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But these pictures are not the work of a Surrealist - they are what happened when Google tried to tinker with its images of Earth.

This means you have to tinker with the settings - something that turned out to be easy once the problem had been identified.

First you call up a blueprint on your computer screen and tinker with its shape and colour where necessary.

The source code for the mail example and the previous example are available for you to tinker with.

Around the laboratory, technicians tinker with robots simulating industrial production processes.

"You tinker with that at your peril, " he said.

Tinker with a few physical constants and we would end up with no stars, or no matter, or a universe that lasts only for the blink of an eye.

But he was much more than just a clever tinker with things and words.

o Find ways to help customers and others on the edge to tinker with your products.

Give my husband an old motorbike to tinker with and he's as happy as a dog with two tails.

Mr Zittrain calls it "generative" : people can tinker with it, creating new services and elbowing existing ones aside.

Tinker with its culture, the game's executives say, and the sport would be irretrievably weakened.

As surety , recipients were made to supply their identity details, raising suspicions that Mr Elahi meant to tinker with voter lists.

What I got from it is how writers, Murakami included, often tinker with and rework their stories.

In principle, drugs could tinker with the epigenetic code to turn entire sets of rogue genes on and off .

This would be preferable to the Obama administration's new proposals to tinker with US rules on tax deferral.

Companies tinker with today's products rather than pay researchers to think big thoughts.

On most missions one or two astronauts would walk in space, carrying clumpy instruments in huge gloved hands, to tinker with the craft.

It has already proved possible to tinker with this genetic inheritance, with startling results.

Dr Tsien's contribution was to tinker with the GFP gene, and the genes of related proteins found in corals, to produce other colours.

TfL has indicated that it wants to tinker with the contracts before re-letting them, probably to take more control.

I recommend this guide to anyone looking to give a NXT system as a gift or looking to tinker with one themselves.

You might tinker with the HTTP response that each method renders, but your client code is really after only the HTTP return code.

With 20 tracks to race, 9 cars to choose from and a whole host of customization there's plenty here for the petrol-head to tinker with.

Foreign critics, though, want Germany to tinker with that formula.

In a sprawling research complex north of Chicago, Kraft's researchers test new foods and tinker with old recipes.

As other countries still tinker with maternity leave and women's rights, Sweden may be a glimpse of the future.

It was fascinating to watch those attacking the MDR-TB problem put in place these plans and then tinker with them day by day.

The government tried to tinker with the broken relationship with the other country by inviting its president to visit.

Knowledge of genetic engineering is emerging that allows scientists to tinker with, and change, the Very stuff of life.

Other scientists tinker with Darwin by borrowing a page from the creationists' book.

Scientists have dreamed up various ways to tinker with insects' DNA to fight disease.

"You cannot tinker with the workforce in general terms, " says Mr Acland. "It is very hard to make redundancies. "

Celebrities can veto tweets for products they don't want to promote or tinker with the language from Ad. ly's copywriters.

Chemists then tinker with these to enhance their taste.

So once we are sure the experiments are valid, we begin to tinker with the theory.

Now it's time to do what developers do best: Tinker with the code.

Underwater robots tinker with wells beneath a mile of water.

Don't tinker with ring fencing banks.

Would you tinker with nature?

This is to tinker with cloud cover.

My brother likes to tinker with his car.