Q: When the 7-inch Kindle Fire HD is used to read an ordinary eBook, does the book page look like the new Kindle Paperwhite, or ordinary Kindle gray?
：当用7英寸的Kindle Fire HD阅读一本普通电子书时，书页看起来和新款Kindle Paperwhite一样吗？还是和普通Kindle那样是灰色的？
A: Neither. Standard Kindle e-readers, even the improved new ones, use a technology called e-ink, that's entirely different from the screen technology on the Kindle Fire series. The latter is an LCD screen, similar to what's on an iPad, or a laptop. I found reading a book on the Fire HD to be a good experience, but it's different from that on a standard Kindle. For instance, like other LCD screens, the one on the Fire has much more glare than an e-ink screen, especially outdoors, even though Amazon claims the new HD has 25% less glare than its predecessor.
答：都不是。标准Kindle电子书阅读器（甚至是改进的新款）使用的都是一种名为"电子油墨"的技术，与Kindle Fire系列使用的屏幕技术完全不同。后者使用的是液晶显示屏，类似于iPad或笔记本电脑的屏幕。我发现用Fire HD阅读电子书感觉很好，但和用标准Kindle阅读感觉不同。比如，与其他液晶显示屏一样，Fire的屏幕比电子油墨屏幕的眩光更多，特别是在室外使用时，尽管亚马逊(Amazon)声称新款HD比老款的眩光减少了25%。
Q: Does the iPad have a USB port? Can you attach a memory card reader to the iPad?
问：iPad有没有USB接口？iPad能接内存卡读卡器吗？
A: It has neither a built-in USB port nor a built-in memory card reader. But Apple sells a $29 accessory called the Camera Connection Kit that includes two adapters, one with a memory card reader and one with a USB port for connecting a camera via a cable. The catch is that these adapters only work with photos, not other types of files.
答：iPad既没有内置的USB接口，也没有内置的存储卡读卡器。不过，苹果(Apple)销售一款价格29美元的相机连接工具包(Camera Connection Kit)，其中包括两个适配器，其中一个适配器包括了一个内存卡读卡器，另一个适配器有一个USB接口，可以通过数据线与相机相连。问题是，这些适配器只能用于照片，其他类型的文件无法使用。
Q: Is it possible to run disk defragmentation in Mac OSX (Mountain Lion) and if so, what is the best way to go about doing this?
问：在Mac OSX (Mountain Lion)上能否进行磁盘碎片整理？如果可以，最好的办法是什么？
A: Apple says its operating system does disk defragmentation -- tidying up the arrangement of files for faster access -- automatically, so doing so manually is unnecessary. I haven't done it on my Macs for years. Still, some experts say it's useful to do so, especially if your hard disk is almost full, or you're noticing significant slowdowns. There are third-party defragmentation apps for the Mac. One, called iDefrag, can be found at http://bit.ly/M1ODBw. I haven't tested it, so I don't know how well it works.
答：苹果说其操作系统可以自动进行磁盘碎片整理（即整理文件排列以便加快文件访问速度），所以没有必要手动进行。我已经很多年没在我的Mac上进行磁盘碎片整理了。不过，一些专家说，进行磁盘碎片整理是有用的，特别是如果你的硬盘快满的时候，或是你发现电脑运行速度明显减慢的时候。有第三方开发的用于Mac的磁盘碎片整理应用程序。有一个程序叫iDefrag，你可以在http://bit.ly/M1ODBw上下载。我还没有对这个程序进行过测试，所以不清楚效果怎么样。
Walter S. Mossberg
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