Stories about: Inspiration

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    Can the balance shift towards open source in mobile? 17/12/2010 00:29:00

    The battle lines for the mobile marketplace have been drawn, and the battle of the titans - Google, Apple, Microsoft -- has begun. While the generals amass their troops, what have we here in the corner? A bunch of doodlers, cartoonists, storytellers, and other amateurs. Surely, this ragtag group won't have any effect on the outcome of the battle--or will they?
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    Part Five: Building a PC -- connecting the PSU 02/07/2010 23:45:00

    This article is the fifth in a series of how-to stories on building a computer.
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    Part One: Building a PC -- choosing your components 30/06/2010 03:53:00

    This article is the first in a series of how-to stories on building a computer. For a video version of part one, click here.
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    Homemade, soccer-playing robots compete for trip to Atlanta 30/03/2010 09:16:00

    Cheering crowds packed into Boston University's Agganis Arena over the weekend not for a rock concert or sporting event, but for a robotics competition. More than 50 teams from across the Northeast U.S. and three other countries brought homemade robots to compete in the Boston regional FIRST robotics competition.
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    Google building phone support for Nexus One 04/02/2010 06:47:00

    After struggling to support Nexus One customers using an online-only approach, Google appears to be developing a phone customer service operation.
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    Opera Mobile 10 comes to Windows Mobile 19/11/2009 02:17:00

    Opera has made the beta version of its mobile browser, Opera Mobile 10, available to handsets running Microsoft's Windows Mobile OS.
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    One set top box (DVR) to rule them all? 25/07/2009 04:38:00

    The Pitch: Our ultimate set-top box/high-def DVR is a home theater PC that's quiet and turns on in seconds. (That's not an impossible dream either: Microsoft has thought about it, and ASrock has motherboards that use an advanced standby state to boot Windows in around 4 seconds). A PC-based DVR lets you hand-pick and upgrade hardware, manage codecs, and use add-ons like DVRMSToolbox, ShowAnalyzer or ComSkip to automatically detect and skip commercials. We'd follow the lead of MythTV and make ad-skipping standard...
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    Window tips: Windows 7 shortcuts and more 08/07/2009 15:23:00

    Windows 7 adds some new keyboard shortcuts to the mix, all of them based on the Windows key. Here are my favorites:
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    Turn your caps-lock key into a mute button 28/04/2009 17:28:00

    Ever wish you could mute your PC's speakers an in instant, like when the phone rings and you need to silence your iTunes tunes? Granted, some keyboards have a Mute button for exactly that purpose, but not all of them do.
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    Software companies adapt graphic novels for the mobile phone 18/03/2009 07:16:00

    The corner of the Paris Book Fair devoted to e-book readers was larger than last year -- but the most interesting devices were smaller: smartphones running software from two companies aiming to adapt full-page comics and graphic novels to tiny screens.
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    Palm Treo Pro & debut of IE Mobile 6 13/03/2009 08:24:00

    On March 15 the Sprint Palm Treo Pro officially goes on sale, and I've been testing a production unit for the past few weeks. It's basically the same Windows Mobile 6.1 smartphone as the unlocked Treo Pro that I tested in late 2008. But the addition of Microsoft's new mobile browser makes this release notable.
 
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