You can also backup your phone to iTunes and restore it by connecting to you PC or Mac or backup to iCloud, but you had better do that before you drown your phone.
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Video game software sales dropped 18%, or 14% if you include PC games.
If you own a Samsung PC, you may want to search your hard drive for an unassuming program called StarLogger, a piece of commercial spyware capable of recording every keystroke on your machine and sending the data to a third party.
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Using software you install on your PC, you can take complete control over all the phones in the house and turn your internal phone network into a system like a private branch exchange (PBX) not unlike what you might find at the office.
You'll be forgiven if you install this PC into the same living room cabinet where you keep the TV and stereo system.
This is an app that lets you use a PC to configure your phone more quickly, since you can type out your credentials on a full-sized keyboard.
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Once you've decided what you want your PC to do, get the most advanced unit you can afford, and make sure its memory can be easily upgraded.
Using Bluetooth 4.0 and a custom Android app, you designate your PC as the one that needs protection, and then you set a threshold for when the alarm should go off (the range is customizable, but doesn't go beyond five feet).
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For one, in order to receive an alert on your phone, letting you know someone picked up your PC, you'd have to be within Bluetooth range, which means if you're covering a tradeshow in Taipei and someone robs your apartment in New York, you'll be none the wiser.
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But if you use your PC to plan your schedule and your finances, or if you want the right date on your Happy New Millennium e-mail messages, then you may want to give your hardware and software a Y2K physical.
"Whether you're pushing your own brand or manufacturing for others, if you're in the PC business, you'll do very well this year and are likely to do quite well next year too, " says Leu.
Ransomware is malicious software that hackers use to lock you out of your PC and demand money from you before you can use it again.
In short, if you thought the notebook PC market was about to die, you should guess again.
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And soon, when you watch a movie or listen to music on a Windows PC, you might have to click an icon marked Xbox.
From a PC you can transfer money, buy shares, apply for loans, check balances.
If you're using a desktop PC or laptop PC at work, you'll probably end up using the old interface.
As the name suggests, it's a 20-inch PC you can move from room to room -- if 11.86 pounds can really be considered portable.
This, and the optical drive, will be the real performance bottlenecks in the system and in the PC you could theoretically build to compare it with.
It depends on what you mean by PC.
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Electronic Arts is offering patient SimCity mayors who have stuck with EA Maxis through thick and thin (not that retailers allow you to return PC games these days) with a selection of free digital games.
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And you thought the PC was dead.
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Early users of the close-range wireless technology already know it's useful for things like performing a HotSync operation from across a room--provided you have that PC outfitted for Bluetooth already--or printing documents from the handheld to a Bluetooth-ready printer.
If you move the tablet too far away from the PC Station and you're running the Windows operating system, it will automatically switch to Android tablet mode.
Those digital assets will also create a "context" around you that will make it possible for your devices to know and recognize your preferences and needs, so that when you go to buy a new mobile phone or PC, everything you need to get up and running will be instantly on tap.
But, if you don't, or can't, and have even a three-year-old PC, you may want to just stick with the Windows you've got.
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For example, now you can edit a document on the go with Windows Phone 8 and pick right up again on your PC when you get home.
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It's a lot easier if you have a Media Center PC (MCE), but even if you don't have an MCE, we showed you how to put DVDs on your Portable Media Center when we reviewed the Creative Zen.
Besides if you have a Xscale Pocket PC phone, it's cool to say you Overclocked your Phone.
If you need a refresher you can read the article here, but the gist of my argument is that the work you're doing in applications on your phone, tablet, or PC should follow you around.
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