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AS I write this my screen is all pink. From what I can find out it is not caused by a virus. It comes and goes, but is very annoying. I have removed the cable from the monitor to the computer and cleaned it up and retried it after making a reconnection, It didn't help. I also rebooted the computer to no avail. I even bought a top line registry cleaner and my computer works faster, but the pink screen is back. It comes and goes. I am thinking of replacing the monitor because it is old but I would...

Worldwide PC shipments totaled 80.8 million units in the fourth quarter of 2014 (4Q14), a year-on-year decline of -2.4%, according to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly PC Tracker. Total shipments were slightly above expectations of -4.8% growth, but the market still contracted both year on year and in comparison to the third quarter. Although the holiday quarter saw shipment volume inch above 80 million for the first time in 2014, the final quarter nonetheless marked the end of yet another difficult year – the third consecutive year with overall volumes declining. On an annual basis, 2014 shipments totaled...

(CNN) - The Twitter account for U.S. Central Command was suspended Monday after it was hacked by ISIS sympathizers, a defense official told CNN. "We can confirm that the U.S. Central Command Twitter account was compromised earlier today. CENTCOM is taking appropriate measure to address the matter," a defense official told CNN. A series of unusual tweets were published with apparent warnings from ISIS, as well as links, images and Pentagon documents that reveal contact information for members of the military.

Cyrus Blacksmith, CEO of Brikk, has anounced the launch of the latest iteration of Lux — the iPhone 6 Diamond Select. This smartphone is an evolution of the Lux iPhone 6 that was launched by BRIKK in July. The Lux iPhone 6 Diamond Select is available finished in 24k yellow gold, 24k pink gold, or 950 platinum, and pushes design barriers with addition of up to 12.8 carats of handset diamonds to its enclosure. The Lux iPhone 6 Diamond Select comes in both iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus models. The four sides, top, and bottom strip on the back...

It’s eight years to the day since Steve Jobs first revealed the iPhone to the world.It was nothing short of a miracle.Before the iPhone came out, smartphones were clunky devices, half keyboard and half screen.Full websites didn’t run on mobile phones, so companies were forced to build weak, mobile versions of their sites.The iPhone changed everything. And yet the iPhone experience we all enjoy today didn’t happen overnight. It took years of Apple adding feature upon feature. By today’s standards, the original iPhone was a useless brick. As a reminder of how far the iPhone has come, we’ve put...

Lyrics to song on current Apple Commercial: "Who Needs You" by The Orwells. You better toss your bullets You better hide your guns You better help the children Let 'em have some fun You better count your blessings Kiss mom and pa You better burn that flag Cause it ain't against the law! You better pledge your allegiance You're not the only one Listen up forefathers I'm not your son You better save the country You better pass the flask You better join the army I said: "no thank you, dear old uncle Sam!" You better toss your bullets You...

That means that this particular variant of poker, called heads-up limit hold’em (HULHE), can be considered solved. ... A few other popular games have been solved before. In particular, in 2007 a team from the same computer-science department at Alberta — including Neil Burch, a co-author of the latest study — cracked draughts, also known as checkers. But poker is harder to solve than draughts. Chess and draughts are examples of perfect-information games, in which players have complete knowledge of all past events and of the present situation in a game. In poker, in contrast, there are some things a...

"We really try to trick all of your senses into believing that you're there," said Nate Mitchell, co-founder of Oculus, a startup acquired last year by Facebook. Considered among the most promising developers of virtual reality gear, Oculus says its next generation is even more immersive. The new headset has improved ergonomics, optics and audio quality, and software that enables better head tracking to follow the user's movements. With the headset on, you find yourself in a world with dinosaurs or extraterrestrials that seem real enough to touch. The image follows your movements when you look up, down or behind.

Yahoo’s Flickr is the place that many people go to save and share their digital photographs, and has long been where people upload their best shots. That means that Flickr has quite a lot of interesting information on which cameras are being used thanks to the EXIF data that is embedded in the images uploaded to its website. Over the last few years Flickr has been taking that information and pulling it all together in order to see which cameras are being used most amongst those who take advantage of the service. Granted, people may be removing the EXIF data...

“Eight years ago, on January 9, 2007 to be exact, the late Apple CEO Steve Jobs took the stage at the Moscone Center in San Francisco to introduce the first iPhone. “Today, Apple is going to reinvent the phone,” Jobs proclaimed. Jobs wasn’t overstating the impact of his announcement. The iPhone, like the Mac and iPod, redefined the category. It was the world’s first modern smartphone and it became the template for wannabes the world over. The smartphone revolution started by the iPhone has put a powerful computer into the hands of billions of people worldwide. Steve Jobs’ iPhone unveiling...

Having some trouble from time to time clicking on FR. I see the screen for a split second and then it goes to a "connection was reset" screen. I can usually get to main page and articles but when I click on comment to me it goes right to "connection was reset" Any help appreciated

“The U.S. Federal Communications Commission is considering fining AT&T Inc. for failing to adequately notify customers about reductions in mobile data speeds for some heavy users, a practice known as ‘data throttling,’ the company said,” Karen Gullo and Todd Shields report for Bloomberg. “The Federal Trade Commission accused the company in a 2014 lawsuit of deceiving at least 3.5 million smartphone customers who paid for unlimited data plans and had their transmission speeds drastically reduced. The company disclosed the FCC probe in court documents seeking dismissal of the case,” Gullo and Shields report. “AT&T says the FTC lawsuit deals with...

“Using the Spotlight search feature in OS X Yosemite can leak IP addresses and private details to spammers and other e-mail-based scammers, according to tests independently performed by two news outlets,” Dan Goodin reports for Ars Technica. “The potential privacy glitch affects people who have configured the Mac Mail App to turn off the “load remote content in messages” setting, as security experts have long advised,” Goodin reports. “But even when remote image viewing is disabled in Yosemite-based Mail app settings, the images will be opened by Spotlight, according to two recent media reports. “ Goodin reports, “When spotlight returns...

(Reuters) - Apple Inc won the dismissal on Thursday of a lawsuit accusing it of defrauding consumers by selling MacBook laptop computers that contained "logic boards" it knew were defective, and which routinely failed within two years. U.S. District Judge William Alsup in San Francisco said the plaintiffs, Uriel Marcus and Benedict Verceles, failed to show that Apple made "affirmative misrepresentations," despite citing online complaints and Apple marketing statements calling the laptops "state of the art" or the "most advanced" on the market. "Plaintiffs have failed to allege that Apple's logic boards were unfit for their ordinary purposes or lacked...

As a covered wagon party of pioneers, you head out west from Independence, Missouri to the Willamette River and valley in Oregon. You first must stock up on provisions, and then, while traveling, make decisions such as when to rest, how much food to eat, etc. The Oregon Trail incorporates simulation elements and planning ahead, along with discovery and adventure, as well as mini-game-like activities (hunting and floating down the Dalles River).

Let's get this FReepathon up to 20% by this coming Monday so we have a nice base to build on. If you had a loved one or friend leave us in the past year you might want to give as a memorial to them. Enjoy sharing with other conservatives and talking about current events, reminiscing, chatting about politics and even weird stories? Send in some money, whatever you can spare. Thanks!

Okay techies, I have this Android system Tablet purchased at Best Buy and I am wondering how to do word processing (writing, basially) on the thing. Is it possible to load a ghost windows 98 or Vista onto a chip that then can be accessed as a storage file plugged into the tablet? And how do I do it?... (I have a 64GB chip I have loaded a few movies onto for my grandson.) What I'm seeking to do is write on this tablet. I already have a Bluetooth keyboard carrying case for the tablet but seldom use it since...

Back in 2013, Adobe began posting a series of short video tutorials on YouTube called the “Photoshop Playbook.” The series has since grown to contain fifty how-to videos showing how some of the most popular and fundamental edits are done in the photo editing program.

All the gory mathematical details are here ==> http://community.wolfram.com/groups/-/m/t/418720 (whether the details are correct or not, I cannot say, since I didn't check them myself, lol)

The MagSafe2 port, from left, two Thunderbolt ports, a USB 3 port and headphone port (top), SDXC Cardslot, HDMI port, and USB 3 port (bottom), on Apple's MacBook Pro. Similar mage from Apple Inc. substituted for original Getty Image on article site. According to a recent security presentation, attackers could infect Macintosh computers with a special kind of malware using the computer's Thunderbolt port. The attack, dubbed Thunderstrike, was showcased by security researcher Trammell Hudson at the Chaos Communications Congress in Germany. Hudson is well known in the security community, particularly for his work reverse-engineering various devices and systems....