Last Thursday on Earth Day, we at MiserWare released Granola, the production version of what was originally the MicroMiser Beta. For those who haven’t heard, Granola is free software for the reduction of energy consumption of PCs and laptops, available for both Microsoft Windows and Linux. Without affecting the performance of the system, powering the [...]
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This morning my company MiserWare released the latest beta version of our personal energy-saving software, MicroMiser. MicroMiser is a cutting-edge application that can save up to 35% system energy with no noticeable performance impact. With this version, MicroMiser now has support for Microsoft Windows, in addition to Linux. Additionally, we are reopening the referral incentive [...] After years of complaining about the lack of a solid, viable model of Internet distribution for music, I have finally discovered a service that fits my needs well: lala.com. You can purchase MP3s from the site for about the same as anywhere else, 89 cents a song. However, the real quality of the site is [...] Months ago, I was at an event at the Taubman Museum of Art in Roanoke, VA for an opening of a new early nature photography exhibit with my girlfriend. After we had taken in the exhibit, we were hungry and we walked to a nearby Mexican restaurant we had seen walking in that we had [...] Let me preface this by saying that no one should actually buy or make me any of these things. These are just a few of the items that I am enamored with. As for an actual gift, I’ve always felt that either a well thought out and unexpected purchase or something made specifically for me [...] And they ask what you’ll ever use math for (sic). Upon recommendation of a friend of mine, today I saw one of the better examples of math in action on George Hart’s website: a method for cutting a bagel into two distinct, disconnected halves that are interlocked like links in a chain. Topology is beautiful. Here is a shot I took over the weekend that I really like. It is closer to what came out of the camera than my other efforts. The subject is much better looking too. She must have gotten all the good-looking genes in our family. Over Thanksgiving, I was given the chance to listen to an album by Dark Dark Dark, a sort of anti-folk, Regina Spektor-meets-gypsies kind of sound. I really like it. Lovely vocal harmonies and interesting lyrics are layered over often frantic accordian-banjo-large strings (cello and/or bass fiddle) to produce something that sounds both very old and [...] I recently stumbled upon the Kor water bottle. The shape and look of the bottle was intriguing enough to click through to the company website. While it is certainly fashionable to position your company as green (and Kor certainly does), a percentage of these bottles sold ultimately goes to some reputable nonprofits in the green [...] I found a very interesting tool, the World Bank Data Visualizer. It allows you to plot, for any country the World Bank has development indicator data (or all of them), one indicator against another and then animate the graph over time. For example, you can plot GNI on the x-axis and number of Internet users [...] |
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