Month: April 2012

How to Turn Any Printer Into an AirPrint Printer

Even though there is absolutely nothing wrong with my Epson printer, I was thinking of getting a new one. I wanted the ability to print anything on my iPhone or iPad. I can print some things and can do extra work to print almost anything, but it would sure work much better if I could just print anything like I could on a Mac or with an AirPrint printer. Luckily, there is one way that you can use to turn your printer into a airprint capable printer.

By Laura Tucker – Apr 30, 2012

How to Insert Ads In Between Content In WordPress, Without Any Plugin

If you run a blog, you might want to insert some ads in your article to generate some income. In WordPress (self-hosted), you can easily add ads to the sidebar, but adding ads to the content, especially in-between the content, can be difficult. In this article, we show you a simple way where you can easily insert ad (or any other stuff) in-between your content, without any plugin.

By Damien Oh – Apr 15, 2012

How to Easily Automount Windows NTFS partition in Ubuntu

By Abhishek Prakash – Apr 6, 2012

A species of jellyfish called Turritopsis dohrnii can revert its adult cells back to a juvenile polyp stage when injured or starving, effectively restarting its life cycle, and biologists have so far failed to identify any natural limit to how many times it can do this.

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Octopuses possess roughly 500 million neurons distributed across their body, with two-thirds located in their arms rather than their central brain, meaning each arm can taste, problem-solve, and react to stimuli independently of whatever the octopus is otherwise paying attention to.

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Explore the historic Roman bridge in lush Salamanca, Spain captured beautifully in daylight.

The Roman aqueduct at Segovia, built around the first century AD without mortar, still carried water into the 1970s, its 167 granite arches held together by nothing but the precise weight distribution of stones cut to fit each other within fractions of a millimeter.

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In 1843, Ada Lovelace described a brass-and-punched-card engine that could act on symbols as well as numbers, even composing music if harmony could be reduced to rules, inside seven translator’s notes three times longer than the paper itself

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Bright modern laboratory with computers and technical equipment for research and analysis.

ARPANET sent its first message on 29 October 1969 from a lab at UCLA to a machine at Stanford, and the message was supposed to read ‘LOGIN’ — but the system crashed after the L and the O, meaning the first word ever transmitted over the network that became the internet was, by accident, ‘LO’.

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In 1995, Microsoft shipped a cartoon-house interface called Bob, led by Melinda French, who married Bill Gates while it was in development — it demanded twice the memory of a typical home PC, sold roughly 30,000 copies, and was dead within a year, leaving behind the font Comic Sans and the animated assistant that became Clippy.

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Month: April 2012

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