Curious to see what the UMPC or Origami computing experience is like? There's a free emulator that simulates your XP desktop on a virtual UMPC screen so you can determine if these devices are for you!
Why Samsung doesn't write up the instructions is beyond any of us, but if you need to restore your Q1 Tablet PC back to the factory defaults like I did, you'll want these tips. There are certain requirements (like a USB keyboard) and the order of the three CDs is integral.
Although we haven't seen this UMPC car mount in the United States, it's available in Germany. Christoph mounts his Samsung Q1 and provides the step-by-step in pics. That's a good thing, since the installation manual is in Korean!
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You hear rationalizations as to why it’s better not to “rock the boat” or to “just keep things the way they are.” However, all of the reasoning you can come up with doesn’t justify hanging onto something that’s not working, yet businesses and IT departments do it all of the time.
As part of a major international project to design more earthquake-resistant wood frame buildings, an engineer from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute will be testing a damping system designed to act as a seismic shock absorber.
As a company that thrives on efficiency, FedEx has taken a major step towards enhancing IT throughout the enterprise in order to keep every facet of the business operating, and perhaps more importantly, to keep their customers happy. The problems that FedEx is addressing with their IT overhaul are similar to those being faced by companies around th
A research team from IBM and the Georgia Institute of Technology has demonstrated the first silicon-germanium transistor able to operate at frequencies above 500 GHz.
This is a diagram on how to use Skype to record a Live conversation with a guest and mix it live and make a podcast out of it.
Craigslist is one of the internets free online classified sites, with no advertising, no BS involved. Why is it so successful? Craigslist could generate 20 times that $25 million just by posting a couple of ads on each of its pages. If the estimate is to be believed, that's half a billion dollars a year being left on the table...
Google Research is reporting on their blog about the recent Euro ITV (the interactive television conference), where the focus was on the integration of multiple information sources. Google's own paper, on using broadcast viewing to automatically present relevant information on a web browser, received the best paper award.
Ray Ozzie, former Chief Technical Officer at Microsoft, has formally taken over the roll of Chief Software Architect left vacant by Bill Gates earlier this week. Ozzie's notable influencel in the development of Lotus notes is just a single item in a laundry list of achievements in the field of technology.
We just released a totally free utility to test your VNC installation for a little known password bypass vulnerability in VNC.
Bricklin’s new project is a collaborative spreadsheet program wikiCalc. He released a rough “alpha” version last fall and is now wrapping up a “beta” test version.
And while in the English language, we know it as the “at symbol,” it goes by many other unusual pseudonyms throughout the world. In South Africa, it means “monkey’s tail” In Bosnia, Croatia, and Serbia it’s the “Crazy,”In the Czech Republic, it’s “pickled herring”
Google has launched a new service called Notebook which allows you to take clippings from webpages and collect them all on one single page. The service looks simple to use and looks to be built on Ajax (but I'm not sure).
A new subscription based service was finally launched today co-championed by Microsoft and MTV. The prices start at 9.99 for a computer only version, and 14.99 for transfer to "Plays For Sure" players. Personally I'm not such a fan of subscription models or Microsoft DRM.