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Ever wondered what those LiION cells inside your (recalled) battery look like? Well, wonder no more as Jason O’Grady, at his ZDNet blog, does the dirty work.
As ever, you are warned against doing this yourself, as these batteries contain toxic, acidic chemicals which are also highly flammable.
So look at the pictures instead. More …
This nice gallery shows the evolution in the appearance of Mac OS, Microsoft Windows and KDE through the years, from the first version to the last available. Not technical, but still interesting to recall some memories from the good old days. More …
PC World: “The IBM PC is 25. And here are the top PCs ever, from machines you owned and loved to systems you’ve never heard of.” PC World [#1: Apple II; #4: Macintosh Plus; #10: PowerBook 100; #19: iMac 2nd Gen; #23: eMate 300] 8/12. More …
The survey, commissioned by U.S. cable television’s Oxygen Network that is owned and operated by women, found the technology gender gap has virtually closed with the majority of women snapping up new technology and using it easily. Women were found on average to own 6.6 technology devices while men own 6.9, and four out of every five women felt comfortable using technology with 46 percent doing their own computer trouble-shooting. More …
The only graphics company to build third party graphics cards for the Mac, ATI Technologies, is being bought by Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) for $5.4 billion, according to CNet.
What will this mean for the Mac?
Linux Box Admin: In 1995, Microsoft added long file name support to Windows, allowing more descriptive names than the limited 8.3 DOS format. Mac users scoffed, having had long file names for a decade and because Windows still stored a DOS file name in the background. Linux was born with long file name support four years before it showed up in Windows. Today, long file names are well supported by all three operating systems though key differences remain. More …
BBC News: A magnetic memory chip has been manufactured in volume and released by the U.S. company Freescale. Christened MRAM (magnetoresistive random-access memory),this chip will hold information even after power has been switched off.
Unlike flash memory, which also can keep data without power, Mram has faster read and write speeds and does not degrade over time,’ and ‘MRAM chips could one day be used in PCs to store an operating system, allowing computers to start up faster when switched on. More …
