In 1967 , NASA launched the ATS-3 communications satellite. The ATS-3 satellite provided emergency communications links during the 1987 Mexican earthquake and the Mt. St. Helens volcano eruption and supported the Apollo moon landings with real-time TV transmissions for broadcasting by Radio Caracas in Venezuela.` Learn […]
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Windows 8 Hotkeys List The new Windows 8 interface leaves many of us left in a state of perplexity. This list of keyboard shortcuts should help us in this new age of touching, tapping, swiping, pinching, and all the other things that have strange suggestive
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In 1982, Compaq announced the Compaq Portable. Weighing 28 lbs. and nicknamed “the sewing machine”, the Compaq Portable was the first successful IBM PC clone. Featuring a 4.77MHz Intel 8088 processor, 128 to 640KB RAM, a nine-inch monochrome monitor and a 320KB 5.25-inch disk drive,
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In 1973 , NASA launched Mariner 10, the first space probe to reach Mercury. Mariner 10 was also the first spacecraft to use the gravitational pull of one planet (Venus) to reach another (Mercury) as well as the first spacecraft mission to visit two planets. Learn
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I’m sure you’ve heard all the ruckus surrounding the Start Screen in Windows 8 and probably fallen into the “I must have Windows 8” or “They’ll have to pry Windows 7 from my cold dead hands” camps. Either way you’ll hopefully agree with me when
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In 1920, KDKA in Pittsburgh, PA went on the air as the first commercial radio station. KDKA signed on the air and, at 8:00 PM, began transmitting updates on the presidential election returns. Learn more at http://explorepahistory.com/hmarker.php?markerId=1-A-30F.
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Reports are circulating that more than 7,000 free Android apps available through the Google Play store come embedded with an advertising module which is actively harvesting usage and personal details. The initial discovery was made by Tend Micro senior researcher Alice Decker when she inadvertently
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Here are three nice Halloween Giveaways which are still up for grabs; for uRex Video Converter Platinum, Aimersoft Video Studio Express, and Wondershare PDF to Word: uRex Video Converter Platinum **The software must be downloaded and *activated* before 6th November! uRex Video Converter Platinum offers
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In 1962, the Soviet space probe Mars 1 was launched. Mars 1 was the first attempt to probe Mars. Unfortunately, contact was lost with the spacecraft 60 million miles en route to Mars. Learn more at http://www.spacetoday.org/SolSys/Mars/MarsExploration/MarsProbesPast.html.
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Creating backups, both imaged-based and file/folder-based, is a topic which has been pretty well covered in the past. However, it is a subject which can bear repeating and this article is in response to a request from one of our subscribers who asked: “Could you
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In 1956, George Dufek became the first American to land by air at the South Pole. Admiral George J. Dufek of the US Navy landed at the South Pole in an R4D-5L Skytrain (C-47 Skytrain) aircraft. Learn more at http://www.eoearth.org/article/South_Pole?topic=49460.
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[important]This article was written by Bill Pytlovany and has been reposted here with his kind permission. Bill is the developer of the well known WinPatrol security program, he is among the original cyber-security researchers and one of the founding fathers of the Internet as we
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Oftentimes at night, it seemed like my iPhone 4 was buzzing and beeping all night long. Sometimes I would put it on Mute but then I would invariably forget to unmute it in the morning. There wasn’t a good, easy solution to keep my phone
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In 1888, John Loud was granted the first U.S. patent for a ballpoint pen. His design consisted of a tiny rotating ball bearing that was constantly coated with ink by a reservoir above it. While this invention worked for rough surfaces, it was not well
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