
<?phpxml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<rss version="2.0" 
xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"
xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"
xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
>
<channel>
<title>Haaze.com / aaaronbaldwinu / All</title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com</link>
<description>Test Web 2.0 Content Management System</description>
<pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2011 07:10:53 +0000</pubDate>
<language>en</language>
<item>
<title><![CDATA[Boston Acoustics reinvents the budget audiophile speaker]]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=boston-acoustics-reinvents-the-budget-audiophile-speaker</link>
<comments>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=boston-acoustics-reinvents-the-budget-audiophile-speaker</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2011 07:10:53 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>aaaronbaldwinu</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=boston-acoustics-reinvents-the-budget-audiophile-speaker</guid>
<description><![CDATA[The Boston Acoustics A 360 tower speaker(Credit:Boston Acoustics)In the early 1980s the Boston Acoustics A 40 and A 60 were the go-to speakers for audiophiles on a tight budget. They were hugely popular, and there are still vast numbers of them in circulation. Well, the smart folks at Boston Acoustics have brought the A Series back, but the new speakers don't share any technology with the original models. The engineers have learned a lot over the decades, and that was immediately obvious when I heard some of the new A Series speakers earlier this week. The little bookshelf model, the A 26 ($200 each), was sounding a lot bigger than I would have thought possible. For a speaker that measures just 13 inches by 8.25 inches by 10.5 inches, bass was punchy and deep, dynamics were wide open, and the treble was clear. Female vocals sounded especially natural.  These speakers don't need the assistance of a subwoofer to sound full and rich, so they would be a great fit for two-channel home theaters or hi-fi use. I also heard the A 360 towers ($400 each), which produced more and deeper bass, and played louder, but the same sound signature was evident over both speakers. The A Series also includes a smaller tower, the A 250 ($300 each)' two smaller bookshelf models, the A 25 ($150 each) and the A 23 ($140 each)' and the A 225C center-channel speaker ($250). A 5.1-channel satellite-subwoofer package, the A 2310 ($900), completes the line.  Build quality is exceptional for speakers in this price class, and the cabinets' high-gloss, scratch-resistant finishes with textured top panels and magnetically attached grilles looked great. Vertical and horizontal internal braces reduce cabinet resonances for enhanced audio quality, and all the speakers feature newly developed ceramic and glass fiber polymer woofer cones that allow for higher speed, reduced distortion, and improved sensitivity.  The crossover components in all A Series models incorporate low-loss film capacitors, and low-distortion laminated silicon steel cores for the inductors in all critical areas, and five-way gold-plated binding posts. The speakers also use a single 1-inch Kortec soft-dome tweeter. Two new powered subwoofers, the 300-watt ASW 650 and the 150-watt ASW 250 ($350), are also available. <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
</item>

<item>
<title><![CDATA[Presidential rides of past and present]]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=presidential-rides-of-past-and-present</link>
<comments>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=presidential-rides-of-past-and-present</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 21 Feb 2011 08:10:18 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>aaaronbaldwinu</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=presidential-rides-of-past-and-present</guid>
<description><![CDATA[President George W. Bush&amp;39's Cadillac DTS still serves as an alternate State Car, despite the adoption of Cadillac One in this official role.(Credit:Wikimedia Commons)When you're the Commander-in-chief, the head of state, and generally the top dog of the United States of America, there will be times when you're expected to arrive to a variety of appointments, appearances, and meetings with other top dogs. But the President of the United States can't simply hop into his Ford Taurus and drive himself to meetings with foreign dignitaries--although, he may be tempted by the SHO. Rather, getting from point A to B when you're one of the most important people in the nation requires high levels of safety and reliability, as well as a touch of class. Enter the Presidential StateCar: the official ground transportation method of the President of the United States.Presidential wheels (photos) Through the years, the various Presidential State Cars have shuttled the Commanders-in-Chiefs wherever a person of importance needed to arrive in style and safety. For example, President Warren Harding's, Packard Six was the first to shuttle a President to his inauguration and FDR's Sunshine Special was one of the first to be built to Presidential specifications. Other State Cars are famous for more ominous reasons, such as the code named SS-X-100 convertible in which President John F. Kennedy would meet his fate. There is, at times, overlap--being the property of the United States government, many State Cars served multiple administrations. Of course, as the years passed and safety and car tech advanced, so did the Presidential State Car--this advancement culminates in the current vehicle, nicknamed &quot;Cadillac One,&quot; which is used to transport President Barack Obama.We've gathered some of the most interesting vehicles, including an presidential ride that once belonged to a notorious gangster, into a gallery for your enjoyment.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
</item>

<item>
<title><![CDATA[It's a jungle (gym) out there for fitness network]]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=its-a-jungle-gym-out-there-for-fitness-network</link>
<comments>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=its-a-jungle-gym-out-there-for-fitness-network</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 11 Feb 2011 08:10:39 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>aaaronbaldwinu</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=its-a-jungle-gym-out-there-for-fitness-network</guid>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit:Humana fit)There's a big question being explored right now about the intersection of health and social media: Does the tracking and sharing of personal fitness and diet data motivate us to get, and stay, healthyA host of Web sites and mobile apps are banking on the answer being yes. FitDay provides a free diet journal' Daily Burn offers logs to track diet, exercise, and weight' an Awareness app promises to upgrade one's mental software' and dozens of other sites and apps cater to specific types of diets, exercises, and desired outcomes.So the just-launched Humana fit social network, designed to help users live healthier, more active lives, is going to have to offer some pretty stellar features to stand out.Humana fit is the brainchild of health benefits company Humana and health software app developer MapMyFitness, which after launching in 2006 boasts its own social network of about 3 million users.Soft-launched to employees a few weeks ago, Humana fit boasts a wide range of features, including an online nutrition center, apps for mapping daily activities (iPhone, Android, BlackBerry), and a social network for sharing the minutiae of one's bodily health.But the Web site is all over the place, with tabs ranging from routes and workouts to nutrition and community. Even if it turns out to be true that tracking and sharing helps motivate people to get and stay healthy, another important question looms: cover all aspects of health and fitness, or home in on a specific area of interest Go big, or go nicheHumana fit is clearly banking on going big. We'll keep an eye on whether it has found the winning formula.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
</item>

<item>
<title><![CDATA[Shooting suspect left unsettling artifacts online]]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=shooting-suspect-left-unsettling-artifacts-online</link>
<comments>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=shooting-suspect-left-unsettling-artifacts-online</comments>
<pubDate>Sat, 08 Jan 2011 08:10:17 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>aaaronbaldwinu</dc:creator>
<category>Marketing and advertising</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=shooting-suspect-left-unsettling-artifacts-online</guid>
<description><![CDATA[The suspected gunman in the shooting today of a U.S. Congresswoman posted disturbing artifacts on YouTube and MySpace, according to various reports, including a photo of a gun on top of a U.S. history book, and videos featuring strange, sometimes political ramblings.Police arrested 22-year-old Jared Lee Loughner in connection with the shooting of Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords that took place this morning during an appearance by Giffords at a supermarket in Tucson.Giffords was shot once through the head and is in critical condition' 18 others were shot as well, with 6 dying, including a 9-year-old girl and John M. Roll, the chief judge for the United States District Court for Arizona, The New York Times reported. Screen capture of a video titled &amp;34'How To: Mind Controller,&amp;34' ostensibly created by shooting suspect Jared Lee Loughner.(Credit:Screenshot by Edward Moyer/CNET)Loughner's odd behavior at Pima Community College in Tucson, along with a disturbing Internet video, had caused officials at the school to suspend him in September, pending a mental health clearance, The Times said in another report.&quot;The rambling, disconnected writings and videos he has left on the Web are consistent with the delusions produced by a psychotic illness like schizophrenia, which develops most often in the teens or 20s,&quot; The Times reported.Videos ostensibly posted by Loughner on YouTube contain bizarre screeds about the government.&quot;Reading the second United States Constitution, I can't trust the current government because of the ratifications,&quot; runs one remark. &quot;The government is implying mind control and brainwash on the people by controlling grammar.&quot;Another says:You're a treasurer for a new currency, listenerYou create and distribute your new currency, listenerYou don't allow the government to control your grammar structure, listenerAnd another says:The majority of citizens in the United States of America have never read the United States of America's Constitution.You don't have to accept the federalist laws.Nonetheless, read the United States of America's Constitution to apprehend all of the current treasonous laws.You're literate, listenerAll those remarks appear in a video titled &quot;Introduction: Jared Loughner,&quot; which opens with the words, &quot;My Final Thoughts: Jared Lee Loughner!&quot; The YouTube page says the video was posted three weeks ago.MySpace pages reportedly posted by Loughner featured a photo of a pistol on top of what looks like a book bearing the title &quot;United States History.&quot; Web site Good reported that the pages had been taken down as of this afternoon, but Good showed a screen shot of a &quot;My Photos&quot; page with the described image.Web site Good posted this screen capture of a MySpace page.(Credit:Good)A former classmate of Loughner's, Catie Parker, posted a series of statements to Twitter today, the Times reported, in which she said Loughner was &quot;oddly obsessed with the 2012 prophecy&quot; and had &quot;met Giffords once before in '07, asked her a question &amp; he told me she was 'stupid &amp; unintelligent.'&quot;Loughner had tried to get into the Army but was rejected for reasons the Army said it could not disclose for privacy reasons, the Times reported, adding that police officials said the suspect had a criminal record of some sort, though they would not provide further information.Police are reportedly searching for a second man in connection with the shooting.Both Good and the Times said Loughner had posted a farewell message on MySpace this morning. It read, said Good, &quot;Goodbye friends...Please don't be mad at me.&quot;The Times reported that Loughner is refusing to cooperate with authorities and has invoked his Fifth Amendment rights.        Edward Moyer    Full Profile E-mail Edward Moyer   E-mail Edward Moyer If you have a question or comment for Edward Moyer, you can submit it here. However, because our editors and writers receive hundreds of requests, we cannot tell you when you may receive a response.   Submit your question or comment here: 0 of 1500 characters       Edward Moyer has been editing on and off for CNET since the days of the CD-ROM.  <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
</item>

<item>
<title><![CDATA[Road Trip Pic of the Week, 12/23: What is this]]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=road-trip-pic-of-the-week-1223-what-is-this</link>
<comments>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=road-trip-pic-of-the-week-1223-what-is-this</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 23 Dec 2010 08:10:31 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>aaaronbaldwinu</dc:creator>
<category>Gaming</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=road-trip-pic-of-the-week-1223-what-is-this</guid>
<description><![CDATA[If you know what this is and where it was taken, you could win a prize in the Picture of the Week challenge.(Credit:Daniel Terdiman/CNET)What a beautiful vista. And what shiny glass. But what is this And where is it located If you know, you could win a prize in the CNET Road Trip Picture of the Week challenge.If you have the answer, please e-mail it to me no later than 6 p.m. PT Friday (to daniel--dot--terdiman--at--cnet--dot--com, and PLEASE include &quot;Picture of the Week&quot; in the subject line). I'll choose a winner at random from among everyone who sends in the correct answer by the deadline. However, I'm going to be on vacation until January 11, so until then, I won't update this post and that person won't hear from me. Please forgive me if you don't hear from me if you're not a winner. I get dozens of responses for each challenge.Also, I've turned off comments because some people would post the correct answers there. I hate to shut down discussion, but I want you to figure out the answer on your own.One caveat: no individual can win more than two prizes. The Road Trip Picture of the Week challenge takes place each Thursday, and the photos could come from anywhere, not just Road Trip 2010 locations. Plus, they might be related to stories I've written in the past. So, please have fun playing today, and then come back each Thursday. For most of the summer, Geek Gestalt was on Road Trip 2010. After driving more than 18,000 miles in the Rocky Mountains, the Pacific Northwest, the Southwest and the Southeast over the last four years, I drove 5,266 miles this summer looking for the best in technology, science, military, nature, aviation and more throughout the American Northeast. You can follow me on Twitter at @GreeterDan and @RoadTrip and find the project on Facebook.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
</item>

<item>
<title><![CDATA[Google delays decision on local fiber networks]]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=google-delays-decision-on-local-fiber-networks</link>
<comments>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=google-delays-decision-on-local-fiber-networks</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 15 Dec 2010 08:10:23 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>aaaronbaldwinu</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=google-delays-decision-on-local-fiber-networks</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Around 1,100 towns and cities expressed interest in the Google Fiber project.(Credit:Google)Google has delayed the selection process for its Google Fiber project to bring fast wired networks to a few lucky communities in the U.S. When it first announced the program earlier this year, Google had hoped to make a decision by the end of the year but isn't ready to pull the trigger, said Milo Medin, Google's new vice president of access services, in a blog post. Google now hopes to inform the winners in &quot;early 2011,&quot; he said, noting that submissions are still closed. Google's project involves building high-speed broadband infrastructure at speeds &quot;more than 100 times faster than what most Americans have access to today with 1 gigabit per second, fiber-to-the-home connections.&quot; Only one project has gotten underway, a limited trial in Stanford, Calif. for Stanford University professors and their families. Around 1,100 communities submitted applications to Google, Medin said. Some got quite creative in their quest to grab Google's attention, perhaps best exemplified by the decision of Topeka, Kansas to name itself Google for a day.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
</item>

<item>
<title><![CDATA[Google shows Chrome notebook, Web Store]]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=google-shows-chrome-notebook-web-store</link>
<comments>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=google-shows-chrome-notebook-web-store</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 07 Dec 2010 08:10:05 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>aaaronbaldwinu</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=google-shows-chrome-notebook-web-store</guid>
<description><![CDATA[SAN FRANCISCO--The Chrome OS hardware Google promised in July of last year is still not ready for prime time. But if you're a developer or an eager early adopter, you're in luck. At an event today here in the city's Dogpatch neighborhood Google showed us the not-yet-finished hardware that will run Chrome OS. It's called CR-48, and it's not much to look at: a plain, black, unbranded notebook that companies and individual users who are accepted into Google's pilot program can use. Google unveils a prototype Chrome OS notebook called the CR-48. (Credit:CNET )The actual Chrome OS notebooks that normal people can buy, from Samsung and Acer, are delayed until mid-2011. When Google initially pitched the idea last year, it said we'd be seeing them right about now. But we did learn about a lot of features we'll eventually see in the hardware when it does arrive:Every Chrome notebook will work with Verizon 3G service. Each user gets 100MB of free data per month for two years. You can also buy different plans, the first starting at a day pass for $9.99. There are no overage charges or cancellation or setup fees.There are options to have different user IDs on the same machine as well as a guest mode with completely private (&quot;Incognito&quot;) browsing.Your experience with setting up and using Chrome will be the same no matter what machine you're using. Everything is synced through the browser.They worked hard on tying the browser directly to the hardware for security purposes. There is auto updating, sandboxing at the OS level, and all user data is encrypted by default.There's also something called Verified Boot. Verified Boot makes sure that the OS is in the read-only firmware of the computer, so no software can modify it. When you boot Chrome OS, it checks to make sure nothing has been modified. Google is calling it &quot;the most secure consumer operating system that's ever been shipped.&quot;In the department of products that are actually ready for public consumption, today we are getting the Chrome Web Store. It had been previewed before, but it's finally ready to go. The New York Times, Electronic Arts, Amazon, and Citrix demonstrated their apps for an audience of journalists and Googlers here today.The store is integrated with the Google Checkout payment system so you can just click to buy and download apps. Some subscription apps have free trial mode, and some, like the New York Times app, work offline. The Web Store will be ready for anyone to use &quot;later today,&quot; according to the event host, Vice President of Product Management Sundar Pichai. It's made to work with the Chrome browser, but it does work with other &quot;modern browsers,&quot; according to Google. We also got an update on Chrome browser features:Automatic updatesBrowser sandboxing. If a bad piece of code gets in your browser it won't be able to get to the rest of your computer's data.Plug-in sandboxing. They're starting to do the same thing with browser plug-ins like Flash and PDF.CEO Eric Schmidt stopped by for a few minutes near the end of the presentation to talk up Chrome, specifically noting that he was against it when co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin said they wanted to be in the browser business. Schmidt said he tried to block the project but the co-founders went ahead and hired a team of browser experts that had worked onFirefox.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
</item>

</channel>
</rss>
