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I'm waiting for a friend to pick me up. There are nine people coming for dinner and I'm cooking. Our whole evening depends on my hasty retrieval from the train station, and I've forgotten my mobile phone. I was standing on the platform, fumbling for it in my bag, when I realised my phone was...

• Date Added: 12/27/2005
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There are very few people in this world who posses the kind of social graces intrinsic to the characters in an Austen novel. Some would argue the children of the "information revolution" lack social propriety altogether. Despite the rumours that etiquette is dead, many of us do manage to exercise...

• Date Added: 12/27/2005
• Views: 335

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Mensa was founded in 1946, in England. The Mensa Society was formed specifically for intelligent individuals. The aim of Mensa was to create a non-political society free from all forms of racial or religious distinctions, that focussed on exceptional intelligence. All are welcomed into Mensa...

• Date Added: 5/22/2006
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Proximity cards are extensively used by companies to keep control over the physical access of their employees. Each of the employees is allotted a proximity card, which they are required to show in front of the card reader. The card reader receives the ID from the card and it transmits the same to...

• Date Added: 8/20/2008
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Years ago, driving across the country meant one eye on the road and the other fixed on a heap of tangled, shredded paper covering the dashboard – otherwise known as a map. But in today's interconnected world, even when you're lost, you're not really lost.

GPS devices are no longer reserved...

• Date Added: 1/16/2007
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Tissue Culture Microscopes .com is a business catering to the needs of microbiologists and cellular biologists. They provide a great selection of inverted tissue culture microscopes for viewing tissue culture specimens. The tissue culture is...

• Date Added: 7/12/2008
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With the ever-increasing popularity of the iPod and all its various forms, it follows that more and more accessories will become both important and appealing to iPod owners. Here are three new accessories that iPod owners may want to consider purchasing.

Podolock
The Podolock is...

• Date Added: 4/6/2006
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Sony's original plan was to unveil its new PlayStation 3 in Japan this spring, but due to difficulties concerning its production plans, it seems that Japan will not see the new PS3 until August, and that the U.S. will not see it until November. One of the main production difficulties is related...

• Date Added: 4/6/2006
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Free to air broadcasts are free programs, videos and even radio stations, you do not need to pay monthly subscription but your choice of gadgets will be very significant. The FTA software and its corresponding file support may be one of the most special considerations so before you purchase it,...

• Date Added: 2/10/2007
• Views: 204

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If we look over the last century and examine the rate of technological growth. We can forgive ourselves for feeling a little proud about how quickly things have moved forward compared to the previous centuries. Flying at speed. Moving underwater stealthily. Travelling in space to name a fraction...

• Date Added: 2/28/2007
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Here are 10 tips about satellite tv systems. As always, reference your owner's manual for all safety precautions.

1) Surge protection - Do not attempt to run your satellite tv system without a surge protector. Get a good one. We recommend a high end one from Radio Shack. Make sure the surge...

• Date Added: 6/2/2006
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The installation of GPS tracking devices on your trucks or service fleet vehicles may not be received very well by your employees. Sure, you're taking action to save money, but drivers could see the change as nothing more than making their job more difficult while they are being...

• Date Added: 6/30/2008
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We in UK are quite accustomed to moving around under other's surveillance than a general person in many third world countries.
More than 400,000 cameras are always monitoring us in a car park, station, shopping complex, on our way to office or may be even in our private spaces, unwanted....

• Date Added: 6/8/2006
• Views: 380

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One of the difficulties that solar and renewable energy have faced in the past is that it requires people to learn about it. People are busy and they are also reluctant to change and learn. It is much easier to get energy from traditional sources that...

• Date Added: 4/10/2006
• Views: 236

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Renewable energy is not a new concept.  While it may appear to be a rather fashionable topic of conversation in certain circles, renewable energy initiatives have been with us since the dawn of man.  There is some debate about the accepted definition of renewable energy, but it can be loosely...

• Date Added: 4/20/2006
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Grameen Shakti is a renewable energy resources company based out of Bangladesh.  They are a part of the Grameen family of companies, which has been working for decades to alleviate the burdens of poverty in developing countries.  The Grameen Bank, one of their founding companies, has become...

• Date Added: 3/16/2006
• Views: 297

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Being in the business of solar energy, we see a lot of new and exciting products long before they hit the store shelves. We attend a lot of tradeshows and industry conferences, and it never ceases to amaze me how passionate people are about their newly-developed applications. While it is nowhere...

• Date Added: 5/16/2006
• Views: 248

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Have you ever wondered why long distance calls cost so much? In part the reason is because telephone lines cost so much. When driving, you might occasionally see a telephone crew maintaining a telephone line, but what you may have never considered is that there are literally thousands of...

• Date Added: 11/17/2005
• Views: 308

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SMS, or Short Message Service, is the technology behind what we often refer to as 'text messages' or 'SMSes', as well as what allows for news alerts on cellular phones. In recent years SMS has ballooned to over a 50 billion dollar industry and is quickly taking the communications world by storm....

• Date Added: 11/17/2005
• Views: 348

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Session Initiation Protocol and Short Message Service (SIP and SMS respectively) refer to frameworks that allow devices to communicate directly with one another without the need for a central routing computer. It seems rather surprising that a mere framework can so radically change the face of...

• Date Added: 11/17/2005
• Views: 273