TurnOffLCD - How To Manually Turn Off Notebook or Laptop LCD Screen
Whenever I stop using my laptop but I decide to leave it turned on, I’ll make sure that I turn off the LCD screen.
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22.7.2008 The $150 laptop saga: Where’s this mystery laptop?
In July I ordered a $150 Linux-powered laptop in what appeared to be the deal of the century. I’m still waiting. And waiting. But my order is coming–really.
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11.9.2007 RIAA wants the Internet shut down
One of the lawyers involved in defending cases bought against people by the RIAA claims that if the music industry wins a crucial case, the Internet will have to be switched off.
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30.11.2006 Microsoft To Shut Off Vista Beta 2
Microsoft plans to close the Windows Vista Beta 2 test to new users after Friday, a company executive said Thursday..
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2.7.2006 Rapidshare To Be Forced to Shut Down Following Court Defeat?
Last week we reported on rumors that Rapidshare had, or was about to be, shut down, rumors that now look likely to resurface.
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30.1.2008 TV will be shut in 10 years, says Bill Gates
Riyadh, Nov. 10: Television as we know it today will become obsolete in the next 10 years, said Microsoft founder Bill Gates. He was speaking at the First Global Competitiveness Forum in Riyadh during his first visit to Saudi Arabia on Wednesday.
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11.11.2006 $100 Laptop now?
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology says it is close to making available a laptop for developing markets that would cost around $100 USD. At a minimum the computer would feature a color screen, Wi-Fi, a 500MHz processor, and 1GB of flash memory.
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Want to see a MultiTouch laptop?
Channel 9's Charles Torre has put together half an hour of footage of his trip to Microsoft Research in the UK where he got to take a look at some of Microsoft’s work behind MultiTouch laptops and LCD monitors.
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28.10.2007 The First Dual Core Laptop
A dual core laptop was long awaited among the dual core family.
The one we are talking about is produced by WidowPC and is named Sting 917X2.
This new notebook uses the AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800+ processor, making it the fastest dual core laptop.
Though, it seems that other companies like Alienware, Vodoo or Sager will soon launch similar products.
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3.12.2005 The Ultimate Windows Vista laptop
The most visible part of Windows Vista is the Aero interface, and while we can't deny that it looks very swish we find it very hard to get excited by a shiny new GUI. Instead, we're looking forward to new Vista hardware, which includes a new use for the humble USB memory key and much, much more. So what will the ultimate Windows Vista notebook offer?
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25.1.2007 Xbox 360 Laptop mk2
Behold, the Xbox 360 Laptop mk2! It may look a bit like its first generation sibling, but don't be fooled. This Xbox laptop is a bit thinner, significantly lighter, and has some essential upgrades if you're gonna build one yourself.
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18.4.2007 Sakshat, $10 laptop from India?
Government hopes its mini-computer, the world's cheapest, will bridge the digital divide between rich and poor.
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7.2.2009 Microsoft security zaps laptop tracer
As Microsoft takes its first steps into the consumer PC security space, it is discovering that security software can do more than protect systems; it can also cause trouble.
Windows OneCare Live, freely available as a test version since Nov. 29, has been found to disable Absolute Software's Computrace LoJack, an application that functions like a homing device to help recover a laptop after theft.
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16.12.2005 Students Brace for iPod, Laptop Thefts
The standard white ear buds immediately call attention to an iPod. Switching to black earphones can camouflage the popular music player, making it look like a less desirable brand. It's also a good idea to keep your iPod stowed out of sight to avoid becoming a target.
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21.8.2006 Vista draining laptop batteries, patience
Some of Microsoft's most important customers aren't happy with the battery life offered by notebooks running Windows Vista.
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4.5.2007 The low-cost laptop that Apple should have built
The buzz around the XO Laptop, aka the One Laptop Per Child group’s “$100 laptop” is growing, with an innovative donation program coming in time for the holidays.
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8.10.2007 Fujitsu Shows 500GB Laptop Drive
The latest entry in high-capacity notebooks is Fujitsu, which will release a laptop with a 500GB drive in May.
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25.2.2008 $400 Laptop Sparks Frenzy at Wal-Mart
Cheap Apple iBooks aren't the only laptops that can get consumers in a buying frenzy it seems. On Friday at a Wal-Mart store in Orlando, Florida, customers pushed and climbed over each other to get their hands on a $400 HP notebook, with one man fighting a security guard.
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29.11.2005 Dell Ships Laptop with Blu-ray Drive
Dell on Monday became the latest manufacturer to support Sony's Blu-ray discs in its notebook computers, a move that was largely expected as Dell is a founding member behind the format.
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12.12.2006 The low-cost laptop offer Microsoft cant refuse
As the release of low-cost laptops based on Intel's upcoming Atom processor draws near, Microsoft is getting boxed into a corner.
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1.4.2008 Windows 7 will give your laptop longer battery life
It's no surprise that Windows 7 is getting good reviews and praise as the operating system is proving itself to be a rock solid platform.
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2.9.2009 Microsoft: Vista Wireless Access Could Cause Laptop Battery Drain
Users running Windows Vista on laptops may see batteries draining faster than they expect, Microsoft said in a warning, because some wireless access points aren't configured to take advantage of the new operating system's Wi-Fi power-saving mode.
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9.12.2006 Fancy a free copy of Office 2010 and a laptop to run it on?
Microsoft is looking for family, student or home business users of their successful Office suite to participate in the beta program for Office 2010.
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23.6.2009 Extend Laptop/Notebook Battery Life on Windows 7 & Vista with Aerofoil
In past we have covered Battery4life & Imtec Battery Mark tools for laptop battery. Now here is one more extremely useful tool Aerofoil which helps you to extend & improve Laptop battery life when you are using Windows Vista or Windows 7 as your OS.
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25.10.2009 Matrix Screen Saver
Whether you're a newbie or senior software engineer, you want your screen savers to look cool, and this one fits the bill. It emulates the green Matrix code you see in the movie, with characters running vertically down the black background. You can set the resolution, the speed of the falling glyphs, and other options.
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SumoDance Screen Saver
Whose life can't be uplifted by the site of rows of dancing sumo wrestlers? Life's not so bad once you get to know these guys, as rows of them dance, bounce, and stomp to a goofy tune.
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UFO Screen Saver
Watch flying saucers zoom across a virtual cityscape. To preview the screen saver, unzip both files and put them in your c:windowssystem directory. Then go to the Control Panel, click the Display icon, and select the Screen Saver tab.
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Turkey Screen Saver
Adorn your desktop with some turkeys strutting across a simple black background. As the turkeys amble across the screen, they show a little knowledge of what will become of them Thanksgiving day--making for a poignant scene of innocence the moment before all is corrupted. You can choose from one to ten turkeys; the program also offers password protection.
Note that the screen saver shows the vendor's name on your desktop, and although this brash self-promotion can seem a bit annoying, it is tolerable--especially since the program is free, and because it's seasonal, you'll probably want it on your desktop for only a short time.
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Sea Life Screen Saver
Display a variety of sea life, including jellyfish, dolphins, sand sharks, and other underwater denizens. This screen saver works best at a resolution of 800 by 600 pixels, although 640 by 480 is also supported.
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Hubble Images Screen Saver
Take your mind to the heavens every time your computer is left idle. The Hubble Images Screen Saver displays images of nebulae and celestial bodies, captured by the world-famous telescope.
There's no other information concerning the images than the names, so if you wish to learn more about spacey sights with names like "Eta Carinae" or "NGC-3603," you'll have to look elsewhere. But the full-screen NASA photographs will jettison you to places far removed from this mudane, terrestrial existence.
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$100 Laptop Prototype Unveiled
The One Laptop Per Child
foundation unveiled the first
working prototype of its $100
laptop at the Seven Countries
Task Force Meeting on Tuesday.
The device runs Fedora Linux
and features a color screen,
Wi-Fi, a 500MHz processor, and
1GB of flash memory...
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24.05.2006$100 Laptop Close To Reality
The Massachusetts Institute of
Technology says it is close to
making available a laptop for
developing markets that would
cost around USD $100. At a
minimum the computer would
feature a color screen, Wi-Fi,
a 500MHz processor, and 1GB of
flash memory...
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28.09.2005Latest Microsoft ad: Laptop hunting Sheila
Microsoft is continuing its ad campaign named "laptop hunters". Yesterday the company unveiled Sheila, hunting for a laptop that could cut video
and has a big screen as Sheila is an artist. Microsoft decided to attack the fact Macbooks often come with a small amount of RAM, 2GB in the example
they used. Hardened Mac fans could argue, "why not upgrade the RAM?" which is a valid point as less seems to have been made about the price point in
this episode. Either way the laptop hunter adverts have certainly triggered debate, criticism and applause from the many thousands that have watched
them both here at Neowin and comments throughout various online forums.
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01.05.2009Sakshat, the $20 laptop from India
Presumably said with a straight face, India unveiled its Sakshat $20 laptop yesterday. What's hard to come by is how the actual laptop will
be built as are no known pictures of the laptop published. The Sakshat laptop, which translates to "before your eyes", will boast 2GB of storage,
WiFi, Ethernet and use only 2 watts of power. That is all that is known for now about the cheap laptop but it has many wondering if it is anything
more than vaporware. The idea of a $20 laptop is going to be quite the task and is slated for a release this summer.
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04.02.2009R.I.P. analog wireless: The old FM cellular bands can now shut down
According to a decision set forth in 2002, mobile telecommunications companies are allowed to shut down their 1G Advanced Mobile Phone System (AMPS)
starting today...
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18.02.2008India wants to develop a $10 laptop for students
Even the $100 laptop long envisioned by One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) seems pricey in contrast to a $10 laptop announced this week in India...
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30.07.2008Microsoft's Laptop Hunters campaign: Meet Matt and Olivia
It has been a while since we've seen a Laptop Hunters commercial from Microsoft, which is part of a huge advertising campaign that pushes the true
value of a PC rather than the underlying operating system that Apple continues to bash. However the series is back with Matt and Olivia searching for
a laptop that's perfect for sharing pictures of their son Jayden with friends and family. The requirements are simple: $700, large screen,
and great battery life. In the end, Matt and Olivia decided on the HP dv7 just as Lauren did in the first Laptop Hunters commercial. As is custom
with these commercials the Mac is looked at briefly, this time it's "too small" and "1000 dollars".
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09.07.2009Report: Gmail Germany May Shut Down
Google is threatening to shut
down Gmail in Germany after
the country's legislature
came close to approving
surveillance of communications
over the Internet...
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26.06.2007AllofMP3 Closer to Being Shut Down
While authorities in the
United States and Europe
can't directly shut down
Russia music store
AllofMP3.com, which they say
sells songs without paying
licenses or royalties to
artists, they have been
successful in cutting off the
site's ability to take money
from customers outside Russia...
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21.05.2007FTC Asks Court to Shut Spyware
Firm
The Federal Trade Commission
on Wednesday said that it was
asking a U.S. District Court
to shut down a spyware
operation that was secretly
installing malware on
computers by luring them to
download software that would
allegedly make their P2P
transfers anonymous. The
programs then could not be
uninstalled...
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05.10.2005Intel Not Trying to Shut Down AMD's CPU Production
Intel is not
trying to shut
down AMD or GlobalFoundries, a source inside Intel Corporation told
DailyTech in a phone conversation. The chip giant is simply trying to
protect its intellectual property, which it doesn't want to see distributed without its control.
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19.03.2009$100 Laptop Goes on Sale for $200
MIT Professor Nicholas Negroponte's much-touted $100 laptop is now officially on sale via the One Laptop per Child Foundation's Web site, with
production cost now totaling $200. The organization previously said the laptop would cost $176 in April and raised that estimate to $188 last month...
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30.10.2007MS: "Small problem" with Gears of War on PC
Microsoft has been quick to point out a "small problem" discovered with the PC version of Gears of War - out this week - but happily
has provided details on how to resolve the issue.
It's all to do with the very first time you play Gears of War, when an automatic update for Games for Windows - Live is downloaded.
Rather than the game being shut down to complete the update as should occur, instead after the update is downloaded you're dropped back into the
game's main menu.
"There's two ways to get over this bump", Microsoft has explained.
"The easiest is to
simply shut down the game after the update is downloaded (you'll know it's safe because you'll be back at the main menu, and not on the "Don't
shut down your PC while the update is being downloaded" screen). As soon as you close the game, the update will install automatically and you're
good to go.
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07.11.2007Glitches Shut Security Firms Out of MS Meeting
Though officials from
Microsoft had planned to hold
an online briefing with
representatives of security
vendors, reportedly including
McAfee and Symantec, earlier
this afternoon, some of those
participants were
inadvertently shut out of the
meeting. The cause,
apparently, was technical
difficulties with Microsoft's
Live Meeting...
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20.10.2006Lenovo's bizarre W700d advert
Interesting is one word we'd describe it as but plain bizarre is the outcome of a brand new advert for Lenovo's new W700d dual screen laptop.
The laptop got a mention shortly before Christmas and was one of the star attractions at this years CES in Las Vegas. Lenovo's marketing
department is hardly creating a star like advert however. The ad shows a male office worker and female colleague on a late-night work session. Whilst
the two are working the male starts geeking out and describes the features of the new W700ds laptop from Lenovo.
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22.01.2009US Official: AllofMP3 Must Shut Down
The United States is
continuing to pressure Russia
to shut down the music site
allofmp3.com, with a top trade
official saying it would be
hard to see the country being
a member of the WTO with the
site still operating in the
country...
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05.10.2006'AutoPatcher' Service for Windows Ordered Shut Down by Microsoft
A service designed to help Windows users download Microsoft's updates and install them in a faster manner was ordered shut down by Microsoft, in a
cease and desist letter to the service's proprietors...
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30.08.2007Updated: Lycos continue the shut downs, or not?
Update: Lycos have responded and confirmed that Tripod is not shutting down and all free and paid member sites are just fine. Lycos have reached out
to TechCrunch directly to ammend the incorrect report. A couple of months back Neowin reported that Lycos Europe were shutting down their web hosting
company and selling it on to Strato, but today the news comes that Tripod and Lycos Mail are going to be shut down.
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19.01.2009Six Apart buys Pownce, plans to shut it down on December 15
Pownce was started in June 2007 as a closed beta and was fully released to the public in January 2008. Today it was announced that Six Apart the
owners of such services as Live Journal and Typepad will acquire and shut down the service on December 15. Pownce co-creators Kevin Rose and Daniel
Burka will stay on as advisers according to Six Apart's blog entry on the acquisition. So where did it go wrong for Pownce? Well you could look
at the Pownce structure.
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02.12.2008Indian Engineers Aiming for $10 Laptop
Engineers in India are looking
into ways to create a laptop
that would cost a mere $10.
The effort came in response to
the increasing price of the
so-called '$100 laptop.'..
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