On February midnight on Feb. 17, 2009, all full-power television stations in the U.S. will cease broadcasting in analog and switch to 100% digital broadcasting. In case you have yet to upgrade your TV to digital TV (DTV), here’s a convenient step-by-step video tutorial, courtesy of TV talkshow host Spike Feresten.
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LG Electronics will unveil the “world’s first market-ready” 3G watch phone at CES in Las Vegas this week. The LG-GD910, featuring built-in 3G video telephony service along with quadband GSM, is an upgrade of a prototype showcased last year.
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Game strategy and rules for the 2009 FIRST high-school robotics competition were unveiled today in Manchester, NH. Some 42,000 high-school students on 1,686 teams from a dozen countries will participate in this year’s contest, which is designed to simulate robotic rovers moving on a lunar crater.
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I realize it’s a touchy subject, but some of us prefer unmodified Firefox — including the standard Firefox icon — to Debian’s Iceweasel alternative. Here’s a three-step way to substitute Firefox for Iceweasel on a fresh Lenny install.
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A recent online survey found that eight in ten consumers use electronic gadgets in the bathroom, primarily for communications, entertainment, and wellness purposes. This leads us to wonder if the “iLoo” might be a good candidate for Apple’s next hot product.
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