Tag: LCD

You've probably heard of Dead Pixel Buddy, a free app that helps you locate dead or stuck pixels on your LCD monitor. One of our devoted readers has sent us an interesting alternative that runs in your browser. Willy Ci has coded it as part of his portfolio, and it's elegantly simple. Pick a color with the palette tool, click go full screen, and your monitor is instantly awash in glorious ...

Do you have a pixel that is stuck on a certain color (other than black) on your LCD monitor or laptop? Luckily it's only ever happened to me once, and thankfully it eventually started working again. Stuck pixels are ones where they continuously show one non-black color; dead pixels are the black ones, and there's usually not much that can be done about those. So if you have a stuck pixel, how can ...

The One Laptop Per Child initiative is getting ready to roll out their line of $100 laptops for school children in developing countries in Q2 of 2007. Quanta Computer in Taiwan is the manufacturer that was brought into the project to create the low cost devices, expects that they will produce close to 10 million units in the first year of development. OLPC figured out a way to improve inexpensive ...