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Happy 30th Birthday, ZX81!

March 12, 2011

In 1980, British company Sinclair released their ZX80 computer for $199.95. One year later, they released the new and improved ZX81 . Compared to the ZX80, the ZX81 was much cheaper, at only $99.95, the first computer for under $100. The ZX81 has the same microprocessor and runs at the same speed as the ZX80, but it [...]

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Jeff Beck Pulls Off Two Grammys

February 15, 2011

Besides the Lady Gaga in the egg thing, and some of the expected pop horsesh#*, last nite’s Grammy’s weren’t too bad for actual artists. Jeff Beck was nominated for five, and managed to take home two– actually three, when you count his involvement with Herbie Hancock’s Best Pop Collaboration Grammy. Jeffs two were: Best Pop [...]

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Protected: 5 Tips for SEO & User-Friendly Copy

February 10, 2011

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9 Ways to Prevent Identity Theft From Your Online Activities

January 17, 2011

If you have ever experienced identity theft yourself or even know someone who has, you know the experience can be a harrowing one. Criminals can open accounts in your name and impersonate you for a multitude of reasons – none of which are good. While thieves have been performing identity theft for a long-time offline [...]

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Fender 60th Anniversary Telecaster

January 11, 2011

Leo really nailed it first time didn’t he, the Telecaster is such a simple, beautiful and timeless design worthy of a 60th Anniversary Celebration. It features an ash body, tinted maple neck and fretboard with modern 9.5’ radius and medium jumbo frets, American Vintage Telecaster single-coil pickups, modern tuners, American Standard bridge with bent steel [...]

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Magical Electronic Glasses Automatically Switch from Regular to Bifocal

January 10, 2011

Here’s one of the coolest products from CES: PixelOptics glasses that automatically change into bifocals when you tilt your head. This is a godsend for those of us ‘of a certain age.’ Who wants to reveal their crotchety oldness by wearing glasses with that telltale boundary in the lens between close-up and faraway vision? Not [...]

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The 9 Types of Computer Viruses To Watch Out For in 2011

January 5, 2011

Everyone dreads being the recipient of a computer virus, but not everyone minds studying them. There are researchers who spend a lot of time looking into different types of computer viruses and related security threats in order to determine how they’re programmed, how they do damage, and how they spread. Personally, I find this field [...]

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Google Chrome 8 – Introducing The Chrome Web Store

December 9, 2010

Cloud computing is all the rage these days. Google’s ‘everything’s a web app’ outlook has finally taken a hold over the Chrome browser this week with the release of the much-anticipated Chrome Web Store (see our news story by Steve on it). Comparable to Apple’s App Store and Google’s own Android Marketplace, the Chrome Web [...]

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