In 1938, the electronic television system was patented by Vladimir K. Zworykin. Throughout the 1920s, RCA’s Vladimir Zworykin was busy developing the Iconoscope camera tube that would become the foundation for the all-electronic systems that would follow. Zworykin’s work was based on a CRT receiver […]
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First up I want to emphasize that we are talking about Windows Explorer here, not Internet Explorer. Windows Explorer is the native file manager which is included in, and fundamental to, any Windows operating system. It provides the graphical user interface we utilize for accessing
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Black Friday couldn’t get me out and waiting in line with the die-hards, but it definitely put me in deal-lookout mode. I spent the whole week leading up to cyber Monday looking for the best Blu-Ray player deal on the net. Of course there were
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I love the idea of organization. I started off every year of school since sixth grade with a glossy new planner and a plethora of eagerness and good intention (read: I never opened them after September). I’ve fallen victim to many a good marketing ploy
Convenience on any platform: How Springpad got me to love organization Read More »
Ah capitalism, the wonderful economic system wherein you can go broke saving money. Think about it. How many people spend the rest of the year eating ramen noodles after “saving so much money” shopping in the pepper-spray laced stores on black Friday and clogged webstore
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On October 1st we reported predictions that Chrome would likely overtake Firefox as number 2 browser as early as December this year – HERE. The number crunchers at StatCounter Global Stats are declaring this has now actually happened: Google’s browser Chrome overtook Firefox for the
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The issues with so-called freeware available from privacyroot.com were first brought to our attention by Marko, owner and administrator of our recommended freeware download site FreewareBB. The privacyroot.com home page displays summarized details of four software titles, three of which are clearly specified as being
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During my travels around the net I have been coming across the name Elefant Software more and more. The Italian based developers have produced a nice range of freeware with several titles attracting universal praise. Elefant software appears to concentrate mainly on applications to assist
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Airline pilots, IT managers, talk show hosts, doctors, football players, and sky divers all have something important in common. What might that be? They all have a plan “B” or a “crash” plan to use when things go wrong – and they always do at
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If you haven’t updated Adobe’s Flash player in the last 23 hours you should do so right now! Adobe has released a critical update for Flash player that addresses 12 serious security holes in the software in versions 11.0.1.152 and earlier. This affects ALL Microsoft
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