Sunday, April 29, 2007

MP3

Mp3 accessories are marvelous gadgets which come with a lot of in-built features. First you can listen to the music of your choice, irrespective of your location. The iPods are subjected to constant improvisation clause, and thus many different models were released. This gives you a lot of option to pick one, according to your tastes and requirements.
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Monday, April 23, 2007

Personal computer

A personal computer or PC is usually a microcomputer intended to be used by one person at a time, and suitable for general principle tasks such as word processing, programming, sending messages or digital documents to other computers on the network, multimedia editing or game play, usually used to run software not written by the user. Unlike minicomputers, a personal computer is often owned by the person using it, representing a low cost of purchase and simplicity of operation. The user of a modern personal computer may have trivial knowledge of the operating environment and application programs, but is not unavoidably interested in programming or even able to write programs for the computer.

In modern usage PC nearly always refers to an IBM compatible and the term may even be used for machines that are in no way personal computers but still use the basic architecture of the IBM pc. The first generation of microcomputers were called just that, and only sold in small numbers to those able to operate them: engineers and accomplished. The second generation micros were known as home computers, and are discussed in that section.

Thursday, April 19, 2007

London Gatwick Airport

Gatwick Airport is London's second airport and the second busiest airport in the UK after Heathrow in terms of passengers per year. It is situated in West Sussex, approximately 40 km (25 miles) south of London, and an equal distance north of Brighton.Gatwick is the busiest single-runway airport in the world, handling over 31 million passengers yearly, flying to around 200 destinations. Charter airlines are normally not allowed to operate from Heathrow and many use Gatwick instead as their base. Many flights to and from the USA also use Gatwick because of restrictions on transatlantic operations from Heathrow. The airport is also a secondary hub for British Airways and Virgin Atlantic.In 1979, when the last major expansion took place, an agreement was reached with the local council not to expand further before 2019, but recent proposals to build a second runway at Gatwick led to protests about increased noise and pollution and demolition of houses and villages. The government has now decided to expand Stansted and Heathrow but not Gatwick. Gatwick's owners BAA contain published a new consultation which includes a possible second runway south of the airport, but leaves the villages of Charlwood and Hookwood, north of the airport, intact.In common with many airports car parking is in limited supply, in part due to local planning restrictions, and facilities are full to capacity in the summer months

Tuesday, April 10, 2007

Postal Marking

Less ordinary types include forwarding addresses, routing annotations, warnings, postage due notices and explanations, such as for damaged or delayed mail. A key part of postal history is the recognition of postal markings, their purpose, and period of use.

Service marks give information to the sender, recipient, or another post office. Advice marks notify about forwarding, misspending, and letters received in bad condition, letters received too late for delivery by a certain time, or the reason for a delay in mail delivery. Dead letter offices would use various markings to keep track of their progress in finding the addressee, such as a document that the letter had been advertised in the local newspaper. The tracking procedure for registered mail may entail multiple marks and notations.


Auxiliary marks are functional by an organization other than the postal administration. For instance, 19th century mail delivery often relied on a mix of private ships, steamboats, stagecoaches, railroads, and other transportation organizations to transfer mail. Many of these organizations applied their own markings to each item, occasionally saying simply "STEAMSHIP" or some such, while others had elaborate designs. Similar direction-finding notations were also used in the early days of airmail.

The traditional way to be valid a postal marking is with the use of a rubber or metal hand stamp; handwritten notations are sometimes seen for unusual situations or in very small post offices. In the United States, modern postal markings may appear in the form of yellow paste labels with the text printed on them. Many postal administrations now have the ability to print inkjet observations directly onto a cover, either as a barcode for reading by other equipment, or as text.

Friday, April 06, 2007

Watch

100 A watches is a small portable clock that displays the current time and sometimes the current day, date, month and year. In modern times they are frequently worn on the wrist with a watch-strap, although before the 20th century most were pocket watches, which had covers and were carried individually, often in a pocket, and hooked to a watch chain.

Present watches are often digital watches, using a piezoelectric crystal, regularly quartz, as an oscillator.

In earlier times mechanical timepieces were used, motorized by a spring wound regularly by the user. The discovery of "Automatic" or "Self-Winding" watches allowed for a stable winding without particular action from the wearer: it works by an eccentric weight, called a winding rotor, which rotates to the movement of the wearer's body. The back-and-forth motion of the winding rotor couples to a rachet to automatically wind the watch.


Types of watch

Pocket clock
The first necessity for portability in time keeping was steering and mapping in the 15th century. The latitude could be measured by looking at the stars, but the only way a ship could measure its longitude was by comparing time zones; by comparing the noontime time of the local longitude to a European meridian, a sailor could know how far he was from home. However, the process was notoriously defective until the introduction of John Harrison's chronometer. For that reason, most maps from the 15th century to c.1800 have precise latitudes but indistinct longitudes.

The first reasonably exact mechanical clocks measured time with weighted pendulums, which are useless at sea or in watches. The creation of a spring mechanism was crucial for portable clocks. In Tudor England, the development of "pocket-clocks" was enabled through the development of reliable springs and escapement mechanisms, which allowed clockmakers to compress a timekeeping device into a small, portable compartment. In 1524, Peter Heinlein created the first pocket watch. It is supposed that Henry VIII had a pocket clock which he kept on a chain around his neck. However, these watches only had an hour hand - a minute hand would have been useless bearing in mind the inexactness of the watch mechanism. Eventually, miniaturization of these spring-based designs allowed for exact portable timepieces which worked well even at sea. Aaron Lufkin Dennison founded Waltham Watch Company in 1850, which was the pioneer of the industrial developed by interchangeable parts, the American System of Watch Manufacturing.

Thursday, April 05, 2007

Sun

The Sun is the star at the centre of our Solar system. It is infrequently referred to as Sol to distinguish it from other "suns". Planet Earth orbits the Sun, as do many other bodies, with other planets, asteroids, meteoroids, comets and dust. Its heat and light support almost all life on Earth.
The Sun has a mass of about 2×1030kg, which is fairly higher than that of an average star. About 74% of its mass is hydrogen, with 25% helium and the rest made up of trace quantities of heavier elements. It is consideration that the Sun is about 5 billion years old, and is about half way through its main sequence evolution, throughout which nuclear fusion reactions in its core fuse hydrogen into helium. In about 5 billion years time the Sun will become a planetary nebula.
Although it is the nearest star to Earth and has been intensively studied by scientists, many questions about the Sun remain unanswered, such as why its outer atmosphere has a temperature of over 106 K when its visible surface has a temperature of just 6,000 K.
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