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Lawn Service Assistant 1.3 (Windows)

Professional lawn care business software. Now you can keep track of all past tree service jobs, lawn mowing job or snow removal jobs. Use the calendar to schedule anything you want, such as appointments or equipment maintenance. You can use the scheduler to find the best fit by viewing dates,...

Tags: Job, Customer, Microsoft Windows, Lawn, Binary House Software, Recruitment & Selection, Backups, Viruses And Worms, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Security

Software downloads 2009-09-11

LawnBott photos

LawnBott is a gas-free, robotic lawnmower that simultaneously cuts and mulches grass. You can program it to do a daily, weekly, or any other interval of lawn mowing. Fully automated, the robot knows to return to its "home" when the battery is low or the job is done. by CNET...

Tags: Photograph, Lawn, LawnBott, Robots, Engineering, Recruitment & Selection, Emerging Technologies, Human Resources, Workforce Management, CNET News.com

Image galleries 2009-05-05

Utilities back 'climate friendly' energy technologies

Utilities back 'climate friendly' energy technologiesToo Bad......your homeowners association will refuse your request to put solar panels on your roof -or- drill for geo-thermal energy or, God-forbid a wind generator... HA. Good luck with that.They do absolutely nothing about bratty kids who destroy other's property, hang around blasting...

Tags: lawn, energy technology, Utilities

Discussion threads 2009-01-17

A fully customizable home robot

Imagine a completely customizable robot with selectable software options. Buy one component, and it will take care of your lawn. Buy another one and it will clean your toilets. With a third one, it will pick up UPS or FedEx deliveries on your porch. If you are taking some vacation,...

Tags: Lawn, AgBot, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-11-25

Lawns getting greener

Lawns getting greenerOnce again, what percentage of lawn ownersfertilize and water thier lawns? Listening to you, you'd think everyone with some sort of lawn waters and fertilizes it every day of the year!And you're wrong: we didn't get the idea of "the lawn" from the English Garden, people realized early...

Tags: lawn

Discussion threads 2008-09-09

Lawns getting greener

The Environmental Protection Agency is moving up the restrictions on emissions fron many small engines. This will include outboard motors lawnmowers. Those new, small conbustion engines will have to get cleaner over the next few years. Perhaps they can couple that move with a little...

Tags: Lawn, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-09-09

3D Lawn Darts (Mobile)

3D Lawn Darts3D Lawn Darts brings the classic game of lawn darts to your BlackBerry! Toss your darts in the backyard or really challenge yourself and play on the moon!The fun and challenging 3D characters will have you playing over and over again. Your friends will love the easy to...

Tags: 3D, Mobile, Backyard, RIM BlackBerry, Lawn, Handhelds, Hardware

Software downloads 2008-08-05

Americans growing their own: veggies this time

Americans growing their own: veggies this timeGood idea.When I was a kid we always had a vegetable garden in the suburbs. Tomatoes, cucumbers carrorts and lettuce. That way you don't have to worry about what type of pesticides companies use. Not only that, they taste so much better, especially the...

Tags: lawn, herb

Discussion threads 2008-06-12

Americans growing their own: veggies this time

The high energy prices may be hurting a lot of retail businesses: not gardening. Sales of garden plants, seeds and supplies are way up. Americans are growing their own. These are not World War Two "Victory Gardens." These are 21st Century Inflation Gardens. The outdoor...

Tags: Lawn, Plant, Americans, Blogging, Internet, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-06-12

My Verizon FiOS experience is about to begin

On July 3 I had one of my last Comcast outages--I say that knowing I'll have another one soon. This Comcast outage had particularly bad timing since I've been evaluating Verizon FiOS. Amazing how quick I called Verizon after this latest Comcast glitch--the knocked out the TV and Internet access...

Tags: Wired & Wireless, Verizon, Telecommunications, General, Entertainment

Blog posts 2007-07-05

When gardeners go digital

My gardener called yesterday to ask for my email address. Seems he wants to send his invoices by email starting next month. Happily, I said "yes" and gave them my address."In what kind of file will you send the invoice ," I asked?"I don't know what you mean.""Well, if you're...

Tags: Business &, Technology

Blog posts 2007-06-07

Additional Resources

Pressure tactics don't always work

The key words are ..."don't always". Has always and still works for Microsoft.^o^How about an piece on DOA hard drivesIf you truly resist manufacturer pressure then I would love to see a truly objective piece on the quality and failure rates on SATA hard drives being marketed today. ...

Tags: Manufacturing, Storage management, cloud computing, Virtualization, manufacturer, DOA, hard drive, failure rate

Discussion threads 2009-11-18

One Clock 1.70 (Windows)

One Clock is the only clock you'll ever need. It's like a grandfather clock for your computer. One Clock is a talking clock that sits in your system tray. At your selected time interval, either every 5 minutes, 15 minutes, 30 minutes, or 1 hour, One Clock will play a...

Tags: Minute, Direct Logic Systems, E-business/E-Commerce, Microsoft Windows, Productivity, Internet, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2009-11-11

Dumbolf 1.0 (Windows)

Dumbolf is a sport games in which you will play Golf as a lovely elephant. You are not playing the Golf on lawn. Instead, you are playing Golf on a beautiful anomalous wall. The objective of every level is beating the ball into the hole, when the ball was beat...

Tags: Hole, Microsoft Windows, Wall, NowStat, Dumbolf, Construction

Software downloads 2009-10-27

Give us clotheslines

Darn those HOA'sDarn HOA nazi's in most cases will prevent you from hanging clothes outside. Apparently, it brings down a community's property value. Because you know, owning a washer/dryer is a sign of wealth or something...HOA and their bylaws along with the RIAA, two organizations that should be...

Tags: HOA

Discussion threads 2009-10-26

Battery preservation and 'Desktop Mode'

Second battery.Apple could make a separate 'battery conditioner/charger' device. This conditioner would then cycle the battery and bring it back to specs., while your laptop has the fresh one for use. How about this...Fully charge the battery. In software, disconnect the battery from the computer. This would require...

Tags: Engineering, desktop, battery

Discussion threads 2009-09-17

Lawn Manager Pro 3.2 (Windows)

The Lawn Log is used by Lawn Service companies both large and small. It provides the means to keep current with schedules, customers, and billing. It's hard to stay organized in a small business, where everybody has a lot of hats to wear, and where customers expect your immediate reaction...

Tags: Lazy Bayou, Lawn Log, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2009-09-15

California's burning: greentech solution?

NatureI don't think it's human arrogance that we live on this planet - you can thank God or Evolution for us being here....take your choice. Your first paragraph was unnecessary and juvenile - name me a spot on earth that is not subject to the extreme forces of nature...

Tags: Liberalism

Discussion threads 2009-09-01

Sun not shining on solar-powered gadgets

The first paragraph should be changed toSolar or photovoltaic PV technology in mobile computing devices is still impeded by physics of course, but that doesn't stop analysts and tech journalists from still talking as if someday the sun will magically produce more than 1kW per square meter of power at...

Tags: hybrid car, car, Sun Microsystems Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-08-18

Security risks of Web 2.0 tools should not be overlooked by enterprises, individuals

Id Theft would be my first concernIf a hacker asked for your name, address, college, company name , profession and a head shot picture, he/she would have a great head start at worming into your identity. That's exactly what people are putting on Facebook and other social sites. I'll pass...

Tags: Facebook, Web 2.0 Tool, Web 2.0, security, Web

Discussion threads 2009-08-07