Sip of the Day - April 28, 2009

Sip of the Day - Windows Vista’s New Look

Titera's Tidbit: Raccoon
In 1608, the English explorer and colonist Captain John Smith published a book called A True Relation, in which he recorded the Algonquian languages of Virginia. He listed one creature, unknown to the Old World, with several spellings: rahaugcum, raugroughcm, and raughroughcums. Revising the book in 1611, Smith added yet another spelling: rarowcun. Not until 1672 did the modern spelling become current.

Sippets:
· A Boy and His Bear, Brutus
· 10 YouTube URL Tricks You Should Know
· Iran in the 1970’s Before the Islamic Revolution
· How Much Did That “Air Force One” Photo Op Cost?
· Super Sip Seven - Windows 7 Release Candidate 1 — May 5th

Sip of the Day - April 17, 2009

Sip of the Day - Interactive Clean Install of Windows Vista

Titera's Tidbit: Corral
The first people to have extensive knowledge of herding cattle were the Bantu-speaking tribes of sub-Saharan Africa. Their widely distributed word for the wooden enclosure in which cattle are ketp is krall. Ensalved Bantu speakers brought the word into Spanish as they taught their skills to other vaqueros, and the word entered English with it Spanish spelling, "corral".

Sippets:
· Impressive Post Card Archive
· How the Government Spends Your Money
· How to Revise an Email So That People Will Read It
· Kutcher Beats CNN, Oprah in Race to 1 Million Twitter Followers

Sip of the Day - April 9, 2009

Sip of the Day - Difference Between OEM & Retail Vista Versions

Titera's Tidbit: Bataan Death March
The march, involving the forcible transfer of 75,000 American and Filipino prisoners of war captured by the Japanese in the Philippines from the Bataan peninsula to prison camps, was characterized by wide-ranging physical abuse and murder, and resulted in very high fatalities inflicted upon the prisoners and civilians along the route by the Empire of Japan. Beheadings, cut throats and casual shootings were the more common actions.

Sippets:
· A Bat Hung Onto Shuttle During Liftoff
· Behind The Scenes At Netflix Processing
· Who Says Beer is Not for Breakfast? Not Safeway
· Tofu Lover’s Request is Denied for Specialty Plates
· Super Sip Software - Radical Image Optimization Tool

Sip of the Day - March 20, 2009

Sip of the Day - The Best Way to Acquire Windows Vista

Titera's Tidbit: Chimichanga
A common fare on menus in Mexican restaurants, a "chimichanga" is a deep-fried burrito. In the Spanish of the U.S.-Mexico borderlands, chimichanga means something like "whatchamacallit" or "thingamabob", which describes the food pretty well.

Sippets:
· I’ve Done It! I Finally Found Him!
· Jon Stewart vs. Jim Cramer - Who Won?
· TV’s Mythbusters 'Big Bang' Shatters Windows
· GM's Wagoner Drives Away with $20M Retirement
· Super Sip Schools - Top 10 Tools for a Free Online Education

Sip of the Day - March 25, 2009

Sip of the Day - Windows Vista 32-bit vs. Windows Vista 64-bit

Titera's Tidbit: Beyond the Pale
Cognate with our word "pole", pale derives from the Latin word palius, meaning a boundary stake. Following the medieval conquest of Ireland, English settlers lived in an area near Dublin called "the English pale". Those beyond that district, the Irish, who were presumed to be strange and dangerous, were said to live "beyond the pale".

Sippets:
· Gmail Labs: Gmail Now Has an Oops Button
· Students Tie Camera to Balloon; Send it to Edge of Space
· Our Cubes Keep Getting Smaller; I Think We Should Protest
· Goslings Leave Their Rooftop Nest At The Contra Costa Times
· Super Sip Software - Boxee.TV

Sip of the Day - March 13, 2009

Sip of the Day - Windows Vista Mobility Center

Titera's Tidbit: Pima
Imagine the scenario: a conquistador rides up to an Indian tilling a field in the Arizona desert and asks, politely, ?Quien es usted? ("Who are you?") The Indian replies, Pim'ach, and, satisfied, the conquistador enters that name on his map. "Pima" it has been since, naming an Arizona county and a kind of cotton, but what the Indian said was, "I don't understand you."

Sippets:
· The Crisis of Credit Visualized
· The Largest Swimming Pool in the World
· Google Voice Emerges, Transcribes Voicemail
· The Cheapest Netbook (That You Can Actually Use)
· Super Sip Site - CommonCraft.com: Explaining it in Plain English

Sip of the Day - March 9, 2009

Sip of the Day - Windows Vista Starter, K, and N Editions

Titera's Tidbit: Daylight Saving Time
Daylight Saving Time is the convention of advancing clocks so that afternoons have more daylight and mornings have less. Typically clocks are adjusted forward one hour near the start of spring and are adjusted backward in autumn. Modern DST was first proposed in 1907 by the English builder William Willett. Many countries have used it since then; details vary by location and change occasionally.

Sippets:
· The Ten Most Diabolical Fish in the World
· The Ultimate Rubik's Cube Instructions From 1986
· World's Longest Running Experiment, Spanning 82 Years
· Topps Launches 3D Live Baseball Cards, Video Cards on Deck
· Super Sip Site - Digital Photography School

Sip of the Day - March 6, 2009

Sip of the Day - Windows Vista: Enable Super User Account

Titera's Tidbit: Sherry
The name of this liqueur represents the English approximation of its place of origin, the Spanish port city of Xerés, now called Jeréz.

Sippets:
· Robots Will Take Over the World
· Photoshop: Fixing Photos Shot From Airplanes
· Squeeze Every Last Dollar Out of Your Income Tax Return
· Working in a Cubicle Sucks—This is How Cubicles Should Be
· Super Sip Software - IKEA Planner Tool

Sip of the Day - March 2, 2009

Sip of the Day - The Different Versions of Windows Vista

Titera's Tidbit: Dandelion
"Dandelion" came into English in the Middle Ages from the French dent-de-lion (pronounced dawn-duh-lee-own), which means "lion's tooth", referring to the plant's jagged leaves.

Sippets:
· Build Your Very Own Powered Model Aircraft
· What’s a Hulu? The Origins of 8 High-Tech Names
· YourFonts Turns Your Handwriting into a Personalized Font
· Former player found clinging to boat; NFL players not found
· Super Sip Scenery - Comanche National Grassland, Colorado


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Sip of the Day - February 4, 2009

Sip of the Day:
Windows Vista SP1 - What’s Included (Part III)

Titera's Tidbit: Sheriff
As fans of Robin Hood know, the Sheriff of Nottingham was not a senior police offer, though he certainly considered getting tough on crime part of his duties. Instead, the "sheriff" was the king's representative in charge of a given shire: the shire-reeve. In England, the title is honorary, whereas in many of England's former colonies the person charged with upholding the law in a particular district now bears it.

Sippets:
· Satellite Image of Crowds at the Mall
· Etch-A-Sketch President: Artist uses toy to draw faces
· Skype 4 is Out: Finalizes Video Chat
· Super Sip Speed - Google’s Measurement Lab

Video of the Day: Open Happiness (Rated: G)

Sip of the Day - February 2, 2009

Sip of the Day:
Windows Vista SP1: What’s Included (Part II)

Titera's Tidbit: Groundhog Day
This is an annual holiday celebrated on February 2 on which if a groundhog emerges from its burrow and fails to see its shadow because the weather is cloudy, winter will soon end. If it is sunny and the groundhog sees its shadow, he will supposedly retreat into its burrow, and winter will continue for six more weeks. The holiday began as a Pennsylvania German custom in southeastern and central Pennsylvania in the 18th and 19th centuries.

Sippets:
· Photo: Normandy Invasion on Utah Beach
· Google Maps Car Hits a Deer, Records Entire Ordeal
· The Pittsburgh Steelers Win the Most Super Bowl Titles
· Super Sip Scenery - Picture Canyon, Colorado

Video of the Day: Mean Joe Green II (Rated: G)

Sip of the Day - January 30, 2009

Sip of the Day:
Windows Vista SP1 - What’s Included

Titera's Tidbit: Cholera
In ancient Greek medicine, the gall bladder, the kholos, was believed to be the source of not only bile but also anger and irritability. "Cholera", a bilious disease still widespread around the world, thus means "the angry thing".

Sippets:
· Spotify, An Alternative to Music Piracy
· Why Windows 7 Taskbar Beats Mac OS X's Dock
· Super Bowl Preview: See the Commercials Now!!
· Super Sip Shuttle - Space Shuttle Cockpit

Video of the Day: Eating the World’s Hottest Pepper (Rated: PG)

Sip of the Day - January 26, 2009

Sip of the Day:
Microsoft Windows Vista SP1

Titera's Tidbit: Atom
In Greek, something that is atomos cannot be cut or divided. When atomic theory first developed in the nineteenth century, scientists assumed the then hypothetical thing called the "atom" was the smallest thing in the universe, out of which all other things were made. Only in the twentieth century were even smaller subatomic particles identified, making the "atom" not atomic, strictly speaking, at all.

Sippets:
· Photography—The Beauty of Urban Decay
· 60 Most Wanted Photoshop Tutorials and Resources
· Recession Roundup: Monday Morning Edition - Layoffs
· Super Sip Savings - Top 10 Ways to Save Money

Video of the Day: Dude Tries to Recreate “Ninja Cat” (Rated: PG)

Sip of the Day - January 21, 2009

Sip of the Day:
Vista - Windows Media Center

Titera's Tidbit: Nonchalant
A "nonchalant" person is unflappable, imperturbable, and otherwise hard to rile. In an emergency, such a cool head can be valuable, but most times a "nonchalant person" can't be bothered, and that can be annoying. The word comes from the Latin non + calere, meaning "can't be heated up".

Sippets:
· Long Exposure Photography: 15 Stunning Examples
· Throw your hard drive away, Google's Gdrive arriving
· If You Missed Inauguration 2009, You Can Watch it All
· Super Sip Surfer - Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2

Video of the Day: Darn. (Rated: PG)

Sip of the Day - January 16, 2009

Sip of the Day:
Vista - Windows Photo Gallery

Titera's Tidbit: Cheetah
The name of this fast-running African cat comes from the language of the Indians who traded along the continent's eastern coast. In Sanskirt, chita means "spotted", which well describes the cat's coat. The word also gives rise to the word "chintz", a kind of printed calico from India.

Sippets:
· Inside the Mind of an Autistic Savant
· Steve Jobs Taking Leave of Absence Due to Health
· When Birds Go on Strike: What a Bird Strike Looks Like
· Super Sip Social - Facebook



Video of the Day: Neil Patrick Harris & SNL Orchestra Present... (Rated: G)

Sip of the Day - January 12, 2009

Sip of the Day:
Vista - Windows Movie Maker & DVD Maker

Titera's Tidbit: Tupelo
The name of this handsome southeastern tree and of the Mississippi city where Elvis Presley was born comes from the Creek Indian word topilwa, meaning "the tree that grows in water". The region is swampy, and the Creek Indians were so called because they made their settlements along flowing streams.

Sippets:
· A Dark Sky Over Death Valley
· First Look at 12 Big Movies Coming In 2009
· Broncos to Announce 32-Year Old McDaniels as Coach
· Super Sip Strips - Far Side Reenactments


Video of the Day: Homemade Water Slide (Rated: PG)

Sip of the Day - December 19, 2008

Sip of the Day:
Windows Vista: Parental Controls

Titera's Tidbit: Webcam
Started in 1991, the first such camera, called the CoffeeCam, was pointed at the Trojan room coffee pot in the computer science department of Cambridge University. The camera was finally switched off on August 22, 2001. The final image captured by the camera can still be viewed at its homepage.

Sippets:
· NY City Breathtaking Following Google Earth Update
· Apple's Final MacWorld, Jobs Won't Deliver Keynote
· Rescue: Bush To Give Low-Interest Loans To Carmakers
· Super Sip Sight - uStream.TV: Broadcast for Free!


Video of the Day: Vintage Parkour from the 1930’s (Rated: PG)

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Sip of the Day - December 15, 2008

Sip of the Day:
Use Easy Transfer to Move Data to a New PC

Titera's Tidbit: Forest
The Romans who came to the heavily wooded precincts of what are now France, Switzerland, and Germany had reason to fear the grounds outside - in Latin, foris - the walls of their fortifications. Those who lived beyond, off in the dense woods, were enemies and strangers, from which foris also lends to our word "foreign".

Sippets:
· Photos: The Remains of Detroit
· Microsoft to Replace OneCare with Free Anti-Virus
· Denver Sets “This Day in History” Record at –19F
· Super Sip Software - Free MS Software for Students


Video of the Day: Pitcher Doesn’t See Time Out (Rated: G)

Sip of the Day - December 9, 2008

Sip of the Day:
Vista - Encrypt Entire Drives with BitLocker

Titera's Tidbit: Snowfall
The highest seasonal total snowfall measured in the United States was at Mount Baker Ski Area, outside of the town Bellingham, Washington during the 1998–1999 season. Mount Baker received 1,140 inches of snow, thus surpassing the previous record holder, Mount Rainier, Washington, which during the 1971–1972 season received 1,122 inches of snow.

Sippets:
· Were You Scared of Santa Too?
· Awesome Photos That Look Photoshopped But Are Not
· Chicago Cubs Might Get San Diego’s Ace Peavy in Deal
· Super Sip Small - Creative Vado: Smallest HD Camera

Video of the Day: Now, This Dog Can Eat! (Rated: G)

Sip of the Day - November 21, 2008

Sip of the Day:
Vista - Instant Search and the Search Pane

Titera's Tidbit: Brat
The people of medieval England wouldn't have understood the phrase "spoiled brat" because a bratt was a rough piece of cloth, something like a burlap sack, the children of poor people wore. A "brat", by extension, was any poor child. Only in the nineteenth century did the word come to mean any misbehaving child, no matter what his or her social status.

Sippets:
· Just the Perfect Place for an Epic Canoe Ride
· Get Three Windows 7 Features on Windows Vista
· General Motors Downsizing Jet Fleet, CEO Still Flies High
· Super Sip Software - Unlock Windows 7 Hidden Features

Video of the Day: The Chicken Police Break-Up Fight (Rated: PG)