Asus, one of the World’s leading PC manufacturers, has recently announced a partnership with BlueStacks which will bring Android apps to the Asus range of home computers. For the uninitiated: BlueStacks is emulation software which enables users to run Android apps on Windows computers. It’s […]
In 1977, the Apple II went on sale. The Apple II had a MOS Technology 6502 microprocessor running at 1 MHz, 4 kB of RAM, an audio cassette interface for loading programs and storing data, and the Integer BASIC programming language built into the ROMs.
To paraphrase the famous quotation from Mark Twain – it appears the reports of Yahoo’s passing have been greatly exaggerated. Yes folks, Yahoo is back! With a nice innovation which I’m sure they’ll be hoping can make some inroads into Google’s seemingly impervious domination in
Apple’s iPad still remains, by far, the tablet market leader. As reported by ABI Research, Apple shipped 11.8 million of iPads in the first quarter of this year. The colossal iPad sales were due to the release of the 3rd generation iPad as well as
In 2010, Falcon 9 Flight 1, the maiden flight of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, was launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Space Launch Complex 40. The first flight launched a stripped-down version of the Dragon capsule. It was not designed to survive re-entry,
[important]UPDATE (22nd December, 2012): Please read through the associated comments under this article. As you can see, this software developer has offered an explanation of the issues associated with his software, it seems pretty obvious that he made an honest error in judgement and has now
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In 1984, Commodore made two additions to their line of computers. The Plus/4 – originally called the 264 – was released for $300. The “Plus/4” name refers to the four-application ROM resident office suite (word processor, spreadsheet, database, and graphing). Learn more about the Plus/4
In 1966, Surveyor 1 was the first US space probe to have a soft landing on the Moon. The Soviet Union was the first when the Russian probe Luna 9 had a successful soft landing on the moon on February 3rd of that year. The
[message type=”info”] THIS GIVEAWAY HAS NOW EXPIRED – And the winners are (drumroll) … David L. Smith MD Pat Skip Larkin jonn l Rajesh Ghadye The winners will be contacted shortly by Aimersoft, so be on the lookout for the email. A BIG Thank You
I wanted to give you guys an update on the wonderful looking desktops and laptops that Vizio announced at CES this year. I read today on Gizmodo that Vizio had confirmed a June launch for the vizio computers. The biggest vizio Laptop should be available
Update: Super sleek and elegant PC’s and Laptops previewed at CES by… Vizio?! Read More »
Social networking has a lot of risks–we’ve been through this—but if you take some care to know what you’re getting yourself into you can avoid many of the pitfalls associated with sharing your self/work/life/etc. online. Maybe you’re about to setup your first Facebook account. Maybe
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In 1956, Tim Paterson, the author of MS-DOS, was born. MS-DOS was the most widely used operating system in the 1980s. Read more about Tim Paterson at http://www.patersontech.com/dos/micronews/paterson04_10_98.htm
In 2001 , Microsoft released the Microsoft Office XP office suite. The XP version included enhanced features that enabled users to link to the Internet and collaborate with co-workers on projects. Learn more at http://money.cnn.com/2001/05/31/technology/microsoft/index.htm In 2005, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) released the Athlon 64
As you know, much of my time is spent hunting around the net for good freeware products so I can tell you guys and gals all about them. In my travels I come across all sorts of strange and unusual offerings, many that I don’t
