In 1997, Comet Hale-Bopp crossed Mars’ orbit . The comet is named for its discoverers. On July 23, 1995, an unusually bright comet outside of Jupiter’s orbit was discovered independently by Alan Hale, New Mexico and Thomas Bopp, Arizona. Learn more at http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/halebopp.html
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Apple held their much-anticipated education event today in New York City. They are targeting the K-12 market with a couple of initiatives. The first initiative is iBooks 2, where textbooks will now be available alongside the rest of Apple’s ebook offerings. They have partnered
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In 1736, James Watt, the inventor of the steam engine, was born. The discovery that steam could be harnessed and made to work is not credited to James Watt. In fact, the ancient Greeks had crude steam engines. James Watt, however, is credited with inventing
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A reader wrote to me recently inquiring how he could have a different header on different pages of his document. I am always suprised by how many e-mails I receive on this topic! When you create a header or footer in your MS Word document,
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Digiarty, the developers of the well respected WinX range of DVD/video software first launched its free Air Playit software supporting iPod, iPhone and iPad some months back. Now Digiarty has just released the Air Playit software for Android. For the uninitiated: Air Playit provides
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Hardware manufacturers debuted super speed USB 3.0 all the way back in January of 2010 (eons ago by today’s standard cycle of product releases), but even two years later, few people are actually using the connections. At CED in January of 2010, 17 USB 3.0
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If you haven’t yet heard of SOPA, where the heck have you been hiding! Seriously, SOPA has been headline news for months, the proposed U.S. bill labeled the Stop Online Piracy Act (and shortened to SOPA) was a desperate attempt by the media industry to
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In 1989, astronomers discovered pulsar in remnants of Supernova 1987A. It was the first supernova seen in 1987, so it was officially dubbed Supernova 1987A, or SN87A for short. The star that blew up (Sanduleak -69 202) was the first blue supergiant ever seen to
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Our friends over at FreewareBB have uncovered a devious plot by developers unknown to promote Clipboard replacement software. The software is available under four different titles (that we are currently aware of) and being publicized and distributed via 4 different sites – but they are
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In 1968, Soyuz 4 and 5 completed the first docking of two manned spacecraft. Soyuz 4 and Soyuz 5 carried out the original mission of the first Soyuz mission in 1967 — docking between two manned spacecraft and transfer of crew members between the crafts.
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At your fingertips! unless you are in China or Iran! (Or the USA?) Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. – Jimmy Donal “Jimbo” Wales Laws are like sausages —
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In 1967, Robert J Van De Graaff, U.S. nuclear physicist, died at age 65. He developed a high-voltage electrostatic generator (later called the Van de Graaff generator). You’ll remember it from your local science museum. It is the metal ball that you put your hands
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In 1850, mathematician Sonya Kurtovsky Kovalevsky was born. She faced much discrimination as a woman in the field of mathematics. Her greatest success in mathematics occurred in 1888 when she won the Prix Bordin of the French Academy of Sciences for her paper On the
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Increasing numbers of links point to web pages, servers or other resources that have become permanently unavailable. The phrase also describes the effects of failing to update out-of-date web pages that clutter search engine results. A link that does not work any more is called
