A simple but useful option available in Windows 7, which many may not be aware of, is the ability to display up to 2 additional time zones via the System Tray Clock. Living in Oz and continually battling the time differences, I have found this […]
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In an earnings call with Apple in October of 2010, Steve Jobs was talking tablets, namely, the iPad. The call featured Jobs boasting about the number of iPhones (14.1 million) and iPads (4.19 million) the company had sold in the previous quarter. This was the
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In 1924, International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) was founded by Thomas Watson. IBM’s predecessor was Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company, or C-T-R. Thomas Watson began expanding overseas—beyond the UK, Canada and Germany where its products were already sold—taking tiny C-T-R global. He renamed C-T-R with the more expansive
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Mozilla’s very existence was founded on the doctrines of open competition. Indeed, its flagship Firefox browser was primarily conceived to provide Windows users with a viable alternative to the dominant yet insecure Internet Explorer. It appears Mozilla is now preparing to apply the principle across
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In 1923, Chuck Yeager was born. On October 14th, 1947 he became the first person to attain supersonic flight when he flew the Bell XS-1 (named Glamorous Glennis) past the sound barrier. Learn more at http://www.century-of-flight.net/Aviation%20history/jet%20age/top%20speed.htm In 1980, Apollo Computer Inc. was incorporated. Apollo made
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Avast Software has just announced the initial Beta release of its 2012 range of security products: http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=92820.0 Avast’s latest iteration includes additional and improved features, the introduction of cloud technology plus an array of configurable options which allow users to customize Avast’s protection to suit
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VidConvert is a video converter designed to make converting your videos simple and easy. VidConvert will convert just about any type of video into one of the many popular formats of today. Creating videos for your iPhone or iPad, for your Mac or TV, or
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In 1998, Intel unveiled its first graphics chip, the Intel i740. Many industry analysts predicted that the i740 would be a fixture in the PC graphics world. Competitors, however, quickly released chips that outperformed the i740. Intel had to sell the chip at fairly low
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This is NOT a how-to on password creation or design. If that is what you’re looking for, then do a search on this site using the keyword “password” and you’ll see quite a few results. A lot of articles by Jim Hiller, and also the
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In 1847, Thomas Alva Edison was born. Edison was the most prolific inventor in American history. He amassed over 1,000 patents covering a wide range of fields, including telecommunications, electric power, sound recording, motion pictures, primary and storage batteries, and mining and cement technology. Learn
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This is the final of a 4 part series evaluating and comparing 3 alternative cleaning suites. The three products are SlimCleaner, Toolwiz Care and Wise Disk Cleaner: Part 1: SlimCleaner — Part 2: Toolwiz Care — Part 3: Wise Disk Cleaner Time to make final
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In 1996, IBM’s Deep Blue defeated chess champ Gary Kasparov. This victory marked the first time that a current world champion had ever been beaten by a computer opponent under normal tournament conditions. Kasparov had easily defeated Deep Blue’s predecessor, Deep Thought, two years earlier.
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There are many uses for fields in MS Word. You can, for example, use SEQ codes to create automatic numbering which can be extremely helpful in the business world and in academia. Then there are the Fill-In fields, which you can use in a template.
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The past couple of days have seen a furor erupt over the shenanigans of two popular apps for iPhone. The ‘Path’ social media application, which is readily available via the Apple App Store and described as “the smart journal that helps you share life with
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