Rounding out my battery recall news is Apple. Apple had a previous battery recall for Powerbook G4′s. That may be good news for you because your battery might not hold charge anymore and you can get a new, free one. Woohoo. The issue is that the battery can overheat, just like in the previous Dell [...]
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HP Compaq Battery Recall
August 16th, 2006 
admin There have finally been some media releases about the battery recall that I posted about. I posted about the Dell battery recall recently and now people are responding. I also wanted to alert folks to the fact that it also affects HP and Compaq products as well. HP is saying that 15,700 batteries worldwide are [...]
Hypersonic (HSS) Directional Speaker
August 15th, 2006 admin Lasers are a beam of focused light. They can travel much further than a conventional light source. The laser has changed the way we live in many ways. But what if we could do this with sound? An inventor, Woody Norris, has figured out a way to send a focused “beam” of sound. This allows [...]
MS06-040 Server Service Vulnerability
August 14th, 2006 admin Over the weekend, security firms saw a spike in sweeps trying to exploit this vulnerability. This may have been a reconnaissance mission. If that’s the case, we could be seeing a much bigger virus presented in the near future. The MS06-040 vulnerability is an issue with the server service in Windows. Microsoft has received information [...]
Invisibility Cloak
August 10th, 2006 admin I can remember playing Dungeons and Dragons. Man, having an invisible cloak was really nice. Or maybe that was another game. Anyway, an invisibility cloak is the stuff of little boy’s dreams, movies, and military strategists wish lists. That is, until now. Oleg Gadomsky of Ulyanovsk State University has filed for a patent for his [...]
Text Link Ads
August 9th, 2006 admin I don’t do this very often, but I’m going to give my take on an advertising method. Text Link Ads has been a very successful avenue for me. It is easy to institute and manage. Basically, you sign up at Text Link Ads and then you tell them about your site. You place your site [...]
Mogo Bluetooth Mouse is sneaky
August 8th, 2006 admin I love nuances on everyday products that make them better. If you use computers, you use a mouse. Whether it’s built in or external, a mouse makes our computing lives so much easier. But what if you absolutely hate your laptop mouse device? I know I hate my laptop trackpoint – you know the eraser [...]
Bird Flu (H5N1) Technology
August 4th, 2006 admin Undoubtedly, you have heard about the possibility of a bird flu pandemic. A pandemic is an outbreak of an infectious disease that spreads over the entire globe. Obviously, a disease of that magnitude is something to fear and learn about. Many people are surprised to learn that there was a major pandemic in the last [...]
Text Messaging Lingo
August 3rd, 2006 admin The popularity of text messaging has skyrocketed. I recently heard that text messaging is more popular than cell phone conversations amongst teens. That’s incredible. But if you have ever instant messaged or text messaged someone, you may have gotten confused. That’s because text message lingo abounds. If you’re the type of person who likes to [...]
Advanced Tornado Modeling
August 2nd, 2006 admin One of my passions is weather. I love the dynamics of weather. No, I don’t like destruction or loss of life. That is sad. But severe weather is a fact and understanding it can save lives. Robert Wilhelmson and his team at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, or NCSA, have come up some really [...]
