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Is Photoshop Too Expensive For You? Give GIMP A Try

Photoshop is the premiere software when it comes to image manipulation and is renown by professionals and amateurs alike. For those who have purchased Photoshop you can testify to the fact that the software is expensive. Some have also described Photoshop as being the industry standard in which other image editing programs are compared.
But there [...]

GM Volt - First Test Vehicles Being Assembled

Even though GM is facing bankruptcy, the car company is proceeding with their plans for the Volt, an all electric vehicle with a gasoline supplement power plant for extended range. The Volts are being designed to run about 40 miles on a single charge, which GM feels should be enough for most commuters. But some [...]

Will Oracle Save OpenOffice From Extinction?

Microsoft has dominated the software market not only with Windows but also their Office Suite of software products. Over the years the only real competition has been OpenOffice which Sun had been providing to the masses. But now that Oracle has devoured Sun, the question now is what will become of OpenOffice?
OpenOffice has provided a [...]

Rent College Textbooks Instead Of Buying Them

For those of us who attended any institution of higher education, we are keenly aware of the high cost of textbooks. Even when we bought used books, it still put a dent in our pocket books. Well over at chegg.com they have a different appraoch which can save you up to 60% off on the cost. [...]

Will Oil Companies Block Alternative Energy?

Yesterday I read an article over at the TimesOnline from the UK, which described why Intel and Microsoft attacked the OLPC [One Laptop Per Child] project. I have written several articles about how Intel and Microsoft tried to circumvent this worthy project and basically have limited the ability of the project to function as it [...]

New Manhattan Project for Energy Independence

The idea is simple. It has been done twice before. First during WWII when the US was able to develop an atomic weapon and again when we put a man on the moon. Both times the US gathered the best of the best to tackle the problem and both times a solution was obtained. So [...]

Oil Crisis - Have We Missed The Boat?

No matter who you talk to these days, the price of gasoline usually come up in the conversation. What also comes up is why no one is doing anything about the oil crisis. But didn’t we already miss the boat long ago? Let’s face it America. We as a nation have done a piss poor [...]

UK Elonex Laptop PC - Is It An Alternative To OLPC?

From a company in the UK comes a laptop system named Elonex that appears to be a possible alternative to the OLPC laptop, The laptop prices at about $195 US offers similar performance as the OLPC does and offers a Linux operating system as well. On their site the Elonex laptop is described as:
The vision [...]

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