In 1877, English mathematician and astronomer James Jeans was born. One of Jeans’ major discoveries, named Jeans length, is a critical radius of an interstellar cloud in space. It is a function of the temperature and density of the cloud as well as the mass […]
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Yes folks, yet another freeware developer has gone over to the dark side, bundling undesirable software with its products. I have stated on many occasions that I have no problem with developers wishing to monetize their efforts, anything which helps keep our favorite freeware free
My Favorite Gadgets: Another developer gone over to the dark side! Read More »
In 1990 , the first Internet search engine, Archie, was launched. Archie was an index of FTP archives created by by Alan Emtage, Bill Heelan, and Mike Parker at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. Archie got its name from “archives”. It was shortened to Archie to
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Why Hard Drive Partitions? Hard drive partitions have many advantages. They give you control. Control over your data, programs, and backups. Here’s why – if you have all your eggs in one basket you will not only have one very big basket but you won’t
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If you’ve seen any one of the different tv shows about hoarding, or better yet an episode of American Pickers with an especially attached collector, you’ve witnessed how emotionally involved people can become with the objects they collect. When loved ones don’t share the same passion
Antique Radio Hoarder on Ebay leaves hilarious product listings about wife Read More »
In 1941, Dennis Ritchie, the father of C and co-creator of UNIX, was born. Windows was once written in C and UNIX underpins both Mac OS X and iOS. While Dennis Ritchie’s contributions are largely invisible to consumers, his contributions are critical to the digital
Geek Facts for September 9th – A Digital Revolution Titan and CoCo2 Read More »
In 1930, 3M began marketing Scotch transparent tape. Richard Drew invented Scotch® Cellulose Tape, later renamed Cellophane Tape. The tape helped people “make do” during the Great Depression since they could make simple repairs to household items. Learn more about tape at http://www.scotchbrand.com/wps/portal/3M/en_US/ScotchBrand/Scotch/Resources/History/Timeline/.
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Ok, you’ve made a leap of faith. You’ve bought a new PC or upgraded to Windows 8. Now what? How do you accomplish the tasks you used to do in a previous operating system? Where is the desktop? Where is the Start Menu? What the
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There are lots of online image editors available, each offering its own particular feature set, and all affording the distinct advantage of not needing to download and install any complex software. You probably already have a favorite, but here’s another, called FotoFlexer, which I thought
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Well that didn’t take long, did it. Windows 8 hasn’t even been officially released yet and already the devious cyber-crooks are taking advantage of the name. According to a McAfee security bulletin this latest rogue anti-virus, calling itself ‘Win 8 Security System’ was first detected
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In 1912, David Packard, co-founder of Hewlett-Packard, was born. With Bill Hewlett, David Packard was co-founder of Hewlett-Packard Company. HP’s first product was a resistance-capacitance audio oscillator based on a design developed by Hewlett when he was in graduate school. Packard left the company in
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In 2001, Mark Cuban and Phillip Garvin launched HDNet, the first High Definition TV signals. Available through cable and satellite television, HDNet provided exclusive HD coverage of the US invasion of Afghanistan. “Dan Rather Reports” on HDNet was awarded the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award
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So much information and news passes through the internet these days it’s difficult to keep up with everything. One momentous event which occurred recently and appears to have largely snuck under the radar is Windows 7 finally usurping XP as the most utilized Windows operating
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In 1932, Robert Dennard, the inventor of Dynamic Random Access Memory, was born. in the mid-1960s, Random Access Memory (RAM) required an elaborate system of wires and magnets that was bulky and power hungry. Dennard’s revolutionary achievement was to reduce RAM to a memory cell
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