Mac OS running on any PC?

Psystar is on a legal battle with Apple so this company may not last long but

clipped from community.psystar.com Community Content RSS Log in Psystar Search for: Community Wiki Open Source About the Case Shop" href="http://community.psystar.com/shop-psystar/">Shop clipped from www.psystar.com Rebel EFI software that will allow users to install operating systems of their choosing, including OS X, on their computers. User Interface Screenshot " A screenshot of the Rebel EFI displaying various supported hardware profiles. "

Fly at 45MPG and forget about your Prius...

Why use a Prius when you can move at 200MPH @ 45MPG?

clipped from www.treehugger.com Hypermiling Plane Gets 45 MPG at 207 MPH, Capable of 100 MPG (That's Better Than Most Cars!) With 2 People on Board (Unlike Photo Above) Klaus Savier likes to have his cake and eat it too. Usually with airplanes, speed and efficiency are a tradeoff. You go slower and burn less fuel, or you go faster and burn more fuel (all else being equal). This is why it is impressive that Mr. Savier won this year's Fuelventure 400 in his modified VariEze (originally designed by the famous Burt Rutan) by getting 45 MPG at 207 MPH, and this with two people on board (and for those wondering, there were no massive tailwinds or anything of the sort). Savier has altered his Vari-EZ and its Continental 0-200 engine by adding computerized fuel injection and ignition systems of his own design. He typically flies at 190 KTAS while getting a Prius-like 50 miles per gallon. If he slows to extend range, Savier's mileage approaches 100 miles per gallon.

B&N Nook and Amazon Kindle Killer

this could be a good proposition to replace current Nook or the Amazon Kindle e-book reader. The only missing piece is the content provider.

clipped from www.springdesign.com Spring Design Announces Dual-Screen, Google Android-based E-book Reader, Hyperlinking Text with Multimedia Secondary color touchscreen supplements text with web-based or any linked multimedia content; Enables users to enhance original text with their own embedded video, audio, photos and notes FREMONT, CA – OCTOBER 19, 2009 -- Alex’s dual-screen display design brings together the efficiency of reading on a monochrome EPD (electronic paper display) screen while dynamic hyperlinked multimedia information and third party input on its secondary color LCD screen, actually an integrated Android mobile device, opens a rich world of Internet content to support the text on the main screen. Alex is the first Google Android-based e-book device to provide full Internet browsing over Wi-Fi or mobile networks such as 3G, EVDO/CDMA and GSM.

An eBook Reader with a Full browser

This may be a good option for the Nook and Kindle

clipped from jkontherun.com Spring Design Dual-Screen Alex e-Book Reader Announced — Yes, It Does Exist The rumor of an e-book reader with a typical e-Ink screen that also had a small color touchscreen for navigation and content display created a stir in the digital book world. Such a device could easily be leveraged by Barnes & Noble for a dedicated e-book reader tailored for book shopping on the device. The Spring Design Alex runs the Google Android OS and has a 6-inch e-Ink screen for displaying book content. The secondary screen is a 3.5-inch color touchscreen that can display multimedia content, and aid in navigating through both the reader and online content as Alex has 3G (EVDO/CDMA/GSM) integrated into the device. The reader will have full browsing capabilities due to the Android OS, supporting bookmarks, and full-featured web surfing. This includes the ability to cache web content for later reading on the e-Ink display.

B&N eBook Reader - Nook

I would buy one for Christmas if it had a browser. Not sure how far B&N is from a more intelligent device though. Nook runs Google Android, has WiFi access (free at B&N stores), allow downloads over-the-air using AT&T 3G network (access is included in the price of the device), has USB and its memory can be expanded by using a mini-SDCard. To me, it looks like an iPhone with a bigger display! (I am sure Apple has one in the works...)

clipped from www.barnesandnoble.com nook Overview Features Tech Specs Product Comparison Protection Plan Accessories Blog Support Reviews $259 Add to Wish List Free Shipping

Great Uses for Old Wireless Routers

I will try to create a wireless bridge with an old router and will post the results when done!

clipped from www.wi-fiplanet.com 8 Great Uses for Old Wireless Routers Don't throw away your old 802.11g routers just yet. The new slick-looking 802.11n routers may provide higher speeds and performance, but there are still many ways your old gear can help out, including extending your wireless coverage, improving a new network, assisting in offering public Wi-Fi, providing network authentication, or enabling secure remote or site-to-site VPN connections. 1) Extend coverage by using it as an AP 2) Relieve 802.11n routers from supporting 802.11g 3)Make it a repeater to take the signal further 4) Use it as a wireless bridge 5) Offer VPN connections or connect offices together 6) Turn it into a hotspot 7) Make it a RADIUS server

Your cell phone as a 3G WiFi Router

I wish I had a Symbian phone so I could try this out. If you don't mind about carrying 2 devices you can have your iPod Touch tethered to your cell for 3G connectivity and avoid all iPhone related charges....

clipped from www.joikuspot.com JoikuSpot is a secure and award winning mobile software solution that turns mobile phones instantly to WLAN (Wi-Fi) HotSpots. With JoikuSpot, connect your laptops, iPods, mini-laptops and internet tablets to internet easily and securely using your mobile phone's 3G internet connection. You will carry internet in your pocket, and will always have a secured personal WLAN (Wi-Fi) HotSpot on-the-go! Multiple devices can connect in parallel and seamlessly share the same 3G internet connection.

Phone listing removal

You will be surprised by what one can find by just doing a google search on your own phone number! To remove yourself from some listing the the clip or you can start here: This is one place to start http://www.addresses.com/optout.php

clipped from askbobrankin.com Remove Phone Listing Remove Me, Please If you want to remove your listing from the most popular online telephone directories, here are the links and instructions to do so. Note that this is not an exhaustive list, but it does cover all the major sources, and most of the smaller ones are powered by the databases of the ones below. Google PhoneBook - Visit http://www.google.com/intl/en/help/pbremoval.html InfoSpace - You can delete your listing by searching the InfoSpace White Pages to find your listing. Once you have located it, click the update or remove link. Addresses.com - http://www.addresses.com/feedback.php Intelius/Intelifinder - Visit http://find.intelius.com/emailcontact.php or contact Customer Service at 425-974-6100. ZabaSearch - Send an email to info@zabasearch.com and you will receive instructions on how to remove your listing from their database. AOL White Pages - powered by Infospace (see above) Lycos WhoWhere - powered by Verizon SuperPages (see above)

Picasa - How to transfer face tag informatoin to other computers

If you still did not try the lastest version of Picassa you probably don't know what I am talking about. If you did, this is probably useful in case you use multiple computers and like to have back up copies of your photo library.

clipped from www.google.com A: There are a few different ways to transfer your face tags: 1) You can perform a Backup of your photos and restore them on your new computer. This process will preserve your face tags. ("Tools" > "Backup Pictures") 2) You can copy your files *and* the .picasa.ini file from your hard drive to the new destination 3) Upload your face tag albums to Picasa Web Albums and download the album to the new destination on option 3: In order for your contact information to be preserved you'll need to make sure that your contacts associated with your face tags are marked as "Online Contacts."  This means that the person is synchronized with Google Contacts.  After copying the photos to the destination computer, make sure you are logged in to your Google user account so that Picasa can retrieve your Google Contacts and update your face tags with the corresponding information. See reference section for more info on syncing contacts. Name Tags : Name tags and Google Account contacts - Picasa Help(

Recharging using air waves...

This is really cool, use the wasted air waves energy to recharge your cell phone!

clipped from tech.yahoo.com Prototype Nokia phone recharges without wires Tue Jun 16, 2009 1:06PM EDT Holy Grails of technology: Wireless power. Nokia, however, has taken another baby step in that direction with the invention of a cell phone that recharges itself using a unique system: It harvests ambient radio waves from the air, and turns that energy into usable power. Enough, at least, to keep a cell phone from running out of juice. Mind you, harvesting ambient electromagnetic energy is never going to offer enough electricity to power your whole house or office, but it just might be enough to keep a cell phone alive and kicking. Currently Nokia is able to harvest all of 5 milliwatts from the air; the goal is to increase that to 20 milliwatts in the short term and 50 milliwatts down the line.

OpenSolaris for ARM

Now it is public.

OpenSolaris for ARM port was released. This was based on NEC's NaviEngine 1, a multicore ARM11 SoC that is primarily designed for car computers and portable navigation devices so if you want to have an idea on what a multicore SMP ARMM can do, please take a look at:
http://www.necel.com/magazine/en/vol_0075/vol_0075_1.html

If you are looking for practical use for this project see below:

clipped from arstechnica.com OpenSolaris 2009.06 released, new ARM port announced Sun has announced the availability of OpenSolaris 2009.06, the third major release of the operating system. An experimental ARM port has also been released. It is built to run on NEC's NaviEngine 1, a multicore ARM11 SoC that is primarily designed for car computers and portable navigation devices. clipped from www.necel.com NaviEngine® Multicore Platform and its role in the evolution of car navigation systems: The world's first (*1) system LSI chip for car navigation systems to be equipped with SMP technology clipped from techon.nikkeibp.co.jp Toyota's Approach to New Automotive Info Terminals The microcontroller prototyped by NEC Electronics uses the ARM11 MPCore multi-core processor core, and is provided with functions including global positioning system (GPS) and Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) Express interface. An image recognition processor is also included to support applications such as driving assistance based on camera imagery. clipped from techon.nikkeibp.co.jp

HighTec Temple

I am always amazed about how the Japanese can embrace the future without discarding their traditions, this is another example of that. If you read Japanese I think you can buy a vault space in this site: http://www.suishoden.jp/

clipped from www.japantoday.com Chief priest Genyu Daido walks in the Suishoden ossuary at Bansho-ji temple in Nagoya. Two thousand niches in a vault, which sell for between 525,000 yen and 7,350,000 yen, are illuminated by LEDs.

Good alternative to MS Office: OpenOffice.org 3.1 is out

Sam Dean on the blog below talks about major graphics enhancements. I still did not try this version but I can tell you that the former version already had all the features I needed at the right price=free so any enhancements are just upside!

clipped from ostatic.com OpenOffice Version 3.1 Arrives: Better Graphics, and All Apps Updated by Sam Dean - May. 07, 2009Comments (1) The new version 3.1 of the OpenOffice.org suite of open source productivity applications is now available for download. It appears to be a hot download today, too, because I experienced some wait times getting to the OpenOffice site. For this release, users of OpenOffice were asked to vote for their most desired new features, and the wish list helped dictate goals for version 3.1. There are enhanced on-screen graphics and improvements to all the applications in the suite. Here are details on what's under the hood. clipped from www.openoffice.org OpenOffice.org 3.1 is born The latest and greatest 3.1 release of OpenOffice.org is available on our download site. Read all about the new features in this release! Publish Post

Microsoft's Cloud Office

Google has a head start over MS on this one but has also another advantage, they understand the need to support all platform/browser combination. You can only use Office Live if you are running "major" OSs: Microsoft or Max OS, no Linux or Unix (Solaris) support.

clipped from networks.silicon.com Microsoft's cloud Office lands one million users That's one-tenth of Google Apps then... One million customers have signed up to Microsoft's Office Live Workspace online collaboration tool, six months after its beta launch. In comparison, Google's online collaboration technology, Google Apps, has secured 10 million active users two years after its release. clipped from home.officelive.com To use Microsoft Office Live, your computer must meet one of the following requirements: Microsoft Internet Explorer 6, 7, or 8 running on Microsoft Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, or Windows Vista. You can download Internet Explorer from the Internet Explorer page. Mozilla Firefox running on Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, or Mac OS X 10.2.x and later. You can download Firefox from the Firefox download page.