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Biotech for food, fuel

At the AlwaysOn GoingGreen conference in Sausalito, Calif., J. Craig Venter says going from food to fuel--corn to ethanol--is taking resources in the wrong direction. He discusses oil palm and the jatropha genome as future fuel possibilities, and talks about algae as a way to convert carbon back into a...

Tags: Food & Beverage, Biotechnology, Manufacturing, green, bioengineering, oil, food, algae, carbon, energy, crops, chemicals

Videos 2008-09-18

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Pocket Farm for iPhone 1.3 (Mobile)

With Pocket Farm for iPhone you can build your farms wherever you go. Pocket Farm is a casual sandbox game that let us you build farms at your own pace and sell your harvest in a fun mini-game. With only a shovel and a handful of seeds, build your farm...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Mobile, Farm, Pond, Egerter Software, Pocket Farm, Smart Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2009-11-12

FarmVille Tools 2.3.2 (Windows)

FarmVille Tools is a FarmVille Cheats application to help you to harvest, plow and seed your crops in one click. With FarmVille Tools, you can harvest, plow and seed all crops in 3 seconds.FarmVille Tools even has a mouse recorder tool which can help you to record your mouse moves...

Tags: Plow, Crop, Microsoft Windows, Reezaa Media, FarmVille Tools, Mice, Productivity, Hardware, Peripherals

Software downloads 2009-11-09

Easy Watermark Creator 2.4 (Windows)

Easy Watermark Creator is an easy-to-use tool for adding visible watermarks to your pictures and photos. Reasons to use Easy Watermark Creator: protection from unauthorized use of your pictures on the Web; as an image constructor by adding files with transparent backgrounds; to draw texture on your pictures; to render...

Tags: Watermark, JPEG, Microsoft Windows, TIFF, Image Tools, BMP

Software downloads 2009-10-27

Carbon nanotubes: Great for agriculture, but for humans?

In what can eventually kick up a firestorm similar to the genetically modified food controversy, the emerging field of "nano-agriculture" is making headlines. It involves the use of nano-particles â€" wisps 1/50,000th the width of a human hair â€" in agriculture and could have beneficial affects for crops, say...

Tags: Food, Agriculture, Nanotube, Carbon Nanotube, Food & Beverage, Nanotechnology, Manufacturing, Emerging Technologies, Chris Jablonski

Blog posts 2009-10-25

Farm Helper 1.7 (Windows)

Farmville is the most popular flash game on facebook for its creative features and great in game design. Farms start off as small plots of land ready for you to sink your first plow tool click into it. Users play and expand your farms to great sizes to the point...

Tags: MK Software, Farmville, Games, Microsoft Windows, Productivity, Personal Technology, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2009-10-24

i2k Quickage Pro 1.3 (Windows)

i2k Quickage automatically creates high quality panoramas and montages from any set of digital images. Featuring our proprietary i2k image registration & recognition technology, i2k Quickage can quickly and easily stitch together photos that were taken by hand without the use of a tripod. The software also removes color differences...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Panorama, DualAlign

Software downloads 2009-10-08

i2k Quickage Pro 1.3 (Mac)

i2k Quickage automatically creates high quality panoramas and montages from any set of digital images. Featuring our proprietary i2k image registration & recognition technology, i2k Quickage can quickly and easily stitch together photos that were taken by hand without the use of a tripod. The software also removes color differences...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Panorama, DualAlign

Software downloads 2009-10-07

Cellulosic ethanol, corn, etc.

Not related to ZDNet. So why are you blogging here?ZDNET says of itself:"ZDNet: Tech News, Blogs and White Papers for IT Professionals." and "Where Technology Means Business: ZDNet delivers the best tech news, and resources for IT hardware, software, networking and services."Given the above, why are you here,...

Tags: Blogging, blog

Discussion threads 2009-10-04

VholdR ContourHD wearable camcorder

The ContourHD is a tube-style camcorder designed to be worn as a helmet camera for recording extreme activities. The ContourHD features an attractive design, but a limited feature set. Unlike the competition, it doesn't feature a still photography mode or a viewfinder, optical or digital. But what the Contour...

Tags: Corporate communications, Engineering, camcorder, Video Resolution, Recording Video, Recharging, ContourHD

Product reviews 2009-09-28

XnView 1.96.5 (Windows)

XnView is a fast multi-format graphics browser, viewer, and converter. It can read more than 400 file formats, e.g. GIF, BMP, JPEG, PNG, TARGA, multipage TIFF, camera RAW, JPEG 2000, MPEG, AVI, Quicktime. EXIF & IPTC metadata are also supported. The image viewer has an Explorer-like browser that allows quick...

Tags: JPEG, Microsoft Windows, Camera, XnView, Image Viewer

Software downloads 2009-09-19

Another rude awakening for another biofuel dream

SurpriseSurprise, surprise.Environmentalist are destroying AmericaLets see how long people go without jobs/food trying to believe the lie of 'global warming'......Good grief, I think the Liberal media must be on staff here.Articles about not driving, not using A/C everyone doing with less.Gee, I guess we can all live in mud huts...

Tags: biofuel, global warming, Obama, Socialist

Discussion threads 2009-09-18

Cerere 2008 1.5 (Windows)

Cerere 2008 is a free program for people who work in agriculture and must complete and print a logbook, often by hand and with all paper-based data. This program lets the farmer insert the daily report with the operations performed by workers and farm machinery. The software calculates all of...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Worker, RGPSoft, Cerere 2008

Software downloads 2009-09-17

Crop circles: What's Google trying to tell us?

Biofuel competition?My hope is that is it not something as simple as Orwell's books being made available on Google Books. My thought is crops, space craft, space age technology, future technology...biofuel. Perhaps some sort of biofuel grant competition or similar?! It must be big if they are using...

Tags: Google Inc., Chrome OS, biofuel, operating system, Chrome

Discussion threads 2009-09-15

Finally, technology is about people

I thought we had the technology for a while?"Thirty years later, we?ve finally reached a point where such systems can be democratized, and instead of that information being expensively collated for the benefit of a privileged handful of top executives"We reached that point a long time ago. I guess this...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, software

Discussion threads 2009-09-13

Ohio, what are you drinking?

That stuff in your drinking water could be detected if we applied a little green tech. Sensors, digitally linked, could alert water drinkers in Ohio, Texas, Florida, Maryland and other atrazine-rich habitat. "Atrazine alert," it could say, "drink something else for a while." Real-time monitoring of public...

Tags: Beverage, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Water, Ohio, ATRAZINE Atrazine, Syngenta, Food & Beverage, Wiki, Manufacturing, Online Communications, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-08-23

Biodiesel's future

I recently spoke with Innovation Fuels CEO John Fox. His firm already makes biodiesel at plants in Milwaukee and New York Harbor. He says next year will see a growth in bodiesel production in the U.S. The 2010 federal requirement calls for all diesel oil--heating and vehicles--to...

Tags: Biodiesel, Innovation Fuels, John Fox, Soy, Diesel, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-08-13

Ranch Rush 1.0 (Mobile)

Sara learns that her boss Jim, might have to sell his Nursery to developers for extra cash, putting an end to her favorite job. Can Sara earn enough money in eight weeks to send the developers packing. Help Sara turn three acres into a thriving Farmer's Market Ranch. Harvest fresh...

Tags: Developer, Mobile, Upgrade, Freshgames, Sara

Software downloads 2009-07-30

Could open source have built Silicon Valley?

In Silicon Valley, innovation is the fertilizer that makes the crops grow. With open source, software is more like topsoil, and those who nurture that soil believe they will prosper longer than those who just throw fertilizer on it. by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: Silicon Valley, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2009-07-27

Can green tech help save nature's biplanes?

Can green tech help save nature's biplanes?Yet another doom and gloom article?I swear.... there have been many species that have gone extinct in the history of the world, and no one worried about them!Stop taking a bunch of species dying out as a sign that humanity is doing something to...

Tags: Dragonfly, biplane, green technology

Discussion threads 2009-07-26