Ever Wonder How NASA Recovers Its Rocket Boosters?

When you watch one of NASA’s shuttle launches, it’s difficult to not be impressed by the sheer scale of the shuttle, let alone the rocket boosters that are attached to its underside. When the shuttle is about to leave the Earth’s atmosphere, the boosters are jettisoned and left to fall back into the Ocean. We have always wondered what happens to them after they are disconnected from the shuttle – luckily for us, NASA has posted a 12-minute video to its YouTube channel showing us exactly how the boosters are recovered and brought back to land....

1 min · 202 words · Chad Vazquez

Ever wonder where the Windows XP default wallpaper came from?

One of the most famous wallpaper images is undoubtedly the default Windows XP image showing a blissfully relaxing vista of green rolling hills and a bluer than blue sky. The wallpaper, probably one of the most viewed images of all time, is aptly named ‘Bliss.’ Do a Google image search for just the word ‘bliss,’ and the first result is the Windows wallpaper. For Dutch Windows users however, the name of the image is Ireland, which has mistakenly led many to believe that that’s where the image was taken....

3 min · 560 words · Jamie Madden

Evernote 3.0 for Mac OS X Lion is Here

Evernote 3.0 for Mac has dropped today, theannouncementof a raft of exciting new features and a new look. The improvement marks a continuing evolution for Evernote on the Mac OS X line, complete with a full screen mode, a simplified display and aa favorites bar. The features update relies on much of the existing codebase from iOS, with visual polish to help simplify the user experience. Additionally, Evernote says that they’re always on the lookout for ways to make their experience consistent across devices, and there are iOS versions for Apple products, as well as Android, and Windows Phone 7 compatible versions....

2 min · 270 words · Alexander Powell

Evernote announces huge update for Android

Evernoteis making news again this week. Last week it made a major update to itsWindows versionand today it announced a huge update for Android. Today’s Evernote for Android update adds more features into a single release than any Evernote product ever has before. With the addition of sharing, organizational features, improved text editing, security options, new views, a revamped widget and much more, Android users are going to busy exploring for a while....

5 min · 995 words · Anthony Carrillo

Evernote Arrives for Windows Phone 7

Evernote has a reputation forrigorously updatingits existing platforms. In addition, the popular notetaking software solution recentlypassed the 10 million user mark. But none of the 10 million users could have been using a Windows Phone 7 platform to access their notes. That ended today, as the much-anticipated Evernote for Windows Phone 7 was launched and it has been designed from the ground up. With a new “panorama” screen design set, the Evernote for Windows Phone 7 app has options in the Application Bar and Application Bar menu....

2 min · 315 words · Courtney Montoya
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