Archive for: May 29, 2008

Filed under: Home EntertainmentFans of high-def audio rejoice: The first Blu-ray recording has been released. Fans of anything other than Divertimento, hold your horses: The first release is from Thondheimsolistene, an orchestra from Norway. “Divertimenti”, as it is called, will be released by the 2…

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Filed under: Digital CamerasStellar photography seems like a wonderous thing: you and a loved one on a starry night taking beautiful images of the heavens — before making out. Unfortunately, anyone who has tried it knows it’s more often a frustrating exercise of fiddling with exposure and aperture …

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Scientists have successfully developed a computer out of E. coli bacteria (again), which has managed to solve the Burnt Pancake Problem — at least in a limited style. The problem involves creating a golden-side-up stack of pancakes out of all different size pancakes, each of which is burned one…

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Don’t nag, we’ll get to you mid- and high-enders soon decent, but we’ve got a feeling that week’s Ask Engadget question will appeal to the masses. Granted, we’ve shot that inquiry out before, but a lot has happened in the DSLR realm in 3.5 expanded years, wouldn’t you agree?

“Summer’s coming …

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With the price of gas these days, it’s no wonder humans are skittish when it comes to moving lawns. What’s more, gas-powered mowers have been shown to pollute up to 7 times as much as vehicles. certain, you could go get a manual mower and get some exercise, but why do that when you can convert y…

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It’s far from the first supercomputer created with the help of some gaming hardware, but that rig built by a group of researchers from the University of Antwerp is certainly impressive adequate in its own right, with it employing four of NVIDIA’s high-end GeForce 9800 GX2 graphics cards (which…

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There hasn’t precisely been much mystery surrounding that one, but Crave’s UK arm has now gotten word straight from ASUS that the company will indeed be launching its new Eee PC 1000 series laptop at Computex in Taiwan next Tuesday and that, yes, it will a 10-inch model. that one won’t actuall…

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The big announcement from Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer's talk at the D6 conference yesterday was the addition of multi-touch features in Windows 7. Now the company is looking toward the release of an SDK for the new technology, set to occur during Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference at the Los Angeles Convention Center in October.

During the conference, the company will "highlight the new multi-touch gesture APIs and explain how you can leverage them in your applications," it says.

I just came across an application that lets your iPhone use Jedi mind tricks on your PC and Mac. By that, I mean wirelessly control your computer. Touchpad Pro is an open-source program that claims to allow you to access your computer from anywhere in the world.

Touchpad Pro offers an interface that lets you control your computer's mouse (similar to that found on some laptops), control the keyboard, control PowerPoint slides, scroll Web pages and documents, and so on. And while I haven't tested it myself, I find the concept amazing.

You need a jailbroken iPhone/iPod Touch with Installer to run this app. It works with a feature called Screenview that enables you to see what's on your computer's screen when you connect to it. This means that you don't have to be at your computer to use Touchpad Pro--you could be in a different room, or even in a different country. You can control the mouse and keyboard and immediately see the changes on the screen.

TouchPad Pro's creator, Jehanzeb Sherwani, has his own YouTube channel with videos of the app in action. Check out one demo, after the jump.

Q: Can I unstick items in the Start Menu? - Randolph Williams.

A: The items in the top half of the left column are there because you pinned them to the Start Menu. To remove one of these, right-click it and choose "Unpin from Start menu" in XP or "Remove from this list" if you're using Vista. The items in the bottom half are programs that you've used a lot. To remove one of these right-click it and choose "remove from this list" in either XP or Vista. Simple question, simple answer!

A more interesting question may be, "Can I prevent Windows from putting certain programs in the most-used programs list?" Maybe you'd rather not have the boss see that Freecell is one of your most-used programs, for example. And yes, you can. In XP or Vista, click Start, click Run, and enter REGEDIT. Navigate to the Registry key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Applications. Look for a subkey of this key whose name is the program you want to suppress, for example Freecell.exe. Quite likely this key will not be present; if so, select Edit | New | Key from the menu to create a key with the appropriate name. Click on the key and then select Edit | New | String value from the menu. Name the value NoStartPage. You may need to reboot before this change takes effect, but once it does the program in question will never show up as most-used. - Neil J. Rubenking.

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Google reportedly took a moment to show off a prototype mobile phone based on its Android operating system at the Google I/O conference in San Francisco Wednesday. Android is Google’s open source, Linux-based mobile phone OS, middleware stack and software development platform. Android has th…

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