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The HTC EVO 4G has been spotted running the unreleased SlingPlayer Mobile for Android. It looks good people.

Implementing a modular high-brightness LED matrix. The software was divided into simple modules that implement certain functionalities or features.

This article will shortly recall the basics of SPI, it will also explain how to design a portable software driver in C language, and it will show a few waveforms of the SPI signals generated by the software driver.

Freescale offers many documents for its latest connectivity microcontroller Kirin3, MCF52259. I believe most of the people will start to evaluate the labs without reading the documents. I am one of these guys who hate reading documents. However, it is worth to read the document if you have no experience on CodeWarrior and ColdFire.

Despite being permanently disbarred by the Florida Supreme Court last year due to "abusive and frivolous filings", Jack Thompson is back. This time, however, he isn't going after the video game industry, but rather social networking juggernaut, Facebook.

High-brightness RGB LED popularity for lighting applications is increasing as the cost of these devices becomes more attractive. However, this type of component brings different design complexities when compared to regular LEDs. To efficiently drive high-brightness LEDs, a switched power supply is required and a color mixing algorithm must be implemented. This article describes a simple application in which a digital signal controller (DSC) is used to drive a high-brightness RGB LED for a pixel board, several of which are connected on a network to create an RGB matrix.

AMD's very own self-proclaimed bad boy Ian McNaughton took a direct swing at NVIDIA and The Way it's Meant to be Played program today in a blog post that is worth taking a look at. Ian calls out some issues with several TWIMTBP titles, which is something you don't see being done everyday. If you already own or are thinking about getting Batman: Arkham Asylum, Need for Speed: Shift or Resident Evil 5 then you might want to see what Ian is upset about.

In exactly one week from now, AMD is expected to launch its ATI Radeon HD 5850 and 5870 videocards, which as it turns out will be a precursor of more 5000 series cards to come. And you won't have to wait long, either.

Google has launched a project to bring the benefits of its Chrome rendering and JavaScript engines to the benighted masses forced to use Internet Explorer - and Microsoft isn't happy.

The first USB 3.0 controller was just recently certified, and now there's a speedy external hard drive to go with it. Freecom has announced their "Hard Drive XS 3.0" as the first to support the new USB SuperSpeed standard.

You can select a wide range of core speeds for the Freescale USB micros, ranging from 2.1 MIPS to 410 MIPS. Of course, the high speed cores offer the USB feature only as a very small subset of the total features and peripherals. This possibility makes the Freescale USB products quite versatile, allowing them to find themselves in the most various applications

Generally, the "estimator" is defined as a dynamic system that estimates state variables. There are basically two forms of the estimator implementation: open-loop and closed-loop. In the case of the closed-loop estimator, the error between estimated and measured state variables is used as a correction term to adjust the response of the estimator. The closed-loop estimator is also referred to as an observer.

Using a highly-integrated microcontroller running "StickOS BASIC", it is possible to quickly build a toaster oven temperature profile controller for performing surface mount (SMT) printed circuit board reflow soldering at home.

The Apple Tablet is so irresistible and it might not even be real. However the news today paints a much larger picture, larger in the size of the Tablets and larger in the operating system.

Acting as ISO DVD burner for Mac, the Mac ISO to DVD copy has the ability to copy ISO image file to a new DVD disc without quality loss.

DVD to iPhone Ripper on Mac is an all-in-one Mac DVD ripper software program to rip DVD to different formats to play on iPhone.

DVD to WMV Converter for Mac, powerful Mac DVD to WMV software, can rip DVD to WMV and rip DVD to WMA on Mac at fast speed with good quality.

Here is a powerful Mac DVD to AVI Ripper which is specially designed for Mac OS X users.

DVD Ripper for Mac provides an all-in-one and first-class solution to rip DVD to video and audio formats.

If AT&T already wasn't bad enough, next month they are planning to require all smartphone owners to get data plans. If you were thinking about jumping ship to another provider, this might just do it.