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02 November 2007

My Dots for Thursday, November 01, 2007

Quoted: Råd & Rön har valt att bara testa apparater som är märkta HD-ready och Full-HD eftersom det med stor sannolikhet är framtidens format. Testet omfattar 17 tv-apparaterna i storlekarna 37, 40 och 42 tum och använder antingen tekniken plasma eller lcd.

[tags: TV, review]

Sony KDL40D3000 LCD TV enhances our television viewing experience using its BRAVIA Engine Full Digital Video Processor. This unique processing technology presents smooth, clear and razor-sharp images.

[tags: tv, review]

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01 November 2007

My Dots for Wednesday, October 31, 2007

Quoted: Nothing kills your ability to get things done faster than a bad night's sleep Studies show that sleep deprivation costs Americans significant work productivity yawning employees can't stay

[tags: health, sleep]

Quoted: "Sarko the American" is what the French are calling their new president, Nicolas Sarkozy, who has been siding with the U.S. on policy. Lesley Stahl profiles the energetic and sometimes volatile leader.

[tags: France]

Simply, Brijit aggregates the world's best long-form content and abstracts it in 100 words or less, providing busy, omnivorous, and increasingly mobile readers with rich, qualitative summaries as well as better guideposts for what to read, watch or listen to now. We produce these abstracts in concert with our readers, as one community of readers, writers and editors. Think of us as your well-read friend who leads you to that can't miss article, video clip or product.

[tags: news, abstracts]

Build and share web application prototypes online quickly & easily

[tags: web, development, prototype]

Quoted: Free Online Video Converter
No software to install. No ads to interrupt.

[tags: video, converter]

AlchemyPoint is an exciting new structured web and Internet mashup platform, that transforms the everyday web into something more intelligent and useful.

[tags: mashup, web]

he goal of unfettered American access to sufficient Middle Eastern oil would, if achieved and sustained, deprive other countries of sufficient oil, or require them to satisfy US demands in order to access it, says Michael Schwartz.

Quoted: Researchers find that setting the Apple firewall to block all incoming Internet traffic doesn't work.

[tags: apple, security, Leopard, os x, firewall]

Quoted: Want to work in a virtual machine to keep your main system pristine? The choice you ought to make is VMware 6.

[tags: software, apple, imac, os x, windows]

Quoted: Inexpensive and easy to use, Parallels Workstation handles all but the toughest virtual machine tasks.

[tags: software, apple, imac, os x, windows]

Quoted: Bredbandskollen TPTEST är ett enkelt sätt för dig att testa din bredbandsuppkoppling. Har du rätt hastighet?

[tags: speed test]

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31 October 2007

My Dots for Tuesday, October 30, 2007

Quoted: We wish we could say that Ubuntu is the best alternative to Windows; sadly, it isn't. It took a LONG time to get all these ...

[tags: windows, linux, ubuntu]

Quoted: Apple's new operating system includes plenty of sweet new eye candy and brilliant functionality. Get a first look at OS X 10.5 in our hands-on preview and slideshow.

[tags: apple, os x]

Quoted: Fibromyalgia is a chronic, disabling condition. Prominent fibromyalgia symptoms include fatigue and intense pain at 'tender points' around the body. Fibromyalgia is linked to other illness such as CFS, sleep apnea, restless leg syndrome and myofacial pain

[tags: fms]

Quoted: Dr. Martin Pall, known mainly for his research into the causes of multiple chemical sensitivity (MCS), turns his attention to fibromyaglia, describing the role of excessive nitric oxide/peroxynitrite and excessive NMDA activity in this illness.

[tags: health, fms]

"No backlight also means when there's no current, there's no light. Therefore, we're able to achieve unprecedented contrast," Lapointe adds, referring to how black the blacks look on a television (measured in a ratio between black and white). Compared to a flat-panel LCD television with, say, a true contrast ratio of 1,000:1, or a plasma TV with 20,000:1, an OLED TV is said to have a 1,000,000:1 contrast ratio. "And this is a conservative estimate," Lapointe says

[tags: oled, tv, light]

Quoted: Samsung's executive vice president, Ho Kyoon Chung, has said that he expects 42-inch OLED televisions to be on the market in three years' time

[tags: oled, tv, light]

An organic light-emitting diode (OLED), also Light Emitting Polymer (LEP) and Organic Electro-Luminescence (OEL), is any light-emitting diode (LED) whose emissive electroluminescent layer is comprised of a film of organic compounds. The layer usually contains a polymer substance that allows suitable organic compounds to be deposited. They are deposited in rows and columns onto a flat carrier by a simple "printing" process. The resulting matrix of pixels can emit light of different colors.

[tags: OLED, LED]

Hulu's ambitious and never-ending mission is to help you find and enjoy the world's premium content when, where and how you want it. We hope to provide you with the web's most comprehensive selection of premium programming across all genres and formats – television shows, feature films, clips, and more. Additionally, we want to give you more choices of when and where you can enjoy your favorite programming, while creating innovative experiences that let you watch and participate in online video in new and exciting ways.

[tags: tv, movies, video]

FreeRice has two goals:

1. Provide English vocabulary to everyone for free.
2. Help end world hunger by providing rice to hungry people for free.

This is made possible by the sponsors who advertise on this site.

Quoted: Give free rice to hungry people by playing a simple word game.

[tags: free, vocabulary, donation, UN, learning]

In addition to a solar cell-powered hydrogen refueling station, Honda is operating an experimental Home Energy Station that generates hydrogen from natural gas for use in fuel cell vehicles while supplying electricity and hot water to the home as part of its ongoing research into development of hydrogen production and supply systems for a hydrogen-based society of the future.

[tags: SolarEnergy, hydrogen, home, fuel cell, electricity]

October 16, 2007 - Mobile carrier Orange will be the exclusive provider of the iPhone in France, the two companies announced Tuesday.

[tags: apple, iphone, orange, france]

In addition to the ultra-thin aluminum keyboard Apple unveiled for the iMac last month, a similarly proportioned Bluetooth wireless version was also introduced. Here's a setup and unpacking tour, paired with a look at its features, an operational mystery, and a tantalizing future potential.

[tags: apple, iMac]

Zopa, still (it would appear) the world’s first peer to peer online lending service, has launched Zopa Listings, allowing individual borrowers to post their own specific requests for loans for individual lenders to review and then bid against.

[tags: finance, social lending]

As predicted, the Three Skype phone will have a specific button above the keypad to activate Skype. It looks like Three will not charge extra for Skype so long as the customer has a contract or tops up their prepay account regularly. The Guardian thinks the the phone will feature a 2MB camera and MP3 player as well as video playback, which is pretty safe predication. And assuming the Skype software operates like a normal PC account, it should be possible to use it to get “pushed” RSS feeds to it using something like Zaptxt. That might be useful… if outside the mainstream market the phone is aimed at.

[tags: skype, Mobile]

Quoted: Skype's anticipated mobile phone is now official. Britain's mobile carrier 3 will start selling it on November 2 in the UK, and later ...

[tags: mobile, skype]

Fisker's next car is shaping up quite quickly. The announcement that the
Fisker's two first cars, the Tramonto and Latigo are paving the way for the new hybrid. (Photo: Fisker Coachbuild)
brand's next vehicle would be a hybrid showed a new direction, but what will the car look like? What will it be powered by? And what sort of car will it be? These details are now in the open

[tags: automotive, hybrid, EnergyTechnologies]

Gather is a place for you to connect with people who share your passions. It's a place where you can contribute thought, art, commentary, or inspiration. We'll reward you for all the great things you share with others in your communities of interest. And together, we'll continue to build a pretty special place to hang out online.

Quoted: Gather is a place to connect with people who share your passions. Let your unique voice shine through the articles, images, reviews, or audio you publish. We'll even compensate you with Gather PointsTM. Rewarded for something you'd do for free -- now that's a pretty good deal.

[tags: community, sharing]

Quoted: I had the opportunity to interview Elizabeth Edwards with Gather member questions while she was in Boston on Wednesday, October 24th at the Westin Copley. The questions that came in from Gather members . . .

[tags: interview]

Quoted: Fora.tv, which wants to become the C-SPAN of the Web, closed a $2 million seed round from Adobe Ventures and Will Hearst. The site has about 1,500 hours of public speeches from people like Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker and neurologist and New Yorker contributor Oliver Sacks. It gets its videos through partnerships with organizations like the

[tags: GR]

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30 October 2007

My Dots for Monday, October 29, 2007

[tags: video, climate, change]

Search Free Apps is the first search engine dedicated to finding high quality 100% free applications on the Internet. To date, our team of experts has hand-picked over 500 valuable applications across the full spectrum of online services. Our team expects to add additional applications on a continuous basis.

[tags: search, free, applications]

[tags: reminder, phone]

XOOPS is an extensible, OO (Object Oriented), easy to use dynamic web content management system written in PHP. XOOPS is the ideal tool for developing small to large dynamic community websites, intra company portals, corporate portals, weblogs and much more.

[tags: website, development, design]

Quoted: Göteborgs stad genomför just nu en rad strategiska förändringar inom it-området - Computer Sweden - En del av IDG.se.

[tags: sweden]

Quoted: Operatören Tre lanserar en ny telefon med direktknappar för Skypes tjänster för ip-telefoni

[tags: skype, mobile]

Quoted: Apple's new operating system includes plenty of sweet new eye candy and brilliant functionality. Get a first look at OS X 10.5 in our hands-on preview and slideshow.

[tags: os x, apple]

Quoted: The latest version of Apple's Mac operating system Leopard went on sale Friday, and aside from some reports of users getting blue screens ...

[tags: os x, apple, leopard, widgets]

So you have your new Macbook, iMac or Mac Pro now. The smell of an athletic shoe store has already hit you as you opened the box, and you wonder about the great adventures that await you!

[tags: software, apple, freeware, imac]

Through the use of easy-to-follow movies, step-by-step instructions, and helpful tips, you’ll learn the basics of iMovie.

[tags: apple, imac]

One of our readers dropped us a note to tell us that his new 24-inch iMac was exhibiting condensation build up behind the screen: he's not the only one, with a few people on the Apple Support forums and elsewhere also reporting the problem.

[tags: apple, imac]

Quoted: Upgrade your iMac Intel Aluminum (2.4, 20-inch) computer memory with 4AllMemory.com.

[tags: imac, memory, apple]

Quoted: Prism is an application that lets users split web applications out of their browser and run them directly on their desktop.

[tags: blog, firefox, application, browser]

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29 October 2007

My Dots for Sunday, October 28, 2007

Quoted: It is possible to sustain therapeutic gene expression in the central nervous system for up to a year, even in the presence of an anti-viral immune response mechanism that is normally present in humans, according to new research. This finding may pave the way to more effective, long lasting, and safer gene therapy treatments.

[tags: gene therapy, health, pd]

Quoted: En blogg om bilder, journalistik, musik, böcker, mat, dryck och livet i New York

[tags: usa, new york, blog]

Presidential election - USA

Quoted: Upplagd av Mathias Sundin

[tags: politics, sweden, blogs]

Quoted: A ponytailed finance minister is just one sign that something funky is up in the Swedish woods.

[tags: sweden, france, usa, politics]

Quoted: Third-gen Prius to be (eventually) plug-in-able, optional in Europe

[tags: automotive]

XBR series televisions represent the very best Sony has to offer in high definition viewing.

[tags: TV]

A 52-inch screen with a contrast ratio of 100,000:1 that weighs 55 pounds and measures only 20 millimeters thick (about 0.78 inches), about 80 percent thinner than most LCDs of that size on the market today. And just for good measure, it supposedly uses a lot less power too.

Quoted: It's far thinner than today's LCDs, but other technologies loom.

[tags: tv]

The company is planning to come to market in about 18 months with a high-performance, high-end, plug-in hybrid sedan. The car will cost $80,000. It will go about 50 miles on a battery charge, which isn't far, but the car will also come with a built-in gas engine that exists primarily to charge the battery. With the charging capability, the car can go hundreds of miles, according to Henrik Fisker, the company's CEO.

Quoted: It's an expensive hybrid that you can plug into the wall.

[tags: automotive]

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