MuseumOfQuackery.com has some strange things, like the “Revigator,” sold in the 1920s and 30s, to bring radioactive drinking water to every home and the “Radithor” elixir, which promised to contain radium and cure everything. (One man drank a couple hundred bottles, until his jaw dropped off.)
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PaleoFuture.com has funny predictions from yesteryear. In the 1980s, they predicted that by now, prescriptions would be dispensed from vending machines and diagnostic computers would replace doctors during exams. The site also lets you listen to street sounds from the 1920s and learn which websites in the year 2000 were expected to be the biggest in 2010. (AOL and “Quixtar” were in the top five.)
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Documents in “PDF” format normally can’t be edited. The whole point of the format is to save a file – be it a letter or a magazine – as it originally looked. But sometimes the PDF is a long boring document and you only want a couple of pages.
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Bob uses what is called a mechanical keyboard. That is, there is an actual switch under each key. Press the key and you close a circuit that sends a digital code to the computer, perhaps a letter or a punctuation mark.
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According to a Reason-Rupe poll of more than 1,000 adults, 61 percent said they don’t trust Facebook “at all,” 48 percent said they don’t trust Google “at all;” and 41 percent don’t trust their cell phone provider “at all,” no matter who it is. Forty-five percent also said they don’t trust the IRS (which is perfectly understandable). Interestingly, the IRS and other government agencies rated higher in trust than most web services. More info at Reason.com/poll.
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You may not be satisfied with the photos your smartphone takes. One solution is to clip on a professional lens. They’ll look strange and they’re costly, but the features are great.
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More Android-based tablets than Apple iPads shipped in the second quarter. But iPad revenue still beats Android revenue, since they’re more expensive. The majority of tablets sold this year have been in the smaller, seven-inch screen size. The new iPad Air ships in November.
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Is it just us, or have other people noticed that emergency vehicle sirens are a lot louder than they used to be? Well, the police, fire and ambulance services don’t want to talk about it, but it’s because so many people are plugged in and can’t hear what’s coming.
The easiest way to share a photo from your smartphone is to tap on the little thumbnail picture in the photo gallery. Next tap the “share” icon, and choose one of the options, such as email. That’s the quick way, but old-fashioned printing isn’t going away.
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