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The long-rumored merger of Apple Corporation and Google has finally been announced officially.  I’m sure you’ve seen it in the news.  Apple and Google are seeking input as to what their new combined name should be:  Aggle or Goople.  Let’s take a poll!  If you prefer AGGLE, text 45147 to 99503.  If you prefer GOOPLE, [...]

A bunch of apps, a really GREAT selection, for only $39.  Kinemac alone, a great 3-D animation program, normally costs $300.  You can get it for $39, plus a whole bunch of other great apps, but the price will probably start to go up before too long, so order now.  You will get a free [...]

I took a long hiatus from my blog, mostly because I moved at the end of the summer and when you have as much stuff to move as I do, moving takes up all your time.  Since then, I’ve been back in school teaching full time plus.  I say plus, because I took two extra courses [...]

The quest for a formula that yields a perfect cheese sandwich has been discovered at last! I don’t think anyone would doubt we’ll be hearing about this again when Nobel Prizes are announced later this year, and, since these are British scientists, might I suggest Knighthood to HRH E2 (She reads this blog regularly)? Here [...]

A NASA engineer said the landing they made on Sunday on Mars was like sinking a hole-in-one from 1000 miles away.  The space program has been around for a while, but it’s always had a harder time with Mars.  Only 45% of probes sent to Mars get there successfully.  The Phoenix is one of them. [...]

If you are reading this blog on a smartphone, press 1 now. According to this article, within the next year or two, smartphones will be outselling laptop computers.  As more power and memory is put into these devices, they will someday offer the same level of capabilities that current laptops offer.  In fact, according to [...]

Someone had their MacBook laptop and some other stuff stolen from their apartment.  Thanks to a special feature in the Mac OS, the victim was able to control her computer over the internet, run a program that takes snaps with the built-in camera and take the thief’s picture before the thief knew what was going [...]

There is a new electronics breakthrough in the news today: The memristor, as developed by HP.  Actually, as it turns out, the memristor was foreseen over 35 years ago, in 1971, as the “missing link” of the family of basic electronic devices.  The other three members are the resistor, the capacitor and the inductor.  All [...]