features, but will allow Apple to really focus on delivering a very good OS by developing further the technologies [...]

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