I'm no audiophile, but I would like some decent quality sound for my desktop.
On my desktop, both Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer work and play nicely together.
The red light on my desktop phone is blazing, telling me I have voicemail waiting.
Microsoft has obviously outthought me, putting the link I need right on my desktop to save me the need to search.
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My Razr Maxx is still fully functional without the Internet and maintains full DATA synchronization with Outlook 2007 on my desktop.
While I am comfortable about putting a lot of stuff in the cloud, my media, docs and scripts also reside on my desktop.
No problem, let me just sit down at my desktop machine and queue something up on that screen so we can watch it on our other screen.
My iPhone is great for this, my iPad is great for that, my desktop, my netbook, this app and that SaaS program are all great for their thing.
For me, I was on forced bed rest for a couple of weeks and then unable to sit at my desktop more than briefly for several weeks after that.
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After using the Ancestry app on my iPad and adding records to my family tree, I easily synced that data with my desktop software by clicking a top-right button when I next opened the Family Tree Maker.
The right-hand side of my old desktop used to be a chaotic jumble of desktop "gadgets" and Chrome windows that were forever obscuring each other or getting accidentally minimized.
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Now if I have Internet access anywhere I go, I can access my DVI (Desktop Virtualization Infrastructure) desktop from anywhere, anytime.
In my case, I've installed a search engine called Google Desktop that lets me quickly scour my hard drive for files, and a product by Xobni Corp. that does something similar for Outlook email, even though neither is approved by my IT department.
For me, I want the following desktop apps to run on my tablet: Wizard101 and Pirate101 games for my son, Google Chrome web browser, and Evernote.
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Back in the day, there were lots of desktop applications to choose to help me run my business.
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For most of the years we had a server in the basement of my house and we all connected to it using remote desktop.
For this to happen, my phone must be as powerful as a laptop or desktop, capable of running business applications securely with immediate web access.
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I've written in the past about my concern that the Android platform is fragmenting much like desktop Linux has over the years, and the potential for the platform to turn into a patchwork of devices and vendor specific modifications that bear little relationship with each other.
All the laptop and desktop models will come along with Office Home and Business 2013, Fujitsu's My Cloud hybrid cloud service, and options like gesture control.
Unless I'm missing something, I can't run Spotify or play my ALAC lossless music collection in Metro, which means I'm still running mouse-hungry desktop music applications for this stuff.
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It was a faltering start, but it was also strangely symbolic of my mission -- namely, to explore what Microsoft's latest operating system can do for regular desktop folk.
No music on my D: drive appeared in the Metro Music app, which meant I had to play tracks using a desktop app.
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The platform, which over a desktop computer is essentially a free and unlimited iTunes account, plays for about eight hours a day over my computer speakers.
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