Once again, it’s time for Android’s top manufacturers to refresh their flagship handsets and give customers a couple more reasons to drop $200 and extend their contracts by two long years. While new Android phones and tablets are announced what seems like twice daily, Samsung
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In 1979, Radio Shack released TRSDOS 2.3. TRSDOS 2.3 was the final release of Model I TRSDOS, and probably the most widely used version. Despite the prevalence of third-party Model I double-density upgrades, TRSDOS 2.3 was never upgraded to support double-density. Learn more at http://www.trs-80.org/trsdos-model1-versions/
PearlMountain software is giving away its CollageIt Pro software for Mothers Day. The software would normally sell for $19.90usd… giveaway expires 13th May. “CollageIt is an easy-to-use photo collage maker for Mac OS X & Windows, which makes collage automatically. In a matter of seconds,
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In 1982, IBM released PC-DOS version 1.1. One of the main features of PC-DOS v1.1 was its ability to support 320 KB 5.25” floppy disks. PC-DOS v1.0 only supported a capacity of 160 KB. Learn more at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86_DOS_Comparison
Is that the year 2010? Nooooooo. Believe it or not (and most novices DO believe it), the message says that my computer has . . . drum roll . . . 2,010 CRITICAL issues on a registry scan. Do you actually think my computer WOULD
In 1949, the EDSAC performed its first calculation The EDSAC (Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator) was an early British computer that is considered to be the first stored program electronic computer. It contained 3,000 vacuum tubes and used mercury delay lines for memory. Learn more
In 1961, Alan Shepard became the first American in space, aboard Freedom 7. Freedom 7’s suborbital mission lasted 15 minutes, 22 seconds and reached an altitude of 186 kilometers (116 miles). Soviet cosmonaut Yuri A. Gagarin was the first human in space, having orbited the
If you’re tired of viewing PDF documents via traditional reader software which simply scrolls up and down pages, you may be interested in taking a look at this innovative freeware from Web Stunning. Flipping PDF Reader will transform your PDFs into flipbook format where turning
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In 1989, NASA launched Magellan to Venus. The Magellan spacecraft was named after the sixteenth-century Portuguese explorer whose expedition first circumnavigated the Earth. It arrived at Venus on August 10, 1990. Learn more at http://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/magellan/fact.html
The news that Microsoft is revamping it’s Windows Live range of software came as a bit of a surprise to me. Although, with the emphasis in Windows 8 redirected toward Metro and mobile apps, in retrospect it should have been expected. I am really dirty
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In 1978, the first documented spam email was sent. A marketer at the now-defunct computer firm Digital Equipment Corporation sent an email to 393 users of Arpanet, the computer network that eventually became the Internet. The recipients were not happy. Read more at http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn13777
Sophos, the highly regarded U.K. security software company, has just announced the discovery of a serious privacy leak emanating from the popular Firefox add-on ‘ShowIP’. According to the Mozilla add-on page, there are currently 169,000 people utilizing ShowIP. Here is ShowIP’s offcial description: “Show the
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So you’ve totally got this really awesome, super-new idea that no one has ever had before: sweet. And now you want to share it with everyone on all of your sites and networks: totally. Tweet it. Facebook it. Press it into a word. Drop it
In 1981, Radio Shack re-released Model III TRSDOS 1.3 with 2 fixes Originally released on May 1st, TRS-DOS was able to accept input/output commands that worked with disk files rather than the cassette tapes that were used by most other TRS-80 systems. Learn more at
