Today, 40 years ago first public call with a cellphone was made. The cellphone weighed 2,5 pounds (1,1kg) and when it hit the market it would cost you little short of $4,000.
In the 21st century historians have increasingly portrayed the decade as a "pivot of change" in world history focusing especially on the political and economic upheavals. Check your 70s knowledge.
You can add multiple desktops to the Mac OS X Mountain Lion by using Mission Control, formerly known as Spaces. Can be really useful if you are a busy multi-tasker.
If you don't want Google to store your chat history and the Google chat history of the person you are chatting with, you can take the chat off the record and this is how you do that.