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Check out Reviews of Sandisk's USB Flash Drives on Pages 4-16 ISSN 1061-5725 This Month’s Presentation Tom Wharton columnist for the Salt Lake Tribune will talk about Gear, Gadgets, and Gimmicks Vol ume 23, No. 12 December 2005 www.ucs.org This Month’s Meeting: Wednesday 14th at 7 pm James Alexander Check “How To” presentation: “From slides/pictures to DVD Out movie, preserving and sharing Images” Reviews Watch the Powerpoint Presentation of SanDisk’s USB Flash Drives These Blue Chip guys sure on want a lot of computer stuff Pages 4-16 for Christmas! Utah’s Award Winning Computer Magazine! y liff illward, ditor [email protected] Thanks Has FireWire Fizzled? I wish to thank all of you that sent me e-mail about Is Apple about to drop FireWire, the standard it my illness last month. It was nice to know that people are created and for so long fostered. concerned about my health. It seems as though I am still Certainly, that’s what Apple notebook-oriented having some problems after the flu shot, but not serious. website O’Grady’s PowerPage suggests. Apple has al- I just don’t feel quite up to par. ready dropped FireWire from the latest iPods, much to Enough about me, lets get on the news! the annoyance of numerous users. It’s clearly shifting its allegiance to USB 2.0, which while What’s for Christmas? technologically inferior to FireWire is Guess What? LCD prices are com- fast enough for almost all PC-peripheral ing down! Promotional pricing on LCD connections. monitors caused unit sales to increase by Recent 36 percent during Thanksgiving week. Batteries, inc. Some retail stores cut prices on 17-inch Engineers in Japan have developed monitors to $150, while 19-inch moni- News a flexible battery that is less than a mil- tors could be had for as low as $169. limeter thick and can be charged in half Overall, the average price of an LCD a minute. dropped from $365 during Thanksgiving The battery has been designed for week in 2004 to $318 this year. use in applications such as active radio Proview Technology, which offered deep discounts, frequency identification (RFID) cards and could provide led LCD monitor sales for the week, capturing 24 per- enough power to keep such cards running for several cent of sales. Samsung followed with 20 percent, while weeks before requiring a recharge. 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