As February 24th, the birthday of Steve Jobs, approaches, EaseUS is giving away 1,000 pieces of CleanGenius Pro to commemorate Steve. CleanGenius Pro allows you to fast scan and clean your Mac in seconds, completely uninstall unwanted applications, show available disk space in the menu […]
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In 1924, John Joseph Carty of the Bell Telephone System spoke in Chicago, IL. His speech was carried across the nation on the first coast-to-coast radio hookup. An estimated fifty million people heard the speech. Read more about John Carty at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_J._Carty
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Ubuntu has long been considered one the most innovative distros among the Linux set and Ubuntu developers are now planning an initiative which should not only make Linux fans sit up and take notice but maybe create ripples in Windowsland too. Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth
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In 1984, U.S. astronaut Bruce McCandless made the first untethered space walk. Bruce McCandless helped to develop the Manned Maneuvering Unit (MMU), a rocket-propelled backpack that was worn by an astronaut during shuttle spacewalks. During STS-41-B, aboard the Challenger space shuttle as a Mission Specialist,
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Have you bought a nice new computer with a whopping hard drive but it has not been partitioned? Would you like to be able to create a new partition without messing up existing data? Gone are the days when you needed to go looking for
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In 1923, Edward E. Barnard, discoverer of Jupiter’s fifth moon, died at age 65. Jupiter’s moon, Amalthea, was the last satellite to be found without a photographic aid. He also discovered a nearby star that now bears his name, Bernard’s Star (shown here). Learn more
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About six months ago, I was sitting on the couch surfing TV, the web, my phone, and Facebook simultaneously when my wife calls out from the other room: “What’s an IRQL not less or equal error?” ~blink~ Good question, I thought to myself as
My iPhone battery never seemed to last long enough. I heard about cases that had a reserve battery built into them but was leery about the additional weight. I had also tried the standard things to conserve battery life (turn off Notifications and Location Services,
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In 1971, Apollo 14 Commander Alan B. Shepard Jr. became the fifth human to walk on the Moon. He and astronaut Edgar D. Mitchell explored the lunar surface. An innovation that allowed an increase in the range of lunar surface exploration and the amount of
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In 2010, Yahoo! sold HotJobs to Monster.com for a reported $225 million. Part of the deal included a provision that installs Monster as the exclusive provider of job ads on Yahoo’s home page for three years in the U.S. and Canada. Read more at http://news.cnet.com/8301-30684_3-10447082-265.html/a>
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This is part 3 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 4: Conclusion Third and final product for testing
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In 1966, Soviet Luna 9 accomplished the first soft landing on the Moon. Luna 9 was the first spacecraft to achieve a lunar soft landing and to transmit photographic data from the Moon’s surface to Earth, preceding the U.S. Surveyor 1 soft lander by about
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Here in Indianapolis, the city, the public, and businesses have been gearing up for the Super Bowl for over a year now. With the big game coming up in just a few days, the city is abuzz with Super Bowl news and talk. Every news
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On January 20th we reported the closing down of massively popular file sharing site MegaUpload by US Federal authorities – you can read that full story HERE. Repercussions within the industry were almost immediate with many similar file sharing sites subsequently removing all content which
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