I've always wanted to present an educational product, one intended especially for children in primary school because, that way, I would contribute to making the learning process just a tad better for some. And by better I mean more fun, with less stress associated with it and, why not, a real pleasure. Well, now... |
1 October 2008
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If you are involved in some activity or another that occasionally requires you to make fast calculations in fields such as geometry, algebra, number theory or anything else related to these, it may be worth your while to try out Sage, an open source, free math software. It could prove to be just the tool you needed i... |
4 September 2008
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Yesterday, Sun Microsystems made available a beta version of NetBeans Integrated Development Environment (IDE) 6.5. The new version of the open source development platform features IDE-wide QuickSearch, support for PHP, Groovy and Grails, imports from Eclipse and JavaScript debugging. It also adds a lot of enhancemen... |
14 August 2008
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We came across Spire's GigaPod VIII SP105B hard-disk enclosure during one of our raids in the supermarket. The GigaPod enclosure is a budget solution that is heavily discounted these days. We managed to snatch a unit at just $25.08, which is quite a bargain if you have a spare ATA hard-disk drive.IntroductionSpi... |
12 May 2008
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NewerTech announced a new USB 2.0 drive adapter to connect any type of drive to the computer via a USB 2.0 interface. The company has a long tradition in producing performance upgrades and accessories for the popular Macintosh, iPod and iPhone devices.The first time I saw the USB adapter, I mistook it for a sophistic... |
15 January 2008
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Parallel ATA or IDE data transfer interfaces have been around for some years now and they are slowly but steadily driven to extinction by the ever increasing adoption of the fast and more manageable Serial ATA interfaces. As more and more computer hardware manufacturing companies are abandoning the use of the old sta... |
24 September 2007
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In a strange twist of events, apparently old-school hardware geeks aren't the only ones who still have a thing for IDE drives. As much as the industry is trying to wipe them out completely, by limiting the number of IDE channels that are available on the new hype, cool, trendy motherboards, the little buggers st... |
5 April 2007
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