Technology is the usage and knowledge of tools, techniques, crafts, systems or methods of organization. Technologies significantly affect human as well as other animal species' ability to control and adapt to their natural environments. The human species' use of technology began with the conversion of natural resources into simple tools. The prehistorical discovery of the ability to control fire increased the available sources of food and the invention of the wheel helped humans in travelling in and controlling their environment. Recent technological developments, including the printing press, the telephone, and the Internet, have lessened physical barriers to communication and allowed humans to interact freely on a global scale. However, not all technology has been used for peaceful purposes; the development of weapons of ever-increasing destructive power has progressed throughout history, from clubs to nuclear weapons.
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Written by Reflow
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Friday, 10 December 2010 00:15 |
 If you have Mac OS X and you don't want to install a whole other piece of software to see today's date in your menubar, you can add it manually in System Preferences. It's not an obvious checkbox or dropdown, so bear with me. After the jump, the step by step.
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Written by Joshua Topolsky
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Tuesday, 02 November 2010 18:58 |
Tags: Apple | Mac | MacBook Air The MacBook Air has never exactly been a simple product to review. Since the laptop's launch back in the heady days of 2008, we've always considered it a niche, high-end product and much less a mainstream system. Originally, the wafer-thin (and somewhat underpowered) laptop sold for a painful starting price of $1,799, and had its fair share of problems. Well, we've come a long way from Apple's original play, with two all-new models of the Air. The first is an update to the standard 13.3-inch model priced at a significantly cheaper $1,299, while the newest entrant to the MacBook family is a tiny 11.6-inch model that's nearly the size of an iPad -- and not wildly more expensive, starting at $999.
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Written by P. J. Connolly
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Monday, 01 November 2010 17:13 |
Tags: Apple | Mac | Mac Office For reasons that will probably never be clear, Microsoft’s Office for Mac application suite has until now treated e-mail and personal information management as an afterthought. Although Outlook has shined in this role since its first release as part of Office 97 for Windows, the commitment to delivering an equivalent for Macintosh systems has been lukewarm at best, and half-hearted in more recent releases of Office for Mac. These substituted the lackluster Entourage, which, among its numerous drawbacks, lacked the ability to import the data files that are used by Windows versions of Outlook and contain mail, contacts and calendar information in one giant, unwieldy collection.
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Written by P. J. Connolly
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Monday, 01 November 2010 17:09 |
Tags: Apple | Mac | Mac Office Although PowerPoint started out in the late 1980s as a tool for the Macintosh, recent revisions for the Mac have always felt slightly dumbed-down in comparison with the Windows release. Some of that perception is my own fault, for sticking with Office 2004 well into this year. But Microsoft is also partly to blame; the company’s policy of basing the Mac version of Office on “last year’s” release of Office for Windows, with a slightly reduced feature set, guaranteed that the only people who were wowed by PowerPoint for Mac in recent years were die-hard Mac users. That is no longer the case.
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Written by P. J. Connolly
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Monday, 01 November 2010 17:05 |
Tags: Apple | Mac | Mac Office Excel 2011 is, like its Office for Mac siblings, all about the sharing. The sharing may involve a SharePoint server or Microsoft’s SkyDrive service; it may rely on rights management features to control how a file is used, or it may rely on Web-based sharing to work with people on the next floor or on the other side of the globe.
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