A student at Pentucket Regional High School had a broken iPod, so he “took the entire thing apart and was rubbing wires against the battery, which became very hot, then exploded.” Science projects are usually fun, but experimenting with the internals of an iPod should be left off your shortlist.
This is not a faulty product [...]
According to IDC’s data, Windows is still the dominant player. The fourth quarter 2009 was more robust than the third, in terms of total revenues and units. Windows’ share of the total stayed constant unit-wise, yet declined, dollar-wise, when compared to the previous calendar quarter.
That said, Windows is still far and away the No. 1 [...]
The ALC882 series 7 1 2 Channel High Definition Audio codecs with UAA Universal Audio Architecture featuring five 24 bit stereo DACs and three 20 bit stereo ADCs are designed for high performance multimedia PC systems The ALC882 series incorporates proprietary converter technology to achieve over 100dB Signal to Noise ratio playback quality easily meeting [...]
The Bloom Box launch has drawn comparisons to Apple product announcement, says The Guardian. Thankfully, this technology has innovation on its side. Customers include “FedEx, Walmart, Staples, Google, Coca-Cola, Bank of America, Cox, and of course, eBay.” Video after the break.
Not much to look at, but we’re happy to say it retains a low temperature [...]
With a design that looks like several houses that were stacked on top of each other, this architectural masterpiece "was built by Herzog & de Meuron for the Vitra Campus in Weil am Rhein, Germany." It’s definitely a refreshing sight to see, compared to the other extravagant yet dull mansions you see on MTV [...]
Google Maps has a photo layer that shows high-quality images from Panoramio. Finding photos from almost any place in the world makes Google Maps more useful, but sometimes there are too many photos to choose from. Now you can filter the photos displayed by Google Maps using the tag cloud generated by Google or using [...]
One of the neatest new features in Windows 7 Professional and above is XP Mode, but not all machines are capable of running it. Today we show you how to use VMware to run XP Mode on machines without Hardware Virtualization.
How does this work?
Even if your computer doesn’t have hardware virtualization, you can still install [...]
Yahoo has formed a partnership with Twitter to help boost the company’s social features. With this partnership, users will be able “to view the short, 140-character messages created by Twitter users, dubbed Tweets, directly within Yahoo sites as well as to publish their own Twitter messages without leaving Yahoo.” Continue reading for a video on [...]
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WinZip reg is the original and most trusted file compression software for Windows No other compression utility is as easy to use or offers the comprehensive feature set and productivity enhancing approach that has made WinZip the gold standard in file compression tools The new WinZip nbsp 14 nbsp provides deep integration with Windows including [...]
