Word: laptops
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...silver and black laptop, valued at $1,500 was reported stolen from the Mallinckrodt Laboratory last Friday, Feb. 10. A warrant was issued in this now-closed case. Five days later, two more laptop computers were swiped from 53 Church St., valuing a total of $5,200 in stolen items...
Even with her impaired sight, she enrolled in a course that required her to read (or listen to) around 2,000 pages a week. For that, she needed a special blackboard that she could view on her laptop, the availability of audio books, and someone to transcribe lectures. That’s when the problems began...
...does, however, have some software idiosyncrasies. When I plug it into my laptop, for example, it crashes the computer's Wi-Fi connection. The only solution is a full reboot. Even when it can't connect to the Internet, because - for instance - it's in Flight Mode (no radio, for use on airplanes), it tries anyway, and then gives you error messages, rather than alerting you to switch modes. Incidentally, during my test I put the phone in Flight Mode, then couldn't figure out how to get it back to a normal calling state...
...improvement is the way the tiny, dual-joint speakers can be made to pivot in six directions instead of two, allowing the wearer to position them at almost any angle. Operationally, the Thump 2 is a breeze, coming with a USB cable that lets you plug it into your laptop, PC or Mac, and upload songs in WMA, WAV or iTunes formats as well as regular MP3. It can also store data files, which leads one to the tantalizing possibility of turning up to a meeting, taking off a pair of shades and uploading a presentation from them. Now that...
...mess with the nunsThe press pool was in the charge of a nun, attired in blue, who could not conceive of ABC's Ann Compton taking a laptop into the palace. The reporters had been told to bring their stuff with them because they would be running to catch the motorcade as Mrs. Bush departed. "Leave it to a colleague outside," the nun said insistently. "You don't need a computer." Finally, the nun did away with diplomacy and said, "There is no way." An Associated Press reporter from Rome asked about a tape recorder. "Absolutely no recorder...