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I want one of these: Tiniest 1080p-playing PC yet is completely silent
Here's proof that someday soon, home theater PCs will take the form factor of tiny dongles. Inside this outlandishly small PC is the Via EPIA-P820 Pico-ITX motherboard, and Via's AMOS-3001 is the first PC to use it. As you can see by the gallery below, this exceptionally small PC has COM ports and two USB ports on the front, and Ethernet, USB, and HDMI ports in back. The PC is a mere 6 inches wide.
The best news? That 1.2GHz all-in-one VIA VX855 Media System Processor inside plays sweet 1080p video, according to Via. As you might have guessed, this is a fanless design, keeping it perfectly silent — look at it — the whole thing is a heatsink. Its exceptional quietude and minuscule form factor might make for a worthy dongle hanging off the back of an HDTV, ya think?
So far, there's no pricing announced for this reference unit, but it won't be long until even this small form factor will seem bulky — and the pico PCs will be so cheap they'll be built into every TV for practically nothing.
Do I just go to Best Buy?
I was going to compare them and Costco.
megan, I bought a 32" LCD Phillips off of Craigslist over Christmas break (for $250) and LOVE it. It's only two years old; lots of people are selling theirs on C'list because they're upgrading to larger.
Google Docs Storage Increased: Users Get More Space To Store Files Online
SAN FRANCISCO — Google Inc. is expanding its Internet warehouse so people can stash more digital keepsakes from their life and work.
The upgrade announced Tuesday will provide one free gigabyte of storage to all users of Google Docs, the company's online suite of word processing, spreadsheets and other commonly used programs.
The expansion will let people store photos, video and a variety of other computer files that previously couldn't be accommodated. Each file can be as large as 250 megabytes, and those needing more space can buy it at prices ranging from $17 annually for an extra 5 gigabytes to $14,000 annually for an extra 4,000 gigabytes.
Google already offered unlimited storage for files that were automatically converted into the Docs format. With the change, Google Docs will store files in their original format, and only those will count toward the limit.
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Ooh, I really like the idea of this TV coming to me.
Unfortunately, I can't afford to buy anything until next month.
In Gmail, is it possible to search for messages that contain specific strings? Not words, strings.
I think you can use quotes to define strings just like in regular Google.
Jon,
can you provide an example?
If you can search for it in google search, you typically can search for it in gmail. I don't think gmail is particular good at searching within words, but maybe with the use of an *, you might be able to do that.
I mean the other way, Jessica. For example, if I search for Viagra, I want to catch Viagra, ViagraAndCialis, CialisViagra, FreeViagra, etc.
Using an asterisk doesn't seem to work.
