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Here’s how to turn the monitor of the notebook

November 22nd, 2010

The advent of digital formats in the field of publishing (books, newspapers, magazines, comic books), is slowly becoming increasingly popular among the people, so that more people now prefer to take advantage of these text-based content directly from your monitor desktop, laptop or otherwise, without having to print each time …

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To achieve this, however, we need a couple of prerequisites:

1 – “The tools of the trade should be as manageable as possible, an objective that we believe enough already achieved, thanks to new models increasingly thin and light notebooks.

2 – A large monitor and main structure in the vertical direction, so as to facilitate reading.

On the latter point, without having to provide special devices such as the recent Amazon (Kindle 2), we can use the software Rotate Eee PC, designed just to read the text on the road. ”

Also because this product with Kindle, both for the high price of their characteristics, are aimed mostly at an audience of “niche”.

This software is designed for Asus Eee PC, but can still be used for laptops and desktops (although in the latter case, it seems of little use :-) ).

The program is also portable and does not require installation. Once started, it remains running in the background with a ‘visible icon in the system tray.

The use of the application is simple. It is in fact a combination of keys, summarized as follows:

* Ctrl + Alt + Up Arrow: Go back to home screen;

* Ctrl + Alt + Right Arrow: Rotate the screen by 270 degrees;

* Ctrl + Alt + Arrow Down: rotate the screen 180 degrees;

* Ctrl + Alt + Left Arrow: Rotate the screen 90 degrees.

Rotate Eee runs on systems running Windows XP SP3.

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Here the Robot controlled by a Netbook

August 27th, 2010

Who has not dreamed of having a robot that could perform more strenuous tasks at home? Or maybe send him shopping and avoid the queue hours by car downtown? Well before long it will be possible . The development of robotics is enormous. In Italy for example, was made about a month ago the new version of a robot – a football player. Probably a ‘ good buy for the teams interesting that instead of paying fine billion annually in salary , merely to make an initial purchase of a particular investment and then put it in the field. Seriously , the robot in question is based on ocular and joint sensors , able to focus on the ball and kicking in a predetermined direction .

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The real news of the day the farm robed and the now ubiquitous netbook(Toshiba Satellite A205 battery) with at least one house we all. The company in question had long ago launched a robot in the video presentation took the android in a particular place of popcorn and took them to his ” master. ” The new model is called robots Three. In addition to more ‘economical than the previous maintained by a Netbook. The kit components can be purchased directly on the project website and you will receive the matching set of parts to assemble their robots Three ( without the PA3400U-1BRS battery ) .

The starting price is only $ 399 , but is expandable depending on the capabilities of the robot and interest , especially with the optional accessories like batteries last longer and specific sensors . Technically, the robed Three is 30 x 30 x 16 cm in size and 1.8 kg thinks kit purchase includes a complete frame , wheels, an engine of 120 rpm , a rechargeable battery and a USB controller that can be connected to the netbook(Dell TC030 battery). Programming is simple and compatible with most common languages such as C, C + + , C #, the Action Script, Flash , Java and Visual Basic. Operating systems are then connected both Windows and Linux as well as Mac OS X.

The cost of previous models was less accessible (Silvio $ 1279 and Cup to $ 1,799 ), while the Three manufacturer wanted to make sure that the robot would be within reach of most enthusiasts. Certainly in the future we will see some beautiful.