NASA's Image of the Day Gallery provided this cool infographic showing Alan Shepard's brief flight into space -- America's first. It appeared magically on my desktop courtesy of John's Background…
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In the last few years it's gotten a bit easier to use a microphone to record audio on your home computer -- USB headsets with quality microphones have been available…
Ok, so here’s the deal. You want a new computer, or iPad, or BluRay player or whatever. But your old one is still working perfectly fine. Yet, the features of…
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The iPad has been out for a bit now, and it’s the tablet that all the others will be compared against as they jockey for position going into the holiday…
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Twitter is in the midst of rolling out it’s new, all-encompassing interface, and I’ve been able to take a look at it in ‘preview’ mode. My verdict: quite nice, but…
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Earlier this week NASA release the first series of images from the WISE (Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer) project...and they are hot! Since WISE began its scan of the entire sky…
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My wife has been using this image as a desktop background for about a year now, but recently I took a good look at it. Initially I thought this was…