Sip of the Day – Windows 8: “Windows Key” Keyboard Shortcuts

Sip of the Day – Windows 8: Windows Key Keyboard Shortcuts

Titera’s Tibit: Sputnik
Korabl-Sputnik 4 or Vostok-3KA No.1, also known as Sputnik 9 in the West, was a Soviet spacecraft which was launched in 1961. It was a test flight of the Vostok spacecraft, carrying the mannequin Ivan Ivanovich, a dog named Chernushka, some mice and a guinea pig. The name “Sputnik” literally means “fellow traveler of earth”.

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Sip of the Day – Windows 8: “All Apps” Comes of Age

Sip of the Day – Windows 8: “All Apps” Comes of Age

Titera’s Tidbit: Texas
The name Texas derives from táyshaʼ, a word in the Caddoan language of the Hasinai Native Americans, which means “friends” or “allies.” European conquistadors (explorers) first arrived in the region now known as Texas in 1519, finding the region populated by various Native American tribes. During the period from 1519 to 1848, all or parts of Texas were claimed by six countries: France, Spain, Mexico, the Republic of Texas, the United States of America—as well as the Confederate States of America in 1861–65.

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Sip of the Day – Windows 8: Configuring Startup Applications

Sip of the Day – Windows 8: Configuring Startup Applications

Titera’s Tidbit: Space Shuttle Discovery
The spacecraft takes its name from four British ships of exploration named Discovery, primarily HMS Discovery 1, one of the ships commanded by Captain James Cook during his third and final major voyage from 1776 to 1779. The other three were: Henry Hudson’s Discovery, HMS Discovery 2, and RRS Discovery.

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Sip of the Day – Windows 8: Device Manager, App Installs, & Control Panel

Sip of the Day – Windows 8: Device Manager, App Installs, & Control Panel

Titera’s Tidbit: Deep Blue
Deep Blue was a chess-playing computer developed by IBM. On May 11, 1997, the machine won a six-game match by two wins to one with three draws against world champion Garry Kasparov. Kasparov accused IBM of cheating and demanded a rematch, but IBM refused and dismantled Deep Blue. ”Deep Blue” is a play on IBM’s nickname, Big Blue.

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Sip of the Day – Windows 8: Windows Update

Sip of the Day – Windows 8: Windows Update

Titera’s Tidbit: Satellite
Meaning “planet that revolves about a larger one” first attested 1660s, in reference to the moons of Jupiter, from L. satellites, which was used in this sense 1610s by German astronomer Johannes Kepler (1571-1630). Galileo, who had discovered them, called them Sidera Medicæa in honor of the Medici family. Meaning “man-made machinery orbiting the Earth” first recorded 1936 as theory, 1957 as fact. Meaning “country dependent and subservient to another” is recorded from 1800.

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Sip of the Day – Windows 8: Post Setup Configuration (Part I)

Sip of the Day – Windows 8: Post Setup Configuration (Part I)

Titera’s Tidbit: Beer Goggles
This jocular term from college slang dates to the early 1980s. To wear “beer goggles” means to see things through an alcohol haze, so something that seemed like a very good idea the night before turns out to be a decidedly bad one in the light of day.

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Sip of the Day: Windows: The Start Screen

Sip of the Day – Windows 8: The Start Screen

Titera’s Tidbit: 20th Century Fox
Well into the next century, this renowned film studio retains the name it took in 1935 when William Fox’s pioneering Fox Film Corporation merged with a new concern, Twentieth Century Pictures, founded in 1933 by the legendary producer Darryl F. Zanuck and several partners. Fox specialized in building theaters, while Zanuck made films, and admirable arrangement that made the studio on of the most powerful and profitable in film history.

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Sip of the Day – Windows 8: Launching Apps, Past and Present

Sip of the Day – Windows 8: Launching Apps, Past and Present

Titera’s Tidbit: Coachella
This California desert city was once called Conchilla, meaning “little seashell”, so called because little shells could be found scattered across the landscape, once a seafloor. In 1909, a cartographer working on a survey crew misread the name and entered it on the San Jacinto atlas sheet as “Coachella”. Some residents objected that the name had no meaning, but others considered it “unique, distrinctive, and euphonious”, and it was soon made official.

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Sip of the Day – Windows 8: Changing a Custom Library Icon

Sip of the Day – Windows 8: Changing a Custom Library Icon

Titera’s Tidbit: Reindeer
The Scandinavian rein is the plural form for the cervids we call deer, which itself, in Old English, was the generic word for all animals. Thus a “reindeer” is a “deer deer”, strictly speaking.

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Sip of the Day – Improve Windows 8 with Third Party Utilities

Sip of the Day – Improve Windows 8 With Third Party Utilities

Titera’s Tibit: Tebowing
To get down on a knee and start praying, even if everyone else around you is doing something completely different.

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