MaximumPC 2004 03

Hack Your iPod 3 great tricks you can fi nish today! MINIMUM BS • MARCH 2004 Intel’s Hot New CPU! Stream Your MP3s! Head to head ...

MARCH 2004 MAXIMUMPC 3 ContentsContents 03. L ike it or not, we’re a review-oriented society. Formal L ike it or not, we’re a re ...

EDITORIAL George Jones EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Katherine Stevenson MANAGING EDITOR Gordon Mah Ung SENIOR EDITOR Will Smith TECHNICAL EDI ...

You write, we respond XXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXX In/Out WHY 98 PERCENT OF YOU ARE MEN I don’t know why only 2 percent of your re ...

You write, we respond XXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXX In/Out WHY 98 PERCENT OF YOU ARE MEN I don’t know why only 2 percent of your re ...

on your Desktop, right-click the original folder, choose Properties, and check the Hidden option. You can add folders to your ma ...

Windows XP Service Pack 2 Improves Security, Wireless, and more! We take an early look at Win XP’s biggest update yet and come a ...

14 MAXIMUMPC MARCH 2004 ALT.OPINION.RANTS BY JON PHILLIPS It boggles the mind: The very same company that engi- neers some of th ...

Increase your iPod’s volume Some MP3s are recorded at annoyingly low levels, and European iPods actually have their overall volu ...

No Choices Equals No Fun Tom McDonald has been covering games for countless magazines and newspapers for years. He lives in the ...

 MAXIMUMPC MARCH 2004 Quick Start TechnoFile Quick takes on technology trends Is this the future? We dare you to take a look a ...

MARCH 2004 MAXIMUMPC 19 Quick Start Fanless Power Supply The concept of the quiet PC began to gain real respect over Rest assur ...

THIS MONTH: Yahoo vs. Hotmail! YAHOO! E-MAIL Head 2 Head A showdown among natural PC competitors E very once in a while some smu ...

Despite the speed and convenience of Nextel’s i85s, we prefer the Ericsson R380, with just one reservation—the Ericsson’s steep ...

THIS MONTH: The WatchDog goes after... WatchDog Copyleft.net Exits Stage Left? DEAR DOG: I ordered a great shirt from the web si ...

Consumer Advocate Got a bone to pick with a vendor? Been spiked by a fly-by-night operation? Sic The Dog on them by writing watc ...

 MAXIMUMPC MARCH 2004 In classic Maximum PC fashion, we peel the Pentium 4 sticker off of Intel’s new CPU! ...

Sometimes more gets said when nothing changes than when big changes occur. Take for example, Intel’s shiny new CPU, code-named P ...

Prescott Arrives 30 MAXIMUMPC MARCH 2004 Prescott still retains the 12KB trace cache of the original Pentium 4 but increases the ...

Q: What’s new and different in Intel’s Q: What’s new and different in Intel’s new CPU? The really big news with Prescott is the ...