[Totoro] sent in this cool little email notification device he made. Using a paper model of Wall-E, he added some servos and connected it to his computer using a PIC. Mail-E has independent arm rotation and head rotation. He admits that the PIC processor is major overkill and plans some upgrades such as making it wireless and using a little better suited chip to control it. Not bad for a proof of concept.
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Mail-E email checker
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how to keep your pc up to date
An important part of owning a personal computer is keeping your software up-to-date. Security patches, upgrades, and hotfixes need to be installed to make your computer safer while connected to the Internet. When using a computer running Microsoft Windows, this checklist can include windows, antivirus, antispyware, and firewall updates. However, for most computer users this can seem like a daunting task and I hardly ever work on a customer’s computer without finding at least one missing needed update concerning hardware or software. The Basic UpdatesWindows UpdatesAt the very least, you should keep your computer up-to-date with the latest Windows…
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What is Your Favorite Browser?
We surfing the web, blogging, search, chat, email and collaborate in a browser. You can trying some web browser. Below I will review some browser.
Mozilla Firefox Mozilla
Firefox is a free and open source web browser descended from the Mozilla Application Suite and managed by Mozilla Corporation. The Firefox Web Browser is the faster, more secure, and fully customizable way to surf the web. Firefox features include tabbed browsing, a spell checker, incremental find, live bookmarking, a download manager, private browsing and some add-ons. Firefox offers advanced pop up blocking so you won’t have to see another pop up…
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Opera 10.0 Build 1413 Alpha
The most full featured Internet power tool on the market Opera includes tabbed browsing pop up blocking integrated searches and advanced functions like Opera 39 s groundbreaking e mail program RSS Newsfeeds and IRC chat And because we know that our users have different needs you can customize the look and content of your Opera browser with a few clicks of the mouse
The Opera Web browser offers several new features for functionality security usability customization searching saving taking shortcuts and accessing Web content
Whether you 39 re going to work working from home developing Web sites or just looking…
