Stardock have an application called WindowsFX which allows you to turn on transparent windows selectively, for example, just for Notepad windows, which is much less of a CPU hit than turning it on for everything. It also lets you add shadows and various other graphical trickery to windows.
It's rather cool, but not free, in either sense of the word.
Since this thing is supposed to sit in your hi-fi stack, it's not supposed to be portable, yes? And since it plays MP3s, it's assumed that you own a PC, yes?
So why put any storage in it at all? Why not just shove a network socket on the back, or make it 802.11x aware, and play MP3s off a server on your network?
So you mean like VNC, except slower and more expensive?:)
RDC is much faster than VNC on Windows, because:
VNC isn't very good at working out which bits of the desktop have been redrawn (Or Windows isn't very good at telling it...)
RDC gets the remote machine to draw widgets, with the host machine saying things like "Draw this widget here", rather than sending bitmaps for everything.
It also resizes your desktop to whatever resolution the remote machine is using, which is quite nice. VNC doesn't do sound or ports either.
At the risk of being modded down for supporting Microsoft...
Windows XP has a thing called "remote desktop connection", which is a lot like remote X connections on Linux, except that things like sound and hardware ports are also brought across to the remote machine.
My home LAN has a fairly beefy PC on it running Windows XP Pro, and it would be really useful to have a few cheap and small PCs thrown about the house, which could connect back to the main PC in my bedroom and bring the desktop to wherever you are.
Right now I use a laptop with an 802.11b card in it to do that, but that's a seriously expensive solution.
In the UK, both Orange and One2One are GSM 1800 only networks. Of the networks that are GSM 900 (BT Cellnet and Vodafone), they sometimes have GSM 1800 cells in high-density areas (like London), but they always have GSM 900 too.
I loved those as a child! Ah, memories. I built an AM radio transmitter, and even an electronic "roulette" game with a pile of LEDs out of one of those kits.:)
Meccano is still pretty popular here in the UK. I never even realised that it had a different name anywhere else.
There's a good web page here which has some plans for some cool models (dinosaurs, airplanes, diggers, etc.), and some photos of some pretty weird things made out of Meccano, too.:)
Temps prior to the mod were 40C MAX. After the overclock, they increased to 43C MAX. With the addition of a thin aluminum plate to the top of the chipset and CPU (adding pressure between these chips and the stock heat plate) I was able to get max temps down to 37C, lower than what they were prior to the mod. Another thing to note is that a majority of the chipset/CPU heat is swept towards the back of the portable thanks to the copper wire that apple ran from the cooling plate to the small radiator at the rear of the portable. Thanks to this design, the palm rest is no warmer than it was before even though the portable is dissipating more watts (the reason for heat in the left palm wrest is due to the hard drive being located directly below it).
Perhaps if you had read the article, you would have seen this:
Battery life at 600/100 is about 15-30 minutes less than 500/66...and when the speed is switched down to the 350/100 setting, I get better battery life than I did at 400/66. Additionally, DVD playback is still smooth at 350, so I can actually get MORE DVD playback time than before.
Here in Europe, our mobile phone selection is (almost) as good as in Japan. My phone is the Nokia 9210 Communicator.
Yes, it's big and chunky, but open it up, and you have a PDA inside running EPOC, with a web browser, WAP, e-mail, SMS, and even a Java virtual machine, all with wireless access to the 'net.
It's not just a buffer, they've taken the concept of a buffer and used it in a very specific and practical way, to let you pause live video and not miss the bits inbetween "pause" and "unpause".
Since the patent only applies to this usage, any other use of a buffer is not affected.
Wow... reminds me of the Aussie guy who patented the wheel...
Why? Because of the circular buffer? (Boom boom.)
Seriously, this looks like a perfectly valid patent to me. It seems obvious now, because we all have a Tivo in our front room. But back in 1992, this was truly new. If it was so obvious, it would have been done already.
Come on Hemos, this isn't a patent on pausing. It's a patent on the concept of freezing a live feed and buffering the incoming picture, and then continuing to play a time-delayed picture.
The new Office XP (no idea if there is such a thing, but there will be) will not run on any other OS, and will bring something interesting, like XML support or something.
That's exactly my point. The speedo on the car may be slow, but the GPS will report the true speed. So if the car is actually doing 65mph, but the on-dash speedo only says 60, you're going to get fined without even realising it.
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It's rather cool, but not free, in either sense of the word.
Actually, it didn't. SafeWeb kept logs for seven days.
The last question in the FAQ will help you out.
Yes, it runs on Windows too.
So why put any storage in it at all? Why not just shove a network socket on the back, or make it 802.11x aware, and play MP3s off a server on your network?
That would be sweet.
I imagine they intentionally don't make it available to the public, though.
RDC is much faster than VNC on Windows, because:
It also resizes your desktop to whatever resolution the remote machine is using, which is quite nice. VNC doesn't do sound or ports either.
That's okay, there's only one of me. :)
I believe it allows one connection per user, I can't imagine ever wanting to have two desktops on the go at the same time.
Windows XP has a thing called "remote desktop connection", which is a lot like remote X connections on Linux, except that things like sound and hardware ports are also brought across to the remote machine.
My home LAN has a fairly beefy PC on it running Windows XP Pro, and it would be really useful to have a few cheap and small PCs thrown about the house, which could connect back to the main PC in my bedroom and bring the desktop to wherever you are.
Right now I use a laptop with an 802.11b card in it to do that, but that's a seriously expensive solution.
In the UK, both Orange and One2One are GSM 1800 only networks. Of the networks that are GSM 900 (BT Cellnet and Vodafone), they sometimes have GSM 1800 cells in high-density areas (like London), but they always have GSM 900 too.
I have the European version (The 9210), and it's sweet. :)
There's a good web page here which has some plans for some cool models (dinosaurs, airplanes, diggers, etc.), and some photos of some pretty weird things made out of Meccano, too. :)
Yes, it's big and chunky, but open it up, and you have a PDA inside running EPOC, with a web browser, WAP, e-mail, SMS, and even a Java virtual machine, all with wireless access to the 'net.
And it still fits in my pocket. Lovely.
Since the patent only applies to this usage, any other use of a buffer is not affected.
We currently can't build a working fusion power station, but recent stories suggest it may be possible in 10 years.
There's nothing to stop you patenting an idea that, while theoretically possible, is unimplementable at the present time.
Why? Because of the circular buffer? (Boom boom.)
Seriously, this looks like a perfectly valid patent to me. It seems obvious now, because we all have a Tivo in our front room. But back in 1992, this was truly new. If it was so obvious, it would have been done already.
Worthy of a patent, methinks.
Doesn't your disk become corrupt? What then? Disks are incredibly unreliable.
Hey, I finally thought of a use for 8cm CD-Rs. :)
Office XP runs on any version of Windows, except 3.1, probably.
Go get a HandEra 330 and you're ready to rock.
No you're not, the HandEra has a CF slot, and no PCMCIA slot, and besides, what good is 5Gb of storage on a crummy palm?
The only real solution is a Compaq iPAQ with the PCMCIA sleeve.
Probably because Big Brother 2 is currently mid-run in the UK, and is astoundingly popular.
That's exactly my point. The speedo on the car may be slow, but the GPS will report the true speed. So if the car is actually doing 65mph, but the on-dash speedo only says 60, you're going to get fined without even realising it.