Geek Fact for February 24th
In 1955, Steve Jobs was born. Certainly in my lifetime, no one person has revolutionized so many different industries as Steve Jobs. Read more at https://davescomputertips.com/steve-jobs-a-revolutionary-man/
Steve Jobs – A Revolutionary Man
Today would have been Steve Jobs’ 57th birthday. Certainly in my lifetime, no one person has revolutionized so many different industries as Steve Jobs. The personal computer, music, retail, movie, mobile phone, app and tablet industries were redefined by his insight, efforts and marketing skills.
Geek Fact for February 23rd
In 1987, Supernova 1987A was first seen. It was the first naked-eye supernova since 1604. Because of its relative proximity to Earth, Supernova 1987A is by far the best-studied supernova of all time. Learn more at http://heritage.stsci.edu/1999/04/sn1987anino.html
Geek Fact for February 22nd
In 2000, Palm introduced the Palm IIIc. When introduced, the Palm IIIc handheld computer was the first color device based on the industry-leading Palm Computing platform. Learn more at http://pressroom.palm.com/releasedetail.cfm?releaseid=339196
Geek Fact for February 21st
In 1947, Edwin Land demonstrated the Polaroid Land Camera to the Optical Society of America in New York City. It was the first camera to take, develop and print a picture on photo paper (in black and white back then) all in about a minute.
Geek Fact for February 20th
In 1962, John H.Glenn Jr., aboard Friendship 7, became the first American to orbit the Earth. An Atlas launch vehicle propelled a Mercury spacecraft into Earth orbit and enabled Glenn to circle Earth three times. The flight lasted a total of 4 hours, 55 minutes,
Geek Fact for February 19th
In 1473, Nicolaus Copernicus was born. Copernicus proposed that the Sun, not the Earth, was the center of the Solar System. Such a model is called a heliocentric system. In this new ordering the Earth is just another planet (the third outward from the Sun),
Geek Fact for February 18th
In 1930, U.S. astronomer Clyde Tombaugh discovered Pluto. The existence of an unknown ninth planet was first proposed by Percival Lowell, who theorized that wobbles in the orbits of Uranus and Neptune were caused by the gravitational pull of an unknown planetary body. Learn more
Google Tracking Safari Users
According to The Wall Street Journal, Google Inc. had been bypassing the privacy settings on iPhones and computers to track the Web-browsing habits of millions of people using Safari, even if this type of monitoring was intended to be blocked. Google used special computer code
Geek Fact for February 17th
In 1959, Vanguard II, the first weather satellite, was launched. Vanguard II was the first satellite designed to observe and record the cloud cover of the earth. It was a forerunner of the television infrared observation satellites (TIROS). It is still in orbit. Learn more
Apple OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion Preview
According to Nilay Patel at The Verge, Apple has announced the developer preview of OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion. It is the next iteration in the Mac operating system but ‘Mac’ is conspicuously absent in its name. Mountain Lion includes new features such as Notification
Geek Fact for February 16th
In 1978, the first Computer Bulletin Board System (BBS) went online. The first BBS went online in the suburban Chicago home of Walt Christensen. It operated on a North Star Horizon 4 Mhz CP/M computer with a 5 MB hard drive and a 110 Bps
Geek Fact for February 15th
In 1999, American scientist Henry W. Kendall died. Henry Kendall, together with his colleagues Richard E. Taylor and Jerome I. Friedman, won the 1990 Nobel Prize in Physics for experiments which proved the existence of fundamental building bricks, called quarks, as constituents of the neutron
Geek Fact for February 14th
In 1924, International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) was founded by Thomas Watson. IBM’s predecessor was Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company, or C-T-R. Thomas Watson began expanding overseas—beyond the UK, Canada and Germany where its products were already sold—taking tiny C-T-R global. He renamed C-T-R with the more expansive