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Backup your precious files with My PC Backup

Do you have several small files that you need to always have access to? Perhaps you have important documents from your work, or school assignments that you need to have accessible on every computer? It’s not a bad idea to simply backup your precious files up to an external hard drive, but an online backup service offers you a great advantage of securely store your files at .... read more ....

Houston you need to forget all about your computer needs. Computer Troubleshooters are here

Everyone have computers at their offices, schools, colleges and homes. And everyone knows that no matter which brand of computer you have, one day things will go wrong with it. Yes, that’s the truth. It’s not a matter of “if” things go wrong, but it’s when that matters the most. If you are in Houston then you will be glad to know that computers and laptop repairs, laptop .... read more ....

When you need crystals and oscillators, you need FMI

Do you want to buy the best Crystals and Oscillators which are available in standard and custom Surface Mount and Thru-hole packages? Let me introduce you to Frequency Management International or popularly known as FMI. FMI provides world class and highly superior solutions in the design and manufacture of frequency control devices which includes Packaged Quartz Crystals, Crystal .... read more ....

Brazilian laundry soap comes with a GPS surprise

The crackerjack marketing teams at Unilever Brazil have come up with a promotion for the ages — they’ve implanted GPS tracking devices  into fifty boxes of the popular Omo laundry soap, and plan to follow buyers all the way to their doorsteps. We’re sure it’s a harmless promotion — the chosen get a free video camera — but on paper it sounds .... read more ....

Android 3.0 to Arrive This Fall?

In my opinion, this is a very low-key rumor, nonetheless it should be discussed. A Russian mobile journalist has predicted that Android 3.0 codename “Gingerbread” will land sometime in mid-October. There’s no proof on any of this just yet, but if what he says is true, the OS will be very powerful. Plus, it’s likely that 3.0 would be for the ultimate .... read more ....

Google Earth Leads to Discovery of Early Human Ancestor

Google is rarely afraid to toot its own horn, so when scientists at Witswatersrand University in Johannesburg, South Africa announced that they had discovered an entirely new species of hominid, Australopithecus sediba, the company’s Official Blog was practically elated. What is Google’s role in this discovery? It turns out that Professor Lee Berger, the lead scientist .... read more ....

Scientist Predicts A 'Miserable Future' For Our Universe

How did the universe begin? How will it end? Do other universes exist? Everyone at some time or another ponders these questions. Generations of researchers have brought us to our current point of understanding, but our picture of the universe has changed more in the past decade or so than it did in the past century. The changes have had a significant effect upon our understanding of .... read more ....

Underwear Made From Bananas Hits Australian Shops

Eco-friendly underwear? Australian underwear company AussieBum has launched it new range of men’s underwear made with Banana. The new organic underpants are made with 27 percent banana fibre from the weave of the bark from banana tree, and 64 percent cotton and nine percent of spandex. The company noted on its website that it will provide “ultimate comfort with eco friendly .... read more ....

Internet Explorer 9 Platform Preview revealed

Today at MIX10 it has been Internet Explorer 9’s turn to take to the stage, with the focus on hardware-accelerated HTML5, a new JavaScript engine and Direct 2D technology. In its current state, the new JavaScript engine vastly out-performs IE8, as you can see in the graph below.  It’s lagging behind Chrome, Safari and Opera 10.5 at the moment, but besting Firefox 3.6 (by a .... read more ....