Image of the Day - Curiosity

Today's Image of the Day for 13/8/12 - NASA's Curiosity

Image courtesy of  NASA

After a long absence the Image of the Day is finally back, and what better way to welcome it back than an Image taken by NASA's Curiosity. This Image was taken from the same spot in which Curiosity landed, due to the on going health checks that have not allowed the rover to move. The first stage in these health checks is to update the on board computers software, this software is better suited for the mars surface and will enable the use of the robotic arm and drill. These updates will take approximately 1 week to complete. In the mean time the NASA scientists will be closely analyzing the Images taken by the rover. The image below is the first 360 degree panorama sent from the Red Planet.

Image courtesy of  NASA

Image of the Day - Apple II Motherboard

Today's Image of the Day for 6/10/11 - Apple 2 Motherboard

(Steve Jobs Tribute)

Apple 2 motherboard courtesy of willegal

The Apple II is an 8-bit home computer, one of the first highly successful mass-produced microcomputer products, designed primarily by Steve Wozniak, manufactured by Apple Computer (now Apple Inc.) and introduced in 1977. It is the first model in a series of computers which were produced until Apple IIe production ceased in November 1993. The first Apple II computers went on sale on June 5, 1977 with a MOS Technology 6502 microprocessor running at 1 MHz, 4 kB of RAM, an audio cassette interface for loading programs and storing data, and the Integer BASIC programming language built into the ROMs. To reflect the computer's colour graphics capability, the Apple logo on the casing was represented using rainbow stripes, which remained a part of Apple's corporate logo until early 1998. An external 5¼-inch floppy disk drive, the Disk II, attached via a controller card that plugged into one of the computer's expansion slots (usually slot 6), was used for data storage and retrieval to replace cassettes. The Disk II interface, created by Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs, it was regarded as an engineering masterpiece for its economy of electronic components.

This IotD is a tribute to Steve Jobs.

He will be remembered forever.

A tribute to Steve Jobs

A tribute to Steve Jobs

Image from apple.com

October the 5th 2011 brought the sad news that Steve Jobs; co-founder of Apple Inc. had passed away. After a long battle with pancreatic cancer and an operation that would remove the tumour, the cancerous cells won and sadly ended the life of one of the greatest innovators to ever live. Among the millions of people world wide to honour Jobs' wonderful life; world leaders like Barack Obama and David Cameron, Bill gates and Google co-founder Larry Page would join the celebrations of what he has achieved.

Image courtesy Jonathon Mak

A visual tribute to Steve Jobs has re-imagined the classic Apple logo with Jobs’ silhouette as the bite in the Apple. The image’s caption simply reads, “Thanks, Steve.”

“Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.”

A quote from Steve Jobs