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This section takes you on a brief “guided tour” of the history of hard disk drives, to help you understand more about how they were developed and what the key technological improvements were that enabled the modern disk drive that we all rely on today.
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As many of you probably know as well as being used as a blog WordPress can also be used as a CMS or if you didn’t know here are a few examples of sites that use it. (Found via www.codex.wordpress.org). Click on any example to go to the sites.
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Few things are more irritating than having to deal with a format that is incompatible with what you need it to do. It doesn’t matter if it’s a media file, document, or shoe size; it’s just plain frustrating. To make your life easier, check out this
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The GNU Image Manipulation Program, a.k.a. GIMP, is a fantastic open source raster graphics editor freely available for many platforms. GIMP can be used for professional graphics, logo and Web design, photo editing, batch processing of image files, photo
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14 great programs you didn’t even know you needed–and needed desperately. Some will have a major impact on the way you compute.
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In the interest of keeping items brief I’ve cut the previous post and put the boring stuff here. Enjoy. Or don’t enjoy, as the case may be. Skip over it. Whatever.
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Meet the N810 Today a next step in the evolution of this hardware has been announced and for people that lamented the lack of a thumb keyboard in the previous two devices the news is especially welcome. In addition to sporting an even slicker design than
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In this article, we’ll study the JPEG baseline compression algorithm using the image on the right as an example. (JPEG is an acronym for “Joint Photographic Experts Group.”) Some compression algorithms are lossless for they preserve all the original infor
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Get the full power for your GPU! Pictomio sets new standards for 3D accelerated browsing of your photo and video collection. Pictomio requires a graphics card with ShaderModel 2.0 and a minimum of 128 MB video RAM.
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Thirty-five years in the making, electronic paper is now closer than ever to changing the way we read, write, and study — a revolution so profound that some see it as second only to the invention of the printing press in the 15th century. Made of flexib
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Experienced Ubuntu users know what to expect from this Thursday’s release of Gutsy Gibbon, the love-it-or-hate-it code name for version 7.10 of the popular Linux distribution. It’s not a major “Long Term Support” release, it’s not a radical re-thinking of
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For a few minutes during Microsoft Corp. CEO Steve Ballmer’s appearance at the Gartner Inc. Symposium ITxpo conference here, emotionless management-speak gave way to a mother’s frustration with the Vista operating system.
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Big Ideas for a Better World For PM’s third annual innovation celebration, we honor eight inventors (with video from the lab) and 10 products with one big, IQ-packed party and three important discussions for our future.
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New Horizons passed Jupiter on Feb. 28, riding the planet’s gravity to boost its speed and shave three years off its trip to Pluto. It was the eighth spacecraft to visit Jupiter – but a combination of trajectory, timing and technology allowed it to ex
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A touch-sensitive gadget with the sensing panel on its back, instead of the screen, is being developed by US researchers. Using your fingers behind the device allows a firmer grip and more accurate performance without obscuring your view of the screen, th
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Today, COR Entertainment is scheduled to release version 6.10 of Alien Arena 2007, the popular free software, 3-D, first-person shooter built atop id Software’s Quake II engine, which was released under the GPL in 2001. The new release of Alien Arena come
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Unlike previous 2.x releases, OpenOffice.org 2.3 is a new and enhanced feature release rather than a bug fix. There are several smart changes, a whole new approach to adding new features and of course the much anticipated new charting tool. This is defini
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Writer’s Tools is an all-around tool designed to help OpenOffice.org users to perform a wide range of tasks. It makes easier to backup documents, look up and translate words and phrases, manage text snippets, and keep tabs on document statistics.
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It’s been a long, grueling time for Alien Arena developers, but version 6.10 is finally here! You in for some major changes, enhancements, and surprises! How does 7 brand new, gorgeous arenas to play in sound? How about a more balanced and responsive weap
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I was sent a 4-foot single run pair and after a short break-in (Adam suggested that the break-in is minimal, but even so I gave them 48 hours on the Cable Cooker and good two-weeks 24/7 of music prior to the audition) and found the cables to be very, very
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Several readers alerted us to yet another hilarious and preposterous situation in the “audiophile” business, which we have referred to frequently simply because if some of their claims were true, they would be paranormal. Here’s another such. Monste
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Ultimate Speaker Cable Following in the footsteps of the highly acclaimed ANJOU Analog Interconnect, the ANJOU Speaker Cable strives to offer the highest quality speaker to amplifier connection possible. A no-compromise speaker cable optimized for the mos
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Firefox 2.0 uses Shift+Alt as the keystroke combination to invoke access keys. On the surface, this appears to be a great idea, as it avoids clashing with the shortcut keys used for the browser. Unfortunately, the new behaviour has been poorly implemented
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See how calculations used to be done before the days of electronic calculators. Find out about an important piece of engineering history. All pieces of the slide rule are draggable.
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