Michelle Says 2012 Blu-ray is Worth your Time, not your Money – TV.com
Mar/100
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Michelle Says 2012 Blu-ray is Worth your Time, not your Money
TV.com … in SD or downloaded in HD – it'd be nice you I could actually instant stream HD – what can I say, the Zune HD marketplace on Xbox 360 has spoiled me. … |
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Set Custom Reload Times for Individual Webpages in Chrome
Mar/100
Do you have a webpage that needs to be reloaded every so often or perhaps you have multiple webpages that each need their own individual reload time? Now you can have the best of both with the AutoReloader extension for Google Chrome.
Using AutoReloader
When you first look at the drop-down window everything will be in a neutral “waiting” state. You can start using the extension immediately by simply entering the desired “time frame” for reloading a webpage. Notice for the “Repeat Option” that “0 = Continuous”…
You may want to have a quick look through the “Options” to see if there are any “operational changes” that you would like to make.
Once you enter a time click on the “Set Link” to start the timer.
Notice that you can view the time remaining on the “Toolbar Button” unless you disabled the feature in the “Options”.
Clicking on the “Toolbar Button” will show a larger version of the timer in the drop-down window along with a “Cancel Current Timer Link”.
Here is the best part of all with AutoReloader…you can set up your own customized list of “Reload Times” and then access them through the drop-down window. Using the two times shown here we were able to set the “Productive Geek Webpage” up for 30 second reloads and the “TinyHacker Webpage” up for 1 minute reloads at the same time. There was no conflict whatsoever in running both “reload times” simultaneously. This is a really terrific feature!
Conclusion
Whether you have only one webpage or multiple pages that need periodic reloading (such as tracking a Woot-Off or an Ebay auction) the AutoReloader extension is the perfect tool for the job. Running custom reload times simultaneously have never been easier.
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Download the AutoReloader extension (Google Chrome Extensions)
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Business Matters: EMI, Charles Allen, Sonos, Jamba and More – Billboard Business News
Mar/100
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Business Matters: EMI, Charles Allen, Sonos, Jamba and More
Billboard Business News Even so, a member of the Zune team tells Rosoff they are “all systems go” on Zune HD production and plans a firmware update this spring. … |
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Hifiman HM-801 vs. iPod, Zune: A sound winner? – CNET
Mar/100
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Hifiman HM-801 vs. iPod, Zune: A sound winner?
CNET Returning home I put the HM-801 to work as a desktop USB headphone amplifier, driving my Sennheiser HD 580 And Ultimate Ear UE 18 headphones. … |
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View Mobile Websites in Windows with Safari 4 Developer Tools
Mar/100
Want to try out mobile websites designed for the iPhone and other mobile devices on your PC?? Safari 4 for Windows lets you do this easily with their developer tools.
By default, Safari will show standard desktop websites.? But by making a simple change, you can switch it to work like Safari Mobile on the iPhone or iPod Touch.
Getting Started
First make sure you have Safari 4 for Windows installed.? You can download Safari directly (link below) and install it as usual.
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Or if you already have another Apple program installed, such as QuickTime or iTunes, then you can install it from Apple Software update.? Simply enter apple software update in the Start menu search box.
And then select Safari 4 from the list of new software available.? Click Install to automatically download and install Safari.
Accept the license Agreement, and then Safari will automatically install.
Once this is finished, Safari will be ready to use.
View Mobile Sites in Safari
First, we need to enable the developer tools.? Click the gear icon on the toolbar, and select Preferences.
Click the Advanced tab, and then check the box that says “Show Develop menu in menu bar”.
Once you’ve closed your settings box, click the page icon, select Develop, then User Agent, and then choose one of the Mobile Safari settings.? In our test we chose Mobile Safari 3.1.2 – iPhone.
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To make your browser emulate a mobile device better, you can hide the bookmarks and tab bar to have a more streamlined interface.
Click the Gear icon, and select “Hide Bookmarks Bar”, and then repeat and click “Hide Tab Bar”.
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You can also shrink your window to be closer to the size of a mobile device screen.? Once you’ve done these things, Safari should look similar to this screenshot.? Here we have loaded Google.com, and you can see it in its iPhone-style interface.
Simply enter any website into the address bar, and it will load in its mobile interface if it has one.? Here is Google’s other mobile offerings, right inside Windows.
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Gmail loads messages with the default iPhone interface.
One especially interesting mobile site is Apple’s online iPhone User Guide.? When loaded in Safari with the iPhone setting, it loads with a very nice mobile UI that works just like an iPhone app.? In fact, you can even click and drag to scroll, just like you would with your finger on an iPhone.
Conclusion
Even if you do not have a Smartphone, you can still preview what websites will look like on them with this trick. Not all sites will work of course, but it’s fun to play around with different sites that have mobile versions.
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Apple iPhone online user guide
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Enhance Your Gmail Account in Chrome
Mar/100
Are you tired of items like the Chat and Invite Boxes cluttering up your Gmail account? Then join us as we look at the Better Gmail extension for Google Chrome.
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Here are some examples of items that you may be tired of looking at in your Gmail account such as the “Footer” below your “Inbox”, the “Chat Box”, and the “Invitation Box”.
Perhaps you would also like to have the “New Window, Print all, & Create a document Commands” moved elsewhere. And of course there is everyone’s “favorite” sponsored links… Time to do some cleaning up and reorganizing.
Better Gmail in Action
As soon as you have installed Better Gmail a new tab will automatically open and present you with the available options. Place a “checkmark” in the box for each option that you would like activated and click on “Save” when finished.
Note: The final option entry is a tie-in with two other “linked” extensions (Folders4Gmail & HTML Signature) while the middle listing is a link to an article for disabling Google Buzz.
Once you have saved your changes in the “Options” you will be prompted to refresh your Gmail tab to see the changes.
Going back to our “Inbox Area” everything looks so much more streamlined and clean now. Goodbye clutter!
The “New Window, Print all, & Create a document Commands” definitely look a lot nicer as a small toolbar above our e-mail. And the right side…you can see for yourself just how much better that looks. No more distractions there to bother you as you read your e-mail.
Conclusion
If you have been wanting to get rid of the undesirable elements visible in your Gmail account then hurry over to the Better Gmail page, grab the extension and enjoy the better view.
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Download the Better Gmail extension (Google Chrome Extensions)
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Gadget Doctor: How We’d Fix The Zune HD – Tom’s Guide
Mar/100
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Gadget Doctor: How We'd Fix The Zune HD
Tom’s Guide Recommended treatment: Give the Zune HD plastic-surgery and a personality makeover. Make it a great portable media player, fit to compete with the iPod. … |
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WP7 games to get Xbox stats; Zune HD games dead? – Electronista (blog)
Mar/100
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WP7 games to get Xbox stats; Zune HD games dead?
Electronista (blog) However, Klutcher warned that the company is deprecating Zune and Zune HD development. While it will still be possible to make Zune games using XNA 3.1, … |
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Microsoft Zune HD Review – CoolTechZone.com (blog)
Mar/100
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Microsoft Zune HD Review
CoolTechZone.com (blog) If there's a serious competitor to Apple's iPod touch, it's Microsoft's Zune HD. It has an amazing interface that rivals the iPod touch with a similar … |
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GDC 2010: BioWare speaks up about Mass Effect 2’s localization
Mar/100
“I’m Commander Shepard, and this is my favorite store on the Citadel.” – English
“Jestem dow?dc? Shepard, a to jest m?j ulubiony sklep na cytadeli.” – Polish (machine translation)
In a GDC 2010 session entitled “Localizing Large RPGs,” which forms part of an ongoing localization summit, BioWare localization project manager Ryan Warden eloquently explored the revered developer’s process of adapting a huge, dialogue-driven game like Mass Effect 2 for alternative markets and languages. It may surprise you to learn that BioWare’s processes are significantly more elegant than hiring an army of workers to copy and paste lines of text into Google Translate.
With 450,000 words and 30,000 lines of voice-over in the English version, Mass Effect 2 demanded an active approach in its translation to eight languages, including Russian, Czech and Spanish. “Trying to manage this scope is almost unfathomable,” said Warden. “For BioWare titles, we don’t have the luxury of waiting for the title to be fully complete before starting localization.”
The concurrent process was designed to provide as much information and context to translators as possible, allowing them to focus on the job without having to request further information for each new conversation. BioWare compiled a complete localization kit, complete with a pronunciation guide (that’s crow-guhn, not kroggin!), an IP glossary, a collection of translator Q&A documents and an extensive character database. “Any time that a translator spends time asking questions and waiting for feedback … that’s wasted time,” Warden added. The goal, he said, was to “eliminate any doubt in the confidence of the translator.”
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