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This article was written on August 01, 2006 by CyberNet.

DesktopLinux.com is reporting that the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) Project has 4 countries on board to purchase their laptops. Nigeria, Brazil, Argentina, and Thailand have all placed orders for 1 million of the $100 laptops that continue to amaze people. Speculation is that they need to sell 5 million laptops before they can start production which shouldn’t be a problem since they already have 4 countries committed. Other countries won’t want to feel left behind so they will probably jump on the bandwagon as well.

There have also been several companies that are giving OLPC a hand: AMD, eBay, Google, Nortel, and Red Hat are the big names and there are also several other companies involved. If you want to learn more about the OLPC laptops you can watch this video or visit the Wiki.

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After being announced in early June, Anandtech recently put the Western Digital WD TV Live Plus through its paces and discovered the Netflix enhancement works as advertised. Like many Netflix-enabled devices though, the TV Live comes up short compared to the full PC experience since access is limited to only the Instant Queue. Its presence also sacrifices firmware hackability — a quality which previously made up for the WD TV Live’s lack of versatility as an HTPC. The ability to move, copy, and manage locally stored media files via the interface, on the other hand, was praised as a unique advantage over competing models — exciting, we know. Sadly, video quality was docked as being “significantly less than the HTPC counterparts they’ve seen so far.” However, it’s possible this could be improved in the future via firmware updates, since its Sigma Designs processor features noise reduction and deinterlacing algorithms that strangely aren’t currently enabled. File format-wise, DVD ISOs worked flawlessly, while Blu-ray ISO and some WMV video formats experienced issues that users may want to read up on before buying. Gripes aside though, Anandtech was still willing to place it “around the top of the list” for media player devices, thanks to its wide file compatibility and robust features. For more details, hit the review source link.

WD TV Live Plus gets reviewed, lauded for value originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 31 Jul 2010 11:07:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Oh, Enso — must you really give us a reason to hope? After dealing with what felt like a case of the vaporwares, and then being epically disappointed with the zenPad (which is now out of stock, curiously) that you finally shipped, we just can’t muster up the courage to look fondly upon the five new products that are gracing your webstore. That said, those that don’t mind risk taking and actually enjoy the thought of fighting for a refund have three new MIDs / slates to ponder along with a pair of Android-based smartphones to consider. Let’s break ’em down real quick, shall we?

• zenPad 2 ($219; shipping now): Here you have a 5-inch, Android 1.5-based MID with an 800 x 480 resolution resistive touchscreen, a bundled stylus, inbuilt 3G, 802.11a/b/g WiFi, microSD slot (8GB included), 128MB of RAM, 256MB NAND Flash, a 624MHz Marvell PXA303 Xscale CPU, integrated accelerometer, onboard GPS, micro-USB port, 3.5mm headphone jack and a battery good for 4.5 hours of use. We’re told that an Android 2.1 update is “imminent,” but we believe that about as much as we believe BP’s promise to “make it right.”
• zenPad 3 ($249; pre-order): This here tablet boasts the exact same specifications as the zenPad 2 (right down to the battery life and resolution), but it rocks a 7-inch design that’ll aid those who can’t squint hard enough to see fonts on the 5-inch sibling.
• zenPad 4 ($199; shipping now): We hate to state the obvious, but this is quite obviously an iPad KIRF — right down to the Home button. You’ll find a 10.2-inch resistive touchpanel with a 1,024 x 600 resolution (one that Enso swears up and down “has a fast response and works very well”), along with Android 2.1, 802.11a/b/g WiFi, 256MB of RAM, 2GB of storage, a microSD slot (8GB included), a 1GHz Cortex A8 CPU, built-in accelerometer and a 2,400mAh battery that’s good for 5 to 7 hours of life.
• zenPhone ($349; shipping now): So… it looks like a Nexus One KIRF, it’s called a zenPhone, yet it says it’s a MID. Oh, and it’s not this ZenPhone. Whatever the case, it’s got a 4.3-inch resistive touchscreen (800 x 480), 3G HSDPA radio, 802.11a/b/g WiFi, Bluetooth, 256MB of NAND Flash, a microSD slot (8GB included), a 3.2 megapixel rear camera, 0.3 megapixel front-facing camera, a 2,600mAh battery, onboard GPS, 3.5mm headphone jack and — wait for it — Maemo 5 running the show. Yeah, seriously.
• zenDroid ($319; pre-order): In the market for a Droid KIRF, are you? You’ve come to the right place, with this one offering a 4.3-inch capacitive touchscreen (800 x 480), 3G HSDPA, 802.11a/b/g WiFi, Bluetooth 2.0+EDR, an FM radio tuner, Android 2.1 (“upgradable to 2.2,” we’re told), a microSD slot (8GB bundled in), 512MB of NAND Flash, a 624MHz Marvell PXA935 processor, 5 megapixel rear camera, 0.3 megapixel front-facing camera, a 1,500mAh battery, onboard GPS, 3.5mm headphone jack and a micro-USB connector.

[Thanks, Neil]

Enso whips up two smartphones and three new slates, but we wouldn’t order any of ’em originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 31 Jul 2010 08:26:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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This article was written on July 17, 2007 by CyberNet.

One feature that Firefox users typically miss when transitioning over to Opera is the "View Selection Source" option. In Firefox this is used to view the HTML source code of a specific area on the page. For example, let’s say that you are visiting our site and see a Google Video that you want to embed on your own site. In Firefox you could highlight that video (and maybe some of the surrounding text), right click on the area, and choose the View Selection Source option. Firefox would then display the source code of the page and highlight the code corresponding to the text/video you highlighted.

This is extremely useful to both developers and casual users because it can save you from sifting through thousands of lines of HTML code looking for one specific part. At times it can be like trying to find a needle in a haystack.

If you’re using Opera you’ve probably noticed that this feature doesn’t exist in the right-click menu. That doesn’t mean it can’t be done though! Web Kitchen put together a bookmarklet that you can use to display the source code of a selected area. All you have to do is open this page, copy the text, and paste it into the address field of a new bookmark. It should look like this:

Then anytime you want to use it just highlight some text on the page and click the bookmark. Alternatively you can place this in the right-click menu, but it will take a few additional steps. Information on doing that can be found here.

I was rather surprised at how well this worked, and it filled one of the few empty voids that Opera has. There are also some things that you can configure, such as the window height or width, since the source code opens in a popup window. Heck, you can even choose the color schemes that are used for the syntax highlighting!

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