In 1953, Jacqueline Cochrane became the first woman to break the sound barrier. Jacqueline Cochrane had several other aviation “firsts” — the first woman to take off from an aircraft carrier, the first woman to reach Mach 2, the first pilot to make a blind […]
uRexSoft is currently giving away its DVD Ripper Platinum software. uRex DVD Ripper Platinum would normally sell for $39.95usd – giveaway expires on 30th May. “Rip your DVD Movie to popular video file With fast speed and high quality. uRex DVD Ripper Platinum is a
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The music industry loves to tell us all how piracy has destroyed their business. They often equate downloading a song to stealing a car, or other absurdly exaggerated metaphors. While it may be true that physical cd sales have gone down significantly over the last
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1993, Intel’s Pentium processor was announced. “Pentium” comes from the Greek root word “pentas” meaning “five.” The Pentium was the Intel 80586 chip. The Pentium chip was estimated to be two times faster than the 486DX2 (66MHz) chip. Learn more at http://www.computermuseum.li/Testpage/Chip-Pentium-1993.htm
News of more changes to Windows 8 is filtering through, this time it is all about components which will no longer be included. Seems Microsoft has decided to drop Windows Media Center as an automatic free inclusion, Media Center will still be available but only
In 1718, Italian mathematician Maria Gaetana Agnesi was born. Maria Agnesi is known for the ‘Witch of Agnesi’. It was supposed to be called the ‘Curve of Agnesi’ but something was lost in the translation. Learn more at http://math.about.com/library/blbioagnesi.htm
The mega successful band Counting Crows has partnered with BitTorrent to release a selection of tracks from their latest album for free. The Counting Crows package includes 4 MP3 tracks from the ‘Underwater Sunshine’ album, plus album art and liner notes. It’s great to see
Unless you’re living in North Korea, it’s more than obvious that social media has taken over the internet. Facebook is predicted to reach 1 billion users by August. Sites you once knew and love are now asking their users to get “social” by interacting
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Using Styles in word allows you to apply formatting that you have defined to blocks of text in your documents. Most of the folks I train are terrified of styles in Word. Having said that, once I show them what a time saver they are,
In 1963, Faith 7, the last Mercury mission, was launched. Astronaut L. Gordon Cooper successfully completed the mission. He orbited Earth 22-1/2 times and was weightless for over 34 hours. Learn more at http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/mercury/missions/faith7.html
Here is a great set of technical eBooks free from Microsoft Press. All ten are full books downloadable in PDF format (some also available in Mobi and epub) and… did I mention… they are free! Download as many as you like: Go to THIS PAGE,
In 1973, Skylab, the first U.S. Space Station was launched. Crews visited Skylab and returned to Earth in Apollo spacecraft. Three 3-man crews occupied the Skylab workshop for a total of 171 days and 13 hours. Learn more at http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/skylab/.
“The Cloud” is becoming the place to be for backup and data storage. Microsoft offers its SkyDrive; Apple has iCloud; there’s Mozy, Acronis, JustCloud, Carbonite, Dropbox, etc. There are so many, it’s impossible to list them all. This Geek uses SkyDrive, iCloud, DropBox and, for
In 1991, Apple released Macintosh System 7.0. System 7 was too large to work comfortably from a floppy disk so it was the first version of the Macintosh operating system to require a hard drive. It was also the first Apple operating system to be
