“When a hard drive fails, if the data isn’t backed up, it’s gone. And it’s not a question of if your hard drive will fail, it’s when. Many people visualize their computer as a single thing with a big part (like a toaster) when in fact it has a number of different components (like a […]
“An 8.9m earthquake hit japan followed by a tsunami” hundreds dead after natural disaster strikes So many people dead, so many that still need help Yahoo news Cnn News Upon waking up an hearing these headlines the humanitarian in me puts a death grip around my heart for I can not go to lend my […]
House Republicans took the first step in blocking the Federal Trade Federal Communications Commission’s authority over Net Neutrality. A 15 – 8 vote was taken on the issue by the House Subcommittee on Communications and Technology to remove whats left of the Net Neutrality rules that the FTC enacted early in December. Those ruled would prohibit Internet providers […]
Very rarely do I stumble upon a video on YouTube that is worth posting here on the Newb Wired blog. Well folks, I just found a video that it worth it (and at this time has only around 300 views). I’ll just post the description so you can get on to the video. “The Game Station presents an epic […]
Our buddies over at Google have done it again (as in release a great, free product that is actually useful). That product being TeachParentsTech, which allows users to create and email a ‘care package’ that has a custom message and videos that teach your parent or grandparent how to do things like changing the computer time or using the […]
Every time I set up a new internet browser, I always face the dilemma of whether to install an ad blocker. I do not install it at first, but later I always do. The ads always force me to (I’m looking at you TechCrunch). Now to set up this discussion, I feel that I need to […]
A COMPUTER INFECTED WITH A TROJAN FAILED TO TRIGGER AN ALARM THAT COULD HAVE KEPT AN ILL-FATED FLIGHT ON THE GROUND. THE PLANE CRASHED IN MADRID SHORTLY AFTER TAKEOFF, KILLING 154 PEOPLE.
If highways worked like 3-D TVs, you wouldn’t be able to drive Fords on GM roads and vice-versa. It sounds crazy, but that’s the state of affairs with 3-D active shutter glasses. The glasses that work with your Sony television, for instance, won’t work for watching Monday night football at a friend’s place on his […]
Like any other company, Facebook tends to mess up at times. Most companies mess up and most people do too. Recently they introduced a universal ‘Like’ button, so people could like everything. Sounds good, right? Wrong. After visiting some of my daily site (may or may not include warez sites), Facebook seems to have introduced […]
Zothecula writes “Rocket engines are generally not thought of as being environmentally-friendly, but thanks to a newly-developed process, we may someday see them neutralizing the emissions from wastewater treatment plants.
