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
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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
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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
In 1979, Percom Data Company released MICRODOS for Radio Shack’s TRS-80. MICRODOS was the only TRS-80 disk operating system that made no attempt at TRSDOS compatibility. It was later known at OS-80. Learn more at http://www.trs-80.org/microdos/
I’m publishing this article as a follow up to the recent Ubuntu 12.04 article HERE. Reason being; I hunted around the Ubuntu interface for ages trying to locate a list of all installed programs without any success. I finally resorted to the old fall back…
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Ahead of his keynote address at next month’s WWDC, Apple’s CEO Tim Cook kicked off All Things Digital’s D10 executive conference, sitting down with Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher to talk Apple. Below are some of the more interesting excerpts of the discussion. For total
In 1919, Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity is tested and confirmed. Arthur Eddington conducted an expedition to observe the solar eclipse of May 29th, 1919 that provided one of the earliest confirmations of relativity. Learn more at http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=did-researchers-cook-data-from-first-general-relativity-test
Here is a site where you can watch full-length documentaries online, all free and legal. There are thousands of documentaries to choose from covering just about every conceivable topic, all sorted into a nice variety of categories. The site includes a registration facility but I’m
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In 1987 CompuServe released the Graphics Interchange Format (GIF) standard as a new format to save and retrieve computer-based images. The GIF format supports up to 8 bits per pixel, allowing a single image to reference a palette of up to 256 distinct colors. The
