In 1975, the USSR launched Venera 9 for Venus landing. The orbiter was the first spacecraft to orbit Venus, while the lander was the first to return images from the surface of another planet. Learn more at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venera_9
Reports have been circulating that more than 6 million hashed user passwords have been stolen from the popular LinkedIn site and posted on the internet. LinkedIn representatives initially failed to confirm the stories, responding by saying… the matter is currently under investigation. They have now
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When I was ready to buy my first smartphone, I chose the Motorola Droid over the iPhone, mostly because the Droid featured a slide-out QWERTY keyboard. I had gotten used to having a full keypad after owning three feature phones that either slid-out or flipped-open
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You all know I love working efficiently and saving time and working from your list of recently used Docuemtns in Word is a great way to do just that. Say you were working on a document yesterday and at the end of the day you
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In 1975, Sony introduced the Betamax videocassette recorder for sale to the public. The Betamax format was on its way to becoming the industry standard until the appearance of JVC’s VHS a year later. VHS offered longer-playing ability, which made it possible to record an
Have you experienced problems when attempting to install Windows 8 Release Preview? Apparently, many users have been unable to successfully install this latest Win8 version, receiving the error message… “Your PC’s CPU isn’t compatible with Windows 8“. This issue has already elicited a lot of
In 2005, Apple announced that it was switching from Power PC processors to Intel processors. At WWDC, Steve Jobs stated that the Power PC processors used too much heat and energy to be used in upcoming Apple products. Learn more at http://www.everymac.com/mac-answers/macintel-faq/why-did-apple-switch-to-intel.html
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
