Simply crank up the heat to keep your phone from freezing to death.
It took the Internet, though, to really crank up the information pitching machine.
The unit's output level is lower than standard equipment like DVD players, forcing you to crank up the stereo's volume.
Clever software helps Blueswarf.com's customers crank up factory output by configuring mills and lathes with the best combination of tooling.
Indeed, it is France that feels the need to crank up the spluttering Franco-German motor that once propelled Europe forward.
Now, when others try to block me, I tune up the negative, crank up Bon Jovi, and keep living my life.
Bolstered by this, they crank up the dismissiveness and vitriol with the knowledge that all their atheist friends have their back.
To crank up other ventures, Gorman enlisted Michael Schulhof three years ago.
The opportunity to get a potentially higher return is starting to push Kilroy and a number of REITs to crank up new developments.
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How much room there is for both of these new plants to crank up production in such close intervals could be an issue though.
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Hendrix changed the way the guitar was played and inspired legions of aspiring rock stars to crank up their amps and make that feedback sing.
Subsidizing alternative energy, in contrast, is likely to have the perverse effect of causing them to crank up the air-conditioning in that mansion in Nashville.
"We do not advise our customers to crank up volume, " says Vachon, while touting GE's latest models as having the lowest radiation doses in the industry.
He thinks the Saudis are lying about their ability to crank up output and that natural decline rates from existing fields will overwhelm new fields from Iraq, Venezuela or Nigeria.
So Ben Bernanke should absolutely crank up the printing presses.
Once economic signaling starts to crank up on the demand side of the marketplace, the supply side will have to start regarding customers as complex and fully empowered actors.
Cardiff's lead was deserved for their endeavour and work-rate against a serious promotion contender but Burke's opener was a wake-up call for Albion as the Baggies began to crank up the pressure.
That ISG has been able to crank up its own production to meet demand is due partly to its having recently also bought two other American companies: Weirton Steel and Georgetown Steel.
In some years, imports of oil have accounted for more than half of that deficit, so one way to take a hammer to the trade deficit would be to crank up domestic production.
Critics such as Heartland and ALEC are saying that most base-load generators are designed to go all-day, every-day and not to crank up and down so that they can back up wind and solar.
And what if that car, which also knows how long it will take you to get home from work, could instruct your household thermostat to crank up the heat 10 minutes before your scheduled arrival?
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While we're on the topic of settings, you can set a maximum and minimum temperature, along with a four-digit password -- you know, so that the kiddies don't have too much fun using that click wheel to crank up the heat.
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In my tough laptop test, where I turn off power-savings software, crank up the screen to 100%, leave the Wi-Fi on to collect email, and play a continuous loop of music, the XPS 12 lasted just 3 hours and 31 minutes.
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And while they were impressed with the 30 fps, 1, 280-by-1, 024 (interpolated, of course) video, they found that the audio quality from the built-in mic left a lot to be desired, having to crank up the volume in order to hear each other clearly, resulting in some nasty feedback.
And as politicians crank up the gears in the expectation of a upcoming election it's clear that Europe will be one of the main points of contention, Labour want to wait and see on a referendum that they have committed to it looking into it early in the next Parliament.
Taking photos and videos in low-light situations has always involved some kind of tradeoff: you can either crank up the ISO and reduce image quality significantly, use something like Sony's NightShot and add that alien green tint to everything, or trust your image stabilizer to go from wacky-blurry to just pretty-blurry.
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When it is completed later this year, it might crank out up to 30 petaflops and use around 10 megawatts.
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