GIMP GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. GIMP is a free and open source program for tasks such as photo retouching, image composition, and image authoring. It has many capabilities. It can be used as a simple paint program, an expert quality photo retouching program, an online batch processing system, a mass production image renderer, an image format converter, etc. GIMP is expandable and extensible. It is designed to be augmented with plug-ins and extensions to do just about anything. The advanced scripting interface allows everything from the simplest Read More

Neuroscience is the study of the nervous system as a whole. Someone who does neuroscience takes numerous different disciplines–psychology, computer science, mathematics, physics, philosophy and medicine to name a few–and bring them together with the understand of how the brain works. Traditionally, neuroscience was a branch of biology; however, because of a revolutionary change in how things are done, it's now evolved into a much larger network of understanding the brain's processes. Modern Day Neuroscience While in the past, neuroscience was all about understanding what neurons were, how to brain Read More

Predictions regarding the demise of audio tapes have been coming thick and fast over the past 20 years. When the first CDs came onto the market, it was easy to predict that the popular cassette tape was ready for the dumpster. Now, some 20 years later, the cassette tape is still being produced in solid numbers. Sure, the music market for the magnetic tape is pretty much gone, but other markets, such as spoken language tapes, continue to see strong sales. Simple and Durable KISS applies well to the cassette Read More

A VOB (DVD Video Object) file is a file container format that DVDs use. A VOB file contains the actual movie from a DVD and its audio and streaming data that allows a user to scroll through the video. VOB files are essential to DVDs and can be taken from a disk in order to place a copy of a movie on a user’s computer. In order to do this, the user should simply open a DVD in Windows Explorer rather than play it through a media player. The VOB Read More

A geosynchronous orbit is when a satellite or other device’s orbit matches the Earth’s rotation so that the satellite travels around the Earth in a straight line and stays at the same point in the sky relative to the Earth. This means that as the Earth rotates, the satellites rotates  around the Earth at the same speed so that its relative position never changes. Geosynchronous orbits are used for a number of purposes, including monitoring a specific region and communicating with Earth-based systems. Geosynchronous orbits include geostationary orbits, super-synchronous orbits, sub-synchronous orbits, and graveyard Read More

An iPad is a type of tablet PC that Apple produced, which is larger than an iPhone, but smaller than a Mac. iPads are capable of all of the same functions that Macs are, but are much more portable and include additional hardware features that Macs do not have, such as touch screen, built-in cameras, and motion detection. While iPads are too big to fit inside a pocket, its owner can transport it in a carrying case and use it in virtually any environment. What is an iPad Remote Desktop? Read More

Windows XP Tutorials This tutorial is your one stop Windows guide, where you can find information on how to understand Windows XP file systems, how to backup data, how to upgrade, manage accounts, and many more. Understanding Compression and Encrypted File Systems This tutorial will tell you everything about Compression and Encrypted File Systems. This guide comes in handy if you want to compress your data and keep it secured. The Windows XP Professional operating system allows for both compression and encryption natively within the operating system by setting given Read More

Lossless compression is any compression format where all information in the imput stream is preversed in the output stream. Audio Formats which use Lossless Compression Lossless compression is less commonly utilized in computer audio file formats than lossy compression. Audio file formats which use lossless compression include: Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC) ALAC Direct Stream Transfer (DST) Monkey’s Audio APE RealAudio Lossless Shorten (SHN) The True Audio (TTA) WavPack lossless WMA Lossless Lossless Compression vs. Lossy Compression The alternative to lossless compression is lossy compression. Lossless compression yields smaller output Read More

The first computer virus to openly make it to the public was a program called “Elk Cloner”. It was created by Rich Skrenta, a computer programmer who was in high school when this virs was created in 1982. Elk Cloner attached itself to the Apple DOS 3.3 operating system and was later spreaded by a floppy disk. When the virus was created, it was intentionally made as a joke by the high school student, who inputted the virus into a game in which the virus was set off after the Read More

The fifth state of matter is actually the first phase of matter. It is called a Bose-Einstein Condensate. Matter in the fifth state is really slow moving and extremely condensed. It only exists at near absolute zero temperatures and is very fragile and unstable. It was discovered in 1995 by Eric Cornell and Carl Weiman through experimentation with rubidium, but the credit goes to Satyendra Nath Bose and Albert Einstein because they thought of the concept of this state of matter first. The only difference is that they did not have the tools available to Read More