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78Windows Vista Service Pack 1
Windows VistaTM finally released to manufacturing (RTM) service pack (SP) number one (1). According to Microsoft this will solve a number of problems, as service packs normally do, and add some missing...
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84Convert from Fahrenheit to Celsius and back
It is a temperature scale, or a number system assigned to temperature in order to track/record differences in temperature. The scale is named after it's inventor, Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit, who was a German...
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78Crazy Gifts - Holiday USB Gadgets
USB stands for Universal Serial Bus. It was introduced in 1995 as a replacement for traditional serial and parallel connectors. Advantages are that it's considerably smaller than the two former connector...
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78MacBook vs MacBook Air - a comparison
The MacBook, one of many in a line of Apple laptop computers, was introduced on May 16, 2005 as the iBook replacement. Boasting a speed increase of five times over the iBook G4 and four times faster than the...
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74How Cochlear Implants Work
Cochlea (pronounced 'coke lee uh'): This is a portion of the inner ear that looks similar to a nautilus or snail shell1. (see image below). It's function is to convert sound waves entering the inner ear and...
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78Blu Ray DVD vs HD DVD
Toshiba dropped HD-DVD today (February 19, 2008) after Wal-Mart, Best Buy, and Netflix abandoned this high resolution format. All three of these vendors, and many others, have adopted Blu-Ray by Sony....
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81Future Car - Electricity & Battery Technology
Though the only mention of "future" or "car" in this hub is in this and the next paragraph, it is with an eye toward the future car that the hub was written. With so many new cars being designed to run...
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85How nanotechnology has been applied to cancer treatment
In this article I hope to explain, in ordinary everyday English the term nanotechnology and how this science is applied to health and medicine. Applied Nanotechnology Science and Medicine I recently...
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80Kilo-Mega-Giga What are All These Computer Terms?
It recently occurred to me that there are a literal ton of terms used in selling and marketing computers. These terms may not mean much to the vast majority of computer purchasers, but they are important. ...
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81Should you buy the MacBook Air?
Appletm has generating a lot of talk with the new MacBook Air and as might be expected there's a lot market buzz as well. But is this the notebook computer you've been waiting for or not quite everything...
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