Sunday's Summary

• Monday: iCal vs. Windows Calendar
• Tuesday: Online Unit Converters
• Wednesday: Firefox 3 Review
• Thursday: Sticky Notes for your Windows Desktop
• Friday: Recreating Classics Using Legos
• Saturday: RepairPal Provides Honest Auto Repair Info

How It All Began...

The image below is a clipping from a newspaper in 1976 when the original Apple-1 computer was being advertised. A few things really stood out, but one of them was the Apple logo (bottom of left column). Wow, good thing they changed that, huh? The next thing that stood out was the price – $666.66?

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How It All Began...

The Internet has evolved into a marvelous thing, but it all had to start somewhere. The first website was located here (now replaced with an informational page), and it was started to aid physicists in answering tough questions about the universe. Now, however, the web is practically its own universe and almost everyone has their own

How It All Began...

Founded in 1976, Apple has continued to change the face of computers as we know them to be today. Apple computers were originally hand-built out of a garage. It began with the Apple I, and has evolved into the Apple as we know it today; whether it's the MacBook or the MacBookPro. Along with the computer evolving, so has their

How It All Began...

Microsoft Windows is obviously the most used operating system and sometimes we may take for granted how far computers have come. Each time a new version of Windows is released we compare it to the previous version and with the upcoming release of Vista everyone likes to say "what's different from XP?"

Maybe that isn't the question that should be asked. Instead how about we

How It All Began...

Supercomputers can handle absolutely enormous processing tasks these days and some will be approaching 1 PFLOPS (1 Peta Floating Point Operations). It would be pretty sweet to play a game of Solitaire on that baby!

After a little research I found IBM's Naval Ordnance Research Calculator (NORC) to be considered the first supercomputer. Of course, I am a little partial to considering the Atanasoff-Berry Computer

How It All Began...

All kinds of electronic devices from cameras, to video game systems have been getting wireless capabilities.  This made me wonder why portable televisions haven't been improving. We have handheld TV's that look like they haven't been updated in 10-years! I thought maybe I was missing something, so I started to search around to see if I could find the latest portable television technology.