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By Alejandro Ramirez  | 16 May 2011 - 11:16 AM

I was very skeptical at first because I have tried other services before and their speeds have been terrible (1-2 Mbps), so having heard good things about this one (and about coverage in my area), I d...

By macslocum  | 09 February 2010 - 11:00 AM

Google Buzz brings status updates, links, videos and other shared features into the Gmail interface. If you've updated through Facebook or Twitter you'll be comfortable with the process: enter a quick...

By Alejandro Ramirez  | 18 May 2011 - 12:19 PM

Work-Life Balance If you do get the option to work from home whenever you want to, congratulations, you are probably working for a very nice employer who believes that good work-life balance makes fo...

By michael margolis  | 17 May 2011 - 06:18 AM

The tables below show the digital and analog pins for a standard Arduino board and the Mega board. The “Port” column lists the physical port used for the pin. Analog and digital pin assignments ...

By chco  | 16 May 2011 - 02:31 PM

Suppose you would like to call a series of phone numbers to attempt to locate a person when their extension is dialed. A solution is offered by the following O'Reilly excerpt from Asterisk Cookboo...

By michael margolis  | 16 May 2011 - 02:22 PM

You want to perform some action on specific days and at specific times of the day. TimeAlarms is a companion library included in the Time library download (installing the Time library will also insta...

By chco  | 15 May 2011 - 05:47 PM

The excerpt below from Asterisk Cookbook shows you how to insert debugging into your dialplan that can be enabled on a global, per-device, or per-channel basis..Use something like this chanlog GoSub()...

By michael margolis  | 15 May 2011 - 06:19 AM

This article explains how to control the position of a servo using an angle calculated in your sketch. For example, if you want a sensor on a robot to swing through an arc or move to a position you se...

By chco  | 14 May 2011 - 10:11 PM

The excerpt below from Learning Android offers a look at working with threads in Android. A thread is a sequence of instructions executed in order. Although each CPU can process only one instruction a...

By chco  | 08 October 2010 - 05:43 PM

There are many ways you can learn about Flex. This excerpt from Getting Started with Flex 4 highlights a few select resources. As you explore these resources, you will surely discover even more source...