I am trying to help my mother to change her screen saver. When she first purchased her laptop which she bought less than a year ago. Now at this present time, the computer will not let her change her background picture. I would really like to help her I am not so sure how though.
There's an app for that.
While not at all humorous in anyway it does show how technology (even personal tech) can and is being used to help locate unfortunate victims of catastrophic disasters.
SOURCE: Find My iPhone helps find wreckage of Chilean plane crash | 9to5Mac | Apple Intelligence
JOPLIN, Mo. – Rescue crews dug through piles of splintered houses and crushed cars Monday in a search for victims of a half-mile-wide tornado that killed at least 116 people when it blasted much of this Missouri town off the map and slammed straight into its hospital.
It was the nation's...
Japanese authorities have raised the severity rating of the nuclear crisis at the damaged Fukushima Daiichi power plant to the highest level, seven.
The decision reflects the ongoing release of radiation, rather than a sudden deterioration. Level seven previously only applied to the 1986...
Japan's parliament has passed a 4tn yen ($49bn, £30bn) emergency budget for reconstruction following the 11 March earthquake and tsunami.
The bill, unveiled last month, passed the lower house on Saturday and was approved unanimously by the upper house budget committee early on Monday...
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Japan's cabinet approved on Friday almost $50 billion of spending for post-earthquake rebuilding, a downpayment on the country's biggest public works effort in six decades.
The emergency budget of 4 trillion yen ($48.5 billion), which is likely be followed by more...
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Magnitude 4.7 - NEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPANPRAY FOR THESE PEOPLE NOT ONLY QUAKES A VOLCANO ERUPTED THERE TODAY ALSOUSGS Earthquake Hazards Program, responsible for monitoring, reporting, and researching...
The news out of Japan has not been good this week. Officials there raised the severity rating of the nuclear disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant to the highest level, while the plant continues to dump radiation into the air and water and radiation is found in milk and drinking water in...
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TOKYO--If there's one sound you don't want to hear in Tokyo these days, it's the earthquake alarm. The two jarring chords came crashing through the cherry blossoms from a public-address speaker the other morning and sent me bounding into the street in my pajamas. The room started wobbling...
A magnitude-6.6 earthquake hit Japan about 35 miles from Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s stricken nuclear power plant, shaking buildings in the capital city and causing fires to break out in the northeast of the country.
The quake struck at 5:16 p.m. local time 38 kilometers (24 miles) west of...
A Swedish couple got more than they bargained for when they took a four-month honeymoon, enduring a cyclone, a snowstorm, a flood, bushfires and an earthquake.
Newlyweds Stefan and Erika Svanstrom wanted to celebrate their nuptials on a tour of Asia Pacific with their baby daughter, but...
The following lists the impact of the earthquake and tsunami that rocked the northeast coast of Japan on March 11 and the subsequent crisis at a nuclear power plant. (
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A total of 12,009 people were confirmed dead by Japan's National Police Agency as of 9 p.m. EDT Saturday, while...
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As Japan's prime minister visited tsunami-ravaged coastal areas for the first time Saturday, frustrated evacuees complained that the government has been too focused on the nuclear crisis that followed the massive wave.
Nearly every day some new problem at...
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Electricity has been restored to three reactors at the Japanese nuclear plant wrecked by fire and explosions after the 11 March quake and tsunami.
However the cooling systems are not yet operating, and the UN nuclear watchdog, the IAEA, says the situation remains "very serious".
Some workers...