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Mobinnova Beam Tegra smartbook hits the FCC en route to AT&T

Looks like AT&T will be launching at least two smartbooks at CES — the Tegra-powered Mobinnova Beam just hit the FCC database with a device ID of BEAMATT. Yeah, that’s not so subtle. Sadly the listing doesn’t have much else to say about the machine formerly known as élan, but we’re guessing we’ll find out way more about what AT&T’s got planned for these not-quite-netbooks in Vegas.

Filed under: Laptops

Mobinnova Beam Tegra smartbook hits the FCC en route to AT&T originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:32:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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ScreenSharingMenulet fills a gap in Snow Leopard’s Screen Sharing.app

Filed under: Cool tools

Every “point-oh” version of Mac OS X usually brings some small bit of pain, as I find some little utility no longer works. Snow Leopard has been no exception. I had been using the version of Screen Sharing from 10.5.4 because it had some “hidden” features which I liked. Unfortunately those “hidden” features were also “unsupported” features. When 10.5.5 came out, they were gone, but I continued to use the version of Screen Sharing from 10.5.4 which worked until 10.5.8. Sadly for me, it does not work at all in 10.6.

The biggest drawback of Screen Sharing was the removal of the Bonjour Browser, which showed a list of computers available for Screen Sharing (both locally and via Back to My Mac). Now I had to type them in manually, which isn’t such a big deal when you are trying to connect to a machine on a local network. If you are trying to connect over the Internet, however, you need to use the full hostname, which may look something like this: macbook.yourname.members.mac.com. Plus, it just seems like one of those things that the computer ought to do for me. [Side note, if you are looking for a handy way to see all the Bonjour services on your local network, check out Tildesoft's free Bonjour Browser utility.]

While looking through a bunch of old files in my ~/Downloads/ folder, I found a version of ScreenSharingMenulet. I checked its webpage and saw what I was looking for: “ScreenSharingMenulet 1.7.1 and higher is compatible to Mac OS 10.6 Snow Leopard.” ScreenSharingMenulet sits in the menu bar along with your other menu extras. Simply click on its icon (shown above) and choose which computer you wish to connect to via a dropdown list. In my testing it worked very well over a LAN although it did not seem to pre-populate with the machines over the Internet. Given the flakiness of Back To My Mac over ther Internet, I can hardly fault this program for that shortcoming.

ScreenSharingMenulet is free (donations accepted) from Stefan Klieme who has several other handy-looking utilities at his website. If you use Screen Sharing a lot, it’s definitely a handy tool to have around.

TUAWScreenSharingMenulet fills a gap in Snow Leopard’s Screen Sharing.app originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Sun, 20 Sep 2009 21:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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CyberPower serves up water-cooled LAN Mini H2o SFF rig
If you’re looking for an ultra compact, ultra quiet new machine to act as your resident HTPC, CyberPower might just have an option worth eying. The all new LAN Mini H2o is said to be one of the planet’s tiniest water-cooled desktop gaming rigs, and while it’s equipped with Intel Core 2 Duo / Core 2 Quad CPUs, NVIDIA or ATI graphics and more hard drive space than you’ll initially know what to do with, there’s absolutely nothing stopping you from repurposing this is a media center PC. The box checks in at 11.25- x 8.75- x 7-inches and weighs just ten pounds, and there’s even room for a WiFi adapter, Blu-ray drive and HDMI socket. Feel free to customize yours now, with the Core 2 Quad Q9550-equipped base rig starting at $965.

Filed under: Desktops, Media PCs

CyberPower serves up water-cooled LAN Mini H2o SFF rig originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 03 Sep 2009 22:31:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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