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Coats For Kids: How It Works
Teardown: iPod Touch Shows Us Its Guts
What cars and big rigs say about the economy
Around it goes: 110 Years of the Speedometer
How the IRS project works
Why There is an Electoral College and How it Works
Understand memory management under ARC
Ron Miles Finds Wide-Open Spaces On 'Quiver'

Posted: 11 Oct 2012 05:45 PM PDT

MEDFORD, Ore. – The Coats For Kids Campaign is just about half-way through and donations are still needed. There are just two weeks left to donate a gently used or new coat to help a local child in need. Once a coat leaves a donor's hand, the donated coat has a long journey before it … Continue reading »

Teardown: iPod Touch Shows Us Its Guts

Posted: 12 Oct 2012 07:46 AM PDT

Now that the fifth-generation iPod touch is available, the handy folks over at iFixit have turned it inside out so we can see how it works -- and how easy it is to fix.

What cars and big rigs say about the economy

Posted: 12 Oct 2012 07:00 AM PDT

For an absurdly simple model of how the U.S. economy works, think of it as consisting of only two halves: Cars and trucks. Cars represent the demand side of the economy: The desire of Americans to buy the goods and services they want, need or enjoy. Trucks, specifically 18-wheelers and other big rigs, represent the supply side of the economy: The factories and shipping networks that make and ...

Around it goes: 110 Years of the Speedometer

Posted: 12 Oct 2012 08:05 AM PDT

Nowadays it is hard to imagine a vehicle without one: In October 2012, the speedometer turns 110 years old. Continental explains where it came from, how it works and where it is heading.

How the IRS project works

Posted: 11 Oct 2012 09:28 PM PDT

Prosecutors in eight states have joined Florida in an IRS pilot project to investigate and prosecute identity theft. How it works: Fraud victims fill out a form giving the IRS permission to share taxpayer data with local law enforcement to target identity thieves.

Why There is an Electoral College and How it Works

Posted: 09 Oct 2012 11:46 AM PDT

Presidents are elected not by national popular vote but by an 18th century constitutional compromise called the Electoral College.

Understand memory management under ARC

Posted: 11 Oct 2012 01:46 PM PDT

Automatic Reference Counting does not change how memory management works, it only changes what you do as a programmer.

Ron Miles Finds Wide-Open Spaces On 'Quiver'

Posted: 11 Oct 2012 09:45 AM PDT

For Miles, the better he knows how a tune works, the less he has to play to put it across.