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 …
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May 21
In 1977, Siemens Corporation financed an effort by Elographics to produce the first curved glass touch sensor interface, which became the first device to have the name “touch screen” attached to it. In 1994, Elographics changed its …
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May 20
Two weeks and counting, I’m still paperless at work. I have to say that I think it’s getting easier. Taking my iPad to meetings or using it to record information is starting to become second-nature.
I am still using Evernote to capture thoughts, meeting notes, etc. for the various things I am working on. I’ve …
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May 20
In 1884, Lewis Waterman patented what most consider to be the first practical fountain pen.
Learn more at http://inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aa100897.htm
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May 19
MP3 tools… the kind that rip, convert, merge and split… are plentiful as stand-alone applications but it’s rare to come across them all integrated into a full suite – and especially for free. That’s exactly what ‘MP3 Toolkit’ offers; a complete set of free powerful tools to perform just about every operation required for audio …
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May 19
The Apple III ran twice as fast as the Apple II and had 128K of RAM, twice as much as the Apple II. It was also the first Apple computer to have a built-in floppy drive.
Learn more at http://oldcomputers.net/appleiii.html
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May 18
Jacqueline Cochrane had several other aviation “firsts” — the first woman to take off from an aircraft carrier, the first woman to reach Mach 2, the first pilot to make a blind instrument landing and the first woman inducted into the …
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May 17
uRexSoft is currently giving away its DVD Ripper Platinum software. uRex DVD Ripper Platinum would normally sell for $39.95usd – giveaway expires on 30th May.
“Rip your DVD Movie to popular video file With fast speed and high quality.
uRex DVD Ripper Platinum is a powerful and stable DVD ripping software that is compatible with …
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May 17
The music industry loves to tell us all how piracy has destroyed their business. They often equate downloading a song to stealing a car, or other absurdly exaggerated metaphors. While it may be true that physical cd sales have gone down significantly over the last ten years, the record companies are still doing just …
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May 17
“Pentium” comes from the Greek root word “pentas” meaning “five.” The Pentium was the Intel 80586 chip. The Pentium chip was estimated to be two times faster than the 486DX2 (66MHz) chip.
Learn more at http://www.computermuseum.li/Testpage/Chip-Pentium-1993.htm
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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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