It is the first to bring PC users the ability to play games using the remote control's 'motion drive' feature, which controls on-screen objects according to the movement of the remote.
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He headed for Pakistan and is still there, furiously buying up thousands of bori bags to drive up to remote settlements.
Outside of years of practice, is there an innate ability in some of us to just pick up a smartphone, laptop, tablet or home theater remote and know how to drive because we know what kind of processors and operating systems are between us and what needs to be done?
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Basically it's a USB security key that supposedly encrypts data stored to the thumb drive using AES, provides remote encrypted storage, creates a secure connection to the internet, and deletes your browser's cookies and history files.
It can be awkward to drop in on a client and then ask if you can use the machine's Remote Disc feature to wirelessly borrow the optical drive on one of the client's computers if he hands you material on a CD-ROM.
There are only so many small boats that can go up the Mekong to see the Pak Ou caves, with their hundreds of Buddha figures, and so many vehicles that can drive the winding roads to the remote ethnic villages, where people who have never fully integrated into Lao society live unwired, in simple wooden houses on stilts as they have for centuries.
Watching a program at your leisure VOD-style, setting up a series recording for a new favorite or blasting it from your drive is just a click of the remote away on the DVR or one of its multiroom extenders.
In remote villages that are sometimes a daylong trip on a four-wheel drive from paved roads, men hunt porcupines, giant cane rats, small antelope and monkeys, while women often do the butchering.
In remote villages that sometimes require a daylong trip on a four-wheel drive away from paved roads, men hunt porcupines, giant cane rats, small antelope and monkeys, while women often do the butchering.
Customers can play back any personal content stored on the USB drive directly on their TV screen using the Slingbox 500's remote control.
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Port Lincoln, on the remote southern coast of Australia, is so isolated that it takes most of a day to drive there from the closest major city, Adelaide.
The cloud is designed to save hard-drive storage space for users by instead letting them store and retrieve documents to multiple devices from remote Web servers.
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