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I WWW.FRr.F.P.C0M SKPT. 10, 2002 EVERY IS "TECH DSV IN 1T.Z TlXZZ PHSSS 9 TO 5 Hurley Sehwadron Ml A 1 JO Cuntact us by e-iiitll ut: tech a fiwprewi.eom GOODS AND GEAR Navigation gadgets keep handheld users on track "He took his Palm Pilot with him," zzciz today say cocd-eve to your VCR: A new type of DVD recorder will likely doom the vldeocassette' and push the home market In favor of digital technology. Heather Newman, Page 8E aol Tir.ii warms the world's biggest media company, reduced its outlook for Its America Online division, citing continued weakness in online advertising, but reaffirmed its forecast for the overall company. Business, Page 2C Qwest commvmcaticks' chairman and chief executive officer discounted talk of a possible bankruptcy. Business, Page 2C handheld, unless you have lots of extra memory.

On my 1)2 megabyte IPaq, I easily fit Detroit maps and one for Orlando, which I'll be visiting on a family vacation In a couple of weeks. There's an external antenna about the size of a pack of matches that fits into the receiver, which In turn is contained on a CompactFlash memory card that attaches to the IPaq. Out how? There is no CompactFlash slot in the iPaq, If I was going to use the unit, there was no alternative but to run out to a computer store to get an adapter ($49 at CompUSA). The adapter that allowed my iPaq to accept the GPS receiver Is a holster-type sleeve that the handheld slides Into. But that caused still another problem.

The Pharos kit thoughtfully comes with a cigarette-plug adapter to provide constant power to the iPaq. But it's basically useless because the Compact Flash adapter sleeve covers up the iPaq power connection plug. Duh. After an hour of constant use, Sometimes, I'm simply amazed at what new high-tech gadgets can do. Such has been my experience with a $199 package called the Pocket GPS Portable Navigator from Pharos (www.pharoHgps.com) that plugs into my iPaq Pocket PC handheld computer.

It turns the same handheld I use to manage my calendar and store my address book Into a full -featured Global Positioning System receiver, showing my precise position on a detailed map and providing detailed spoken and visual directions to any address, GPS receivers have been hot sellers for the past couple of years now, not just with boaters and hikers but as add-ons for cars. A whole new high-tech hobby called Geocaching (www.geocachlng.com) has developed In which GPS users follow obscure clues on Web sites to find hidden treasure. But the most popular use for GPS is navigating city streets and finding directions, and the Pharos Navigator Kit I've tried out on my iPaq has performed that task admirably. Pharos also makes similar kits for other Pocket PC models like the Jornada and The Alptck fits In your pnlm. Mini digital cameras Digital nimcTiis are becoming less expensive, und they're it! becoming enny to uo as disposnblc film camera.

Tho Alptek Mini PenCtun Is by no means a disposable, but with its no-flush polnt-und-shoot Imaging, It feels like one. At Inches, the Mini PenCum Is small enough to fit In your palm, It has 1.3-mcgapixel resolution, and the lens enn be set at distant or close-up. With 1G megabytes of built-in memory, It can Ntore up to 'A) high-resolution pictures. The Mini IYnCam lacks some of the features found on other inexpensive digital cameras for example, a flash but its resolution helps compensate for that. The camera can be worn around tho neck on an included lanyard.

It is available at major retailers for about $1)0. Biodegradable Walkmans Fujitsu and Sony have figured out how to use biodegradable plasties in their high-tech gear. This fall Sony will reintroduce that classic from the li)K()s, the Walkman tape player, with 90 percent of its casing made from vegetable-based plastic. Fujitsu plans to use the same plastic in the shell of its Biblo laptop computers starting in 2004. The magic ingredient in this plastic is polylactic acid, a corn-based polymer.

Less petroleum is needed to produce the degradable plastic, and no dioxin is emitted when it. is burned or buried. New York Times MIKE WfcNULANDDtrolt Fre Prusi Pharos' Pocket GPS Portable Navigator plugs Into Pocket PCs, the brand-new subdivision streets I was passing. The software lets you type in an address, an intersection, even a ZIP code, and then plot turn by-turn directions on the on-screen map. You can adjust the displays to cover different distances, from a regional view that covers an area of 25 miles right down to a detailed 200-foot scale.

The unit offers turn-by-turn voice commands, but over the iPaq speaker they were pretty anemic and hard to hear. But that's OK, because the visual display is what you'll be following and on the sharp and very bright iPaq screen, I had no problems watching the little triangle that showed my location move across the map, It's a bit cumbersome to position the iPaq in a car a mounting kit that clips to the air-conditioning vents on the dashboard was absolutely useless but all in all, the kit does what it promises extremely well. Contact MIKE WENDLAND at 313-222-8861 or mwendlundiccfreepress.com, TODAY'S picks cuzm the internal battery charge on the iPaq ran low and I had to shut it down and recharge. TALK OF HEROES New York City firefighter and author Dennis Smith talks about the Sept. 1 1 terrorist attacks.

8 p.m., http:chat.msn.com SEPTEMBER JITTERS Child psychologist Mary Ann McCabe takes questions on kids' tears about the new school year. 2 p.m., www.dcchlidrens.comevontsmn.asp But during that hour, I must say I was very impressed with the accuracy of the unit. I cruised northern Oakland the Cassiopeia. Installation begins by loading the Pharos software and maps onto your PC and then the handheld. They're contained on four CDs.

De-cause the maps are large files, you won't be able to transfer Vv County and found it to be dead-on accurate, even ton mnnv tn vnur showing most of FIELD EXPERT Dennli Smith Chat with NFL analyst and former Washington Redskins quarterback Joe Thelsmann, 5 p.m., http:dynamlc.espn.go.comespnnatlonchatlndex NEW TOON Chat with Orlando Brown and Tara Strong, voices ot Fillmore and Ingrld Third on the new Disney cartoon "Fillmore." 7 p.m., Read Miks Wsndkr.d's e-jcurnd daily at www.freep.comtech xcM BOEDER I Crossing to get faster, easier Hundreds of nnliticians. hnrdpr From Page 1A (USPS 155-500) (ISSN 1055-2758) Published dally by the Detroit Free Press at 600 W. Fort Detroit, Ml 48226 PERIODICALS POSTAGE PAID AT DETROIT, Ml f- LOTTERY Michigan Monday Daily 3 and 4: Midday 053 and 6752 Evening 543 and 7276 Rolldown 6, 7, 19, 25, 30 Keno 1, 7, 8, 9, 13, 15, 16, 27, 29, 30, 31, 35, 36, 40, 43, 45, 51, 54, 55, 61,66, 68 Wed. Michigan Millions jackpot $6.1 million Today's Mega Millions $10 Ohio Monday Pick 3 and 4 Midday 656 and 6583 Evening 266 and 0848 Buckeye Five 6,16,22,27,34 Wed. Super Lotto Plus jackpot $16 million Find previous numbers on the Web at www.michigan.govlottery DETROIT NEWSPAPERS Home Unlivery Service 31 3-222-6500 TOLL FREE 1-800-395-3300 CiiissifioflAOvertiamg 506-977-7500 TOLL FREE 1 -800-WANT-AOS Dispiav Mnmmt 31 3-222-2355 ll Older Depigments 313-222-6400 Telecommunication Device for Deal (TOO) 313-222-2576 FREE PRESS EDITORIAL PHONE NUMBERS FiM'ralPage 3'3-222-6583 Local News 313-222-6600 Sports 313-222-6660 The Way We Lira 313-222-6610 31 3-222-6610 Business News 313-222-8765 Public Editor 313-222-2441 lo order Free Kress OookS 1-800-245-5082 GETTING IT STRAIGHT NEWSPAPER RATES "Metro All Other workers and business leaders attended the event to publicly endorse the programs, but privately many were debating the issue of reverse inspections stationing U.S.

Customs inspectors on the Canadian side to inspect incoming traffic before it reaches the United States. The issue is controversial for reasons of national sovereignty and practical application. U.S. Customs inspectors carry firearms and Canadian inspectors do not. There is also the question fcf how U.S.

inspectors would enforce U.S. law on Canadian soil. But Remo Mancini, executive vice president of the Ambassador Bridge, said U.S. Customs officers were conducting reverse inspections on the Canadian side of the bridge Monday to provide extra security for the president's visit. "If we can do it today, why npt tomorrow?" Mancini said.

"This proves it can be done." The inspectors as part of a'l-day arrangement were unarmed and only inspecting for bombs and weapons, said Customs spokesman Dennis Murphy, "It's an idea worth pursuing, but it would take changes in the law," Murphy said. The Nexus lanes were tested at the U.S.-Canadian crossing in Port Huron in December 2000. The program is also up and running at the U.S-Canadian crossing in Blaine, Wash. Joan Larson of Royal Oak, who was among the 700 attending Bush's speech, said she would apply for a Nexus card. "I have a firend who lives in Canada, so I cross the border five to 10 times a year," she said.

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We've got to reduce the backups and strengthen our mutual security." Bush also held a behind-closed-doors session with Chretien in which he pressed his case for action against Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein. Chretien, like many other world leaders reluctant to join a military campaign against Iraq, has said he has yet to see evidence that would justify Canadian support. Neither leader would comment afterward to reporters and included no mention of Iraq in their public remarks. Under the Nexus program, any U.S. or Canadian resident can apply for a special computerized photo ID card.

Applicants are only approved if their names do not appear in criminal or terrorist databanks. "For those crossing the border, it will be a seamless process," said Tom Campbell, assistant chief inspector for the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS). "You can cross in less than 10 seconds instead of sitting in line and answering questions." Yet Campbell said it's extremely difficult to define a traveler as a low-security risk, Among the things that would disqualify a person from receiving a Nexus card: a felony conviction, providing false or incomplete application information, or previous immigration or customs violations. When driving through a dedicated lane on a border crossing, the user holds up the card, which is electronically scanned. The scan produces an image and information on a border inspector's computer screen.

Participants are still subject to random personal inspections and still have to stop to pay the tolls. Each individual in the vehicle must have his or her own card to use the special lanes. A Nexus lane is scheduled to be opened on the Ambassador Bridge by January. Gordon Jarvis, president of the Detroit Canada Tunnel which operates the Detroit-Windsor Tunnel, said Monday that he HllhAHU LEhDetroit free Press Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien, left, and U.S. President George W.

Bush at Cobo Hall. hopes the system will be available at the tunnel early next year. He said he's waiting on federal funding. About 50,000 cars and trucks cross Detroit's international tunnel and bridge daily. It's considered the busiest U.S.-Canadian border crossing.

Nexus lanes also will be opened at the Peace Bridge in Buffalo, N.Y., INS congressional and public affairs director Mike Gilhooly said. Bush and Chretien also praised the FAST lane program for commercial truck traffic, which is already being used on a limited basis at the bridge. The program allows preapproved trucks to pass through Customs without delay. Information about the truck, driver and cargo is electronically transmitted to Customs inspectors up to an hour before the truck arrives. The bridge carries the bulk of the $475 billion in U.S.-Canadian annual trade.

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