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photoTimes-Mirror Staff Photo/Michelle Stevens Gene May of the Loudoun Amateur Radio Group writes down the call sign of another amateur “ham” radio operator for a 24-hour contest called Ham Radio Field Day in Lovettsville June 24. Over the weekend about 60 hams at Park View High School and in Lovettsville spoke to operators in Spain, Romania, Hawaii and across the continental United States.

Voices and static mingled on the airwaves as amateur radio operators baked in the heat Saturday. “QR-Zed.” “Kilo Echo Four, Oscar Kilo Yankee.” “Oscar Kilo Yankee?” With contact established, the Lovettsville radio operator repeats the full call sign to the voice that originates from a Canadian boat.

The operator made contact as part of Field Day, a 24-hour contest where thousands of amateur radio operators, called “hams,” practice communicating off the grid with other hams in the United States and Canada. Around 60 hams in Loudoun County participated in two Field Day events, one at Park View High School in Sterling and the other in Lovettsville.

On Field Day, each amateur radio club attempts to earn points by making contacts and logging “call signs” – the unique letter and number code the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) licenses to each ham radio operator.

The Loudoun Amateur Radio Group (LARG) in Lovettsville made nearly 4,500 contacts, and the Sterling Park Amateur Radio Club made around 2,000 contacts as radio operators worked in shifts through Saturday night into Sunday afternoon. The groups’ more unusual contacts included a 737 pilot over Utah and a ham in Puerto Rico.

Using ham radio satellites, a signal from Loudoun County can reach a radius of more than 1,000 miles. The hallmark achievement: making contact with the International Space Station, where many of the astronauts are also ham radio operators.

In an era of Facebook, cell phones and Skype, ham radio is a little-known form of communication. Yet hams pride themselves on being the first to contact the outside world after a large-scale natural disaster that knocks out the Internet and cell phone towers. Field Day allows hams to practice setting up their stations on solar, generator, and battery power. The National Association for Amateur Radio proudly asserts that amateur radio gets the message through “when all else fails.”

Ham radio attracts a fiercely loyal following, with around 700,000 operators across the country and 3 million around the world.

“Everyone’s experience getting into ham radio is different,” said Chris P., a ham who participated in the LARG Field Day event. (He requested his last name be withheld because he works for the federal government.)

Chris is proud to carry his great-grandfather’s call sign, though he says interest in ham radio “skipped two generations” in his family. He first became a ham in high school, when he got his license through the Boy Scouts.

When he was deployed overseas during the 1990s, he would travel to a Military Auxiliary Radio Service (MARS) station to call home. The MARS operator would radio a ham in his hometown and ask him to connect Chris to his family via telephone: “This was before the days of video chat, and you’d call up for about five minutes and say, ‘Hey, Mom, guess where I am?’”

Several years ago, he decided to get re-certified as a ham operator, and he’s been involved ever since.

Through the course of a year, hams participate in a variety of events, from launching and chasing weather balloons to volunteering as trained weather spotters for the National Weather Service’s Skywarn.

Hams provide vital information to Skywarn because they’re able to communicate directly from the ground, said LARG Field Day Chairman Gary Quinn: “When a ham operator can look out the window and call the weather service and say, ‘Yes that’s a tornado,’ it validates their data.”

When a disaster strikes, Quinn said, “We know before the general public. We’re the ones pushing out the information.”

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I have a very important announcement to make... To some of you this may be a shock, while others might have seen it coming:

I'm retiring!

Yes, you heard me right: I'm quitting, stepping back... Call it whatever you like...

Fact is, over the past few weeks I've done some thinking... And it simply comes down to one thing: My love for the world of editing has vanished! My life has simply taken a turn I wouldn't have seen coming a few months back, and my current "job" as such is not that of a mapper, but a rapper! Yes, that's right, rapper... Rap's always been my favorite kind of music, and lately I've been writing my own stuff! Word among my friends is that I'm getting good at it... And it really is something I care about and wish to do for years to come, while mapping simply really isn't anymore...

So say a prayer for me, light a candle or just cross your fingers and wish me luck, for you might be seeing me on MTV in some years! ;)

Now, about the MOD: I'm currently looking for someone to fill my shoes and take it over, as I'd really hate to see all that work go to waste... So if anyone's interested in carrying this MOD further away from this small slump and into an actual release date, contact me at gugi2100@hotmail.com, and I'll send you EVERY SINGLE FILE we have on the MOD!

I really hope that someone will step up and try to take this MOD over...

Well, this is Tito, signing off, and wishing all teammembers and the entire editing community best of luck... I'll check in from time to time... ;)

04-24-2004, 06:35 PM
By the gods! And it's not even 1st of April anymore...

It's a pity to see such a promising mapper to vanish away. Yet, it's hardly uncommon in these circles; people come and go, and, let's face it, this is just a computer game (or two), and not the most important thing in life.

Well, I wish you luck in your music. I don't personally like rap at all, but it's gotta mean a lot to you (as it does for great many people) so you deserve all the support you can get.

Yeah, but mapping or not, let me just say that Maybe the Force be with you, always. :)

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04-24-2004, 08:45 PM
Hey Tito, this comes as a surprise! As sad as it is that you're leaving map editing, its nice to know that its for a good reason; to persue a dream :) Funny really, I always hoped I'd be the first mapper to become a famous musician. I think I was being a bit delusional though, as my guitar playing causes complaints, anger and everyone to leave the room...

I wish you the best of luck with your plans, and I commend you for going for something you really want to do. I hope we still see you around a bit at Map-Review! I also hope you find a good person to take up this role, heading up this project that has some good potential.

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yo when times are good no 1 post...and when someone leaving posts start coming in....well i already expected it from his behaviour these days when i chat with him on msn.....I noticed something bad is going to happened but i didn't expect a quit or whatever......but anyway....good luck tito hope to see you in the future as a star rapper :) (the only thing i fear is that you might also become bored with rapping
in the future and.....i hope not)

and maybe you can pass the leading role of the to ur cousin Rabie or someone else in the team that is most experieced in mapping.etc) or someone you trust that can lead the team well(like jedi adam or whatever people).

awww...too bad..........

I'm also sorry that i didn't do a good job also due to my major leaving school examination this year that i spent much lesser time doing my jobs which seen (sry in shortform i dun want not many ppl to know(SE RA DRP FRM TOP TO MID-BOTM)

04-25-2004, 04:43 AM
sry for the double post but i think that it will be better if roles are spreaded out like someone take charge of this someone take charge of that instead of a single leader will be better to me(juz an opinion)

sry for the double post but i think that it will be better if roles are spreaded out like someone take charge of this someone take charge of that instead of a single leader will be better to me(juz an opinion)

05-05-2004, 11:05 AM
Gosh. I go away for a few months and everything falls apart. :p

05-06-2004, 03:15 AM
well godzilla thank you for coming back :)

hope to see u more often here soon. and
don't be afraid that the mod is dead it will most probable be revived when a new leader is found (most probably [jedi] adam

05-06-2004, 03:51 PM
Good to hear that sir, but until Adam decides to be the official leader, I guess you're the new diabolical leader. :salutes:

05-07-2004, 01:16 AM
no way

i'm a noob

[JEDI] Adam
05-09-2004, 05:56 AM
So what are we doing guys ? Back to JKMods , Stay ? or just shall we continiue that mod... (I would like to do that)

05-10-2004, 05:01 AM
Continue the mod of course or it will be a waste :D

for the other details (like staying here or moving back to jkmods.etc)

maybe i can talk to u about it and u talk to tito about it

Jedi Luke
05-11-2004, 03:36 AM
........Very sad news to hear Tito. Still, life goes on, that's why we all persue our dreams. Best of luck to you and your music career Tito. I hope we can still stay in contact.

*Three cheers for Tito* :cheers:

05-12-2004, 01:08 AM
well tito

U can actually juz do a william hung and u can get ur instant success..shhh(kidding)


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    Hello Emily, I hope you are warm and well.

    I love your recipe vids and applaud you, for all you have done to bring Korean food and recipes, to us non-Koreans.

    I am of Latin American descent and come from a family of cooks (hobby, not chefs).

    I developed an affinity for Asian culture in my early teens. Martial arts got me curious about Asian cutlures and food.

    Now I’m grown and love all sorts types of Asian food and have raised my kids to love it too. I recently started looking into Korean culture/food a came accross your vids. Your vids gave me insight of Korean cooking and a desire to try to make it myself.

    IMO Mexican and Korean share several similarities. I found several recipes can be converted Korean/Mexican and vise versa, by swapping a few ingredients.

    Funny thing is that I tried some of your recipes, having never tried Korean food. I felt that I did well, but needed try the real deal, in order to see if it tasted the same. So I found a local Korean resaurant (BTW there are not very many in the Phoenix area) and was very pleased with both the restaurant and how mine (with your recipes) compared.

    Now my kids help me make mandu. Plus they love the Korean restaurant too. We to try diferent things each time. Then decide if it is something I shoulld try at home.

    Thank you again, for all you do. Keep up the great/hard work.

    If you ever get to the Phoenix Arizona area, it would be an honor to share meal with you. Maybe I can show you some traditional mexican dishes. Haha.

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I'm planning buying the new 13.3" Aluminium Macbook within the next couple of weeks. I keep having doubts beetween the two different models. The advantges i found on the 2.4 are:

The 0.4 GHz extra processor speed of course.
The extra 90GB HDD.
The backlit keyboard.

That almost seemed to be it. Do either of the models write DVD's? Are there any other advantages i missed? It somehow doesnt seem like that much more for 300$. They both have 2GB RAM right?

I honestly dont know what to do! That backlit keyboard is so tempting... but i would feel "wrong" if that was the deciding factor. What are your thoughts?

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You won't notice a difference (atleast I didn't) between 2.0 and 2.4. They both have the same graphics card but one is obviously better for gaming because of the processor speed. Really the only good thing about the 2.4 is:

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Thats about it. If thats your deciding factor then go for it, but if not, save some $ and go 2.0.

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The backlit keyboard is worth it. Period!

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I don't think you will notice a difference in the processor speeds. Really it comes down to how much money you are willing to spend versus practicality.

Yes, the backlight is cool. But is it worth the extra money to you? For me no, but if you are going to be working in the dark and would like to see your keys, then I'd say it is worth it to you.

Same dilemma with the black book (no longer being made) vs. the white macbook. Not much of a difference except color. Apple sure does a good marketing job don't they?! :Grimmace:

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But when it comes to making money, the Hogan era is no match for today’s men in tights. As improbable as it sounds, the WWE (as the federation is now called) has never been more successful.

Despite the emergence of mixed martial arts—with real violence and real victories—the scripted soap opera of pile drivers and Royal Rumbles is not only surviving, but thriving. The latest installment of Wrestlemania (No. 28) drew a record pay-per-view audience of 1.2 million. The WWE’s signature show, Monday Night Raw, recently celebrated its 1,000th episode. And earlier this month, during a conference call with analysts, CEO Vince McMahon said the publicly traded company is on the cusp of launching its very own cable network, à la Oprah. “I hope next quarter I will be making an announcement,” he said.

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In 2010, the WWE made its inaugural visit to China, handing out an arena’s worth of free tickets to anyone willing to go. Last week, the wrestlers returned to Shanghai—where customers happily paid up to US$235 a ticket. “I’m here for the hot guys,” said one woman. Another local, who organizes a WWE fan club, said she got hooked after stumbling across wrestling on her satellite TV. “Boxing is boring,” she told one reporter, “but professional wrestling has a plot.”

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  2. WWE has grown as a business in every facet since the Hogan days, Hogan was their biggest star ever but the infrastructure wasn’t there like it is today to cash in on it. The next best era was the Steve Austin era. Then there is this era, the star power isn’t nearly as high today as it once was, but the WWE brand is as strong as ever despite all the controversies that have surrounded this company in it’s history; the brand is resilient.

    Financially they have one stellar show per year (wrestlemania) but attendance and the ppv buys for all their others shows are down compared to previous eras. The new network launching is poised for failure with constant delays and networks not signing on. Yes their television is relatively strong but down significantly from previous times. WWE is by no means a doom and gloom story, but this piece paints a rosy picture even though the WWE stock was at record lows this year.

    Is this an article or an advertisement? There are blatant fasle hoods in here, wrestlemania was not a record in ppv buys for the company, and saying “the WWE has never been more successful” is based on what? That is an outright stretch of the facts at best.

  3. Maclean’s and readers…don’t you find it amazing that a small 1/2 page column (WWE) was the 2nd most read story in this issue of MacLeans??
    Either the magazine needs some self analysis or Canadians and MacLean’s readers are deteriorating to the level of the all to popular sit-coms on TV and its’ reality programs.
    Please say it isn’t so; I recall when the Phil Donahue TV Show went from a stimulating, interesting and provocative TV show back in the 1970’s to male strippers and other mindless shock TV events with Phil Donahue cheering them on.
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This is the argument that TWC has publicly made since cable network owners like Viacom, Discovery, Scripps and News Corp.’s Fox Cable Networks began threatening the cable operator with lawsuits over the streaming service, which is limited to iPads that are on the customer’s home network.

The cable network owners believe that Time Warner Cable (and therefore other cable operators) should be paying for the right to send their channels to an iPad, or at least negotiatie for that right, which they do not believe is covered by existing licensing agreements. They are also worried about such issues as audience measurement, as there are no established metrics or methods for measuring audience on an iPad app.

On March 31st, Time Warner Cable pulled 12 channels owned by the above companies from its streaming TV iPad app in the face of threatened lawsuits from the companies. Today’s request for a declaratory judgement is a pre-emptive move by the firm.

“We have steadfastly maintained that we have the rights to allow our customers to view this programming in their homes, over our cable systems, without artificial limits on the screens they can use to do so, and we are asking the court to confirm our view,” Marc Lawrence-Apfelbaum, Executive Vice President and General Counsel of Time Warner Cable said in a statement.

He added, “With over 360,000 downloads of our TWCableTV app, it is clear that our customers welcome the convenience and flexibility our new app provides.”

For its part, Viacom laid out the case that licensing rights such as these have always been negotiated on a case-by-case basis based on “specific technologies and devices,” and accused Time Warner Cable of making a “blatant grab.”

In a statement issued after Time Warner Cable’s suit was filed, Viacom said, “Instead of addressing these issues, Time Warner Cable simply launched the product without a license to distribute our programming through an iPad app. They blatantly grabbed the rights that their competitors have negotiated in good faith to obtain.”

“Now,” the company added with a rhetorical flourish, “[Time Warner Cable] is asking the Court to declare their brazen acts lawful.”

Viacom said that it will be filing a countersuit, accusing Time Warner Cable of refusing “to even discuss the business issues.”

Please pardon my ignorance, but I’m confused about what this article is saying…

TWC is suing Viacom et al to be able to provide content from those providers via the TWC app?  And that is in response to those providers suing TWC for providing it in the first place, which they then pulled from the app?

At first glance, it seems like it might be the other way around; that Viacom et al is suing TWC for pulling those channels because they want to try to make an additional buck off of them in that process?

Basically, TWC is arguing that an iPad is the equivalent of another TV in a customers house and TWC is offering their customers another way to view content that they (the customers and TWC) have already paid for. Viacom and others are arguing that their agreement with TWC does not cover tablets, and without TWC charging their customers additional fees (and giving those to Viacom), then TWC is violating their agreement. It’s all about the content providers wanting to make more money off of the same content. I’m sure TWC is offering this app to create a value add to stop more subscribers from dumping cable over high prices.

And you know what? It works. I happen to have TWC and a work iPad, so I downloaded it and, while I’m at home, I can watch the channels they provide.

The problem is, there are no local channels and only ESPN news for sports. The app is simple and effective. It made me feel good to be a TWC customer.

Also, it makes me feel like TWC is trying. Trying to help it’s customers use all this 21st century gear without a toll booth at every turn.

So I say, bravo to TWC for fighting for the little guy.

Which, BTW may be the only reason they’re doing this. The cynic in me says it’s all for PR. Only 360,000 downloaded the app? That’s not a huge percentage of their customers. But whenever there’s a dust-up over carriage fees, TWC always advertises that it’s the evil networks trying to stick it to the lowly TV viewing public and TWC is there to protect them…

As PR moves goes, this is a good one!

Since we don’t know how their agreements are worded, we can’t really predict how it will resolve in the courts. If it says “all TVs in a customer’s house”, then why isn’t an iPad a TV, just because it can do so much more? If it can WORK as a TV, then it IS a TV, by any reasonable definition.

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Library db is a database to organize one or more libraries. By library one should understand Collection of...: in fact you can customize the various default labels (Name, Title, Volume, Editor etc.) so that they reflect the kind of collection you wish to built; for instance, for your collection of CDs, labels could be set to: Composer, Title, Conductor, Genre etc.; for a store, labels could be set to: Product, Category, Manufacturer, Price etc.; for a hostel: Surname/Name, Address, Date of Entry, Room Number, Guardian, Fee etc., and so on and so forth.
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iSpazz is a plugin for iTunes on OS X, controlling the MacBook Pro/PowerBook backlight keyboard and optionally the display backlight.

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MacBook Air (2013) review: we test both the MacBook Air models

Apple's 2013 MacBook Air is still the best-looking, slim, lightweight laptop out there, and now it boasts amazing battery life, faster storage and the latest Wi-Fi.

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Apple MacBook Air 2013 11in and 13in

Apple’s 2013 MacBook Air looks identical to the 2012 MacBook Air and scores closely in our speed tests. So what’s different about the new MacBook Air laptops? Update: Apple has launched new MacBook Airs for 2015. Read our MacBook Air (11 inch, early 2015) review and MacBook Air (13 inch, early 2015) review for more details.

Read our individual review of the MacBook Air 2013 11-inch (with video) and our review of the 13-inch MacBook Air hereFor advice about Which MacBook Air to buy click here or read our MacBook Air vs MacBook Pro review.

Inside is where Apple has been busy – swapping Intel Ivy Bridge chips for the new, fourth-generation Intel Core Haswell processor.

The Haswell MacBook Air’s big news is much longer battery life, as well as improved wireless network (based on the 802.11ac wireless standard), better graphics (via integrated ) and energy efficiency improvements.

The promise of battery life that will last a full working day is going to be the saving of the laptop – under intense threat from Apple’s own iPad tablet.

From the outside the new MacBook Air hasn’t changed much from the previous model. It’s still the same super-slim, lightweight, stylish laptop in a cool wedge of aluminium.

[Related: MacBook Air 2013 speed tests: how much faster is the Haswell model?Apple launches new MacBook Air with battery improvements, Haswell | New MacBook Air release date and UK pricing | New MacBook Air 'just as tough to repair & upgrade as last year's model']

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2013 new MacBook Air: Specs, prices and upgrades

As before, the MacBook Air comes in 11-inch (actually 11.6-inch) and 13-inch (13.3-inch) models. With 128GB and 256GB storage options there are four Airs to choose from, and there are several upgrade options on configuration. We tested the base models of each (i5 processor; 4GB RAM; 128GB flash storage) and ultimate models (i7 processor; 8GB RAM; 512GB storage).

11-inch MacBook Air 2013

The entry-level 11-inch MacBook Air starts at £849 (inc VAT) with a 128GB SSD. An SSD is a Solid State Drive – flash storage that is much faster than old-style whirring hard drives. More on these later.

Previously the cheapest MacBook Air shipped with a meager 64GB drive so this new Air represents a big plus in storage.

The 11-inch MacBook Air with 256GB SSD costs £1,029.

13-inch MacBook Air 2013

The 13-inch MacBook Air also ships in 128GB and 256GB storage capacities, costing £949 and £1,129 respectively.

When you configure your new laptop you can opt for a 512GB SSD for an additional £240, but only with the upper-end 256GB MacBook Airs (both 11- and 13-inch).

If you want a slim, lightweight laptop the MacBook Air is the best around. The 13-inch model is 32.5cm wide and 22.7cm deep, while the 11-inch Air is just 30cm wide and 19.2cm deep. The 13-inch Air weighs 1.35kg, with the 11-inch version weighing just 1.08kg.

Choosing the best MacBook Air for you will come down to screen size vs portability. Get yourself down to an Apple Store or local reseller to see if you can live with the smaller screen. You might decide the 13-inch Air offers more valuable screen space for that 0.27kg weight difference.

As you'll read below speed differences are minimal so Apple has made it a fairly easy choice when picking out the right Mac laptop for you.

MacBook Air 2013 laptop

Even the 11-inch Air features a full-size, backlit keyboard, and both have the wonderful, large multi-touch trackpad.

The LED screens on the Air are unchanged from the previous models. They aren't Retina Displays like you get with the MacBook Pro, so the pixel density is lower but that doesn't make them inferior to the vast majority of laptop screens.  The 11-inch Air supports a native 1,366-x-768 resolution. The 13-inch Air has a native 1,440-x-900 screen resolution.

The new MacBook Air models also support dual displays and video mirroring alongside full native resolution on the built-in display.

All models boast the onboard 720p FaceTime HD camera.

11-inch MacBook Air ports

Above: Apple MacBook Air, 11-inch model

Below: Apple MacBook Air, 13-inch model

13-inch MacBook Air ports

Both Airs have two USB 3.0 slots and one Thunderbolt. The 13-inch model also has an SDXC card slot.

As with all MacBook Airs – and all new Mac computers – there’s no DVD drive, so you may want to invest in an separate Apple USB SuperDrive for £65.

There is one tiny external difference between the 2012 and 2013 MacBook Airs. The 2013 Air now has two microphones, compared to one previously.

2013 new MacBook Air: Speed tests

All MacBook Air models run on the 1.3GHz dual-core Intel Core i5 processor, with Turbo Boost up to 2.6GHz.

You can upgrade this at point of purchase to a 1.7GHz Dual-Core Intel Core i7 and Turbo Boost up to 3.3GHz. This costs £120 for the 128GB models, and £130 for the 256GB Airs.

Hyper-Threading is supported on the i5 processors, allowing multi-threaded applications to address four virtual processing cores on these dual core systems.

4GB of 1600MHz LPDDR memory is standard on all models. You can boost this to 8GB for an extra £80. While 4GB might be enough for most, if you can affrod the extra then doing so on purchase is wise as you can't do it later – the memory is not user upgradeable.

The Ultimate (Configure-To-Order) models we tested would cost £1,479 (11-inch) and £1,579 (13-inch).

Each model uses Intel’s new HD Graphics 5000 integrated graphics, 40 percent faster than the previous Graphics 4000.

Because so much of the engine is the same there’s little to differentiate the new models in terms of overall performance.

Apple MacBook Air 2013 Speed Tests

Macworld Lab testing by James Galbraith, Albert Filice and Jeff Sandstoe. For more detailed application benchmarks for the standard models see the Macworld Lab article. For the Configure-To-Order model detailed speed test benchmarks, see here.

We tested the base i5 (fitted with 4GB of RAM, and 128GB flash storage) and i7 (further upgraded to 8GB RAM, and storage increased to 512GB) MacBook Airs using Macworld Lab’s Speedmark 8 benchmarks.

At the standard 1.3GHz the 11-inch Air scored 165 to the 13-inch Air’s 166. This score is identical to the 13-inch 2012 model MacBook Air, which had a 1.8GHz i5. The fact that the new Haswell 1.3GHz chip matches the old 1.8GHz Ivy Bridge proves the enhancement in the new processor.

The new i5 Airs didn’t win all the speed tests. Macworld Lab tests found the older system was faster in eight of the 15 tests, including our iMovie export, which was 34 percent faster on the older 13-inch. The new 13-inch model was faster in seven of the tests, with 30 percent faster frame rates in Cinebench’s Open GL test and a 28 percent faster file copy result.

The one big speed improvement we noticed was in the 11-inch i5 2013 model versus its 9% slower 2012 equivalent.

In terms of graphics speed the new MacBook Airs showed great improvements. The Intel HD Graphics 5000 in the new system pushed 24 percent more frames per second in Cinebench’s Open GL test and produced an 8 percent higher frame rate in Portal 2.

We also tested the Configure-To-Order (CTO) MacBook Air models packing the i7 processor and 8GB of RAM – compared to the standard i5 processor and 4GB of RAM. As expected the 11-inch and 13-inch i7 models scored almost the same - the 11-inch is very marginally faster but nothing noticeable.

The CTO 11-inch MacBook Air is 24 percent faster overall than the stock 2013 11-inch model we tested. Photoshop tests finished 17 percent faster with the CTO Air. iPhoto and Aperture were 25 percent faster and the PCMark productivity suite was 31 percent faster running under VMWare Fusion than the stock 11-inch 256GB MacBook Air.

The CTO 13-inch MacBook Air is 23 percent faster overall than the stock 13-inch model. The CTO Air was faster in every test, with 24 percent faster times in our Handbrake, Aperture and file decompression tests.

Compared to last year’s stock 11-inch MacBook Air (1.7GHz i5 Ivy Bridge processor) the Haswell-based CTO 11-inch MacBook Air is 36 percent faster overall thanks to the new model's faster integrated Intel HD 5000 graphics and faster flash storage.

Both the CTO 11- and 13-inch MacBook Air models are 8 percent faster overall than the 2013 13-inch Retina MacBook Pro, again due to the MacBook Air’s faster graphics and flash storage. (The Retina MacBook Pro was faster in a number of tests, including Handbrake, Cinebench CPU, iMovie import and iMovie export tests.)

2013 new MacBook Air: Improved battery life

All laptop owners would say that they don’t get enough battery life out of their portable. With the new MacBook Air Apple has aimed its sights on this very problem.

Apple claims that the 11in MacBook Air has nearly doubled from a five-hour battery life to a nine-hour battery life. Apple says that the 13in MacBook Air goes from seven hours to 12 hours of battery life.

Apple MacBook Air Battery Test Results

And with the Configure-To-Order Ultimate MacBook Air models:

MacBook Air Battery Test results 2013

Macworld Lab (testing by James Galbraith and Jeff Sandstoe) doesn't quite replicate Apple's battery life claims, and we can't accurately verify them as the company doesn't specify the criteria of its own testing. Apple states “wireless web” and “iTunes movie playback” when qualifying its battery life numbers.

To test battery life, Macworld Lab ran two different tests on the new models, last year’s models, and a 2013 13-inch Retina MacBook Pro – see results above.

In both tests we set the brightness to maximum and made sure that automatic brightness adjustment was off, backlit keyboards were off, and Screen Saver was set to never start.

It's clear, however, that the new MacBook Air’s battery life is bigger and much, much better than before.

In the first test we looped a movie clip in full-screen mode with Wi-Fi disabled. The new 11-inch MacBook Air lasted 6 hours and 6 minutes, compared to just 3 hours and 34 minutes for the 2012 model.

The new 13-inch standard configuration MacBook Air lasted 8 hours and 18 minutes, 36 percent longer than the new 11-inch MacBook Air, and 65 percent longer than last year’s 13-inch MacBook Air.

As with the battery tests of the standard 11-inch and 13-inch MacBook Air and the CTO 13-inch MacBook Air, the 11-inch systems (with lower battery capacity) don’t last as long on a single charge as the 13-inch models. While the new 13-inch MacBook Airs were able to last over 8 hours in our movie playback test, the 11-inch models last just over 6 hours. The CTO systems’ battery results were very similar in the video playback tests to the stock MacBook Airs.

We saw a bigger difference in our battery tests using the Peacekeeper benchmark, a very demanding test. The CTO 11-inch MacBook Air lasted just 3 hours and 28 minutes, compared to 4 hours and 5 minutes for the stock 11-inch MacBook Air.

Compared to a 2013 13-inch Retina MacBook Pro, the 13-inch MacBook Air lasted 75 percent longer. See's article for fuller battery-test results.

Battery tests are difficult to replicate exactly. In contrast to the Macworld Lab results PC Advisor tested the new MacBook Air models battery life and surpassed Apple's claims. The runtime in its MobileMark 2007 Productivity Test was actually 837 minutes, which is 13 hours and 57 minutes.

2013 new MacBook Air: Power savings

The new MacBook Air is designed for power savings, and boasts more energy-efficient Intel Core i5 and Core i7 CPUs. These chips have a slower clock speed to save energy, but can still deliver 40 per cent faster graphics performance, claims Apple. And our speed tests prove that there’s no overall loss in performance.

Apple has enhanced the Air’s low-power settings, too. The new MacBook Air can be left on standby for up to 30 days, and Apple says it will still wake up in one second – fast enough for even the most impatient road warrior.

MacBook Air models 2013

2013 new MacBook Air: Faster Flash storage

The larger, faster flash storage in the new MacBook Air transferred 6GB of files and folders 51 percent faster than last year’s Air. Macworld Lab ran Black Magic’s Disk Speed Test on the two systems and found the read speeds for the new 11-inch model were 667.7MBps, versus 141.1MBps on the older 11-inch Air’s 64GB of flash storage. Write speeds on the new 11-inch model hit 726.8 MBps, compared to 393.7 MBps on the 2012 Air.

2013 new MacBook Air: Wi-fi

The new MacBook Air models are compatible with the latest 802.11ac wireless networking, which is said to be three times faster than previous standards.

To take advantage of this you’ll need an 802.11ac base station. Apple’s new £169 AirPort Extreme feature three-stream 802.11ac with a maximum data rate of 1.3Gbps.

Apple has also unveiled two new Time Capsules to support 802.11ac. The 2TB mdoel costs £249. The 3TB Time Capsule is priced at £349.

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Apple hasn’t changed the exterior of the MacBook Air, and that’s no bad thing because we’re all rather in love with its lightweight, stylishly slim looks. The real story is in the extended battery life, which laptop users are going to love. It might even lure back a few iPad users, too. Storage is increased in both size and performance, and the addition of 802.11ac wi-fi is another huge step forward. Your choice of which MacBook Air comes down to screen size. If you want ultimate portability in a laptop rather than an iPad the 11-inch Air is light enough for you not to notice in your hand luggage. The 13-inch offers that extra screen space if you don't mind the larger body and increased weight (0.27kg difference). Then it's down to storage and memory. If you can afford it upgrade now rather than regret it later.

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Women of a certain age should not paddle canoes. At least, that's what my body said.

While my body screamed for mercy the day after a canoeing expedition -- which lasted barely an hour -- my mind valiantly fought for rational thought.

Calmly, through a web of aching muscles, my mind counted all the times when I was younger that I exercised parts of my body that were not accustomed to it. At that time, I accepted the pain for what it was. And what it was not, was a symptom of getting older.

No, my mind said, I had those same aches and pains when I was a teenager after a nine-hour bicycle trip (which is something I wouldn't even consider now). I would think, "Ooh, that hurts. I must get more padding on that seat next time." (Next time??) I did not think, "What are you doing, lady? You're too old to be peddling around on a bike for nine hours!" Sometimes I'm mean to myself.

The difference seems to be that I now have a convenient excuse not to over-exercise. I'm not lazy, I'm simply getting older.

And... I'm lying to myself. The fact that I can, indeed, paddle a canoe and not hurt until the next day says I'm not too old to paddle a canoe. The pain the next day is just my body letting me know what it thinks of my decision.

Some say that if I don't want to ache after paddling a canoe, I have to do it more often. This has never made sense to me and is the problem I have with every exercise.

They are saying, "It's going to hurt unless you do it more... which will hurt." Somewhere, a higher power is giggling about this conundrum. To make matters worse, at some point, we have convinced ourselves that all that hurting is good for us.

Obviously, paddling a canoe gives me way too much time to think.

I digress...

On barely functioning limbs I hobbled to my medicine cabinet to get the little white miracle pills, better known as aspirin. Doctors say you are not supposed to take aspirin every day. It could cause stomach problems. They also say you should exercise every day.

Apparently, there is a conspiracy afoot to create a pathetically paralyzed public. You should exercise and hurt yourself daily because it's good for you, but you shouldn't take aspirin daily because it's bad for you. Who wrote these rules and how did they get it through Congress?

I'm so confused, I'm thinking about boycotting exercise altogether. The question is: Does paddling a canoe constitute exercise? It hurt, so... yes. But I enjoyed it, so... no.

Okay, so I'm boycotting all exercise except that which I enjoy.

It would be best not to test my conviction on this. I usually enjoy it until the pain starts. If I'm in a canoe in the middle of a lake when the pain starts, I'm going to be in the middle of the lake for a long time... thinking. And you can see where that has gotten me.

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WINDSOR LOCKS, Conn. -- An astronaut glove stitched together on a Maine engineer's dining room table won a cool $200,000 Thursday in a NASA competition.

Peter Homer, an engineer from Southwest Harbor, Maine, won NASA's first-ever Astronaut Glove Challenge after a two-day competition here at the New England Air Museum near Bradley International Airport.

"It feels good," said Homer, whose two home-built spacesuit gloves beat entries from two other teams to take home the top prize. "It took a lot of sitting at the sewing machine."

A total of $250,000, split into two separate prizes, was up for grabs during NASA's Astronaut Glove Challenge, one of several Centennial Challenges offered by the space agency to spur interest and innovation in spaceflight technology. Entrants were charged with constructing spacesuit gloves capable of meeting, or exceeding, the specifications of NASA's current Phase VI glove. Of six possible contenders, three teams presented their gloves for the competition.

"If you're looking for innovative ideas, evolutionary steps and better gloves, you can't beat it," Bill Spenny, shuttle spacesuit subsystems manager at NASA's Johnson Space Center, said of the Astronaut Glove Challenge told between tests.

The smaller $50,000 award, reserved for any team to successfully demonstrate a Mechanical Counter Pressure glove that protects its wearer without using a pressurized bladder akin to those found in current spacesuits, went unclaimed and will rollover to next year, event organizers said.

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Homer's prize marks the first time NASA has doled out a cash prize under its Centennial Challenges program despite five previous meets over the last two years. The space agency's separate Power Beam and Tether challenges, held annually in 2005 and 2006, have twice ended without winners. The Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge also went unclaimed last year.

"The finger mobility is the thing that I thought was most critical," Homer said of his Dacron-covered glove, which featured blue, off-the-shelf kitchen cleaning gloves for internal bladders. He attended the glove contest with his 14-year-old son Matthew.

To win the space glove challenge, teams submitted two prototypes -- one for demonstration and the other for destruction -- for a barrage of endurance challenges. Those tests included dexterity measurements, flexibility checks and a burst test that pumped one glove from each team full of water until it reached its breaking point.

Homer's glove won out over an entry by the three-person team MDLH, which included spacesuit mobility expert Gary Harris, aerospace engineer Pablo de Leon and Nik Moiseev, who until 2005 served as engineer with the Russian firm Zvezda that designed that country's current and Soviet-era spacesuits.

"We're interested to know what the differences were between the gloves," de Leon told after Homer's victory, adding that his team may compete in next year's contest. "We came to this competition knowing what the chances were."

Artist Theodore Southern, of Brooklyn, New York, also entered a seamless glove made of polyurethane with internal fabric layers, though the design failed to pass a mandatory burst test early in the two-day competition.

"Each of the entries was very different, very unique," said Alan Hayes, CEO of the Owings, Maryland-based Volanz Aerospace that oversaw the competition for NASA. "And you want something out of the box."

The contest marked the first of a three-year series of NASA Astronaut Glove Challenges. A $350,000 purse is slated for awards in 2008, with $400,000 available in 2009, NASA said.

Phase VI and beyond

NASA's current spacesuit glove, the Phase VI unit built by Hamilton Sundstrand and ILC Dover, sports adjustable fingers with their own heaters and is designed to attach to the agency's Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU) spacesuit via wrist joints.

David Graziosi, a spacesuit design engineering manager at ILC Dover, said new gloves are custom tailored to their specific astronauts.

Despite pains taken to ensure performance and comfort, working long hours in what fundamentally is a pressurized balloon can be grueling on the hands and body, astronauts said.

"It's more important to have a good fit that's not going to hurt you," astronaut Mike Massimino, who performed two spacewalks during NASA's STS-109 mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope, told "If you get them too tight, you can do damage to your hands."

Massimino is training for NASA's next, and final, Hubble servicing mission to fly in 2008. Working with the Phase VI glove, like toiling in a spacesuit in general, can be tiring due to the physical demands of fighting a stiff spacesuit filled with air to perform tasks in Earth orbit. Tight grips on handrails, for example, can tire an astronaut's hands out unnecessarily since only light touches are need during spacewalks.

"You only need a fingertip touch," Massimino said. "The glove could tire out your hands if you let it."

Meanwhile, NASA officials and space hardware competitors are gearing up for another Centennial Challenge on May 12 -- this time in Santa Maria, California -- where entrants are expected to showcase robotic digging machines.   That competition, the 2007 Regolith Excavation Challenge, calls for competitors to demonstrate machines capable of autonomously digging through mock lunar surface material during a preset time limit.