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Papershow: Surviving Meetings

Chris gives us his thoughts on using the Papershow bluetooth pen to “survive meetings”.

Working on the move

Time for some feedback! We’ve already looked at portable applications, but what do you use to work while you’re on the move? Are you hi-tech or olde-worlde? Let us know in the comments.

UK iPhone price announced

O2 have released their prices for buying the 3G iPhone in the UK - with the rather nice news that it will be free on certain tariffs!

3G iPhone - coming 11th July

Apple announces the 3G iPhone - faster surfing, built-in GPS, and half the price of the “old” iPhone.

How do fuel cells work?

A while back we looked at cars that run on hydrogen rather than burning fossil fuels, but how do hydrogen fuel cells actually work? Find out here.

May the LHC be with you…

I was going to go with “The ability to collide atoms is insignificant next to the power of the Force” but thought it might be a tad long. Anyways, I found this via Angry Zen Master, basically its a petition surrounding the Large Hadron Collider at CERN… and its not an anti-LHC petition:
…No doubt the [...]

Solar Islands On The Cards?

What do we want? Cheap, clean energy! When do we want it? Now!
Hmm, it’s never going to catch on as a protest chant, really, but creating cheap and clean energy is in demand. The problem is it takes a lot of solar panels to generate the same energy load as, say, a nuclear power station. [...]

Judgment day is coming

For all that I hate the idea of war, I’m fascinated by military technology because it tends to be the most advanced out there. One of the limitations to military performance is the fact that people are involved (but if we weren’t involved, there wouldn’t be any wars, would there? Nobody said the world made [...]

News: New iMac is out

Just a quick post at the minute - the new iMac, sporting more memory as standard and a higher processor speed, is out!
http://www.apple.com/imac/

Ubuntu: Installation

Linux is hard to learn, undersupported, and generally a bit sub-standard. Right? Perhaps I came to the Linux game late on, but I can’t really think of a time when that was the case. Even using Linux workstations in the late ’90s, it still seemed fairly stable and good to work with.
Having said that, I’ve [...]