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 $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 Microsoft: Lots to turn off in Windows 7
In a blog posting on Friday, Microsoft noted that, with Windows 7, customers will have the option of disabling a number of features of the operating system, should they so choose.
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6.3.2009 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 Microsoft Must Turn To Virtual OS After Vista
Microsoft can't afford five-year gaps in between major operating system releases, Gartner says, and the way around the delays is with modules.
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8.9.2006 Turn on Remote Desktop in Windows Vista
Remote Desktop is disabled by default in Windows Vista, but it’s easy enough to turn it back on. If you need to access your Vista PC from another box, it’s an essential thing to turn on.
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26.1.2007 Turn any web widget into a Vista Gadget
The Amnesty Generator for Windows is designed to let you convert any embeddable web site widget (including Google Gadgets) into a Vista Sidebar Gadget with very little work.
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6.2.2007 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 TechEd 2007 Preview: Now It's Developers' Turn to Make Changes
With Windows Vista already a firmly entrenched product in many homes and some businesses, and with Windows Server 2008 cruising toward a final release in the second half of this year, Microsoft may feel it's time for its many partners and developers with an interest in Windows' success to stand and deliver.
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4.6.2007 How to Disable/Turn off Bing Home Page Image
Microsoft new search engine Bing.com is steadily becoming popular and more and more users have started using bing to search.
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3.8.2009 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 Turn a counterfeit copy of WindowsXP into a free Vista license!
Perhaps you have bought a license of WindowsXP Home, Pro or Media Centerd Edition 2005 from your local dealer and afterwards it turned into a counterfeit while trying to validate it through WGA (Windows Genuine Advantage) program.
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29.4.2006 Microsoft: Turn Pirated Windows Copies into Genuine Products!
Microsoft is providing users with the means to turn their pirated copies of Windows into genuine products. However, the offer is only available for Windows XP, and not for Windows Vista.
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2.10.2007 Microsoft makes a u-turn, Windows 7 testers to get free copy
In a surprise turn around, Microsoft announced today that Windows 7 technical testers will be receiving a free copy of Windows 7 Ultimate.
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30.7.2009 $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 Turn Off or Disable User Account Control (UAC) in Windows Vista
User Account Control (UAC) is a new security feature in Windows Vista that requires all users to log on and run in standard user privileges mode instead of as administrator with full administrative rights, thus prevent unauthorized or accidental changes that could destabilize the computers or allows virus and malware to exploit the system-level privileges provided to the local administrator to attack the network security, compromise computer safety and privacy, and damage files and settings in the network.
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19.12.2006 Disable and Turn Off Windows Vista Search Indexer and Indexing Service
Windows Vista has greatly enhanced its search algorithm where the search process is now not only faster, but users can also easily search for almost all kind of files, documents, pictures, videos, emails and contacts in Outlook 2007, and even commands or application programs’ executables.
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19.9.2007 Are Windows Vista Sales So Bad That Microsoft Needs to Turn to God for a Miracle?
Is Windows Vista, Microsoft’s latest client, underperforming to such an extent that the company needs to turn up the volume of its prayers?
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2.11.2007 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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9.12.2006Sakshat, 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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04.02.2009India 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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30.07.2008TomTom turn by turn navigation coming to iPhone
Turn by Turn navigation is finally coming to the iPhone. Announced at Apple's WWDC Tom Tom will be bringing the service to the device. Many have
asked for such a service as the iPhone is the perfect platform for the software and Tom Tom is set to deliver on that front. Also along with Tom Tom
Apple will be allowing users to add other turn by turn type applications. Google maps will now be allowed to be embedded into applications and it
will give you all of the same functionality that the stand alone app has. What developers will come up with is only a guess but it should allow for
many new and more useful applications.
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09.06.2009Turn Windows 7 into a Wi-Fi hotspot
If you have ever wanted to turn your laptop is a Wi-Fi hotspot, a secret feature has been revealed in Windows 7 code that allows you to tether your
cell phone or other wireless device to your laptop. The unfinished feature was hidden by default because of incompatibility with many of the devices
and drivers. The feature can be enabled through some simple command line scripts and a feature clicks of the mouse. Open up the Run command with
Administrative permissions and run: netsh wlan set hostednetwork mode=allow ssid=Hotspot key=passwordhere Set the network adapter with: netsh wlan
start hostednetwork After running the command, you should notice "Microsoft Virtual WiFi Miniport Adapter" appear in your network and sharing
settings.
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17.11.2009$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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30.10.2007Apple pulls iPhone broadband sharing tool from App Store
For a few hours, iPhone users got the chance to download an application called NetShare that could turn the devices into a broadband modem for a
laptop...
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01.08.2008Indian 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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05.05.2007$100 Laptop to be Sold Commercially
The One Laptop Per Child
Foundation indicated Monday
that it might begin selling a
version of the "$100
laptop" it is now
producing for educational use.
The system would become
available by the holiday
season for a price of about
$350 USD...
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25.07.20078 Hour Laptop Battery Due in 2006
The need to change a laptop battery every few hours may soon be an annoyance of the past. Intel and Matsushita, the maker of Panasonic brand products, are jointly developing technology that would produce laptop batteries with 8 hours of power per charge...
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26.08.2005$100 Laptop Gets Price
Increase
One Laptop Per Child founder
Nicholas Negroponte used the
Wall Street Journal's D
Conference in Southern
California Wednesday to show
off a prototype of the
much-anticipated $100 laptop
for emerging markets. However,
he acknowledged that the
device will initially be
priced around $130 to $140
USD...
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02.06.2006Another Laptop with Vet Info
Missing
The Department of Veterans
Affairs disclosed Monday that
a laptop containing data on up
to 38,000 veterans has gone
missing. The loss of the data
is the result of a possible
theft of a laptop from
third-party contractor Unisys...
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08.08.2006Google Labs: Turn your email into a Google Doc
Google has released another experimental feature from their Google Labs offerings, that allows you to turn an email into a Google Doc. Quite often
we might have lengthy email conversations that become tougher to manage going through each conversation. With this new lab feature, you can turn a
whole bunch of similar email conversations into a Google Document. You can turn on this new lab feature by going to the Gmail Labs tab under
Settings, select Enable next to Create a document and hit Save Changes at the bottom. Here is a good example below from my own email.
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19.12.2008Insomnia-causing Hyper-V
Daniel Oxley: I am in Seattle at the moment at an internal Microsoft conference. Yesterday I attended a presentation by one of the product managers
for Hyper-V where he really stressed a point that people ask me all the time, he also explained to everyone the reasoning behind the decisions made.
The 'issue' people have is regarding typical laptop functionality that is lost when you enable Hyper-V on a laptop with Windows Server 2008
installed. Basically, when you enable Hyper-V on a laptop you lose the Sleep and Hibernate power features that you had before enabling Hyper-V. These
features completely disappear when you install the role and you cannot re-enable them, nor hack the registry in order to get them back; Windows
Server 2008 is pretty much just told to forget all about these power-saving features. So, when you close the lid of your laptop nothing happens.
When you battery runs out of power the machine will shutdown or turn off, there is no gracefully power down into hibernation mode saving your desktop
session and everything else that you were doing at the time.
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13.02.2008Quanta Selected to Build $100
Laptop
Taiwan's Quanta has been
selected as original design
manufacturer, or ODM, for
MIT's $100 laptop, the One
Laptop per Child organization
said late Tuesday. While the
company may not be familiar to
many, it has manufactured
computers for Hewlett-Packard
and Dell among other
companies...
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14.12.2005$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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24.05.2006Two Arrested in Military
Laptop Theft
Two Virginia teens were
arrested and charged over the
weekend with the theft of a
laptop which contained data on
25 million active-duty and
retired military personnel.
The two claim they were not
aware of what the laptop
contained...
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07.08.2006Seagate Encrypts Laptop Hard Drives
Seagate is shipping two new
models in its Momentus line of
laptop hard drives - one that
includes built-in encryption
software to protect data
integrity, and another that
offers better protection of
data if the laptop is dropped...
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13.03.2007MIT Picks Maker of $100 Laptop
Quanta will manufacture cheap
laptop for distribution to the
world's children...
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14.12.2005IEEE to Revise Laptop Battery Standard
Following the recent
high-profile cases of laptop
batteries exploding and the
resulting unprecedented recall
of over 10 million batteries,
the IEEE announced this week
plans to revise its laptop
battery standard to make them
more reliable while improving
performance...
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10.11.2006Intel, '$100 laptop' project make peace
The nonprofit that aims to
seed the developing world with
inexpensive laptop computers
for schoolchildren has made
peace with Intel Corp., the
project's biggest and most
powerful rival, The Associated
Press has learned.
The One Laptop Per Child
program and Intel said Friday
that the chip maker would join
the board of the nonprofit and
contribute funding.
The nonprofit effort -
known as the "$100 laptop"
because of the low price it
hopes to reach with mass
production - has been trying
to line up governments in
several countries to buy the
machines, which for now cost
$175. But competition from
Intel's child-focused
Classmate PC has made things
tough in some countries for
One Laptop Per Child...
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