PC’s Silver Jubilee
Thats right folks, our beloved Personal Computers have turned 25. Its one year older than me.. just missed the opportunity, or we both would have celebrated our Silver Jubilee together.
Twenty-five years have passed since IBM launched its version of the personal computer. Apple may have captured the attention of early computer hobbyists with its first products, but IBM’s PC made the business world sit up and realize that personal computers could be much more than toys. And Michael Dell thinks the best is still to come.
Michael Dell started off using PCs to create homework shortcuts, the way many young people at the time discovered the new devices. Few people, including Dell’s parents, realized exactly how large the potential was for the personal computer. More than 20 years after he founded PC’s Limited, he admits his parents never quite embraced his decision to leave the University of Texas at Austin to start the company that would eventually bear his name and record $56 billion in revenue during its last fiscal year.
More on the history of Dell and PCs @ CNet News
Israeli pilot deliberately missed targets
At least two Israeli fighter pilots have deliberately missed civilian targets in Lebanon as disquiet grows in the military about flawed intelligence. Sources say the pilots were worried that targets had been wrongly identified as Hezbollah facilities.
Voices expressing concern over the armed forces’ failures are getting louder. As one well-connected Israeli expert put it: ‘If we have such good information in Lebanon, how come we still don’t know the hideout of missiles and launchers?… If we don’t know the location of their weapons, why should we know which house is a Hezbollah house?’ Are the informants being forced to provide such information to annihilate Lebanese people or does Israel really have crippled intelligence?
More @ Guardian News
Work Friendly
Do you have those guys in your office, that cannot stop looking over your shoulder to see what new email attachment you received, or to see if you are really working or browsing for wallpapers? Well then there is a site to help you! Work Friendly has a cool interface which mimics Microsoft Office Word. Any site you visit will appear as being in MS Word with no colored text etc. Just B&W documents (site) with Word toolbar on top.
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Visit the site @ WorkFriendly.net
Dabble : Collect all videos
Well if you always thought only YouTube.com wasn’t a big enough resource for videos – OR – you thought that there were too many video sources for you to keep track of, then solution to both is this site: Dabble.com
What Dabble does is search all Video sites (blip.tv, ClipShack, DailyMotion, Google Video, YouTube etc.), collect their media, share them in one location. People can further add videos. And now one all the junk is one place, it lets you then organize it, tag it, allows you to make your playlists and then share these videos/playlists with others. Ah! peace for the internet couch potato generation.
Visit official site @ Dabble.com
