May 10
PearlMountain has most generously donated 20 licenses for its versatile Image Converter software for us to use in a Mothers Day giveaway for our subscribers…Thank you Pearl Mountain! PearlMountain Image Converter would normally sell for $39.90usd but you now have the chance to win a free license simply by submitting a reply to this article… …
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May 16
News of more changes to Windows 8 is filtering through, this time it is all about components which will no longer be included.
Seems Microsoft has decided to drop Windows Media Center as an automatic free inclusion, Media Center will still be available but only as an optional extra and at a cost. There is …
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May 16
Maria Agnesi is known for the ‘Witch of Agnesi’. It was supposed to be called the ‘Curve of Agnesi’ but something was lost in the translation.
Learn more at http://math.about.com/library/blbioagnesi.htm
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May 15
The mega successful band Counting Crows has partnered with BitTorrent to release a selection of tracks from their latest album for free. The Counting Crows package includes 4 MP3 tracks from the ‘Underwater Sunshine’ album, plus album art and liner notes.
It’s great to see a group of musicians releasing their material free and legal …
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May 15
Unless you’re living in North Korea, it’s more than obvious that social media has taken over the internet. Facebook is predicted to reach 1 billion users by August. Sites you once knew and love are now asking their users to get “social” by interacting with one another and having everybody “follow” each other …
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May 15
Using Styles in word allows you to apply formatting that you have defined to blocks of text in your documents. Most of the folks I train are terrified of styles in Word. Having said that, once I show them what a time saver they are, they use them all the time!
Suppose you could create …
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May 15
Astronaut L. Gordon Cooper successfully completed the mission. He orbited Earth 22-1/2 times and was weightless for over 34 hours.
Learn more at http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/mercury/missions/faith7.html
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May 14
Here is a great set of technical eBooks free from Microsoft Press. All ten are full books downloadable in PDF format (some also available in Mobi and epub) and… did I mention… they are free!
Download as many as you like: Go to THIS PAGE, click on a book cover and follow the links.
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May 14
Crews visited Skylab and returned to Earth in Apollo spacecraft. Three 3-man crews occupied the Skylab workshop for a total of 171 days and 13 hours.
Learn more at http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/skylab/.
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May 13
“The Cloud” is becoming the place to be for backup and data storage. Microsoft offers its SkyDrive; Apple has iCloud; there’s Mozy, Acronis, JustCloud, Carbonite, Dropbox, etc. There are so many, it’s impossible to list them all. This Geek uses SkyDrive, iCloud, DropBox and, for clients, Carbonite. They all have their advantages, similarities and differences. …
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May 13
System 7 was too large to work comfortably from a floppy disk so it was the first version of the Macintosh operating system to require a hard drive. It was also the first Apple operating system to be available on CD although it shipped on floppy disks …
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May 12
Konrad Zuse also developed the Z4, the first programmable modern computer, making him the father of the computer. He also wrote the first algorithmic programming language called ‘Plankalkül’.
Learn more at Konrad Zuse at http://inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aa050298.htm.
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May 11
Until then, large glass electrostatic tubes were used. They were very unreliable, failing every twenty to sixty minutes. Forrester began a search for reliable memory capability. This would lead him to make one of the most important discoveries in computer history: …
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May 10
To celebrate its second anniversary, MacXDVD Software is offering their award-winning product MacX DVD Ripper Pro for free from May 9th to May 23rd. The regular price is $49.95. You can also win a free copy of MacX Video Converter by participating in their game. This is available to both Mac and Windows users.
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May 10
A reader recently wrote to me asking where he could the Table Tools tab in MS Word 2010. Apparently I had referenced the Table Tools tab in an article and he could not find it.
My response:
It is there although not readily intuitive for everyone. Follow the steps below to enable the Table Tools …
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