Who Made That Mouse? - NYTimes.com

Who Made That Mouse? - NYTimes.com: "n the late 1950s, computers ran so slowly that you might wander off for coffee, or even go home to bed, while you waited for your office’s machine to work through a problem. But Doug Engelbart, an electrical engineer, envisioned a computer fast enough to react instantly to commands. And a machine like that, he decided, would need a driver’s seat."

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[CES 2010] RCA Airnergy Charger Harvests Electricity From WiFi Signals | OhGizmo!

[CES 2010] RCA Airnergy Charger Harvests Electricity From WiFi Signals | OhGizmo!: "The Airnergy Charger is amazing. Forget your android battery saver/iphone battery saver, this charger handles everything via WiFi directly. This little box has, inside it, some kind of circuitry that harvests WiFi energy out of the air and converts it into electricity. This has been done before, but the Airnergy is able to harvest electricity with a high enough efficiency to make it practically useful: on the CES floor, they were able to charge a BlackBerry from 30% to full in about 90 minutes, using nothing but ambient WiFi signals as a power source."

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List OF: Best Keyword Research Tools That Might Be Useful For Your Site

List OF: Best Keyword Research Tools That Might Be Useful For Your Site: "Researching right keywords is a vital step for better search engine visibility of a blog/website. Keyword research is an aspect which is being used by SEO professionals to receive quality traffic to a website through search engine."

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10 Amazing Google Search Hidden Tricks That Will Surprise You

10 Amazing Google Search Hidden Tricks That Will Surprise You: "Google is probably the most useful and effective search engine among all others. People can blindly rely on Google for any kind of search and for any kind of information that they require whether work related, games, latest trends, movies and you name it."

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Why You Probably Aren’t Getting the Internet Speeds You’re Paying For (and How to Tell)

Why You Probably Aren’t Getting the Internet Speeds You’re Paying For (and How to Tell): "Have you ever noticed that your Internet service provider advertises their speeds as “up to” a maximum speed? You may think you’re paying for a 15 Mbps connection, but you’re actually getting an “up to 15 Mbps” connection that may be slower."

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Get a List of Software Installed on Your PC with a Single Line of PowerShell

Get a List of Software Installed on Your PC with a Single Line of PowerShell: "Suppose someone asks you for a list of applications you have installed on your computer. To get this information, what’s the first thing you would think to use? Third-party program? Not us, we have PowerShell."

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I Bet You Didn't Know Your Webcam Could Do This! 5 Tips To Help You Use Its Full Potential

I Bet You Didn't Know Your Webcam Could Do This! 5 Tips To Help You Use Its Full Potential: "Are you the kind of person that covers their webcam with a sticker, so nobody can spy on them?
Almost every device now is equipped with at least one camera. They make virtual meetings with family and friends a little more personal. Rather than staring at a static profile image and hearing a distant voice, you can visually interact with the other person, read facial expressions, and thus better understand how the human on the other end feels. This subtle information adds a lot of depth to conversations."

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Here’s Why Firefox is Still Years Behind Google Chrome

Here’s Why Firefox is Still Years Behind Google Chrome: "Firefox has a problem. It has fallen behind, with development stalled on the most crucial, most difficult problems. Many of the most significant improvements in Firefox over the past few years have simply been copying changes made in Chrome."

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Add a hard drive-activity LED to a laptop that lacks one | PCWorld

Add a hard drive-activity LED to a laptop that lacks one | PCWorld: "Call me old-fashioned, but I like to know when my hard drive is active.

That's partly so I know when Windows has more or less finished its boot activity (which, on one aging machine, takes 7-8 minutes), and partly so I can troubleshoot problems."

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