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Helium leads to geothermal energy resources

When we think about alternative sources of energy, we often forget the potential of geothermal energy resources. In fact, it has been estimated that accessible geothermal energy in the U.S. represents 90 quadrillion kilowatt-hours or 3,000 times the country's total annual energy consumption. So far, it has been difficult and...

Tags: Earth, Researcher, Fluid, Energy, Arizona State University, Energy Resource, Web Site Development, Productivity, Web Technology, Internet, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2007-12-02

Ready for a virtual beer?

If you're attending SIGGRAPH 2007 next week in San Diego, don't miss a demonstration done by Australian and South Korean researchers. They will pour virtual beer during the conference. They say that 'the physics of bubble creation in carbonated drinks like beer is complex,' but add that their fluid special...

Tags: Fluid, Beer, Bubble, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2007-08-04

Plasma Pong (exe)

Plasma Pong is a variant of the popular PONG game, with a high tech twist--it uses computational fluid dynamics to drive the environment. As the game starts you will have to duke it out against the opposing paddle, using the fluid as your weapon. You can shoot plasma out of...

Tags: Paddle, Fluid, Plasma Pong, Games, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2006-05-10

New Egenera blades get liquid cooling

New Egenera blades get liquid coolingGreat!We just get done pushing the water-cooled dinosaur mainframe out of the server room, with it's associated high costs, and roll in the low-cost servers with their air-cooled efficiencies, only now to look at... water cooling them? Yeah, right.A small physics question hereThe processors...

Tags: Blade servers, Mainframes, Servers, Utility computing, Financial services, benefit, Egenera Inc., blade, waste heat, fluid

Discussion threads 2006-01-24

Why study colloids on the ISS?

Colloids are simply fine particles of solids, liquids, or gases suspended in a fluid. And you can find colloidal systems almost everywhere in nature and in industrial processes, such as in butter, milk, aerosols or paints. All of these substances are examples of colloidal dispersions or suspensions. But that's on...

Tags: phase separation, BCAT-3, Colloids

Blog posts 2005-10-04

Additional Resources

The Secrets of CEOs

I just finished reading an advance US manuscript of 'The Secrets of CEOs - 150 Global Chief Executives lift the lid on business, life and leadership' by Steve Tappin, who is a managing partner in the global CEO & board practice of Heidrick & Struggles, and Andrew Cave, a leading...

Tags: CEO, Collaboration, Groupware, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Management, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2008-10-06

Sony AW series: The best laptop display?

With expansive 16:9 displays and Blu-ray drives, the new crop of desktop replacements with 18.4-inch displays are geared toward mobile entertainment. Though its design is nothing special, the Sony VAIO AW series stands out from this group, according to reviews at PCMag.com and LaptopMag.com, thanks to its high-quality, LED-backlit 1,920-by-1,080...

Tags: Sony Corp., Sony Vaio, Desktop Replacement, Laptop Computer, Entertainment, Display, Desktops, Advertising & Promotion, Hardware, Marketing, John Morris

Blog posts 2008-10-06

Adobe Fireworks CS4

Like the other Creative Suite 4 applications, Fireworks offers interface enhancements that can enable more fluid work flows. With Adobe Fireworks CS4, you can prototype complex Web site designs that can be brought into Dreamweaver for coding, editing projects that can be shared among the rest of Creative Suite...

Tags: Channel management, Adobe Creative Suite, Creative Suite 4, Fireworks, Fireworks CS4, Cs3, Adobe Systems Inc.

Product reviews 2008-09-23

FIFA 09 demo (exe)

Step onto the pitch and play professional football your way in FIFA 09. Live the fantasy of playing as a professional player. FIFA 09 on PC has been customized and designed exclusively for the platform. The gameplay engine features year-on-year improvements, delivering the detail demanded by football fans.FIFA 09 features...

Tags: PC, FIFA, Football, Mice, Desktops, Hardware, Peripherals

Software downloads 2008-09-15

Wanna get green? Compress your email; Couple IT, facilities; Power down

Chris O'Connor, vice president of IBM's software group, is one of three executives in charge of making Big Blue as green as possible. IBM has a project called Big Green that's about 16 months old. Like many technology vendors, IBM set a big commitment to reduce carbon...

Tags: Facility, Power Management, Data Center, Information Technology, Dashboard, E-mail, IBM Corp., Data Centers, Strategy, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-09-12

Infosys: Moving up the consulting food chain

An Infosys executive reiterated that the offshore outsourcing business is holding up amid an economic slowdown and outlined plans to continue to move up the technology food chain to offer consulting services. Speaking at the Citigroup Technology Conference in New York, Ashok Vemuri, head of banking and...

Tags: Food, Consulting, Infosys Technologies Ltd., Axon Group, Game Plan, Outsourcing, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-09-02

Conversion (bin)

Conversion is a simple application to perform simple measurement conversion. Version 1 will convert the following measurement units Length: Millimeter, Centimeter, Meter, Kilometer, Inch, Foot, Yard, Mile, Thou, Furlong, League, Fathom, Astronomical UnitWeight: Gram, Kilogram, Metric Ton, Ounce, Pound, Stone, Short Ton, Long TonVolume: Milliliter, Liter, Cubic Inches, Fluid Ounces,...

Tags: Conversion, Private Tier Software

Software downloads 2008-08-28

EngCalc (zip)

EngCalc is the engineers engineering formula calculator for Pocket PC. Comprehensive Unit Converter , 50000+ Conversions, Scientific Evaluator, 100+ Property tables, and Periodic chart. 500+ formulae calculators catering to Mechanical Eng., Hydraulic Eng., Structural Eng., Machine Design, Electrical Eng., Fluid Mechanics, Heat and Mass Transfer, Thermodynamics, Pulp and Paper, HVAC,...

Tags: Unit, 3GR Technologies, EngCalc, Pocket PC, Construction, Operating Systems, Handhelds, Hardware, Software

Software downloads 2008-08-26

Fluid (zip)

Using Fluid, you can create SSBs to run each of your favorite WebApps as a separate Cocoa desktop application. Fluid gives any WebApp a home on your Mac OS X desktop complete with Dock icon, standard menu bar, and logical separation from your other web browsing activity. It includes Tabbed...

Tags: Web Application, Todd Ditchendorf, Desktops, Apple Mac OS X, Cloud Computing, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software, Apple Mac OS

Software downloads 2008-08-19

Google doubles its cookie tracking: Will you opt out?

Google doubles its cookie tracking: Will you opt out?Choice CNo need to opt out, I already block Double Click and will continue to do so.RE: Google doubles its cookie tracking: Will you opt out?I have doubleclick routed to nowhere in my hosts file.RE: Google doubles its cookie tracking: Will you...

Tags: cookie, Google Inc., DoubleClick Inc., advertisement

Discussion threads 2008-08-07

Mystery solved: Apple's new product is iTablet

Mystery solved: Apple's new product is iTabletI WANT ONE!!Dang, I'd buy it in a heart beat. I already have an iPod Touch love it and getting ready to buy an iPhone.RE: Mystery solved: Apple's new product is iTabletMay sound very nice, but unfortunately, like all Apple things, it will probably...

Tags: Tablets, Notebooks, Apple Inc., tablet, Mystery Solved, iTablet

Discussion threads 2008-07-25

Slideboxx (msi)

With Slideboxx you can search presentations and quickly find slides, displayed as thumbnails, making it easy for you to visually identify the slides you need. Using the simple, fluid slideboxx interface, you can perform multiple searches rapidly, collect slides, and build a new presentation with one click. No more opening...

Tags: Slide, Presentation, Zinali, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software

Software downloads 2008-07-25

Yahoo: Microhoo, Icahn drama cost us $22 million; Economy soft

The Carl Icahn proxy battle and Microsoft buyout drama appears to have been a slight distraction for Yahoo, which is seeing slowing display ad demand amid a weak economy. Yahoo on Tuesday reported second quarter net income of $131 million, or 9 cents a share, on revenue of...

Tags: Revenue, Jerry Yang, Advertisement, Yahoo! Inc., Operational Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-22

SaaS vendor quits browser to boost sales

SaaS vendor quits browser to boost salesNo slant here...Maybe I'll start writing articles on the companies I have investments in so I can improve my positions. This site just keeps going from bad to worse.Rave Webinars & Free TrialsI'm a consultant with Entellium and would encourage anyone interested in checking...

Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), cloud computing, Web browsers, Java development tools, Phil, webinar, software-as-a-service, SaaS company, Web browser, sales

Discussion threads 2008-07-18

Offshore outsourcers turn cautious

The three primary publicly traded offshore outsourcing companies have turned cautious about the future even as their financial results remain strong. Among the worries--a weak dollar that's hurting revenue and margins, economic uncertainty, murky IT budgets and a concentration of financial services and retail customers. Meanwhile, CIOs...

Tags: Revenue, Wipro Technologies, Financial Service, Outsourcing Company, Net Income, Infosys Technologies Ltd., Outsourcing, Operational Accounting, Financial Planning, Financial Services, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-18