After so-called disappointing earnings and revenue last quarter, Apple has pretty much blown the numbers out of the water for Tim Cook’s first quarter as CEO. Its growth is rather staggering, especially given the competition from Android devices on both the smartphone and tablet fronts. […]
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This is part 2 of a 4 part series evaluating and comparing 3 alternative cleaning suites. The three products are SlimCleaner, Toolwiz Care and Wise Disk Cleaner: Part 1: SlimCleaner — Part 3: Wise Disk Cleaner — Part 4: Conclusion In Part 2 we are
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In 1627, chemist Robert Boyle was born in Ireland. He is best known for Boyle’s Law aka the Ideal Gas Law. We all remember it from our high school chemistry class. The law states for a gas of constant temperature, changes in pressure are inversely
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This story is not at all amusing but it is incredible – I couldn’t find a more suitable category so posted it here. Apparently the story has been around a while, this actually happened quite some time back. But I hadn’t heard about it before
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I have previously shown you how to reduce the physical size of photos/images using FastStone Image viewer, in order to make them more email/share friendly – you can view that previous article HERE. In this guide I’m going to show you how to reduce an
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There are many ways to skin a cat, and probably even more ways to measure mobile platform dominance. Not long after Motorola’s first Droid smartphone reached 1 million copies sold, Google, Apple, the media, and fanboys everywhere have all used different tactics and statistics for
In 1984, following up the ‘1984’ commercial that aired two days earlier, Apple Computer unveiled its Macintosh personal computer. Apple was so adamant that you use the mouse that the original Macintosh keyboard had no arrow keys. Learn more at http://lowendmac.com/history/1984dk.shtml In 1986, Voyager
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I have a mate (yes, I do have some mates) in Melbourne, Victoria who delights in utilizing unusual/non-standard fonts in her emails. The emails will more often than not elicit responses such as ‘hey, what font is that you are using?’ and ‘where did you
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In 1959, Robert Noyce conceived of the idea of an integrated circuit, aka microchip. It was at Fairchild Semiconductor, where he was the General Manager, that Robert Noyce invented the microchip for which he received patent #2,981,877. In 1968, Noyce founded Intel with Gordon Moore
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In 1984, during Super Bowl XVIII, Apple’s iconic ‘1984’ commercial aired. Apple became a household name in the third quarter of Super Bowl XVIII when it aired the enormously popular 1984 ad promoting the upcoming release of the Macintosh. Arguably the most famous Super
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In 1979, Neptune became the outermost planet as Pluto moved closer to the Sun. Back in the days when Pluto was still a planet, Neptune began a 20-year run as the outermost planet in the solar system as Pluto’s elliptical orbit carried it closer in
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There are occasions when you may have a document that is full of hidden text and now you need to make that hidden text visible. The quick answer is use the Find and Replace feature in MS Word. Follow the steps below to learn how.
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A client recently e-mailed me inquiring about filtering in his Excel worksheet. It seems he had a list of data in column A and one in Column B. He had created a conditional format such that any data that was in column A and also
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Shortly after news of SOPA’s expected demise began circulating, the Feds have closed down MegaUpload, one of the World’s largest and most popular file sharing sites. The site’s founder (Kim Dotcom) and three others were arrested by police in New Zealand at the request of
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