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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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Music, photos, and weather are beautiful, fluid experiences on the HTC HD2

argh - AVOID THIS PHONEI have had this phone a weekIn short - hardware is amazing - the software is a nightmareThe SMS application is fundamentally flawed, three times IN A WEEK it has simply STOPPED sending SMS. this woudlnt be too bad if it told you - but...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, High Tech Computer Corp., Ringtones, photograph, phone, ROM

Discussion threads 2009-11-20

Music, photos, and weather are beautiful, fluid experiences on the HTC HD2

I posted a quick first impressions of the HTC HD2 yesterday, but as I was commuting home on the train I had a chance to spend more time with the media capabilities of the device and wanted to share a few thoughts and a video with you. As you can...

Tags: High Tech Computer Corp., Photograph, Music, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Matthew Miller

Blog posts 2009-11-20

Apple Tablet - Unofficial, unannounced ... but still delayed

You guys have been asking...You guys have been asking for a Mac tablet for years already, while we have been able to get tablet PCs for many years now, in many different form factors and from many different vendors.Yet when you close your world off by relying solely on Apple,...

Tags: Tablets, Notebooks, tablet, Apple Inc., vaporware

Discussion threads 2009-11-19

'The Purpose of a Business is to Create a Customer' - Peter Drucker Centenary

This month marks the centenary of Management guru Peter Drucker's birth, and the Harvard Business Review - the Vogue magazine of management fashions - has a terrific section devoted to his legacy and ideas this month. The paper version is a keeper. Drucker's...

Tags: Performance, Knowledge, Drucker, John Hagel, Knowledge Stock, Lloyd, Strategy, Collaboration, Groupware, Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-11-16

A greener way to shovel snow

To shovel snow...Only a shovel and a pair of arms are required... I should know... I live in Quebec, we have lots of snow during winter.Couldn't you just one-up him with a bigger snowblower?I happen to think this would be trifle excessive. It would still be cool to have though.I...

Tags: snow, greener way

Discussion threads 2009-11-12

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

The Mystical Lighthouse Theme (Mobile)

Impress your friends with this pThe Mystical Lighthouse - an innovative and beautiful high quality animated new theme for your Blackberry device! Featuring fluid photorealistic animation of a lighthouse at night with rotating beam cuttings through foggy mist. Enhance your personality with this relaxing and unique theme and amaze your...

Tags: Theme, Mobile, Thuliumware, Handhelds, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-10-27

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

Konverter - Strom Edition 1.0.0 (Mobile)

"Finding Difficult to remember all the convertion ration between different unit at your workplace, school ...," Here is a full stop for all your worries. CONVERTER, an application which helps you to perform over 40000+ different conversions between 650+ units organized in 30+ categories. Perfect when traveling abroad, in the...

Tags: Mobile, Unit, C/C++, Recruitment & Selection, Memory, Flash Memory, Programming Languages, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components

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