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PDF to Speech Stumbles a Bit but Sounds Nicer Than Android

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How to Overclock a CPU: Getting Started

Overclocking a CPU (central processing unit) sounds seductive, right? Adjust a few settings on your phone or tablet, and the device goes faster. Games play without laborious, stuttering, forced slow-motion effects, and everything loads quicker ...

IP&TV World Forum, Day 3: Multiscreen Mania

I'm surrounded by screens here at the Olympia exhibition hall -- tablet-sized, big screens, you name it -- and they all connect with each other. It's day three at the IP&TV World Forum, or Internet Protocol Television Show. ...

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Remote Web Desktop Full: Really Smart App Deserves Better Support

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CONFERENCE REPORT

IP&TV World Forum, Day 2: The Future

I'm attending the IP&TV World Forum, aka the Internet Protocol Television Show, at the Olympia exhibition hall in sunny London ...

Taming That Spaghetti of Wires Taking Over Your Home

New home construction and remodeling projects, from a multimedia wiring angle, have the advantage of incorporating cable management at the design stage. That design is structured into the build. ...

IP&TV World Forum, Day 1: Disrupting a Disruptive Technology

Internet-delivered television was once thought of "disruptive," but it looks like it's about to be firmly adopted by common television programming suppliers worldwide and incorporated into their delivery systems. Looking around at the IP&TV World Forum, I'm seeing a whole bunch of monkey wrenches sitting on the sidelines ...

And Now for Something Completely Different: Taking the Windows 8 Plunge

Microsoft has made available a consumer preview version of its upcoming Windows 8 operating system that you can try out. The OS caught my eye because the tile-like user interface appears radically different from the boring old reiterations of Windows 3.1 -- with minor tweaks that irritatingly require getting used to after every upgrade ...

Diving Into GIS: A Starter Guide

If you were looking at television weather maps during last week's U.S. tornado activity, you were looking at a GIS, or Geographic Information System. Those red and purple splotches racing across the screen represented intensity levels of rotating storm cells. The map itself, the county lines, and the splotches were all data layer elements making up the map.

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Smart Tools App Hits Genius on the Clever Meter

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Bluetooth Is Not Just for Headsets

With cable-and-wire spaghetti proliferating in and around our homes and offices, threatening to consume our devices and us in the end, it may be time to take a look at Bluetooth wireless technology, which is great if you can get it to work ...

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PrinterShare Mobile Print Premium May Please Mobile Enterprise Crowd

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Tube Tweeting: How to Use Twitter When Watching TV

If you think of some of the more recent significant developments in television viewing, you'll probably come up with a list that includes the digital video recorder (DVR), which provides easy time-shifting without lossy tape; the flat-screen, high-definition television, which provides high-quality images as well as space-saving and eco-advantages over the bulky old cathode ray tube; and rampant cord-cutting, wherein viewers ditch traditional cable in favor of programming that's now delivered a la carte through the Internet...

Widening Your WiFi Network’s Range

If you've followed the advice in my article, "How to Improve Your Video-Streaming Clarity," and can't use a Cat 5e or greater specification wired-solution for your network, you may be running into straightforward environmental limitations. The microwave just isn't getting from point A to point B and back again ...

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Droid Scan Pro’s an Amateur at Character Recognition

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Mounting a Tablet in Your Vehicle’s Front Seat

Factory-supplied satellite navigation and entertainment systems can add thousands to the cost of a new vehicle. Plus, the speed at which consumer electronics come to market is significantly faster than a car's development cycle, so your in-vehicle equipment is outdated before the car leaves the new car lot ...

Setting Up a Virtual Phone System With a Little Help From Some Friends

Twilio's cloud-based communications platform allows anyone with rudimentary Web-development knowledge to build a voice and SMS text application. An API, client, and various XML and other helper code is available that lets you build in PHP, C# and more ...

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Vignette Lets Android Photogs Get Their Art On

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Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Slinging

Slingbox lets you watch your television remotely. The Slingbox hardware device captures the source image and audio at your home and squirts it into the Internet. ...

Tapping Your Smartphone’s Processing Power for Classic Photography

The stumbling-block to using a phone as an all-in-one solution for photography is basically that the lenses aren't as good as those on any dedicated camera. While you would expect a DSLR (Digital Single Lens Reflex) camera to sport a better lens, even the most basic, sub-hundred-dollar point-and-shoots have higher quality glass than the best phones.

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