Android Tablet as Car PC

An android tablet ia a logical choice for a car PC. The device offers additional features beyond regular car stereos. While many car stereos have GPS, the android device offers a more intelligent GPS. It has all of your google contacts addresses already in the GPS, it has your calendar with events and their locations, Chrome to phone can automatically send directions from your computer to your car. The device can store music, use internet radio, or play music using a cloud player such as Amazon cloud. These are features not available on even the most high end luxury cars. I recommend choosing a tablet that already has a car dock....

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Switchbox for digital audio

Check out the author’s website, Neat Information.com, for lots of interesting articles. Most current home electronics have SPDIF digital coax (RCA jack) or optical (TOSLink) outputs or both. Digital coax jacks are far more common, even appearing in bargain basement DVD players. Most home theater systems have both digital coax and optical inputs. Digital coax and TOSLink use the same protocols – the only difference is whether the signal is transmitted through a wire or by light. TOSLink has the advantage of no electrical interference, but more limited distance and more expensive connectors and cables. This tutorial describes how to manually...

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Disable Touchpad on Sony Vaio Laptop after Clean Windows 7 Install

Laptop touchpads are the cause of "jumping cursor" syndrome. You can accidentally brush the touchpad with your palm while typing, causing cursor to jump around the screen. Sometimes you don't even need to brush the touchpad and the cursor still jumps because of driver/hardware issues, and believe me, it is very annoying. There is a software solution for that - a free program called TouchFreeze, but it doesn't always work. So the ultimate solution would be to disable the touchpad and use the external mouse. This looks like a trivial issue but in fact it is not. Sony Vaio, in particular, will not let you disable the touchpad in BIOS or...

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How to repair HP dv6 notebook power adapter

i After years of lurking it's time for me to give something to the instructables community. I hope this can help! By the way, I WILL NOT TAKE ANY RESPONSABILITY for accidents or injuries occured trying or as a result of this instructables! DO IT AT YOUR OWN RISK! and, if you want to give a try, BE CAREFUL! Use glasses, gloves, mask and everything you need for YOUR SAFETY! --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The power adapter of my HP dv6 notebook died a month ago. Using a multitester I noticed that there was zero volt output. also putting my ear near...

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