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Overturned Car, 145th Street St., Lenox Avenue, 1917

An overturned car  near the 145th Street Bridge ramp at Lenox Avenue, on July 10, 1917 (Eugene de Salignac Courtesy NYC Municipal Archives

This is a photograph of an overturned car, near the 145th Street Bridge ramp at Lenox Avenue in Central Harlem on July 10, 1917. Continue reading

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iPhone 5 Official video “New iPhone” by Apple

CNET reports that Apple’s next iPhone is official, and despite being the sixth iPhone model (technically), we know it’s officially the iPhone 5. Continue reading

The NY Academy of Sciences and SUNY Receive $2.95 Million Grant

cademy of Sciences (the Academy) were recently awarded a $2.95 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF)Continue reading

NPower Tech Service Corps Free IT Training For Your Child

NPower Technology Service Corps, a free, 22 week IT training program for 18-25 year olds with High School Diplomas or GEDS. Continue reading

Yo Jude: Restarting Your iPod

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When your iPod starts acting funny, a simple button combination can usually set things right.

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Television In Your BlackBerry?

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We were promised a lot—flying cars, robot maids and a Schwarzenegger presidency, for starters—but technology is finally starting to come through on at least one of its promises.

That’s right, television has finally come to that precious bundle of plastic you call a BlackBerry, courtesy of Slingbox.

The BlackBerry app was released quietly a couple months ago, and now that it’s spent some time in the UD Labs, we’re ready to declare it fit for public consumption. After a quick download, your BlackBerry will be equipped to give you all the joys of your cable box remotely. Continue reading

Low-Tech Fixes High-Tech Problems

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By Paul Boutin NY Times

Behind the cash register at Smoke Shop No. 2 in downtown San Francisco, Sam Azar swipes a customer’s credit card to ring up Turkish cigarettes. The store’s card reader fails to scan the card’s magnetic strip. Azar swipes again, and again. No luck.

As customers begin to queue, he reaches beneath the counter for a black plastic bag. He wraps one layer of the plastic around the card and swipes it again. Success. The sale is rung up.

“I don’t know how it works, it just does,” says Mr. Azar, who learned the trick years ago from another clerk. Verifone, the company that makes the store’s card reader, would not confirm or deny that the plastic bag trick works. But it’s one of many low-tech fixes for high-tech failures that people without engineering degrees have discovered, often out of desperation, and shared. Continue reading

FaceBook Back Down

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The site posted a brief message on users’ home pages that said it was returning to its previous “Terms of Use” policy “while we resolve the issues that people have raised.”

The “Terms of Use” is the legalese tacked on to the bottom of most Web sites that details what the site’s owners can do with the information that users provide.

Facebook, the Web’s most popular social networking site, has been caught in a content-rights battle after revealing earlier this month that it was granting itself permanent rights to users’ photos, wall posts and other information even after a user closed an account. Continue reading

Review: The Amazon Kindle

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Here is the review for the Amazon Kindle. The Amazon Kindle is available on Amazon.com for $399.99 It uses the Sprint EVDO network to access data much like a cell phone without a wireless hotspot and most of all, it is free…

…It has 256 MB of internal storage and provides an SD memory card slot along with a USB mini slot, along with a headphone jack.

HW Pick: The $100 Laptop?

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If you’ve been tempted to get a mobile broadband card—a compact wireless modem that lets you connect a laptop to the internet at high speed pretty much wherever you are, without having to search for a Wi-Fi hotspot—now’s a pretty great time to do it. A year ago, you might have lucked out and gotten a free card when you signed a two-year contract for service (typically around $60 a month) from one of the major wireless broadband providers. Now one provider, AT&T, has sweetened the deal by working with RadioShack to throw in an actual computer for just $100: an Acer Aspire One Netbook, one of the new breed of amazingly compact laptops that we’ve been raving about in Best Bets Daily. Continue reading