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OpenOSX Grass 6.3.0 (Mac)

"OpenOSX Grass" is a free stand-alone application, requiring zero-installation now PowerPC and Intel native that is based on the proven open source GRASS GIS 6.3.0, which is a complete Geographic Information System GIS. GRASS has been in development for over 25 years and is one of the 10 largest open...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Grass, OpenOSX, GRASS 6, GIS, Databases, Software, Enterprise Software, Data Management

Software downloads 2008-06-25

Fifty million buffalo were right: will we switch to swicthgrass?

Fifty million buffalo were right: will we switch to swicthgrass?Now that is totally cool!Thanks for the info on this. Whooda thunk? ]:)RE: Fifty million buffalo were right: will we switch to swicthgrass?Is this anything new? we have known about cellulose based ethanol and its potential for long time. The problem...

Tags: grass, corn, acre, gallon, Corn Grain

Discussion threads 2008-01-08

Some green magnetism: Start-up harnesses kinetic movement to generate electricity

Some green magnetism: Start-up harnesses kinetic movement to generate electricityFeeling skepticalI think prior art is going to bite them on their behinds.Science 101, conservation of energy"M2E’s technology, born in the U.S. Department of Energy’s Idaho National Lab, works according to the principle of electromagnetic induction aka The Faraday Principle. The...

Tags: Engineering, dung, grass

Discussion threads 2007-11-17

Global Neighbor makes the grass greener

Cutting the grass was one of those household chores that had a special significance for my brothers and me in high school: My father owned about eight acres in New Jersey, a full five of which were covered with grass. For some reason, I always pulled push-mower...

Tags: Neighbor, Grass, Global Neighbor, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2007-09-13

Can wild grass produce clean fuel?

Can wild grass produce clean fuel?Missing data.How much energy is used in the fermentation process? In other words and this applies to any biofuel discussion is there a net loss in energy using bio instead of oil?What about yard grass? It may not be as efficient but it's already...

Tags: Biotechnology, corn crop, fossil fuel, grass, crop

Discussion threads 2007-02-20

Can wild grass produce clean fuel?

As many other countries, the U.S. want to reduce their dependency on oil by increasing the production of renewable and alternative fuels. Today, the main source of biofuel is ethanol distilled from kernels of corn, with a production of 5 billion gallons a year. As current targets for biofuels have...

Tags: Energy &, Environment, Science &, Nature

Blog posts 2007-02-20

Prairie grass against global warming?

We all know that a replacement for fossil fuels to power our cars has to be found in a near future. But where will this energy come from? Hydrogen? Biofuels made from soya beans or corn? Researchers at the University of Minnesota think that mixed prairie grasses are a better...

Tags: carbon, prairie grass, Science &, Nature, Energy &, Environment

Blog posts 2006-12-10

France may sanction unfettered P2P downloads

France may sanction unfettered P2P downloadsSo how does that work?"Last year, a Canadian judge came to a similar conclusion, ruling it legal to download--but not to upload--copyrighted content from peer-to-peer services."So if it's legal to download copyrighted material but illegal to upload it, how does the material get into the...

Tags: Peer to peer (P2P), Wired Inc., grass, P2P

Discussion threads 2005-12-22

The Gardener 1.1 (Mobile)

All you need to do is to plant grass on the field. Easy? Don't be sosure.By tapping on a section of land, you will remove the grass from alladjacent sections. It means that, to turn the field all green, you may have to turnsome green pieces into brown until you...

Tags: Mobile, Grass, Inmobile Solutions, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing

Software downloads 2005-11-10

The Gardener 5.0 (Mobile)

All you need to do is to plant grass on the field. Easy? Don''t be sosure.By tapping on a section of land, you will remove the grass from alladjacent sections. It means that, to turn the field all green, you may have to turnsome green pieces into brown until you...

Tags: Mobile, Field, Grass, Inmobile Solutions, Games, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2005-05-09

LawnMower 2.5 (Windows)

LawnMower is an arcade game. It is not a typical arcade game as it is quite slow and therefore less likely to test your reaction skills. Instead, it checks your ability to maneuver over a patch of grass. The goal of the game is to cut the grass nice and...

Tags: Grass, Terminal Studio, LawnMower, Games, Microsoft Windows, Patches, Personal Technology, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2003-10-23

Cowsweeper 1.0 (Mobile)

You are a cow. You used to lead a pretty OK life, eating grass, sleeping, maybe a growth hormone injection from time to time. You understood your purpose in life---getting fat so that somebody could eat you some day---and you were OK with that, in a queasy sort of way....

Tags: Mobile, Square, Grass, Cow, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing

Software downloads 2002-12-29

PalmPulus 3.1 (Mobile)

Updates Description3.1 (09/14/07)- upgraded the ergonomics of navigating throug the game board: a new navigation button in the center of the moving arrows allows to center the display on the flag, thus replacing the previous [to Flag] button which was changed to put the flag in the center of the...

Tags: Mobile, Board, Grass, Computer, Aldweb, Computer Player, Corporate Governance, Games, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2002-07-10

Additional Resources

Google makes Chrome OS open source today

I like itThe ChromeOS demo looked pretty cool!I'm almost 100% webapp-based already, so I could see myself using a simple, fast & no maintenance OS like that the majority of the time.I like it too, but, for me, I need to compile and run programs locally. I would imagine that...

Tags: Operating systems, Desktops, open source, Google Inc., Chrome, operating system, ChromeOS

Discussion threads 2009-11-19

Cap and trade controversial in Australia

This is what happened:An Australian researcher who was critical of mainstream theories got censored.The new Inquisition: dare to raise your voice against the enviro-whackos and they get all angry.CEC FAILs againCEC claims: [i]"An Australian researcher who was critical of mainstream theories got censored."[/i]He wasn't censored for disagreeing with the global...

Tags: theory, CEC, global warming, Cap-and-Trade, carbon dioxide, tax

Discussion threads 2009-11-17

Apple's app approval revolt: Will it matter? Maybe

Once somebody matches the ease of the App store,Create a desktop application which makes it brain-dead simple to buy, install, arrange, and sync software and multimedia content with the Droid and it will take off like crazy. That's about the only thing the iPhone has over the Droid at this...

Tags: Smart phones, Cellular phones, Digital music, Apple Inc., Apple iPhone, developer

Discussion threads 2009-11-17

'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

Arguing About the Collaboration Toolkit: Cisco's Enterprise Collaboration Platform

In the aftermath of last week's San Francisco Enterprise 2.0 conference there's been some lively debate about what constitutes '2.0', including some great comments on my previous post. Meanwhile Cisco have literally just announced their Enterprise Collaboration Platform, which will be broad set...

Tags: Collaboration, Enterprise 2.0, Cisco Systems Inc., Tool, Productivity, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-11-08

Apple ad swings at Windows 7: 'Trust me, this time it's going to be different'

Hilarious! Apple is getting quite bold these days, I think they smell bloodNT.Just like Snow Leopard was supposed to fix all that was wrong with LeopardBut it didn't. :(Poor Apple, that sound you hear of glass shattering is not the sound of Windows, it is the glass house in which...

Tags: Operating systems, Investment, advertisement, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Win7, Apple Inc., Apple Mac OS X

Discussion threads 2009-10-22

Can anybody here play this game?

Socialist control over breathing...When people are out of work because they cannotafford to drive to work, use electricity I amsure everyone is going to be in financial ruinfrom lies and Oboma CZAR controlled fiasco.RE: Can anybody here play this game?Global Warming is little more than Solar Flare activity... even the...

Tags: Sun SPOT, carbon dioxide, global warming, game

Discussion threads 2009-10-22