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Nov. 24, 1903: Starting Your Car Gets a Bit Easier 1903: Clyde J. Coleman is issued a patent for an electric automobile starter. Coleman originally applied for the patent in 1899, but his early designs proved impractical. The need for this kind of starter for an internal combustion engine was obvious. Automobiles were getting larger, a Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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Nov. 24, 1903: Starting Your Car Gets a Bit Easier 1903: Clyde J. Coleman is issued a patent for an electric automobile starter. Coleman originally applied for the patent in 1899, but his early designs proved impractical. The need for this kind of starter for an internal combustion engine was obvious. Automobiles were getting larger, a Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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Gear Gallery: Laptops That Replace Your Desktop : Through some loophole, wormhole or deal with the devil, Gateway has produced a massive desktop replacement that's fast, good and cheap. How fast, you ask? Fast enough to go toe-to-toe with -- and school -- a $4,800 Alienware Area 51 m15x: In our Quake 4 test, the Gateway posted a score of 167.8 Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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Gear Gallery: Laptops That Replace Your Desktop : Through some loophole, wormhole or deal with the devil, Gateway has produced a massive desktop replacement that's fast, good and cheap. How fast, you ask? Fast enough to go toe-to-toe with -- and school -- a $4,800 Alienware Area 51 m15x: In our Quake 4 test, the Gateway posted a score of 167.8 Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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Nov. 10, 1983: Gates Opens Windows a Bit Early 1983: Microsoft chief Bill Gates unveils the Windows operating system for PCs. Don't hold your breath waiting until you can buy a copy ... unless you can hold your breath for two years. Gates, Microsoft's president and board chairman, held an elaborate event at New York City's pos Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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Nov. 10, 1983: Gates Opens Windows a Bit Early 1983: Microsoft chief Bill Gates unveils the Windows operating system for PCs. Don't hold your breath waiting until you can buy a copy ... unless you can hold your breath for two years. Gates, Microsoft's president and board chairman, held an elaborate event at New York City's pos Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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Clean your Windows registry, speed up your PC Let's start with a little quiz. I say, "Big, bloated, and full of errors." What do you say? Right, "Windows Registry." One more: "Messing with it is risky." If you guessed the Registry again, you pass. While fooling around with your Windows Registry does involve some Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Nov. 18, 1883: Railroad Time Goes Coast to Coast 1883: U.S. and Canadian railways adopt five standardized time zones to replace the multiplicity of local times in communities across the continent. Everyone would soon be operating on "railroad time." Noon on a well-made, properly paced sundial is whenever the sun is highest right there Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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Nov. 18, 1883: Railroad Time Goes Coast to Coast 1883: U.S. and Canadian railways adopt five standardized time zones to replace the multiplicity of local times in communities across the continent. Everyone would soon be operating on "railroad time." Noon on a well-made, properly paced sundial is whenever the sun is highest right there Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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OpenSuse gets more open Novell's OpenSuse project is becoming more open, as a new release due out Thursday includes licensing changes that make it easier to redistribute the Linux operating system, and a build service that will encourage more contributions from open source developers. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Rock Out With Your Clock Out: We Test Atomic Watches For a watch that’s more accurate than a sniper with a Ritalin rush, nothing beats an atomic watch. Automatically synchronized via low-frequency radio signals, these clocks keep perfect time up to six miles in the air, never need winding and sync themselves when you fly across time zones. Some a Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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Rock Out With Your Clock Out: We Test Atomic Watches For a watch that’s more accurate than a sniper with a Ritalin rush, nothing beats an atomic watch. Automatically synchronized via low-frequency radio signals, these clocks keep perfect time up to six miles in the air, never need winding and sync themselves when you fly across time zones. Some a Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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Nov. 4, 1952: Univac Gets Election Right, But CBS Balks 1952: Television makes its first foray into predicting a presidential election based on computer analysis of early returns. The Univac computer makes an incredibly accurate projection that the network doesn't think credible. The Univac, or Universal Automatic Computer, was the next- Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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Nov. 4, 1952: Univac Gets Election Right, But CBS Balks 1952: Television makes its first foray into predicting a presidential election based on computer analysis of early returns. The Univac computer makes an incredibly accurate projection that the network doesn't think credible. The Univac, or Universal Automatic Computer, was the next- Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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Stopping and starting services automatically during builds How to make your life a little easier while developing a service Home > Rss Directory > Technology > CodeProject |
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Circuit City - Car Stereos starting at $79 Car Stereos starting at $79. This Circuit City coupon expires on April 26, 2008. Home > Rss Directory > Business > Total Deals |
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Gallery: High-End Cycling Gear Juices Your Ride : Photo: Jon Snyder/Wired.com The dog days of summer are upon us and if you're anything like the crew here at Wired.com, you still haven't logged as many miles as you had hoped. Well, there's no better motivator than new gear to get you back on track. After all, isn't that why y Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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Gallery: High-End Cycling Gear Juices Your Ride : Photo: Jon Snyder/Wired.com The dog days of summer are upon us and if you're anything like the crew here at Wired.com, you still haven't logged as many miles as you had hoped. Well, there's no better motivator than new gear to get you back on track. After all, isn't that why y Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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Some vintage-car buffs downshifting hobby Derek James is taking just one of his two 1988 Chevy Caprice cars to the 14th annual Woodward Dream Cruise classic-car show outside Detroit this week. Like many car enthusiasts, the 25-year-old Pontiac, Mich., resident has put a big engine into his car. This year, he added a smaller carburetor and a Home > Rss Directory > Business > ABC News |
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Five easy hacks for your PC and Wi-Fi network Hacking isn't just for geeks anymore. In this era of ubiquitous gadgetry and free information, anyone with a screwdriver can do a little unauthorized tinkering. Sure, the word "hacking" has negative connotations. But hacking is really about being a do-it-yourselfer. T Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |