I just love my freeware, but it’s impossible to test and review all the new products which continue hitting the shelves almost on a daily basis. Most of those I do review are either of particular interest to me personally, or I believe might be […]
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In 1847, Richard March Hoe received a patent for a rotary-type printing press. The rotary printing press placed the type on a revolving cylinder, making it much faster than the flatbed printing press. It was sometimes called the “Hoe lightning press”. Learn more at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_March_Hoe.
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In 1829, William Austin Burt received a patent for his typographer, an early forerunner of the typewriter. The typographer was a rectangular wooden box 12 inches wide, 12 inches high, and 18 inches long. It mechanically worked by depressing a rotating lever so that an
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At this Tuesday’s earnings call, Apple is expected to announce that the latest version of Mac OS X, Mountain Lion, will be released on the following day. Apple had earlier announced in June that Mountain Lion would be available in July and July is starting
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In 1784, German astronomer and mathematician Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel was born. Bessel was the first to measure stellar parallax, an apparent change in a star’s position as a result of the Earth orbiting the Sun. Learn more at http://science.howstuffworks.com/dictionary/famous-scientists/astronomers/friedrich-wilhelm-bessel-info.htm
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In 2011, NASA’s Space Shuttle program ended with the landing of Space Shuttle Atlantis. NASA’s shuttle fleet – Columbia, Challenger, Discovery, Atlantis and Endeavour – flew a total of 135 missions. Learn more at http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/launch/
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You’ve probably heard, or are at least familiar with, one rendition or another of the song ‘I’ve Been Everywhere’. Well, here is the original version which was a mega hit in Australia for a then young man called Lucky Starr. The song was written in
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In 1969, Neil Armstrong became the first person to walk on the Moon. At 10:56 PM EDT, with more than half a billion people watching on television, Neil Armstrong climbed down the ladder of the lunar module and proclaimed: “That’s one small step for a
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The great Browser War rages on, and the new versions just keep rolling out. Mozilla has just released Firefox 14, a little over 12 months after the initial version 5 in the rapid release program. My calculator tells me that equates to a new version
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In 1988, International Business Machines (IBM) shipped version 4.00 of the PC-DOS operating system. PC-DOS 4.0 had an optional text-based file manager shell (DOSSHELL) with pull-down menus called by typing the F10 key, optional mouse support, a text-based user interface and support for hard disk
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I guess most people would be aware of OpenCandy by now, for those who are not, here is a short explanation compliments of Wikipedia: OpenCandy is an advertising software module consisting of a Microsoft Windows library that can be incorporated into a Windows installer. When
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In 1968, Andy Grove, Gordon Moore, and Robert Noyce found microprocessor manufacturer NM Electronics. The name was taken from Noyce (N) and Morse (M). They quickly changed the name to Intel, formed from the first syllables of “integrated electronics”. Learn more at http://www.referenceforbusiness.com/history2/84/Intel-Corporation.html
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