Twitter is one of the most popular social networking tools used today, it is used for personal use, business use, and for non profit use. It's rise amongst 25-45 year olds is astounding. It is still pretty uncommon for teenagers, and older adults to use the service. It has gained popular notoriety...
A Netflix outage apparently has caused numerous customers to panic. Netflix is apparently having server problems on Tuesday night, as both the site and its Instant Watch features are inaccessible as of 9:30 ET. No official word from Netflix on what is responsible for the interruption or when the...
A TFT monitor is a very thin film transistor. It is one of the key components of LCD monitors (which, because of the width, are often called flat panel displays). A TFT monitor uses several, minute transistors that each correspond to a pixel. The size of the transistors takes very little time or...
FLAC, or Free Lossless Audio Codec, is a type of compression method that allows for the preservation of the original quality of the audio recording while at the same time also reducing the total file size of the finished, compressed file. FLAC is an open-source and royalty-free format. Because of...
Steel is an ideal construction material—it is easy to shape, strong, and easy to manufacture. It can also be remelted and recycled, making it very “sustainable” and eco-friendly. However, like all metals it is prone to rust and corrosion, especially when it is exposed to the elements. To solve...
High-Speed Downlink Packet Access (often abbreviated as HSDFPA) is one of the most recently released forms of protocol for sending mobile telephone data. HSDPA is classified under 3.5G or generation technology. In a nutshell, it allows users to download data into their cell phones at the same...
The Guardian App reached over 100,000 downloads for iPhone and iPod touch since its December 14, 2010 launch. Director of Digital Content for Guardian News & Media, Emily Bell, proclaimed ""Breaking the 100,000 download barrier in just over two months is an enormous achievement for the Guardian...
PGP, or Pretty Good Privacy, is the most recognized public key encryption program on earth. PGP is used in many applications in order to protect people's privacy. It is used in emails, data files, drives and also instant messaging. The internet can be vulnerable to spying from unscrupulous parties....
Random Access Memory (also known as RAM) is a computer chip that acts as temporary data storage. It holds active and frequently used files. This allows the computer to retrieve them quickly, since it doesn’t have to sort through the larger hard drive just to find them. However, Random Access...
The F35B Joint Strike Fighter began Short Take Off and Landing (STOL) trials last weekend at Naval Air Station Patuxent River. The aircraft will be used by the United States Marine Corps to replace both the aging Harrier STOL aircraft and the FA/18 Hornet fighter. Designed as a stealth aircraft,...
