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Death of an analog TV

Greenpeace is predicting a spike in electronic waste as the U.S. shifts to digital television. CNET News follows a TV as it gets recycled and offers guidance on what to consider when getting rid of an old TV.

Tags: CNET News, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, News, e-waste, televisions, hdtv, recycling, china, waste, tv's, plasma, lcd, california

Videos 2009-06-09

Safety Counts - Industrial PCs on Special Vehicles Document the Disposal of Liquid Industrial Waste

RAMO Industrieentsorgung GmbH from Aidlingen in Boblingen specialises in the transportation, treatment and disposal of liquid industrial wastes. The company needed documentation of waste material that must be verified by law, legal registry accounting, automatic notification of the supply notes and dock receipts and reliable data acquisition directly at the...

Tags: PC, Documentation, Waste, Transportation, Desktops, Databases, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

Case studies 2008-12-12

Foam finds new life

At the AlwaysOn Venture Summit in Half Moon Bay, Calif., J. Brian Hennessy, chief marketing officer of Mobius Technologies, explains how the company has found a way to turn industrial waste--things like old insulation and the foam from car seats--into resins and glues. These glues are strong enough to be...

Tags: Car, Manufacturing, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, green, recycling, waste, industrial, chemical, glue, foam, building

Videos 2008-12-05

Refining vegetable oil into diesel fuel

At the AlwaysOn Venture Summit in Half Moon Bay, Calif., Peter Bell, co-founder of Renewable Fuel Products, explains that his company's reactors are small and mobile enough to be loaded onto the back of a truck and taken wherever the waste oil is being created. They process an end product...

Tags: Free Trade, Finance, biofuel, green, oil, vegetable, waste, diesel, gas, reactors, carbon, technology

Videos 2008-12-05

Nuclear waste, cheaper than Iraq, more expensive than a new laptop

Seems you and I and all the American taxpayers are paying big-time for nuclear waste. Now I realize the costs are paltry compared to occupying countries in Asia, the costs of nuclear waste storage running only into tens of billions, not trillions. But it is irksome to this...

Tags: Laptop Computer, Waste, Government, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-02-19

DisableTigerFeatures 1.0.3a (Mac)

Have you ever to get rid of Dashboard, because you think it's annoying? Or is Spotlight a waste of disk space? Using DisableTigerFeatures, it's easy to get rid of those features! Having second thoughts? You can easily turn them back on, as well!

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Dashboard, Waste, FilKiFan Software, Desktops, Hardware

Software downloads 2005-12-19

Images: Where tech really goes to waste

Potentially toxic wastes gather in overseas workshops where electronics gear from the U.S. and Europe is dismantled.

Tags: workshop, waste, electronics, Europe, U.S.

Image galleries 2005-08-17

Images: Where tech really goes to waste

Potentially toxic wastes gather in overseas workshops where electronics gear from the U.S. and Europe is dismantled.

Tags: workshop, waste, electronics, Europe, U.S.

Image galleries 2005-08-17

X-A-Sketch 1.0.0 (Mac)

A simple etch-a-sketch simulator. This is a waste of time. use z/x and period/slash for the nobs of the etch-a-sketch. This was made because it brings back memories. It is designed for OS X ONLY. Expect problems under os 9.

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Waste, Flaming Cow LLC, Apple Mac OS X, Flash Memory, Desktops, Operating Systems, Software, Apple Mac OS, Hardware

Software downloads 2000-12-28

Additional Resources

Delivery Status 4.8.2 (Mac)

Can't wait for your packages to arrive? Don't waste your time checking the site constantly, just open this all-in-one delivery tracker and enter your order number or tracking number. The status will update automatically for you, and even count down the days! It also works with Growl to give you...

Tags: United Parcel Service Of America Inc., Apple Macintosh, Federal Express, Canada, Mike Piontek, E-mail, Online Communications

Software downloads 2009-07-03

TextBEAST Free Clipboard+Image+Capture 1.3.3 (Windows)

textBEAST clipboard+image+capture is a combined clipboard and image viewer with screen capture that's great for copying, collecting and pasting information, whether text or image. Copy images, capture parts of images, retrieve them quickly, view them, and paste them into Windows documents. Quickly categorize and organize your family photos or business...

Tags: Image, ASBware, textBEAST Clipboard+image+capture, Anti-aliasing, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2009-07-03

Review: Feds provide a handy window into their IT spending

Review: Feds provide a handy window into their IT spendingInteresting...I'll have to look this over and see how much waste there is. Too bad they don't do this for the "Stimulus Package". We wouldn't know whether to laugh or cry.

Tags: Construction, IT-spending, window

Discussion threads 2009-07-02

Motorola Evoke QA4

Motorola Evoke QA4Not the phone it was hyped out to be.I waited and waited for this phone to be released and finally bought the it a few days ago. The description made this phone to be an iphone competitor. I got it home I was shocked at the...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, ringtone, phone, Cricket, Motorola Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-07-02

Facebook - Snatching Defeat From the Jaws of Victory?

Facebook - Snatching Defeat From the Jaws of Victory?Zuckerberg has proven before that he does not value members' privacy...Remember the Beacon fiasco? People were learning about their Christmas gifts and one poor guy was even upstaged when Facebook, or rather Beacon, informed his girlfriend that he'd purchased a diamond...

Tags: NOW IT, Zuckerberg, Myers, Facebook, Jaws

Discussion threads 2009-07-02

Facebook - Snatching Defeat From the Jaws of Victory?

What on earth are Facebook doing? Imagine going into a stationery store and buying a Filofax personal organizer and then over time filling it with personal contacts info, photos and notes. You come home one night and it's no longer...

Tags: Facebook, Security, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-07-02

Windows 7 pricing: Some users fume as the rose-colored discounts fade

Windows 7 pricing: Some users fume as the rose-colored discounts fadeTalk about beating a horse to death.How many more articles are we going to see about Windows pricing. Let me make it really simple for everyone:You either find the price acceptable for what you get and you buy Windows 7...

Tags: Pricing, Marketing research, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Microsoft Windows 7, pricing strategy, Microsoft Windows, rose-colored discount, Windows 7 pricing, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-07-02

NeedForTrade Studio Lite 3.6 (Windows)

Unique Financial Trading Platform for Technical Analysis. Features powerful charting, creation of indicators on C# or Visual Basic languages. Waste of built-in analysis techniques. Any financial instrument: stock, future, option. Portfolio-level backtesting. Interactive Brokers, DTN.IQ, Barchart, Yahoo and ASCII data providers.Version 3.6 adds data export to text files and features...

Tags: Financial, Microsoft Windows, Analysis, NeedForTrade, C#, Financial Accounting, Programming Languages, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Finance

Software downloads 2009-07-02

Hide IP NG 1.50 (Windows)

Concerned about Internet privacy? Want to hide your IP address? Hide IP NG short for Hide IP Next Generation is the software you are looking for. Keeping your privacy is simple and easy: just start Hide IP NG. Don't waste time in testing slow and dangerous public proxies. Just select...

Tags: IP, Microsoft Windows, Volcano Force, Network Technology, Networking

Software downloads 2009-07-02

Ubuntu private clouds need more than tools; they need support, too

Canonical, the London company that founded the Ubuntu Project, today announced professional services to support companies who are building "private cloud" infrastructures behind their corporate firewalls. Earlier this year, the company released a technical preview of Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud UEC, an open-source system that allows companies to...

Tags: Ubuntu, Tool, Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud, Open Source, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-07-01

Should you really buy new gear or look for almost new?

A few months back, I mused about how long the average company should keep their technology infrastructure around and about whether or not they really need new equipment for certain applications. Needless to say, I heard from several organizations that make their living on the hope that businesses will at...

Tags: Sales Strategy, Data Centers, Sales, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-07-01