Some ancient gadgets quietly died a natural death. All of these pagers, handheld computers, floppy drives – they are no longer with us.

But other older technology does not depart to another world, though the time has come, because there are better alternatives, more simple, cheap, quality and effective. Here is a list of 10 technologies, from which we must get rid of in 2010.

1. Fax

The fax machine is out of date 15 years ago. This is nothing more than a set of printer, scanner, and archaic analog modem, which only consumes waste time, money, paper and electricity.

Documents sent by fax, usually initially have a digital format. To send it by fax, you must first print the document. You insert a printout of a fax – and fax machine again translates it into digital form and then using an analog modem model 1993 converts digital image into sound and transmits information in audio form.

The modem generates noise on the telephone line, and on the other end another fax machine with the modem listens to these sounds and converts them back into digital format, directly before printing on paper. And then again, usually have to translate this piece of paper to digital format: or stuff information manually, or scan the fax.

The document is almost always begins and ends his life in digital form. But during his epic journey, he visited four times in digital form, twice in the paper and once in the form of sound.

Mass confusion, which supports the life of this obsolete technology, is that “hard copy” allegedly more legitimate. In fact, stick someone else’s signature to the document before it is sent by fax – this is the easiest way to fraud because of the low quality of fax images.

People, stop this madness. Let us use e-mail.

2. Cigarette lighter socket in your car

The idea to place on the dashboard of a car’s cigarette lighter for cigars / cigarettes came in 20 of the last century and reached its ideal embodiment of the 50-m. Decades have passed, but the automotive industry still supplies the cars these strange connectors, but now usually without lighters.

As an electric socket cigarette lighter socket is very dangerous to have excess energy is unreliable, uncomfortable, and quietly expensive. For him to buy a special adapter and / or adapter, which will further clutter up the car interior.

All cars must be equipped with standard sockets with built-in converter. Or USB-port, through which you can charge your gadgets. Or both, and others.

Almost no one smokes in his car. Almost everything we carry with them mobile phones and gadgets that need power. Lord, what other arguments required by these guys in automobile?

3. WWW

According to the original idea, the prefix in the Internet address should specify the type of service. For example, www.imyasayta.com points to servers “World-Wide Web“, designed for viewing through a browser, and ftp.imyasayta.com indicates services that are available via File Transfer Protocol.

Network administrators now choose whether the technical necessity to ensure that the address was the site prefix www, but in any case, the browser adds it automatically.

That is why there is no need to pronounce the www before the address, print it on business cards or manually typing in the browser. We stopped the prefix http:// few years ago, so now you can give up www.

4. Showcases

It is unclear why we still use these “phone cards” of the 19 century. When you will get a card, then you have to do tedious work on making this information anywhere, and it is usually no one does.

There are several alternatives for business cards, and they are all excellent. If the meeting is appointed by email, then you can attach to the letter with contact information, make vCards, links to web pages with contact information and much more.

Even if you are suddenly faced with someone, it is better to exchange contact information directly on the spot using a mobile phone. It’s easier to click a few buttons on the phone to save the incoming call, than to manually make the information from business cards.

5. Rent movies

For several revolutions happened in those times, as we went to the kiosk rental video cassette, stood in line, took the coveted film and went home with him. The film – an ordinary digital file. You can download it, receive by mail on disk, etc. Go somewhere else, stand in line for a digital file? Come!

6. Remote control for home

Almost every element of your home mediasistemy comes with its own overly complicated remote control. One of the television. One in a digital video recorder. Another player with Blu-ray. Even the music system has its own remote. But some people at home a few TVs, players, stereos and other electronics remotely controlled, so that the number of consoles in the apartment than a dozen. For each of them to change, toxic batteries and to constantly monitor the location (panels tend to get lost).

Hardly anyone is there enough time for quality service and programming their remotes D / W. Enough! It’s time to replace these consoles programs for mobile phones.

Mobile phones may be different consoles, because they have a better user interface, rechargeable batteries and they are not so easily lost. Calling the program easier to program and upgrade.

Already released several excellent programs for the iPhone and other devices that control digital video recorders and not only. Apple managed to make a really simple interface to control iTunes with the iPhone.

Television manufacturers need to improve the functionality of the control menu on the TV, and join the revolution, smart phones, a simple program for remote control, with universal programs, so all devices can be operated from one program.

7. Corded Phones

The number of American households that have completely given up wired phones, doubled from 2006 to 2009, and now every fourth apartment is not wired phone.

Why wait for the other three quarters? Corded phones – this is an exaggeration, headache and lost time (because the receiver can not raise the kind of person you are calling). Corded phones can not receive text messages or voice mail feature is absolutely obsolete. It’s time to make the final call on this phone – call the operator and ask to save you from a telephone line.

8. Music CD

With all the normal music CD, simply they have no significant advantages over MP3, while the disadvantages are: they are made from toxic materials, they are difficult to process and inconvenient to carry around.

We all need to move completely to digital formats, music library from files that are suitable for searching, backup and transport in any quantity.

9. Satellite Radio

Of course, Sirius XM content is different, but you do not need to fire missiles and orbiting satellites to deliver the sound to radio listeners. All this can be done through the Internet and through the application to the iPhone, which demonstrated the same radio, Sirius XM, which has provided just such a service.

There are times when the satellite radio has an advantage. For example, when you go on the road without covering cellular networks, and listening to the actual content such as news. But most of us rarely chosen in such a jungle, and most of the content of satellite radio is not so important. In addition, you can not listen to him when parking in an underground garage, for example. Or near tall buildings or in tunnels.

There is now a lot of high-quality audio content, which can listen in the car: audiobooks, podcasts, music MP3, etc. If you so want for something to pay, it is better to subscribe to the tariff plan of wireless mobile internet.

10. Excess registration

Many sites offer users some form of registration, which is to add personal information, select login and password. This is normal.

But why do some sites require to enter the email address twice? They’re all the same to be verified later. Why do they ask for my city and zip code, if the postcode is already possible to determine the city?

Bad, excess and obsolete technology make our lives more complicated, expensive and ugly. Let’s get rid of them.

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