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Intel has grown into the world’s foremost manufacturers of processors for PCs and laptops, and, according to CNET News, is even gaining in new chip markets. Through the years, the research and development of new chip circuitry at Intel’s lab has virtually defined the personal computing landscape. From it flagship 4004 to the latest tablet chips, Intel has been a chip innovator for over 40 years.
The Aleutian Islands off Alaska's southwest coast represent a true bridge over troubled water, albeit a broken one. Early North American inhabitants are thought to have crossed the land bridge over the Bering Sea from Europe thousands of years ago. Today, the land mass has been splintered into some 300 islands, spaced irregularly as if a careless giant had lifted and dropped it. The area attracts few tourists because of its geographic isolation and wild weather, but enthralls the initiated with its volcanoes, thick vegetation and vast and varied native wildlife.
Hartford Insurance is actually one of the oldest insurance companies in the United States. Find out about the history of Hartford Insurance with help from a full-time insurance professional in this free video clip.
Dutch corporation Philips has been a major player in the electronics market since the 1920s, helping to develop innovative technologies like the Compact Audio Cassette and CD. The company has enjoyed continued success in the early 21st century, with its 2012 annual report showing over 118,000 employees and sales of approximately $32.4 billion. A look at the history of Philips can give you an insight into the evolution of the modern electronics industry.
Exporting Facebook message history is a great way to backup your important information. Export Facebook message history with help from an SEO copywriter and social media consultant in this free video clip.
Viewing the history manager for Facebook is a great way to keep track of your past activities. View the history manager for Facebook with help from an SEO copywriter and social media consultant in this free video clip.
Recovering your iPod history is a great way to restore items you may have accidentally deleted. Learn about recovering your iPod history with help from a technology expert in this free video clip.
Standards for RAM max, the maximum amount of random-access memory that a computer can support, have grown greatly over the years. While early personal computers measured their memory in kilobytes, which is thousands of bytes, computers today can access gigabytes, which is billions of bytes, of RAM. In fact, some computers can even support memories measured in terabytes, or trillions of bytes.
Removing history from the Bing search engine is actually something you do through the site itself. Remove your history from the Bing service with help from an app developer and Web designer in this free video clip.
In contrast with the Internet's ability to connect to global websites and facilitate communication around the world, local Intranets allow online communication within a closed system of users, typically employees of a single business or organization. Extranet takes Intranet one step further, facilitating the exchange of information over a network that spans multiple organizations, such as suppliers, vendors and trading partners.
Cursor-based computer video terminals of the 1970s and 1980s represented a step in an evolutionary process that began with the earliest days of television and continues with the personal computers common today. Video terminals of this earlier era connected to a central computer that had most of the processing power; unlike personal computers, these terminals had very little computing capability of their own. Video terminals helped usher computing into offices, schools and homes.
The Query Browser utility program, a GUI management tool for MySQL relational databases, automatically saves the commands you type into a history file for later use. By clicking on the program’s query history, you can see and reuse the commands you issued on any given day.
Celestron, a company based in Southern California, produced its first telescope in 1960. Since then, the firm has offered a wide range of optical equipment for professional and hobby applications in the fields of astronomy, outdoor sports, science and education. Among these offerings, the SP-C8 telescope, a high-end scope made for deep-sky observation and astrophotography, gained prominence in the 1980s and 1990s.
The common but still intriguing goldfish is a familiar sight in home aquariums and is often the first pet that many young children own. Their easy care and cheerful appearance make them a favorite for people of all ages. Goldfish have a long history as an ornamental fish, going back to the ancient Chinese dynasties. Many different species of goldfish are available, which are bred for specific characteristics such as color, eye shape and tail shape.
The GeoMedia application is a part of Intergraph's geospacial processing application suite. The program allows you to view, analyze and present geospacial data using a variety of commands and tools built directly into the application. One such command, the "Analyze Geometry" command, allows you to place the latitude and longitude coordinates for a specific feature in the GeoMedia application. If you want to use the "Analyze Geometry" command, you can do so directly in the GeoMedia application.
For more than 50 years, Harley-Davidson riders had to be content with four gears. The company's four-speed transmission design was solid enough to remain virtually unchanged from its introduction in the 1930s until its retirement in the 1980s, but during that half century, many Harley riders wished for one more gear at the top. In 1980, the wish came true, and the five-speed gearbox would stay at the top of Harley's transmission line for over 25 years.
Diodes, two-terminal semiconductors, allow current to flow in one direction while blocking current flow in the opposite direction. Diodes appear in a plethora of electronic devices to protect circuits via limiting voltage, multiply and mix voltages and convert AC power into DC power. Since George Westinghouse founded his company in the late 1800s, the group has filed more than 400 patents and paved the way for numerous innovations in the field of diodes, mostly in the 1950s and 1960s.
The Java programming language requires an application programming interface or “API” to handle email messages. JavaMail uses the Java language to handle email via IMAP, POP3 and SMTP. Sun Microsystems created the JavaMail API for release with the company’s enterprise-level Java platform back in 1999.
In geography, the "axis" is defined in a very specific way. Learn about the axis in geography with help from a high school mathematics tutor in this free video clip.
Sea Scooter is a marque of SeaDoo, itself a brand of Bombardier Recreational Products. Widely known for its personal watercraft and small boats, SeaDoo also manufactures an extensive line of subsurface machines used by divers as personal towing devices. The SeaDoo line is branded as Sea Scooter.
Although pagers, which communicate through short bursts of data, had been used in various forms throughout the second half of the 20th century, they became more accessible to the average business user or consumer in the 1980s -- a time when cellular networks were in early development stages and most homes and businesses had land line telephones. Although BlackBerry and SkyTel both started as paging devices, they took different business directions.
Figurative language describes something by comparing it to something else. Similes, metaphors, personification and alliteration are all ways to introduce figurative language into your social studies curriculum. According to James A. Duplass, author of "Teaching Elementary Social Studies," figurative language can help your students thoroughly analyze a topic and pay close attention to detail. Introduce a few engaging and hands-on activities into your curriculum and your students are likely to learn both social studies and figurative language concepts.
Properly called a hand-shifter, the terms "tank shift," "suicide shifter," "slap-shifter" and "jockey shift" all refer to a drivetrain that requires the rider to remove one hand from a motorcycle’s handlebars to select and change gear. Harley-Davidson’s Panhead, introduced for the 1949 model year and replacing the Knucklehead, featured a tank shift through its entire production run.
When working in Eclipse Subversive, you might want to delete the SVN history of a project item to prevent the program from overriding your own changes. Eclipse Subversive is a programming project management tool which can connect to an Apache Subversion server, also known as SVN. You can delete the SVN history for a project item in Eclipse Subversive by following a specific procedure.
In the late 1400s and early 1500s, Christopher Columbus explored the Caribbean, and Central and Southern America, beginning the age of explorations that ultimately brought others to the shores of North America. Other explorers, such as the Vikings, had also made the voyage and had settlements scattered along the Eastern seaboard, including in New England and Canada. Pre-Columbians preceded Europeans by crossing over the ice age land bridge at the Bering Straits from Asia. By the time the first European colonists settled, the Americas were already populated. Lessons on who first settled in the United States need to start with…
It's a long way from making a bathtub out of a hog trough to being one of America's largest privately held companies, but that's the path John Michael Kohler set out upon when he got inspired about what to do with the trough in 1883. The Kohler company would hold on to its founder's inventiveness for the next century and more as it became a leading manufacturer of not only plumbing fixtures but small engines as well.
The disc jockey-level Pioneer CDJ-500 was, at the time of its release, a flagship compact disc player. The incorporation of advances in technology into its features gave the CDJ-500 an edge in functionality and performance as well as a first entry for the Pioneer Company into the realm of disc jockey CD players. Although Pioneer stopped production of the final version of this CD player in 2005, its position as a first in many areas make looking at its history both interesting and informative.
The word "hacker" gained notoriety at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the 1960s. The campus culture at the MIT slotted students into two groups. Students who regularly attended classes, spent time in the libraries and turned in their assignments on time where branded as "tools." "Hackers" on the other hand were students who dumped classes, slept during the day and invested their nights in recreational activities. It was the MIT hackers of the 1960s who tampered and rigged the newly installed mainframe systems on campus and thus became the pioneers of computer hacking.
Tagalog is a language spoken in the the Philippines. Tagalog is from the Austronesian language family and is spoken as a first language by more than one third of the population of the Philippines. A standardized version of Tagalog called Filipino is the national language of the Philippines. Tagalog has an interesting and complex linguistic history and has been the focus of numerous academic studies by linguists and linguistic anthropologists.
Interoffice communications technology existed decades before the intercom. After Kellogg patented the first Intercommunicating Telephone System in 1894, the ability to communicate with an employee or broadcast official reports to an entire building took a big step forward. As the name suggests, early intercoms relied on telephone technology, but manufacturers continue to improve systems by adopting new tech.
Produced from the 1930s to the 1990s, Detroit Diesel's Series 71 engine is one of the most persistent diesel engine designs ever developed. Originally conceived as a highway-capable alternative to General Motors' large locomotive diesel engines, the Series 71 proved itself to be worthy of use in a multitude of marine, industrial and military applications.
Microsoft Excel includes four useful charts you can use to design and plot a topographic map. After you have entered the appropriate data in a worksheet, you can create a flat top-down view of the data, using a contour chart or a wireframe contour chart. To create a 3-dimensional map of the data, use the 3-D surface chart or the wireframe 3-D surface chart.
Placing a student in a biology classroom three to five days a week does not guarantee that the student will learn anything. Parents and teachers know that students need internal motivation to learn, but they also know that they can encourage students to learn by providing a supportive educational environment. Parents can motivate students to study biology by applying some helpful tips.
When West African slaves came to the Americas in the 17th century, they brought a tradition of basket weaving with grass and weeds. Plantation slaves in South Carolina used marsh grass to construct woven baskets. Slaves used these baskets to separate rice from chaff and to carry fish, vegetables and cotton. Although basket weaving is a laborious and intricate process, there are a variety of weaving projects that kids can take part in to mimic the work of plantation slaves. For all weaving projects, make sure you have a generous supply of grass, husks, straw and weeds that are at…
Some Dell Latitude E4300s are shipped with Windows XP, and others, with Windows Vista. Windows has its own native utilities that can troubleshoot and recover many problems with the OS. For issues that Windows can't resolve, the recovery partition -- exclusive to Windows Vista PCs -- or media discs -- exclusive to Windows XP PCs -- that are packaged with the notebook must be used. The recovery partition and media discs provide utilities designed to restore the computer to its original state.
CO2 dragsters are miniature vehicles powered by liquid CO2 and raced on a track. The hobby traces its roots to the larger prewar soap box derby racing that used gravity to propel the cars and the early postwar period of using CO2 to power miniatures. The hobby is popular among young boys and taught in schools to encourage interest in science and technology.
Rampe tumblers were first introduced in the late 1970s, as an invention of John F. Rampe. Often known as "vibratory finishers," these tumblers cleaned and smoothed down small workpieces such as dice or gemstones. No longer manufactured, Rampe tumblers are available as used purchases from private owners.
Toshiba is a technology company formed by the merger of two companies, Tokyo Electric Co. and Shibaura Engineering Works in 1939 in Japan. Today, Toshiba is known for making televisions, DVD players, computers, medical equipment and other devices. Its history began with telegraph equipment and light bulbs in the 1800s.
Watch markings give essential information about the individual timepiece. These codes will advertise the watch company and the watch's country of origin. B-Y is an abbreviated marking that could designate three different watch companies that contributed different components of the watch.
Latitude is a location-sharing app that can be turned on in Google Maps and is available for Android, iPhone and Windows Mobile. Location can be shared automatically or manually for security and privacy, though both settings may encounter delays in updating. The delay may occur for several reasons.
Although they may sometimes seem inapplicable to everyday life, the truth is that everyone uses geographic concepts each and every day. Geographic activities may be as simple as reading a map or driving to the grocery store, or as complex as choosing the right city to live and work in.
The Choremaster was an odd duck single-wheel light-duty tractor that garnered some popularity in the Midwestern market in the late 1940s and early 1950s, but it faded from use by the 1960s. A 1 1/2-horsepower Clinton or Briggs & Stratton engine powered the Choremaster. The company offered limited models, including snowplows, but its garden tractor was its primary product.
Germany's Güldner-Motoren-Gesellschafft manufactured tens of thousands of tractors between 1938 and 1969, and Guldner tractors have become a favorite of tractor enthusiasts both in Europe and in North America. The Guldner tractor manufacturing venture was, from its very beginning, only a relatively minor division of the company that would become industrial giant Linde AG, a fact that ultimately brought about the end of the Guldner tractor era.
Kia produced the subcompact Sephia four-door sedan and five-door hatchback under many names throughout its production run from 1992 to 2001. In addition to Sephia, Kia badged it the Mentor, Timor, Shuma and ultimately the Spectra. It kept the Sephia badge until 2000. Kia then produced the Sephia with the Spectra before the automaker phased out the Sephia in 2001.
The Yamaha YZ250 belonged to the YZ family of motocross motorcycles. It debuted in 1975 and was the first off-road bike with a single rear shock absorber. The innovation led to significant changes in how motorcycle makers manufactured off-road bike suspension systems. Unlike many two-stroke motocross bikes, Yamaha consistently updated the YZ250, which that led first-place wins in such off-road classics as the 2009 American Motorcyclists Association National Hare Scramble.
The Grundig company of Germany produced various sorts of electronic equipment for several years. Established in 1945 in Nuremberg by Max Grundig, the company changed owners several times before becoming part of a Turkish company in 2004. It started production of the Satellit radio receiver series in 1964, with the last models produced in 2008.
Trendy cellphones have many small buttons and features that are too complicated and unnecessary for some users. The Jitterbug cellphone was created with senior citizens in mind. As a result, the Jitterbug features large buttons, while older models only had three buttons. If you can't live without games and Internet on your cell phone, the Jitterbug is not for you.
Like the HMMWV and its Hummer civilian counterpart, the Tigr vehicle is manufactured by the Russian automaker GAZ in versions intended for use by both military and civilian markets. The GAZ-2975 is an armored high-mobility vehicle designed to provide secure and versatile transport for small military teams, while the GAZ-2330 civilian vehicle is a full-size SUV aimed at the mainstream consumer.
Late night television watchers are probably familar with CyberDefender's well-advertised PC maintenance applications, including MyCleanPC and Registry Cleaner. From 2004 through 2011 the company developed from a software-only enterprise to a business model that includes both software and live technical support.
Early automobile brakes consisted of steel bands that tightened around a drum installed on the rear axle. These brakes were a carryover from braking systems used on horse-driven carriages. As automobile speeds approached 80 mph, early systems became inadequate. In 1918, an inventor named Malcolm Loughead discovered how to use hydraulics in automotive braking systems. Loughead's name was later changed to Lockheed, and he co-founded the Lockheed Aircraft Corporation in 1932.
