April 25th, 2006
It might not sound like a big deal, but the human eye responds to light rather than dark colours, and the key you're looking for is that much harder to see against a black background.
February 17th, 2004
Clock speeds that go through the roof only mean you'll get shorter times out of your battery, and your machine will be hot enough to fry an egg on. The mother lode of mobile chip technology is a long battery life.
April 1st, 2008
In the early days eBay was trendy, using it a geeky badge of honour. It generated its own cultural zeitgeist with stories about auctions of human organs (removed immediately) and red paperclips (traded up until the owner had a house).
April 1st, 2008
When you import photos you can give them massive amounts of metadata — the key element in finding what you want when there's so much of it, as any Google algorithm programmer will tell you. In this case, Lightroom metadata can include exposure and other photographic data as well as the usual names, dates and keywords
July 1st, 2009
It does so in two ways. You can introduce a word manually by speaking it, typing it out and assigning it, where Dragon will equate that recording with the strange new word you want. It will also start prompting you when it hears a word it doesn’t know more than a couple of times, assuming it’s one you’ll use often so you can agree on it early.
November 1st, 2009
The Omnia gives you feedback for every virtual click with a tiny vibration, making it more repsonsive than many touch phones, and if you like this now-ubiquitous form factor but want to stand out from the crowd, it could be for you.
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