Zite fights the single-user tablet conspiracy
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Tablets are the world's best family computers. What could be better to leave lying around on the kitchen table, for everyone in a family to pick up and use when they want, than a Web-reading, video-viewing, game-playing touch-screen device like an iPad or Android tablet?
Except for one thing: Today's tablets are terrible multi-person devices. They are, for the most part, oversized smartphones, and from smartphones they have inherited a key philosophy: One person per device. That's fine for a phone but not for a shared tablet. You may have your iPad set up just right for you, but give it to your spouse, and the e-mail, calendar, to-do list, browser shortcuts, game high scores, and every other personal setting will be all wrong. And worse, you don't want that spouse messing with your settings, do you?
Tablets need to support multiple logins, like computers running Windows, OS X, Chrome OS, and Linux do. Every time I hand my iPad over to my son I mutter a little curse a Apple: "No, I will not buy another blasted tablet just so he gets his own settings."
Source: CNET
Kitchen Call: Maple syrup is the taste of fall
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If you could bottle autumn, it would look and taste like maple syrup. From light gold to deep amber, its colors softly echo the glorious fall landscapes of changing leaves.
Tourists can’t leave such landscapes without a souvenir bottle of the stuff often bought after scarfing down a pile of fluffy, buttery pancakes doused in the thick, sweet syrup. And so they leave, thinking of pancakes, or French toast, as the only conveyor of this delicious condiment.
But wait! We know there’s a whole lot more to maple syrup than pancakes.
Julia Child, who lived just outside of Boston for much of her life, whisked it along with her beloved Dijon mustard into salad dressing. The formula included about a quarter cup of decent olive oil, a few tablespoons of lemon juice, a teaspoon of maple syrup and a half-teaspoon of the mustard along with salt and pepper.
She whisked it madly so the mixture held together in suspension. Then, she used it as a dressing for soft leafy greens, like the baby greens. As yellow hot dog mustard would never do in this dressing, so, too, won’t iceberg lettuce in this salad.
Source: Canton Repository