PC GURU

07/11/2013

***Computers History***

The Commodore 64 (1982) retains the record as the most successful single computer model ever, selling over 10 million units.

The best seller...

04/11/2013

*Did You Know?*

Ever heard of mouse rage?
It’s a real thing that typically involves taking your computer frustrations out on your mouse and possibly ruining it. Website loading slowly? Smash your mouse against the desk as if that might help (it won’t). Ridiculous number of pop up ads? Just launch your hapless mouse at the wall.
Mouse rage is also often caused by gaming. It’s sometimes called Mouse Rage Syndrome or MRS...

14/08/2013

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Of the 247 BILLION email messages sent every day, 81% are pure spam

13/08/2013

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Every month, domain names are being registered at a rate of more than one million!

12/06/2013

***Computers History***

Simon was the name given to the first "personal computer" of history, a project developed by Edmund Berkeley and presented in a thirteen articles series issued in Radio-Electronics magazine, from October 1950

The Electric Brain Simon of Edmund Berkeley

11/06/2013

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IP means both Internet Protocol and Intellectual Property. Thus when you say a company is involved with IP, nobody will know what you are talking about

09/06/2013

The precursor to today's GPS car navigation system was released in 1985. It was the ETAK Navigator and used a computer with a dead reckoning program to navigate...
The Hardware was a Intel 8088-based system with 256K RAM and a cassette tape drive on which digital maps and some of the operating system were stored

09/06/2013

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Adobe Photoshop was originally called Display, then ImagePro. It was not developed by Adobe, but licensed from a college student named Thomas Knoll in 1988

08/06/2013

***Computers History***

The precursor to today's GPS car navigation system was released in 1985. It was the ETAK Navigator and used a computer with a dead reckoning program to navigate...
The Hardware was a Intel 8088-based system with 256K RAM and a cassette tape drive on which digital maps and some of the operating system were stored.

07/06/2013

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Up until the 14th of September, 1995, domain registration was free

06/06/2013

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In the 1950s computers were commonly referred to as "electronic brains

04/06/2013

**Computers History**

Designed to be the ultimate portable computer GRiD 1101 is the grand-daddy of all modern-day laptops. It cost over $8000 in 1982

The grand-daddy of today's laptop computers (1982)