It beams first to your computer, then to a secure server, which verifies you match your signing pattern.
The 324i also has three USB 2.0 ports for a convenient USB hub to your computer.
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For answers to your computer questions, check out my Mossberg's Mailbox in today's Tech Center.
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You can fill in the Forms both online and offline, after having downloaded them to your computer.
If these guys want in to your computer system, they are getting in.
For all its innovative sexiness, there was no flash, no zoom, and transferring pictures to your computer was slower than installing Windows.
Connect Push to your computer (via USB, no drivers, etc. required), open Ableton Live and the device springs to life.
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If your boss is smart, he or she will occasionally sign on to your computer and check your browser history.
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Put that key weekly task on a Post It note next to your computer so that you see it all day.
What's different is inside the handle: a chip that captures biomechanical information and links to your computer, smartphone or tablet via a wireless connection.
The GameCam camera connects to your computer by Universal Serial Bus.
In case you're wondering, there's still no wireless connectivity to be found, meaning tethering to your computer is a must for loading and off-loading digital content.
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The SP-810UZ is also compatible with an optional Eye-Fi SD card, adding Wi-Fi capability so you can automatically upload images to your computer as you take them.
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Cable and telephone companies can run all kinds of high-bandwidth wires to your neighborhood, but they're still constrained by old low-tech connections from their substation to your computer.
The Henge Docks' design doesn't require any hardware, software or settings changes to your computer, and every current MacBook is compatible with the system, right from the factory.
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Hewlett-Packard (nyse: HPQ - news - people ) will promote TVs that have built-in networking features designed to play movies you've downloaded to your computer.
The result is that letting someone else's aglet on to your computer should be about as risky as downloading an applet from the Net, which is generally considered safe.
All of your HAPIfork eating data is transmitted to a personalized online account when you connect your HAPIfork to your computer via USB or your smart phone via Bluetooth.
LightUp even offers an Arduino-compatible microcontroller block to help kids start coding -- clip the programming wand to the block, hook it up to your computer, and away you go.
If you're an Android user with a pressing need to transfer files from your phone to your computer (and vice versa), there's a good chance you've heard of AirDroid.
Both also give you the advantage of hooking your TV up to your computer (pending, of course, that it has DVI-out, and you happen to have a DVI-to-HDMI adapter, if necessary).
Unlike the first model, which required you to hook the scale to your computer with a micro-USB cable and set it from there, this version can be set up from a smartphone.
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Hackers also profit by secretly taking control of your computer and selling access to your computer to companies that use it to operate their businesses at a discount to legitimate so-called cloud-services providers.
And if you're into Bluetooth, the Address Book application can use the wireless technology to display the caller-ID information from a Bluetooth-ready wireless phone, provided you also have a Bluetooth device attached to your computer.
Writing Secure Code notes that logging on to your computer as a member of the administrators group--with privileges to do anything to the computer, some of it downright nasty--is a bad idea, except when absolutely necessary.
Instead, high-speed wireless access services can leapfrog the fiber lines directly to your computer and provide even higher rates of data transmission-- over the same CDMA network that's already in place to route cell phone traffic.
Simply plug it in to your computer, then connect the other manufacturer's hard drive and it instantly becomes a totally automatic Clickfree backup drive that searches, organizes and backs up all of your PC data and digital files.
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Connection to your computer relies on a proprietary port -- similar but slightly larger than the iPod's -- to USB cable, which may suggest that we will see some more peripherals made for the Mini 5 and its future siblings.
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The new version of the iPlayer has been written with Adobe's AIR technology which aims to make it possible to create applications that can be downloaded to your computer, rather than just embedded in browser web pages as is possible with the widely used Flash software.
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