1889 – The first commercial jukebox was installed in San Francisco, CA. It was called the “Nickel-in-the-Slot”, and played wax cylinder records. Within 6 months it would earn $1,000. The word “Juke” – by the way – means ‘disorderly house’ – therefore this is a disorderly box of music. Put another  nickel in – in the [...]

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We pull out and set up the Epson Artisan 810 All in one Printer. This is a fully functional copier / printer / scanner / Fax. We set up the printer to the network and make a couple print samples. **Before we start, I have to say that this device was sent to me by Epson [...]

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1994 – The Sega Saturn is released featuring 2 28.6 MHz processors running 32 bit. It had 2 video display processors, QSound surround and 2 MB of memory, with 1.5MB of video memory. It went for 44,800 Yen, or $450. 2005 – Microsoft launches the XBOX360. It contained a IBM PowerPC with 3 cores at 3.2 [...]

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If you have problems finding extra content to fill your posts – especially pictures – then you might want to try Zemanta. No, it’s not a medication to treat any cholesterol or depression. Well, you might be less depressed if you use Zemanta, though. Zemanta will take your post and add more content. Whether it’s a [...]

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Sponsor:  Try GoToAssist free for 30 days ? GoToAssist.com/techpodcasts. Please add to your favorite aggregator. RSS Feed ? iTunes ? Stitcher ? TechPodcasts 1969 – The First ARPANET link is established 1995 – Toy Story is released to audiences. It is the first feature film created by computer animation 2008 – Abraham Biggs commits [...]

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Sponsor: Brought to you by Audible.com get a 14 day gold membership by going to www.audiblepodcast.com/geekazine Web Warfare NSA and Windows 7 Always been working together Big security risks Take down old websites. Google OS Get rid of the Operating System Computer on Internet Application Tabs Older programs = Windows Microsoft Bing OS? Computer on PS3 Firefox Facebook Catpaint iPhone app 0.99 Cats meow as placed on 8 different cats Email to friends Black Friday Amazon [...]

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1963 – 0|\| 7|-|1$ d4′/, 7|-|3 \/\/0rD “|-|4><0r1|\|9″ \/\/4$ U$3D 1|\| 4|\| 1$$U3 0Ph “7|-|3 73(|-|”, \/\/|-|1(|-| 1$ 4 /\/\4$$4(|-|U$377$ 1|\|$717U73 0Ph 73(|-||\|0L09′/ |\|3\/\/$P4P3r. What, you can’t read that? Oh. O.K. On this day, the word “hacking” was used in an issue of “the tech”, which is a massachusetts institute of technology newspaper. Here is a snippet of [...]

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1993 – The Ionizer – Otherwise known as Michael Elanky, recieved 28 months in prison for posting bomb-making instructions on his BBS. There have been other instances of this throughout history, but Elansky was a member of the International Information Retrieval Guild, a computer group very much concerned with freedom of speech and freedom of [...]

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