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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 1.2 (Windows)

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, Microsoft Windows, Steve Taylor, 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

Pilot Aviation Dictionary (PAD) 3.01 (Mobile)

PAD was designed for pilots, military, controllers, CFIs, and aviation enthusiasts and provides a listing of the most common terms, acronyms, and information related to aviation. It contains more than 2500 terms and codes, Morse code, fluid and fuel information, NOTAMS, PIREPS, SNOWTAMS, ARTCC "Centers", aviation timeline, phonetic alphabet, standard...

Tags: Mobile, Fluid, Production Software, Palm OS, Document Management, Operating Systems, Handhelds, Software, Enterprise Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Hardware

Software downloads 2004-10-28

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SymLab Professional 2.0 (Windows)

SymLab Professional is ideal for assessing the aerodynamic performance of concept designs by creating geometry, simulating fluid flow with heat transfer, and visualizing results under both steady-state and transient conditions.

Tags: Transfer, Geometry, Symscape, SymLab Professional, Microsoft Windows, Performance Management, Operating Systems, Software, Human Resources, Workforce Management

Software downloads 2009-10-30

Smartphone wars; one platform will never rule them all

With all the excitement surrounding the latest Google Android devices people are starting to make statements about Android or Apple winning the smartphone war. There will never be a single winner in the smartphone space and people should not even count out Symbian with their current double digit lead and...

Tags: Smart Phone, Symbian Inc., Smartphone, Smart Phones, Cellular Phones, Handhelds, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Matthew Miller

Blog posts 2009-10-28

There's still VC juice out there for greentech firms

A Washington State solar power company just got over three million dollars in additional funding. Earlier Infinia had investments from both Vinod Khosla and Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft. That's another little tech company based in Washington State. Infinia uses parabolic dishes to focus...

Tags: Solar Energy, Infinia Website, Telecom & Utilities, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-10-26

Quinn 3.5.7 (Mac)

Quinn is an arcade-style tetromino puzzle game written and designed specifically for Mac OS X. It features a clean, elegant user interface, beautiful graphics, and smooth, subtle animations for fluid gameplay. Instead of reinventing the game with yet another variation of the rules, the goal of Quinn is to combine...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Simon Härtel, Quinn, Desktops, Games, Apple Mac OS, Hardware, Personal Technology, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2009-10-25

PowerMops 6.2 (Mac)

PowerMops is a full featured, stand-alone development environment for programming the Macintosh. Inspired by Smalltalk and Neon, PowerMops is based on Forth with extensive object-oriented features such as multiple inheritance, early and late binding, persistent objects, and garbage collection. Its interactive development environment provides for fluid and productive programming by...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Environment, Object-oriented, Programming, Development Environment, Michael Hore, PowerMops, Ooa/Ood/Oop, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development

Software downloads 2009-10-24

Acorn 2.1 (Mac)

Built on a foundation of simplicity, Acorn eschews the outmoded "many palettes" design from yesterday's editors. Acorn presents a fluid new interface that will be familiar to users of Apple's iLife applications. Designed for simple editing, Acorn features flood fill, gradients, vector shapes, drawing and erasing tools, and more. It...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Acorn, Flying Meat

Software downloads 2009-10-16

Opal 1.2.5 (Mac)

Opal is an outliner. It lets you organize just about anything -- ideas, reports, lists, notes, projects, graphics -- as an outline. It stands out for its uncluttered, fluid interface. But Opal includes features not found in other organizers: Shrink a topic to a single line Alphabetic and numeric...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Sharp Corp., Outline, Opal, Microsoft Word, Word Processors, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software

Software downloads 2009-10-14

iLEVELi 2.1 (Mobile)

iLEVELi is a versatile inclinometer. It simulates a bubble in a fluid, trapped in a hollow convex lens. It displays numeric angle measurements continuously in landscape, portrait, and face-up orientations. It displays its calibration constants and resolution. Simple, intuitive displays and controls let the user focus on the measurements. Offers...

Tags: Measurement, Mobile, Directed Graph Software, iLEVELi, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing

Software downloads 2009-10-12

Can IBM's DNA transistor someday take genetic sequencing mainstream?

sweet!is the genome xprize over? I lost track of it... it doesn't seem to be in the news as much...RE: Can IBM's DNA transistor someday take genetic sequencing mainstream?Oh, come on. To control the speed the DNA strand passes through the reader, it's just a matter of using...

Tags: Biotechnology, Semiconductors, DNA, chip, transistor, IBM Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-10-06

Comcast plus NBC Universal creates a Web juggernaut

If Comcast did manage to gain control of NBC Universal it would be have an aggregation of Web sites that would make it a top 10 player in comScore's top 50 rankings. According to CNBC, General Electric is talking to Comcast about a deal that would spin...

Tags: NBC Universal Inc., Web, Comcast Corp., Talks, Channel Management, Asset Management, Networking, Marketing, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-10-01

Nvidia: Next big supercomputer player?

NVidia has a chanceNot all that surprisingly the concept of supercomputing on a small basis has finally filtered down to audio/video recording facilities, with the bulk of basics going to the CPU and the actual processing going to the GPU. This is a clear advancement when those of us...

Tags: NVidia Corp., supercomputer, big supercomputer player, supercomputing, supercomputer player

Discussion threads 2009-10-01

iSoccer Backstreet Lite 1.0 (Mobile)

iSoccer Backstreet Lite takes soccer out of the grassy fields and into the streets. Players can battle it out by performing amazing body balancing and dribbling tricks using different parts of their body while following complex rhythm patterns. Its features include two complete levels filled with fast paced dribbling, body-balancing,...

Tags: Mobile, Avatar, Artificial Life Inc., iSoccer Backstreet Lite

Software downloads 2009-10-01

SketchBook Mobile 1.0 (Mobile)

SketchBook Mobile offers a full set of sketching tools for the iPhone or iPod Touch and delivers them through a streamlined and intuitive user interface.Use it to digitally capture your ideas as napkin sketches or produce artwork on-the-go.SketchBook Mobile delivers sophisticated brushes and fluid pencils.Featured with full Screen work space...

Tags: Mobile, Autodesk Inc., SketchBook Mobile, Productivity

Software downloads 2009-09-21

Conjure 4.1.1 (Mac)

Conjure is a unique alternate desktop environment. It lets you draw directly on the desktop, create and manage multiple desktops, grab images from the iSight camera, take audio notes, and work with images and text in a fluid, user-centric environment. You create a new Conjure desktop for notes, links to...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Environment, devHQ, Desktops, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-09-18