| Has Apple Lost It? (Part 2) |
| Apple has always released expensive products. If you want a shiny aluminum MacBook, then you have to stump up $1,500. Some people will do this, some won’t. There are certainly lots of cheaper laptops around, but there are also lots of equally expensive ones too, such as Sony Vaios. |
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| Has Apple Lost It? (Part 1) |
| Forgive the cliché, but Apple really is the Marmite of computer companies. You either love it or you hate it. There is no middle ground! Oh alright, there probably is some middle ground, but there really is no other company that inspires such devotion on one side and such hatred on the other. |
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| Analyze This - Wi-Fi Nets Via Smartphone (Part 2) |
| WolfWiFi Pro from Enterprising Apps is a wireless toolkit for Android that provides Wi-Fi surveying and scanning tools, supporting the 2.4GHz and 5GHz bands. The demo version provides unrestricted use of the Wi-Fi Scan and Channel Scan tools, but the Site Survey feature is loaded with a demo survey and you’re limited to only one additional floor plan and five signal readings. |
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| Analyze This - Wi-Fi Nets Via Smartphone (Part 1) |
| Today, we have map-based Wi-Fi surveying mobile apps you can run on your Android-powered smartphone or tablets. These allow you to create heat maps of Wi-Fi coverage using a small and light weight device. And for those vendors that offer a laptop-based surveying product, the data can be exported there for further analysis. |
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| Devolo dLAN 500 AV Wireless + Starter Kit |
| The very latest version, incorporating AV Wireless+, takes what is already a very useful solution and makes it even more flexible. Previously you've been able to buy the dLAN 500 AV Triple+, which was a powerline output with three network sockets, and the dLAN 200 Wireless N, which was the same but with a wireless component. |
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| The drive toward DSLs : Running the Scheduling DSL |
| Compilation is expensive, and once we load an assembly in the CLR, we have no way of freeing the occupied memory short of unloading the entire AppDomain. To deal with these two problems, we need to do at least some caching up front. |
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| Visual Studio Team System 2008 : Deploying and Running Tests (part 2) |
| We have seen the different deployment configurations in the above sections. There are multiple places to specify the deployment items. We can specify on the project level, the individual test level, and on the method level. But what happens if we have files with the same name specified in different levels. |
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| Programming Excel with VBA and .NET : Expressions, Exceptions |
| In programming languages, expressions are anything that produces a result. You use expressions to evaluate something, such as a math calculation or a true/false condition. In Visual Basic, the Immediate window functions as an expression evaluator, so it's a good place to try out different expressions. |
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| Programming Excel with VBA and .NET : Loops |
| For Each works only with collections , which are a special type of object that contains a group of other objects. All collections have a special, hidden property called an enumerator that allows them to work with For Each. |
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| Combat Virtual Threats With IPCop Firewall (Part 2) |
| Reboot the system to continue to configure the box. Enter the host name and domain name, before selecting the Red (Internet) interface type and Ethernet card. Note that here you can configure any Ethernet card to any interface. In the earlier version, the first detected Ethernet was always assigned to Green, and it was tricky to change it later. |
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| Combat Virtual Threats With IPCop Firewall (Part 1) |
| In today’s world, dependence on the Internet has reached such a level that without it, the day-to-day work of many organizations will come to a standstill. As everybody is aware, when we connect to the Internet, a public IP address is assigned, which is used to access the Internet, and of course, can be used to track the actions from that IP address. |
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| Why Would You Buy A Tablet? (Part 2) |
| This is the mobile operating system from Apple, and the iPad 4th gen flexes its muscles using this. The tablet version has been tweaked slightly to make better use of the iPad's bigger display size. There is a two pronged advantage that the iOS holds - extremely slick user experience and a very wide range of applications on the App store. |
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| Why Would You Buy A Tablet? (Part 1) |
| The tablet is a device that evokes extreme emotions, it seems. Some have chucked the laptop into the naughty corner and adopted the tablet completely. Others are still using both devices, doing some tasks on one and the rest on the other comfort being the critical keyword. There is a third category of people however, who still haven't really found the purpose of the tablet in their lives, between the smartphone and the laptop. |
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| Livescribe Sky Wi-Fi Smartpen (Part 2) |
| Just imagine this: you are attending a meeting or a lecture, and it is just actually interesting this time. You do not want to spend all of your time taking notes because it may restraint you from paying attention. |
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| Livescribe Sky Wi-Fi Smartpen (Part 1) |
| For a new-born company which is just 5 years old and focuses on a relatively narrow market niche, Livescribe develops with an admirably fast pace. Its smartpens which help digitizing smartly the handwritten comments and notes draw many attentions from a million users. |
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| All About Trackpads & Touchscreens |
| In terms of computing’s history, we’re just beginning to scratch the surface of the lifestyle applications of touch-sensitive gadgets. In this article, we’ll take a look at two of the most important touch-based input technologies used in computers, smartphones, laptops, and tablets. |
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| Use Unified Communications To Optimize Business Procedures |
| Modern business communication can take many different forms, including phone calls (both landline and cell), faxes, voicemail, instant messaging, video conferencing, and social networking. Unified communications allows you to integrate all of these communications into one streamlined platform, which can then be managed through a single Web interface. |
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| How To Buy A Tablet |
| Tablets offer the ultimate in mobile productivity. The slim devices are generally available in screen sizes between 7 and 10 inches, a form factor that provides you with considerably more real estate than you’d have on a smartphone. |
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| Best Brands In Electronic World (Part 2) |
| Brother, Epson, and Kodak all-in-ones have mostly had solid or better scores, but a few models from those brands fell short. In all probability, their printers should be acceptable choices, but they’re less likely to be high performers than the brands mentioned previously. |
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| Best Brands In Electronic World (Part 1) |
| Our new Brand Report Card pulls together everything we know about the products in those categories to give you guidance about models we haven’t’ tested. Brand level advice isn’t as foolproof as model-specific Ratings, but it can minimize your chance of buying a clunker and maximize the likelihood that you’ll take home a topnotch product. |
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| Top 10 Electronics Devices – May 2013 |
| The iPhone 5 builds on its predecessors’ strengths and adds new features, putting it head and shoulders above previous iPhones. It has a bigger screen with excellent sharpness, a thinner profile, 4G accesses, and an expanded role for Siri, the super voice assistant. The already-best-in-class camera hits new heights, taking excellent photos and very good video. It’s the best phone camera we’ve seen. |
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| Protect Your Business |
| When it comes to business, data backup is essential. Your work computers contain all types of critical information, including customer records, finances, and emails. In the event of computer crash or theft, you’ll lose valuable work time recovering the data and in a worst-case scenario, the data may never be recovered. Here, we’ll examine what to consider when selecting your backup methods. |
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| Downloading and Installing Nginx HTTP Server : Controlling the Nginx service |
| It is of utmost importance to understand the process architecture of Nginx and particularly the user and groups its various processes run under. A very common source of troubles when setting up Nginx is invalid file access permissions due to a user or group misconfiguration, you often end up getting 403 Forbidden HTTP errors because Nginx cannot access the requested files. |
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| Downloading and Installing Nginx HTTP Server : Configure options |
| There are usually three steps when building an application from source the configuration, the compilation, and the installation. The configuration step allows you to select a number of options that will not be editable after the program is built, as it has a direct impact on the project binaries. |
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