Monday, 30 August 2010

Home Automation: 4 Easy Projects

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August 30, 2010
Weekly Brief
Automate Your Home With Four Easy Projects Teach your PC and smartphone to turn on your lights during midnight bathroom breaks, lock your doors, wake you up (with coffee!), and more.
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News
Dell's Aero Smartphone: An Embarrassment to Android Dell's new Aero smartphone ships with Android 1.5, a 16-month-old version of the Android operating system. No matter how you look at it, there's just no excuse for that.
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Google Brings Voice to Gmail With Free Calls Google begins pushing Google Voice harder to users by integrating it with Gmail - the company's popular Web-based e-mail service.
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Google Maps Misplaces Lincoln Memorial Days before today's controversial rally, Google Maps sent searchers for the Lincoln Memorial to the FDR Memorial -- is the glitch timed with Glenn Beck's rally today?
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How-To
How to Choose a Desktop Linux Distribution Which flavor of Linux is best for your business? Here are five key considerations to guide your choice.
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Solve Photo Problems With Image-Editing Tools Use Adobe Photoshop to liven up gray skies in your landscapes and remove distracting bystanders. Plus: Make high-quality photo enlargements for free with SmillaEnlarger.
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Older Software in Windows 7 Bill Hullender wants to upgrade to Windows 7. He asked the Answer Line forum if his XP software will still work.
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Downloads
Free Casual Games to Play in Your Browser A casual game can relax your nerves or stimulate your mind. These great games were winners and notables in Casual Gameplay Design Competition #8: Sandbox. Whether your tastes run to production sims, romantic journeys, or empire-building llamas, these games have an enjoyable way to while away minutes or hours. Sweeping the awards from both audience and judges, the latest Submachine puzzle adventure leads you through a network of eerie, stone-walled tunnels. Each of these casual games is free, and can be enjoyed in the comfort of your Flash- and Javascript-enabled browser.
EASEUS Partition Master Professional Partition Master Professional ($40) has earned my respect over the last few years. I've created, deleted, formatted, moved, and resized partitions with both real and virtual hard drives with a 100% success rate. Partition Master Professional is a handy program for anyone to have within reach.
Partition Wizard Home Edition Partition Wizard is a must-download for anyone who deals with partition operations on a regular basis. In my tests the program created, deleted, moved, resized, and copied partitions with no fuss. It also re-created a master boot record, wiped a disk, and even searched for, found, and recovered a deleted partition.
What's Your PC IQ? Think youve got geek smarts? Test your tech knowledge with our tricky trivia challenge - and learn a thing or two along the way. Start
Remote Access and Management Small businesses run fast, so IT must react quickly. Now you can manage remote devices, remote workers and remote offices with LogMeIn Pro2. Visit the LogMeIn Resource Center.
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The 22 Best Android Apps Not sure what to download from the Android Market? Try these top titles, including Barcode Scanner, BeyondPod, and SkyFire.
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Hottest Camera Announcements of Fall 2010 It's time to get started on your wish list. These enticing cameras and camcorders are due to hit stores right before the holiday shopping season, and they offer everything from 3D shooting to pocketable perfection.
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The Best (and Worst) PC Movie and TV Services We evaluate eight ways to turn your computer into an on-demand video entertainment center, including Amazon, Clicker, Hulu, iTunes, and more.
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FotoBounce Photo Organizer Off to a Promising Start Free (but ad-supported) app FotoBounce offers some interesting photo management and sharing tools.
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Downloads: Editor's Collection
Free Casual Games to Play in Your Browser A casual game can relax your nerves or stimulate your mind. These great games were winners and notables in Casual Gameplay Design Competition #8: Sandbox. Whether your tastes run to production sims, romantic journeys, or empire-building llamas, these games have an enjoyable way to while away minutes or hours. Sweeping the awards from both audience and judges, the latest Submachine puzzle adventure leads you through a network of eerie, stone-walled tunnels. Each of these casual games is free, and can be enjoyed in the comfort of your Flash- and Javascript-enabled browser.
Submachine: 32 Chambers   2437 Downloads  |  Free  |  Filed Under Puzzles & Card-Playing
Explore a Mesoamerican ruin, collecting jades and solving puzzles, in this award-winning browser-based game.
Rare Breeds: Petunia   585 Downloads  |  Free  |  Filed Under Simulation
Hybridize flowers in this relaxing online game.
Tile Factory   572 Downloads  |  Free  |  Filed Under Puzzles & Card-Playing
Solve increasingly complex logic puzzles in order to manufacture specified tiles.
Sand Trap   378 Downloads  |  Free  |  Filed Under Puzzles & Card-Playing
Tilt grains of sand out of a maze and into a pail in this physics-based game.
A Llama, a World and a Plan   269 Downloads  |  Free  |  Filed Under Simulation
Play a llama with royal ambitions in this funny, browser-based game.
[Together]   110 Downloads  |  Free  |  Filed Under Adventure/Strategy
Soar through the cosmos with your sweetheart in this gentle casual game.
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