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LG’s big CTIA news was the introduction of the LG Xenon and Neon for AT&T, and Nicole Lee’s all over the messaging phones with hands-on impressions and photos.

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However, I wandered over to the LG booth myself (actually, I crashed Nicole’s one-on-one meeting), …

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Duncan Billson, an engineering professor at the University of Warwick, co-developed the flat loudspeaker.

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When I told CNET audio editor Donald Bell about the Flat, Flexible Loudspeaker out of the U.K.’s University of Warwick, he immediately imagined subway posters shouting at him. And he’…

While Clearwire’s Clear Spot (which is really just a refashioned PHS-300) will handle WiMAX right out of the box, those who own one of CradlePoint’s existing portable routers are flat out of luck… or are they? Said company has just announced that starting today, shipments of its business-class routers — including the MBR800, MBR1000, and MBR1100 line of mobile broadband routers, CTR500 mobile broadband travel router, and CBA250 cellular broadband adapter — will have WiMAX compatibility built in. Furthermore, a forthcoming (April 6th) firmware update will enable existing CradlePoint products to accept select WiMAX devices, and yes, it’ll be made available for no charge at all. Talk about throwing a bone to your loyal customers.

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This article was written on October 29, 2007 by CyberNet.

Have you ever been on a page with a ton of animated GIF’s, and all you’re trying to do is read the content? It can get quite distracting, but if you’re using Firefox or Internet Explorer just hit the ESC key. Doing so will immediately pause all of the animated GIF images on the page. Go ahead, try it with this image:

The only bad part about pausing the images using the ESC key is that there’s no way to have them resume without refreshing the page.

One thing that I’ve never understood about browsers is why they don’t have a play, pause, and restart options on the right-click menu for GIF animations. That would be a really nice feature to have, but Firefox and Opera users do have a few advanced settings for GIF animations:

–Firefox Users Only–

In Firefox you can also completely disable GIF animations, or only allow them to play through one time. Here’s what you have to do:

1. In the Location Bar type about:config and hit Enter
2. Type “animation” in the Filter field (to quickly find the needed preference)
3. Double-click the image.animation_mode line and edit it to one of the following:
• none — will prevent image animation
• once — will let the image animate once
• normal (default) — will allow it to play over and over

–Opera Users Only–

If you want to completely disable GIF animations in Opera here’s what you have to do:

1. In the Location Bar type opera:config#Multimedia|ShowAnimation and hit Enter
2. Uncheck the box next to Show Animation, and then save the settings

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