2007

Nokia has dropped the price of its 3G model E65, one of the top cellphone products, in terms of sales, world wide. The cut is viewed in light of the Christmas sales season and really did not surprise many.
Nokia has become aggressive with its phone prices and this is good news for people who [...]

OnScreen Technologies is a company doing research into alternative ways to cool servers. Todays servers generate a lot of heat, that heat is typically dispensed with a fan cooling system. The drawbacks to this are that the fan itself uses energy, they are inefficient and noisy too!
These folks have a system called WayCool. [...]

Google has introduced a new layer to it’s Google Earth product, video. You can now overlay YouTube video to locations on the earth. This gives users the ability to watch video associated with a place. Assigning geographic information is called geo-tagging, generators of YouTube videos can do this.
The idea of geo-tagging is [...]

If you have small farm animals, feed or food storage areas outside, then you have probably been confronted with a local critter who is helping themselves to you stuff. I remember learning about this in our shed one night when I went to get some dog food (for the dogs of course) and there [...]

Its that time of year again when the leaves change colors, the temperatures drop and the apples are pulled (or fall) from the trees. If you are traveling in the country or traveling to the local grocery store, keep an eye out for fresh apple cider, this is the time of the year when [...]

Google has a secret in Google Earth!  If you press Ctrl+Alt+A (capital A) a Flight Simulator comes up!  This really seems to be taking the gloves off when it comes to challenging MS.

I read that Volkswagen is going to pay to offset one year’s worth of carbon dioxide emissions for every new vehicle it sells in the US before 01/02/2008. it is going to work with carbonfund.org to reforest the lower Mississippi valley and wetlands in norther Louisiana. Volkswagen indicates this area with its trees [...]

This seems to be fairly academic but it is always good to remember to keep your tires inflated properly to get the best gas mileage possible with your vehicle. It has been suggested that doing this boosts fuel efficiency by 3.3% or 10 cents a gallon, hey every little bit helps right?
General usage, wear [...]

I’m not sure how many of you remember this but there was talk of honey bees disappearing from various parts of the country. This was loud enough for me to generally notice how many honey bees were buzzing around my yard, when I was thinking about it this summer. A question I had [...]

Engineers at Purdue University have been doing some exciting things. They have been working on hydrogen based energy source development. The article I read discusses the idea of adding water to aluminum and gallium. Aluminum does its oxidation thing (the search for oxygen) and splits the water. During this process hydrogen [...]