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CONGRATS CANADA!!
Feb 28th
Congrats To Canada on Winning the Gold In Hockey and many other Olympic Sports!
WE ROOOOCCKKK!!!!!! 14 golds!
MAC VS PC
Feb 16th
We all know the stereotypes. Apple’s popular commercials have painted the picture in stark terms: There are two types of people, Mac people and PC people. And if the marketing is to be believed, the former is a hip, sport-coat-and-sneakers- wearing type of guy who uses his computer for video chatting, music mash-ups and other cool, creative pursuits that starchy, business-suited PC users could never really appreciate unless they tried them on the slick Apple interface. Then again, Windows PC enthusiasts probably think that Mac guy is a smug slacker with an overpriced toy that can’t do any serious computing anyway. Funny thing is, both stereotypes are wrong. With a 7.5 percent market share, Macs are no longer just the computer choice of artists and unemployed writers. (Apple is, in fact, the fourth largest computer manufacturer in the world.) And now, more than ever, the guts of both platforms are remarkably similar. Both types of machines use Intel proc essors (although some PCs can be configured with processors from AMD). Both buy memory, hard drives and graphics cards from the same small pool of suppliers. The underlying operating systems have distinctly different flavors, but in terms of functionality, Microsoft Windows Vista and Mac OS X Leopard have surprisingly similar built-in multimedia, Internet and… [Read More....]
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Vancouver 2010 – RIP Nodar Kumaritashvili
Feb 15th
As many of you may already know Nodar Kumaritashvili, 21 died Friday durning a practice run on Whistler Mountain. The tragic accident happened just as Vancouver and Whistler were reaching hours before the official opening of the Winter Games. On Behalf of the INTE@CAP team we would like to pay our respects and condolences to his family and friends. Feel free to leave your comments/thoughts as well below as loosing a friend or family member is never easy.
To Watch the video please click here. (CTV OFFICIAL FOOTAGE OF THE CRASH)
WARNING: Graphic Footage.
Rest In Peace – Nodar Kumaritashvili, 2010
Radio Tags – A glance into Our Future.
Feb 9th
What’s a radio id tag?
A radio frequency identification tag is a tiny tracking device with a microchip and antenna. Each tag has a unique code to identify the product, person
or animal wearing it. More than 50 million pets and 20 million livestock have already been tagged. Are humans next?
It is said that soon humans will started being implanted with radio tags so it is easy to access their medical data. These are called VeriChip. It is a medical radio identification tag that can be implanted under the skin of a patient. The chips memory holds the patients indemnification number. This enables doctors to access quickly the vital medical records of unconscious patients in the hospital emergency room. The Verichip is about the same size of a coin.
How do medical tags work?
- Chip is implanted into the arm of a human
- Handheld scanners send radio waves to the tag’s antenna to power chip.
- Powered chip sends radio frequency signals back to scanner.
- Patients number is sent fro ma scanner to a local computer
- Computer connects to main server and requests patients file.
- Server uses patient number to find file and send it to local computers in seconds allowing them to access all the medical history and information for the human.
Uses of ID chips:
- Pets – with tags on their collars, stray cats and dogs can be returned to their owners.
- Prisoners – whether in jail or out on parole, the authorities can track their movements.
- Marathon runners – runners can have their laces tagged so supporters can check locations and times.
- Medical patients – in the future, tags will store patient’s medical history as well as their patient number.
- Car Security – A chip in the car key holds the drivers number. If it matches the number in the cards memory, the card starts.
Also See … Smart Cards for more information on micro tagging and security.
Smart Cards – The magic bankcard Chip! What does it do?
Feb 9th
Smart card is a plastic card with an embedded microchip. It can store large amounts of data, from bank details to medical records in its memory. The data is encrypted – put into code – for security.
So why a smart card? How does it protect me?
A smart card is more useful and secure than a magnetic strip card. The card can hold up to 80 times more data and is much harder to copy a chip than magnetic strip. Data is protected because it is encrypted inside the chip. Although it is not possible to steal data from the chip, the high cost and computing power required deters criminals. The memory chip requires authentication before stored data is unlocked.
The “Chip & Pin” process makes a card payments more secure. The chip in the cards holds an encrypted copy of the users four-digit personal identification number (PIN). By entering the number into a reading device, a user can prove they own the card. This has reduced instances of card fraud; without the PIN, it is almost impossible for a crimincal to steal and use another persons card.
Smart card uses
- In money – people use smart cards to access their individual bank accounts and withdraw money or check their account information.
- Telephone calls – prepaid telephone cards are credited with a number units to make calls
- Cell Phones – Smart cards in cell phones contain subscriber information to identify the user to the network.
- Computer Security – to gain access to a personal computer, a smart card can authenticate the user.
- Travel – Many subway systems use prepaid smart cards instead of tickets, passengers swipe their cards to gain access.
- Health – smart cards provide an easy and safe way of storing and checking confidential medical information.
Interesting Facts:
- The gold pad found on top of a Smart card allows a two-way flow of data between the card and the reader.
- The first smart cards were introduced in Europe during the 1990s. They were mainly used as pay-phone cards.
- Smarts cards will be replaced by radio tags embedded in objects that can be scanned remotely like key rings or even the uses body.
Want to know more about Radio Tags and Smart Card Like Chips? Will a Radio Tag be eventually implanted in you? Click here.
Interesting & Random Computer Facts!
Feb 6th
- 80% of all pictures on the internet are of naked women
- Another name for a Microsoft Windows tutorial is ‘Crash Course’!
- Bill Gates’ house was designed using a Macintosh computer.
- By the year 2012 there will be approximately 17 billion devices connected to the Internet.
- Domain names are being registered at a rate of more than one million names every month.
- E-mail has been around longer than the World Wide Web.
- For every ‘normal’ webpage, there are five porn pages.
- In the 1980s, an IBM computer wasn’t considered 100 percent compatible unless it could run Microsoft Flight Simulator*.
- MySpace reports over 110 million registered users. Were it a country, it would be the tenth largest, just behind Mexico.
- One of every 8 married couples in the US last year met online.
- The average 21 year old has spent 5,000 hours playing video games, has exchanged 250,000 e-mails, instant and text messages and has spent 10,000 hours on the mobile phone.
- The average computer user blinks 7 times a minute, less than half the normal rate of 20.
- The first banner advertising was used in 1994.
- The first computer mouse was invented by Doug Engelbart in around 1964 and was made of wood.
- The first domain name ever registered was Symbolics.com.
- The world’s first computer, called the Z1, was invented by Konrad Zuse in 1936. His next invention, the Z2 was finished in 1939 and was the first fully functioning electro-mechanical computer.
- There are approximately 1,319,872,109 people on the Internet.
- There are approximately 1.06 billion instant messaging accounts worldwide.
- While it took the radio 38 years, and the television a short 13 years, it took the World Wide Web only 4 years to reach 50 million users.
Icons – lots of Icons!
Feb 2nd
Icons are a great way to customize your computer and folders. Here is a list of some great Icon sites you can get started with:
- http://pixelgirlpresents.com/icons/
- http://iconfactory.com/home
- http://interfacelift.com/icons/downloads/date/any/
- http://www.iconspedia.com/
- http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/icons_screensavers/index1.html
- http://www.iconarchive.com/
- http://iconfactory.com/freeware/icon
- http://www.veryicon.com/icons/
- http://interfacelift.com/icons-mac/categories.php
Enjoy 
Wordpress?
Feb 2nd
Wordpress is a great tool to be familiar with. It’s so popular and powerful that businesses use it all the time. Although Commonly used for a blog, it’s possible to create great websites using Wordpress as a platform. Wordpress allows you to install and apply themes so you can quickly get a website/blog up and running instantly, but it’s possible to use your own great designs as well. You can do these by creating and implanting your own custom themes.
So how do you create a Word press theme? Click here for a great step by step resource on how to create custom themes.
The “Ipad” – What do you think?
Jan 29th
There has been mixed emotions about the new Apple Ipad – we want to know what you think! Good? bad? 
Click “Comment” (or scroll down) to leave your thoughts, we want to hear from you!
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