MarketWatch has this to say about the soon to be released Cherrypal: “CherryPal, Inc., maker of green, affordable, easy-to-use personal computers, today formally launched its CherryPal(TM) cloud computer, the most energy efficient and affordable desktop computer available. CherryPal is a completely new type of PC that has no moving parts, contains 80 percent fewer components, [...]

Stroh Brann recently made me aware of the following cool new mode of transportation. He found the supporting web site here: very much in the “under construction” stage. My thanks to Stroh for the heads up! BTW, in September, Gulak is scheduled to begin a dual-major in mechanical engineering and business at MIT. What better [...]

Readers of this blog may recall I recently purchased a sample kit of LED bulbs that didn’t really work out very well. However, as they say, right in our own back yard, Purdue researchers are working on a better mousetrap, er, LED light source.
Purdue University researchers have found a way to build low-cost and [...]

Here’s the link to subject on the developer’s blog. Only available since some time yesterday, it already has almost 2200 comments. Here’s one of the comments regarding “what worked for him:” Hank
Here are the steps I took;1. I upgraded to Itunes 7.72. Connected my iphone. It detected the iphone and asked for an upgrade, I [...]

A device that could give a whole new meaning to the phrase wardrobe malfunction is Andrew Schneider’s solar bikini. The skimpy swimwear is covered with 40 flexible photovoltaic cells which feed into a USB connection that can plug straight into your iPod.
Mr Schneider, of New York University, said that just two hours of sunbathing [...]

John Tierney writing in the Science section of the 3/25/08 NY Times made some interesting observations about recent efforts to convince people to use less electricity. This is of interest to me because it is an area that my Fall 08 marketing class will be working in along with the Indianapolis-based LLC, Service Concepts. I [...]

My grad assistant Jeff recently had the hard drive on his notebook crash. Like MOST of us he did not have important files backed up, including an important proposal. Sound familiar? If he had been running the freeium program syncplicity, he could have had his files automatically being backed up on the fly [...]

I use Wordpress to power this blog. Update 2.6 came out yesterday, and today we’re running it. You the user won’t see instant changes, except I can now “easily” label pictures. Below is a 3:26 or so video of the changes for those who are into Wordpress. Hank