Gizmag has the details on a new electric-powered clotheswasher that uses no detergent, only steam. The steam cycle can be used alone, or in combination with the normal hot/warm water cycles. It’s made by LG.
Category Archives: How To
Where I show you how to (or how not to) do stuff.
New vistas in scientific visualization
From Apple Hot News: “UC Irvine’s HIPerWall, a new, record-breaking, 200-megapixel display system composed of 50 30-inch Apple Cinema Displays powered by 25 Power Mac G5s, allows scientists to visualize their ever-growing data sets with unprecedented clarity. [Apr 21, 2006]” This is pretty cool! Take a look at the photo. Unbelievable! 🙂 Here is the link.
A poster of Google search commands
From the Search Engine Watch Blog: “Can’t remember special commands that help in doing special searches at Google (and often work elsewhere, as well). The latest edition of Google’s newsletter for librarians points to two posters you can print with the commands. Suitable for framing — well, for tacking to a wall, you might find them handy. Need something more comprehensive? There’s also the long-standing Google Cheat Sheet…” Here is the link.
Mac OS X tip of the week: sending huge attachments
From Apple Hot News: “Chances are your email server puts a limit on the size of the attachments you can send. So what do you do when you want to send an attachment that exceeds that limit? Try iChat. [Apr 19, 2006]” Here is the link.
Catch that hard drive before it croaks
Tom Krazit, writing for CNETNews.com, describes a piece of software called HDDLife Utility, that monitors the health of hard drives and lets you know how much longer they’ll last. This lets you plan data backups, so you’re prepared and most importantly, you don’t lose it! See link for details.
Raoul Pop 