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Windbuoy 1.1 (Mobile)

Windbuoy application is useful for sailors, wind surfers, fishermen, boaters, and weather watchers who likes to know what the wind is like out on their favorite body of water. Windbuoy is a customizable application that retrieves and displays wind speed, direction, gust, air and water temperature and wave height as...

Tags: Mobile, Buoy, Windbuoy 1.1, Windbuoy Application, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing

Software downloads 2009-06-04

Robot buoy to track oil spills

Yesterday, Japan Today reported about a prototype of robotic buoy developed at Osaka University to fight sea pollution in the event of an environmental disaster caused by an oil spill. The current prototype, dubbed SOTAB (short for 'Spilled Oil Tracking Autonomous Buoy') is a 110-kilogram GPS-equipped robot. The cylindrical buoy...

Tags: Oil, Buoy, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-08-03

Windbuoy 0.99 (Mac)

Simple Widget that grabs wind info (speed, gust, direction) and air temp from NOAA for your favorite buoy.

Tags: Apple Macintosh, NOAA, Buoy, JTD Soutions, Desktops, Hardware

Software downloads 2008-05-20

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NOAA Buoy Data Reader for iPhone 2.5 (Mobile)

NOAA Buoy Data Reader for iPhone retrieves your current location and presents a list of NOAA Weather Buoy locations near you. You can then click on a specific buoy to retrieve sea condition data available from that buoy. Data can include wind speed, gusts, and direction as well as pressure,...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Mobile, NOAA, Verona Solutions, Smart Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2009-11-13

Bombora 1.0.1 (Mobile)

Bombora is a ocean forecasting app for surfers, sailors, fishermen, beach walkers, and kayakers. Bombora provides access to recent NOAA, NDBC, and CDIP buoy and oceanographic data wave, wind, and atmospheric conditions, tidal observations and predictions, directional swell data, and National Weather Service marine text forecasts. This data is like...

Tags: Mobile, NOAA, Data, Bombora, Sales Force Management, Sales

Software downloads 2009-06-04

Green-tech design tool helps clean-tech designer

It wouldn’t be very green of a clean-tech company to waste lots of materials while designing and developing and testing its product, would it? Autodesk sure doesn’t think so. The well-established CAD software company continues to reposition some of its core 3-D products as great tools for...

Tags: Autodesk Inc., Clean Technology, Tool, Ocean Treader, Productivity, Telecom & Utilities, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-05-07

Powerboat Challenge 1.0.2 (Mobile)

Pimp up your powerboat and go full throttle to compete against cool dudes and hot chicks in high-speed racing on twisted rivers. Different types of races held all around the world. These include lap races against three other boats, elimination races where the last boat in each lap drops out,...

Tags: Mobile, Apple iTunes, FISHLABS, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics

Software downloads 2009-03-17

Will Bells hijack the broadband stimulus?

Will Bells hijack the broadband stimulus?Socialist economy... What is next Government housing and Yugo's?:(A rhetorical question, I presumeWill Bells hijack the broadband stimulus?Of course they will.Open competition didn't workHow far did we get with open competition for local phone service? Most of those companies died off. Cable companies...

Tags: Network technology, Telecom & Utilities, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, broadband stimulu, cable, broadband

Discussion threads 2009-01-28

News to know: iPhone Dev Camp; So long computer science; Intel

Notable headlines: Andrew Mager: Touring iPhone Dev Camp 2 Live: Day 2 from the iPhone Dev Camp 2 Hands full? Get the iPhone arm Video: Spectrum ZX game montage Dion Hinchliffe: Enterprise cloud computing gathers steam ...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Comcast Corp., Yahoo! Inc., Computer Science, Broadband, Computer, Intel Corp., Robots, Corporate Governance, Digital Cameras, Federal Government, Monitors & Displays, Broadband Internet, Network Technology, Emerging Technologies, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Government, Hardware, Components, Telecommunications, Networking, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-08-04

Islands of hope in an ocean of energy

Courtesy Wavebob. Britain and Ireland have a long and bloody mutual history. They've ended open hostility and the neighboring nations now share and compete with a possible future energy source: the restless waves of the North Atlantic. Both Ireland and the United Kingdom are looking...

Tags: Ireland, Strategy, Blade Servers, Utility Computing, Management, Servers, Hardware, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-03-24

A flying fish or a seaplane?

University of Michigan engineers have developed a new unmanned aerial vehicle UAV after looking at real flying fish. Like the fish, this seaplane takes off and lands on water. The 7-foot wingspan electric UAV has been funded by the DOD's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency DARPA and designed as 'an...

Tags: University Of Michigan, Unmanned Aerial Vehicle, Aerospace & Defense, GPS, Manufacturing, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2007-12-06

A new weapon against tsunamis

A new mooring system has been developed by U.S. researchers to install a seismic monitoring station on the top of an active underwater volcano in the southeastern Caribbean Sea. According to the researchers who installed the underwater earthquake monitoring system on top of Kickem Jenny volcano, their Real Time Offshore...

Tags: RTOSS, Kickem Jenny, Real-Time Offshore Seismic Station

Blog posts 2007-05-12

Fantasy Submarine Game 3.1 (Windows)

It's been years that the underwater monster gives no rest to people. It's sinking submarines, commercial crafts, and even comes out of the sea on land with no one to stop it. You and your submarine are the stronghold for the whole humankind. The craft is equipped with high-tech devices...

Tags: Monster, Submarine, MyPlayCity, Games, Microsoft Windows, Personal Technology, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2007-03-15

BuoyBuilder 1.1.1 (Windows)

BuoyBuilder 1.1, a tool for building graphical user interfaces GUIs as well as for "wiring up" connections between objects in your application, has been released. We are firm believers in serializing GUI objects and are very much opposed to code generation. BuoyBuilder is our attempt to bring such a tool...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, GUI, Tool, BuoyBuilder, Productivity, Programming Languages, Java, Software Development, Software/Web Development

Software downloads 2007-02-18

BuoyBuilder 1.1.1 (Mac)

BuoyBuilder 1.1, a tool for building graphical user interfaces GUIs as well as for "wiring up" connections between objects in your application, has been released. We are firm believers in serializing GUI objects and are very much opposed to code generation. BuoyBuilder is our attempt to bring such a tool...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, GUI, Tool, BuoyBuilder, Productivity, Programming Languages, Java, Software Development, Software/Web Development

Software downloads 2007-02-17

On visiting the bookstore

Neither Murphy nor his executive officer were paying attention when the battle alerts flashed - then they fell all over themselves explaining what had happened to the civilian observer absorbing their attention. "Well get imagery in a few seconds from the buoy we kicked back at the height of...

Tags: science fiction, computing

Blog posts 2006-12-21

Services buoy IBM profit

Services buoy IBM profitMicrosoft should be in this business more than it currently ishttp://www.accenture.com/Global/About_Accenture/Corporate_Governance/default.htm demonstrates that Ballmer, president of Microsoft is on the board of directors of Accenture, which is a company comprised of the old Arther Anderssn Counsulting business prior to Arther Andersen going backrupt in the US after...

Tags: Accenture Ltd., IBM Corp., Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2006-01-17

MacWX 1.0 (Mac)

MacWX gives access to thousands of OCENS WeatherNet products. Using the MacWX application you graphically select the specific weather data you want. The OCENS WeatherNet emails you with the timely weather products you have requested. Categories of available OCENS WeatherNet products include: Buoy Graphical Buoy Charts GRIB (including Theyr...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Product, GPSNAVX, E-mail, Desktops, Online Communications, Hardware

Software downloads 2006-01-16

What's the tech policy agenda for 2004?

What's the tech policy agenda for 2004?Hidden agendasWhat the CSPP isn't telling anyone is that they are using outsourcing as a way of forcing wages down in this country. Even a highly-skilled, highly-experienced worker is going to be willing to work for less if he can't find anything else. By...

Tags: Financial accounting, Outsourcing, Benefits, financial, Protectionism

Discussion threads 2004-03-12

NauticalPro 2.0 (Mobile)

Rovenet NauticalProGet real time, critical information WIRELESSLY on your Palm O/S hand held computer. NauticalPro replaces costly, difficult to use communication equipment with a simple to use, connected application offering unprecedented performance from a marine electronic communications device.Some of the features available in the Rovenet NauticalPro system include:- Nationwide Real...

Tags: OmniSky, Mobile, Palm Inc., Handheld Computer, Computer, Rovenet.com, NauticalPro, Handhelds, Palm OS, Productivity, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2001-10-26